Monjar, Richard

1765 - 1832  (67 years)

• Name	Monjar, Richard
  Birth	1765	MD
  Gender	Male
  Tombstone Photo	Clintonville, Venango Co., PA   [1]
  	Clintonville Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
  Death	19 Jan 1832	Venango Co., PA   [2]
  Burial	Clintonville, Venango Co., PA   [3]
  Person ID	I84249	My Damon Genealogy
  Last Modified	27 Feb 2014

  
  

  Family	Ghost, Elizabeth,   b. 05 Apr 1787, Westmoreland Co., PA d. 31 Jan 1867, Venango Co., PA (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	1802  [2]
  Children	1. Monjar, George Kelse,   b. 1806, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA d. 04 Oct 1881, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA (Age 75 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   2. Monjar, Mary,   b. 19 Jun 1807   d. 19 Jun 1909 (Age 102 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   3. Monjar, Frances,   b. 18 Jun 1811, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA d. 18 Sep 1865, Venango Co., PA (Age 54 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   4. Monjar, Christina,   b. 20 Sep 1813, Venango Co., PA d. 05 Aug 1883, Venango Co., PA (Age 69 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   5. Monjar, Samuel B.,   b. Abt 1818, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA d. 1862 (Age ~ 44 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   6. Monjar, Surrena,   b. 4 Oct 1822, Venango Co., PA d. 25 Jul 1906, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA (Age 83 years)   7. Monjar, Barbara Ghost,   b. 12 Oct 1824, Venango Co., PA d. 01 Aug 1888, Venango Co., PA (Age 63 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   8. Monjar, Philip Ghost,   b. 1829, Irwin Twp., Venango Co., PA d. 03 Feb 1851, Venango Co., PA (Age 22 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
  Family ID	F31640	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Feb 2014

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1765 - MD Tombstone Photo - Clintonville Methodist Episcopal Cemetery - - Clintonville, Venango Co., PA Death - 19 Jan 1832 - Venango Co., PA Burial - - Clintonville, Venango Co., PA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Headstones

  Monjar, Richard

  
  

• Notes

  The Monjars are of French extraction, and Richard Monjar, the original settler of the family in Venango county, was a native of Maryland. He was a shoemaker, and the first of that trade to come to Irwin township, this county, where he secured a tract of four hundred acres lying three miles west of what is now the borough of Clintonville. It was in 1797 that he made his home there, building a log house upon a part of his land which later passed into the possession of James Farron, though the principal part of his holding remains in the hands of his descendants, going to his son, Surrena, whose son E. Hayes Monjar now owns and occupies it. Richard Monjar made the first clearing upon his tract. He married Elizabeth Ghost, who was of a German family, and who survived him many years, his death occurring about 1832, hers in 1867. They reared a large family, as follows: Mary married Thomas Van Dyke, of Butler county, Pa., and lived to be one hundred and two years old; Frances became the wife of George Crawford, and both died in Venango county; Christina, who became the wife of James Hoffman, lived in Clinton township, where she and her husband died; Sarah married Samuel Richards, and both died in Venango county in old age; Barbara married Eli Hovis, who survived her, her death occurring at the age of seventy years, his in September, 1917 (see their record elsewhere in this work) ; George K., who was born in Irwin township in 1806, married Eliza Perry June 4, 1835, and died at the age of eighty years (they had one son and five daughters, and lived on part of the place settled by Richard Monjar in 1797, the son. Perry, being still there) ; Samuel B. was the father of John H. Monjar; Surrena obtained part of the home farm, and his son E. Hayes Monjar is now residing there; Philip G. died when twentytwo years old.

  
  

• Sources

  [S950] Clintonville Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, (Clintonville, Venango County, Pennsylvania; LAT/LON 41.193947N, -79.869329W), Richard Monjar marker. [S836] Babcock, Charles Almanzo, Venango County, Pennsylvania: Her Pioneers and People, Embracing a General History of the County, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families, Volume 2, 976. [S648] "Find A Grave", Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed 30 July 2013), memorial page for Richard Monjar (1765-1832), Find A Grave Memorial no. 29069228, citing Clintonville M E Cemetery, Clintonville, Venango County, Pennsylvania, created by Ethel Caldwell, maintained by Jack Gilchrist, photograph Mary Pierotti.