Henry "Hank" Brigham Munro/Monroe was born December 10, 1846 to Pioneers, Henry Munro and Lovina Palmer, in Garden Grove, Iowa. His father died when he was very young and his mother remarried shortly after. In 1850, when his family left for the Salt Lake Valley, Henry was left in Iowa with the Hirum and Martha Smith Bennett family. He arrived in Utah a year or two later. He did not live with his family but spent his childhood and young adult years in Fillmore and Meadow, Utah with the Bennett family.
He served in the Utah Militia in 1867 with Hiram Bennett and worked as a clerk at the Meadow Post office in 1870. He eventually moved north and married Ellen Baird Bishop in 1877 in Franklin, Idaho. He lived in Lewiston, Utah for a few years and eventually moved to Eight Mile, Idaho, near Soda Springs, Idaho where other members of the Munro family were settling. While in Eight Mile, he taught school to his nieces, nephews and other children living in the area.
By 1894 Hank had moved to Andersonville (near Thermopolis), Wyoming where he farmed, freighted, mined, entertained and was elected constable of Andersonville - an area filled with outlaws, including Butch Cassidy and The Wild Bunch and other members of the Hole in the Wall Gang. Hank died June 28, 1901.
He was originally buried on the E. Payton Property in Old Thermopolis. According to a local newspaper article describing the cemetery, it had been on a grassy knoll surrounded by a picket fence. Over the years, there was little left to indicate there had been a cemetery on the land. In approximately 2011, a local gravel company was excavating and came across human bones, some of which were believed to have belonged to Hank Monroe and two others. The bones were eventually reinterred at the Riverside Cemetery in Thermopolis in a grave marked “Unknown Pioneers.”