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Samuel F. Pike - Born on 1 Jan 1831 in Pasquotank Co., NC. Samuel died in Crawford County, Kansas on 26 Feb 1923, he was 92.  He was 17 yrs old when his stepfather, William Lewis Monticue, died.  13 Apr 1854 when Samuel was 23, he married Sarah Ann NORMAN, in Monroe County, Iowa. Sarah Ann died February 28, 1909 in Crawford County, Kansas.  Note:  Samuel was an illegitimate child born to Martha before she met William Lewis Monticue. 

Samuel was also in the Civil War and mustered in on September 16, 1861, was disabled and discharged on July 14, 1863, he was in Company D of the 36th Indiana Infantry, history below.  Samuel states on his pension record that he hadn't been an "efficient" soldier since the Battle of Stone's River where he was wounded on December 31, 1862.  From Samuel's Civil War Pension file it states that he was five fee 7 1/2, fair complexion, blue eyes and auburn hair and that he was a farmer.  He was honorably discharged on July 14th, 1863.  Samuel Pike and Sarah Ann Norman had the following children:  Norma? born July 22, 1855, Martha T. Pike, March 25, 1858, Mary Francis Pike, September 27, 1860, Laura A. Pike, April 18, 1864, William O. Pike, July 10, 1866, Oliver G. Pike, May 25, 1868, Emry L. Pike?, April 7, 1870, Addie E. Pike, August 4, 1872 and Elsie M. Pike, December 23, 1876.

36th REGIMENT INFANTRY.

Organized at Richmond, Ind., and mustered in September 16, 1861. Ordered to Kentucky and duty at Camp Wickliffe, Ky., till February, 1862. Attached to 10th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, October-November, 1861. 10th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862. 10th Brigade, 4th Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Left Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 21st Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Expedition down Ohio River to reinforce General Grant at Fort Donelson, Tenn., thence to Nashville, Tenn., February 14-25, 1862. Occupation of Nashville February 25. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 17-April 6. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Occupation of Corinth May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12. Buell's Campaign in Northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee June to August. Round Mountain, near Woodbury, August 28. March to Nashville, Tenn., thence to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg, August 21-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg to Wild Cat, Ky., October 1-20. Wild Cat, Ky., October 17. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 20-November 9, and duty there till December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro till June. Action at Woodbury January 24. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. At Manchester till August 16. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Battle of Chickamauga September 19-20. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-November 23, Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Lookout Mountain November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. Pigeon Hill November 26. Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27. Duty at Whiteside, Tyner's Station and Blue Springs till May, 1864. Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22-27. Near Dalton February 23. Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8. Tunnel Hill May 6-7. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8-13. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Near Kingston May 18-19. Near Cassville May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22-25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. <dy_1134> Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Non-Veterans mustered out August 13, 1864. Veterans and Recruits consolidated to a Battalion. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Pursuit of Hood into Alabama October 3-26. Nashville Campaign November-December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Moved to Huntsville, Ala., and duty there till March, 1865. Operations in East Tennessee March 15-April 22. At Nashville, Tenn.. till June. Ordered to New Orleans, La., June 16. Transferred to 30th Indiana Battalion Infantry July 12, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 11 Officers and 102 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 130 Enlisted men by disease. Total 245.

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William Lewis Monticue - Born in 1838 in Guilford County, NC and died on February 4, 1888 when he was approximately 51 yrs old.  He was 10 yrs old when his father died.  Cause of death on the certificate says "apoplexy". He was the first son born to Martha Bundy and William Lewis Monticue, and was obviously named for his father.   William was a Private in the 123rd Illinois Infantry out of Charleston, IL.  William married Nancy Jane Owens and Catharine Snider in Coles County IL.  There is this marriage record in early IL marriages and it looks like Nancy Jane Owens was a "Cheesman" before she was an "Owens".  Owens, William G. Nancy Jane Cheesman 22 Jul 1854 by S. S. Pepper, MG.  

William was found in the Henry County, IN 1850 census living with his great aunt and uncle.  He was there to learn the cabinet making trade.  In the 1860 Henry County census, William is married to Nancy, and his brothers Jesse and David are living with them.  On a pension application drawn by the widow after William died, it says the widow's name is Catherine Linkhart, because Catherine Snider remarried to a Linkhart after William Lewis died. 

