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Trombley of Clinton Co., New York
Compiled by P. Davidson-Peters © 1999

 
 
Lewis Trombley was born 24 Mar 1805 in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York. He married Sophia Gregory of Isle of Motte, Vermont who was born 17 Mar 1811. In June of 1833 they removed to Monroe County, Michigan accompanied by his sister Amelia and her husband Horace Hill. They came on the first steamer, Walk-in-the-Water, to Toledo and then to the territory of Michigan, which was settled by only twenty five or thirty families in what would become Summerfield Township.

Lewis and Sophia were the parents of four boys and one girl who attained the age of adulthood. In 1850 the family was residing in Summerfield Twp., next door to Richard Peters and his 2nd wife Orissa. Their 1860 household in Summerfield Twp., also included their son William's wife, Phebe (Perry) whom he had married that year In 1870, the household then only included Sophia, Lewis, and their two yournger children, Lewis and Victoria - and it can be noted that this particular census indicates Sophia was born in Lower Canada. Thus, it should be noted that the little island is just south of the Canadian line and east of Chazy Landing and Trombley Bay - both in Clinton Co., New York.

Sophia died on 16 Feb 1874 and Lewis on 18 Feb 1880. They were laid to rest in the Old Petersburg Cemetery in Monroe County Michigan.

Note: Surname spelled Trombley, Trombly and Tremblay
CHILDREN OF
LEWIS TROMBLY & SOPHIA (GREGORY)

  1. Horace Jerome - born 20 Nov 1837 in Petersburg, Monroe, MI; died 15 Oct 1924 in Petersburg, Monroe, MI; buried in Petersburg Cemetery, Petersburg, Monroe, MI. Is listed as single and living in his brother Lewis' home in the 1920 Monroe, MI census. He may have died in Petersburg, Monroe Co., MI and had been a Justice of the Peace in Summerfield Twp between 4 July 1910 and 4 July 1914.

  2. William - born about Jan 1840 in Monroe Co., MI. He married Phoebe Perry.

  3. Phebe - born about 1842 in Michigan.

  4. Lewis Egbert - born 25 Apr 1845 in Petersburg, Monroe, MI; died 4 Jun 1927 in Petersburg, Monroe, MI; buried in St. Alphonsus Cemetery, Deefield, Lenawee, MI. He married Amelia Plumadore.

  5. Victoria - born 27 Aug 1848 in Monroe Co., MI; died 14 May 1919 in Petersburg, Monroe, MI. She married (1) George Mead.

 
Amelia Trombley was born 11 Aug 1807 in Chazy, Clinton Co., New York. She married Horace Hill on 28 jan 1828 in Isle La Motte, Grand Isle Co., Vermont. He was the son of Caleb Hill and Cynthia (Strong), and was born 17 Jun 1805 at Isle La Motte.

The family removed to Michigan in June of 1833 with her brother Lewis. By this time Horace and Amelia had three children, and after they settled in Monroe county, Michigan, they had two more daughters. Amelia died at the age of 31years, 8 months and 13 days on 24 Apr 1839 and was laid to rest at the Old Petersburg Cemetery in Petersburg, Monroe Co., Michigan.

A few months later on 24 Aug 1839, her widowed husband married Julia Ann Bowen. The daughter of John Bowen and Sylvia (Rose), Julia was born in New York on 31 Aug 1817 and came to Michigan with her parents. She and Horace were the parents of seven children, all of whom were born in Monroe Co., Michigan. She died on 28 Sep 1873 and Horace on 22 Sep 1875, and both are laid to rest at the Old Petersburg Cemetery near Amelia.
CHILDREN OF
AMELIA (TROMBLEY) & HORACE HILL
  1. Caleb E. Hill - born Jul 1828 at Isle La Motte, Grand Isle Co., VT; married Rachel Vreeland Mourison.
  2. Mariah/Maria Hill - born 13 Jan 1831at Isle La Motte, Grand Isle Co., VT
  3. Melissa S. Hill - born 25 Nov 1832 at Isle La Motte, Grand Isle Co., VT; married Edwin A. Goff.
  4. Phebe Hill - born 15 Mar 1835 in Monroe Co., Michigan.
  5. Mary L Hill - born 03 Aug 1836 in Monroe Co., Michigan.
 
