Agness Violet Munroe

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Ref: Clan Munro files - Kaufhold, Shirley Lee Carlson

Agness married William Deacon Wentworth on 15 Sep 1894 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. William was born on 3 Mar 1868 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA; died in Sep 1926 in McHenry, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Edward married the daughter of Roswell and Sarah Violet (Dailey) Holly.

Ref: "The Monroe Book" by Dr. Joan S. Guilford - Conn. Unconnected Monroes
Clan Munro files - Kaufhold, Shirley Carlson

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

Edward married Evaline Amanda Holly on 15 Apr 1873 in McHenry Co., Illinois. Evaline was born on 20 May 1858 in Mansfield, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania, USA; died on 6 Feb 1888 in Woodstock, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Henry was only seven when his father fell through the ice of a river and drowned. At the age of nine, Henry was farmed out to earn his keep and there learned the carpenter and cabinet making trade. In adulthood, he carried on this business in Danbury and Redding, Connecticut.

On 13 Jun 1837, he married Eliza, the only daughter of Hudson and Betty (or Betsey) (Little) Sanford.

In 1855, Henry and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois where he engaged in the undertaking business for one year. At that time, he was one of only four undertakers in the city of Chicago.

They lived in Woodstock, Illinois from 1856 until after the outbreak of the Civil War, at which time they moved to Louisville, Kentucky. There Henry bought an interest in the Goodwillie Box Co., which was making bread boxes for the government. The box factory burned down, but the family remained in Louisville to be near their son, William Henry, who had joined the Union Army.

Henry's wife, Eliza, showed her patriotism in that rebel city by hanging the American flag in front of their residence every day until her son returned. Eliza and her daughter, Mary, daily visited hospitals in Louisville ministering to the wants and needs of the sick and wounded soldiers and looking for boys from Woodstock. They took many into their home where they nursed them until they recovered.

While living in Louisville, Henry found time to establish a "Mission Sabbath School" in a neglected part of the city. From this small mission, which was started in a hall, grew a prosperous Methodist Church. As the mission grew, they expanded. Henry helped build a new church where he preached until he returned to Woodstock, Illinois in 1876. Years later, Henry was called back to Louisville to dedicate a lovely new church that had grown from the little Mission School he founded.

Henry started out as a Methodist, but in later years preached in Congregational Churches. In 1877, he was engaged in the service of the American Bible Society in McHenry, Illinois and in 1878, he became pastor of the Congregational Church in Bartlett, Illinois. He remained there until 1886 when he moved to Malta, Illinois to assume the pastorate of the Congregational Church there. After three years, his health failing, he was obliged to give up the pastorate and moved to West Dundee, Illinois for his retirement because "there were no saloons there".

While in retirement he helped build the parsonage of the Congregational Church of Algonquin, Illinois where his granddaughter's husband, William Hench, was pastor.

Henry died 22 Oct 1895 after spending his life in the service of others and always giving ten percent of his earnings to charity.

Ref: "The Monroe Book" by Dr. Joan S. Guilford - Conn. Unconnected Monroes
Clan Munro files - Kaufhold, Shirley Carlson

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

Henry married Eliza Sanford on 13 Jun 1837 in Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA. Eliza was born on 7 Oct 1813 in New York, New York Co., New York, USA; died on 13 Oct 1903 in Dundee, Mchenry Co., Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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Henry (or Squire) died an insolvent debtor in New York City. His estate value was $478.29, his debts were $490.35. He married Polly (or Mary) Mansfield, the daughter of Joseph and Chloe (Knapp) Mansfield.

He may have been born in Connecticut.

Bessie May Munro, Henry's great granddaughter wrote in 1957: "Squire Munroe died in the year 1824. They told me that he was a hatter and was taking a short-cut across the ice on his way to work and was never seen again. They found his hat on the ice, but his body was never found."

Ref: "The Monroe Book" by Dr. Joan S. Guilford - Conn. Unconnected Monroes
Clan Munro files - Kaufhold, Shirley Carlson

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

Henry married Polly Mansfield in 1814 in Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA. Polly was born in 1798 in Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA; died in 1848. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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