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Benjamin Franklin (Frank) Monticue (1840 -1916) - He was my maternal great great grandfather and he died when he was 76 yrs old.  Benjamin, like his brothers was in the Civil War.  He was eight yrs old when his father died. He married Henrietta Lloyd in Henry County June 18, 1871.  Their daughter, Flora May Monticue Froment was also born in Henry County.  Benjamin "Frank" Monticue and Henrietta Lloyd divorced in 1899.  She remarried to Laban A. Pitzer on December 14, 1899.

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David Monticue (1842-1909) - David married Nancy E. Woods, she was born 1842 and died January 7, 1913 per her pension Payroll Report.  David died on October 7, 1909 when he was 68 years old. He was seven when his father died.  David was wounded at Chickamauga, Georgia on Sep 19, 1863.  He was in Company D, 36th Regiment of the Indiana Volunteers and served three years in the war and was honorably discharged on September 7, 1864. According to his pension application he became partially deaf from an explosion at Shiloh, TN and became increasingly deaf over the years until he could barely hear normal conversation.  David and Nancy had Emma Monticue, born 1867, died April 1917, Margaret Monticue "Maggie", born 1871, died Dec 1917, and Fanny Florence Monticue, Fanny died Feb 13, 1880 when she was five years old.   Emma married Sam Prichard and had Florence Prichard, (Florence married a Beeson) Harry Prichard and Margaret Prichard.  Maggie Monticue married John E. Snow and they had David Snow, Margaret Snow, Corena Snow and Julian Snow.  Two items about David I discovered on my trip to Coles County, IL in May 2003:  The New Courier Castle (newspaper) 10/15/1863 - "In addition to the list of killed and wounded in Co. D, 36th Indiana as given last week, we extract from the Cincinnati Gazette the following; Wounded:  David Monticue - New Castle Courier:  1/16/1913 - Mrs. Nancy Monticue Knightstown - January 9th - Mrs. Nancy Monticue, age 70, widow of David Monticue, is dead at her home here.  Two daughters, Mrs. John Snow, and Mrs. Samuel Pritchard, survive.  She was an Aunt of J. L. Monticue of New Castle.  The funeral was held this afternoon at the M. E. church.

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Jesse B. Monticue - was born on 8 Jul 1843 in Guilford County, NC and died December 8, 1926 in/near Indianapolis, Indiana when he was 84 and is buried at the Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.  He was six yrs old when his father died.  Jesse was also in the Civil War in the Fourth Indiana Battery, from August 1863 to July 1865.  Jesse married Rebecca McComas in Coles County, IL.  The picture below is of Martha Bundy's grave without a stone (Jesse's mother.  Jesse was listed as a cabinet maker in Wayne Township, Henry County, Knightstown and he learned this trade from his great uncle, Jehu Wickersham.  Illinois marriage records indicate that Jesse married Rebecca McComas on Jan 18, 1866 in Coles County, IL.  He also married an "Addie" and I wonder if this was a nick name for Rebecca?  Jesse and his first wife had William Bert Monticue.  Jesse B. also married Nancy Heaton and had Lyman Jesse Gage Monticue. 

William Bert Monticue married Zora Bell Murphy and had Ralph Monticue and Jess Monticue.  Ralph Monticue married Nelle Shaw, they had James S. Monticue, born May 27, 1921, and Gene Dale Monticue, born Feb 9, 1926.  James  married Helen Roberta Schmertzer, April 6, 1947, they had Wayne Lee Monticue, born Dec 21, 1948 and Carol Ann Monticue, born Sept 10, 1952. 

Wayne Lee Monticue married Cindy ? they had Melinda Monticue.  Carol Ann married Boyd Amason, Gene Dale married Nelda Niblick?  Lyman Jesse Gage Monticue married Agnes Coy, no children.  He married second to Lulu Henning and had Betty Louise Monticue and Albert Richard Monticue (Red).  Betty married Blaine Peterson, and had one son, Ronald Allen Peterson.  Ronald married Carol Grunou and had Deborah Louise Peterson.  Ronald married second to Linda Yoerger/Kopsa.

Pictured below are Jesse B. Monticue's son Lyman Monticue and his son, Red Monticue.  Pictures provided by my cousin Red (Albert Richard) Monticue, who lives in California.  Jesse B. Monticue was in the Civil War, his son Lyman Monticue was in World War I, and his son, Red Monticue was in World War II.

