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CDs of important
Monroe County record books are now available.
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County record books have been photographed and made into CDs. For a current
list of available CDs click
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STORIES
OF MONROE COUNTY
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Every county has its collection of stories. But, Monroe County,
Ohio probably has more than its
share. All are interesting and many, if not most, are untold. We have tried to
capture a few of them to provide the reader with some flavor of the County at
various periods of its history. Stories are about people, mostly, and the
people in this collection were frequently the people who shaped and gave Monroe County
its personality.
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1. Finding
Abraham Lattea and Lessons Learned
2. Life
in Them Thar’ Hills
3. Sorrows
of Sarah Jane Latta
4. Vern Latta’s Memoirs
5. Mary Belle
Latta Family
6. Old Lady Talking
7. Sinking of the
Steamboat, “Rebecca”
8. New Sources, New
Questions, New Answers
9. Hooked Rug
Heritage
10. A Pictorial
Study of Education, Monroe County, Ohio – 1890’s
11. Discovering Family Through
Recipes
- Battle of Captina
- Big Indian
- Buroker the
western kin of a Monroe
County family
- Calvert Connection possible
ancestry of Dent family
- Captain John Baker Family
- Crow Family of Greene
County, PA, and Monroe County, Ohio
- Death of John Wetzel
- Early History of Sardis, Ohio (written in
1877)
- Early Settlements in Monroe County
- Early Settlers of Monroe County
- General Arthur St. Clair a defeat by
the Indians
- German and Swiss Heritage of Monroe County, Ohio
- Greenville Treaty of 1795
- Henry
Burke's many stories and Black history with emphasis on the
Underground Railroad
- Johnson Brothers
- Land Act of 1785 establishment of
the Federal Survey System
- Life at Miltonsburg
2-Room School
- Making of Monroe County a brief history
of how Monroe
became settled
- Monroe County Oil Boom
- Monroe County Population
a brief account of the 200-years of Monroe County
population.
- Murder of Clyde Dierkes in 1970 a bachelor, Clyde Dierkes, was murdered and thrown into a well near
Clarington, OH
- Murder of Johan Adam Drumm a party of seven Indians attacked Johan Adam
Drumm at his home on June 22, 1757
- Murder of a Young Bride
a bride of 6-months murdered by husband
- Murderer Hanged a murderer
of his young bride of 6-months tried and hanged
- Organization of Monroe County
- Pikes Peak or Bust a story of the
gold rush told about William Young Dent by his
son, Albert Eli Dent, 1930
- Passing of an Era The old barn
- Sardis, Ohio - school essay written by
Mrs. Ella B. Vetter in the year of 1877
- Sardis Murder in a drunken rage the
Barker brothers kill the saloon keeper in 1875
- Scalps a story behind the use of human
scalps taken by Indians
- Wetzel Family
- William Drum
- William Spicer a murderer or a peaceable white
living among the Indians??
- Zane's Trace opened Interior of Ohio
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CDs of important
Monroe County record books are now available.
Each page of dozens of Monroe
County record books have been photographed and made into CDs. For a current
list of available CDs click
here.
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