Joseph Monroe Plunkett, Winn and Grant Parishes, Louisiana Submitted by Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Joseph Monroe Plunkett has met with success in the calling of a planter, owing to his desire to keep out of the beaten path and to his industry and good management. He was born in Gwinnett County, Georgia, in 1824, his parents, Richard and Lavinia Mason Plunkett, being born in North Carolina and Edgefield District, South Carolina, respectively, their marriage taking place in the latter state in 1820. From there they moved to Georgia about 1821, (then to Coosa County, Alabama) and in 1857 came to what is now Grant Parish, where Mr. Plunkett died in 1858, and his widow the following year, both having been Methodists for many years. He was a mechanic, for a short time was in the War of 1812, and was a son of James Plunkett, who died a farmer of Georgia. The father of the latter worked his way from Ireland to the United States when a young man and took up his abode in Georgia. James Mason, the maternal grandfather, died in South Carolina, a farmer. Joseph Monroe Plunkett is the younger of two brothers, James L. dying during the Rebellion at Alexandria. The former attended the common schools, and when twenty-one years old began the battle of life for himself, being married in Alabama in 1846 to Sarah, daughter of Mason and Elizabeth Day, the former a native of South Carolina, and the latter of Georgia, their deaths occurring in Perry and Coosa Counties, Alabama, respectively. Mrs. Plunkett died in the month of March, 1888, a worthy member of the Methodist Church, after having borne a family of eight children, three sons and five daughters living, all residents of Grant Parish. She was born in Perry County, Alabama, and was a lady whom all esteemed, admired and respected. In 1856 Mr. Plunkett came to Alexandria, and the next year to where he now lives, settling in the woods, but until he could erect a house he and his family lived in a tent. For a few years just prior to the war he lived near Montgomery for the purpose of educating his children, and is now one of the oldest settlers of this section. He has spend a number of years as a carpenter and blacksmith, and socially is a member of the Montgomery Masonic Lodge No. 168, F. & A. M.. He has long been a Methodist. (The above article was copied from "Biographical and Historic Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana", published 1890 by The Southern Publishing Company. Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, the proud great, great grandson of Joseph Monroe Plunkett and Sarah Ann Day. Joseph Monroe Plunkett served in the Co. F, 27th Louisiana Infantry, CSA, and was a long time resident of Winn-Grant Parishes, his property straddling the line between these two parishes, and he also owned a farm in Winn Parish and lived there as well. For further information on this family, please contact the submitter at Winnfield, La. or email )