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From: "Carol Page Tilson" <>
Subject: Re: [Ashtabula] Monroe Cemetery Records: Niles?
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:35:53 -0600
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Mary and other listers:

I'm interested in Monroe Cemetery mainly because I hope to find some record
that my 4th great-grandparents, David Niles, Sr., and his wife, Lydia
[Barrett?] might have been buried there. Any other kinfolk would be gravy.
____________________

From "The Ashtabula Sentinel," 9 Dec 1843, pg. 1:

DIED: In Monroe on the 18th ult., DAVID NILES, Esq., a revolutionary
pensioner, aged 85 years.

The deceased was a native of Rhode Island. At an early age his parents
removed with him to Clarendon, Vt., where he was called into the service of
his country. He came into the State in the year 1800 and settled in Monroe
in this county in 1804; was the first justice ever elected in that town. He
was an industrious, honest man, and has died highly respected by all who
knew him. -- Cou.
____________________

Is this brief obit factual? As Hertz commercials say, "Not Exactly." David
was raised by his maternal grandparents; I can't find any evidence he ever
actually received his Rev War pension; he's on the 1800 Census for
Shrewsbury Township, Rutland Co., VT, and, of course, neither Ashtabula
County nor Monroe Township existed in 1804.

David Niles is listed on an 1802 census of Youngstown, Trumbull Co. OH, and
by 1804, he settled on the South Ridge in Salem. After that he seems to have
stayed put -- although the borders kept changing around him. In 1806, he was
taxed by Trumbull County [6th Collection District]; in 1807-1810 he was on
Geauga County tax lists [Salem Township] and in 1811 he was enumerated in
Salem on the first township census taken in the newly formed Ashtabula
County. In 1820, the Salem "neighborhood" in which David lived became part
of Monroe Township. In 1833, what was left of the original Salem Township
was renamed Conneaut.

David's son, David Niles, Jr., m. Betsy Fox in Salem in 1818. Betsy is part
of the New Hampshire Fox clan. Would like to hear from anyone interested in
either the Ashtabula County Foxes or Niles.

Carol in Cornhuskerland


----- Original Message -----
From: "Swedenborg" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Ashtabula] Monroe Cemetery Records?


> Carol, I also would like this information. If you find it will you send it
> my way. It would be greatly appreciated. I have a cousin who may know who
to
> contact in Monroe. I'll see if I can reach her. Yes , the cemetary is
still
> there.I'll see if I can get you that address as well. Who are you looking
> for there? Mary

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carol Page Tilson" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ashtabula] Monroe Cemetery Records?
>
>
> > Elsie and/or other listers:
> >
> > Do you happen to have an address for Monroe Cemetery -- if it still
> exists?
> > If so, is it known whether they have records back to 1843? Sure would
> > appreciate info..
> >
> > Carol in Cornhuskerland



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