Husband Allen Lee Montgomery
AKA: Lee
Born: June 12, 1867 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
Died: February 25, 1928 - San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Buried: February 27, 1928 - Roselawn Cemetery, San Antonio, TX
Father: John Nelson Montgomery
Mother: Amanda Harriet Springstead
Marriage: 1888 - Popejoy, IA.
Wife Cora Belle Stewart
Born: March 5, 1869 - Canada, English Speaking
Baptized:
Died: March 21, 1954 - Paris, Lamar County, TX
Buried: March 22, 1954 - Roselawn Cemetery, San Antonio, TX
Father: Andrew W. Stewart
Mother: Olive F. Lee
Children
1 F Bessie J. Montgomery
Born: September 1, 1888 - Popejoy, IA
Baptized:
Died: December 18, 1984 - Paris, TX
Buried: December 21, 1984
Spouse: Otto Henry Grupe
Marr: May 18, 1903 - Battle Creek, Calhoun County, MI
2 M Charley Stewart Montgomery
Born: 1902 - IA
Baptized:
Died: 1920 - Scott County, AR
Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Allen Lee Montgomery
Below is the text of three letters written by Alan Lee Montgomery to his half-brother, James Ivor Montgomery, around the time of their father's death in 1908. The letters were the only glimpse of "Lee" and his sisters, and of Lee's children, until receipt of the Obituary of Bessie, Lee's daughter, in 2005, by the G-Grandson of James Ivor, Willliam J. Montgomery 4 (James Robert 3, Ward Pease 2, James Ivor 1).
In the three letters, Alan tells his brother, Ivor:
He moved to Arkansas from Iowa in January, 1907, with his family and his father, John Nelson Montgomery;
Both he and his father suffered from asthma;
Their Father passed away (letter 2);
He had two children, Bessie (married to Mr. Grupe) and Charlie, 7 years old;
He lived in the town of Siloam Springs on a rented acre with house and orchard;
Bessie lived with her husband (Otto) on a farm six miles out of Siloam Springs on the Illinois River (Hico?);
Details of getting their father's body back to Iowa and who paid for same and why;
And more.
"Siloam Springs, Ark
9-16-(19)08
My Dear Brother,
Excuse me if I do not write much of a letter this time for Father is dying & I am watching him & writing, too.
My God, Ivor I am surprised at what you have written me. What are they made of? Are they so much wrapped up in the almighty dollar that they have forgotten that they are only flesh & blood? Ivor, you have my sincere sympathy. I only hope they will see their foolish mistake before it is irreparable.
Well, we came here 1 year ago last Jan(uary). I had the asthma so bad in Iowa I had to get out so came down here. I do not have it as bad here although am not well by any means. Father has been very hearty since we came here but he has just naturally broke down. He is still conscious but can hardly speak a word audible but lets me know what he wants by gesture. He wants me right by him all the time. He has been sick since two weeks ago last Friday. He cannot last long. Poor old Father. How I will miss him. The girls want him sent back to the Falls. But I do not know what I can do yet for I just have not got the money & do not know whether I can get it here or not. I would willingly pay all if I could. It seems to me they ought to help a little. I wish you were able to come for I think you would be better here.
More next time.
Your Loving Bro.
Lee"
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"Siloam Springs, Ark
9-27-08
My Dear Brother,
I read your most welcome letter day before yesterday. Was very glad to hear from you, but sorry you are so poorly. I hope you are much better now.
Well Ivor, poor Father is gone. He died at 10 min to 8 o'clock, Sat. the 19th. He was sick just 3 weeks. He made up his mind he was going to die right from the start . . . and oh, how he did suffer and long for it to be over with. I never want to see anybody go through what he did again. The Dr. said he was just simply wore out. He would not take but very little medicine and ate practically nothing, living principally on milk. He was well and hearty up to the time he was taken sick. He was conscious up to a few hours before his death. Poor Father, how I miss him. He wanted me to take care of him all the time. Nobody could ehandle him, he thought, like Lee. I think I undressed & went to bed just twice in 3 weeks. But I was only doing my duty. I only wish I could have done more for him. So on last Monday I sent the remains back to Iowa Falls to be laid at rest beside of Mother/ God bless them.
Ella came down and stayed a few days but returned home about a week before he died. Minnie lost their youngest girl about that time. Ella reached home just in time for the funeral. She was 19 years old and graduated last June. She had I think what the Doctor called peritonitis.
Well, Ivor, I like it here very well. We have a fine climate, splendid water. While common labor is not quite as high here being from $1.00 to $1.50, skilled labor is fully as good or better. I have got at Carpenter work $2.50 to $2.75 all summer when there was work. It has been a little dull here this summer for the apple crop was almost a failure & that means a whole lot here.
Well, I must close. It is nearly 10 o'clock.
Write soon,
Your loving brother,
A.L.M."
(Denoted answered on October 6, 1908, by J. Ivor)
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"Siloam Springs, Ark.
11-1-1908
J. Ivor Montgomery
My Dear Brother,
I rec'd your welcome letter some little time ago, but have been very busy & neglected answering sooner. We are well as usual. I hope this may find you much improved. Father is buried beside Mother in the Iowa Falls cemetery. Yes, I rec'd a card from Ella's girl saying her Ma came home sick, but that is the last word I have had direct from them. Not one word since I sent Father up there.
You ask me to tell you all about my family. Well, we have but 2 children. Bessie, the girl, is married & lives here. She is a bright little girl. She married a man by the name of Grupe. He has a farm here about 6 miles from town on the Illinois River. Then, we have 1 boy, 7 years old. We call him Charlie. He is a chip off the old block.
We came here 1 year ago last Jan. mostly on account of my asthma. Yes, I like it here very well. While the soil is not as good as Iowa, the climate more than makes up the difference. My asthma is not as near as bad as it was in Iowa.
This is quite a fruit country, but the late frost got us last Spring. The peaches were not over 1/2 crop & the apples at most a total failure. So, times have been dull this summer.
I live in town on a rented place. I pay $8.00 per month rent for a house & 1 acre of ground with orchard on. Father's sickness and funeral cost me over $100.00 but if I have any health I will try & wiggle out after a while. No, the other children did not pay anything but the express from here to Iowa Falls, about $21.00, and they hated to do that. I am very sorry the asthma troubles you so. I wish you were here. I do not believe you would be so bad. I do not do much of anything for mine any more, although I am up from 1 to 2 hours most every night. I do not have it so hard as I did up north. Father was delighted with the climate here. He enjoyed it so much.
Well, it is past my bedtime, so will have to close for this time.
Write soon, from your loving brother,
Lee"
1900 US Census: Living in Oakland Township (Popejoy), Franklin County, Iowa, with wife, Cora Belle, and daughter, Bessie, age 11. Shown to be a wagonmaker.
1907-1908 - Moved from Iowa to Siloam Springs, AR, with daughter, Bessie and her husband, Otto Grupe, and most likely his father, John Nelson Montgomery. Bessie moved with one child and another on the way (22 April) and had two more children between 1908 and 1917.
September 1908 - his father, John Nelson Montgomery, age 81, dies in Allen Lee's home in Siloam Springs, AR.
1910 US Census: Living on Texas Street, Ward 4, Siloam Springs, AR, with wife Cora Belle, and son, Charley S. Montgomery. Shown to be a carpenter. Texas Street is now South Elm Street. Many street names were changed after WWII, according to the Siloam Springs Museum, Siloam Springs, AR.
1920 US Census: Does not show up in Siloam Springs, AR. Moved to Texas??
Had lived in San Antonio for 10 years, 11 days at time of death = moved to San Antonio in March of 1917.
Died 25 Feb 1928, in San Antonio, TX, at 116 King Street.
His brother, James Ivor Montgomery, would died 16 days later in Illinois.
General Notes: Wife - Cora Belle Stewart
1910 US Census shows Cora Belle as having been born in English Speaking Canada. ("Canada Eng")
General Notes: Child - Bessie J. Montgomery
Interment Record for Bessie Montgomery Grupe
Name: Bessie Montgomery Grupe Born: 1 Sep 1888 Died: 18 Dec 1984 Buried: Evergreen Location: 28-25-03
Notes: LAMAR COUNTY ECHO Thu., Dec. 27, 1984:
'Mrs. O. H. (Bessie) Grupe, 3825 Lamar Ave (Road), died at her home at 1:35 p.m. Tue., Dec. 18. Services held Fri., Dec. 21, at Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Clayton Forthman of Hugo, OK., officiating.
Mrs. Grupe was born Sept. 1, 1888, in Popejoy, Iowa, a daughter of Allan Lee Montgomery and Cora Belle Stewart Montgomery. She attended Iowa schools and taught school and worked in the post office at Popejoy. She married O. H. Grupe on May 18, 1902. He died in April 1964. She was a member of the Episcopal church in Iowa and a member of the Needlecraft Club.
She and her husband moved to Paris in 1917, where he was associated with Speas Vinegar.
Surviving are a daughter, Florence Grupe McCormick of Prairie Village, KS.; four grandchildren, George C. Wall, Jr. of Tyler, (TX), Carolyn Wall Stuteville of Malakoff, (TX), Carol Ann Grupe Steber of Aachen, Germany, and Dr. Harold E. Grupe Jr. of Jacksonville, MS.; 12 great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Leona Grupe Wall and two sons, Dr. Harold E. Grupe and Dr. Donald M. Grupe'. *On the same stone with Dr. Donald Grupe and Otto H. Grupe.'
Moved to Siloam Springs, IA, in January, 1907, with her husband Otto and one daughter Leona, her father and mother, Allen Lee and Cora Belle Montgomery. She was 5-6 months pregnant at the time of their move.
In 1910, she and husband Otto and two daughters were living in Hico, Benton County, AR (and quite possibly as early as 1908 - see Allen Lee's letters). Two sons would be born while in Hico, in 1910 and 1912.
When the Otto and Bessie Grupe family moved from Siloam Springs, Arkansas to Paris,Texas, in 1915-17, there four (4) children in the family.
In 1920, they were living in Paris Ward 1, (Paris, TX), Lamar County, TX.
Husband Elbert Price
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Wife Allie Montgomery
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Father: William A. Montgomery
Mother: Sara Vastine Williamson
Children
General Notes: Husband - Elbert Price
--Invalid Dates Birth: WFT Est. 1864-1899 Death: WFT Est. 1890-1978
General Notes: Wife - Allie Montgomery
--Invalid Dates Birth: WFT Est. 1873-1900 Death: WFT Est. 1890-1983
Husband Almon Montgomery
Born: November 10, 1881
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Father: Thomas Jefferson Montgomery
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Children
1 F Dorothy May Montgomery
Born: 1919 - Dekalb, IL
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Spouse: James Richard Walker
Marr: July 25, 1937 - First Baptist Church, Dekalb, IL
2 M Raymond Montgomery
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Husband Andy Montgomery
Born:
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Father: William A. Montgomery
Mother: Sara Vastine Williamson
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Pearl McClure
Wife Nan Williamson
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General Notes: Husband - Andy Montgomery
--Invalid Dates Birth: WFT Est. 1873-1900 Death: WFT Est. 1894-1980
General Notes: Wife - Nan Williamson
--Invalid Dates Birth: WFT Est. 1873-1907 Death: WFT Est. 1894-1988
Husband Aaron Wright
Born: March 19, 1775
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Died: December 28, 1855
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Marriage: March 12, 1800 - Salem/Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
Wife Anna Montgomery
Born: August 13, 1786 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died: January 25, 1857 - Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
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Father: Robert Montgomery
Mother: Mary White
Children
1 F Amelia Wright
Born: March 12, 1801
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2 F Harriet Wright
Born: July 28, 1805 - New Salem, OH
Baptized:
Died: September 30, 1878 - Winona, MN
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Spouse: Zaphna Lake
Marr: August 22, 1824 - Ashtabula County, OH
3 M Orrin Wright
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General Notes: Husband - Aaron Wright
Came to the Western Reserve with the Thomas Montgomery family, 1798.
Was Justice of the Peace 1813 - 1817, Ashtabula County, Salem, now Conneaut, OH.
As for Aaron Wright... the exact date and place of his birth is unclear, Aaron Wright was probably born in New York state about the year 1776. According to his own account, he first visited the area around the mouth of Conneaut Creek with one Thomas Montgomery in 1798 and returned there to settle in the spring of 1799... he built the second house in the settlement on what is now Liberty Street, and in March of 1800, married Hannah (or Anna) Montgomery in the settlement's first recorded wedding. Later that same year, along with Nathan King (Nehemiah's brother), and Seth Harrington, he opened a road westward ... which, for the century and a half prior to the opening of Interstate 90, was the leading east-west road of travel through northern Ohio.... Four years later, in 1806, he began the two-year project of constructing the area's first grist mill.
... In addition to all of this, he was the first constable circa 1808, was elected trustee of Conneaut Township in 1824, was one of the incorporators of Conneaut Academy in 1835, and, in 1826, donated an acre of ground to begin what is now Conneaut City Cemetery...
General Notes: Wife - Anna Montgomery
Married Aaron Wright, at the age of 14, 12 March 1800.
General Notes: Child - Amelia Wright
The second white child born in the Western Reserve.
Husband Frank H. Sherer
Born: April 1861 - New York, New York
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Father: Sherer
Mother: Sherer
Marriage: 1887
Wife Anne Ella Montgomery
Born: March 1869 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
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Father: John Nelson Montgomery
Mother: Amanda Harriet Springstead
Children
1 M Lester F. Sherer
Born: July 1889
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2 F Helen Sherer
Born: January 1891
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General Notes: Wife - Anne Ella Montgomery
Below is the text of three letters written by Alan Lee Montgomery to his half-brother, James Ivor Montgomery, around the time of their father's death in 1908. The letters were the only glimpse of "Lee" and his sisters, and of Lee's children, until receipt of the Obituary of Bessie, Lee's daughter, in 2005, by the G-Grandson of James Ivor, Willliam J. Montgomery 4 (James Robert 3, Ward Pease 2, James Ivor 1).
In the letters, Alan tells his brother: He moved to Arkansas from Iowa in January 1907 with his family and his father, John Nelson Montgomery; both he and his father suffered from asthma; their Father passed away (letter 2); he had two children, Bessie (married to Mr. Grupe) and Charlie, 7 years old; he lived in the town of Siloam Springs on a rented acre with house and orchard; Bessie lived with her husband (Otto) on a farm six miles out of Siloam Springs on the Illinois River; details of getting their father's body back to Iowa and who paid for same and why; and more.
"Siloam Springs, Ark
9-16-(19)08
My Dear Brother,
Excuse me if I do not write much of a letter this time for Father is dying & I am watching him & writing, too.
My God, Ivor I am surprised at what you have written me. What are they made of? Are they so much wrapped up in the almighty dollar that they have forgotten that they are only flesh & blood? Ivor, you have my sincere sympathy. I only hope they will see their foolish mistake before it is irreparable.
Well, we came here 1 year ago last Jan(uary). I had the asthma so bad in Iowa I had to get out so came down here. I do not have it as bad here although am not well by any means. Father has been very hearty since we came here but he has just naturally broke down. He is still conscious but can hardly speak a word audible but lets me know what he wants by gesture. He wants me right by him all the time. He has been sick since two weeks ago last Friday. He cannot last long. Poor old Father. How I will miss him. The girls want him sent back to the Falls. But I do not know what I can do yet for I just have not got the money & do not know whether I can get it here or not. I would willingly pay all if I could. It seems to me they ought to help a little. I wish you were able to come for I think you would be better here.
More next time.
Your Loving Bro.
Lee"
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"Siloam Springs, Ark
9-27-08
My Dear Brother,
I read your most welcome letter day before yesterday. Was very glad to hear from you, but sorry you are so poorly. I hope you are much better now.
Well Ivor, poor Father is gone. He died at 10 min to 8 o'clock, Sat. the 19th. He was sick just 3 weeks. He made up his mind he was going to die right from the start . . . and oh, how he did suffer and long for it to be over with. I never want to see anybody go through what he did again. The Dr. said he was just simply wore out. He would not take but very little medicine and ate practically nothing, living principally on milk. He was well and hearty up to the time he was taken sick. He was conscious up to a few hours before his death. Poor Father, how I miss him. He wanted me to take care of him all the time. Nobody could ehandle him, he thought, like Lee. I think I undressed & went to bed just twice in 3 weeks. But I was only doing my duty. I only wish I could have done more for him. So on last Monday I sent the remains back to Iowa Falls to be laid at rest beside of Mother/ God bless them.
Ella came down and stayed a few days but returned home about a week before he died. Minnie lost their youngest girl about that time. Ella reached home just in time for the funeral. She was 19 years old and graduated last June. She had I think what the Doctor called peritonitis.
Well, Ivor, I like it here very well. We have a fine climate, splendid water. While common labor is not quite as high here being from $1.00 to $1.50, skilled labor is fully as good or better. I have got at Carpenter work $2.50 to $2.75 all summer when there was work. It has been a little dull here this summer for the apple crop was almost a failure & that means a whole lot here.
Well, I must close. It is nearly 10 o'clock.
Write soon,
Your loving brother,
A.L.M."
(Denoted answered on October 6, 1908, by J. Ivor)
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"Siloam Springs, Ark.
11-1-1908
J. Ivor Montgomery
My Dear Brother,
I rec'd your welcome letter some little time ago, but have been very busy & neglected answering sooner. We are well as usual. I hope this may find you much improved. Father is buried beside Mother in the Iowa Falls cemetery. Yes, I rec'd a card from Ella's girl saying her Ma came home sick, but that is the last word I have had direct from them. Not one word since I sent Father up there.
You ask me to tell you all about my family. Well, we have but 2 children. Bessie, the girl, is married & lives here. She is a bright little girl. She married a man by the name of Grupe. He has a farm here about 6 miles from town on the Illinois River. Then, we have 1 boy, 7 years old. We call him Charlie. He is a chip off the old block.
We came here 1 year ago last Jan. mostly on account of my asthma. Yes, I like it here very well. While the soil is not as good as Iowa, the climate more than makes up the difference. My asthma is not as near as bad as it was in Iowa.
This is quite a fruit country, but the late frost got us last Spring. The peaches were not over 1/2 crop & the apples at most a total failure. So, times have been dull this summer.
I live in town on a rented place. I pay $8.00 per month rent for a house & 1 acre of ground with orchard on. Father's sickness and funeral cost me over $100.00 but if I have any health I will try & wiggle out after a while. No, the other children did not pay anything but the express from here to Iowa Falls, about $21.00, and they hated to do that. I am very sorry the asthma troubles you so. I wish you were here. I do not believe you would be so bad. I do not do much of anything for mine any more, although I am up from 1 to 2 hours most every night. I do not have it so hard as I did up north. Father was delighted with the climate here. He enjoyed it so much.
Well, it is past my bedtime, so will have to close for this time.
Write soon, from your loving brother,
Lee"
Husband Archibald Montgomery
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Wife Mary Ramsay
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1 F Mary Montgomery
Born: 1825 - Port Hill, PEI
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Died: February 2, 1895 - Birch Hill, Lot 14, PEI
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Spouse: Dougald Macarthur Jr.
