His father was George Thomas Trumble and his mother Mary Ann (Eskridge) Trumble.

He married Rosa May Charlton.

He was an early resident of Harrington and stockman. Moved there in 1883 from Walla Walla, WA. Their son Reuben was 3 months old so would have been January 1883.

1885 Washington Territory Census
Trumble, J. E. age 27 born Ind., Farmer
Trumble, R age 22 (female)born Iowa
Trumble, R. E (Male) age 2 born WA territory
Trumble, W. J. age 1 born WA Territory(This should be Myrtle)

1887 Washington Territory Census
Trumble, James age 29 born Indiana, Farmer
Trumble, Rosa M. age 24 born Iowa
Trumble, Rheuben E. age 4 born Oregon
Trumble, Myrtle age 2 born WA Territory
Trumble, Mabel age 1 born WA Territory
They were living next to:
Charlton, W.S. age 47 born VA Farmer
Charlton, Charity age 40 born Ill

1889 Washington Territory Census
Trumble, J. E. age 31 born Indiana, Farmer
Trumble, Rosa M. age 25 born Iowa
Trumble, Rheuben age 7 born Oregon
Trumble, Myrtle age 5 born WA Territory
Trumble, Mabel age 3 born WA Territory
Trumble, Clyde age 1 born WA Territory

Their children were:
Rheuben Edward Trumble born 26 Oct. 1882. He was enumerated in the United States Federal Census, Wenatchee, Chelan County, WA. Rheuben E. Trumble age 27 was a high school teacher. His wife, Mary E. age 22 born WA and brother, Earl A. age 5 born WA Note: It appears that he changed his first name from Rheuben to Robert.

Myrtle M. Trumble born 3 March 1884 in WA Territory and she died 24 April 1976 Merced County, CA. She married Lloyd Lighthizer 8 November 1905 Spokane, Spokane County, WA. He was age 21 born Howard, S. D. He was living in Edwall, WA where he worked as a bookkeeper. His father was F. M. Lighthizer and his mother, Lucy Vance. She married second to Murray M. Mason.

Mable Adell Trumble Loutzenhizer born February 1886.
Clyde C. Trumble born 31 January 1888
Pearl A. Trumble (Son) born November 1895
Earl Trumble born about 1904


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From The Drumheller Mail, 25 Jun 1936, Silver Jubilee Edition

ONE OF DRUMHELLER'S pioneer ranchers, who has experienced a long, interesting and colorful career is James Edward Trumble, who still resides on his homestead north of the Red Deer River.

Mr. Trumble was born near Plymouth, Indiana, May 16, 1858. Having a desire to see the "Wild West," he ran away from home at the age of thirteen and went to Sacramento, California. The first real money he made, Mr. Trumble said, was mining gold in Fine Gold Gulch the following year. The lure of the saddle, however, was too much for him and he went to work for Joe Austin on a cattle ranch in the Chilama Valley. In 1876, the rancher moved his cattle to Arizona, so Mr. Trumble stayed with him for two years.

He made other trips into Arizona, one time bringing in a bunch of horses to Prescott and Yuma; the latter point, he remarked, was the hottest point on earth.

After spending a winter in Old Mexico, he returned to California to work for Miller & Lux who had sixteen ranches in that State. He had charge of the beef drive for this company which furnished San Francisco with its meat supply. The next venture was to purchase some brood mares and start a ranch for himself in the Sand Hill Lake (Tularia) district. While riding for the cattle men he discovered a desert spring which influenced him to locate there. He dug a pond to retain the water from the spring and soon the traffic from the Old Mexican trail was diverted by his ranch. The town of Trumble, Cal., which was afterwards built, bears his name.

Following the enactment of a herd law, he sold his horses and moved to Washington and homesteaded on Lord's Creek. This was a splendid farming district, and he spent eighteen years raising horses and cattle.

In 1901, Mr. Trumble decided to look for new ranching lands and started for Alberta. While in Kalispel, Montana, he met a Medicine Hat man who was looking for a sheep ranch. Together they came to the Red Deer River and camped on the site of Mr. Trumble's homestead, on September 15. As the spear grass was too numerous for sheep, his friend went on to Red Deer and Mr. Trumble decided to locate here. The hills reminded him so much of the banks along the Colorado river, and he thought there would be no chance of these cut-banks ever being surveyed into farms.

Mr. Trumble returned to Washington and with his son, Edward, brought his horses through over the old trails, swimming the rivers and streams en route. His son suggested that he go farther north, but Mr. Trumble had discovered outcroppings of coal and told him nature had been kind to the valley -- that with coal, wood and water, there was little left to be desired. Although Mr. Trumble raised both horses and cattle, he went in more for horses and at one time had as many as 675 head. They consisted mainly of good work horses and thoroughbreds. He found a ready market at good prices for his surplus stock to the American farmers, who were coming in and settling on C.P.R. farms to the south.

In recalling some of the early pioneers, Mr. Trumble said when he came in, Mr. J. Russell was located at the present village of Nacmine. Alex Wallace was ranching about nine miles down the river and a man by the name of Calhoun, with his family, had located in the Hand Hills.

All supplies were freighted in from Calgary and he built a twenty-foot canoe with a capacity of 1500 lbs, for transporting provisions across the river. Deer were plentiful in those days and he had killed several along the river where Drumheller now stands.

When the first railway surveyors camped in the valley, he supplied them with hay, potatoes and other provisions. The surveyors told him this point would some day become an important coal-mining centre and advised him to lease some of the land. He made the trip to Calgary on horseback during January to file on the first coal lease. A few years later he disposed of surface rights to the Western Gem and Seranton mines when they began operations. Six years ago he disposed of his leases to the Drumheller Power Co., which company also purchased Jerome Drumheller's leases to the east of him.

Mr. Trumble married when eighteen years old, but unfortunately his wife died at the time of the birth of his first son. He married again and has two sons and three daughters living in the United States. His elder daughter is married to an engineer who worked on Boulder Dam, and is now at the Pickwick Dam in Tennessee. The younger daughter, Mrs. Jack Flowers, resides at Grand Coulee, where her husband is in business.

Speaking of conditions, Mr. Trumble said the homesteaders came in and he sold off his stock in 1910. He has been farming since but it is not so profitable as ranching. "In the early days we had lots of rain and none of these hot winds we get now-a-days," he said.

If the government does not conserve the timber on the Eastern slope of the mountains to protect the early melting of snows, in his opinion, this country may turn into a desert.

Mr. Trumble recently passed his seventy-eighth milestone and despite his advanced age, is hale and hearty, with the physique of a typical rancher. His grandfather lived to the age of ninety-six, and Mr. Trumble attributes his sturdiness to temperate habits, fresh air and sunshine.