Lee Hamilton Monroe

Notes:

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

Lee married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Living
3. Lee Hamilton Monroe, Jr. was born on 12 Oct 1956 in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Par., Louisiana, USA; was buried in Sep 1981 in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Par., Louisiana, USA.

Notes:

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

Died:
From the Winn Parish Enterprise 26 Sep 1946:

Last Rites Held For Walter Lee Monroe Thursday

Last rites for Walter Lee Monroe, 56, who died in a hospital in Pineville Wednesday morning, were held at the Southern Funeral Home Chapel, Winnfield, Thrusday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with Rev. Miller, minister of the Church of Christ officiating. Burial services was in the Goldonna cemetery.

Mr. Monroe was a resident of Winfield and a native of Natchitoches.

Surviving are four daughters: Mrs. Doc. Foster, Hemstead, Texas; Mrs. Annie Laura Emel, Houston, Texas; Mrs. Morris Still and Mrs. Velma Schaffer, Denham Springs, Texas; his mother Laura Monroe. Winnfield.

He also leaves four sisters: Mrs. T. E. Bossier and Mrs. Florence Williams, Winnfield, Mrs. Stella Joyner, Livingston, Texas; and Mrs. Emma Waggoner, Shreveport; and one brother Hamilton Monroe, of Livingston, Texas.

Buried:
Walter was buried in the Coldonna Cemetera.

His grave stone reads:

Walter Lee Monroe
Dec 1889
Sept. 25. 1946

Walter married Florence Hazel Hall in 1911. Florence was born on 17 Jun 1894 in Castor, Bienville Par., Louisiana, USA; died on 28 Mar 1982 in Denham Springs, Livingston Par., Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Florence was the daughter of Marion and Nola (Allen) Hall.

Florence's granddaughter, Joyce Stills Starns, wrote the following essay about her grandmother in Jun 1999.

These are stories my grandmother told me when I was a young girl.

My grandmother had long hair when she was a young girl and always kept it long even after she got grown. After she was married and started having children, the long hair began to be a problem. Well her husband was a barber by trade so she asked him to cut her hair so it wouldn't be so hard to keep up. what do you know, she always had curly hair and did not know it. It always was curly as long as I knew her. She never lit it grow long again.

My grandmother, whom I always called Big Mama once told me of living in an old chicken house. She said that after she and my grandfather had separated, she and the kids moved into a shack that a family of black folk had moved out of and before that it had been a chicken house. Probably a one room shack. they had cornmeal mush for breakfast and cornbread lots and lots of times to eat. She sewed and cooked and took care of children to make ends meet. Later on the kids were old enough to help.

My grandmother tells me of making her son, Hamilton, a Graduation suit out of white fertilizer sacks which looked and felt much like linen. When washed, starched, and ironed it looked rather nice. Back then you did the best you could with what you had.

My grandmother used to tell me this little rhyme that I still use today. It goes like this: USE IT UP! WEAR IT OUT! MAKE IT DO! OR DO WITHOUT! I do not know where this cute little rhyme came from, but for me it came from big Mama.

Big Mama was very good at crocheting and made lots of beautiful things. I remember that she and my mother, Juanita, would enter pieces of their crochet work and other things in the Livingston Paris Fair. One or the other would always win some kind of ribbon. My grandmother was the best at crocheting. I believe she could do it with her eyes closed and never miss a stitch.

The funniest thing I remember she told me was once they [meaning she and my grandfather] were making a batch of beer. Well somehow it rained and the poured it out. The pigs got into it and got drunk. What a sight! I can not imagine what a drunk pig looked like.

Big Mama had purchased a beautiful doll and tried to give it to several of her grandchildren. No one wanted it, for you see all of them wanted a rubber doll, which was the popular thing at that time. I do not remember her offering it to me, but I probably would have turned it down too. Well, she said "I'll just keep this doll for myself." She made dresses for it and beautiful crocheted cap and sweater and then all of us wanted her doll. But no one got her doll, as long as I can remember, until her death. I still do not know who got her doll.

My great Aunt Eula [Doody, as we all knew her] had a camp down at French Settlement. Big Mama and she would go down quite often to fish. They both loved to fish! My Big Mama would run the boat around to places they liked to fish. They did this as I recall when they were in their fifties and sixties. Bit Mama was not a small person as her name would suggest. She was big. Well getting in and out of a boat was not easy for someone in a dress, not to mention what might be exposed. So Big Mama bought some denim material and they made themselves some pants. This was before they were making blue jeans for large women. I can still see them now in their pants, long sleeved shirts and straw hats with the big brims to shade them from the sun.

