Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1907 — Monnett Genealogy. [ARTICLE]

Monnett Genealogy.

The Winamac Democrat* Journal, M. H. Ingrim, editor, has the following comment to make on the Miss Monnett behest to the Chicago Training School tor Deaconesses. The Rensselaer Republican adds that it is proposed to sell a portion of the local property and with the proceeds to erect a fine, memorial building *n honor of Miss Monbett’s mother, and the building is to bear her name “Mary Delamar Kin neat \d onnett. ’ ’ These bnildings will be located in Chicago. The Delamars trace their genea

iogy bacfc Jonr7 hundred years of more. This family was expelled from France with the Huguenots in j|tae sixteenth century on accouct of religious differences with the state church. They settled in Scotland. In 1576 the Delamars removed to Dublin, Ireland, where Miss Mary Delatnar was married to Andrew Einnear. Among their descendants were Mary Kiouear Monnett (above named) and Margaret Einnear Ingrim (the latter being the editor’s grandmother). Miss Monnett is 60 years of age, and she, being in poor health, gives up her lonely home and will be happily cared for daring the re mainder of her life.