Husband Arthur H. Montgomery Of Tyrella
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Father: Reverend Hugh Montgomery Of Grey Abbey
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1 M Hugh P. Montgomery
Born: 1829
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2 M Arthur Montgomery
Born: 1841
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Husband St. Clair Smith
Born: February 2, 1780 - Williamstown, MA
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Died: March 29, 1853 - Mentz, NY
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Marriage: October 2, 1806 - Aurelius, NY
Wife Betsy Montgomery
Born: January 15, 1784
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Died: June 17, 1820
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Father: Henry Montgomery
Mother: Susannah Beatty
Children
1 M Henry Montgomery Smith
Born: December 28, 1807 - Aurelius, NY
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Died: August 15, 1888
Buried: - Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, NY
Spouse: Catherine Forshee
Marr: November 26, 1829 - Mentz, NY
Husband Nelson Pelkey
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Father: Clarence Joseph Pelletier
Mother: Victoria Dube
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Wife Beverly Montgomery
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Father: Fred Montgomery
Mother: Leona Bouchard
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Husband Captain George Montgomery
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Father: Viscount Hugh Montgomery
Mother: Elizabeth Shaw
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1 M Lieut. Colonel Hugh Montgomery Of Bathlesson
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Husband James Provin
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Marriage: March 20, 1769
Wife Cattey Montgomery
Born: 1746 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
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Father: James Montgomery
Mother: Mary Meary Henry
Children
Husband Charles A. Montgomery
Born: December 21, 1880
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Father: Warren Woodbury Montgomery
Mother: Phila Alette Pherris
Marriage: September 23, 1903
Wife Lydia Raddatz
Born: August 19, 1877 - Germany
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Husband Charles E. Montgomery
Born: May 27, 1853
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Died: March 21, 1931
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Father: Thomas Warren Montgomery
Mother: Lucy Sanborne
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Wife Esther Montgomery
Born: May 22, 1869
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Died: February 4, 1953
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Husband Chester Montgomery
Born: - Londonderry, NH
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Father: Hugh Montgomery
Mother: Hannah Mack
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1 M Chester Montgomery
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Husband Timothy White
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Marriage: May 3, 1828
Wife Clarissa Montgomery
Born: 1808 - Salem / Conneaut, OH
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Father: Thomas Montgomery
Mother: Rebecca Harper
Children
Husband Loss Sudduth
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Wife Cleo Montgomery
Born: 1911 - Texas, USA
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Father: John H. Montgomery
Mother: Lizzie G. Gordon
Children
General Notes: Wife - Cleo Montgomery
1) Lived in Georgetown,Williamson,Texas,USA
Husband Commodore John B. Montgomery
Born: 1794
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Father: Thomas W. Montgomery M.D., Of New York
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1 M William H. Montgomery Usn
Born: 1820
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Died: 1846
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2 M John E. Montgomery
Born: 1829
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Died: 1846
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3 M Henry E. Montgomery
Born: 1831
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Died: 1833
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4 M D. Edwards Montgomery
Born: 1835
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5 M Samuel W. Montgomery
Born: 1836
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Died: 1857
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Husband David Montgomery
Born: December 12, 1791 - Francestown, NH
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Father: Hugh Montgomery
Mother: Mary Campbell
Marriage: June 7, 1818
Wife Rovy Morse
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Husband David B. Montgomery
Born: 1792
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Died: 1862
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Father: Major William Montgomery
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1 M Jonathan Montgomery
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2 M Richard Montgomery
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3 M Benjamin Montgomery
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4 M Samuel Montgomery
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Husband James Richard Walker
Born: September 16, 1916 - Memphis, TN
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Died: October 9, 2008 - Shabbona, IL
Buried: October 13, 2008
Father: James Dudley Walker
Mother: Leola Margaret Wheller
Marriage: July 25, 1937 - First Baptist Church, Dekalb, IL
Wife Dorothy May Montgomery
Born: 1919 - Dekalb, IL
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Father: Almon Montgomery
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1 M Walker
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2 M Walker
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3 F Walker
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4 F Walker
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5 F Walker
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6 F Walker
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7 F Walker
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General Notes: Child - Walker
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General Notes: Child - Walker
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General Notes: Child - Walker
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General Notes: Child - Walker
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General Notes: Child - Walker
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Husband Edwin Montgomery
Born: March 15, 1854 - Jefferson County, WI
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Died: October 17, 1927 - Neillsville, Clark County, WI
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Father: R. Bradford Montgomery
Mother: Esther Tracy
Marriage: May 25, 1873 - Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County, WI
Wife Nellie Emma Reynolds
Born: 1853 - Jefferson County, WI
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Died: September 10, 1937 - Neillsville, Clark County, WI
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Children
1 M Leonard H. Montgomery
Born: 1874 - Hebron, Jefferson County, WI
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Died: 1915 - CA
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Spouse: Georgia Halverson
Husband Elmer Montgomery
Born:
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Father: William A. Montgomery
Mother: Sara Vastine Williamson
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Beth Barnes
Wife Kate Williamson
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1 M Manton Montgomery
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2 F Laverne Montgomery
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3 F Ida Montgomery
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4 F Lucy Montgomery
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General Notes: Husband - Elmer Montgomery
--Invalid Dates Birth: WFT Est. 1872-1897 Death: WFT Est. 1927-1980
General Notes: Wife - Kate Williamson
--Invalid Dates Birth: Private
General Notes: Child - Manton Montgomery
--Invalid Dates Birth: Private
General Notes: Child - Laverne Montgomery
--Invalid Dates Birth: Private
General Notes: Child - Ida Montgomery
--Invalid Dates Birth: Private
General Notes: Child - Lucy Montgomery
--Invalid Dates Birth: Private
Husband Florian Lett Montgomery
Born: September 3, 1877 - Village Of Sandwich, IL
Baptized:
Died: 1941 - Chicago, IL
Buried: - Chicago, IL
Father: James Ivor Montgomery
Mother: Mary Aleumena Lett
Marriage: June 17, 1908 - Kendall County, IL
Wife Harriet Amelia Myers
Born: April 23, 1879
Baptized:
Died: 1955 - Aurora, IL
Cause of Death: Murdered by Home Intruder
Buried:
Father: Alexander Ellis Myers
Mother: Caroline Frances Carnes
Children
1 F Margaret Montgomery
Born: October 1909
Baptized:
Died: 1984 - Aurora, IL
Buried:
Spouse: Bert Buckendahl
2 F Dorothy Montgomery
Born: September 1910
Baptized:
Died: 2005 - MN
Buried:
Spouse: Roy Mcneil Froom
General Notes: Husband - Florian Lett Montgomery
21 Feb 1898 - Sang Bass in the "City Club Minstrels", under the auspices of the Aurora City Club, in a concert at the Aurora Opera House. His brother Ward sang baritone.
1910 Census - Shown to be a "Lawyer Clerk" - at his father's Law office?
Registered for the WWI Draft on 12 September 1918, stating his residence to be R2 RFD, Sandwich, Northville Township, LaSalle Co, ILL, with nearest relative, Mary A. Montgomery, R D 2, Sandwich, ILL.
Died in Chicago, 1941.
General Notes: Wife - Harriet Amelia Myers
Married 17 June 1908, first child born October 1909.
Abandoned by her husband between October 1909 and 15 April 1910, upon news of a 2nd pregnancy.
1910 Census (15 April) - living with her parents in Kendall County, IL, and her 1st daughter Margaret, age 6 months, while pregnant with her 2nd child.
1920 Census (5 January) - living at 255 Grant Place, Aurora, IL.
1930 Census - living on Galena Blvd, Aurora, IL.
Notes: Marriage
Divorced between daughters, before birth of 2nd daughter, before 15 April 1910 (1910 Census, not together).
General Notes: Child - Margaret Montgomery
1920 Census - living at 255 Grant Place, Aurora, IL.
General Notes: Child - Dorothy Montgomery
1920 Census - living at 255 Grant Place, Aurora, IL.
Husband Harvey Montgomery
Born: 1789
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1 M William Montgomery
Born: 1813
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2 M Robert H. Montgomery
Born: 1816
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Died: 1817
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3 M Doctor Harvey F. Montgomery M.D.
Born: 1818
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4 M Thomas C. Montgomery
Born: 1820
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5 M Robert H. Montgomery
Born: 1824
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Died: 1825
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6 M Nathaniel C. Montgomery
Born: 1827
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Died: 1830
Buried:
7 M Henry M. Montgomery
Born: 1829
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8 M Captain Charles S. Montgomery
Born: 1831
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9 M Edward R. Montgomery
Born: 1834
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Died: 1862
Buried:
Husband Henry Montgomery Third Earl Of Mount Alexander
AKA: 3rd Earl Of Mount Alexander
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Father: Hugh Montgomery 3rd Viscount Of The Ards, 1St Earl Of Mount Alexan
Mother: Mary Moore
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1 M Hugh Montgomery 4th Earl Of Mount Alexander
Born:
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Died: 1744
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2 M Thomas Montgomery 5th And Last Earl Of Mount Alexander
Born:
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Died: 1757
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Husband Henry Montgomery
Born: March 11, 1792
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Father: Hugh Montgomery
Mother: Hannah Mack
Marriage:
Wife Maria Tracy
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Husband Hugh Montgomery Of Mayhera
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1 M Majhugh Montgomery Of Mayhera
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Husband Hugh Montgomery Of Grey Abbey
Born: 1821
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Father: William Montgomery Of Grey Abbey
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1 M William E. Montgomery
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2 M Robert A. Montgomery
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3 M Percy H. Montgomery
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Husband Hugh Montgomery
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1 M Lieutenant Nicholas Montgomery
Born: 1615
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General Notes: Husband - Hugh Montgomery
Husband Hugh Montgomery
Born: August 12, 1785 - Londonderry, Windham, VT
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Died: July 14, 1859 - South Canton, St. Lawrence, NY
Buried:
Father: Hugh Montgomery
Mother: Hannah Mack
Marriage:
Wife Irene Southworth
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1 M Chester S. Montgomery
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2 M Hannah M. Montgomery
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3 M Charles Montgomery
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4 M Mack Montgomery
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5 M Porter Montgomery
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6 F Altha B. Montgomery
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7 M John C. Montgomery
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8 F Eliza A. Montgomery
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9 F Lorene M. Montgomery
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10 U Montgomery
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11 M William Montgomery
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General Notes: Wife - Irene Southworth
Direct descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens of Mayflower Fame.
Husband Hugh Montgomery 3rd Viscount Of The Ards, 1St Earl Of Mount Alexan
AKA: Earl Of Mount Alexander, 1661
Born: 1625
Baptized:
Died: September 15, 1663
Buried:
Father: Hugh Montgomery
Mother: Jane Alexander
Marriage: December 1648
Wife Mary Moore
Born: 1631
Baptized:
Died: June 16, 1655
Buried:
Father: Charles Moore 2nd Viscount Of Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland
Mother:
Children
1 M John Montgomery
Born: 1645 - Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Baptized:
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Spouse: Isabella Shaw
Marr: 1658
2 M Hugh Montgomery 2nd Earl Of Mount Alexander
AKA: 2nd Earl Of Mount Alexander
Born: 1650
Baptized:
Died: 1716
Buried:
3 M Henry Montgomery Third Earl Of Mount Alexander
AKA: 3rd Earl Of Mount Alexander
Born:
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4 M Charles Montgomery
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General Notes: Husband - Hugh Montgomery 3rd Viscount Of The Ards, 1St Earl Of Mount Alexan
SOURCE: www.hamiltonmontgomery1606.com
Earl of Mount Alexander, so created 1661.
Before the Plantation of Ulster, two Ayrshire Scots - James Hamilton and Hugh Montgomery - pioneered a massive migration from the Lowlands of Scotland to County Antrim and County Down. Starting in May 1606, over ten thousand mainly Presbyterian Lowland Scots made the short voyage across the North Channel, transforming barren Ulster into an industrial powerhouse. Their success inspired King James VI of Scotland and 1 of England's Virginia Plantation of 1607 and his Ulster Plantation of 1610. Their achievement was “The Dawn of the Ulster-Scots”.
The lands they came to had been devastated and depopulated by the wars of the late 1500s. Records say that Antrim and Down were “wasted”. The owner of the lands, Con O’Neill, had been imprisoned in Carrickfergus Castle by the late Queen Elizabeth 1 and was probably destined for execution. So Hugh Montgomery hatched an elaborate plan to both free O’Neill and to gain a Royal pardon for him from the newly-crowned King James 1 (formerly King James VI of Scotland) - and Montgomery’s payment was to be half of O’Neill’s lands. However James Hamilton found out and intervened in the negotiations - and won one third of the lands for himself.
Hamilton was from Dunlop in Ayrshire, was an academic and had been a founder of Trinity College in Dublin. His new territory included the entire River Bann and the area around Coleraine, as well as a major part of County Down which took in Bangor, part of Comber, Killyleagh, Dundonald and some of the Ards Peninsula. Montgomery was the Sixth Laird of Braidstane and had been a mercenary in the wars in Holland. His new territory included Newtownards, Donaghadee, part of Comber, Greyabbey and a large portion of the Ards Peninsula. Hamilton and Montgomery can rightly be called “The Founding Fathers of the Ulster Scots”.
The thousands of settlers they brought over absolutely transformed the region. The success of their settlement in Antrim and Down must have reassured King James VI & 1 of his Plantation in Virginia (at Jamestown) in 1607, and without doubt inspired the Plantation of the rest of Ulster which started in 1610.
HUGH MONTGOMERY – ARISTOCRAT AND SOLDIER
Roger de Montgomerie came to England from Normandy with William the Conqueror. His grandson, Robert, travelled to Scotland and became the First Laird of Eaglesham, Ayrshire, in 1106 and married Marjory, the daughter of Walter the Steward (of the House of Stewart). Over the following centuries the Montgomeries would also acquire the titles of Eglinton, Ardrossan, Coilsfield (Tarbolton), Annick Lodge (Kilwinning) and Skelmorlie(Largs).
In 1452 Robert Montgomerie acquired the title of first Laird of Braidstane, an area in the bailliary of Kyle in Ayrshire. Braidstane is close to the small town of Beith in the North Ayrshire council district.
Adam Montgomery was the Fifth Laird of Braidstane, and his son, Hugh Montgomery (1560 - 1636), was primarily an aristocrat and a soldier. He had been educated at Glasgow Colledge and went to France where he spent some time at the royal court. He then moved to Holland and became Captain of Foot of a Scottish Regiment, under William 1 of Orange-Nassau (King William III’s great grandfather) fighting against the army of King Philip II of Spain – whose troops included an Englishman called Guy Fawkes!
When his father died, Hugh returned to Scotland to become the Sixth Laird of Braidstane and married Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of the Laird of Greenock. His fighting skills were used again when he became involved in the generations-old feud between the Montgomeries and the Cunninghams (led by the Earl of Glencairn). Hugh Montgomery claimed that one of the Cunninghams had insulted him, and challenged him to a duel, but Cunningham fled - first to London and then to Holland. Montgomery tracked him down to the Inner Court of the Palace at The Hague, drew his sword and with a single thrust aimed to kill him. Luckily for Cunningham, the sword hit the buckle of his belt and saved his life - but Montgomery, thinking he had killed Cunningham, put away his sword and while he was leaving the Palace was arrested and imprisoned in the Binnenhof.
Stationed there was a Scottish soldier - Sergeant Robert Montgomery - who came to visit Hugh in prison, and they came up a jailbreak plan. Robert arrived at the prison dressed as a wealthy Laird with property in Scotland, to court the daughter of the prison Marshall in order to get the key to Hugh’s cell. The plan was so successful that within a few days they were married in the prison, with Hugh Montgomery performing the ceremony according to Scottish law. The wedding guests had drunk so much wine that Hugh, Robert and his new wife were able to slip away unnoticed to a pre-arranged ship which took them to Leith, near Edinburgh.
Hugh’s return to Scotland saw him receive a severe reprimand from King James VI, but thanks to his own strong relationship with the King and the support of his influential brother George Montgomery, Hugh was back in favour. George had left Scotland as a youth and had become Dean of Norwich in 1602, a privileged position which he used to gather information about English politics which he then passed back to King James’s court in Scotland. So Hugh Montgomery also had considerable influence with King James VI, and when Queen Elizabeth 1 died in the spring of 1603 he accompanied James to London for his coronation ceremony.
General Notes: Child - John Montgomery
A John Montgomery is listed as, "Tenant, year 1725, at Bwalla O'Cahane, along with Robt. McCleeve, John Dodd, Thomas Fullerton, Widow McBride", in "Pikes's Survey for Aghadowey Parish", from the book, "Aghadowey", by Rev. Thomas H. Mullin, Belfast: Century Services, 1972.
From the genealogy files of Bertha L. Montgomery, (James b 1865, Warren b 1831, James b 1796, Hugh b 1752, Hugh b 1726, Hugh b 1689, Robert b 1658, John b 1645):
"John, son of the Laird of Braidstane, Ayshire, and nephew of Sir Hugh Montgomery, of Ards, County Down, married Isabella, daughter of John Shaw and Ealoner Agnew, his wife, of Ballygelly Castle. John Shaw was son of James Shaw and Isabella Brisbane, and grandson of James Shaw and his wife, Margaret McQuillan, only child of James McQuillan, last Irish Chief of that name, and of Margaret De Bisset, his wife, last of the line of DeBissetts of the Glens of Antrim."
From, "The people who stayed at home in Ulster":
This kind of detail from a family's history, which allows us to make contact with an ancestor's personality, just as much as the information about shared more remote ancestors and as well as the information about what happened in subsequent generations to the emigrants from Ulster, is a great resource for family historians in the north of Ireland, since most if not all has been lost to memory in Ireland. Making contact with longlost relatives in America, or even just reading about them, can begin to heal wounds that those of us who live in Ulster in the present day often do not realize that our society has suffered throughout its history. Generation after generation after generation, ever since 1718, parents in Ireland have reared children and have had to part with them; people have said goodbye to friends and kinsfolk, and never knew what happened to them. It is hard to imagine the scale of loss and disruption of relationships. People who sat beside our ancestors in church, or who had worked alongside them in the fields, just vanished from view; it was almost like the results of losing people by death. The people who stayed in Ulster, in any generation between 1718 and 1950 may have had to adjust, over the course of their lives, to the absence of three quarters of the people with whom they had been in significant relationships in earlier life.
Dr. Linde Lunney, Royal Irish Academy
Regarding the connection of this John Montgomery to Hugh, Earl of Mount Alexander, etc., the following is provided regarding "Inferiour Montgomerys":
From, THE MONTGOMERY MANUSCRIPTS, (1608-1706), Compiled from Family Papers, by William Montgomery of Rosemount, Esquire, and Edited With Notes, by Rev. George Hill, Vol. 1, Belfast, Archer and Sons, 10 Wellington Place. MDCCCLXIX
Chapter XXIII, Pages 385-389:
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CHAPTER XXIII.
OTHER MONTGOMERYS.
NOW having mentioned our 6th Laird of Braidstane & his offspring with two cadets of former lairds of Braidstane: viz. Thomas of Blackstoun1 and Gransheogh2; & two other familys, viz. Creboy3 & Bailymagouns all Montgomerys, & being his next relations, I will not forget (nor suffer to be buried in oblivion) our forenamed serjant & his Posterity: because of his good service done to ye sd sixt laird, my venerable grandfather.
You have heard he was called Robert Montgomery4, & that he was a chief Instrument in ye sd Laird’s Escape, & that he brought his dutch wife with him. Them ye sd Laird entertained at Braidstane, until his plantation in Ireland, that he brought them over & settled them in ye lands of upper Cuningburn5 in the Great Ards (so called from the multitude of Coneys or Rabits that were in the banks of the said Bourn or brook); in fee farm, under a small chief rent. The deed was only written in paper (as Scotish instruments of that nature comonly are), & not registered or renewed, but was observed inviolate by all the three first Lords.
The deed had an Endorsment, every word written & signed by the said Laird (then Visc4), whth I have read, & it was (as neare as I can remember) in the following terms, viz.
I do hereby heartily recomend ye within named Robt Montgomery, & all his posterity heires males, to ye favour of my son Hugh, & to all his descending heirs, leaving unto them all (who shall be kind to him & them) my blessing on that Account, as a memorandum of my good will and respect to ye said Robt & his dutch wife, who under God wrought my delivery out of the Marshallsea in the Hague6.
Yet notwithstanding all this care & kindness of the sd first three Lords, in the minority of this present Earle, & unknown to him & his nearest relations of kindred, the said deed of fee farm, so indorsed, was fraudently got out of the said Rob’ his 2nd wifes hands when she was his widdow, had his daughter & two sonns to maintaine all under ninteen yeares of Age.
