From the Stark County News, Thursday, 8 November 1888
Died at the residence of Erastus Foster, in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 10th, 1888, of inflammation of the bowels, Washington Trickle, aged 83 years, 8 months and 9 days.
His death was unexpected. Some five weeks ago, he went to visit his only surviving child, Mrs. L.F. Mathews of Cowley County, Kansas and was on his way home, when he was suddenly taken ill and was only able to reach the residence of E.N. Foster in Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. Foster, with Dr. Barber, all old acquaintances (formerly of Elmwood), kindly cared for him, giving him every attention possible, but after an illness of only twenty hours, God took him.
Washington Trickle was born twenty miles west of Baltimore, Maryland 1 February 1805. His father Christopher Trickle, moved west to Ohio with his family in the year 1811. During the war of 1812, he moved into the fort at Jeromeville, Ohio, with his family and died at that place in 1813, leaving a family of five sons and four daughters to the care of the widowed mother. Only two of this family are now living, Mr. Edward Trickle of West Jersey and Mrs. Julia Anne Sherburne of Toulon.
On May 15th, 1828, Washington Trickle was united in marriage to Miss Elinor Smith at Ashland, Ohio, the ceremony being performed by Reverend James Haney, father of all the Haney preachers. They had eleven children, ten daughters and one son, all of whom, except Mrs. Lucretia S. Mathews, have with their mother, passed over the River.
In 1835 he moved to Fulton County, Illinois and in 1836 removed to Stark county near Rochester, and from there to Elmwood, Illinois where he remained until a short time after the death of his wife, which occurred in 1883, when he removed to West Jersey and lived with his granddaughters and their father Mr. John Wiley, from whose house he was buried, October 17th, 1888. The funeral services were conducted by Reverend Miller, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at West Jersey, in the church at Rochester, and the remains were laid to rest beside his wife and children in the cemetery at that place. A goodly number of neighbors and friends were in attendance.
In 1828 he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church of which he was a faithful member for more than sixty years, being an official member most of the time. He was an earnest Christian worker and while loving his own church, he felt that other denominations were Christian people and his brethren. In earlier years his house was always a home for ministers and educational workers. He was an attentive and thoughtful husband, a kind father, and a good neighbor, always ready to aid those in need. He was resigned in all his afflictions; his last testimony in class meeting, a week before his death, was "Christ has been with me and is still with me. I feel my work is done and am only waiting patiently the call to come up higher." So passed away a good man. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, yea, and their works do follow them."
Washington Trickle 
- b.~ 1714
- b.~ 1720