| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Monks, Zerah Coston Family |
| Title: | Zerah Coston Monks Family Papers |
| Dates: | 1859-1886 |
| Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) |
| Abstract: | Zerah Coston Monks was a teacher from Curllsville, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. After serving with a Union regiment during the American Civil War, he married Hannah Rohrer, of Stewart's Run, Venango County, Pennsylvania. His cousin, Andrew J. Monks, was Ordnance Sergeant of the 105th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, in 1863. The collection consists of correspondence, a Civil War diary, biographical sketches, and poetry, concerning the Monks, Rohrer, and Conpropst families. |
| MS Number | MS 4141 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
Zerah Coston Monks (1841-?) was the son of Reverend and Mrs. William Monks of Curllsville, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. In 1859 he moved to Ohio to attend school in Twinsburg, where his father was working as a Methodist Episcopal minister. Less than a year later, he returned to Curllsville to be near his older brother Thomas and teach in nearby Churchville. During these years, he corresponded frequently with Hannah Rohrer of Stewart-s Run, Venango County, Pennsylvania. Hannah Rohrer (1842-?) was the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Rohrer and, at the time of the correspondence, was keeping house for her maternal grandparents. Hannah maintained her correspondence with Coston from his 1862 enlistment in a Union regiment until their marriage in September 1865 in Vineland, New Jersey. One year later, Hannah and Coston moved to Vineland where their son Willie was born.
The Zerah Coston Monks Family Papers, 1859-1886 and undated, consist of correspondence, a Civil War diary, biographical sketches and poetry concerning the Monks, Rohrer, and Conpropst families.
The material in this collection pertains primarily to the lives and relationships between members of the Monks, Rohrer, and Conpropst families during the American Civil War. The correspondence relates to their education, work, and social activities on the home front as well as with the male cousins active service in the Civil War. Andrew Jackson Monks' Civil War diary briefly details his experience as Ordinance Sergeant of the 105th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, in 1863.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4141 Zerah Coston Monks Family Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Caroline Monks, 1982.
Processed by Bari Oyler Stith in 1987.
Zerah Coston Monks Family Papers 1859-1886 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence (transcripts), Martha (Mattie) Conpropst to Hannah (Hattie) Rohrer 1859-1866 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence (transcripts), Tom Conpropst to Hannah Rohrer 1863-1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence (originals and transcripts), George C. Monks and family 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence (transcripts), Martha Wilson Clarke Monks to Zerah Coston Monks 1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence (transcripts), T. B. Monks and family 1861-1886 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence (originals), Zerah Coston Monks and Hannah Rohrer 1859-1861 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence (transcripts), Zerah Coston Monks and Hannah Rohrer 1859-1861 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence (originals), Zerah Coston Monks and Hannah Rohrer 1862-1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence (transcripts), Zerah Coston Monks and Hannah Rohrer 1862-1864 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Correspondence (originals), Zerah Coston Monks and Hannah Rohrer 1864-1867 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Correspondence (transcripts), Zerah Coston Monks and Hannah Rohrer 1864-1867 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 8 | Correspondence (originals), Zerah Coston Monks and family 1862-1865 | |||||||||
| 2 | 8 | Correspondence (transcripts), Zerah Coston Monks and family 1862-1865 | |||||||||
| 2 | 9 | Correspondence (originals and transcripts), Simson Siggins to Hannah Rohrer 1862-1864 | |||||||||
| 2 | 10 | Civil War Diary (transcript), Andrew Jackson Monks 1863 | |||||||||
| 2 | 10 | Enlistment roster (transcript) 1863 | |||||||||
| 2 | 11 | Biographical sketches, Martha (Mattie) Conpropst undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 11 | Biographical sketches, Monks and Rohrer Families undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 11 | Poetry undated | |||||||||