History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 808.
[Bourbon County]  [Ruddel's Mills Precinct]

LARKIN MONSON, farmer, P. O. Ruddel's Mills, is a son of Moss and Susan
(Sims) Monson, and was born near Robinson Station, Harrison County, Jan.
21, 1843.  Moss Monson is also a native of Harrison and was born near
Indian Creek in 1809; about the year 1830 he was married to Susan Sims,
and in 1847 moved to the place upon which he now resides, near Robinson
Station, containing about 120 acres, with good, comfortable improvements.
He reared a family of six sons and one daughter; this daughter died when
twenty-two years of age, and the eldest son is also dead.  Their fifth
son, Larkin Monson, who is the subject of this sketch, received a limited
education in the common schools of his county, and after remaining with
his father at the old homestead till [sic] he arrived at his maturity,
where he received a good practical knowledge of general agriculture, he
ventured out upon his own resources without any capital whatever.  In
1864 subject was married to Nancy J. Brown, daughter of John and Mary
Brown, of Harrison County.  His wife was born on the 13th say of May,
1845, and died May 2, 1870, leaving one daughter, Mary Susan, born the
4th of March, 1866.  On the 5th of February 1874, our subject again
married, this time to Evaline, daughter of George Million, of Harrison
County.  The result of his second marriage was two children; one died in
infancy; the second child, Elbert Elwoodie, was born on the 17th of March
1879.  Mr. Monson, as above stated, began life without a dollar, and by
industry and economy managed to get a few hundred dollars surplus, when
affliction and death visited his family and took away his wife, and again
almost reduced him to the point from which he started.  But possessing
indomitable energy and perseverance he soon was on foot again, and today
he owns a good comfortable little home in Bourbon County, where he is
considered one of the best tillers of the soil in his neighborhood.  He
and wife and daughter are members of the Christian Church; politically he
is a Republican.

Monson Sims Brown
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Harrison-KY

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