Career
Shortly after this, Rey L. Pratt and the other missionaries of American citizenship were forced to leave because of the Mexican Revolution. Monroy was made a branch president by Pratt. Monroy was taken prisoner by Liberation Army of the South (Zapatistas) in 1915.
Monroy was executed along with fellow Latter-day Saint leader Vicente Morales in 1915.
They were slain in San Marcos, Hidalgo, largely because they would not renounce their faith.