Friday's Photo: Grandma Trott

I suspect this is Louisa Trucks (also seen as Cynthia Louisa Trucks) who married Benjamin Franklin Trott. If so, she would be the mother of William Jackson Trott of Bienville Parish and grandmother to his children Lillie Mae Trott, Allie Belle Trott, and William Bryan Trott. 

Louisa was born on 31 October 1848 in Alabama and died on 14 Jun 1925 in Bibb County, Alabama. She and her husband are buried in Six Mile Cemetery, Six Mile in Bibb County. 

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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70859189/cynthia-louisa-trott : accessed 01 April 2022), memorial page for Cynthia Louisa Trucks Trott (31 Oct 1848–14 Jun 1925), Find a Grave Memorial ID 70859189, citing Six Mile Cemetery, Sixmile, Bibb County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Betty (contributor 46824072). 

Grandma Trott, photograph, before 1925; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019. 

Friday's Photo: Benjamin F. Trott and Daughter Annie

The back of this photo from the Frye family collection identified B. F. Trott and Mrs. W. A. Gibbons.[1] 

Benjamin F. Trott was the father of William Jackson Trott who married Lula Laura Cook in 1893 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Lula was the daughter of Josie Bryan and Joseph W. Cook.[2] 

Mrs. W. A Gibbons is the former Annie Trott, daughter of Benjamin F. Trott and sister to William Jackson Trott. She was married to Wylie A. Gibbons.[3]

I suspect that this photo was not taken in Bienville Parish but at the home of Benjamin Trott or Annie Gibbons in Bibb County, Alabama. There is no date on the photo but Benjamin Trott died at age 83 in 1924.[4]

Other posts about this Trott family can be seen by clicking on the links below. 

Friday's Photo: A Trott Family Home in Bienville Parish

Friday's Photo: William Jackson Trott and Lula Laura Cook Wedding Photo - Bienville Parish 1893

Friday's Photo: The Trott Sisters, Lillie Mae, and Allie Belle, of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

Friday's Photo: The William J. Trott Family of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Lula Laura Cook Trott

Friday's Photo: Sam Trott

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    1. B. F. Trott and Mrs. W. A. Gibbons, photograph, before 1924; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019. 

    2. "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4N1-GGS : 13 January 2022), William Trott in household of Benjamn Trott, Sixmile, Bibb, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).  Also, Vera Meeks Wimberly, Wimberly Family History, Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana 1837 (Houston Texas: D. Anderson, 1979), 350.

    3. "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J68C-H94 : 7 September 2021), Annie Trott Gibbons, 1952. Also, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JD51-P73 : 11 January 2021), Annie Gibbons in entry for Wiley Andrew Gibbons, 1936.

    4. Death of B. F. Trott, Centreville Press (Centreville, Alabama), 

31 Jan 1924, p.4; database with images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97861107/b-f-trott-obit/: accessed 18 March 2022).

Friday's Photo: Sam Trott

This is another photo from the Frye family collection. [1] Written on the back is "Sam Trott." Sam was a younger brother of William J. Trott of Bienville Parish, Louisiana who was seen in last Friday's post and several other posts.[2] 

Samuel J. Trott was born in 1879 to Benjamin F. Trott and Cynthia Louisa Trucks in Bibb County, Alabama. He married Jessie Fancher. Sam died in 1948 and Jessie in 1976. They are buried in the Six Mile Cemetery in Bibb County. [3]

I tried to clean the photo with Adobe Photoshop (not my skillset). It looks a little better than the original. I put the correction beside a photo of young William J. Trott and can see some similarities. 

This photo of William J. Trott was scanned from an album that
once belonged to Marguerite Cook Clark.[4] 

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Sources 

    1. Sam Trott, digital image, n.d.; scanned photograph, from the privately held photo collection of the Frye Family, San Francisco, 2019.

    2. 1880 U.S. Census, Bibb County, Alabama, population schedule,  enumeration district 003, p.299B, dwelling 9, family 9, Benjamin Trott household; digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6742/images/4244722-00388? : accessed 15 October 2021); citing NARA microfilm T9, roll 1.

    3. Find a Grave, database and images  (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22811975/samuel-jonathon-trott : accessed 22 October 2021), memorial page for Samuel Jonathon Trott (8 Feb 1878–4 Jan 1948), Find a Grave Memorial ID 22811975, citing Six Mile Cemetery, Sixmile, Bibb County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Tina Brown (contributor 46916130).

    4. William J. Trott, n.d.; digital image, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Photos were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.