William, ye the eldest son, served mee some years at Rosemount, and went into Scotland & died unmarryed, he was a propper young man & had expectations there.
1 Blackstoun.-See pp. a6, 28, iz6, supra.
2 Gransheogh.-See pp. 356-362, supra.
3 Creboy.-See pp. 2g, 52, note 25, supra. Thomas H. Montgomery in his Genealogical History, represents both
Creboy and Gransheogh as descended from the two younger sons of Adam, fourth laird, which, if so would make this
Patrick of Creboy first cousin of John of Gransheogh and of sir Hugh the first viscount. But although the author of
the Montgomery Manuscripts designates John of Gransheogh as the first cousin of the first viscount (Narrative of Gransheo, p. 357, supra), he nowhere calls Patrick of Creboy cousin of the first viscount, but only brother-in-law (see p. 52, supra), nor does he ever speak of Creboy and Gransheogh as cousins-german.
4 Robert Montgomery.-See p.1, supra.
5 Cuningburn. - The name of a townland in the parish of Newtownards. See p.373 supra.
6 In the Hague.-See p. 12-15, supra.
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Henry, the 2d son in A° 1689, I saw him Quartermaster in ye Earls of Eglintons troop, he is marryed & well setled.
The daughter was marryed to one maxwell, for whom I took paines & was at expense to rid him out of troubles, for Roberts sake.
This memoir I think due to Roberts fidelity, & service to my grandfather, he generously foregoing his halbert, his Pay and ye arrears thereof, & hazarding his life, for love of a gentlman of his surname, then in distress; on what account is before related.
Other Montgomerys.
Many Inferiour Montgomerys came over7 & had mortgages some of fifty, some of one hundred pounds sterling on single townlands, paying a small chiefry and the tyth (with ecclesiastical right, our first lord did not, nor would ascertain, the most of his lands belonged to Abbeys and Pryorys, and so might have disposed of them) for Instance
Montgomery of Ballyhenny8 in Newtoun parish, had one thousand merks Scotesh mony on ye town called B:heft9; & payd but one shill rent per annum, but when hee (and I believe also his son) was dead, a favorit of another name, since ye restauration, had ye redemption of the mortgage given him by ye Lord, it came to fifty pounds 13sh and 04 as I thinke & he had above 20lb sterling yearly out of it.
Item John Montgomery of B:volly (the son of one of the first planters) was remooved out f his houlding (his fathers originall mortgage mony being given him) so he was forced to remoove & take a farm in ye north west of Ireland, by which change he lost, and ye incomer gained a yearly income, for by a law made in King Char : ye martirs reigne, any mortgaged Lands, which yeelded more than 10th per cent., all ye overplus rent might be counted up as paymt in part (pro tanto) of the original mortgage mony,
I incert these two names onely to show that there were substantiall montgomerys (besides the aforenamed) who came over as planters, besides Artificers & yeoman, & those whom (to avoid ostentation) I name not: some of whose Posterity, in newton parish and near it, are thriveing farmers, and well to pass.
Now that I have related most I had to say of our 6th Laird and his three Sonns Hugh, James & George & of his two Daughters, and also have written of ye 2nd Viscounts children, Elizabeth, James, and Hugh, ye 3rd Visc’t and first Earle of Mount Alexander and of his offspring, Jean, Henry, Katherin, Elizabeth, & of Hugh, ye 4th Viscount & 2nd Earle now liveing.
It may be alleadged that I have Acted ye Panegyrist, and not noted their Imperfections and
faults (which in any man is seldom overweiched by his vertues) & so I must, or shall, be called too
favorably Partiall to ye stock from whence I am sprung, & to my fellow branches & nighbours.
7 Montgomerys came over.-The following persons of this surname received grants of denization in 1617:- John Montgomery of Ballimacrosse, Robert and William Montgomery of Donoghdie, Thomas Montgomery of Knockfergus, John Montgomery of Redene, Matthew Montgomery of Donoghdie, Robert Montgomery of Edenacanany, Robert Montgomery of Moneyglasse (now the Glass Moss), and John Montgomery of Ballymagorrie.-Calendar Patent Rolls, James I., pp. 326, 339.
8 Ballyhenny.-This is a misprint for Ballyhenry, the name of a townland in the parish of Newtownards. Hugh Montgomery of Ballyhenry was present at the funeral of the first earl in 1663. See p. 250 supra.
9 Balleyheft.-Now Ballyhaft; this is also a townland in the parish of Newtonards.
9 B:volly.-This is a misprint for Ballyrolley. a town- land in the parish of Donaghadee. John Montgomery of Bellie Rollie was requested by Hugh Nevin to assist in carrying out the provisions of his will. See p. note 41, supra.
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Therefor as to this Impeachmt I shall so farr defend my self & Reputation, as to Answe thus, viz.
Impr if I saw my forefathers, or Relations, or Christian Nighbors nakedness or infirmitys, I should (according to my duty & Love) cover them as Sem and Japhet did, rather than deride them as Cham did Noahs, for which, his posterity Cainan was accursed.
Item it is a Maxim and Axiom in my books viz. De mortuis nil nisi bonum de absentibus nil nisi verum, & the Trueth, (especially ye whole trueth) should not be told in all times and places, where it may be scandalum acceptum; tho non datum: except when upon Oath before a Magistrate.
Item it is agt the designe of this natrative which is (not to speak evill of any man but) to shew ye good Acts and qualifications of those Montgomerys I have named; thereby to stirr up Posterity to imitate their vertuous Examples:
But to come nearer the answer to ye objection, I protest ye Imitation of posterity is ye chief end of my writeing.
2nd to shew my gratitude to those I ow it, or to their children.
3rd to be an example that others after mee may begin where I leave off, & so continue ye memoriall of our honorable family, better than I have done, or could doe (not haveing adverted and begun sooner) for times past, & always to reguard trueth, as I have laboured and studdyed to doe.
But 4thly to come up closer to ye objectors (if any bee) I must tell them, that wee should doe to all men as wee would they should doe towards us: & that I believe they doe not desire their own sores (old or new) should be scarifyed or ripped open to view, but rather carefully plaistered and concealed.
And 5thly (to speak to ye subject matter of ye objection) I again protest, I have written without Bribe, or any expectation of Reward, & without varying from the trueth, either to the right or Left hand (that I know off but have pursued the straight Roade of Duty; which I conceived I owed to my family, nighbours and acquaintances of the surname of Montgomery: God haveing given mee ability and leizure to performe as I have done.
I confess no flesh is faultless, nor myself (perhapps) in point of time, which I could not exactly know, for want of Records thereof, but that those I write of were naturally or habitually vicious, or were cursers, swearers, lyars, gamesters (at cards or dice etc.) simulators (alias dicti, hypocrites) Idolaters, drunkards, gluttons, whoremongers (abusers of themselves with man or beast) manquellers (i.e. homicides) or suicides, proud, disloyall to the Crown, oppressors, cheaters, or any ways wickedly profane, or presumptuous, and customary sinners, I utterly deny it, in Thes: and on the faith of an honest Christian, I believe as I now write, and I never did reade or learne to the contrary. Yet for, and after all this; All of them had some faults rather to be termed omissions than comissions, their greatest & most frequent infirmity was to think men honest who professed sincerity and trueth, & therefore they sometimes trusted before they tryed; and were often more Generous than was needfull; and I know for certain, divers of them were imposed upon, cheated and ill rewarded, after protestations, and oaths of sincerity, fidelity, and kindness given to them: beyond which, no man can expect assurance without hostages.
I haveing in this appollogy sufficiently provided against asspertions of my foregoing writeings, I shall now relate concerning other Montgomerys, for whom there can be no cause of suspicion.
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The first I name is Hugh Montgomeiy of Derrygonnelly10, where he lives gentily, within ten miles of Enniskillen; He is a Justice of Peace, and was a Capt of hors when ye fermanagh men defended that town & County from Justin McCarty11 comander of ye Irish, A° 1689.
Hee is the eldest son of Mr Nicholas Montgomery of Derrybrosk12 (near the said town) who was Lt in Sir Ja. Montg: Regimt after he was driven to flee for his life from ye Irish in A° 1641. This Mr Nicholas is aged 84 yeares, and was made Mr of Arts in Glasgow, and his father was Mr Hugh Montg: whom our BP Geo setled there13, and made him receaver of his Rents, in that part of Clogher Dyoces. This Hugh dyed befor that ye rebellion broke out A° 1641.
This Nicholas had debentures in Irelland for service before the 5th of June 1649.14
Robert his 2d son is a Lt in the Army and lives unmarryed with his father, he hath a good fortune, and is a proper well-bred man.15
Andrew his third Son is a good preacher, hath wife and children and a good liveing and stock at Carrickmacross16, he is well Loved and in great respect.
10 Of Derrygonnelly.-This gentleman is styled captain Hugh Montgomery in Hamilton’s Actions of the Enniskillen Men, p. 23; and also in McCormick’s Further Account of the Actions of the Enniskillen Men, pp. 34, 53. This Hugh Montgomery signed the memorable Declaration issued by the council of war held at Londonderry, on the 13th of April, 1689, requiring all who were able and willing to fight for their “country and religion to assemble at Clady-Ford, Lifford, and Long Cassiway, bringing a week’s provision themselves, and as much forage as they can for horses.”
11 Justin McCarty. -This was an experienced officer in the army of James II. In May, 1689, he was created viscount Mountcashel, and appointed Commander of the forces intended to reduce Enniskillen. Against the gallant defenders of that town, Mountcashel led three regiments of infantry and two of dragoons. In a battle near Newtown Butler, this force was almost annihilated, and its commander wounded and carried by the victorious Enniskilleners into the town, where he lay helpless, but carefully tended, for a long time. So soon as he had regained sufficient strength to attempt an escape, he laid his plans for this purpose, and succeeded. In Storey’s Impartial History, part i., p 51, there is the following brief account of this affair:-“The town of Enniskillen stands upon a lough, and the water came to the door of the house where he was confined, or very near it. He found means to corrupt a servant, and to get two small boats, called ‘cots,’ to carry him and his best moveables off by night.” He made his escape to the Continent, and died in 1694, at Barege, from the effect of wounds received at the battle of Chantilly in 1691.-D’Alton’s King James Irish Army List, pp. 490, 494.
12 Of Derrybrosk.-See p. 99, supra.
13 Bp Geo. Setled there.-See pp. 99-101, supra.
14 5th of June 1649.-His debentures, so far as we can discover, were value for only £267 2s. 4d. -Irish Record Commission Reports, vol iii., p. 295.
15 Well-bred man.-Lieutenant Robert Montgomery’s arrears of pay, amounting to £5O3 8s. 8d., were secured by a grant from the savings made out for him and others, in the name of William Montgomery, the author.-Irish Record Commissions Reports, vol iii, p. 306. This Lieutenant Robert Montgomery had the honour of bearing the standard at the funeral of the first viscount in 1636. See p. 134, note 33, supra.
16 Carrickmacross. -The Rev. Andrew Montgomery, A.M., was admitted vicar of Maghe Rosse, or Carrickmacross, in the year i68o. He rebuilt the glebe house at Derryolim, as appears by a mutilated inscription found there in 1841. The old church of Maghe Ross was rebuilt in 1779. In the interior of its old tower is the following inscription, engraved on stone, with the crests of Barton, Hill, Montgomery, and a bishop’s mitre -
“THIS CHURCH WAS RUINED IN THE REVOLUTION OF 1641,
AND REBUILT IN THE YEAR 1682,
AT THE EXPENSE OF THE REV. DR. ROGER
BOYLE OF CLOGHER, WILLIAM BARTON ESQR.
ROBERT HILL, ESQR,
AND ANDREW MONTGOMERY VICAR OF THIS PARISH.
The area of the old church contains, among other sepalchral inscriptions, the following:
Arms. In a lozenge, quarterly, 1 and 4. Three fleur de lis or Montgomery. 2 and 3, G. Three rings or, gemmed az. Eglinton.
“HERE LIETH THE BODY
OF MRS. ELIZABETH MONTGO
MERY DAUGHTER OF MR
ANDREW MONTGOMERY
MINISTER OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 9TH DAY OF JUNE THE
TWENTY THIRD YEAR OF HER
AGE AND OF OUR LORD. 1726.”
Among the church plate belonging to Carrickmacross is a small, silver cup, with the following inscription: ”Tbe Gift of the Reverend Mr. Andrew Montgomery to the Parish of Magheross for ye use of ye sick.” Arms. Montgomery, impaling three unicorns’ heads, a mullet for difference. This clergyman was also admitted as vicar of the Parish of Magheracloone, in 1692. as appears from the registry of the bishop of Clogher. It is curious that a Nicholas Montgomery, A.M., a kinsman, no doubt, immediately preceded him in both charges, which he had held from the year 1664. In 1702, an Andrew Montgomery, probably the minister above-mentioned, was admitted rector of Killanny parish, which extends into the counties of Louth and Monaghan.-Shirley’s Account of Farney, pl 163, 164, 171, 172, 173.
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THE MONTGOMERY MANUSCRIPTS.
Hugh ye father of this Nich: was in esteem with our firstViscount,as being come of Braidstane,17 and his coat Armoriall (which I caused to be engraven on a silver penner, and bestowed to ye good Mr Nich: as he bad given a yonge mare for breed to my Son) is the same with ye bearimg of the old lairds of Braidstane with a distinction of a Cadet, but ye kindred I know not, ye coat is ye same with Bp: Geo: Sir Tho: montg:18 and Gransheoghs.
This last Hugh the Ancestor used to make presents to ye said two Viscounts of fine colts or fillys, haveing had, (as his posterity still retain) a good breed of that sort and other Catall, he is mentioned p.54 as planted at derrybrosk aforsaid.
Sir Ja: montg : when he courted his 2nd lady (margarit Sir Wm Coles19 daughter) stayd severall nights in this Hugh’s house, and ye morning he was Bridesgroom, went from thence, being attended by him and many Montg: (his tenents all well mounted) of which Surname I saw neare one hundred liveing within the 12 tates20 of Derrybrosk (the second Mr Nich: his land from ye church) when I was ther: looking for a troublesom reprizall.21
Our present Hugh aforesaid is marryed to a beutifull granddaughter and heiress to Sir Jo:
Durnbarr,22 and his estate, whereof Derrygonnelly is ye chief mansion place, besides with he hath his fathers, and his own purchases.
I was in A° i696 three nights in his new house (for ye old walls are not rebuilt) it is a pleasant seate, a River Running by it, within half a muskett shott, and thereon a corn and a tuck mill, in with
one may walk dry in slippers, he hath a pretty garden, and a plantation of fruite trees, there to also a pretty litle chappell opposite to the house door, about nine score yards from it [to wch one may goe dry in like maner) built and endowed by Sir Jo: Dunbarr aforesaid, for a deacon to reap prayers, homilys, or preach in, when the weather is badd.
I saw a rarity at that house, to witt a two edged sword of excellent metall, [which this Hugh never caused to be made) but had it [I have forgott what he told mee thereof] in ye late warr about Enniskillen. I am of ye opinion there is no smith in Ireland can forge so good a blade: Or I saw it severly tryed.
The sword is inscribed on ye right hand side of the blade thus
Robertus Bruschius } { pro christo } D : ER
Scotorum Rex } i3io & on ye reverse side { et Patria. }
17 Braidstane-Hugh, the founder of the Derrygonnelly branch, is supposed to have been a younger son of the fourth laird of Braidstane.
18 Tho : montg : This Thomas permanently settled in the county of Leitrim, and was of the Braidstane branch also. In 1617, a Thomas Montgomery, then of Carrickfergus, received a grant of denization
19 Sir W. Cole.-See p. 157, supra.
20 12 tates. The Tate, or Tathe, was the land measure best known in the county of Fermanagh. It contained about thirty acres. Of forfeited lands there were in the county of Fermanagh 1070 tates, or 33,437 acres.
21 Troublesome reprizall-William Montgomery, the author, obtained among other latds, to satisify his debentures, 741a. 3r. 33p. in the county of Fermanagh, one of the denominations being Lisderney, alias, Montgomerystown.-Irish Record Commission Reports, vol iii., p. 170.
22 Dumbarr. Sir John Dunbar was an undertaker of lands in Fermanagh to the extent of 1,000 acres, called Drumere, where he built a bawne of stone and lime 8o feet in length, 45 in breadth, and 14 in height. In the time of Pynnar’s visit, in i6i8, the whole family of John Dunbar resided on this property, and also the families of nine tenants, two of whom had freeholds, and the others held leases of their lands. Pynnar’s Surrey in Harris’s Hibernica, p. 172. In, or about the year 1620, sir John Dunbar was high sheriff of Fermanagh. See The Spottiswood Miscellany, vol. i., pp. 19, 20.
Husband Lieut. Colonel Hugh Montgomery Of Bathlesson
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--Invalid Dates Birth: WFT Est. 1864-1899 Death: WFT Est. 1890-1978
General Notes: Wife - Ida Montgomery
--Invalid Dates Birth: WFT Est. 1873-1900 Death: WFT Est. 1890-1983
Husband Jack Montgomery
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--Invalid Dates Birth: WFT Est. 1873-1900 Death: WFT Est. 1894-1980
General Notes: Wife - Ruby Pettus
--Invalid Dates Birth: WFT Est. 1873-1907 Death: WFT Est. 1894-1988
Husband James Montgomery
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1 M William R. Montgomery Brig Gen Vol. Usarmy
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2 M John Montgomery
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Husband James Montgomery
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1 M Thomas Jefferson Montgomery
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Husband James Montgomery Of Pearston And Thirdpart
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1 M Patrick Montgomery Of Boartree Hill
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Mother: Hannah Mack
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1 M Warren Montgomery
Born: 1831
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2 M Lucius Montgomery
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Husband James Montgomery
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1 M Hugh Montgomery
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1 M Robert Montgomery Of Eglinton
Born: 1748
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2 M John Montgomery
Born: 1750
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3 M William Montgomery
Born: 1752
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4 M James Montgomery
Born: 1755
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5 M Joseph Montgomery
Born: 1758
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Removed to Philadelphia.
General Notes: Child - William Montgomery
Husband Sir James Montgomery Of Rosemont
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1 M William Montgomery Of Rosemont
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2 M George Montgomery
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3 M Francis Montgomery
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4 M James Montgomery
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5 M Hugh Montgomery
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6 M Thomas Montgomery
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Husband James Montgomery
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1 M Robert Montgomery
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2 M Alexander Montgomery
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3 M James Montgomery
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4 M William Montgomery
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5 M Burnet Montgomery
Born: 1756
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Husband James David Montgomery
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Mother: Anna May Nelius
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Husband Colonel James M. Montgomery Jr.
Born: December 22, 1814 - Austinburg, Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized: March 26, 1815 - Congregational Church, Austinburg Twsp, Ashtabula County, OH
Died: December 6, 1871 - Mound City, Linn County, KS
Buried: 1885 - National Cemetery, Mound City, KS
Father: Captain James Montgomery
Mother: Mary Polly Baldwin
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2 M Eli Montgomery
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3 M Davis Montgomery
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4 F Julia Montgomery
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5 M James Jr. Montgomery
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Colonel James Montgomery, Jr., of Kansas celebrity. The famed "guerilla chieftan", the "fighting preacher". He also commanded the Union Army in Florida during the Civil War.
