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Trotti married Rebecca Ann Booker in 1847 and they had
two sons, Tom, who married Lydia C. Swift, daughter of George
and Elizabeth Frazier Swift; and Za, who married Ed Downs.
Five other daughters married Jim Powell, Robert Cade, Charles
Cade, Travis Odom and Jim Odom.
John Lawrence Trotti's second wife was Elizabeth Frazier,
mother of Tom's wife Lydia and the widow of George who died in
the Civil War. She was a sister of Cook and Alex Frazier and
a niece of Judge David R. Wingate. Her children by Trotti were
Dr. Will Trotti who died in 1930; Josh Trotti, once mayor of
Lake Charles; Arthur, who married Ira Farr's daughter; and
Henry.
Tom Trotti, son of John Lawrence, married Lydia Swift
and they had three children - Annie, who married Dr. Charles
N. Powell; David, who married the daughter of Dr. B.A. Swinney;
and John L.,a dentist who married Hattie, daughter of Dr. 0.E.
Rawls.
Tom's second wife was Bessie Gilbert, the sister of Hal
M. Gilbert. Judge Pat Adams married one daughter by this
marriage. Tom's third wife was Henreitta Bivens.
In 1904, a resident of Orange owned a 1904 Cadillac and
his son remembers how as a boy it was his duty to polish
the brass on the automobile.
"It was a regular Saturday morning chore. It seemed that
just about everything on that car was brass - the headlights,
the gas tank, the rod supporting the windshield. It was a
one cylinder, two cycle motor and rated at nine horsepowers. It
wouldn't make much headway in the mud and sometimes would
stall in the dust if it was deep enough. We entered the car
through the back door using a little step."
Half the night was spent on a "thrilling man hunt" the
first day of February in 1904, A negro, Willis Clark, accused
of killing his wife, then slashing his own throat, escaped
from the county jail and led a posse on a wild chase through
swamps and ditches.Clark eluded both men and dogs, but was
captured by trickery.
According to the tale, "while the posse pursued the chase
in different sections and on both banks of the bayou, the man
made his way through the swamp and crossed the vacant lots
near the Lutcher and Moore dry kilns to come out onto the
river bank just below the company's upper mill and near the
huge burner to which the refuse from the mill is consumed.22
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Orange County Historical Society (Tex.). Las Sabinas, Volume 17, Number 2, April 1991, periodical, April 1991; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth312877/m1/32/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Orange County Historical Society.