Martha Leppo Trine was born on December 27, 1838, the daughter of Jacob Leppo and Susannah (Miller) Leppo. Her first marriage was to Noah Ebaugh of Carroll County, Maryland. This marriage occurred on October 11, 1859 at the Methodist Parsonage in Hampstead, Maryland. Noah Ebaugh was a young widower, and the father of Theodore Daniel Ebaugh, known as "Teddy." Martha became the stepmother of little Teddy. The union of Martha and Noah produced another child, Franklin Everd Ebaugh. Franklin only survived a few months. Martha’s marriage to Noah was brief, as he was killed in the Civil War on February 27, 1862.
On November 8, 1865, in Carroll County, Maryland, Martha married David Urias Trine, himself a returning veteran of the Civil War. It is possible that Martha had known of David for some time, as he and Noah Ebaugh both served with Company A. 6th Maryland Infantry. However there was also another connection: Noah’s brother, Jesse Ebaugh, was married to Rachael Barbara Ellen Trine, the sister of David Urias Trine.
There were three daughters born to this couple who did not survive long into childhood (Abey, Nellie and Nora) who are buried in the Leister Cemetery in Carroll County, Maryland. Only their son, David Winfield Trine, survived. His half-brother, Franklin E. Ebaugh died in infancy. The stepbrother, Teddy Ebaugh, had died at age 5 1/2.
In the 1876, this family decided to leave Maryland and try a new life in the younger state of Michigan where David's sisters had already gone. They settled in the village of Springport where David pursued his masonry trade. He built houses, barns and bridges. At times work took him farther afield, and tradition has it that he built fine brick buildings as far away as Omaha, Nebraska.
Martha Leppo Trine died after a prolonged illness, probably uterine cancer, on February 22, 1898. Before she died, she called to her bedside her son, David Winfield Trine, and his prospective bride, Hattie Burgess, and urged them not to wait a year to marry and to go ahead with their wedding plans. Her son David was extremely fond of his mother. She was the one who encouraged him to go on to the university, and she was the one who supplied the money to pay for his education.
Of Martha's skills the one of which there is evidence is her superb quilting. The Maryland History Society currently contains one of her beautiful quilts which she created in the 1850s.
On November 8, 1865, in Carroll County, Maryland, Martha married David Urias Trine, himself a returning veteran of the Civil War. It is possible that Martha had known of David for some time, as he and Noah Ebaugh both served with Company A. 6th Maryland Infantry. However there was also another connection: Noah’s brother, Jesse Ebaugh, was married to Rachael Barbara Ellen Trine, the sister of David Urias Trine.
There were three daughters born to this couple who did not survive long into childhood (Abey, Nellie and Nora) who are buried in the Leister Cemetery in Carroll County, Maryland. Only their son, David Winfield Trine, survived. His half-brother, Franklin E. Ebaugh died in infancy. The stepbrother, Teddy Ebaugh, had died at age 5 1/2.
In the 1876, this family decided to leave Maryland and try a new life in the younger state of Michigan where David's sisters had already gone. They settled in the village of Springport where David pursued his masonry trade. He built houses, barns and bridges. At times work took him farther afield, and tradition has it that he built fine brick buildings as far away as Omaha, Nebraska.
Martha Leppo Trine died after a prolonged illness, probably uterine cancer, on February 22, 1898. Before she died, she called to her bedside her son, David Winfield Trine, and his prospective bride, Hattie Burgess, and urged them not to wait a year to marry and to go ahead with their wedding plans. Her son David was extremely fond of his mother. She was the one who encouraged him to go on to the university, and she was the one who supplied the money to pay for his education.
Of Martha's skills the one of which there is evidence is her superb quilting. The Maryland History Society currently contains one of her beautiful quilts which she created in the 1850s.
Martha Leppo Trine was born on December 27, 1838, the daughter of Jacob Leppo and Susannah (Miller) Leppo. Her first marriage was to Noah Ebaugh of Carroll County, Maryland. This marriage occurred on October 11, 1859 at the Methodist Parsonage in Hampstead, Maryland. Noah Ebaugh was a young widower, and the father of Theodore Daniel Ebaugh, known as "Teddy." Martha became the stepmother of little Teddy. The union of Martha and Noah produced another child, Franklin Everd Ebaugh. Franklin only survived a few months. Martha’s marriage to Noah was brief, as he was killed in the Civil War on February 27, 1862.
On November 8, 1865, in Carroll County, Maryland, Martha married David Urias Trine, himself a returning veteran of the Civil War. It is possible that Martha had known of David for some time, as he and Noah Ebaugh both served with Company A. 6th Maryland Infantry. However there was also another connection: Noah’s brother, Jesse Ebaugh, was married to Rachael Barbara Ellen Trine, the sister of David Urias Trine.
There were three daughters born to this couple who did not survive long into childhood (Abey, Nellie and Nora) who are buried in the Leister Cemetery in Carroll County, Maryland. Only their son, David Winfield Trine, survived. His half-brother, Franklin E. Ebaugh died in infancy. The stepbrother, Teddy Ebaugh, had died at age 5 1/2.
In the 1876, this family decided to leave Maryland and try a new life in the younger state of Michigan where David's sisters had already gone. They settled in the village of Springport where David pursued his masonry trade. He built houses, barns and bridges. At times work took him farther afield, and tradition has it that he built fine brick buildings as far away as Omaha, Nebraska.
Martha Leppo Trine died after a prolonged illness, probably uterine cancer, on February 22, 1898. Before she died, she called to her bedside her son, David Winfield Trine, and his prospective bride, Hattie Burgess, and urged them not to wait a year to marry and to go ahead with their wedding plans. Her son David was extremely fond of his mother. She was the one who encouraged him to go on to the university, and she was the one who supplied the money to pay for his education.
Of Martha's skills the one of which there is evidence is her superb quilting. The Maryland History Society currently contains one of her beautiful quilts which she created in the 1850s.
On November 8, 1865, in Carroll County, Maryland, Martha married David Urias Trine, himself a returning veteran of the Civil War. It is possible that Martha had known of David for some time, as he and Noah Ebaugh both served with Company A. 6th Maryland Infantry. However there was also another connection: Noah’s brother, Jesse Ebaugh, was married to Rachael Barbara Ellen Trine, the sister of David Urias Trine.
There were three daughters born to this couple who did not survive long into childhood (Abey, Nellie and Nora) who are buried in the Leister Cemetery in Carroll County, Maryland. Only their son, David Winfield Trine, survived. His half-brother, Franklin E. Ebaugh died in infancy. The stepbrother, Teddy Ebaugh, had died at age 5 1/2.
In the 1876, this family decided to leave Maryland and try a new life in the younger state of Michigan where David's sisters had already gone. They settled in the village of Springport where David pursued his masonry trade. He built houses, barns and bridges. At times work took him farther afield, and tradition has it that he built fine brick buildings as far away as Omaha, Nebraska.
Martha Leppo Trine died after a prolonged illness, probably uterine cancer, on February 22, 1898. Before she died, she called to her bedside her son, David Winfield Trine, and his prospective bride, Hattie Burgess, and urged them not to wait a year to marry and to go ahead with their wedding plans. Her son David was extremely fond of his mother. She was the one who encouraged him to go on to the university, and she was the one who supplied the money to pay for his education.
Of Martha's skills the one of which there is evidence is her superb quilting. The Maryland History Society currently contains one of her beautiful quilts which she created in the 1850s.
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