HISTORY OF DAVIESS COUNTY.



Monarch died in St. Mary's County, Maryland, in 1801. Thomas
Monarch, the youngest of a family of seven, was born one month
after his father's death. His father died Feb. 25, 1801. Thomas
was born March 25 of the same year.   Previous to his death
Francis Monarch had arranged to remove to Kentucky, and on his
death-bed requested his wife to carry out his plans, which she pro-
ceeded to do, and when Thomas was but three weeks old the familv
left Maryland. At the mouth of Bear Creek, where stands now the
city of Louisville, the Monarchs disembarked.  Only a few houses
marked the site where now sits the great commercial center of
Louisville. Tile family found a home in Washington County, Ky.
Here Mrs. Monarch died in 1835. In Washington, as it was then,
Thomas was reared, but that portion of the county has since been
included in Marion County. At the beginning of the century, the
period back to which Mr. Monarch's boyhood dates, there were
few schools in that portion of the State. As a result of this condi-
tion surrounding his youth, he had but about nine months school-
ing. His older brothers having left home, Thomas remained with
his mother until his marriage, Jan. 27, 1827. He married Susan
Davis of the same county, who was born May 13, 1801. Her
father was Philip Davis, from Pennsylvania.  Her mother's name
before marriage was Margaret Mattingly, the Mattinglys being
early settlers of that part of Kentucky'. For seven years after their
inarriage Mr. and Mrs. Monarch resided in Washington County.
Following the footprints of an older brother, Mr. Monarch, in the
fall of 1833, visited Daviess County, purchasing 150 acres of land
at 3 an acre. Early in the following year Mr. and Mrs. Monarch,
in an ox-cart, with all their household goods, bade adieu to friends
of their youth, and set out for Daviess County, where, eight miles
east of Owensboro, on the Hardinsburg road, they arrived Feb. 13,
1834. Here a cabin had previously been erected, and a couple of
acres of ground cleared. This and nothing more had been done on
the spot that was to be the future home of Thomas and Susan Mon-
areh. Since that time their lives have been a part of the history
of Daviess County. Their history has been marked by integrity of
character, and in every way worthy of emulation. To Mr. and
Mrs. Monarch were born ten children in the order given-William
H., Henry (who died when a child), Amanda (died 1856), Daniel,
(dlied May, 1875), Henry F. (died in 1857), Thomas J., Richard, Mi-
randa, Martin V. and Sylvester. In his political life Mr. Monarch
started as a Jackson Democrat, and subsequently became a Whig,



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