GENERATION II
 
 
William W. Trombly, the son of Lewis and Sophia was born in about January 1840 in Monroe County. He married Phoebe Perry in 1860 and here they resided in Summerfield Twp. until the remainder of their lives, and were enumerated in the 1860-1920 census records.
CHILDREN OF
WILLIAM W. TROMBLEY & PHOEBE (PERRY)
  1. Mary Trombley - born about 1861 in Monroe Co., MI.
  2. Alice Trombley - born about 1863 in Monroe Co., MI; married John Kirwin in Lenawee Co., MI on 05 Oct 1891.
  3. Anna L. "Annie" Trombley - born about Apr 1865 and resided Summerfield Twp. in the home of George and Mary J. (Holmes) Peters in 1910, and with her brother in 1930.
  4. Frances Amelia Trombley - born 141 Nov 1866 in Petersburg, Monroe Co., MI; married Richard G. Peters on 27 Sep 1885; died 20 Jul 1944 in Detroit, Michigan.
  5. Louis William Trombley - born 24 Oct 1871 in Petersburg, Monroe Co., MI; died 30 Apr 1937 and laid to rest at Pleasant View Cemetery in Petersburg, Michigan.
  6. Sophia or Sophy Trombley - born 04 Apr 1875 in Summerfield, Monroe Co., Michigan; died at 3 years and 6 months of age of "Congestion of the Brain" on 30 Sep 1878.
  7. Cora Trombley - born 22 Feb 1877 in Summerfield Twp., Monroe Co., Michigan.
  8. Helen Trombley - born about Nov 1883 in Monroe Co., Michigan.
  9. Ellen Trombley - born 05 Dec 1884 in Summerfield Twp., Monroe Co., Michigan.
 
 
Lewis Trombly, son of Lewis, who was born about 1845 in Monroe County and married Amelia PLUMADORE. He enlisted in the Civil War in Co. M, 8th Michigan Cavalry, August 30, 1864, at the age of 18 and served as a bugler under Capt. James M. Wells. He joined his reigment at Lexington, KY on Sep 21st 1864 and was discharged at Pulaski, TN on 10 June 1865.

His wife Amelia had been present at the Christmas Trombly Family Reunion at George Peters' home in 1912.
CHILDREN OF
LEWIS E. TROMBLY & AMELIA (PLUMADORE)
  1. Edna V. Trombley - born about Nov 1878; married Frank Reinhardt in Detroit, Michigan on 27 Jan 1914.
  2. Lenore Trombley - born 28 Feb 1880 in Petersburg, Monroe, MI; died 26 Jul 1962 in Toledo, Lucas, OH; buried in St. Alphonsus Cemetery, Deefield, Lenawee Co., MI. She married on 23 Jun 1909 at St. Antoine (St. Mary) Catholic Church in Monroe, Monroe County, MI Oliver L. Dushane, Jr., who was born 15 Apr 1883 in Monroe Co., Michigan, died 1 Feb 1931 in Monroe County and was buried 4 Feb 1931 in St. Joseph Cemetery.
  3. Florence J. Trombley - born about Feb 1884 in Summerfield Twp.; married Richard F. Kerwin, son of John and Mary (McCarthy) on 10 Nov 1909 in Deerfield, Lenawee Co., Michigan.
  4. Frances "Fannie" Trombley- born abt Sep 1885 in Michigan; married Clem or Cleon Webb on 31 Aug 1922 in Deerfield, Lenawee Co., Michigan, the son of .William and Adelaide (Isenkout).
  5. Caroline M. "Carrie" Trombley - born about Mar 1888 in Summerfield Twp., Monroe Co., Michigan; married Arthur A. Wagner, son of Louis A.C. and Mary M. (Hock), on 16 sep 1920 in Greenfield, Wayne Co., Michigan.
 
 
Emily "Victoria" Trombley, daughter of Lewis, she was born 27 Aug 1848 in Summerfield, Monroe Co. Michigan. She married George Mead, the son of Chauncy B. and Elizabeth (Ramsey), in Petersburg, Michigan on 06 Feb 1878 at the age of twenty-nine. In 1880, they were residing in the Village of Petersburg where Lewis was employed as a blacksmith, and their household included their ten month-old daughter Mabel. Ten years later, at the time the 1900 census was taken, George and Victoria had been married 22 years and two of their children had died: Mabel born in 1879 died in 1882, and son Chauncy born in 1886 died in infancy. She was last enumerated in a federal census in 1910
CHILDREN OF
VICTORIA (TROMBLEY) & GEORGE MEAD
  1. Clara Mabel Mead - born 16 Jul 1879 in Petersburg, Monroe Co., Michigan; died 22 May 1882 in Petersburg.
  2. Margaret S. "Madge" Mead - born 08 Aug 1881 in Petersburg, Monroes Co., Michigan; married James S. Housman; married 2nd, I. Jay Osgood, son of Tunis C. and Josephine (Davis).
  3. Mary Elizabeth "Bess" Mead - born 28 Jan 1884 in Petersburg, Monroe Co., Michigan; married George M. Bell; died 15 Apr 1936 in Toledo, Ohio.
  4. Chauncey L. Mead - born 07 Nov 1886; died in his infancy.
  5. George J. Mead - born in Summerfield Twp., Monroe Co., Michigan, on 29 Mar 1888.
 
