Pleasant Browder

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Birth:
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The following is from the Johnson reference:

Edward served as Dallas' first district Clerk from 1850 to 1874, was an initial member of Tannehill Masonic Lodge, and was one of the first stewards, class leaders and Sunday School superintendents at First Methodist Church . During the Civil War he was elected Captain of Company C in the Eighteenth Texas Cavalry. Edward's brother Isham also served in Company C but died of disease in 1862.

After the war, Lucy and Edward bought and sold land in Dallas. In 1865, Lucy conveyed to Edward the approximately sixty acres containing Browder's Spring. In 1871, the Texas Legislature passed a bill granting right-of-way for the Southern Pacific Railroad with a short rider requiring that in pass within one mile of Broder's Spring, thus assuring the growth of Dallas.

In the early 1870's Edward Browder developed Browder's Addition, a fashionable suburb southeast of Dallas, between town and Browder's Spring. In 1872 the city named Browder Street after Edward. The area near Browder's Spring was established as the first city park in honor of the 1876 national centennial, and a portion remains today as Old City Park.

Edward Browder died in 1878. The next year, his son, Pleasant Browder, sold Browder's Spring to a private company, which delivered water to Dallas customers. The spring was later sold to the city. Dallas used water from the spring for about eight years before the town's need outgrew the spring's capacity. The spring was reactivated for a short time during the long drought of 1908-1913.

Edward belonged to the Methodist Church.
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Buried:
Old Dallas Cemetery in downtown Dallas, Texas

Edward married Elizabeth Coats on 26 Sep 1849 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Samuel Coats and Nancy Jones) was born on 19 Oct 1830 in , , Tennessee, USA; died on 16 May 1878 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Pleasant married Lucy Jane Monroe on 16 Dec 1819 in , Chariton Co., Missouri, USA. Lucy (daughter of Joseph Jones Monroe and Elizabeth Kerr) was born on 26 Jul 1800 in Charlotte, Essex Co., Virginia, USA; died on 13 Feb 1873 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The following is from the Johnson reference:

Lucy Jane Monroe Browder, a niece of U.S. President James Monroe, was the matriarch of the "Dallas Browders" who were important in the early life of both Dallas and our church, The first United Methodist Church of Dallas. Old City Park, Dallas was originally their homestead and its productive spring provided the earliest source of water for the village, other than individual wells.

Lucy and her sons, Edward and Isham, arrived in Texas in 1845, from Missouri. They first owned land in northern Ellis County but by 1850 lived in Dallas County.

Edward served as Dallas' first district Clerk from 1850 to 1874, was an initial member of Tannehill Masonic Lodge, and was one of the first stewards, class leaders and Sunday School superintendents at First Methodist Church . During the Civil War he was elected Captain of Company C in the Eighteenth Texas Cavalry. Edward's brother Isham also served in Company C but died of disease in 1862.

After the war, Lucy and Edward bought and sold land in Dallas. In 1865, Lucy conveyed to Edward the approximately sixty acres containing Browder's Spring. In 1871, the Texas Legislature passed a bill granting right-of-way for the Southern Pacific Railroad with a short rider requiring that in pass within one mile of Broder's Spring, thus assuring the growth of Dallas.

In the early 1870's Edward Browder developed Browder's Addition, a fashionable suburb southeast of Dallas, between town and Browder's Spring. In 1872 the city named Browder Street after Edward. The area near Browder's Spring was established as the first city park in honor of the 1876 national centennial, and a portion remains today as Old City Park.

Edward Browder died in 1878. The next year, his son, Pleasant Browder, sold Browder's Spring to a private company, which delivered water to Dallas customers. The spring was later sold to the city. Dallas used water from the spring for about eight years before the town's need outgrew the spring's capacity. The spring was reactivated for a short time during the long drought of 1908-1913.

Lucy is buried in the Old Dallas Cemetery in downtown Dallas - (Masonic and Odd Fellows Cemetery).
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Ref: Clan Munro files - Irvine, James, Jr.

