Munson Family
Isaac Munson, Sr., removed with his family from Connecticut to New York, where his wife Eleanor Andrews Munson died in August, 1815. Soon after her death he, with his son Henry, started for the west, passing the winter of 1815 in Holmes County. In the spring of 1816 they came to Wayne County, settling on the farm now owned by Henry Munson, buying the farm of 160 acres secondhand. Here Isaac Munson continued to live until death, July 10, 1830. He was a soldier under Washington in the Revolutionary War, entering the service as a volunteer at the age of fifteen, for which he drew a pension, getting it paid at Chillicothe.
Until 1821 Isaac Munson and his son Henry kept bachelor hall, when Henry, on November 15, married Mary Cutler, of Holmes County now, but Wayne County then. From the time Henry came to this farm he lived on it until 1861, when he removed to Shreve, remaining there five years, then returned to the old homestead, where he made his home with his son Henry until the period of his death, which occurred December 1, 1867. His wife died May 4, 1872. They had seven children, four sons and three daughters, viz: Ezra, Isaac, Samuel, Eleanor, Mary, Elizabeth, and Henry. All the daughters are dead.
Isaac Munson was born September 19, 1823, and was married to Eliza A. Lowe, from which union there were three children, Mary, Phoebe and Jacob. His wife dying, he re- married in the fall of 1856 to Miss Susan Thomas, and by this marriage has a son, Charles. Henry Munson, Jr., was born in Franklin Township, February 12, 1837. He was married to Miss Rebecca Jones, daughter of John Jones and granddaughter of Isaiah Jones, February 15, 1861, and by this marriage had five children, viz: John Henry, E. N., James K., William B., and one that died in infancy. His wife Rebecca died September 28, 1874, and on November 30, 1876, he was re-married to Martha McCarney. Eleanor, the oldest daughter of Henry Munson, Sr., married Jared Barker, of Summit County, and died September 9, 1856. Mary married Isaiah Jones, of Holmes County, and died in 1862. Elizabeth died, unmarried, October 12, 1856. Samuel C. Munson, son of Henry Munson, lives in Medina County, and is married to Jane Hughes, daughter of John Hughes, of Franklin Township. Ezra Munson resides in Caldwell County, Missouri, and was married to Ann Eliza Wycoff, of Franklin Township.
The Munson family are noted throughout for their sterling character, their industry, hospitality, courtesy and general good qualities as neghbors and citizens. Henry Munson, Sr. in 1816 or 1817, opened up and burned the first lime, and had the first kiln in Wayne County, burning the first lime in a log heap to test its quality. People for fifty miles around came to him for it. He furnished the lime used in building the old Wiler House, in Mansfield, hauling it there by oxen at about fifty cents per bushel, at nights sleeping under the wagon, and turning the oxen out to graze.
From History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time, by Robert Douglass, 1878