George W Munday (1816 - 1898)

Born 1816 in Pass Christian, Harrison, Mississippi, United States

Husband of Laura H (Felps) Munday — married 15 Mar 1841 (to 1863) in East Feliciana, Louisiana, United States

Husband of Sallie Eaton (Daniels) Munday — married 1868 in Louisiana, United States

Descendants

Died 1898 at about age 82 in East Feliciana, Louisiana, United States

Biography

George was born in 1816.

15 Mar 1841 East Feliciana, Louisiana - marriage of George W Munday and Laura Felps ^[1]

1850 East Feliciana, Louisiana ^[2]

• Geo W Munday M 34 Louisiana, wife Laura H Munday F 25 Louisiana
  • Louisa Munday F 7 Louisiana, United States
  • Mary Munday F 2 Louisiana, United States

1860 East Feliciana, Louisiana ^[3]

• G W Munday M 44 farmer La, wife L Munday F 32 La
  • L L Munday F 15 La {Louisa}
  • M Munday F 11 La {Mary}
  • G W Munday M 9 La {George}
  • L L Munday F 5 La {Laura}
  • S Munday F 3 La {Seluda}

Laura died in 1863 and he then married Sallie Eaton Daniels

1870 Clinton, East Feliciana, Louisiana ^[4]

• G W Munday M 53 Mississippi, wife S E Munday F 30 New York
  • George's children George (19), Mary (20), Laura (14), Seluda (12)
• Eliza Clay F 22 Louisiana, servant
• Shade Munday M 8 Mississippi

Son Daniel Munday b 1870; daughter Bessie Munday b 1873

He died in 1898^[5] Sallie a widow on 1900 census

George was born in Mississippi while his parents were spending the summer on vacation from new Orleans. He took out on his own in 1828 at the age of eleven years. He worked on a farm in 1834 and 1835 and then went into the grocery business, clerking in a store in Clinton, Louisiana. In 1837 he bought an interest in the newspaper called The Louisianan, which was published in Clinton. He owned it in 1837 and 1838. He then became Deputy Sheriff for a number of years. In 1839, 1840 and 1841 he was the first agent of the Clinton and Port Hudson Railroad Company in Clinton and then he began farming. He first had a farm on the Mississippi River and later he bought land near Clinton. He married Laura Anne Felps in 1841. After Laura died in August of 1866, he married Miss Sallie E. Daniels of New York who had come to Clinton with a brother and a friend and had founded the Gilliad Academy. Miss Daniels was a teacher at the Silliman Institute. George was commissioned a Major General in the Louisiana Militia before the war and held all the offices from Private to Major General. He was also an active politician. In 1852, before the war, he was in the legislature and was re-elected in 1854. Just before the war he was elected to the Sentate. After the war he was elected to the house and again later to the Senate. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1879 and was President of the State Democratic Convention which sent delegates to the convention that nominated Buchannan for the presidency. He was also elected President of the convention that sent delegates to nominate Stephen Douglas. Major George Munday also held a number of important offices in the parish for a number of years. He was a Police Juror and Parish Assessor. Some of the laws he is credited with writing are one to give Civil War Widows a pension, a Homestead law, and a local option Law which was the first of its kind passed in any state. His name is chiseled in stone on the old state Capital and is on a bronze plaque at the new State Capital.

Sources

1. ↑ Louisiana, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1718-1925
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCJQ-17B
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFP3-4P6 : 14 December 2017.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M87M-65Y : 12 April 2016), G W Munday, Louisiana, United States; citing p. 17, family 117
5. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7998065/george-w-munday