History of the State of Kansas by William Cutler, published by A. T.
Andreas, Chicago, 1883, Rice County Station. Barren County.

S. P. (Simon Peter) Monroe, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Allegan,
Section 18, Township 19, Range 9, west, Farmer Township.  He came to Rice
County Kan. in October, 1873; made his location in the following March,
and has since followed agricultural pursuits.  He has 320 acres of land,
240 of which is cultivated; forty-two acres timber.  In 1862 he raised
2,050 bushels of wheat, making an average of twenty-eight bushels per
acre, 1,500 bushels of of corn, an average of twenty-five bushels per
acre.  He was born in Barren County, Southern Kentucky, July 18, 1829, and
was raised on a farm in that county.  Went to Macon County, Ill., in 1852,
and followed farming until he came to Kansas.  Married in 1852 to Miss
Elizabeth Wright, of same county, Kentucky, who was raised in Sangamon
County, Ill.  They have five children -- Jonathan S., married and farming
near by; James W., married, and also a farmer of Rice County; Ida J.,
married to William Saint, a farmer close by; Charles E. and Mary E.  They
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  In 1878 he raised
forty-two bushels of wheat per acre and the products were heavy all over
Rice County that year.  He has served as Township Treasurer the past four
years and a member of the School Board the past six years.
     From a Chase, Rice County, Kansas newspaper, Thursday, July, 1913. 
SIMON P. MONROE was born July 18, 1829 in Banner [Barren] county, Ky.  He
was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in in [sic]
August 1839.  He moved to Macon, Ill. in 8151 [sic 1851]. Was married to
Elizabeth Wright January 3, 1853.  To this union were born six children,
five of whom are living.  He was licensed to preach in July, 1861, after
which he was ordained a local elder.  He came to Kansas in October, 1873,
where he remained until his death, July 10, 1913 in Chase, Kansas. 
Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church Sunday at 11 a.m.,
conducted by Rev W. L. Davies.  This church was crowded to its capacity by
friends of the deceased brother.  The body was laid away in the Lyons
Cemetery. Few men live in a county forty years and retain the love and
esteem of his fellowmen as did Rev. Monroe.  His life was a rebuke to sin
and an example of what God can do for a man.  As a pioneer preacher, Rev.
Monroe probably performed more marriage ceremonies, and preached a larger
number of funerals than any man in Rice county.  In some instances he
united in marriage members of the same family of two generations.  He was
known and respected by practically every family of early day settlers in
Rice county, as well as by the younger generation.  His was indeed a long
and useful life, and the good seeds sown by him will go on bearing fruit
as the years go by, even after the time shall have come when memories of
Brother Monroe are known only to a few of the older people.

Monroe Wright Saint Davies
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Allegan-Rice-KS Macon-IL Sangamon-IL

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