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Re: MONROE, MARING, HENDERSHOT

MONROE, MARING, HENDERSHOT

Posted By: Connie Naylor (email)
Date: 3/13/2006 at 17:24:49

In Response To: MONROE, MARING, HENDERSHOT (Mary Hart)

I started to post a reply and my fingers slipped, so there might be a partial reply that shows up somewhere. Please ignore that one. I'll try again:
I am researching the Monroe family. It is my husband's line. Curtis Monroe b 1838 OH married Sarah Katherine/Catherine Baker b 1841 OH. Curtis is the son of Geroge W. Monroe b 1813 PA and Lydia Barrett b 1813 OH.
Curtis and Sarah moved to Caldwell, Appanoose County, OH, where I found them in the 1860 census.
One of their children, Lucy Ann Monroe b 2/13/1860 Iowa married Charles Roberts. They lived in Schuyler county.

Charles was married before and had many children. One of whom was born about the same time as the child of Lucy and Charles. I am not 100% sure that Charles divorced his first wife or if he was actually legally married to Lucy.

Lucy took their 4 boys and moved to Washington state, and remarried there.

The help I need is that family stories, and verbal confirmation from their oldest son, James Edward Roberts, as well as a remembered photo of Lucy about age 15 dressed in traditional Indian dress, indicates that Lucy was 1/2 Indian. I am still not totally sure what tribe.

No census records ever list Lucy as Indian - always as white. However, there is a photo of her on her wedding day to her second husband that shows her face scarred from what appear to be knife slashes.
Her son James Edward Roberts was not ashamed to say he was part Indian, and told his daughter and grand-daughter that they too were part Indian because of this.
His heritage is further evidenced that he rarely needed to shave his entire life.
I cannot find any information to explain the Indian family pieces.

My personal theory is that Lucy may have been captured by Indians for a short period of time while she was a teenager, and became pregnant.
Charles either married her before the baby (James Edward) was born, or at least gave him his last name. Lucy and Charles had 3 additional boys.

So, this would explain why James always said he was 1/2 Indian. If the photo of Lucy was taken when she was freed from the Indians, that would explain why she was wearing that dress. A photo taken would have been a normal thing at that time. This would possibly explain knife scars on Lucy's face as well.

If anyone has any info from old frontier newspapers or old Appanoose county records relating to Indian raids and captured white girls, I would very much like to see it.

Any and all help greatly appreciated!
Thanks.
Connie Naylor

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