Jeremiah William MUNROE

Male 1818 - 1879  (64 years)

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  • Name Jeremiah William MUNROE 
    Birth Between 1815 and 1818  RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 22 Nov 1879  Bourne St., Bristol, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I11872  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father David MUNROE,   b. 18 Dec 1784, Bristol, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Mar 1861, Bristol, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Abigail "Abbie" W. CRANSTON,   b. 29 Jul 1791   d. 1862 (Age 70 years) 
    Marriage 23 Mar 1806  Bristol, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6] 
    Notes 
    • David Munro & Abigail Cranston were married by Daniel Bradford, Justice of the Peace.
    Family ID F06396  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Elizabeth BARRINGTON,   b. Abt 1816, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Dec 1845, Bristol, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1840 
    Children 
     1. Laura Anne MUNROE,   b. Abt 16 Mar 1844, Bristol, Bristol; Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Oct 1911, Bristol, Bristol Co., RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
    Family ID F04831  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Family 2 Elizabeth M. Wyatt,   b. Abt 1814, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1860 and 1866 (Age 46 years) 
    Marriage 6 Aug 1846  Bristol, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Notes 
    • The marriage record, in Bristol Marriages Vol. 4 p. 62, names the bride as Miss Elisabeth M. Diman. However, I think she was a widow.
    Children 
     1. Mary Elizabeth Munroe,   b. Jul 1852, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Apr 1922 (Age 69 years)
     2. Julia Frances Munroe,   b. Feb 1854, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Nov 1927, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
    Family ID F04623  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Family 3 Lydia B. Crump,   b. Abt 1836 
    Marriage 12 Jan 1867  State St. Methodist Episcopal Church, Bristol, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Divorce 10 Apr 1876  Bristol, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • The marriage record at Bristol, RI, says this was Jeremiah's third marriage and Lydia's second.
    Family ID F04832  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Family 4 Mary M. Unknown,   b. Abt 1833, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 2 Feb 1880 (Age > 47 years) 
    Marriage Between 1 Jun 1870 and 10 Jan 1878 
    Family ID F04624  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Photos

    Jeremiah's will, page 1. For names mentioned in the will, see notes.

    Jeremiah's will, page 2.

  • Notes 
    • The Monroe Book, by Joan S. Guilford, Ph. d., has some information on Jeremiah and his family. However, it is both incomplete and incorrect in some crucial points. In fact, I have learned, through viewing Jeremiah's death and marriage records at Bristol, that his parents are David & Abbie, not George & Martha, as the book says. I have made an assumption that the Bristol record are correct.

      In the 1850 Federal Census, Jeremiah W. & Elizabeth Munro are living at Bristol, RI, with their daughter Laura, age 9, and Benjamin & Mary M. Wyatt. This Elizabeth is his second wife.

      In the 1860 Federal Census, Jeremiah W. & Elizabeth M. Munro are living at Bristol, RI, with their three daughters: Laura A. 16, Mary E. 9, and Julia F. 6.

      In the 1870 Federal Census, Jeremiah W. Munro is 52 and his wife Lydia B. is 34, living at Bristol, RI. In the household are two of Jeremiah's daughters, Mary E., 18, and Julia F., 16. Lydia is Jeremiah's third wife.

      Jeremiah's wives:
      Bristol records list the death of Elizabeth Munro, wife of Jeremiah, at age 29 on 5 Dec 1845. This was presumably Jeremiah's first wife and also the mother of our ancestor Laura. Laura's death record identifies her mother as Elizabeth Barrington (or Parrington?). The RI State Archives has the name on her death record as Barrington. There was a Barrington family in the Portsmouth records during the 1700s, but I have not figured out whether Elizabeth belongs to that family. This needs more research.

      Elizabeth (Wyatt) Diman was a widow when she married Jeremiah. I have assumed she was a Wyatt because her (presumed) parents are living with Jeremiah & Elizabeth in the 1850 census. She may have first married James Diman, who died 2 Feb 1845.

      Jeremiah married again in 1867, to Lydia Crump. According to the marriage record, it was Jeremiah's third marriage. This was the same year his daughter Laura was married, and at the same church. However, this marriage ended in divorce, as one was granted 10 April 1876. Jeremiah W. was the plaintiff, and Lydia B. was the defendant.

      It would seem that Jeremiah married yet another time, because the wife he names as heir in his will, dated 10 Jan 1878, is Mary M. Munroe. To her he gives all household furniture and stores, as well as real estate, remaining after the payment of debts. In the will he also mentions three additional heirs, should his wife die: two daughters, Julia F. Munroe and Mary Elizabeth Gravlin; and one grandson, Frank P. Chafee (he is my great-grandfather); in case all of these should die, he names Frank's brother Samuel as heir. A copy of this will is recorded in the Bristol Probate Will Book No. 6, p. 275f. Also, related documents are in Book 5, p. 149.

      Jeremiah died of scarletina at his home on Bourne St. in Bristol.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012817] Federal Census of 1 June 1860.

    2. [S012433] Federal Census of 1 June 1850.

    3. [S012818] Federal Census of 1 June 1870.

    4. [S013407] Bristol Deaths Vol. 5, 1850 - 1902, 95.

    5. [S012879] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Bristol -- Marriages.

    6. [S013226] Descendants of Gov. John Cranston of RI; Genealogies of RI Families, Vol. 1, 310.

    7. [S012879] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Bristol -- Marriages, 39.

    8. [S012877] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Bristol -- Church Records.