Johan and Emma Youngberg Family

Emma Youngberg and her children, Augusta (1891), Gina (1883) and Alfrida (1879). Her husband Johan died tragically of pneumonia in 1885 at age 30. Emma had her fourth child Frederick 8 months after her husband's death. The surviving family members had been exposed to TB by Johan's mother and eventually all died of it but Augusta. Emma owned a sucessful French laundry and fine sewing business and was able to support her family after Johan's death.

Augusta and Emma joined the LDS church in 1890 and emigrated to Salt Lake City, UT after the remaining family members had died of TB.

Johan Frederick Youngberg, born 1848 in Tunhem, Alvsborgs Lan, Sweden. He was an engineer on the world famous locks in Trollhatten, Sweden. He died at the age of 30.

Look Alike

L-R, My ggrandfather, Tom Rock, unidentified girl, my grandmother
Agnes Rock (Murray), my ggrandmother Ellen Harris Rock and Hilda Rock
(Lang). They are standing in the yard of their home in New Jersey
about 1915. Ellen died later this year of breast cancer. Hilda was
Agnes' younger sister. They both married during the next year, 1916,
Agnes was 26 and Hilda was only 16. I've always thought that I
looked like Agnes in this picture.

Henry and Mary Jane Trunnell

These photos of Henry and Mary Jane originally belonged to my grandfather, Bradley Trunnell.

Heber's ex-wife, Ann Trunnell gave them to me to share with the family. When Dad and I went to Tampa to meet Liz Kirkman, a Trunnell cousin there, we were shocked to walk in her front door and see these portraits hanging in her entry hall. They were quite large and in wonderful condition. It was obvious to me that they had been painted from the photographs. I asked Liz where they had come from and who had painted them. She said they were done by a family member who had moved West many years ago, but she didn't know the name. I knew immediatly who had painted them! My great-grandmother, Hattie Hatzell Trunnell was an artist who had trained with teachers in Louisville as a young woman. She married Henry's son, Dr. Philip Grable Trunnell and was the mother of my grandfather, Bradley Trunnell. She divorced Philip and moved her family to Chattanooga, TN where they joined the Church. She must have painted the pictures as a gift for her in-laws. I have several other things that she painted.

Henry Trunnell photograph

Henry Trunnell portrait by Hattie Hatzell Trunnell

Mary Jane Field Bowman Trunnell portrait

Mary Jane Trunnell photograph

Henry was the manager of the plantation owned by Jacob Bowman, Mary Jane's husband in Bardstown Junction, Bullitt Co., KY. Jacob became ill and before he died at the age of 30, he told his wife that Henry was a good man and that she should marry him. He said Henry would take good care of her and her son and would manage the farm well. Henry's wife Louisa Grable had divorced him and left him with two young children. Mary Jane had one child and they had nine children together.

Trunnell-Bowman Cemetery

I'm just learning and couldn't get these pictures in the right order. This is the cemetery in Kentucky that we have been trying to have restored for several years. It is near the Trunnell house outside Shepherdsville, KY where Henry Trunnell and his wife Mary Jane Field Bowman raised their large family. Mary Jane had been married before to Jacob Bowman who had a large farm/plantation. Jacob became ill, and died at the age of 30. Henry Trunnell ran the farm during Jacob's illness and was a divorced man with the custody of his two children, Philip and Arabella. Before Jacob died, he told Mary Jane that after his death she should marry Henry because he was a good man and would take good care of her and the farm. In his will he said he wanted the half-acre family graveyard maintained and never to be sold out of the family.

During the 160 years since Jacob's death the cemetery fell into disrepair. It was on a corner and an up-scale development grew up around it. Most people had no idea it was a cemetery, it just looked like a thicket of trees, weeds and junk that blocked their vision as they drove around the corner. In the summer vines grew up over all the graves, trees had grown up and broken stones and young kids on 4-wheelers had gotten in and knocked over and broken other stones. We were unable to find anyone to hire to clean it up until David Strange, the Director of the Bullitt County History Museum took it on as a project. Some of the nearby neighbors had voluntarily gone in and begun to clear out the brush and junk. David co-ordiniated a large group of people including surveyors, county road people, and neighbors interested in cleaning up the eyesore. Many in the extended Trunnell family contributed funds most of which were used to construct a fence. A local man donated his time and repaired the stones- one had been broken into 4 pieces. We only raised enough money to fence 2 sides and are hoping to fence one other short side that borders on the road. The long side on the back borders on the neighbors who do the mowing and they have requested that it be left open to their yard for ease of upkeep.