Monroe K. Stanley

  Noted events in his life were:

• lived: Grant, Lake County, Illinois, 1880. ² Monroe K. Stanley stayed on I Illinois. The 1880 Census finds him living alone in Grant, Illinois, Lake County

• Family Origin. Monroe was compelled to make a trip. He lived in Chicago where the wolfes were dangerous and a person needed to be armed at all times. To protect himself he placed a hogshead (a barrel) upon the sled and called to the oxen from the bunghole. He took along a dog to keep the wolves from cattle, and thus returned home unharmed.

Monroe married Cordelia A. Morris, daughter of Phillip Morris and Adaliza Degruse, on 7 Jun 1854 in Lake County, Illinois. (Cordelia A. Morris was born on 6 May 1834 in Cattaraugus County, New York, died on 6 Mar 1902 in Cortland, Gage County, Nebraska, and was buried in Highland Center Cemetery, Cortland, Gage County, Nebraska.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Divorced: Divorced, 20 Sep 1870. ² When Monroe and Cordelia divorced, the three oldest girls stayed with their father and the four younger children went with their mother. Cordelia moved to Nebraska

Monroe Morris Stanley was supposed to stay with his father but he wanted to go with his mother. He hid in the mattresses on the loaded wagon hoping not to be discovered. Luck was against him and he was found. His father agreed to play chess with Monroe to determine whom he would go with. After several games Monroe senior decided that Monroe Morris had won. Monroe Morris got on the wagon with his mother and headed to Nebraska.

The cause of the divorce was due to the fact that Monre K. Stanley was an alcoholic.