From an old book on the last words of Methodists: "REV. EDWARD TROY was born in Hamilton Co., Ohio, August 15, 1819. In January, 1836, he was born again, in Perry, Pike County, Illinois. In April, 1838, he was licensed to exhort by Rev. M. Clampet. In 1838 he was licensed to preach on the Jacksonville Circuit. About three years before his death, going to an appointment in the Hadley Creek Circuit, a short distance from his father-in-law's, his horse took fright, threw him off; and fell on him, breaking his thigh, and left him helpless some distance from a public road or human habitation. Here he endured for seven hours the pain of a broken limb, and the burning heat of a July sun, and the temptation that he had served God for naught, and that he should die unpitied and alone. He took his bible, and on its blank leaves wrote his will; and then, as his pain would permit, perused its sacred pages, and felt strengthened in God. He prayed earnestly that his mother-in-law might, in the providence of God, follow him. She said that suddenly at home she became uneasy and quit her work; and still finding no relief, she left, with some of the smaller children, to gather blackberries, not knowing which way Brother Troy had gone in the morning. She took a blind path, very seldom traveled, and after wandering for some time heard his groanings, and hastening to the spot, found him in a piteous condition. He was confined to his bed forty days, with resignation of spirit. A few days before his last illness, while standing with a friend on a very high bluff of the Mississippi River, he said, "I feel like preaching till the last sinner on the last tributary of that stream is converted to God."
-Religion: Methodist

"The METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH at New Hartford was organized about 1840, by Rev. Mr. Troy, who was afterward thrown from a horse and killed. There were at first about 15 members. They erected a house of worship in 1850, which is still used by the Society. Services each alternate Sunday, by Rev. Mr. Drake, Pastor. Present number of communicants about 75."
-"Alton Telegraph and Review" newspaper on 10-11-1845 lists, "Three preachers have died since the lat conference, to wit, --Rev Jesse Haile, Rev. Edward Troy, and Rev Isaac G. Barr"
-"Life Letters and Speeches, by George Copley" p222: Brother Troy, Rev Edward Troy (1819-1845) was born in Hamilton County, Ohio and licensed in 1838 to preach on the Jacksonvill circuit. admitted on trial at the next illinois conference , he was appointed to a series of circuits in central illinois ("Edward Troy", "illinois Conference"[1845],"3:662 in "minutes"
-Appointed Hadley Creek Circuit representative 1842.
-Appointed Minister of the Illinois Annual Methodist Conference for a year on Sept 21, 1844.
-Letter by his brother-in-law William Rutledge which mentions parts of Edward "Brother" Troy's life: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Sources:
-Birth Source: "History of the 93rd Regiment", Quotation Above.
-Marriage Source: "A Book of Stratton", Harriet Stratton, Illinois Marriage Record
-Death Source: Tombstone


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