Eleanor Ellender (Monroe) Douglass (1792 - 1865)

Born 19 Nov 1792 in Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Wife of James Simeral Douglass — married about 1812 in Howard Co., MO

Descendants

Died 21 Nov 1865 at age 73 in Windsor, Henry, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Eleanor Ellender Monroe was born in 1792 in Kentucky as it became a state in the union of the United States. Her father was William Monroe (1771-1840) and mother Agatha Agnes West (1770-1840). Her father was a settler in the Virginia Colonies where he married Agnes and set up home. It was a large family of nine children. The family moved to Missouri at the time the Douglass family moved to Howard County, Missouri. She married James Simeral Douglass and they had nine children together. She also had three sons from another relationship.^[1] For many years the family was compelled to seek protection of Ft. Kincaid due to Indian hostilities in the region. When those ceased the family bought property in Howard Co., MO, which was sold in 1836, and moved to Rives Co. (now Henry Co.), then to Jefferson Twp, Johnson Co., MO, just inside the county line. The families of this period were farmers and worked the land and developed homesteads. He sold his Henry Co property to John Woodard who owned it in 1883. To learn more of the heroics of these pioneer families, further information can be found at the American History & Genealogy Project or specifically [1]. She died on November 21, 1865, in Windsor, Missouri, at the age of 73.

Birth

Eleanor Ellender Monroe was born on 19 Nov 1792.^[2]

Siblings

Eleanor Ellender Monroe 1792–1865

Susan Susannah Monroe 1794–1878

Thomas Monroe 1798–1870

Frances "Fanny" C. Monroe 1801–1875

Daniel William Monroe 1802–1876

Elizabeth Monroe 1803–1840

Peter Monroe 1807–1873

Samuel Monroe 1807–1873

Nancy Monroe 1812–1884

Marriage

Eleanor married James Simeral Douglass in 1812 in Missouri after her family arrived in the Missouri area. James Douglass was a widower with a young son just 2 years old.

Children

Mary Polly Douglass 1813–1881

William Jackson Douglass 1815–1871

Isabella Jane Douglass 1817–1883

Daniel Moon Douglass 1822–1915

Logan Douglass 1824–1824

Henry Thomas Douglas 1825–1904

Elizabeth Douglass 1828–1878

Thomas Marion Douglass 1831–1910

Nancy Douglass 1835–1854

Death

21 Nov 1865 • Windsor, Henry, Missouri, USA

Sources

1. ↑ Buchanan County, Missouri History The History of Buchanan County, Missouri, History of Buchanan County The First Records
2. ↑ U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; NAI Title: U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934; NAI Number: T288; Record Group Title: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773-2007; Record Group N

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