THE MARAIS DES CYGNES MASSACRE
The Marais des Cygnes massacre occurred on the 19th of May, 1858. It was the most brutal and inexcusable of all the outrages committed in Kansas by the Border-Ruffians. It was planned and carried out by one Charles A. Hamelton, who had lived, in 1857, in Linn County, three miles east of Trading Post. This point has already been noted in the early part of this work. A postoffice was established there in 1857, and called Blooming Grove. Hamelton was a well-to-do man, owned a number of slaves, was of an aristocratic and insolent bearing, and had come to Kansas to help make it a slave State. He was intolerant of the principles of his Free-State neighbors, and had little intercourse with them. On one occasion William Hairgrove, also from Georgia but a Free-State man, visited Hamelton, but was not received with that boasted Southern hospitality. Hamelton's nearest neighbor was "Broad Tom" Jackson, an aggressive, forceful, Pro-Slavery man. Hamelton had two brothers in Kansas at that time. One was a physician at Fort Scott, another, a young man, Algernon S. Hamelton, studied law with Judge Barlow at Paris, a town near the present Mound City.
The disturbances in Linn County began in a small way in 1855, but nothing of note occurred until the following year. In the fall of 1856, George W. Clarke led in about four hundred Missourians. This was the same Clarke who claimed to have murdered Barber in the Wakarusa War. He led his band of Border-Ruffians to the town of Paris, which was a Pro-Slavery settlement. There he received some recruits, after which he went to Sugar Mound. Arriving there they robbed the house of Ebenezer Barnes, and looted his store and the postoffice. After committing these outrages, the Ruffians broke up into small bands and raided the settlement, burned some houses and committed other depredations, after which they returned to Missouri.
James Montgomery had recently settled in Linn County. He was born December 22, 1814, in Ashtabula County, Ohio. He was a cousin to General Richard Montgomery, who fell at the storming of Quebec. In 1837 he went to Kentucky where he engaged in teaching. In 1852 he went to Pike County, Missouri, intending to go on to Kansas when it was open for settlement. In July, 1854, he explored Bates County, Missouri, looking for a location, but was not satisfied with that country. He passed into Kansas and bought a claim near Mound City. He soon became prominent on the Free-State side, and opposed James P. Fox and other Pro-Slavery men. It was not long until he was the recognized leader of the Free-State forces in Southwestern Kansas.
Clarke's party had intended to murder Montgomery, but he escaped. He determined to bring at least some portion of this band to justice. He went to the house of Captain Burnett, in Missouri. Burnett was a member of Clarke's band, and had not yet returned. He was not acquainted with Montgomery and did not know the young man he found at his house. Montgomery pretended to be from New York, and desirous of finding employment as a teacher. Burnett found him a school in his neighborhood. Montgomery taught two weeks, living at Burnett's house. In the meantime he learned the identity of many of Clarke's men. He then returned home and raised a company of seven Free-State men. He led this party to the vicinity of Burnett's house, and went into a secret camp in the timber. He disguised two of his men as Indians and had them ride over the neighborhood. Seeing them, the Missourians supposed the Miami Indians were coming in to steal horses. To take steps to protect themselves from this supposed band of predatory Indians, the neighbors met at Burnett's house, on an appointed day. Montgomery took possession of the house at dark. When a Missourian would approach, Montgomery's men would make him prisoner, disarm him and secure his horse. Burnett was treated in this way upon his arrival, having been absent from home. The guns taken from these Missourians were broken. Montgomery took $250 in money and eleven horses from the men who had thus assembled, and returned to Linn County. Montgomery justified his course on the ground that he had only secured from Clarke's raiders an equivalent for what had been destroyed by them and stolen in his immediate neighborhood. And, further, that the horses and money were given to those who had suffered losses at the hands of these raiders.
The Free-State men soon began to return and re-occupy their claims. Very little occurred about Trading Post of enough importance to be mentioned in connection with the other troubles of the border until the spring of 1858. Many of the leaders of the Border-Ruffians, had by that time been forced to leave Leavenworth, Atchison, and other places, by the triumph of the Free-State men. The Border-Ruffians east of Trading Post became threatening as early as April, 1858. The Free-State men organized a militia company, of which Mr. Tucker was Captain and James M. Sayre, Lieutenant. They armed themselves and stood ready to meet Clarke's Ruffians, whom they expected to appear at any time. The anticipated trouble did not materialize, and the company discontinued their daily meetings, to drill, on the 17th of May. William Allen of this company was acting in the capacity of spy, and he immediately disappeared when it was resolved to discontinue the daily drills. He was in possession of all the plans of the Free-State people, and these he revealed to Hamelton, who had, in the meantime, gone to live with Jerry Jackson, who had a store at West Point, in Missouri. Hamelton had left Kansas because of the increasing strength of the Free-State men, who had been constantly coming in and settling in his neighborhood. On the 18th of May, Hamelton addressed the Ruffians assembled at Jackson's store, and called for volunteers to go with him "down in the valley to attend to some devils down there." He made it plain that he wanted only men who would obey orders. That night a number of Border-Ruffians assembled at Jackson's store. They were led southward by Hamelton, who refused to reveal to Jackson his true intentions.
The 19th of May was a beautiful, clear, warm day. The settlers were at work in the fields. At nine o'clock Hamelton, with thirty-two men, crossed the Marais des Cygnes at Trading Post, coming from the south. They were heavily armed, boisterous, and abusive. They assembled at a saw-mill which was in process of construction, where they made prisoners of the workmen. From the mill they went to the post-building, then in charge of John F. Campbell, whom they made prisoner. Failing to find any other Free-State men at Trading Post, they marched north on the old military road to a point between Timbered Mound and Prairie Mound. Here they released all the prisoners except Campbell. They drove him before them to the house of Samuel Nickel. Here Hamelton dismounted, and, with a revolver in each hand, went into the house and found Mrs. Nickel sewing. Mr. Nickel was fortunately away from home, but Hamelton refused to believe this when Mrs. Nickel so informed him. A search of the house was made. One of the Ruffians, in climbing into the loft, knocked a heavy clock from its shelf. This clock fell on the baby, which was lying in a cradle. When Mrs. Nickel screamed in alarm, Aaron Cordell, one of the Ruffians, shoved his revolver against her and exclaimed, "Howl, damn you, howl!"
Husband William Smith
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Born: May 10, 1771 - Francestown, NH
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Husband Stephen Richardson 1
Born: 1705 - Londonderry, Ireland
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Mother: Bridget
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Born: 1707 - , Londonderry, , Ireland
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Died: 1747 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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1 M James Richardson
Born: - Londonderry, Ireland
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Spouse: Rachel Gott
Marr: Gloucester, MA
2 M Thomas Richardson
Born: August 26, 1739 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
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Died: February 17, 1813 - Mount Desert, Hancock, ME
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Spouse: Margaret Gott
Marr: November 23, 1763 - Gloucester, Essex, MA
3 M Elijiah Richardson
Born: May 4, 1741 - Stoneham, Middlesex, MA
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Marr: November 8, 1764
4 M Stephen Richardson 1 2
Born: October 23, 1738 - At Sea.
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Spouse: Elizabeth Gott 1 3 4
Marr: March 11, 1762 - Gloucester, MA Per S.E.
General Notes: Husband - Stephen Richardson
Stephen and Jane came to America from Londonderry Ireland in 1783 & settled in Glouchester, MA
General Notes: Child - James Richardson
James & Rachel moved from Gloucester, MA to Mt Desert in the summer of 1762 and settled at Richard's Cove, being the 2nd family mentioned by governor Bernard as settled "at the head of the river".
James was the 1st clerk of the plantation & town clerk for many years. he & Rachel were original memebers of the Church of Christ (1st Church), mt Desert, which was organized 10/17/1792. He was also at one time clerk of the church.
General Notes: Child - Thomas Richardson
About 1762 Thomas and his family moved from gloucester, Ma to Mount Desert. He and his family settled on the east side on Bass Harbor.
Thomas was a member of the first Committee of Correspondence in the plantation. He served in the Revolutionary war being a sergeant in Capt, Daniel Sullivan's company, col Benjamin foster's (Lincoln count) reginment and dishcard Sept 21, 1777, having servied eighteen days, this company was called out three times for service at Machias, ME. He was a member of the committe which was appointed to run the boudary between the Bernard and DeGregoire grants, and also one of the first slectment of Mount Desert. The Church of Christ (First Chruch), of Mount Desert, was organized Oct 17, 1792. Thomas and Margaret being among its origianl members.
General Notes: Child - Stephen Richardson
Stephen and his family moved form gloucester, MA to Mount Desert, about 1765, and settled on what is now known as Crockett's Point, on the west side of Bass Harbor.
At the first meeting of the plantation, which was held at his house, march 30, 1776, Stephen was elect a member of the Committe of Correspondence, Safety, and Inspeciton; he represented the plantation in General Court; and he was a member of the first board of selectmen of Mount Desert.
Husband John George Morgan
Born: October 3, 1852 - Guysborough, Nova Scotia
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Mother: Jane Nora Barss
Marriage: December 11, 1888
Other Spouse: Rachel Palmer - 1875
Other Spouse: Elizabeth Barss - 1882
Wife Jane Montgomery
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John and Elizabeth had 3 children
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Born: 1730 - Londonderry, Rockingham, NH
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Husband John Montgomery In Trinidad
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2 M Wiliam E. Montgomery In Santa Cruz
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3 M Adam Montgomery
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4 M Robert Montgomery
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5 M John Montgomery In Trinidad
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6 M Hugh Montgomery
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7 M Patrick Montgomery Of Clune Park
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Husband John Montgomery
Born: 1776 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
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Wife Rhoda Norton
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1799 - Went to Ohio with father Robert and brother Levi.
Lived Conneaut, Madison or Harpersield.
Richmond Township, 1828.
Husband John Montgomery
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1 M Austin Montgomery
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2 M Reverend James Montgomery D.D.
Born: 1787
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3 M John C. Montgomery
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Husband John Montgomery Of Blackouse And Drummere
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Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Patrick Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died: 1629
Buried:
Husband John Montgomery In Trinidad
Born:
Baptized:
Died: 1836
Buried:
Father: John Montgomery In Trinidad
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Hugh E. Montgomery In Montreal
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband John Montgomery
Born: 1645 - Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Hugh Montgomery 3rd Viscount Of The Ards, 1St Earl Of Mount Alexan
Mother: Mary Moore
Marriage: 1658
Wife Isabella Shaw
Born: - County Londonderry, Ireland
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Shaw
Mother: Ealoner Agnew
Children
1 M Hugh Montgomery
Born: 1659 - Aghadowey, County Londonderry, Ireland
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
2 M Robert Montgomery
Born: - Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Baptized: - Aghadowey Presbyterian Church, Londonderry, Ireland
Died: - Londonderry, Windham, VT
Buried: - Londonderry, Windham, VT
Spouse: Mary McCullom
3 M William Montgomery
Born: 1661 - Aghadowey, County Londonderry, Ireland
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes: Husband - John Montgomery
A John Montgomery is listed as, "Tenant, year 1725, at Bwalla O'Cahane, along with Robt. McCleeve, John Dodd, Thomas Fullerton, Widow McBride", in "Pikes's Survey for Aghadowey Parish", from the book, "Aghadowey", by Rev. Thomas H. Mullin, Belfast: Century Services, 1972.
From the genealogy files of Bertha L. Montgomery, (James b 1865, Warren b 1831, James b 1796, Hugh b 1752, Hugh b 1726, Hugh b 1689, Robert b 1658, John b 1645):
"John, son of the Laird of Braidstane, Ayshire, and nephew of Sir Hugh Montgomery, of Ards, County Down, married Isabella, daughter of John Shaw and Ealoner Agnew, his wife, of Ballygelly Castle. John Shaw was son of James Shaw and Isabella Brisbane, and grandson of James Shaw and his wife, Margaret McQuillan, only child of James McQuillan, last Irish Chief of that name, and of Margaret De Bisset, his wife, last of the line of DeBissetts of the Glens of Antrim."
From, "The people who stayed at home in Ulster":
This kind of detail from a family's history, which allows us to make contact with an ancestor's personality, just as much as the information about shared more remote ancestors and as well as the information about what happened in subsequent generations to the emigrants from Ulster, is a great resource for family historians in the north of Ireland, since most if not all has been lost to memory in Ireland. Making contact with longlost relatives in America, or even just reading about them, can begin to heal wounds that those of us who live in Ulster in the present day often do not realize that our society has suffered throughout its history. Generation after generation after generation, ever since 1718, parents in Ireland have reared children and have had to part with them; people have said goodbye to friends and kinsfolk, and never knew what happened to them. It is hard to imagine the scale of loss and disruption of relationships. People who sat beside our ancestors in church, or who had worked alongside them in the fields, just vanished from view; it was almost like the results of losing people by death. The people who stayed in Ulster, in any generation between 1718 and 1950 may have had to adjust, over the course of their lives, to the absence of three quarters of the people with whom they had been in significant relationships in earlier life.
Dr. Linde Lunney, Royal Irish Academy
Regarding the connection of this John Montgomery to Hugh, Earl of Mount Alexander, etc., the following is provided regarding "Inferiour Montgomerys":
From, THE MONTGOMERY MANUSCRIPTS, (1608-1706), Compiled from Family Papers, by William Montgomery of Rosemount, Esquire, and Edited With Notes, by Rev. George Hill, Vol. 1, Belfast, Archer and Sons, 10 Wellington Place. MDCCCLXIX
Chapter XXIII, Pages 385-389:
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CHAPTER XXIII.
OTHER MONTGOMERYS.
NOW having mentioned our 6th Laird of Braidstane & his offspring with two cadets of former lairds of Braidstane: viz. Thomas of Blackstoun1 and Gransheogh2; & two other familys, viz. Creboy3 & Bailymagouns all Montgomerys, & being his next relations, I will not forget (nor suffer to be buried in oblivion) our forenamed serjant & his Posterity: because of his good service done to ye sd sixt laird, my venerable grandfather.
You have heard he was called Robert Montgomery4, & that he was a chief Instrument in ye sd Laird’s Escape, & that he brought his dutch wife with him. Them ye sd Laird entertained at Braidstane, until his plantation in Ireland, that he brought them over & settled them in ye lands of upper Cuningburn5 in the Great Ards (so called from the multitude of Coneys or Rabits that were in the banks of the said Bourn or brook); in fee farm, under a small chief rent. The deed was only written in paper (as Scotish instruments of that nature comonly are), & not registered or renewed, but was observed inviolate by all the three first Lords.
The deed had an Endorsment, every word written & signed by the said Laird (then Visc4), whth I have read, & it was (as neare as I can remember) in the following terms, viz.
I do hereby heartily recomend ye within named Robt Montgomery, & all his posterity heires males, to ye favour of my son Hugh, & to all his descending heirs, leaving unto them all (who shall be kind to him & them) my blessing on that Account, as a memorandum of my good will and respect to ye said Robt & his dutch wife, who under God wrought my delivery out of the Marshallsea in the Hague6.
Yet notwithstanding all this care & kindness of the sd first three Lords, in the minority of this present Earle, & unknown to him & his nearest relations of kindred, the said deed of fee farm, so indorsed, was fraudently got out of the said Rob’ his 2nd wifes hands when she was his widdow, had his daughter & two sonns to maintaine all under ninteen yeares of Age.
William, ye the eldest son, served mee some years at Rosemount, and went into Scotland & died unmarryed, he was a propper young man & had expectations there.
1 Blackstoun.-See pp. a6, 28, iz6, supra.
2 Gransheogh.-See pp. 356-362, supra.
3 Creboy.-See pp. 2g, 52, note 25, supra. Thomas H. Montgomery in his Genealogical History, represents both
Creboy and Gransheogh as descended from the two younger sons of Adam, fourth laird, which, if so would make this
Patrick of Creboy first cousin of John of Gransheogh and of sir Hugh the first viscount. But although the author of
the Montgomery Manuscripts designates John of Gransheogh as the first cousin of the first viscount (Narrative of Gransheo, p. 357, supra), he nowhere calls Patrick of Creboy cousin of the first viscount, but only brother-in-law (see p. 52, supra), nor does he ever speak of Creboy and Gransheogh as cousins-german.
4 Robert Montgomery.-See p.1, supra.
5 Cuningburn. - The name of a townland in the parish of Newtownards. See p.373 supra.
6 In the Hague.-See p. 12-15, supra.
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Henry, the 2d son in A° 1689, I saw him Quartermaster in ye Earls of Eglintons troop, he is marryed & well setled.
The daughter was marryed to one maxwell, for whom I took paines & was at expense to rid him out of troubles, for Roberts sake.
This memoir I think due to Roberts fidelity, & service to my grandfather, he generously foregoing his halbert, his Pay and ye arrears thereof, & hazarding his life, for love of a gentlman of his surname, then in distress; on what account is before related.
Other Montgomerys.
Many Inferiour Montgomerys came over7 & had mortgages some of fifty, some of one hundred pounds sterling on single townlands, paying a small chiefry and the tyth (with ecclesiastical right, our first lord did not, nor would ascertain, the most of his lands belonged to Abbeys and Pryorys, and so might have disposed of them) for Instance
Montgomery of Ballyhenny8 in Newtoun parish, had one thousand merks Scotesh mony on ye town called B:heft9; & payd but one shill rent per annum, but when hee (and I believe also his son) was dead, a favorit of another name, since ye restauration, had ye redemption of the mortgage given him by ye Lord, it came to fifty pounds 13sh and 04 as I thinke & he had above 20lb sterling yearly out of it.
Item John Montgomery of B:volly (the son of one of the first planters) was remooved out f his houlding (his fathers originall mortgage mony being given him) so he was forced to remoove & take a farm in ye north west of Ireland, by which change he lost, and ye incomer gained a yearly income, for by a law made in King Char : ye martirs reigne, any mortgaged Lands, which yeelded more than 10th per cent., all ye overplus rent might be counted up as paymt in part (pro tanto) of the original mortgage mony,
I incert these two names onely to show that there were substantiall montgomerys (besides the aforenamed) who came over as planters, besides Artificers & yeoman, & those whom (to avoid ostentation) I name not: some of whose Posterity, in newton parish and near it, are thriveing farmers, and well to pass.
Now that I have related most I had to say of our 6th Laird and his three Sonns Hugh, James & George & of his two Daughters, and also have written of ye 2nd Viscounts children, Elizabeth, James, and Hugh, ye 3rd Visc’t and first Earle of Mount Alexander and of his offspring, Jean, Henry, Katherin, Elizabeth, & of Hugh, ye 4th Viscount & 2nd Earle now liveing.
It may be alleadged that I have Acted ye Panegyrist, and not noted their Imperfections and
faults (which in any man is seldom overweiched by his vertues) & so I must, or shall, be called too
favorably Partiall to ye stock from whence I am sprung, & to my fellow branches & nighbours.
7 Montgomerys came over.-The following persons of this surname received grants of denization in 1617:- John Montgomery of Ballimacrosse, Robert and William Montgomery of Donoghdie, Thomas Montgomery of Knockfergus, John Montgomery of Redene, Matthew Montgomery of Donoghdie, Robert Montgomery of Edenacanany, Robert Montgomery of Moneyglasse (now the Glass Moss), and John Montgomery of Ballymagorrie.-Calendar Patent Rolls, James I., pp. 326, 339.
8 Ballyhenny.-This is a misprint for Ballyhenry, the name of a townland in the parish of Newtownards. Hugh Montgomery of Ballyhenry was present at the funeral of the first earl in 1663. See p. 250 supra.
9 Balleyheft.-Now Ballyhaft; this is also a townland in the parish of Newtonards.
9 B:volly.-This is a misprint for Ballyrolley. a town- land in the parish of Donaghadee. John Montgomery of Bellie Rollie was requested by Hugh Nevin to assist in carrying out the provisions of his will. See p. note 41, supra.
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Therefor as to this Impeachmt I shall so farr defend my self & Reputation, as to Answe thus, viz.
Impr if I saw my forefathers, or Relations, or Christian Nighbors nakedness or infirmitys, I should (according to my duty & Love) cover them as Sem and Japhet did, rather than deride them as Cham did Noahs, for which, his posterity Cainan was accursed.
