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John McClure Trimble is a leading farmer of Lonoke County, and a highly successful one, and was born in Pike County, Mo., May 30, 1842. He is the son of James Allen and Ruthie Ann (Wells) Trimble. The former, whose birth occurred near Lexington, Ky., in 1801, died in Lonoke County, Ark., in 1853. The grandfather was a Virginian by birth, of Scotch Irish descent. Our subject’s mother died in 1867, in Lonoke County, having borne seven children, four of whom are living. John M., the fourth child in the family, lived in Missouri until his eighth year, when he accompanied his parents to Arkansas, settling in Lonoke County, and here receiving a limited education. Remaining with his parents till they died, he subsequently became the husband of Sarah E. Roberson, December 31, 1868. She was a native of Mississippi. Five children have been born to this union, four of whom are now living: Francis E., Lelia A., Addie and Johnnie. Mr. Trimble moved from Missouri to Arkansas in 1850, stopping first in Little Rock. After tarrying but a little while there he came to this county, where he has resided for the past sixteen years. He now owns eighty acres of land, fifty acres being under cultivation. For four years during the war he served in the Confederate army as a member of Company K, First Trans-Mississippi Regiment. Being one of the first to advocate free schools, he has officiated as a member of the board of education, and has wielded no little influence toward the organization of good schools. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church. The South Bend Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1871 by Mr. Trimble and wife, John W. Hollis and wife and sister Isabell. The church’s first pastor was Rev. Pace, and the present one is Rev. Keith. The church has at the present time about seventy members.