JAMES MONROE, son of David and Nancy (Crews) Monroe, was born in Jasper Township March 10, 1837, where he has had his home to the present time.  September 25, 1859, he was married to Miss Rachel L., daughter of Tilghman and Martha (McKee) Grice, to whom was born November 27, 1860, Rachel L. (Brock), whose mother died December 12, 1860.  Subjct was again married, October 8, 1873, to Miss Ellen Read, who died November 9, 1879.  David, Sr., son of Johnson, was born June 15, 1795, in South CArolina and died in Wayne County, Ill., May 4, 1875.  He was a worthy citizen, having the respect of all who knew him.  Nancy , daughter of Andrew Crews, was born March 15, 1802, and died October 27, 1878.  To David and Nancy were born Amelia R. (Gillison), Maria (Fetters), Andrew J., our subject, and Serena (Johnson).  Subject entered Company D,  Eighty-seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry in 1862, and remained a soldier in the same until the suppression of the rebellion in 1865. Subject has always followed the business of farming (except the time he was in the army), owning 160 acres of very valuable land, 120 of which are improved and in a high state of cultivation, his residence, the old family homestead, being situated on southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 35.  He is a friend of education,  desiring the employment of none but well qualified teachers in the public schools.Subject, politically, is a Republican, a Prohibitionist, and a member of Methodist Episcopal Church.