Asa Alexander Trotter

Brief Life History of Asa Alexander

Asa Alexander Trotter was born on 15 October 1854, in Briar Hill, Pike, Alabama, United States. He married Frances M. Milligan on 26 December 1876, in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 15 Indian Branch, Pike, Alabama, United States in 1910 and Election Precinct 11 Mitchells, Pike, Alabama, United States in 1920. He died on 28 September 1925, in Crenshaw, Alabama, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Antioch, Pike, Alabama, United States.

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Family Time Line

Asa Alexander Trotter
1854–1925
Frances M. Milligan
1856–1901
Marriage: 26 December 1876
Gertrude F Trotter
1876–1954
Ida M Trotter
1877–1969
Minnie Lee Trotter
1882–1947
Lollie E. Trotter
1882–1912
William Vestar Trotter
1883–1953
Inez E Trotter
1886–1967
Bula A. Trotter
1888–1964
Rebecca Alta Trotter
1890–1970
Ernest Ferman Trotter
1893–1967
Amy Aileen Trotter
1895–1945

Sources (23)

  • Asa A Trotter Sr., "United States Census, 1920"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Asa Alexander Trotter - Government record: birth-name: Asa Alexander Trotter
  • Asa Alexander Trotter, "Hawaii, Marriages, 1826-1954"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1866

Historical Boundaries: 1866: Crenshaw, Alabama, United States

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English (northern; also found in southern Scotland): perhaps from an unrecorded sense of Middle English trotter ‘one who rides a trotting horse’, a derivative of Middle English trotten ‘to ride at a trot, at a fast pace’. It may have been given to a messenger (see Trotman ). Alternatively, perhaps from a shortened form of an unrecorded Middle English trotterer ‘dealer in trotting horses’, a derivative of Middle English trotter (Old French trotier) ‘horse that trots’.

German: occupational name for a vintner, from a derivative of Middle High German trot(t)e ‘winepress’ (a loan translation from Latin calcatura). The word and the surname are confined largely to Alsace, Lorraine, Switzerland, and Swabia.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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