My Gr-Gr-Gr-Grandmother--Margaret Trollinger was born in 1833.She married Willis Harder(1836-1863)-- Son Of Joseph Harder(1808-1874)After he was killed in the Civil War she remarried John W. Smith.She was the daughter of Henry Trollinger Jr.(1805-1899)and Mary(Polly)Blanchard. She was the grandaughter of Henry Trollinger Sr.(1762-1844) a Revolutionary Soldier, and Mary Thomas. According to my Grandmother Catherine Walker Phelps (Gr-Grandaughter of Margaret) she was a stern woman with not much fun in her, because of her "strict" German ancestry. She lived hard after her husband died in the Civil War, with just enough land for a house and not enough to farm,poor but proud she remarried later on and was able to provide a better life for her family. She died in 1919 while my Grandmother was there visiting. |