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Samuel married Nancy Jones. Nancy was born about 1807; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine" - Vol. XIII #4 - Oct 1933 - The Monroe Family - p. 231-241

Joseph was born in Westmoreland County and named for his maternal uncle, Hon. Joseph Jones of Virginia. He was married three times: first, in Albemarle County in 1790 to Elizabeth Kerr; second on 27 Oct 1801 to Sally Gordon; and third on 19 Oct 1808 to Elizabeth Glasscock.

From 1804 until 1810 he was Clerk of the District and Circuit court as shown by a tablet on the wall of the Northumberland County Virginia Court House.

He moved west and died in Franklin, Missouri on 5 Aug 1824.
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Joseph was sent to Edinburgh University in Scotland by his brother, James. After failing there, He studied law in Virginia and failed there also.

Col. Joseph Jones Monroe became a member of the Albemarle Count bar. He served as private secretary to President Monroe, and was Clerk of the district and Circuit Court of Northumberland County, Virginia (1804-1810) as shown by a tablet on the wall of the Northumberland County Court House. He was appointed Commonwealth Attorney of Albemarle County in 1811.

His first wife was a daughter of James Kerr.

As a widower, he moved west, probably to Kentucky with his daughter and son-in-law. In 1819, he moved to Franklin, Howard County, Missouri where he was one of the first settlers in the county. There he married Mrs. Hulda (Hubbard) Davis, a daughter of Rev. Hubbard, one of the earliest Baptist preachers in North Missouri.

In 1821, he moved to Keytesville, Missouri.

According to the Missouri "Intelligencer", the first newspaper established west of St. Louis, Joseph "was a man of warm heart, of undoubted integrity, of polished education and inestimable worth."

Refs 1 and 2 say Joseph was born in 1772.

One reference gives his death date as 6 Jul 1824 and his birth date as about 1772. Another reference gives his death date as 1831. His first wife, Eilzabeth Kerr (or Carr) died in childbirth. His second wife was Sally (or Sarah or Sara) Gordon. His fourth wife was Huldah Hubbard (or Hulda Davis). Guilford says he died in Keytesville, Charlton County, Missouri, and Holmes says he died 6 Jul 1824 in Howard County, Missouri.

"Burke's Presidential Families" says that he only had one daughter in his first marriage, and that he only married three times.

Ref: Clan Munro files - Stroud, Anna Margaret
- Monroe, James Harrison
- Holmes, Deanna L. - letter 1 Mar 1996
- Johnson, Monroe
- Joseph Jones Monroe notes
- William & Mary Quarterly - 1933
- Descendants of Edward Blair Cabell
- Guilford, Dr. Joan S. ("Southern Monroes" manuscript)
- Williams, Irmalee - Descendants of George Munro
"Burke's Presidential Families" - p. 157

Ref (4) says Joseph was the son of Andrew Monroe [291] instead of his grandson.

References:

(1) Clan Munro files - Redden, Virginia R. - "William and Mary College
Quarterly" - Jun 1997 - p. 194

(2) Clan Munro files - Redden, Virginia R. - Descendancy chart for Andrew
Monroe (ca. 1615-1668) - signed with initials "MDH" and dated 18 Sep 1987

(3) Clan Munro files - Roder, Mary Margaret Ball - short undated biography
which accompanied Mary Roder's membership application - author unknown

(4) Clan Munro files - Roder, Mary Margaret Ball - family group record for
Andrew Monroe author unknown - undated

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Joseph married Elizabeth Kerr on 19 Mar 1791 in , Albemarle Co., Virginia, USA. Elizabeth was born on 2 Nov 1772 in , Albemarle Co., Virginia, USA; died about Jul 1800 in Essex, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth was the daughter of James and Susannah (Rodes) Kerr of Charlottsville, Virginia. The Alger reference says Elizabeth was the daughter of James and Sarah (Rice) Kerr.

References:

(1) Clan Munro files - Redden, Virginia R. - "William and Mary College
Quarterly" - Jun 1997 - p. 194

Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

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Married:
"Much distressing to [President james] Monroe was the discovery that his younger brother Joseph had married the daughter of James Kerr of Charlottsville without consulting him; marriage to a social inferior and while Joseph was still a minor."