Item it is a Maxim and Axiom in my books viz. De mortuis nil nisi bonum de absentibus nil nisi verum, & the Trueth, (especially ye whole trueth) should not be told in all times and places, where it may be scandalum acceptum; tho non datum: except when upon Oath before a Magistrate.
Item it is agt the designe of this natrative which is (not to speak evill of any man but) to shew ye good Acts and qualifications of those Montgomerys I have named; thereby to stirr up Posterity to imitate their vertuous Examples:
But to come nearer the answer to ye objection, I protest ye Imitation of posterity is ye chief end of my writeing.
2nd to shew my gratitude to those I ow it, or to their children.
3rd to be an example that others after mee may begin where I leave off, & so continue ye memoriall of our honorable family, better than I have done, or could doe (not haveing adverted and begun sooner) for times past, & always to reguard trueth, as I have laboured and studdyed to doe.
But 4thly to come up closer to ye objectors (if any bee) I must tell them, that wee should doe to all men as wee would they should doe towards us: & that I believe they doe not desire their own sores (old or new) should be scarifyed or ripped open to view, but rather carefully plaistered and concealed.
And 5thly (to speak to ye subject matter of ye objection) I again protest, I have written without Bribe, or any expectation of Reward, & without varying from the trueth, either to the right or Left hand (that I know off but have pursued the straight Roade of Duty; which I conceived I owed to my family, nighbours and acquaintances of the surname of Montgomery: God haveing given mee ability and leizure to performe as I have done.
I confess no flesh is faultless, nor myself (perhapps) in point of time, which I could not exactly know, for want of Records thereof, but that those I write of were naturally or habitually vicious, or were cursers, swearers, lyars, gamesters (at cards or dice etc.) simulators (alias dicti, hypocrites) Idolaters, drunkards, gluttons, whoremongers (abusers of themselves with man or beast) manquellers (i.e. homicides) or suicides, proud, disloyall to the Crown, oppressors, cheaters, or any ways wickedly profane, or presumptuous, and customary sinners, I utterly deny it, in Thes: and on the faith of an honest Christian, I believe as I now write, and I never did reade or learne to the contrary. Yet for, and after all this; All of them had some faults rather to be termed omissions than comissions, their greatest & most frequent infirmity was to think men honest who professed sincerity and trueth, & therefore they sometimes trusted before they tryed; and were often more Generous than was needfull; and I know for certain, divers of them were imposed upon, cheated and ill rewarded, after protestations, and oaths of sincerity, fidelity, and kindness given to them: beyond which, no man can expect assurance without hostages.
I haveing in this appollogy sufficiently provided against asspertions of my foregoing writeings, I shall now relate concerning other Montgomerys, for whom there can be no cause of suspicion.
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The first I name is Hugh Montgomeiy of Derrygonnelly10, where he lives gentily, within ten miles of Enniskillen; He is a Justice of Peace, and was a Capt of hors when ye fermanagh men defended that town & County from Justin McCarty11 comander of ye Irish, A° 1689.
Hee is the eldest son of Mr Nicholas Montgomery of Derrybrosk12 (near the said town) who was Lt in Sir Ja. Montg: Regimt after he was driven to flee for his life from ye Irish in A° 1641. This Mr Nicholas is aged 84 yeares, and was made Mr of Arts in Glasgow, and his father was Mr Hugh Montg: whom our BP Geo setled there13, and made him receaver of his Rents, in that part of Clogher Dyoces. This Hugh dyed befor that ye rebellion broke out A° 1641.
This Nicholas had debentures in Irelland for service before the 5th of June 1649.14
Robert his 2d son is a Lt in the Army and lives unmarryed with his father, he hath a good fortune, and is a proper well-bred man.15
Andrew his third Son is a good preacher, hath wife and children and a good liveing and stock at Carrickmacross16, he is well Loved and in great respect.
10 Of Derrygonnelly.-This gentleman is styled captain Hugh Montgomery in Hamilton’s Actions of the Enniskillen Men, p. 23; and also in McCormick’s Further Account of the Actions of the Enniskillen Men, pp. 34, 53. This Hugh Montgomery signed the memorable Declaration issued by the council of war held at Londonderry, on the 13th of April, 1689, requiring all who were able and willing to fight for their “country and religion to assemble at Clady-Ford, Lifford, and Long Cassiway, bringing a week’s provision themselves, and as much forage as they can for horses.”
11 Justin McCarty. -This was an experienced officer in the army of James II. In May, 1689, he was created viscount Mountcashel, and appointed Commander of the forces intended to reduce Enniskillen. Against the gallant defenders of that town, Mountcashel led three regiments of infantry and two of dragoons. In a battle near Newtown Butler, this force was almost annihilated, and its commander wounded and carried by the victorious Enniskilleners into the town, where he lay helpless, but carefully tended, for a long time. So soon as he had regained sufficient strength to attempt an escape, he laid his plans for this purpose, and succeeded. In Storey’s Impartial History, part i., p 51, there is the following brief account of this affair:-“The town of Enniskillen stands upon a lough, and the water came to the door of the house where he was confined, or very near it. He found means to corrupt a servant, and to get two small boats, called ‘cots,’ to carry him and his best moveables off by night.” He made his escape to the Continent, and died in 1694, at Barege, from the effect of wounds received at the battle of Chantilly in 1691.-D’Alton’s King James Irish Army List, pp. 490, 494.
12 Of Derrybrosk.-See p. 99, supra.
13 Bp Geo. Setled there.-See pp. 99-101, supra.
14 5th of June 1649.-His debentures, so far as we can discover, were value for only £267 2s. 4d. -Irish Record Commission Reports, vol iii., p. 295.
15 Well-bred man.-Lieutenant Robert Montgomery’s arrears of pay, amounting to £5O3 8s. 8d., were secured by a grant from the savings made out for him and others, in the name of William Montgomery, the author.-Irish Record Commissions Reports, vol iii, p. 306. This Lieutenant Robert Montgomery had the honour of bearing the standard at the funeral of the first viscount in 1636. See p. 134, note 33, supra.
16 Carrickmacross. -The Rev. Andrew Montgomery, A.M., was admitted vicar of Maghe Rosse, or Carrickmacross, in the year i68o. He rebuilt the glebe house at Derryolim, as appears by a mutilated inscription found there in 1841. The old church of Maghe Ross was rebuilt in 1779. In the interior of its old tower is the following inscription, engraved on stone, with the crests of Barton, Hill, Montgomery, and a bishop’s mitre -
“THIS CHURCH WAS RUINED IN THE REVOLUTION OF 1641,
AND REBUILT IN THE YEAR 1682,
AT THE EXPENSE OF THE REV. DR. ROGER
BOYLE OF CLOGHER, WILLIAM BARTON ESQR.
ROBERT HILL, ESQR,
AND ANDREW MONTGOMERY VICAR OF THIS PARISH.
The area of the old church contains, among other sepalchral inscriptions, the following:
Arms. In a lozenge, quarterly, 1 and 4. Three fleur de lis or Montgomery. 2 and 3, G. Three rings or, gemmed az. Eglinton.
“HERE LIETH THE BODY
OF MRS. ELIZABETH MONTGO
MERY DAUGHTER OF MR
ANDREW MONTGOMERY
MINISTER OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 9TH DAY OF JUNE THE
TWENTY THIRD YEAR OF HER
AGE AND OF OUR LORD. 1726.”
Among the church plate belonging to Carrickmacross is a small, silver cup, with the following inscription: ”Tbe Gift of the Reverend Mr. Andrew Montgomery to the Parish of Magheross for ye use of ye sick.” Arms. Montgomery, impaling three unicorns’ heads, a mullet for difference. This clergyman was also admitted as vicar of the Parish of Magheracloone, in 1692. as appears from the registry of the bishop of Clogher. It is curious that a Nicholas Montgomery, A.M., a kinsman, no doubt, immediately preceded him in both charges, which he had held from the year 1664. In 1702, an Andrew Montgomery, probably the minister above-mentioned, was admitted rector of Killanny parish, which extends into the counties of Louth and Monaghan.-Shirley’s Account of Farney, pl 163, 164, 171, 172, 173.
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Hugh ye father of this Nich: was in esteem with our firstViscount,as being come of Braidstane,17 and his coat Armoriall (which I caused to be engraven on a silver penner, and bestowed to ye good Mr Nich: as he bad given a yonge mare for breed to my Son) is the same with ye bearimg of the old lairds of Braidstane with a distinction of a Cadet, but ye kindred I know not, ye coat is ye same with Bp: Geo: Sir Tho: montg:18 and Gransheoghs.
This last Hugh the Ancestor used to make presents to ye said two Viscounts of fine colts or fillys, haveing had, (as his posterity still retain) a good breed of that sort and other Catall, he is mentioned p.54 as planted at derrybrosk aforsaid.
Sir Ja: montg : when he courted his 2nd lady (margarit Sir Wm Coles19 daughter) stayd severall nights in this Hugh’s house, and ye morning he was Bridesgroom, went from thence, being attended by him and many Montg: (his tenents all well mounted) of which Surname I saw neare one hundred liveing within the 12 tates20 of Derrybrosk (the second Mr Nich: his land from ye church) when I was ther: looking for a troublesom reprizall.21
Our present Hugh aforesaid is marryed to a beutifull granddaughter and heiress to Sir Jo:
Durnbarr,22 and his estate, whereof Derrygonnelly is ye chief mansion place, besides with he hath his fathers, and his own purchases.
I was in A° i696 three nights in his new house (for ye old walls are not rebuilt) it is a pleasant seate, a River Running by it, within half a muskett shott, and thereon a corn and a tuck mill, in with
one may walk dry in slippers, he hath a pretty garden, and a plantation of fruite trees, there to also a pretty litle chappell opposite to the house door, about nine score yards from it [to wch one may goe dry in like maner) built and endowed by Sir Jo: Dunbarr aforesaid, for a deacon to reap prayers, homilys, or preach in, when the weather is badd.
I saw a rarity at that house, to witt a two edged sword of excellent metall, [which this Hugh never caused to be made) but had it [I have forgott what he told mee thereof] in ye late warr about Enniskillen. I am of ye opinion there is no smith in Ireland can forge so good a blade: Or I saw it severly tryed.
The sword is inscribed on ye right hand side of the blade thus
Robertus Bruschius } { pro christo } D : ER
Scotorum Rex } i3io & on ye reverse side { et Patria. }
17 Braidstane-Hugh, the founder of the Derrygonnelly branch, is supposed to have been a younger son of the fourth laird of Braidstane.
18 Tho : montg : This Thomas permanently settled in the county of Leitrim, and was of the Braidstane branch also. In 1617, a Thomas Montgomery, then of Carrickfergus, received a grant of denization
19 Sir W. Cole.-See p. 157, supra.
20 12 tates. The Tate, or Tathe, was the land measure best known in the county of Fermanagh. It contained about thirty acres. Of forfeited lands there were in the county of Fermanagh 1070 tates, or 33,437 acres.
21 Troublesome reprizall-William Montgomery, the author, obtained among other latds, to satisify his debentures, 741a. 3r. 33p. in the county of Fermanagh, one of the denominations being Lisderney, alias, Montgomerystown.-Irish Record Commission Reports, vol iii., p. 170.
22 Dumbarr. Sir John Dunbar was an undertaker of lands in Fermanagh to the extent of 1,000 acres, called Drumere, where he built a bawne of stone and lime 8o feet in length, 45 in breadth, and 14 in height. In the time of Pynnar’s visit, in i6i8, the whole family of John Dunbar resided on this property, and also the families of nine tenants, two of whom had freeholds, and the others held leases of their lands. Pynnar’s Surrey in Harris’s Hibernica, p. 172. In, or about the year 1620, sir John Dunbar was high sheriff of Fermanagh. See The Spottiswood Miscellany, vol. i., pp. 19, 20.
General Notes: Child - Robert Montgomery
Migrated with his sons, William, Robert and Hugh and surely other family members and children to America in 1718, himself eventually settling in Vermont.
GONE TO AMERICA
by David Christy
They came to this nation’s shores in five great waves, these Scottish-Irish immigrants who would so influence the very burr and fabric of earlyday America.
There’s no special song to them, they didn’t bring the Irish jig or the Highland fling. They didn’t infuse America’s largest cities with their presence. However, this nation is here in large measure because of them.
It’s my fervent view, backed by any number of other historians, the Scotch-Irish had as much or more to do with American independence from England as any immigrant nationality that set foot in the 13 Colonies.
The Scotch-Irish, or Ulster Irish as they correctly were identified, overwhelmingly were Protestant in faith, fiercely independent and had an intense and abiding hatred of the British. Let me say that again — intense hatred.
That animus in itself helped propel the American Colonies into the Revolutionary War in 1775, and it helped sustain the war effort for a number of years even as the great democratic revolution floundered against the predominant military and economic power on earth at the time.
Our history books said colonists disliked taxation, no representation and restraint on trade from their English overseer. But give me hatred every time in a revolution.
So, who were these Ulster Irish immigrants? From 1710 to 1775, upward of 200,000 came by ship from Ireland’s northern Ulster region to America, and another 100,000 emigrated from 1778 to 1812. The mass emigration of the heavily Catholic Irish to America’s ports didn’t occur until the 1840s and early 1850s, although large numbers of native-born Irish came to these shores as early as the 1600s.
Who were these Ulster Irish, these Scots in Irish clothing?
In future years they would become the famous: John Hancock, Andrew Jackson and Elvis Presley, Davy Crockett and Ulysses S. Grant, Neil Armstrong and George S. Patton.
However, in greatest numbers they were simple, hard-working, Presbyterian, fiercely independent, self-reliant people who wanted to own and work land and be free from the oppressive rule of England.
Overwhelmingly, their families all originated in Scotland. Beginning in 1606, the northernmost counties of Ireland were designated the Plantation of Ulster, where hundreds of thousands of lowland Scots emigrated to work the land as tenant farmers. They had come from the region of Scotland where centuries of conflict and war had occurred between the Scots and their English neighbors to the south, where contending armies had battled and devastated the livelihood of these people, always forcing them to look elsewhere to scrape out a living.
When the Anglican Church became the dominant state-sponsored religion in England, Scotland and Ireland, the heavily taxed Presbyterian Scots who had left for a new life in Ireland continually felt the weighty hand of English rule. In their churches, ministers were turned out of their pulpits and no longer allowed to sanctify marriage or teach children aspects of the Presbyterian faith.
Beginning in 1717, the first great emigrations of Ulster Scots to the New World began, as people increasingly looked west to a place where they could establish freedom to live as they chose and worship as they pleased — without England dictating at every turn.
As they boarded ships and came to America in droves throughout the 1700s, it was if England wanted to be done with this independent and troublesome group — and bade them good riddance.
It was a Herculean mistake on the part of England, for these Ulster Scots, these Scotch-Irish as we now call them, took decades of oppression and resentment with them to the Americas.
When the American Revolution began to take shape in the 1770s, the Ulster Scots, almost to every man, were there providing the backbone of the Continental Army.
As one Hessian officer fighting for the British put it, “Call this war by whatever name you may, only call it not an American rebellion; it is nothing more or less than a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian rebellion.”
Or a British general testifying to the House of Commons in London: “Half the rebel Continental Army were from Ireland.”
These Scotch-Irish misfits mostly landed in Pennsylvania, where they rapidly fanned out to the edges of the frontier in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, into the Carolinas and Georgia, and finally westward into Kentucky and Tennessee, making the Appalachian Mountains the barrier and bedrock of their small-farm domain. The rest is history.
I’m proud to say my four-great Christy grandparents were born in Ireland and were Ulster Irish farmers who sailed to America.
Americans everywhere today can thank the Ulster Irish for persevering through centuries of toil and tribulation, making their contribution one of the foremost cornerstones of American independence and democracy.
The Enid News and Eagle Fri Jan 14, 2011, 11:08 PM CST
Christy is news editor at the News & Eagle and can be reached at davidc@enidnews.com
Husband John Montgomery Of Barnahill R. N.
Born: 1723
Baptized:
Died: 1775
Buried:
Father: Robert Montgomery Heritor In Irvine
Mother:
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1 M Robert Montgomery Of Barnahill
Born: 1760
Baptized:
Died: 1825
Buried:
Husband John Montgomery Of Blackouse
Born:
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Died: 1650 - Killed At Dunbar
Buried:
Father: Patrick Montgomery
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1 M Patrick Montgomery Of Blackouse
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Husband John Montgomery Of Granshaugh
Born:
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Father: Robert Montgomery
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1 M Hugh Montgomery Of Mayhera
Born:
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Husband John Montgomery Of Thirdpart
Born:
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Died: 1720
Buried:
Father: Patrick Montgomery Of Blackouse
Mother:
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1 M Robert Montgomery Heritor In Irvine
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2 M James Montgomery Of Pearston And Thirdpart
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3 M Adam Montgomery
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Husband John C. Montgomery
Born: 1792
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Father: John Montgomery
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1 M John P. Montgomery
Born: 1818
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2 M Reverend Henry F. Montgomery
Born: 1820
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3 M Oswald C. Montgomery
Born: 1822
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4 M Austin J. Montgomery
Born: 1824
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5 M Captain James F. Montgomery
Born: 1826
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6 M C. Howard Montgomery
Born: 1828
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Died: 1848
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7 M Benjamin C. Montgomery
Born: 1833
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Died: 1836
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8 M Hardman P. Montgomery
Born: 1834
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Husband Captain John H. Montgomery 76th Foot Regm't.
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Father: Robert Montgomery Of Barnahill
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1 M Robert J. Montgomery
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2 M John P. Montgomery
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3 M James F. D. Montgomery
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Husband John Harper Montgomery
Born: March 1, 1793 - Harpersfield, Delaware County, NY
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Died: December 12, 1867 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Buried: - Springstead Family Burial Ground, Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Father: Thomas Montgomery
Mother: Rebecca Harper
Marriage: April 29, 1819 - Denmark Township, Ashtabula County, OH
Wife Malinda Platt
Born: 1799 - Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT
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Died: August 3, 1874 - Iowa Falls, IA
Buried: - Iowa Falls, IA
Father: Ebenezer Platt
Mother: Abigail Trubee
Children
1 M William Harper Montgomery
Born: December 29, 1819 - Madison Township, Geauga County, OH
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Died: 1889
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2 F Rebecca Montgomery
Born: 1823 - Madison Township, Geauga County, OH
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Spouse: Simon Gager Jr
Marr: December 29, 1845
Spouse: Morse
3 F Mary Montgomery
Born: 1825 - Madison Township, Geauga County, OH
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Spouse: Elihu Sperry
Marr: February 2, 1846
4 M John Nelson Montgomery
Born: May 30, 1827 - Conneaut Township, Crawford County, PA
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Died: September 19, 1908 - Siloam Springs, AR
Buried: November 3, 1908 - Iowa Falls, IA
Spouse: Luceva Ward
Marr: 1843 - OH
Spouse: Amanda Harriet Springstead
Marr: June 24, 1851 - Ottawa, Lasalle County, IL
5 F Almina Montgomery
Born: 1828 - Crawford County, PA
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Spouse: Augustus Edwards
6 M Charles Thomas Montgomery
Born: 1830 - Crawford County, PA
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7 M Benjamin F. Montgomery
Born: 1833 - Crawford County, PA
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8 F Elizabeth O. Montgomery
Born: 1835 - Crawford County, PA
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General Notes: Husband - John Harper Montgomery
"Moved early in life to Western Pennsylvania (Crawford County)", or so said J. Ivor Montgomery when he wrote his grandfather's / family's history for the publication, "History of LaSalle County, Illinois, 1883". John Harper is listed as a Private in the War of 1812, in Captain John Reed's Company, 3rd Sub-legion, from the Official "Roster of Ohio Soldiers in War of 1812", Vol.1, Page 59. Captain John Reed's Company served from August 23 until November 30, 1812, and from January 1 until March, 1813.
