30.  RACHEL⁴ TROUSDALE (ALEXANDER³, JOHN², JOHN¹) was born June 30, 1800 in TN.  She married JAMES W. THOMASON May 05, 1830 in Gallatin Co., IL. 

Notes for RACHEL TROUSDALE:
SOURCE:  "The Trousdale Genealogy" by Karl Truesdell, 1952; Enlarged by Theodore McKee Trousdale, Jr., 1960.
    In 1860 Rachel was a widow living in Newmarket (twn), Gallatin Co., IL with her son Alexander (Census).

Child of RACHEL TROUSDALE and JAMES THOMASON is:
i. ALEXANDER⁵ THOMASON, b. Abt. 1837.

31.  NANCY⁴ TROUSDALE (ALEXANDER³, JOHN², JOHN¹) was born December 21, 1801.  She married EVERETT GARRETT March 05, 1827 in White Co., IL.  He was born Abt. 1804 in TN.

Notes for EVERETT GARRETT:
SOURCE:  "The Trousdale Genealogy" by Karl Truesdell, 1952; Enlarged by Theodore McKee Trousdale, Jr., 1960.
    Farmer, lived Carmi, Ill in 1850.

Children of NANCY TROUSDALE and EVERETT GARRETT are:
i. WILLIAM M.⁵ GARRETT, b. Abt. 1830.
ii. JOHN A. GARRETT, b. Abt. 1832.
iii. ABIGAIL GARRETT, b. Abt. 1836.

32.  WILLIAM PEARCE⁴ TROUSDALE (ALEXANDER³, JOHN², JOHN¹) was born September 16, 1803 in Montgomery Co., TN, and died September 18, 1889 in Fayette, WI.  He married (1) POLLY HARRIS April 15, 1822 in White Co., IL, daughter of ROBERT HARRIS and LUCY STUBBLEFIELD.  She was born July 09, 1800 in Rockingham Co., NC, and died October 02, 1852 in White Co., IL.  He married (2) MARY ANN MCKEE 1853.  She was born December 11, 1817 in Mason Co., KY, and died January 31, 1896.

Notes for WILLIAM PEARCE TROUSDALE:
SOURCE:  "The Trousdale Genealogy" by Karl Truesdell, 1952; Enlarged by Theodore McKee Trousdale, Jr., 1960.
    William was a farmer, Methodist, Republican.  He moved to Fayette, WI about 1831.  He held occasional school offices.  Died in the pulpit September 18, 1889, Fayette, Wisconsin.

Notes for MARY ANN MCKEE:
SOURCE:  "The Trousdale Genealogy" by Karl Truesdell, 1952; Enlarged by Theodore McKee Trousdale, Jr., 1960.
  "Though not educated, the mother of Bashford was a woman of large natural abilities, of great physical strength, of unusual capacity for business, with great energy and practical sense, with strong convictions and a rare gift of leadership.  All the references in the family correspondence portray the features of a woman of heroic mold, with a fine sense of personal honor, lover of her children, 'lover and giver of life'.  Quiet and undemonstrative in manner though she was, nevertheless, the ruggedness of her convictions, the loftiness of her mind and the strength of her personality entered like iron into the souls of her children.
    The conditions which the early pioneers in western Wisconsin faced required souls of stern stuff.  There were few comforts and many hardships.  Indians were numerous and bears were quite neighborly. The wolf at the door was more than a figure of speech.  One day Mary Ann McKee beat off with a shovel a prowling wolf about to enter the log cabin where her young child lay sleeping."  (From "James W. Bashford" by George Richmond Gross, President DePauw University, published by The Methodist Book Concern in 1922).
    Had 4 children by her first marriage to Carroll Parkinson.
    Had 4 children by her second marriage to Samuel Morris Bashford who was a widower with 2 children.
    Had 1 child by her third marriage to William Pearce Trousdale, who was a widower with 7 children.
    Thus Mary Ann McKee had 9 stepchildren and 9 children of her own.  Her last child used to mystify people by saying, "I am an only child, but I have 17 brothers and sisters."

Children of WILLIAM TROUSDALE and POLLY HARRIS are:
83. i. RICHARD H.⁵ TROUSDALE, b. February 01, 1823, IL.
ii. ALEXANDER M. TROUSDALE, b. October 19, 1824; d. September 22, 1838.
84. iii. POLLY ANN TROUSDALE, b. September 30, 1826, IL.
iv. ROBERT TROUSDALE, b. September 23, 1828, IL; d. Aft. 1850.

More About ROBERT TROUSDALE:
Occupation: Farmer

85. v. JAMES L. TROUSDALE, b. January 16, 1831, Lafayette Co., IL; d. 1874, Brodhead, WI.