This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Monnett Norris Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2VB.2ACE/502.5 Message Board Post: "Emerson Monett" is listed as a prisoner in the Ohio State Penitentiary in the 1930 census. The information was typed. He is listed as "Emerson Monett", 38 years old, single, born in Ohio, parents b Ohio, veteran of WW. Census: 1930 Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio, city Ward 12, ED 110 SH 29B - Ohio State Penitentiary - enumerated April 16, 1930 (just a few days before the fire). Emerson Monnett of Thurston, Ohio, enlisted in the National Guard at Pleasantville, Ohio on May 14, 1917, age 27 years born in Kirkersville, Ohio. Assigns Comment: Co D 7 Infantry ONG to 25 Oct 1917; Co C 112 Engineers to Discharge Private Meuse-Argonne; Ypres-Lys; Defensive Sector. American Expeditionary Forces 23 June 1918 to 1 Apr 1919. Honorable discharge 16 Apr 1919. [Source Information: Ancestry.com. Ohio Military Men, 1917-1918 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000. Original data: Official Roster of Ohio Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the World War, 1917-1918, Volumes I-XXIII. Columbus, OH: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1926. ] In the 1920 census Emerson Monett is listed in Thurston village, Walnut Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio, as being 29, single, born Ohio, and the step son of Randolph NORRIS who was 73. Wife listed for Randolph was Elsie, 63y b OH. Emerson's occupation is listed as a railroad section hand. [Sheet 3B]