TRUMPOUR, Thomas Dorland: 1824 - 1904
MALLORY, Almira: 1828 - 1906
Thomas Dorland Trumpour
Thomas was born on May 3, 1824, one of twelve children of Joseph Trumpour and Lydia Dorland. He was the grandson of original United Empire Loyalist settler Capt. Paul Trumpour (Tile # 29) and brother of Samuel Dorland Trumpour (Tile # 59).
Thomas married Almira Mallory in 1855. They settled in Adolphustown to raise five children: James Ricketson, born July 26, 1855 who married and settled in the North West Territories; Helen Catherine Ross (Tile # 57), born December 13, 1856, who married Jesse Johnston and settled in Adolphustown; Lydia Edith, born October 2, 1860, died June 8, 1864; Luke Paul, born October 3, 1864 who married Edith Gurren and settled in Adolphustown; and Thomas Nelson, born July 16, 1868, who married Louise Bygott and settled in Adolphustown.(1)
Thomas Dorland Trumpour’s will, dated December 4, 1899 bequeaths all his goods and real estate to his wife Almira Trumpour, after her death the real estate to be equally divided between his four surviving children, James, Luke and Thomas Trumpour and Helen C. Johns(t)on. Thomas Dorland had considerable real estate. In an 1878 Adolphustown survey Thomas D. Dorland is listed as the owner of several lots in the third concession: 27, one half of 28, 29 and 30.(2)
Thomas Dorland Trumpour died February 12, 1904 and is buried in the Trumpour Cemetery near the original family farm.
Almira Mallory
Almira Mallory, the wife of Thomas Trumpour, was the daughter of Edwin Mallory (1804-1873) and Sarah A. Bedell (1806-1891). Edwin had been born in Connecticut and Sarah in Fredericksburgh. Edwin and Sarah married in Fredericksburgh in 1824 and remained in the area where their daughter Almira was born.
Almira died January 3, 1906, just two years after her husband and she is buried beside him in the Trumpour Cemetery.
1. Trumpour Family File, United Empire Loyalist Research Centre, Adolphustown.
2. Adolphustown Survey, Illustrated Historical Atlas of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington (Toronto: J.H. Meacham & Co., 1878), p. 109.