Husband of (1) Amanda BLACK (1840-1883) and (2) Mary Arminta DUFFER (1840-1916)

Rev. Patton TROUT was born 11 Jan 1833 in Sumner County, Tennessee, the son of Judge George Alfred TROUTT ( 1799-1895) and Nancy BELL (1804-1856).

Patton married 1st to Amanda BLACK on 22 June 1856 in Sumner County Tennessee. She died in Aug 1883 in Allen County, Kansas. Patten married 2nd to Mary Arminta DUFFER 14 Sep 1884.

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Excerpt from the Bio Sketch of Rev. Patton Trout's son, Professor George Trout:
(lightly edited for clarity)

Rev. Patton Trout was born in 1834, in Sumner County, Tennessee, and was reared on a farm, but chose instead the ministry as his vocation and educated himself for this calling. He became a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and at one time filled as many as thirty pulpits in a single year, in Allen County, Kentucky, and Sumner County, Tennessee. During the Civil War, he enlisted under John Hunt Morgan in the Confederate Army, but while he consented to fight for the South, would not cross the Mason and Dixon line, and as a result was forced to desert and remain in hiding for several years. In 1882 he came to Kansas and was pastor of churches at Bronson and Fort Scott, but finally retired from active service, and died in 1912, at La Harpe, Allen, Kansas. He was a democrat. Reverend Trout married in Allen County, Kentucky, Miss Amanda Black, who was born in 1840, in Sumner County, Tennessee, and died in Allen County, Kansas, in August, 1883, and they became the parents of nine children, namely: Alfred who was a merchant at Odin, Illinois, and died in 1906; Margaret, who married A. J. Myers, a resident of Kansas since 1881 and now a merchant at La Harpe; Josephine, who is the wife of James McGrew, a smelterer at La Harpe; Mary Elizabeth, who died at the age of three years; George W.; Edgar, who is engaged in the butchering business at Odin, Marion, Illinois; Mary, who is the wife of William Harry, a dry goods and clothing merchant at Ralston, Oklahoma; Mattie, who is the wife of Thomas Stout, a merchant of Cherryvale, Kansas; and Ina, who is the wife of O. W. Vandergrif, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Source: Connelley, William E., A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans (Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, 1918), pg. 2012
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