Joseph E. Monroe (Coahoma County)
State House: 1874-1877
Born: c. 1830 in Kentucky
Farmer. Joined Company A, 6th Regiment U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery at Natchez in 1863 and served until 1866, when he mustered out as a Sergeant. Appointed to be a county election commissioner in 1881. Officer in the Colored Knights of Pythias. Listed on the 1870 and 1880 census in Coahoma County with wife Jane and two children; Jane was a widow on the 1900 census.
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