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David married Theresa Joan PRELL on 4 Jan 1956, and was divorced in . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. David Lance TROUTMAN was born on 14 Nov 1957 in Decatur, Macon Co, IL; died on 26 Mar 1998.
2. J.C. TROUTMAN
3. R.R. TROUTMAN

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Jack married Helen RIVES on 30 Jun 1928 in Charleston, Coles Co, IL . Helen died in Las Vegas, Clark Co, NV . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Frank married Clara Elizabeth "Lizzie" BARNER on 24 Jan 1900 in Belle Plaine, Sumner Co, KS. Clara (daughter of Michael BARNER and Martha Ann MOHN) was born on 8 Jun 1876 in Belle Plaine, Sumner Co, KS; died on 7 Oct 1952 in Decatur, Macon Co, IL; was buried in Boiling Springs Cemetery - Decatur. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Millie Mowry
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M. BARNER, farmer, Section 9, P. O. Belle Plaine, was born in Clinto
Co, Pa., in 1828. When he was fifteen years of age, he moved to OH
. He was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. In 187
3 he moved to Sumner Co, Kan., and settled in Palestine Township, wher
e he owns 96? acres of land, all of which he has brought to a high sta
te of cultivation. His farm is principally fenced with hedge, having b
ut little of the barbed wire. His residence is located on Section 9, a
d surrounded with a beautiful grove of trees. He has a fine large bar
with convenient yards and stock scales, etc. Handles the best grade
d stock. His crop for 1882 was 3,000 bushels of corn, 7,000 bushels o
f wheat and forty head of fat cattle, and now has on hand 100 head o
f stock cattle and 200 hogs. He has on his place 1,600 peach trees, 30
0 apples trees and large quantities of small fruits of various kinds
. He has been Town Treasurer three years and a member of the School Bo
ard for six years. He was married to Miss Martha Ann Mohn, of Sangamo
Co, Ill., in 1855, and has eight children.

Source: William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas 1883
PALESTINE TOWNSHIP

Millie Mowry
Kansas Roots State Coordinator
[www.us-roots.org]
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN BARNER

ABRAHAM LINCOLN BARNER. Some of the most substantial people of Kansa
s today, well able to ride about over the improved highways in their a
utomobiles, came into the state in the early days with the slow and te
dious method of the prairie schooner or the mover's wagon. Such an emi
grant party arrived in Sumner County in 1873. They had come overland f
om Central Illinois, being twenty-six days en route. Three wagons com
prised the train, and the driver of one of those wagons, then thirtee
years of age, was Abraham Lincoln Barner, who is now living retire
d at Belle Plaine in Summer Co, and for years has been prominently kno
wn as a farmer, stockman, land owner, banker and closely identified wi
th many of the business and civic affairs of his home section.

The head of the family at that time was his father, Michael Barner. Mi
chael Barner had come out to Summer County in the spring of 1873, wit
h two other men, and they bought three-quarter sections, two for $80
0 each and another for $850. One of these quarters had an unfinished h
ouse on it, but one of the familiar Kansas winds of that day soon ble
w it away. When Michael Barner brought his family out he bought 160 ac
es near one of the three quarter sections previously mentioned, payin
g $1,000 for it. Its chief improvement was a log cabin, and that old b
uilding is still standing there. Michael Barner during the following y
ears became one of Summer County's most valued citizens. At the time o
f his death he owned 960 acres of land, and had devoted it to genera
l farming and the raising of cattle and hogs. He was naturally a leade
in the community, and was greatly admired for his straight-forward
, honest, God-fearing virtues and his devotion to his family. Michae
l Barner was born in PA and married Martha Ann Moan, a native of OH. M
ichael had been left an orphan at the age of nine years, and up to fif
teen made his home with an older brother. Despite early handicaps he w
as in no way deficient in energy and ambition to make the most of hi
s opportunities, and on leaving home he went out to Illinois and afte
working hard for several years he bought eighty acres in the heavy w
oods not far from Springfield, Sangamon County. He paid $10 an acre fo
this land. The timber he removed by cutting into cord wood and selli
g it, and he also grubbed up the stumps and gradually got his land cl
eared for cultivation. He was an indefatigable worker, and by sheer de
termination won a substantial success. Though his school advantages ha
d been very meager, he acquired a good education by teaching himself
. When he married he had only $75 in capital, but he and his wife prov
ed excellent team mates and by much self denial in the early days mad
e a home and provided for their growing children. Michael Barner, real
izing what he had been denied in his youth, was more than eager to giv
e his children the best of educational equipment. In politics he wa
s a republican, but later became allied with the populist party, and a
ltogether was little of a politician, his only public serving being o
the school board. While living in Illinois he had been able to incre
ase his first farm by an addition of forty acres, and was prospering t
here, but it was his desire to expand and give his children a start wh
ich prompted him to trade his forty acres of Illinois land for 160 acr
es in Summer County.