On April 16, 1816, John H. Montgomery was one of 44 people who obtained a parcel of property from Abraham and Elisabeth Tappan at the center of the Village of Madison to be used as common space (now Village Park) which also included "a part of said common not exceeding 4 rods width and on the east side, may be occupied and improved as a burying ground." See "Copy of Deed to Madison Public Square" (Taken from an old Madison Township Record Book). There were no burials in this location. (Two sons of Abraham Tappan would go on to Illinois and found the town of Woodstock.)
This location was later (1817) deemed to be unacceptable as a burying ground and an exchange of property was arranged, basically a trade, locating the burial ground kitty-corner to the NW corner of West Main and Eagle Streets, with a name of Centreville Cemetery. The graves subsequently placed therein were moved in 1854 to a better resting place (Fairview Cemetery?) and this cemetery lot abandoned. Did those moved graves include the graves of Thomas and Rebecca Montgomery, John H.'s parents? Were some of the Centreville Cemetery graves overlooked in the move of 1854? Thomas and Rebecca are yet to be discovered.
Married Malinda Platt, 29 April 1819, in the Township of Denmark, Ashtabula County, Ohio, according to Probate Court records found at the County Seat / Archeological Archives of Ashtabula County, Jefferson, OH. In 1819, the area of Denmark Township included the areas presently occupied by Denmark Township and Dorset Township which is immediately to the south of, and equal in size to, Denmark Township - 6 miles E-W and 12 miles N-S. It is in this area the home / church / location of their wedding was located. In later years, Malinda's brother, Hezekiah, was a successful farmer in Wayne Township, Ashtabula County.
His father, Thomas, may have not owned, but rented (and paid the taxes before 1820 on) the 100 acres in Geauga / Lake County as that 100 acre parcel was sold after 1820 (1827) to an Oscar Smead, not by Thomas / John Harper Montgomery but by the ORIGINAL Land Owner / Speculator, Tutus Street, who obtained the land (and about 24,000 other acres) in about 1797 from the Connecticut Land Company (Western Reserve) as part of the original sale of lands of the Reserve. Had Thomas or John Harper Montgomery owned the land, the sale to Smead would reflect on the record the names Montgomery to Smead, not Titus Street to Oscar Smead.
John H. somehow co-owned another parcel of property in Madison Township, Geauga (Lake) County, OH, in 1825, very near to the 100 acres described above. From the Chardon (OH) Land Records Office, July 31, 2002 (Courtesy of the Ashtabula County Historical Society): On November 10, 1825, John H. and Malinda Montgomery and Ashley and Dyantha Montgomery Follett (sister and brother-in-law of John H.), for $1,000.00, sold 113 "rods" of land (about 70% of 1 acre), containing two springs of water and one distillery, located at the following location:
" . . . situated in Township number eleven in the sixth range of townships in the Connecticut Western Reserve in the State of Ohio, and which is also the County of Geauga, and is known by being the southeast corner of lot number nine in said township, and is bounded as follows, to wit: beginning a few rods west of the widow Hannah Hills now dwelling house, at a stake and stones on the bank of the gully on the south east side of the road that runs to Emerson's Mills, thence across the gully aforesaid and along the road eleven rods (181.5 feet) to a stake and stones on the bank of the river; thence from the place of beginning in a right angle from said road twelve and a half rods (206.25') to a stake and stones on the bank of said River, and from thence along said bank of the river to the third mentioned stake and stones, supposed to contain one hundred and thirteen rods of land, be the same, more or less. And also a privilege of using and conducting a quantity of water sufficient for all the purposes of a distillery from two springs of water situated on tract number nine on the northwest side of said road to the distillery which is lately erected on the premises by Noble Olmstead, be the same, more or less . . . unto them the said Elisha Sperry & Simon Gajer, Jr. . . ."
His sister Dyantha and her husband Ashley Follett grew a family and remained in Madison, OH, until about 1830 (see Dyantha's notes).
Between 1825 and 1826, he must have moved to the Richmond Township, Ashtabula County, OH / Conneaut Township, Crawford County, PA area, closer to Malinda’s Platt family connections, as one of his sons, John Nelson Montgomery, was born in Crawford County, PA, 1826/1827.
On Richmond Township, OH: "Once a part of Jefferson, Denmark and Pierpont Townships, a final separation resulted in the organization of Richmond Township, in 1828. At the organizational meeting, the following were chosen to serve the residents: John H. Montgomery, Levi Brown and David Prindle, Trustees; . . ."
Where he and Malinda were living in Richmond Township in 1828 can probably be found by examining property records for the names Montgomery and / or Platt. The Platt name was prominent and plentiful across the state line around PennLine, PA, and along both sides of the state line north and south for about 12 miles.
As noted in the 1830 Federal Census, sometime between 1828 and 1830 he had moved to Wayne Township, Ashtabula County, OH. Shown in the 1830 Census as "J. H. Montgomery" living in Wayne Township, as noted on page 113 of the Census Report.
His children have varying birth places on various US Censuses, in Pennsylvania or Ohio, and not necessarily in the order of birth. This might be attributed to having family (Platts) on both sides of the PA / OH State Line and the possibility of having moved across the state line to live (rent?) in the years between 1830 and 1840. It is also possible he and Malinda may have lived with some of their Platt relatives, at some time, in PA and / or in OH.
Sometime between 1830 and 1840 he moved to Crawford County, PA. The US Census of 1840 shows John H. Montgomery living in North Shenango Township, Crawford County, PA. The “profile” of his family matches the Census. (1840 Census: Montgomery was spelled “Mongomey” on the Census page and recently incorrectly transcribed as “Mongonesy” to Ancestry.com website). The 1840 Census also denotes 2 individuals in the John H household as working in a trade other than agriculture. This working trade could have been saddle & harness manufacturing as record of such a business was recorded in the township on 16 May 1835 to a "Montgomery, J". (Crawford County Historical Society)
A deduction as to the location of residence in 1840 of John H. and Malinda Platt Montgomery: On the 1876 Atlas Map of North Shenango Township, Crawford County, PA, is the property denoted "B. Platt", which was purchased in 1846 by Hezekiah Platt from a Mr. Rockhill. Hezekiah was a brother of Malinda Platt Montgomery, wife of John Harper Montgomery. Stradling the road just north of Espyville is the "B. Platt" property, 118 acres. On either side (south to north) of the "B. Platt" property is "D. Lewis", south, and "H. Aken", north. To the south of "D. Lewis" is "J. Lewis", and then "Armstrong". These surnames are on the same 1840 Census page and in proximity to "John H Montgomery" on those pages.
In 1876, If you traveled along the N-S road in a south to north direction, this surname pattern emerges (using the 1876 Map):
. . . Armstrong, Lewis, Lewis, Platt (Montgomery), Ewing, Manning, Aken . . .
On the 1840 Census, the names on the page run as follows:
. . . Armstrong, Fick, Free, Lewis, Williamson, Marshall, Lewis, Lewis, Montgomery (Platt?), Cook, Manning, Akin (Aken), etc.
Except for "Fick, Lewis, Williamson, and Marshall", the 1840 Census name / property sequence matches the 1876 Map sequence. For the "Fick, Lewis, Williamson, Marshall" households, the Censustaker may have been working a full day between Armstrong and Lewis in another area close by. And, being 36 years after the Census, names on the 1876 properties surely may have changed a bit, as did "B. Platt", which may account for "Cook" becoming "Ewing" from 1840 to 1876. But the name sequences look very close.
Therefore, not yet verified but through deduction, it is believed the "B. Platt" property on the 1876 Map was once farmed by "B. Platt's" Aunt and Uncle, Malinda Platt Montgomery and John Harper Montgomery, between 1830 and 1845, surely in 1840.
Hezekiah Platt (Malinda Platt Montgomery's brother) purchased the property from a Thomas C. Rockhill, Jr., in 1846. Mr. Rockhill appears to have obtained the property out of a land grant. In 1876, it was owned by a Betsey Platt (B. Platt) and she appears to have "purchased" it for $10.00 from Hezekiah Platt's heirs in 1870.
Hezekiah Platt purchased this land in 1846, right after John and Malinda moved, lock, stock and barrel, to Illinois, and Hezekiah later left it to his Platt heirs. It is surmized that John and Malinda farmed the land for Mr. Rockhill, recommending just prior to John and Malinda exiting to Illinois that Mr. Rockhill sell it to Malinda's brother, Hezekiah, or a similar arrangement. The sale to Hezekiah in 1846 may have simply waited from Autumn of 1845, the end of the farming season when John and Malinda left for Illinois, until Spring of 1846, just prior to the growing season.
From “A Pioneer Outline History of Northwestern Pennsylvania”, by W. D. McKnight, M.D., 1905 regarding Crawford County:
“STATISTICS OF 1840 - NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
In 1840, there were in the northwest purchase but nine erected and complete counties, - to wit, Butler, Crawford, Jefferson, McKean, Mercer, Potter, Tioga, Venango, and Warren. Butler County had twenty-two thousand three hundred and seventy-one people, and the county contained fifteen towns, townships, and boroughs, - to wit, Buffalo, Clearfield, Donegal, Centre, Parker, Venango, Mercer, Middlesex, Cherry, Slippery Rock, Butler Borough, Butler, Muddy Creek, Conoquenessing, and Cranberry. In that year, Butler County had three charcoal furnaces, with an output of six hundred and twenty-five tons. The amount of coal mined in the county was one hundred and two thousand three hundred bushels; number of miners employed, thirty-one. Retail stores in the county, fifty-five, with a capital of $172,850. Value of hats and caps manufactured in the county: $3750. Number of tanneries: twenty-two. Number of men employed: thirty-one. Number of distilleries: thirteen. Number of breweries: two. Number of printing-offices: two. Number of oil-mills: four. Number of saw-mills: sixty-four. Number of gristmills: fifty-four.
CRAWFORD COUNTY - 1840
In 1840, Crawford County had thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and twenty-four people, and the county contained twenty-seven towns, townships, and boroughs, - to wit, South Shenango, Greenwood, Venango, Fallowfield, Randolph, Woodcock, Vernon, Mead, Summerhill, Sadsbury, Meadville Borough, Sparta, Oil Creek, Richmond, Rome Cossawago, Beaver, Wayne, Bloomfield, Rockdale, Athens, Troy, Hayfield, Spring, Conneaut, Fairfield, and North Shenango. In that year Crawford County had two charcoal furnaces. The coal output was two thousand tons. Number of miners employed: six. Retail stores in the county, sixty-two, with a capital of $196,200. Value of hats and caps manufactured: four thousand. Number of tanneries: fourteen. Number of men employed twenty-six. Number of distilleries: fourteen. Number of breweries: one. Number of paper-mills: two. Number of printing offices: two. Number of grist-mills: thirty-nine. Number of saw-mills: one hundred and twenty-nine. Number of oil-mills: two. These were flax- seed mills, making linseed oil. These mills were quite numerous in Northwestern Pennsylvania, and an industry of importance and profit.”
John Harper and son John Nelson Montgomery moved their families to Illinois in 1845, from Crawford County, PA. They settled at Buck Creek, north of Ottawa, IL.
According to documents located at LaSalle County Courthouse, Ottawa, IL, and in the Illinois State Archives, the first piece of property purchased by John Harper Montgomery in Illinois was 80 acres, in a Federal Transaction, for $1.25 an acre ($100.00), November 24, 1845, located 6 miles north of Ottawa, IL, in Dayton Township, about 1/8 mile west of current Illinois Route 23 along what is now Wedron Road, near a creek (Buck Creek): "The East 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4, Section 2, Township 34N (Dayton), Range 3 East, 3rd Principle Meridian."
A Federal Land Patent for this parcel, Certificate No. 21.037, was issued to "John Montgomery, of Crawford County, Pennsylvania", on March 1, 1848, at the General Land Office, Dixon, IL.
According to the Federal Census of 1850, the entry for John Harper Montgomery, and the rest of his family living together under one roof, was followed by the entry for a Brower family together with a man named Ashbel Beach, which had to have been directly across the road (the next stop for the census taker), as indicated on the Plat of the Township for the area for the given timeframe.
According to the Federal 1850 Census of LaSalle County he was 56 years of age in 1850. John Harper was born in 1793, according to his age calculation from his obituary, making him 56 at the time of a summer Census, enumerated in November of 1850.
The 1855 Illinois Census shows John H and Malinda living as a family unit on the farm at Buck Creek with son Benjamin F. Montgomery, as does the 1860 Census.
The 1860 US Census shows John H and Malinda living as a family unit on the farm at Buck Creek with son Benjamin F. Montgomery.
4 Aug 1863 - John and Malinda Montgomery sell their 80 acre farm to Ashabel E. Beach, for $1,130.55.
The 1865 Census shows John H and Malinda living with son John Nelson and wife Amanda Montgomery in Serena Township, LaSalle County, IL.
John H. died at the house of his son, John Nelson Montgomery, in Serena (Township), LaSalle County, IL, December 12, 1867, according to his printed obituary.
The 1870 Census shows the 80 acres originally purchased by John Harper Montgomery to be owned by someone with the last name of "Beach". Later (1876) Dayton Township Plats show the 80 acres of farm land being owned by a "Beach."
March 26, 1883 - In his Personal Journal entry on March 26, 1883, J. Ivor Montgomery, John Harper's first grandson, writes that, from the (Lett) family farm south of Sandwich, IL, he " . . . drove to Ottawa via Bostwick's in Freedom; stopping at Ed. Temples in Serena + I. (Irenus, see 1850 census) Browers + A.E. (Ashbel - see 1850 census) Beache's in Dayton: I got tea and supper at Beache's. He had cut - today - a cottonwood tree by the front gate that Grandfather had planted; I counted 32 rings on it."
"Grandfather" would have been John Harper Montgomery and the tree would have been planted ca. 1850-1851, about the time James Stout signed a Quit Claim Deed to John N Montgomery for $1.00 for the 80 acres.
Age of John Harper Montgomery, at key dates:
Name Years Ages
John H 1793 00 Born in Harpersfield, NY, 1 March
1799 6 Moved with family to Western Reserve, Conneaut Creek 1804 11 Baptized into Cong. Church, Austinburg, OH, January
1811 18 Moved to Madison Township with family
1816 23 Among 44 on Madison, OH, Town Commons Land Deed
1819 26 Married 29 April, in Denmark Township, OH
1820 27 Son born in Madison Township, per 1820 US Census (?)
1820 27 Date of Landowner Tax Map, Madison Twp
1823 30 Daughter born, Rebecca, Madison Twp
1825 32 Daughter born, Mary, Madison Twp
1825/26? 33 Moved to Crawford County, Pennsylvania (?)
1826 33 Son born, John N Montgomery, in PA
1827 34 100 acres, Madison, Deeded: Titus Street to O. Smead
1828 35 Trustee, Richmond Twp, Ashtabula County, OH
1828 35 Daughter born, Almina, Richmond Twp, OH
1830 37 US Census, Wayne Twp, Ashtabula County, OH
1830 37 Son born, Charles, Wayne Twp
1833 40 Son born, Benjamin F., Wayne Twp
1835 42 Daughter, Eliza O., born in North Shenango, PA
1840 47 US Census, North Shenango Twp, Crawford, PA
1843 50 Son, John Nelson, marries Luceva Ward in North Shenango Twp, Crawford County, PA
1845 52 Moves to Dayton Twp, LaSalle County, IL
1847 54 Grandson, James Ivor, born to John N, 13 March
1849 56 Grandson, William Harper, born to John N
1850 57 Daughter-in-law, Luceva Ward Montgomery, dies in LaSalle County, IL
1850 57 US Census, Dayton Twp, LaSalle County, IL
1851 58 Son, John Nelson, marries 2nd wife, Amanda Springstead Strider
1852 59 Grandson, George, born to John N
1855 62 IL Census, Dayton Twp, LaSalle County, IL
1856 63 Granddaughter, Luceva Amanda, born to John N
1857 64 Granddaughter, Luevia, born to John N
1858 65 Granddaughter, Florilla Ursula, born to John N
1858 65 Attended first Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Ottawa, IL
1860 67 Grandson, Manley William, born to son, John N
1860 67 US Census, Dayton Twp, LaSalle County, IL
1865 72 IL Census, Dayton Twp, LaSalle County, IL
1865 72 Granddaughter, “Minnie” Maria, born to John N, July
1866 73 Grandson, Allen Lee, born to son, John N, June
1867 74 Dies in Serena Twp, LaSalle Cty, IL, 12 December
Custom Historical Timeline - For Lifespan of John Harper Montgomery - 1793-1867
1231-1808 Papal Inquisition from before birth until age 15
1478-1834 Torquemada's Spanish Inquisition from before birth until age 41
1760-1820 Reign of King George III (Hanover) from before birth until age 27
1789-1796 George Washington selected 1st President from before birth until age 3
1792-1815 Napoleonic war from before birth until age 22
1793 Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves) at age 0
1793 Marie Antoinette beheaded at age 0
1794 US Post Office Established at age 1
1794 Slavery abolished in French colonies at age 1
1794 US Navy Established at age 1
1796-1800 John Adams elected 2nd president of US from age 3 to 7
1796 Vaccination against Smallpox at age 3
1796 France's presses get right of free speech at age 3
1796 Tennesee enters the union - 16th at age 3
1798 Mississippi organized as a territory at age 5
1798 Lithography at age 5
1798 US Marine Corps Established at age 5
1798-1800 Undeclared war with France from age 5 to 7
1799 Rosetta Stone found at age 6
1800 1st Battery (Volta) at age 7
1800-1809 Thomas Jefferson elected president of US from age 7 to 16
1800 Russia annexes Georgia at age 7
1800 US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC at age 7
1802 Babylonian cuniform deciphered at age 9
1803 Louisiana Territory Purchased at age 10
1803 Fulton propels vessel by steampower at age 10
1803 Ohio enters the union - 17th at age 10
1804 Haiti independent - 1st black country in West. Hemis. at age 11
1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition from age 11 to 13
1805 Morphine isolated at age 12
1805 Thomas Jefferson re-elected president of US at age 12
1807 Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage at age 14
1808 Import of new slaves into US Is banned at age 15
1808 Pompeii excavation begins in earnest at age 15
1809-1816 James Madison elected president of US from age 16 to 23
1809 Charles Darwin born at age 16
1810 Homeopathy founded at age 17
1810 US pop. reaches 7.2 million at age 17
1812 Louisiana enters the union - 18th at age 19
1812-1814 War of 1812 from age 19 to 21
1812 Missouri organized as a territory at age 19
1815 French outlaw slavery in France at age 22
1815 Battle of Waterloo at age 22
1815 Sumbawa volcano (Indonesia) erupts; 50,000 killed at age 22
1816 Indiana enters the union - 19th at age 23
1816 Stethoscope at age 23
1816 Photographic Negative at age 23
1817 Alabama organized as a territory at age 24
1817-1825 Erie canal constructed from age 24 to 32
1817 Pentrich Revolution - England's last revolution at age 24
1817-1823 1st Cholera pandemic from age 24 to 30
1817-1824 James Monroe president of US from age 24 to 31
1817 Mississippi enters the union - 20th at age 24
1818 Illinois enters the union - 21st at age 25
1818 Savannah 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic at age 25
1819 Arkansas organized as a territory at age 26
1819 Oersted discovers electro-magnetism at age 26
1819 Alabama enters the union - 22nd at age 26
1820-1830 Reign of King George IV (Hanover) from age 27 to 37
1820 Maine enters the union - 23rd at age 27
1821 Missouri enters the union - 24th at age 28
1821 US population reaches 9.2 million at age 28
1821-1829 Greek War of Independence from age 28 to 36
1821 1st US women's college at age 28
1822 Florida organized as a territory at age 29
1824-1828 John Quincy Adams president of US from age 31 to 35
1824 Erie canal finished at age 31
1824 Internal Combustion Engine at age 31
1826 1st railroad tunnel (England) at age 33
1827 Ship's propeller (screw) at age 34
1827 1st Black newspaper Freedom's Journal at age 34
1827 Ohms Law formulated at age 34
1828 1st railroad in the US at age 35
1828-1836 Andrew Jackson president of US from age 35 to 43
1828 1st Webster's Dictionary at age 35
1829 1st US patent on a typewriter at age 36
1829-1851 2nd Cholera pandemic from age 36 to 58
1830 Mormons (Latter Day Saints) founded at age 37
1830-1860 Underground railroad leads 100,000 slaves to freedom in US from age 37 to 67
1830-1837 Reign of King William IV (Hanover) from age 37 to 44
1832 Horse-drawn trolleys in New York at age 39
1833 Slavery abolished in British Empire (home and colonies) at age 40
1833 Telegraph at age 40
1834 Modern computer conceived by Charles Babbage at age 41
1835 Mormon leader Joseph Smith prophesies of 'coming of lord' by 1891 at age 42
1835 Halley's Comet at age 42
1835-1842 2nd Seminole War from age 42 to 49
1836 Texas war for independence from Mexico at age 43
1836 Arkansas enters the union -25th at age 43
1836 Battle of the Alamo at age 43
1837 Depression and Panic in the US - inflation, speculation at age 44
1837-1840 Martin Van Buren president of US from age 44 to 47
1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from age 44 until after timeline
1837 Michigan enters the union - 26th at age 44
1838-1839 Forced relocation of Cherokee from age 45 to 46
1839-1842 Opium war between China and the English from age 46 to 49
1841-1844 John Tyler president of US from age 48 to 51
1842 Chinese cede Hong Kong to the English at age 49
1844 1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York at age 51
1845-1849 Irish Potato Famine from age 52 to 56
1845 Florida enters the union - 27th at age 52
1845-1848 James K Polk president of US from age 52 to 55
1845 Texas enters the union - 28th at age 52
1846-1848 The Mexican-US War from age 53 to 55
1846 Iowa enters the union - 29th at age 53
1848 NY allows women to own real estate at age 55
1848-1856 1st gold rush in California from age 55 to 63
1848 Wisconsin enters the union - 30th at age 55
1848 Oregon organized as a territory at age 55
1849 Fizeau measures speed of light at age 56
1849-1852 Zachary Taylor president of the US from age 56 to 59
1850 Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory at age 57
1850 California enters the union - 31st at age 57
1850 New Mexico organized as a territory at age 57
1850 US pop reaches 23 million at age 57
1850 World pop. est. at 1.1 billion at age 57
1851 Gold rush in Australia at age 58
1852-1859 3rd Cholera pandemic from age 59 to 66
1853-1856 Franklin Pierce president of US from age 60 to 63
1853 Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory at age 60
1854-1856 Crimean War from age 61 to 63
1854 Nebraska organized as a territory at age 61
1854 Kansas organized as a territory at age 61
1857 Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens at age 64
1857-1866 Transatlantic cable laid from age 64 to 73
1857-1860 James Buchanan president of US from age 64 to 67
1858 India bill transfers government of India to England at age 65
1858 Minnesota enters the union - 32nd at age 65
1859 Oregon enters the union - 33rd at age 66
1859 Oil Well at age 66
1859 Darwin pub. Origin Of Species at age 66
1860 South Carolina Secedes from the Union at age 67
1860 Rifled barrel invented at age 67
1861 Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 68
1861-1865 Confederate States of America Exist from age 68 to 72
1861 Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 68
1861 South Dakota organized as a territory at age 68
1861 North Dakota organized as a territory at age 68
1861 Nevada organized as a territory at age 68
1861-1865 Civil War from age 68 to 72
1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 68 to 72
1861 Colorado organized as a territory at age 68
1861 The Apache Declare War on the US at age 68
1861 Gold rush in New Zealand at age 68
1862 US Homestead act at age 69
1863 Arizona organized as a territory at age 70
1863-1879 4th Cholera pandemic from age 70 until after timeline
1863 Idaho organized as a territory at age 70
1863 Battle of Gettysburg at age 70
1863 Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 70
1863 West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 70
1864 Louisiana organized as a territory at age 71
1864 Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 71
1865 Lister invents Disinfection at age 72
1865 Ku Klux Klan founded at age 72
1865 President Lincoln assassinated at age 72
1866-1868 Andrew Johnson president of US from age 73 until after timeline
1866 Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 73
1867 Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 74
1867 Confederation of Canada at age 74
1867 Dynamite at age 74
1867 Alaska purchased from Russia at age 74
1867 Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 74
John Harper Montgomery lived through three of the five Cholera Pandemics of the 1800's. These wide-spread disease outbreaks claimed thousands and thousands in cities and on the prairies and took place over the following years, possibly the first pandemic taking his son's first wife:
1st Cholera Pandemic - 1817-1823
2nd Cholera Pandemic - 1829-1851 (Luceva Ward Montgomery died 1850)
3rd Cholera Pandemic - 1852-1859 (Taking many children and adults - see SFBG)
4th Cholera Pandemic - 1863-1879
5th Cholera Pandemic - 1881-1885
General Notes: Wife - Malinda Platt
Born in Fairfield, CT, or in Greene County, NY.
