Doctor Troyer's only son was a blacksmith and the principal cornerstone of the Baptist Church of Port Rowan. Yet he too had a tale to tell.

As reported in E. A. Owen's Pioneer Sketches:

"Deacon Michael Troyer met with an unusual experience in the earlier part of his life ... He fell into a trance and was dead to all appearances for three days and nights. His friends, thinking he was dead, began to make preparations for his burial; and if the trance had continued a little longer he would, no doubt, have been buried alive. During this trance it seemed that his soul had been wafted away to the regions of eternal light where it feasted on supernal joys. When the time came to return to earth he was loth to go, and he begged permission to remain; but the blessed Savior lovingly took him by the hand and informed him that He had work for him to do on earth; that he must go back and attend to it, that he might then return and remain for ever. This experience led to his conversion."

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Portions of this article quoted from E. A. Owen's Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement, published by William Briggs, Toronto, 1898; reprinted by Mika Publishing Company, Belleville, Ontario, 1986. This 577-page hard cover reprint is now out of print. Available for Reading Room inspection at the Norfolk Historical Society Achives.