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

Notes:

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

William married Laura Clark about 1880 in , Natchitoches Par., Louisiana, USA. Laura was born about 1861 in , , Louisiana, USA; died on 10 Oct 1952 in Winnfield, Winn Par., Louisiana, USA; was buried in Goldonna, Natchitoches Par. Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Laura told many stories about life on the farm after William left her shortly after Ellen's birth. The other children would help in the field, and she would leave one to watch the younger ones. She said the long dresses the babies wore had a good purpose. In the winter she would pull up a corner of the mattress, put the dress tail under and let the mattress back down and push the bed against the wall. In summer she would place the baby on the floor and put a table leg to hold the dress tight. There were no playpens, but this served as well. Also there were no toys to keep the younger ones occupied. She would just put syrup on their fingers and give them a feather. They would spend hours putting the feather from one hand to the other and sometimes she would place spider webs on the hands and no syrup was needed. When they reached the stage for teething, a knot from a tree or carrot or raw potato worked for a teething ring.

All the kids were bathed every night and dressed for play the next day. The only ironing was for the Sunday clothes. They went to church each Sunday. Laura was a Baptist or Pentacostal.

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

Died:
Obituary from Winn Parish Enterprise/Winnfield News American

"Mrs. Laura Monroe Dies in Winnfield After Long Illness

Rites for Natchitoches Native Conducted At Goldonna on Saturday

Mrs. Laura Monroe, widely known as "Aunt Laura", a native of Natchitoches Parish, passed away at the home of her granddaughter, Iris Boyett at 1414 Maple Street, here at 4:31 P.M. Friday, October 10, 1952 after a lengthy illness.

Funeral services were held at the Pentacostal Church in Goldonna at 4 P.M. Saturday with the Rev. H. J. Mott and the Rev. H. L. Black of Winnfield, and interment was in Goldonna cemetery.

Pallbearers were grandsons, including Ellis williams, Jr. of winnfield, Walter Monroe of Livingston, Texas, Joe Mixon of Jena, Doc. Foster of Hempstead, Texas, Bill Mamilton of Downsville and Charles Lacquer of Baton Rouge.

Mrs. Monroe is survived by four daughters, Mrs. J. E. Williams, Sr., of Winnfield, Mrs. Jimmie Lyons of Los Angeles, Mrs. Stella Joyner of Goldonna and Mrs. T. E. Bossier of Daingerfield, Texas; one son Hamilton Monroe of Livingston, Texas; 23 grandchildren; 43 great grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild."

One of her daughters was recorded as Mrs. T. E. Bossier in Walter Lee Monroe's Obituary September 26, 1946 living in Winnfield. Charles Lscquer is believed to be La Clercq [Laclercq]. Bill Hamilton may have been Le Hamilton Monroe.

Note: Florence is Mrs. J. E. Williams; Stella is Mrs. Stella Joyner; Della is Mrs. T. E. Bossier, Ellen is Mrs. Jimmie Lyons; Emma is Mrs. Waggoner (not listed).

Buried:
Goldonna Cemetery

Notes:

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

George was called a "homesteader". It would appear very probable that he homesteaded land in the Goldonna area or perhaps it was the custom at that time to call anyone that cleared new land a "homesteader". His holdings in his old age were divided between his youngest son, Steven Lafitte Monroe and Steven lafitte's brother-in law, James Isom Conley. Steven Lafitte's brother, George Columbus Monroe's eldest son, George W. Monroe lived on the adjacent property. George Ervin's great grandson's Erve and Elton Monroe, Tilmon Monroe's sons, eventually owned most of the land that passed to Steven Lafitte.

George had tax receipts from Laurel, Mississippi and Goldonna, Louisiana for the year 1871 in his papers.

He was very religious in his old age. He would call his grandson, Itrel, to him, place his hand on the boy's head, pray for him and announce that Itrel would serve the Lord by becoming a great preacher. Itrel became a Baptist preacher upon graduating from Louisiana College.

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

George married Nancy Frances Wilson in May 1853 in Koscuisko, Attala Co., Mississippi, USA. Nancy was born in Jun 1835 in , Walton Co., Georgia, USA; died on 5 Dec 1924 in , Sunflower Co., Mississippi, USA; was buried in Drew, Sunflower Co., Mississippi, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nancy was the daughter of Riley and Rebecca (Fowler) Wilson. The Wilsons were neighbors of the Monroes in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

After George's death, Nancy was denied a widow's pension because the bureau said that George had been AWOL (absent without leave) from 7 Aug 1863 until the end of the American Civil War.

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

Buried:
Family lore says that Nancy's son, George Columbus Monroe, who lived in Mississippi with his third wife and family, went to Louisiana and took Nancy back to Mississippi for a visit. While she was there, she died and was buried there. George Columbus Monroe lived in Drew, Mississippi, near the "Quiver River" on what was called the Monroe Plantation because of the length of time they had farmed the land. It is assumed that this is Nancy's burial place.