----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Jessee" <jim@jessee.org> To: <VARUSSEL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 7:30 PM Subject: [VARUSSEL] James B. MONK, James M. MONK and Nancy E. JESSEE > Mary, > > Forgive my taking some time, as my email was down for five > days, and I just got it going again last night and have slowly been > going through email. > > I have looked at my MONK information today, and for all > these names. You have discovered James M. Monk and his father, James B. > Monk, in my database at www.jessee.org <http://www.jessee.org/> . I have > very incomplete information about this family, but much more on Nancy E. > Jessee, who is my 2nd cousin 3 times removed. Certainly your Martha Ann > Monk could have been an unrecorded, by me, sister in that family, but I > have no proof and no other information or photos to help. > > I will share this with the Russell County and Jessee Lists, > and hope someone else may be able to help you. I will ask that they > respond to include you by directly using your email address, as you may > not be a subscriber to those lists. I recommend you join the Russell Co. > List and post your inquiry about the MONK family. > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mary Holt [mailto:msh@moment.net] > Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 1:33 PM > To: Jim@jessee.org > Subject: Monk and Jessee > > Hi, > > My name is Mary Holt and my research has lead to James M. Monk and Nancy > C. Jessee. My husband's mother was Birdie Seals and her mother was > Martha Ann Monk. I have found Martha Ann in the census with James M. > Monk and Nancy with sisters Mary E., and brothers Charley, Chris, and > George, born dead. I don't know for sure if the connection is with > James Monk and Nancy Jessee. The only thing for sure that I know is > Martha Ann Monk was my husband's mother's mother and Virginia and > Tennesee are the states before they moved to Texas. Do you have any > information that would help me connect Martha Monk with James and Nancy? > If I am right and these are my husband's relatives, do you have > pictures of any of the family. My husband and his siblings know next to > nothing about their family and I am trying to find out for them. I > appreciate your help. > > Thank you, > Mary Holt Jim, Mary, Martha Ann Monk is in fact the d/o James M. Monk & Nancy Jessee. James B. was living in RCV in 1860 with wife Eliza Welch and several children including James M. In the 1870 census he is living in Estill Co., KY and James M. & Nancy are living next door. In the 1880 census, they had all moved to Claiborne Co., TN. James B. is living with his daughter Mary A. & her husband William Essary and James M. & Nancy were living in their own household. Jim, children you are missing for James M. Monk & Nancy Jessee are Mary E. b. abt 1870, Martha Ann b. abt 1872, you have Charles, but not his birth, it's abt 1875, you also have Chris, but it's abreviated "Chris. H." with the period at the end of Chris in the 1880 census, so it might be Christopher (though he's also listed as Chris in the 1900 Grayson Co., TX census), he was born abt 1877 and then George who was born dead abt 1879. Mike