Frank Forest Monroe

Husband of Dorothy L Phillips.  Born July 12, 1883.  Lived in Knox County, Ohio when he registered for the draft.  Father of Carroll F Monroe (1910-19??) (male) and Lauretta Guillet (1913-1963).

Dorothy Phillips (Monroe)

holding Nancy Monroe 1938

Dorothy (Dorsey) Phillips.  Mother of Lauretta Guillet (monroe).  Married to Frank Forest Monroe.

Mary Louise Guillet (Green)

Mary Louise was born 1875.  Her father was George Samuel Green (junior) and mother was Laura Orth.  She Married Edward Guillet on October 10, 1895.  They had four children:  Adelaide, Stanly, Ross (1910) and Mary Lou. She passed away in 1919.

early part of the century with husband and eldest child

Edward Henry Guillet

The fourth child and third son of Alexandre and Adelaide Guillet was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25, 1874.  The family moved to Cleveland, Ohio about 1890 where he graduated from Central High School.  He was musically inclined playing drums in several bands and joining his brother Victor in string ensembles.  his son Ross recalls Edward played to entertain the family and he took much pleasure in listening to classical and opera music on his Victorola.  He enjoyed baseball.

He entered the laundry business in Columbus, Ohio and continued for many years.  He became a partner in Penn Sanitary Laundry in Cleveland.  The company endured through the stock market crash of 1929.

He married Mary Louise Green on October 10, 1895.  Their mutual interest in music brought them together.  They had four children: Adelaide, Stanley, Ross (1910) and Mary Lou.  His wife died in 1919 and Edward cared for the 2 younger children with the help of housekeepers until 1931 when the youngest finished high school.  He remarried Kathleen Fitzgerald in 1933.

he died of natural causes on October 1, 1946.

Amanda Ruth Hoyt (Watson)

7/2004

Amanda was born July 1, 1974 in Atlanta Georgia to Steve and Lynda Watson.  Amanda's father left a year later.  She moved to El Paso Texas in fifth grade.  After middle school she needed to move to Ohio to live with her dad and step mother, Claudette.  She attended the original Olentangy High School.  She was on the cross country team, home coming court and student body.  Immediately after high school she joined the Army reserves.  She went through Basic training and then Advanced Training as a medic in San Antonio, Texas.  When she returned she chose to live with the family of a high school friend rather than her father.  Joan and John Peiffer and their three boys became a surrogate family to Amanda.  Amanda enrolled in school at Ohio State University.  During weekend Army drill Amanda met Brue Hoyt.  They lived togther for a year and a half before breaking up.  They began dating again by the summer of 1996.  A year later they were married on July 26, 1997.  She moved into the house he owned on Aberdeen Ave in Columbus Ohio.  She graduated from OSU with a degree in Women's studies in winter 1998.  She quickly acquired employment in the Ohio Senate as a legislative aid for Senator Linda Furney whom she had interned for a year earlier.

Amanda went on to work for Herington, the Minority Leader in the Senate.

April 13, 2004 she had her first Child, Lillian.  December 8, 2006 she had her second child, Eleanor. 

Amanda left the state for a brief time to work for Moresteam.com.  She returned to the state in the Treasurers office.  When Capri Cafaro became minority leader of the senate, she asked Amanda to be her chief of staff.  She is currently working in the private sector utilizing networks and experience gained in public life.

July 2010

Steven David Watson 1942 -

Steven David Watson was born Dec. 14, 1942 to Herbert and Louise Watson.  He was married to Lynda Treat in 1965 and had they had four children: Lisa Ann Tilson (Watson)(June 11, 1965), Paul David Watson (October 14, 1967), Teresa Lynn Cano (Watson) (July 16, 1970), and Amanda Ruth Hoyt (Watson) (July, 1, 1974).  The family Lived in Atlanta Georgia in 1974.  He divorced Lynda in 1975.  Steve worked as an engineer in Mansfield, Ohio where he met Claudette Inscore Hoffman.  He married Claudetteand April 8, 1981.  They moved to Delaware, Ohio where they had built their own log cabin on Ford Road.  His daughter Amanda moved in with him before starting high school in 1988 and lived with them until she graduated, June 1992.  Steve and Claudette retired and moved to  Santa Theresa,  NM, a suburb of El Paso, Texas in 2006.  He moved there to be in the sun and live near his daughters Lisa and Teresa.  He lives with his wife, Claudette, and runs a custom golf cart business called Mountain View Golf Carts.

Lydia Stone Potts (Hoyt)

Lydia Stone Hoyt was born January 30, 1882 in North Monroeville, OH.  Her parents William Jules (Judd) Hoyt  and Harriet (Hattie) M. Hoyt.   Lydia's parents had the same last name because they were second cousins.  The Hoyt line can be traced back to Walter Hoyt  of Somerset, England.   He came to the US in 1629.  She was a licensed practical nurse.  She was working in a hospital when she met George Herbert Potts.  On May 3, 1909 she married George in Sandusky, Ohio.  After her husband died in July 1942 her son, Wallace, was hospitalized for mental illness at Toledo State Hospital.  Lydia came to stay with Wallace's wife and two boys.  She moved to Spokane Washington with Wallace and his family in 1943.  She died of Heart Failure November 2, 1945 in Seattle Washington.  She was buried in Acacia Cemetery.