John Carl Trimble

Family, Indiana, Oral History, Rural Life, Women

John Carl Trimble tells a 150 year-old story about how a great, great, strong-willed Aunt held off Morgan’s Raiders with a country breakfast at the family farm in Carlisle, Indiana.

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