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Solomon R. Monticue - ( November 27, 1843 - November 5, 1922).  He was five yrs old when his father died.  Solomon married Isabel A. Hubbard (b. July 13, 1845, died May 3, 1931) on May 7, 1872 when he was 29 yrs old.  Solomon was an undertaker at one time as well as a cabinet maker.  He died November 5, 1922 when he was 77 yrs old and is buried in the Knightstown Cemetery.  Solomon, like his brothers was in the Civil War and was in the Fourth Indiana Battery Light Artillery. It states that he was 5 ft, 5 inches, light complexion, blue eyes and auburn hair and that he was a farmer.  Solomon R. Monticue and Alcenda Isabel Hubbard had the following children:  Clara Monticue, born Feb 4, 1873, died Dec 1952; Louis L. Monticue, born July 19, 1876, died April 1963; Norma Monticue, born Sept 23, 1878.  Louis married Maude May Shirk, no children.  Norma married Roy Wilton Steele.  They had:  Theodore Irving Steele, Richard Monticue Steele, Mary Isabel Steele and Phillip Steele, the last, Phillip died at about 3 weeks old.  Richard married Betty Kalleen and they had Elisabeth (Betsy) Ann Steele, and David Lang Steele. 

Theodore married Miss Dorothy Jane Preston and had Richard Preston Steele.  Mary Isabel Steele married Joseph L. Bubul and they had Julie Ann Bubul, Jennifer Lee Bubul and Stephen Joseph Bubul. 

From my cousin David; descendant of Solomon:  Hello Cousin: Thank you for the response and I am happy you are "so involved" in the genealogy of your (and my) families. Now that you mention my father writing to your mother, I recall him talking about it. He wanted to follow up more, but had emphysema & wasn't able. My mother is still alive @ 88, living with us (Diane & me).

Solomon built this house in the late 1800's (I haven't done the research I should), & Clara, Louis, & Norma were all born here. My Aunt Clara (Auntie), lived all her life here, as she never married. As was evidently the custom back then, Louis received title to the house, even though he left home @ about 14 to go to work. He was estranged from the family for a while, though he was always around that I can remember. He turned the deed over to Dad in the forties - w/ Dad in return adding an "apartment" on the back for Auntie. She died in 52? when I was 7. Her sister Norma, then moved to the apartment when Roy Steele died in Indpls, 1956, and Grandmother lived w/ us in the apartment til her death in 71. She was a pistol, still going strong at 90, had a leg amputated @ 91, & lived to 93.

I wish I had listened & asked her more questions. Anyway, only Norma had children, so I only knew the other Monticue's from Solomon & David's graves at the cemetery. I had always wondered where the other brothers were buried. ( I only found my Great Grandfather Steele's grave just last week!) I married Diane Lynn Graves in 1971, & we lived in Plainfield, IN until 1999, when we moved back here to help take care of Mom. She could not live alone anymore, & it was either move her to Plainfield, or move back here...which we did, largely due to the "house of Solomon". One item you have wrong about my family..  I have only one sister, Betsy, who lives in Arizona, & was probably the one you corresponded with - although it could have been our cousin, Julie Bubul, who is the daughter of Mary Isabel Steele, Roy & Norma's only daughter. Your narrative included Theodore; but there was only one Ted, & he is Dad's brother...born in this house as was Aunt Mary. Ironically, my Dad is the only one of the three Steele siblings NOT born in this house. They had a fourth sibling, Philip, who died in infancy - about 6 months old. I have four generations of Steeles buried in K-town's Glen Cove Cemetery ahead of me. Back to the Monticue's - Louis was like a grandfather to me - outliving both my grandfathers. He lived all his life in New Castle after leaving here,  I am sure. And we saw them regularly & I helped them a lot after I could drive the 15 miles to NC. Of all the relatives, we (my parents) were the only ones who stayed around Knightstown. We six grandchildren of Norma & Roy were very close as kids, but see each other mostly at funerals & weddings.  I would be glad to show you around Solomon's house, though we are now in the midst of major bathroom remodeling - with more to come later, we hope. Workers start tomorrow, w/ new roofing after that - Solomon's hundred year old slate roof is going to be replaced, I'm afraid.  Sorry to get off track; but it is fun finding out about the ancestors.
Look forward to meeting you soon - & let me know if you have more questions. But I don't know how many answers I have. We do have some pictures, but not many.. I am not the most technically proficient person around either.

i.

Louisa Ellen Montague (1872-1925)

ii.

Flora May Montague (1875-1947)

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Erastus Ray Montague (1880-1941)

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David Dunreith Montague (26 Oct 1881)

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James Otis Montague (1884-)