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COLONEL MONKS AND WIFE.
A HISTORY
of
Southern Missouri andNorthern Arkansas
Being an Account of the Early Settlements,the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, andTimes of Peace.
By William Monks
West Plains, Mo.
West Plains Journal Co.
West Plains, Mo.
1907
Copyright 1907
by
William Monks
CONTENTS
Introduction.
Now the author was born in the state of Alabama, inJackson county, on the north side of the Tennessee River,near Huntsville. He was the son of James Monks andNancy Monks. The father of James Monks came overfrom Ireland during the Revolutionary War and served inthat war until the independence of the United States wasacknowledged. Afterwards he married a lady of Englishdescent and settled down in the State of South Carolina.His father died when he was but an infant. His motherremoved to the state of Tennessee, being left with five children,James being the youngest. Growing up to manhoodin that state, he removed to the north part of the state ofAlabama and there married Nancy Graham, who was adaughter of Jesse Graham. They were originally from thestate of Virginia.
James Monks enlisted in the United States Army andserved in the Indian war that was known as the Seminolewar, in the state of Florida. After his term of service hadexpired he returned home and sold his farm and had a flatboatbuilt and placed in the Tennessee River near GuntersLanding, with the intention of moving to the stat