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John Judson Monroe

John Judson Monroe

Male 1860 - 1928  (67 years)

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  • Name John Judson Monroe  [1, 2
    Born 2 Feb 1860-14 Feb 1860  , Jefferson Co., Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Died 1928  Saint Louis, St. Louis (city), Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I25041  Munro
    Last Modified 26 Mar 2008 

    Father James Munro,   b. Abt 1835,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F8659  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah Lavinia Cox,   b. 9 Jan 1857, Spring Garden, Jefferson Co., Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jan 1922, Spring Garden, Jefferson Co., Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years) 
    Married 28 Sep 1881  , Jefferson Co., Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Children 
    +1. James Oliver Monroe,   b. 4 Nov 1888, Dahlgren, Hamilton Co., Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jun 1968, Normandy, St. Louis Co., Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
    Last Modified 20 Jan 2009 
    Family ID F8665  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
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      The following is from a family history manuscript written by John Judson Monroe

      Among their children was John Judson, for whom I am named.

      John Judson was a huge man, amply fit to cope with the west: the settled prairies of Indiana could not hold him. He migrated to Kansas to farm to save for intermittent expeditions to Colorado and Wyoming. When grasshoppers wiped out his farm, he returned to the middle west, making Illinois hes stamping grounds.

      He had had some education at the beginnings of a small college called Ewing in the southern part of Illinois. His physical build fitted him for handling belligerent farmer boys. It was nothing for him, then, to procure numerous positions teaching country school.

      Finally he settled down on a farm in Jefferson County, Illinois, near Ina, and not far from Mount Vernon. Marriage, farming, and politics held his attention for many years. For twenty years he was elected road commissioner of the township on the Democratic ticket, and gloried in his responsibility. But there was a Republican landslide one year and he was defeated. He turned tail and became a Reb\\publican henceforth and forevermore. his children never ceased to tease him about it.
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      John married Sarah "Sadie" Lavinia Cox, who was called "little grandma" by some of her grandchildren to distinguish her from grandma Koch. She was the daughter of James Duncan and Rebecca Landrum (Davis) Cox and a descendant of John Sevier, the Tennessee pioneer.

      John was a 230-pound farmer. He migrated from Illinois to Kansas. On his Kansas farm, he was injured when his team of horses reared at the sound of a rattlesnake. He carried a deep hole in his temple for the rest of his life.

      After intermittent expeditions to Colorado and Wyoming, and after grasshoppers wiped out his Kansas farm, he returned to Illinois where he eked out a poor living on a bad farm there. Since he had some education from Ewing, a small college in southern Illinois, he had no trouble procuring numerous positions as a teacher in the country schools of Illinois.

      He finally settled on a farm in Jefferson County, Illinois, near Ina. For twenty years he was elected road commissioner of the township on the Democratic ticket, and gloried in his responsibility. There was a Republican landslide one year, and he was defeated. Because of that, he changed parties and became a Republican himself forever after.

      The Boak reference gives John's death place, but it is illegible.

      Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA [3]

  • Sources 
    1. [S644] Clan Munro files - Boak, Deirdre Monroe, Deirdre Monroe Boak, Letter from Deirdre Boak - 25 Jun 1995 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S644] Clan Munro files - Boak, Deirdre Monroe, Deirdre Monroe Boak, Sons of the American Revolution applicatin for Karl Louis M onroe - 21 Oct 1987 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S644] Clan Munro files - Boak, Deirdre Monroe, Deirdre Monroe Boak, Family history manuscript written by John Judson Monroe - u ndated (Reliability: 3).