PHOTOGRAPH INFORMATION

NAME(S): Mahala "May" Munroe
PHOTOGRAPH: # 5206
OTHER INFO: Mother (ref. to Mahala); Her Mother (America Thompson Munroe) in Lonoke; Bessie Mae Elcan
PHOTOGRAPHER: Unknown
CARD SIZE: 14.0 cm x 16.4 cm
WHERE PURCHASED: Birmingham, Alabama
WHEN PURCHASED: September 26, 2023

RESEARCHED INFORMATION

Probably: Mahala “May” Munroe

Born: September 11, 1872, Brownsville, Arkansas
Died: December 20, 1960, Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas
Father: Lewis Wellington “Major” Munroe
Mother: America “Merc” Thompson
Married: Henry Lionel Elcan Jr.,
Children: Rosalie America, Katherine Bolling, & Bessie Mae

Probably: Mian America “Merc” Thompson

Born: Abt 1836, Moscow, Fayette County, Tennessee
Died: March 15, 1920, Lonoke County, Arkansas
Father: Rev. William Thompson II
Mother: Martha Lelia Hayes
Married: Lewis Wellington “Major” Munroe, February 17, 1858, Prairie County, Arkansas
Children: Ida, Ada, Emma, Martha Jane “Mattie”, Estella, Alverta “Allie”, Lillian, Mahala “May”, & Bessie

Mahala “May”

1880 Census Lonoke, Lonoke County, Arkansas

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America “Merc”

1850 Census District 4, Weakley County, Tennessee