The birthplace of Abraham Lincoln Barner was a log cabin on the littl
e farm in Sangamon Co, Illinois, where he first saw the light of day A
ugust 8, 1860. He was the third in a family of ten children, seven o
f whom are still living. He attended school in Illinois, and afterwar
d had the advantages of a log-cabin temple of learning in Summer Co, K
ansas, and for one year was in the high school at Oxford.

He lived at home and did his part in the work on the farm until his ma
iage on December 21, 1882, to Miss Laura A. Cox. Her parents came t
o Summer County in 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Barner are the parents of five c
hildren, one of whom died in infancy. Ray J. lives on his own farm; Fl
orence is the wife of F. W. Scott, a farmer; Ethel is Mrs. Roy Carrout
hers of Sumner County; and Bert lives on the home farm.

When Mr. Barner was twenty-one years of age his father gave him a tea
m of horses and allowed him his board free for one year. That was hi
s start in life. He rented one of his father's farms, and though he wa
s thus fairly well capitalized he had by no means an easy time of it f
or the first fifteen years. He encountered successions of droughts, ot
her plagues incidental to Kansas farming in the early days, and it wa
s only by the closest kind of co-operation between himself and his fai
thful wife and by going without the luxuries that he finally arrived a
t a comfortable degree of material prosperity. Eventually he bought 12
0 acres, but in 1893 sold it and raced into Oklahoma at the opening o
f the Cherokee strip in the fall of that year. He did not locate in Ok
lahoma, and returning to Kansas paid $5,000 for 160 acres of land. The
e he began his farming career in earnest, and gradually his prosperit
y enabled him to make other purchases until his ownership now extend
s over 800 acres of the fertile lands of Summer County. This land is h
ighly developed and improved, and he has done much as a stock raiser
, keeping both horses and cattle. His favorite brand of cattle is th
e Short-Horn.

It was only recently, in 19l6, that Mr. Barner retired from the farm a
d moved to his town house in Belle Plaine. He is president of the Cit
izens State Bank of Belle Plaine, having held that office since 1908
. This is now the largest bank in the city. He was one of the organize
s of the Mutual Farmers Elevator at Palestine being president of th
e company there, and has given his time and resources liberally for th
e promotion of every laudable undertaking in his community. He is a me
mber and president of the Fraternal Aid Society, and has served as cle
k of Palestine Twp and four years as county commissioner. In politic
s he is a democrat. He also owns some real estate in the cities of Wic
hita and Belle Plaine. Mrs. Barner is an active member of the Methodis
t Church and Sunday School.

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ctober, 1997.

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Michael married Martha Ann MOHN on 7 Sep 1854 in Springfield, Sangamon, IL . Martha was born on 2 May 1834 in Shinkle Ridge, Lewis Twp, Brown Co, OH; died on 2 Aug 1915 in Belle Plaine, Sumner Co, KS; was buried in Belle Plaine Cemetery - Sumner County. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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