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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
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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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- 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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