GEORGE WILLIAM MONROE, JR
GEORGE WILLIAM MONROE, JR. (GEORGE WILLIAM4, ROBERT3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born August 29, 1819 in TN, and died February 06, 1863 in Murfreesboro, Stones River, TN. He married (1) ELIZABETH PEARSON April 25, 1840 in McMinn County, TN, daughter of Doctor Pearson. He married (2) MARGARET SIMPSON July 15, 1855 in McMinn County, TN. George was wounded in the Battle of Murfreesboro and died Feb 6, 1863 in the Field hospital near Murfreesboro.
JESSE LAFAYETTE MONROE (GEORGE WILLIAM5, GEORGE WILLIAM4, ROBERT3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born February 07, 1841 in McMinn County, TN, and died February 22, 1916 in Osage County, MO. He married (1) CHARLOTTE MARR 1860, daughter of Robert Marr. He married (2)SARAH ADELAIDE BARNETT February 16, 1874 in Boone Township, Maries County, MO, daughter of Harrison Barnett and Hannah Hassler.
Jesse Monroe suffered some disabilities while on duty in the army, but not in actual battle. In later years, in applying for a pension, he tells of the details thus: "In the month of March, 1863, near Murfreesboro, TN at Stone River, one of my comrades, in attempting to ford the river, his horse began to drift down stream. The Colonel of my Regiment ordered some of us to assist him. My horse slipped on the bank of the river, falling on me, injuring my back, left side, and hip. One of my comrades went back to camp with me."
The length of Jesse's pensionable service, according to Army records, was 2 years, 9 months, 3 days and his rank was moved up somewhere along the line from Private to Sergeant. He was discharged 8/3/1865. His physical description was "Complexion - fair; eyes - brown; hair-dark; height 5''5"; identifying marks: Scar on right forefinger which was stiff." He first applied for a pension Jan 5, 1876 and for awhile he received $24.00 per year. Later he got $12 per month, and commencing Feb 11, 1911, this was raised to $15 per month.
The reason for increases: "Increase in Invalid Pension, 12/9/1903: Jesse L. Monroe, age 62, partial inability to earn a support at manual labor. Also claims additional pension for rupture on right side about April 10, 1902 in Maries County, MO at ordinary labor while plowing on farm. He thinks the rate of pension he is now receiving is unjustly and unreasonably low and disproportionate to the rate drawn by other pensioners for similar and equivalent disabilities." In another affidavit he says in part: "It is impossible for me to furnish evidence of comrades to prove injury to back, left side and hip while in the service in 1863, because I was in the United States Service at the time and I do not know post office addresses of any of them, not I don't know whether any of them is alive or not.... My injuries were received in the line of duty and as I get older, get worse." "Approved for senile disability and right inguinal hernia, and disease of the stomach, kidneys, rheumatism and general disability."
After the war ended, Jesse farmed on land north of Athens until 1869, the year his grandfather died. He then moved his little family to Carrsville, Livingston County, KY, a little town on the Ohio river. He moved his family to Missouri in 1871. Per Jesse's Pension Deposition, the Monroe family lived in Edonsville, MO and Koehltytown, Osage County, MO. In 1900 the Jesse Monroe family was living near Edonsville, Texas County, MO. At other times, they lived in Boone, Maries, and Osage Counties, and in 1905, they lived near McLoud, Oklahoma Territory.
After his death, his widow, Sarah Adelade (Barnett) Monroe received a pension on Certificate # 807-995. Jesse did not die of any of these injuries, but from apoplexy, when he was 75. The family then lived at Meta, Osage County, MO. Jesse's death certificate Tombstone Sarah's death certificate Tombstone
**This information was compiled by Cecil Grace Hollis Puryear, paternal grandmother of Jerry Cecil Puryear, one of the direct descendants of Robert Monroe.
SHERWOOD MONROE (GEORGE WILLIAM5, GEORGE WILLIAM4, ROBERT3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1842 in McMinn County, TN. He married RUTHIE MATILDA MCKEEHAN September 18, 1866 in McMinn County, TN, daughter of Samuel McKeehan and Sarah Wattenbarger.
Sherwood Monroe, son of George Monroe, Jr. may or maynot have been in the Battle of Murfreesboro. Nothing in his Army records indicate praticular battles, but neither does that of his father. On several of his muster cards, Sherwood is reported as "Absent on scout duty", and in May, 1863 "Absent - detailed as courier, May 5". while on some such duty he was captured at Silver Trestle, AL Sept 25, 1864. There is no mention of where he was held prisoner but an older relative has said it was Andersonville, GA.
Andersonville was a village in Georgia, Sumpter County, about 60 miles southwest of Macon. From November, 1863 until the close of the Civil War, a Conferderate military prison was maintained in an open stockade of 26.5 acres near the village. The sufferings of the prisoners from congestion, insufficient food, exposure, polution of water supply and disease were terrible. Of the 49,485 prisoners received during the war, about 13,000 died. The cemetery contains 13,737 grraves - 1040 marked unknown. (Encyclopedia Britannica.)
Sherwood was paroled at Vicksburg, MS on or about April 19, 1865; was admitted to the hospital at Parole Camp near Vicksburg, April 19; with rheumatism; sent to the General Hospital April 28th. There he was admitted May 12, as No. 2754 - Sherl Monroe, age 21, from McMinn County, TN; single. Nearest of kin - J.L. Monroe, Athens, TN (This was brother, Jesse Lafayette.) Diagnosis - Diarrhea. He was returned to duty July 5, 1865 at Benton Barracks, MO and his indivdual Muster-Out Roll gives this: Muster_out date - July 22, 1865, Camp Chase, OH. On May 31 was this note: "Due this man three months' extra pay, per order from Sec. of War, War Dept., Washington, DC."
Sherwood (Sheridan M.) married very soon after the war was over and the 1870 Census of McMinn County shows him as Sherwood Monroe, 27, farmer, with a wife, Matilda, 23, a son, George, age 3 and a baby girl born in February or March of that year, named Martha.
This information was compiled by Cecil Grace Hollis Puryear, grandmother of Jerry Cecil Puryear, one of the direct descendants of Robert Monroe.
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