Before getting married in 1819, lived with her family, father and mother Ebenezer and Abigail Platt, in the area which is today Denmark Township, which was near her brother Smith Platt's family and Smith's son Thayer's family, and near the Harvey family homestead on Pymatuning Lake Road, in Richmond Twp, Ashtabula County, OH.
Some of Malinda's family, the Platts, were living in and around Penn Line, Pennsylvania, in the year 1897, as recorded in her grandson's journal (J. Ivor) during his travels in the area that year. ("Visited Maria, Eli, Bert and Ivor Platt.")
Malinda Platt Montgomery most likely acted for a short time (9 June 1850 to 24 June 1851) in the role of Mother to her Grandsons, James Ivor and William Harper Montgomery, since her daughter in-law, Luceva Ward Montgomery, died at the age of 26 (1824-1850) shortly after they had moved to Illinois in1846 with their son, John Nelson Montgomery.
Malinda lived until 1874, four (4) years after her son, John Nelson Montgomery, moved to Iowa with his second wife and family, 7 years after her husband John Harper Montgomery died. She does not appear on the Census of 1870 at the home of her son, John Nelson Montgomery, in Iowa, so it is assumed she joined her son's family between 1870-1874.
According to her obituary, she died at the home of her son, John Nelson Montgomery, "in Iowa Falls, Iowa", and is assumed to be buried there. However, that home was a farm about 3 miles west and 2 miles north of the town of Iowa Falls, in Lee Township, Franklin County. On an 1875 Plat Map of Lee Township, Franklin County, IA, it shows J. H. Montgomery owning 160 acres. Across the road was a Blacksmith. On the farm is also, denoted with a cross, a cemetery. Malinda Platt Montgomery may well have been buried there. The farm and the cemetery are now gone from the land, as of 2008.
When his father left for Iowa, Malinda's grandson, James Ivor Montgomery, remained in Illinois and was about 23 years of age. James Ivor Montgomery would have been 27 when his Grandmother Malinda died.
General Notes: Child - John Nelson Montgomery
Moved to Illinois from Crawford County, PA, in 1845, at the age of 22, bringing his wife Luceva Ward.
John N.'s first wife was Luceva Ward died on 9 June 1850, and she was counted in the 1850 Federal Census which was enumerated later, in November, 1850.
John N., married his second wife, the widow Amanda Harriet (Springstead) Strider, in Ottawa, LaSalle County, IL., June 24, 1851, with Amanda being 8 months pregnant with a son from her recently dead husband John Strider. They had seven children together. In the 1900 Iowa Census, they are shown to have had 10 children between them, 8 of whom were still living in 1900. Perhaps two children died at young ages(?). (Two of those living 10 children were from John Nelson's first marriage; James Ivor and William Harper.)
Amanda had been married before to a John Strider of LaSalle County. John Strider died in 1851, in Serena Twp, LaSalle County, IL, leaving Amanda a widow with a daughter and one child on the way. John Strider's Will (date?) shows his property being willed to a Mary Jane Montgomery who was married later to a John Milton Montgomery of Iroquois County, IL. Mary J. and John M. Montgomery's names appear later, in 1869 and 1872, on land sale documents selling this land to a Wallace Dondanville. The 1876 Serena Township Landowner Plat Map shows "W. Dondanville" as owner of the 80 acres, about one mile west of Somonauk Road, two miles south of Springstead Road, 1/4-mile east of E22nd Road on 40th Road. John N. and Amanda also sold land bordering Mary's parcels to Dondanville about the same time frame. Mary Jane was Amanda's daughter with John Strider.
A piece of property found to be possibly owned / purchased by John Nelson Montgomery in Illinois was in Earlville, IL: a parcel of 5 acres on the east side of the town, according to documents located at LaSalle County Courthouse, Ottawa, IL, purchased in 1850, but the name on the documents does not differentiate between John N or John H Montgomery, nor do documents for the 80 acres John N's father owned in Dayton Township.
After the birth of their eighth child, Anna Elva, John N. and Amanda H., and family, moved to Iowa in 1870.
The US Census of 1870 has them all living in Iowa Township, Hampton Post Office, Franklin County, Iowa; John N. 43, Amanda H. 43, Luceva 14, Florilla (Ursula) 12, William (Manley?) 10, Minnie 5, (Allen) Lee 3, and (Anna) Elva 1yr. Also on the 1870 Census (with the above family) is a C(harles) Montgomery, age 40, a younger brother of John N.
An 1875 Plat Map of Franklin County, IA, shows "J. N. Montgomery" located in Lee Township, Franklin County, IA, Section 22, with a cemetery on the 160 acres, and a Blacksmith Shop across the road to the west, (160 acres) at T90, R21, S22, SW (1/2) SE (1/4).
Documents dated 1872, found in the LaSalle County Courthouse, Ottawa, IL, indicating the transfer / sale of property in LaSalle County, Illinois, show John N. and Amanda living in Franklin County, Iowa, at the time. Surely the Strider-Montgomery farm property they left when they moved to Iowa, was sold in a joint transaction with Amanda's oldest (Strider) daughter, Mary Jane and husband John Milton Montgomery, of Fountain Creek, Iroquois County, IL. Mary Jane had had interest in the farm somehow as being an heir to its original owner, her father, John Strider, who died in 1851.
The US Census of 1880 finds the family in Lee Township, Franklin County, IA, thusly:
* John N., Amanda H., Minnie, Lee, and Annie E., and a laborer named Charles Thomas, living together.
* Daughter Luceva A., living with her husband Joseph M. Wells and their children John J., 3, and Bessie, 10 months.
* Daughter Florilla E. 22, living with her husband Edward L. Gibbs 27, and their child William A., 11 months.
In the "History of Franklin and Cerro Gordo Counties, Iowa 1883, Ch. XXIV, Lee Township, Pgs 458-459, Union Publishing Company, Spingfield, IL 1883", a Biography for John N. states:
"J. N. Montgomery was born in Pennsylvania in 1827, and was there married to Luceva Ward. In 1845 they moved to Illinois, where his wife died. He subsequently married Mrs. Amanda Strider. He is member of Masonic Fraternity. In politics he is a greenbacker and has held local offices."
The 1885 Iowa Census has John N and Amanda, Allen Lee and Anna Elva, living on a farm located at: Franklin County, Twp 90 (Lee), Range 21, Section 22, SW SE (160 acres), which is due east of Popejoy and due north of Iowa Falls. Also living on this farm are John N and Amanda's daughter Florilla Ursula Gibbs age 26 and her husband Thomas Gibbs age 30, and their children, William Allen Gibbs 4, Lewis Gibbs 2, and Edward Gibbs, infant.
In 1889, John N. purchased 78.64 acres for $2,000 on the west side of Iowa Falls, with a mill site on it. In 1892, John N. purchased 28 acres and 5 acres, respectively, on the west side of Iowa Falls, for $623, total.
The 1892 Hardin County, IA, Plat Book indicates "J. Montgomery" owned a total of 150 acres, west of Iowa Falls, IA, with a Mill Site or Brick Yard on it. A draft of John N.'s will (not probated) dated October, 1883, indicates ownership of property in the amount of approximately 150 acres just to the west of Iowa Falls, above the river.
In 1883 (John N's Draft Will) and in 1900 (US Census) they were living in Hardin County, Iowa.
In the US Census of 1900, John Nelson and Amanda are found to be living with their daughter, Minnie M. Montgomery Stewart (Stuart), age 34, along with Minnie's husband, Edmund W., age 39, and children, Ethel, 14, Myrtle C., 11, and Raymond, 9. Amanda died January 28, 1901, in Iowa Falls, IA.
According to documents located in 1991, in the Hardin County Courthouse in Eldora, IA, John N. began selling property in the Spring of 1901:
8 acres to Willie Mitchell, March 12, 1901;
8 acres to Henry Rush, May 17, 1901;
64 acres to J. Kennedy, July 3, 1901.
John N. died at Siloam Springs, Arkansas, September 19, 1908, after moving to Arkansas, in January, 1907, with his son, Allan Lee Montgomery, due to health (asthma / hay fever) concerns.
The graves of John N. and Amanda H. were found in the Union Cemetery in Iowa Falls, IA, in 1991, by William J. Montgomery (RIN 1 - g-g-grandson) at locations, 4.A. L10 s8 and s7.
John Nelson Montgomery's Mother, Malinda Platt Montgomery, may be buried in the cemetery next to the Lee Twp, Franklin County farm of John Nelson's (1870 Iowa Census, 160 acres) at T90, R21, S22, SW (1/2) SE (1/4)), since she died "at the home of her son, in Iowa Falls in 1874", and "is buried in Iowa Falls", according to her printed obituary. There was a cemetery designated with a cross on the 1875 Plat Map, located just north of the homesite location, also marked on the farm property. This property today is vacant, tilled farm land, as seen from satellite photography.
General Notes: Child - Charles Thomas Montgomery
Appears on 1870 US Census in Iowa Township, Hampton Post Office, Franklin County, IA, in the household of John Nelson Montgomery, brother(?).
General Notes: Child - Benjamin F. Montgomery
Listed on the 1850 Federal Census living in the household of John Harper Montgomery and John Nelson Montgomery as: Farmer, age 17, with an "Eliza O.", age 15.
Benjamin is most likely a younger brother to John Nelson, being only 6 years younger.
Is Benjamin named after his Uncle Benjamin Montgomery, a brother of his father?
Listed on the 1860 US Census, still living with parents in Dayton Township, LaSalle County, IL.
Not on the 1870 US Census in LaSalle County, IL.
General Notes: Child - Elizabeth O. Montgomery
Listed on the 1850 Federal Census living in the household of John Harper Montgomery and John Nelson Montgomery as: "Eliza", age 15.
Is Eliza a sister to John Nelson, being only 8 years younger?
Is Eliza named after her Aunt Eliza Lorraine Montgomery Collins, a sister of her father?
Does not appear on the 1860 Census for LaSalle County, IL, as living with John Harper and Malinda.
Most likely married before she was 24?
Husband John Milton Montgomery
Born: 1842 - PA
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: May 2, 1865 - Ottawa, Lasalle County, IL
Wife Mary Jane Strider
Born: 1848 - Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John George Strider
Mother: Amanda Harriet Springstead
Children
1 M Harry Montgomery
Born: 1869 - Fountain Creek, Iroquois County, IL
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Notes: Marriage
Marriage License No. 3226, Volume C, LaSalle County, from the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900 @ www.lscgg.org. (LaSalle County Geneology Guild)
Husband John Nelson Montgomery
Born: May 30, 1827 - Conneaut Township, Crawford County, PA
Baptized:
Died: September 19, 1908 - Siloam Springs, AR
Buried: November 3, 1908 - Iowa Falls, IA
Father: John Harper Montgomery
Mother: Malinda Platt
Marriage: 1843 - OH
Other Spouse: Amanda Harriet Springstead - June 24, 1851 - Ottawa, Lasalle County, IL
Wife Luceva Ward
Born: May 13, 1824 - New York, New York
Baptized:
Died: June 9, 1850 - Dayton Township, Lasalle County, IL
Buried: - Brower-Hess Cemetery, Dayton Township, Lasalle County, IL
Father: William Ward
Mother: Elizabeth Ward
Children
1 M James Ivor Montgomery
Born: March 13, 1847 - Dayton Township, Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
Died: January 29, 1928 - Aurora, IL
Buried: February 3, 1928 - Lett Cemetery, Northville Township, Lasalle County, IL
Spouse: Mary Aleumena Lett
Marr: May 21, 1871 - Northville Township, Lasalle County, IL
2 M William Harper Montgomery
Born: 1849 - Dayton Township, Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Montgomery
Marr: 1883
General Notes: Husband - John Nelson Montgomery
Moved to Illinois from Crawford County, PA, in 1845, at the age of 22, bringing his wife Luceva Ward.
John N.'s first wife was Luceva Ward died on 9 June 1850, and she was counted in the 1850 Federal Census which was enumerated later, in November, 1850.
John N., married his second wife, the widow Amanda Harriet (Springstead) Strider, in Ottawa, LaSalle County, IL., June 24, 1851, with Amanda being 8 months pregnant with a son from her recently dead husband John Strider. They had seven children together. In the 1900 Iowa Census, they are shown to have had 10 children between them, 8 of whom were still living in 1900. Perhaps two children died at young ages(?). (Two of those living 10 children were from John Nelson's first marriage; James Ivor and William Harper.)
Amanda had been married before to a John Strider of LaSalle County. John Strider died in 1851, in Serena Twp, LaSalle County, IL, leaving Amanda a widow with a daughter and one child on the way. John Strider's Will (date?) shows his property being willed to a Mary Jane Montgomery who was married later to a John Milton Montgomery of Iroquois County, IL. Mary J. and John M. Montgomery's names appear later, in 1869 and 1872, on land sale documents selling this land to a Wallace Dondanville. The 1876 Serena Township Landowner Plat Map shows "W. Dondanville" as owner of the 80 acres, about one mile west of Somonauk Road, two miles south of Springstead Road, 1/4-mile east of E22nd Road on 40th Road. John N. and Amanda also sold land bordering Mary's parcels to Dondanville about the same time frame. Mary Jane was Amanda's daughter with John Strider.
A piece of property found to be possibly owned / purchased by John Nelson Montgomery in Illinois was in Earlville, IL: a parcel of 5 acres on the east side of the town, according to documents located at LaSalle County Courthouse, Ottawa, IL, purchased in 1850, but the name on the documents does not differentiate between John N or John H Montgomery, nor do documents for the 80 acres John N's father owned in Dayton Township.
After the birth of their eighth child, Anna Elva, John N. and Amanda H., and family, moved to Iowa in 1870.
The US Census of 1870 has them all living in Iowa Township, Hampton Post Office, Franklin County, Iowa; John N. 43, Amanda H. 43, Luceva 14, Florilla (Ursula) 12, William (Manley?) 10, Minnie 5, (Allen) Lee 3, and (Anna) Elva 1yr. Also on the 1870 Census (with the above family) is a C(harles) Montgomery, age 40, a younger brother of John N.
An 1875 Plat Map of Franklin County, IA, shows "J. N. Montgomery" located in Lee Township, Franklin County, IA, Section 22, with a cemetery on the 160 acres, and a Blacksmith Shop across the road to the west, (160 acres) at T90, R21, S22, SW (1/2) SE (1/4).
Documents dated 1872, found in the LaSalle County Courthouse, Ottawa, IL, indicating the transfer / sale of property in LaSalle County, Illinois, show John N. and Amanda living in Franklin County, Iowa, at the time. Surely the Strider-Montgomery farm property they left when they moved to Iowa, was sold in a joint transaction with Amanda's oldest (Strider) daughter, Mary Jane and husband John Milton Montgomery, of Fountain Creek, Iroquois County, IL. Mary Jane had had interest in the farm somehow as being an heir to its original owner, her father, John Strider, who died in 1851.
