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Legacy
Children
Monk Estill left did many great deeds for us to remember him by. But the most direct is his children. In his life Monk married three times and had 30 children. The most famous of those was Jerry his first son, being the first African American born in Kentucky. Jerry Estill eventually moved to Shelby County, Ky and became Kentucky's first African American Baptist preacher. This is wrongfully thought to be the accolade of Monk Estill himself but was indeed his son.
Monk Estill left did many great deeds for us to remember him by. But the most direct is his children. In his life Monk married three times and had 30 children. The most famous of those was Jerry his first son, being the first African American born in Kentucky. Jerry Estill eventually moved to Shelby County, Ky and became Kentucky's first African American Baptist preacher. This is wrongfully thought to be the accolade of Monk Estill himself but was indeed his son.
SKILLS
In addition to this we have what we already know; being his skills and story. But what we don't know is the true impact those skills had. The apple orchard first off was a source of income and food for an aspiring town cut off, by great distance, from other sources. In addition his ability to make gunpowder. His encounter with the Indians was not the only one they had to deal with, but they survived against their assaults from the beginning of the settlement. With out this ability they would have been force to continuously ship in gunpowder as to not run out and not be able to defend themselves. It was also another form of food source in terms of hunting game. A fun story about Monk and his gunpowder recipe is that it is said he gave the recipe to Daniel Boon; try and asses that impact. his text.
In addition to this we have what we already know; being his skills and story. But what we don't know is the true impact those skills had. The apple orchard first off was a source of income and food for an aspiring town cut off, by great distance, from other sources. In addition his ability to make gunpowder. His encounter with the Indians was not the only one they had to deal with, but they survived against their assaults from the beginning of the settlement. With out this ability they would have been force to continuously ship in gunpowder as to not run out and not be able to defend themselves. It was also another form of food source in terms of hunting game. A fun story about Monk and his gunpowder recipe is that it is said he gave the recipe to Daniel Boon; try and asses that impact. his text.
WHO WAS HE?
This is a great question. As we know this was a very talented man who, for most of his life, didn't get paid for his talents. He worked hard for people who had every right to treat him terribly. With this man's great deeds we would like to think that he wasn't treated as a slave and for all we know he might not have been. But he was a man owned by the leader of a Kentucky Militia during the time of the American Revolution when slaves we being denied the right to fight for their freedom. But from what I read he was respected eventually leading to his freedom. To me despite the stories of his heroism, of which I read about twenty different versions, Monk was simply a man who did whatever he could to ensure a better life for the people he loved.
