THOMAS ANDERSON MUNN.

received a thorough academical education at the old Monson Academy.  Was twenty-four at the sad ending of his father; was a young man of superior understanding, of great simplicity and directness of manners and address, and at once took the affairs of the family and its large property in charge, and managed them with skill and success.  In 1823 he married Hannah Fisher, built a house
on the home farm, and continued to look after the affairs of the mother and sisters.  He was early elected to the more important of the township offices, and filled those of justice of the peace, clerk, and trustee, some one or more constantly.  Later in life he was elected once or twice to the important post of county commissioner, the duties of which he performed usefully to the county.  He died at Newbury, Aug. 25, 1853, at the age of fifty-seven.
     He was a man of unusual judgment and sagacity, of sterling worth and integrity, widely known, and of large influence.  His wife died Nov. 2, 1876. 
     The widow of Marsena lived to an advanced age.  Of the daughters, Laura became the wife of Jeremiah Evans (see sketch of Mr. Evans).  Harriet became the wife of Dr. Justin Scott, then a leading physician, became the mother of two daughters, and died many years ago.  Belinda became the wife of Detroit Burnett, had several children, and died several years since.  Mary Ann remained unmarried.  After the death of her younger sister she took charge of her children, and when Laura was married became a member of her family, and died in Chardon in 1877.  Emeline, the youngest, became the wife of Clark Robinson. (See sketch of the Robinsons.)
     Of the six children of Thomas A. Mann but two survive, the son Gains and daughter Maria.  Gains is a man of intelligence and cultivation, and enjoys much of the esteem and confidence bestowed on his father.
     The homestead of the elder Mrs. Munn, during the girlhood of the daughters, who were intelligent and cultivated young ladies, was a place of unusual attraction.  That was at the time when the Utleys, Haydens, Uphams, and some of the Robinsons, and the elder of the Riddle young men, all lived in Newbury.  The Munns were greatly esteemed and much sought, and the west part had a society of people, old and young, such as few townships could then or now produce.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM WALLACE MUNN.

     This gentleman was the especial idol of the younger Newbury, and his early and heroic death on the stricken field of Mission Ridge has invested his memory with a touching tenderness that, after the lapse of these many years, has lost little of its freshness and strength.  He was the eldest son of Reuben King and Eliza Ann Munn, born at Litchfield, New York, Apr. 10, 1829.  The family moved to Ohio, and settled in Newbury in 1833.  Here the father died in 1868.  The brother is still living.  William Wallace (usually called by his second name, Wallace) was educated in the Newbury common schools, and at the Chagrin Falls Academy.  Nov. 6, 1835, he was joined in marriage with Fanny M., daughter of Solomon and Lucy M. Parks, of Newbury, an attractive young lady.  They became the parents of one child, L. Eugene, born July 26, 1857, residing with the mother.  The parents of Mr. Munn were very intelligent people and most exemplary members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and reared him with great care.  He united with the church at fourteen, and remained strictly in his connection with it.  He was also connected with the Odd-Fellows and Sons of Temperance.  He grew up on the farm, in the free, healthful life and air of the country; was a young man of pleasing person, fine manners, intelligent and cultivated.  Though so early connected with the church, he was a man of great spirit and force of character. In politics a warm Republican.  By nature an ardent patriot, he early enlisted in the war; was a member of Company G,- of which he became the captain, - in the Forty-first Infantry, commanded by General Hazen.  Apt in learning his duties, conscientious, fearless, and brave, he had the love and entire confidence of his soldiers, whom, in return, he respected and loved, and who yielded him ready obedience.  He stood well with his commander and brother officers, and fell at the head of his command, at Mission Ridge, that 22d of December, 1863, from a gun-shot wound in the head.  Of this he died in a few hours, mourned by his command, deplored by his regiment and all who knew him.  The blow to his parents was also a blow to Newbury, of which to some extent he was the pride and hope.  His remains were returned to his friends, and interred under the auspices of the orders of which he was a member.  True heart, pure life, noble son], he left his memory to all to whom he was dear, and his example to his young countrymen alike in his true life and heroic death.

WILLIAM MUNN.

     A word should be said of this gentleman.  He was a brother of R. K. Mann, and they were relations of the Marsena Munn family.  He was born in Massachusetts, Dec. 12, 1807, came to Newbury in 1831,and purchased the land originally taken up by Welcome Bullock, to which he added largely on the east, and resides now a mile south of the centre, and west of the old Riddle homestead. Is also the owner of the Joe Wilbor farm, on the old State road.  Is a man of high character, and widely esteemed.  From 1832 to 1864 he was kept constantly in some of the important township offices, including constable, township clerk, assessor, and justice of the peace, until, at the approach of age, he claimed exemption.
     William and Ruth Munn were the parents of three children.  Ellen, the eldest, resides with her father, a woman of much intelligence.  Walter Day and William Ray, born Nov. 28, 1851.  Walter died at seventeen.  William Ray, well reared, and bred on the farm, was married to Georgia Downing, in May, 1874, and lives on the old farm.  They have one son, Clyde, born August, 1876.
Source: History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia, Williams Brothers - 1878 - Pg. 182-183