Alexander C. Monette, Madison Parish Submitted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Alexander C. Monette - Madison Parish, Louisiana Alexander C. Monette, of Madison parish, La, was born in Adams county, Miss, in 1843. He was a son of Dr. John W. and Cornelia Monette. Dr. John W. Monette was born in 1813, in what was then the Northwest Territory, but now the state of Ohio. He came to Mississippi with his parents when quite young and located at the old town of Washington. Dr. John W. Monette received his literary education at the Transylvania university, of Kentucky, and at the age of nineteen graduated from the same school in medicine, and at once began practicing in Washington, Miss., at which place he practiced until his death, which occurred in 1851. He was a man of more than ordinary ability; was well read, not only in his profession but on all topics of the day. He had great literary talent and had he lived to reach a ripe age, would probably rank among our literary stars of America. He is the author of "Monette's History of the Mississippi Valley," a very able production, which is well known, and is in two large volumes. He was a great writer for the press in his day, on different subjects, but especially on medical treatises, etc. At one time he wrote on the treatment of yellow fever, from which writing quotations are often made in the medical journals. At the time of his death he had data gathered for a history of the rivers of the South, which is now in the possession of his son, but has never been published. In 1831 Dr. John W. Monette bought a large tract of land in Madison parish, La., where our subject now resides. He was chosen president of the board of trustees of the Jefferson College, of Mississippi, which position he held for many years. In 1828 he married Miss Cornelia Newman, daughter of George and Charlotte (Dunbar) Newman. The Newmans were of English descent and the Dunbars of Scotch descent. To the Doctor and wife were born ten children, four of whom are still living: Anna, the wife of Dr. J. C. Brandon (son of ex-Governor Brandon, deceased, of Mississippi); Alexander C., our subject; Dr. George Monette, of New Orleans, and Louisa Monette, who is unmarried. Alexander C. Monette began life for himself at the age of twenty-five. He received his education at the Jefferson College and the Oxford University of Mississippi. He was in attendance at the latter institution when the war broke out. This closed his school days as he quit at once and entered the army in 1861, in Company A, in the Mississippi sixty-day troop, and at the expiration of that time he enlisted in Company B, of the Tenth Mississippi regiment. He was in some of the hardest fought battles of the war, some of which were the battles of Shiloh, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Murfreesboro. At the last named battle he was captured and held a prisoner for three months. At Atlanta he was wounded in the hand, but remained in the service until the close of the war. In 1867 he married Miss Emily Cox, daughter of Robert and Leminda (Green) Cox, of Mississippi, and a very old family of that state. His wife departed this life in 1887, leaving five children, namely: Emmie, Alice, Covington, Florence and Bertha. Our subject is at present the superintendent of the public schools of the parish. He removed from Mississippi to Louisiana in 1875 and has since led the life of a Planter. He is a member of the Knights of Honor, lodge of Tallulah, No. 2541, and is also a member of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Monette is well known in social circles near his home as an intelligent, honorable and upright man. From Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, volume 2, p261. Submitted by Mike Miller http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/madison/bios/monettea.txt