Happy Memorial Day Researchers: I am researching my ancestors who I believe were slaves in the family of Harrison Munday Sr., and Jr,. -- Edmund Munday being the father of Harrison Sr. and grandfather to Harrison Jr. My relatives end up in Canton, Lewis Co., MO and Hannibal, MO from KY and VA - with ties to the MUNDAY family and others related to MUNDAYs. I have been trying to track down the will and final settlement papers of both Edmund Monday and Harrison Monday Sr. Seems to me -- the Harrison's Sr.'s estate and slaves were liquidated in KY -- and that Harrison Munday Jr., may not have brought slaves with him to MO --- I do not see Harrison Munday Jr name on the slave schedules for 1850 and 1860. My ancestor Lewis Mundy is noted in the slave narratives -- the owners of his family were William Graves and John Wright. Mr. Graves owned his father James Munday. I believe there is marriage between a Mary Monday and Levy Graves; in March 1828. (Mary is daughter of Patsy Sneed and Harrison Munday Sr.) Here is his slave narrative: http://www.rootsweb.com/~molewis/lewismundy.htm I suspect that the Graves are kin to the Lewis, Yancy and Tutt clan in VA and KY? The focus on my research thus far has been Central MO for my dad's side of the family. Only recently did I begin looking into my dad's mother's side of the family which is from Lewis, Knox, Adair, Marion counties in MO. The slaveowning families of this area -- appear to be cousins to the slave owning family I have been researching in Central MO. The family names are JOHNSON, MONDAY, YOUNG, COLEMAN, DAVIS, DUDLEY and SMITH. I have been transcribing the Lewis Co., Black marriages and found Lewis's father listed: James P. Monday to Elizabeth Neal. He is about 52 in 1865 when he marries Elizabeth who I believe is his 2nd wife; she is about half his age; and could not be Lewis/Louis Monday's mother. By 1880 James Monday is a widow again living with his daughter Winnie and her husband Henry Smith. Henry's mother Haley Smith of 70 is also living with the family as is James' son Thomas Monday who is 17. I have black Johnson relatives who also may have been slaves of the MUNDAY and allied family who owned slaves.. and I believe understanding the Munday & allied family via the slave holdings may give me some answers. But perhaps there are allied family researchers who understand the family connections? I recently picked up some paperwork on Harrison Munday of Canton MO -- I'd be happy to share what I've been accumulating.. I've got some more work to do... the pieces are still coming together. I did find a listing in the Bourbon CO., MO Wills: Book 2 page 201 Edmund Munday -- Names Wife Ruth; Son Harrison. Daughter Lucy Brown. Son THomas Munday. Daughter Elizabeth. Sons, William, James and Rueben Munday. Dau. Sally Munday, when of age. Daughters, Polly, and Nancy. Exec.s Thomas Sneed, son Harrison Munday and Scott Borwn. Written July 1, 1800. Witness, Samuel Woods, Gideon Pulliam and James Samuel. Probated Oct. Court 1800. The family line-up looks like this: MUNDAY, SNEED, SLAUGHTER, BROADDUS, SAMUEL, BROWN, HOOD - Edmund MUNDAY, born about 1751 in either Essex or Caroline County, Virginia, married Ruth SNEED, born about 1761 in Virginia. They had the following children: Harrison (b. October 2, 1775 in VA, married Patsy SNEED on Sept. 19, 1799 in Caroline County, VA), Lucy (b. 1778 in VA, married Scott BROWN), Thomas (b. January 10, 1780 in VA, married Susanna SLAUGHTER), Elizabeth (b. October 20, 1782 in VA, married Archibald GORDON), William (b. 1786 in VA, married Winnie HOOD), James (b. 1788 in Caroline Co., VA, married Joyce CHENAULT), Reubin (b. March 20, 1790 in VA, married Nancy BROADDUS), Sally (b. 1792, married James SAMUEL and Woodson MUNDAY), Polly (b. 1794 in Mercer Co., KY, didn't marry), and Nancy (b. 1799 in Mercer Co., KY, married James CHINN). The Munday family moved to Mercer County, Kentucky about 1790. William MUNDAY moved on to Illinois and died there in Scott County in 1858. Captain Harrison MUNDAY served ! in the War of 1812 from Mercer County, Kentucky and moved to Missouri in 1826. He died in Canton, Lewis County, Missouri on April 25, 1868. I believe the NALL and OVERTON families are part the family -- I recently found the NALLS and OVERTONS are related to the Lewis, Yancy and Tutt clan of VA -- these families migrated to Central and Northern MO. Thus far; I have been tracking families from Bourbon Co., KY and Caroline Co., VA as they migrated to Central MO... Boone, Howard, Cooper, Morgan, Moniteau, Callaway counties etc. I would be interested in your thoughts. traci wilson-kleekamp african americans in missouri www.missouri-slave-data.og