Daniel Munro

Notes:

Daniel was with a party returning from Santa Fe, New Mexico when he and McNees were caught napping by Comanches and shot as they slept. The accounts are confusing as to who were the perpetrators and what happened to the bodies of McNees and Munro. Most accounts credit their deaths at the hands of Comanches, and claim that McNees was buried on the spot, while Daniel, severely wounded was carried some forty miles before he died and was buried.

The following is an account by Alphonso Wetmore dated 16 Jul 1828.

Cross and filed off from the Semiron, and at 10 miles reached the upper Semiron spring, at the base of a very abrupt rocky hill ... Some mounds of coggy rock several hundred feet high on the summit of which is a cross standing over the bones of two white men who were slain while asleep by the gallant, high-minded, persecuted, gentlemen Indians.

The following is Chittenden's description taken directly from Josiah Gregg's account written in 1844.

In the summer of 1828 two men, citizens of Franklin, Missouri, and traders to Santa Fe, were killed on the [Santa Fe] Trail by the Pawnees while on their return home. Their names were Daniel Monro and one McNees, a son* of Samuel C. McNees, of Franklin. The exact circumstances of their deaths are not known ... McNees was found lifeless and was buried on the banks of a stream which still bears his name. Monroe was still alive and was carried with the caravan upwards of forty miles before he died. He was buried in the valley of the Cimarron [river] (1954).

David Lavender says "authorities agree they [McNees and Munro] were slain in August".

Kenyon Riddle, on the other hand, says "McNees was shot here [McNees Creek] in 1828 and carried 40 miles to [the] Cimarron [river] where he died and was buried..."

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

* Per researcher Frances G. Trimble, the son who was killed at Corrumpa Creek was Robert McNees. (And Samuel C. McNees married widow Elizabeth Cummins and came to Old Franklin, MO in 1816) (Compiled by Betti J. Steele, 2017)

Birth:
Estimate: This birth date is an estimate based on the birth dates of nearest relatives or contemporaries, or based on other clues such as christening date, marriage date, birth order, etc.

Died:
Daniel was killed at McNees Crossing on Corrumpa Creek in 1828.