Lucy Jane Monroe

1800 - 1873  (72 years)

• Name	Lucy Jane Monroe  [1]
  Born	26 Jul 1800	Charlotte, Essex Co., Virginia, USA   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Died	13 Feb 1873	Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I2366	Munro
  Last Modified	23 Aug 2007

  
  

  Father	Joseph Jones Monroe,   b. 1764, Monroe's Creek, Westmoreland Co., Virginia, USA ,   d. 5 Aug 1824, , Franklin Co., Missouri, USA  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Kerr,   b. 2 Nov 1772, , Albemarle Co., Virginia, USA ,   d. Abt Jul 1800, Essex, Virginia  (Age 27 years)
  Married	19 Mar 1791	, Albemarle Co., Virginia, USA
  	"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." [3]
  Family ID	F1146	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pleasant Browder,   b. 16 Feb 1794, , , Northwest Territories, Canada ,   d. 9 Sep 1830, Chariton, Chariton Co., Missouri, USA  (Age 36 years)
  Married	16 Dec 1819	, Chariton Co., Missouri, USA   [4]
  Children	+ 1. Edward Cabell Browder,   b. 30 May 1825, Chariton, Chariton Co., Missouri, USA ,   d. 24 Mar 1878, Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas, USA  (Age 52 years)   2. Isham Browder,   b. 1827,   d. 1862, Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas, USA  (Age 35 years)
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2009
  Family ID	F1145	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  ********** 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). ********** Ref: Clan Munro files - Irvine, James, Jr. Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA [4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S344] Clan Munro files - Johnson, Monroe, Monroe Johnson, Descendants of Andrew Monroe - received 22 Apr 2004 - p. 32 , 46 (Reliability: 3). [S344] Clan Munro files - Johnson, Monroe, Monroe Johnson, Descendants of Andrew Monroe - received 22 Apr 2004 - p. 32 , 47 (Reliability: 3). [S344] Clan Munro files - Johnson, Monroe, Monroe Johnson, Descendants of Andrew Monroe - received 22 Apr 2004 - p. 31 (Reliability: 3). [S344] Clan Munro files - Johnson, Monroe, Monroe Johnson, Descendants of Andrew Monroe - received 22 Apr 2004 - p. 47 (Reliability: 3).