The Trueblood Family In America
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dbeeler/Trueblood.html

Notes taken from

"The Trueblood Family in America" by Bula Trueblood Watson, copyright 1964.

"....Thomas H. Trueblood was a minister of the Society of Friends and a firm believer in the freedom of the individual. He was active in the Underground Railroad. He built his home four miles northwest of Salem, two miles from the church at Highland. He was well-known throughout the country, and he traveled a great deal in the ministry among those of his Society in the middle and western states. Uncle Thomas, as he was generally known, was a model in uprightness of character and deportment; no word of doubtful modesty or vulgarity was heard from his lips. He was ever the friend of the oppressed, regardless of blood or color, one of the few men that shielded and piloted the escaping slave from bondage in the dark days of chattelism." pg 80

The Trueblood Family In America
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dbeeler/Trueblood.html

Notes taken from

"The Trueblood Family in America" by Bula Trueblood Watson, copyright 1964.

"...a sister of Ann (Brooks) Trueblood, second wife of E. Hicks Trueblood; no ch." pg 80
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Taken from "Obituaries- -Selected Newspapers of Washington County Indiana- -Vol V T-Z" Compiled and Edited By James E. Bolding- -Prepared for the Indiana Historial Society, Salem, Indiana 1992....

"Mary L. (Brooks) Trueblood....(August 13, 1896, Canton Cullings)
James Heacock and wife attended the funeral of Mary Trueblood at Highland Sunday.
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Mary L. (Brooks) Trueblood....(The Republican Leader, August 14, 1896, Highland Hunks)
Died, last Friday afternoon of consumption, Mary, wife of Thomas H. Trueblood, in her 51 year. She was the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Brooks, deceased, and was a life long member of the society of Friends. On Sunday morning her remains were borne to the Friends meeting house at Highland followed by a large number of relatives and friends and after an appropriate and touching funeral service the body was lowered in the narrow vault prepared for it in the cemetery.
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Mary L. (Brooks) Trueblood....(The Republican Leader, August 14, 1896, Highlan Hunks)
John Brooks, wife and daughter, of Louisville, attended the funeral of his sister. Miss Mary B. Trueblood came out from Salem, Saturday to attend the funeral of her aunt and to visit home folks.
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Mary L. (Brooks) Trueblood....(The Republican Leader, September 11, 1896)
Died, at her residence, near Salem, on August 7, 1896, Mary Brooks Trueblood, in her 51st year, wife of Thos. H. Trueblood and daughter of the late Charles and Elizabeth Brooks, after a protracted illness of many months of a cancerous and pulmonary nature. Her suffering was very great, but through it all she maintained a Christian cheerfulness, with never a murmur, but on the contrary ever thankful to the giver of every good and perfect gift for that "grace which is sufficient," and was sufficient with her to the lifting of the mind above the things of time, in prayer and praise, and sweet communion with the fountain of spiritual life. This experience and trust enabled her to come near in sympathy, and to minister to the spiritual and physical wants of the afflicted and disconsolate, and it was to this faith and trust in, and to the goodness of our Heavenly Father, that did, and does develop all the noble qualities of womanhood, and approach so near the divine; enabling and qualifying (as it did her) to be true in all the relations of life, using none but pure lanquage, uplifting in its nature, free from gossip, or that which is corrupting, speaking often one to another of the things pertaining to the higher or spirit life, to bear testimony, by example and precept; in these lines of duty was a part of her life mission. To such the prophet of the old tells us the Lord hearkened and heard, and declared that "they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts in the day when I make up my jewels."
.................................................... pg 67