GENERATION III
 
 

Frances A. Trombley, daughter of William, was born 11 Nov 1866 in Petersburg and died 20 Jul 1944 in Detroit, Michigan. She was the wife of Richard George Peters whom she married on 27 Sep 1885 in Petersburg, he having been born on 19 Jun 1865 in Petersburg, and died 29 Mar 1934 at his home near Wampler's Lake.  He was the son of George Peters and Mary Jane (Holmes).

Richard G. Peters Obituary
Frances Amelia Trombly-Peters Obituary
CHILDREN OF
FRANCES (TROMBLY) & RICHARD PETERS
  1. William Fullerton Peters - born 21 Jul 1888 in Petersburg, MI; died Feb 1957 in Dixmont, ME.  He married  Eliza Proctor who died in 1923.   William and Eliza had one child, Elizabeth who died in infancy.  William later married Nellie and had by her two daughters, Ruth and Jean.
  2. George Richard Peters - born 16 Mar 1888 in Petersburg, MI; died 24 Feb 1954 in Alhambra, CA.  He married Gertrude Main Breningstall.
  3. Frances Evelyn Peters - born 16 Jun 1895 in Petersburg; died 17 Nov 1982 in Traverse City, MI.  She married Robert Jeffery Eoff.
  4. Mary Helen Peters - born 6 Aug 1904 in Petersburg; died 23 Apr 1988 in Washington D.C..  She married John Frederick Obel Wilkens.
 
GENERATION IV
 
 
George Richard Peters, son of Frances (Trombly) and Richard Peters who was in Petersburg in 1888, married Gertrude Main Breningstall on 24 Dec 1918 in Petersburg.  She was born 11 Dec 1890 in Petersburg, and was the daughter of Horace J. Breningstall and Henrietta E. (Main).  She died on  27 Oct 1975 in California.  They were the parents of one child, George Horace Peters who was born 5 Jan 1920 in Toledo, OH.  George passed away at his home in Cottonwood, Yavapai Co., Arizona on 15 Jan 1998.  He was the husband of Louise Beatrice Baker, formerly of Battle Creek, Michigan and father of Richard, Kathleen, David, William and Robin Peters.  Obituary on File.
 
 
Frances Evelyn Peters, daughter of Frances (Trombly) and Richard Peters who was born in Petersburg in 1895, married Robert Jeffery Eoff on 17 Jun 1916 in Toledo, OH.  Robert was born 16 Dec 1891 in Detroit, MI; died 5 Dec 1959 in South Lyon, Michigan and was the son of George Eoff and Anna B. (Jeffery).
CHILDREN OF
FRANCES (PETERS) & ROBERT EOFF
  1. Robert Jeffery Eoff, Jr. - born Toledo, OH.
  2. Mary Helen Eoff - born in Toledo, OH
  3. Nancy Ann Eoff - born in Toledo, OH
  4. Patricia Peters Eoff - born in Toledo, OH; passed away 29 Mar 1984 in Camden, MI.
  5. Richard Grant Eoff - born in South Lyon, MI.
 
 
Mary Helen Peters, daughter of Frances (Trombly) and Richard Peters who was in Petersburg in 1904, married John Frederick Obel Wilkens on 27 Nov 1935 in Detroit, MI.   John was born 07 Jan 1896 in Aalberg, Denmark and died 8 May 1964 in Detroit, Michigan.  They were the parents of Susan Anina and Joan Frances .
 
 
For privacy and security purposes, information on the following generations are not given. If you are related and have further information or questions, please feel free to contact Patricia Davidson-Peters
 
 
Sources
 
  1. A History of the Town of Chazy, Clinton Co., New York by Nell Jane Barnett Sullivan & David Kendall Martin © 1790 George Little Press, Burlington, VT
  2. River & Rail to Progress - History of Petersburg, Monroe Co., MI, ©1969 by Mrs. William "Jinnee" Gee.
  3. History Of Monroe County, Michigan by Talcott E. Wing ©1890 Munsell & Company Publishers - NY
  4. Wing's Personal Histories - Chauncy B. Mead
  5. Monroe Evening News - 08 Apr 1944, Ellis Library, Monroe Co., MI.
  6. Wedding Announcement: "Mr. Horace J. Breningstall annuonces the marriage of his daughter, Gertrude Main ...
  7. Wedding Announcement: "Mr. and Mrs. Richard Peters request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Frances Evelyn, to Mr. Robert Jeffery Eoff.
  8. Family Papers & Research of Liana Brunell Trombley.
  9. Family Papers, Research & Web Page of Nancy Elder Petersen.
 
 
 
 


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