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A RICH TOBACCO HISTORY
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George Vernon Monk Lee born April 7, 1898 died 1960
Compiled by Joseph Hampton Monk III, 2024. Source: Monk Family History/Monk Genealogy by Larry Delano Draughon 12-31- 1990 and notes on family pictures.
Joseph Burr Monk, son of Larkin Monk, Born 21 March 1843 in Orange Co. N.C. Died 24 April, 1913 in Wake Co N.C. Buried in Monk Cemetery Lebanon Township, Durham N.C. Married Mary Elizabeth Huff. She was born 17 Feb. 1855 in East Bend N.C. and died Aug 5 1936 in Wake Co N.C., buried in Montlawn Cemetery in Raleigh N.C. They had 6 and possibly seven children, all born in Orange Co.
Joseph Burr Monk, Mary Elizabeth (Huff) Monk, Top of picture George Vernon Monk
Joseph Burr Monk and Mary Elizabeth Huff Monk Adopted Children of Daughter Nancy T. Lee Monk After Her Death
Nancy (Nannie) T. Lee (Monk) born 27 Dec. 1871 died Aug 18 1899. Married Thomas Lee. When Nannie T. Monk Lee died, Joseph Burr and Elizabeth adopted and raised the 4 children thus legally changing their name from Lee to Monk.
4 children.
1. Harriet (Lee) Monk, born 1889
2. Carver (Lee) Monk born 1892
George Vernon (Lee) Monk born April 7, 1898 died 1960. Married Christina (Crystal) Hug in Shanghi China 1930. They had 2 children: George Coy Monk and Patricia Diana Monk.
George was adopted by grandparents Joseph Burr and Mary Elzabeth Monk after the death of Nannie T (Lee) Monk in 1899 acquiring the Monk name.
George worked with Monk Tobacco Co. (A.C. Monk). He set up the division in Shanghi China and worked there from 1926 until 1949 when the communist took over the country.
George Vernon Monk with A.C. Monk Tobacco Co in China over 20 years.
Includes the time of Communist takeover in 1949.
Mary Josina Monk, George V. Monk and Lona Monk
A.C. Monk Tobacco Co. Was founded by Albert Coy Monk, son of William Hawkins Monk which was Joseph Burr Monk’s brother and Joseph Hampton Monk Sr’s first cousin.
Geroge Vernon Monk and Crystal Hug Monk
George and Crystal were married June 6,1930 in
Shanghai China. George worked with A.C. Monk
Tobacco Co. in China. George and Crystal left China
in 1949 when the communist took over. This picture was found in George V. Monk’s personal collection.
Lona Lee Monk
Lona (Lee) Monk born March 13 1895 and died 1950.
Joseph H. Monk Sr. with Elizabeth Nell Monk, Mary Eliabeth Huff Monk and George Vernon Monk
Lona was adopted by Joseph Burr and Mary Elzabeth Monk after the death of Nannie T (Lee) Monk in 1899 acquiring the Monk name. Lona married Exum Carr Ellis Sr Feb 14th 1917. He died in 1928. They had two children. Exum Carr Ellis Jr (1920) and Peggy Lee Ellis Clutter (1926)
A Legacy in progress our journey through time
Card photograph depicting the interior of the Star Tobacco Warehouse in Wendell, North Carolina c. 1920 and 1930
George worked with Monk Tobacco Co. A.C. Monk. He set up the division in Shanghi China and worked there from 1926 until 1949 when the communist took over the country.
George Vernon Monk with A.C. Monk Tobacco Co in China over 20 years.
A. C. Monk and Company by Charles H. McArver, 2006
A. C. Monk and Company was founded in Farmville in 1907 by Albert Coy Monk. Initially, Monk and one assistant bought tobacco and shipped it in hogsheads from the Farmville railroad station. After weathering the panic of 1907, the company flourished by concentrating on foreign markets and steadily grew to become one of the world’s largest independent dealers and exporters of flue-cured tobacco. A. C. Monk and Company built a larger warehouse in 1913, replacing an earlier structure purchased in 1907. The company initially packed its product green in hogsheads on the warehouse floor, but subsequently it built a small redrying room and finally a full-scale processing plant on Horne Avenue. In 1933 the company expanded this plant to double its capacity.
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