The US Census of 1880 finds the family in Lee Township, Franklin County, IA, thusly:
* John N., Amanda H., Minnie, Lee, and Annie E., and a laborer named Charles Thomas, living together.
* Daughter Luceva A., living with her husband Joseph M. Wells and their children John J., 3, and Bessie, 10 months.
* Daughter Florilla E. 22, living with her husband Edward L. Gibbs 27, and their child William A., 11 months.
In the "History of Franklin and Cerro Gordo Counties, Iowa 1883, Ch. XXIV, Lee Township, Pgs 458-459, Union Publishing Company, Spingfield, IL 1883", a Biography for John N. states:
"J. N. Montgomery was born in Pennsylvania in 1827, and was there married to Luceva Ward. In 1845 they moved to Illinois, where his wife died. He subsequently married Mrs. Amanda Strider. He is member of Masonic Fraternity. In politics he is a greenbacker and has held local offices."
The 1885 Iowa Census has John N and Amanda, Allen Lee and Anna Elva, living on a farm located at: Franklin County, Twp 90 (Lee), Range 21, Section 22, SW SE (160 acres), which is due east of Popejoy and due north of Iowa Falls. Also living on this farm are John N and Amanda's daughter Florilla Ursula Gibbs age 26 and her husband Thomas Gibbs age 30, and their children, William Allen Gibbs 4, Lewis Gibbs 2, and Edward Gibbs, infant.
In 1889, John N. purchased 78.64 acres for $2,000 on the west side of Iowa Falls, with a mill site on it. In 1892, John N. purchased 28 acres and 5 acres, respectively, on the west side of Iowa Falls, for $623, total.
The 1892 Hardin County, IA, Plat Book indicates "J. Montgomery" owned a total of 150 acres, west of Iowa Falls, IA, with a Mill Site or Brick Yard on it. A draft of John N.'s will (not probated) dated October, 1883, indicates ownership of property in the amount of approximately 150 acres just to the west of Iowa Falls, above the river.
In 1883 (John N's Draft Will) and in 1900 (US Census) they were living in Hardin County, Iowa.
In the US Census of 1900, John Nelson and Amanda are found to be living with their daughter, Minnie M. Montgomery Stewart (Stuart), age 34, along with Minnie's husband, Edmund W., age 39, and children, Ethel, 14, Myrtle C., 11, and Raymond, 9. Amanda died January 28, 1901, in Iowa Falls, IA.
According to documents located in 1991, in the Hardin County Courthouse in Eldora, IA, John N. began selling property in the Spring of 1901:
8 acres to Willie Mitchell, March 12, 1901;
8 acres to Henry Rush, May 17, 1901;
64 acres to J. Kennedy, July 3, 1901.
John N. died at Siloam Springs, Arkansas, September 19, 1908, after moving to Arkansas, in January, 1907, with his son, Allan Lee Montgomery, due to health (asthma / hay fever) concerns.
The graves of John N. and Amanda H. were found in the Union Cemetery in Iowa Falls, IA, in 1991, by William J. Montgomery (RIN 1 - g-g-grandson) at locations, 4.A. L10 s8 and s7.
John Nelson Montgomery's Mother, Malinda Platt Montgomery, may be buried in the cemetery next to the Lee Twp, Franklin County farm of John Nelson's (1870 Iowa Census, 160 acres) at T90, R21, S22, SW (1/2) SE (1/4)), since she died "at the home of her son, in Iowa Falls in 1874", and "is buried in Iowa Falls", according to her printed obituary. There was a cemetery designated with a cross on the 1875 Plat Map, located just north of the homesite location, also marked on the farm property. This property today is vacant, tilled farm land, as seen from satellite photography.
General Notes: Wife - Luceva Ward
Luceva was a daughter of a French Heugonot family.
John Nelson Montgomery probably met and married Luceva in North Shenango Township, Crawford County, PA, as in 1850 the majority of Luceva's family was counted in the 1850 US Census in North Shenango.
She and John moved to Illinois in 1845 along with John's father and mother and two of John's diblings, to Dayton township, LaSalle County,IL.
She died at the age of 26, leaving a husband, John Nelson Montgomery, and two sons: James Ivor, 4, and William Harper, 2.
Her actual death year is in question since she is shown alive on the enumerated US Census of 1850 dated November 20, 1850, the date her Montgomery Family information was enumerated by the Federal Census taker. However, the date of death shown on the cemetery record of the Brower Cemetery is June 9, 1850, her age having been 26 years, 27 days.
The Brower-Hess Cemetery is located on IL Route 23 about 1/4 mile south of the Montgomery Homestead at Rte 23 and Wedron Road, behind a ranch house built between the cemetery and the highway right of way. Access to the cemetery is by walking around the residence / property immediately to its west.
August 29, 1897; On a business trip to the Meadville / Penn Line, PA area, Luceva's oldest son, J. Ivor, visited Luceva's brother's (Abram's) son, her nephew, William W. Ward, living in New Richmond, PA, with four of his children. New Richmond, PA, is only about 10 miles east of Meadville, PA, which is about 15 miles northeast of the Espyville, PA-area, from which Luceva and John Nelson Montgomery moved to Illinois, in 1846.
August 29, 1897; Luceva's surviving sisters, "Aunt Eleanor" and "Aunt Polly", were 78 and 82 years of age, respectively.
General Notes: Child - James Ivor Montgomery
Born 1847 in Dayton Township, 4.5 miles north of Ottawa, IL.
His Mother passed away in 1850 and his Father remarried in the year 1851 Amanda Harriet (Springstead) Strider, and so, a step-mother for James Ivor, and brother William Harper. Amanda had had a daughter, Mary, with her first husband, John Strider, who had died in 1851 (see Strider notes, re: Goldrush). The Federal Census of 1850 shows Amanda living with her parents with a 2 year old daughter, Mary.
At the age of 4, James Ivor had a brother and step-sister to grow up with, followed by other step-sisters and step-brothers as company between the years 1850 and 1863, when he left home to teach school. All of those siblings are recorded to have been born in Illinois between 1854 and 1870.
Witnessed the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, with his father, John Nelson Montgomery, on the shoulders of his Grandfather, John Harper Montgomery, at Ottawa, IL, at age 11, August 21, 1858.
Lived at home until 16 years old (1863), at which time he became a school teacher, teaching for about 9 years. He taught his second term of school in the winter of 1864-65 at the Henry Parr School in Serena Township, LaSalle County, IL (see manuscripts). During the 1869-1870 school year he taught at South-Somonauk School, Somonauk, IL. He taught school until 25 years old (1872).
One of his "County Superintendent's Certifcate" to teach (1870) specified he was successfully examined in the subjects of "Orthography, Reading in English, Penmanship, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Modern Geography, and the History of the United States", and later (1875) the requirement of "Elements of Natural Science" and "Physiology and Laws of Health", which qualified him to teach First Grade, for two years.
In his "manuscripts", he writes of being caught in two terrible blizzards, one while teaching country school (1864-65) at the Henry K. Parr School, and one while surveying for the CNW Railroad, in the Dakota Territory and in Minnesota, in 1888. He describes both in the re-telling, "The Worst Blizzard I Have Known In 75 Years", written in 1921.
During that period of teaching, he filled the position of Deputy Superintendent of Schools of LaSalle County for 4 years, while also reading Law. One of his duties was performing the work of Examining School Teachers in the northern LaSalle County area, being paid $5.00 for each full day's work at each respective school. From February 5, 1870 to April 29, 1871, he examined Teachers on 15 occasions, to include; Earlville (5 times), Leland (4 times), Northville (4 times), and Meriden (2 times). He was paid $75 for the Examinations and $15 for publishing notices of meetings, postage, envelopes, and paper.
His law tutoring was done by E. S. (Ezra Stones) Abbott, Attorney, of Leland, IL (see bio). He was admitted to the Bar, on examination, in Ottawa, IL, in October, 1869.
On the 1870 US Census he was living in the "Frederick and Amelia Smith" household, in Northville Township, LaSalle County, IL. His profession is shown to be Attorney at Law.
At one time, he owned 33.22 acres of land on the SE corner of Leland, as shown on an 1876 Plat of Leland.
Practiced Law at Leland, IL, LaSalle County, October 1869 until 1875. His Law Office was in the basement of the Somonauk Hotel in Leland, IL, then owned and operated by Mr. John M. Goodell. Moved his Law Practice to Sandwich, IL, in 1875. Officiated as City Attorney of Sandwich, IL, and four years as a Justice of the Peace. Later practiced Law for many years in Aurora and Chicago, IL. Practiced Law in State and Federal Courts. Remained a Lawyer until his death. With the aid of the internet, some of J. Ivor's Appellate Court Case involvements can be seen. He also operated a Collection Agency business out of his Leland Law Offices.
21 May 1871 - He married Mary A. Lett.
1871 - Assessor for Northville Township, LaSalle County, IL. (Taken from The History of LaSalle County, Illinois, Volume II, Chicago, Inter-State Publishing Co., 1886)
7 Nov 1871 - General Election, LaSalle County: J. Ivor ran for Circuit Clerk of LaSalle County, IL, in this Election against Charles H. Hook. Fell short of being elected by 2,375 votes. (Taken from "The History of LaSalle County, Illinois, Volume I", Chicago, Inter-State Publishing Co., 1886)
The 1880 US Census finds James Ivor, Mary, Jessie, Florian, Ward, and a Gertrude Case, living on the Lett Farm, Sandwich, LaSalle County, IL.
1882 - Nominated for State Senator at the 1882 Illinois Senatorial District Convention (DeKalb County / LaSalle County District?). His personal acquaintance Herbert Wells Fay, a DeKalb County Publisher and long-time Custodian of the Lincoln Monument in Springfield, IL, was present at the convention (1942, "Lincoln Tomb Notes" by H.W. Fay, newspaper clipping).
7 Nov 1882 - General Election, LaSalle County: J. Ivor was on the Ballot for Senator in this Election, running against three other candidates; James Duncan, Joseph Hart, J. W. Barnhart. He garnered the least amount of votes, 466. James Duncan was elected with 6,778 votes. (Taken from "The History of LaSalle County, Illinois, Volume I", Chicago, Inter-State Publishing Co., 1886)
Nov 1883 - Moved his family from the Village of Sandwich onto the Lett Farm Homestead south of Sandwich.
1883 and later - Surveyor of lands in the upper LaSalle and lower DeKalb County, IL areas.
1885 - Member of the Masonic Fraternity and the Order of Odd Fellows.
1888 - 1889 - Surveyor for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in the Territory of Dakota, prior to the Dakota Statehoods. Also Surveyed lands in Arkansas, Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin, not to mention survey work in LaSalle County and DeKalb County, IL, with many lands surveyed in the Dakotas, Arkansas, Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin being recorded in his "Land Owner Pocket Tract Book, 1876, Chicago, J. M Wing & Co."
1895 - Mary and Merilla purchased a house in Aurora approximately 27 March 1895 (for $2300??). The Warranty Deed of that 1895 date, for a house at 115 North View Street (pre-1929 address, now 319 North View Street), lists the grantor as "Mary A. Montgomery et al (Agreement to purchase included Merilla J. Lett, with John M. Raymond)". (N56 feet in width of Lot 16 in Block 11 in Hoyt's addition to Aurora, Kane County, IL.)
1897 - Had a Law Office at "Room 220, Coulter Block", in Aurora.
1897 - Had a Law Office in Chicago at: "704 Atwood Building, Corner Clark & Madison Streets".
1897, Private Journal - 12 June: "Returning from business trip to Philadelphia and New York, visited relatives in Penn Line, PA, about 15 miles from Andover, OH. "Saw Maria, Eli, Bert, and Ivor Platt, siblings of his Grandmother Malinda Platt Montgomery." His visit to the area was also mentioned in The Conneautville Courier, Thursday Morning, September 23, 1897 (microfiche copy). From an 1885 "Township History Sketch" of Conneaut Township, Crawford County, PA, "Penn Line Post Office is a hamlet in the western part of Conneaut, consisting of about fifteen dwellings scattered along the road, from the State line eastward, for a distance of half a mile - a store, hotel, cheese factory, two blacksmith shops, shoe shop and schoolhouse."
1897, Private Journal - June 14 to June 23: While on the trip he was sick with lung congestion and lung disease. While on the trip he was taking / selling many deposits for stock in some entity or proposition. J. Ivor was continually sending money back to "Colwell" that he had collected from purchasers of the shares at $25 each.
And this is what he was selling shares in, from the published,
"ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF WEST VIRGINIA
AT ITS 24TH REGULAR SESSION, Commencing January 11, 1899
"ABSTRACTS OF CERTIFICATES OF INCORPORATION
ISSUED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
And not before Reported
"ABSTRACTS OF CORPORATIONS: (page 98/99)
"INTERNATIONAL POWER CO.
"The selling and dealing in rotary and other engines; principal office, Chicago, Ill; charter issued August 15, 1898; charter expires August 1, 1948; amount subscribed, $1,000; amount paid in, $100; authorized capital, $5,000,000: par value shares, $25; incorporators, T. M. Colwell, H. L. Gilbert, J. Ivor Montgomery, Edward S. Colwell, Chicago, Ill.; A. M. Merrifield, Brooklyn, N. Y."
1900 Census - living with Mary at the Lett Farm, Northville Township, LaSalle County, IL - Mary was "head of household" on Census. (Had they sold the house on View Street in Aurora?)
1901 - Had "Corporation Law" Office in Chicago at: "804-805 New York Life Building".
1901 - Wrote (typed) Obituary for his Mother-in-Law, Merilla Jerusha Pease Lett, on his Chicago Law Office letterhead.
1910 Census - Living with Mary, daughter Edith, his son Ward and his wife May and daughter Marilla, at the Lett Farm, Northville Township, LaSalle County, IL.
1913, Jan - Feb - Living in Aurora, as noted in the Diary of his Daughter-in-law, May Belle Montgomery.
1919, March - Living at 469 Spruce Street, Aurora, IL.
1920 Census - Living with wife Mary and daughter Edith at 374 Oak Avenue, Aurora, IL.
1923-1925 - Living with wife Mary, daughter Jessie, Jessie's son Stanley and daughter Mary, daughter Edith, and granddaughter Marilla (daughter of son Ward) who was finishing high school at West High School, at 236 Plum Street.
Died 29 January 1928.
His brother, Allen Lee Montgomery, died 27 Feb 1928, in San Antonio, TX.
General Notes: Child - William Harper Montgomery
He is counted in the Federal Census of 1850 in the household of John Harper Montgomery and John Nelson Montgomery, Grandfather and Father, respectively.
He is not on the 1860 Census in the household of either his Grandfather or his Father.
On the 1885 Iowa Census, a William Montgomery appears with wife Anna, age 27, and child Florence, age 1, living at Township 90 (Lee Township), Range 21, Section 22, NW (1/2) NE (1/4). (80 acres?)
John Nelson Montgomery is shown on the 1875 Plat Map, and in the 1885 Iowa Census to be living / owning property (160 acres) at T90, R21, S22, SW (1/2) SE (1/4), which, in 1885, is due south of the property description for William and Anna Montgomery (above).
This William must be the 2nd son of John Nelson and Luceva Ward Montgomery, brother of James Ivor Montgomery.
Husband John Nelson Montgomery
Born: May 30, 1827 - Conneaut Township, Crawford County, PA
Baptized:
Died: September 19, 1908 - Siloam Springs, AR
Buried: November 3, 1908 - Iowa Falls, IA
Father: John Harper Montgomery
Mother: Malinda Platt
Marriage: June 24, 1851 - Ottawa, Lasalle County, IL
Other Spouse: Luceva Ward - 1843 - OH
Wife Amanda Harriet Springstead
AKA: Mundy
Born: June 28, 1829 - Clay, Onandaga County, NY
Baptized:
Died: January 28, 1901 - Iowa Falls, IA
Buried: - Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls, IA
Father: Jeremiah Springstead
Mother: Comfort Kinne
Other Spouse: John George Strider - 1847 - Serena, IL
Children
1 M John M. Montgomery
Born: April 11, 1852
Baptized:
Died: September 20, 1854
Buried:
2 F Luceva Amanda Montgomery
Born: November 1855 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Joseph M. Wells
Marr: December 22, 1872 - IL
3 F Luevia Montgomery
Born: 1857 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
Died: 1867 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Buried: - Springstead Family Burial Ground, Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
4 F Florilla Ursula Montgomery
Born: July 1857 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
Died: October 2, 1921 - Highland Park, CA
Buried: - Rosedale Cemetery, Highland Park, CA
Spouse: Thomas E. Gibbs
Marr: 1878
5 M Manley Montgomery
Born: March 1860 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
Died: 1867 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Buried: - Springstead Family Burial Ground, Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
6 F Minnie M. Aria Montgomery
Born: July 1865 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Edmund W. Stewart
Marr: 1881 - IA
7 M Allen Lee Montgomery
AKA: Lee
Born: June 12, 1867 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
Died: February 25, 1928 - San Antonio, Bexar County, TX
Buried: February 27, 1928 - Roselawn Cemetery, San Antonio, TX
Spouse: Cora Belle Stewart
Marr: 1888 - Popejoy, IA.
8 F Anne Ella Montgomery
Born: March 1869 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Frank H. Sherer
Marr: 1887
General Notes: Husband - John Nelson Montgomery
Moved to Illinois from Crawford County, PA, in 1845, at the age of 22, bringing his wife Luceva Ward.
John N.'s first wife was Luceva Ward died on 9 June 1850, and she was counted in the 1850 Federal Census which was enumerated later, in November, 1850.
John N., married his second wife, the widow Amanda Harriet (Springstead) Strider, in Ottawa, LaSalle County, IL., June 24, 1851, with Amanda being 8 months pregnant with a son from her recently dead husband John Strider. They had seven children together. In the 1900 Iowa Census, they are shown to have had 10 children between them, 8 of whom were still living in 1900. Perhaps two children died at young ages(?). (Two of those living 10 children were from John Nelson's first marriage; James Ivor and William Harper.)
Amanda had been married before to a John Strider of LaSalle County. John Strider died in 1851, in Serena Twp, LaSalle County, IL, leaving Amanda a widow with a daughter and one child on the way. John Strider's Will (date?) shows his property being willed to a Mary Jane Montgomery who was married later to a John Milton Montgomery of Iroquois County, IL. Mary J. and John M. Montgomery's names appear later, in 1869 and 1872, on land sale documents selling this land to a Wallace Dondanville. The 1876 Serena Township Landowner Plat Map shows "W. Dondanville" as owner of the 80 acres, about one mile west of Somonauk Road, two miles south of Springstead Road, 1/4-mile east of E22nd Road on 40th Road. John N. and Amanda also sold land bordering Mary's parcels to Dondanville about the same time frame. Mary Jane was Amanda's daughter with John Strider.
A piece of property found to be possibly owned / purchased by John Nelson Montgomery in Illinois was in Earlville, IL: a parcel of 5 acres on the east side of the town, according to documents located at LaSalle County Courthouse, Ottawa, IL, purchased in 1850, but the name on the documents does not differentiate between John N or John H Montgomery, nor do documents for the 80 acres John N's father owned in Dayton Township.
After the birth of their eighth child, Anna Elva, John N. and Amanda H., and family, moved to Iowa in 1870.
The US Census of 1870 has them all living in Iowa Township, Hampton Post Office, Franklin County, Iowa; John N. 43, Amanda H. 43, Luceva 14, Florilla (Ursula) 12, William (Manley?) 10, Minnie 5, (Allen) Lee 3, and (Anna) Elva 1yr. Also on the 1870 Census (with the above family) is a C(harles) Montgomery, age 40, a younger brother of John N.
An 1875 Plat Map of Franklin County, IA, shows "J. N. Montgomery" located in Lee Township, Franklin County, IA, Section 22, with a cemetery on the 160 acres, and a Blacksmith Shop across the road to the west, (160 acres) at T90, R21, S22, SW (1/2) SE (1/4).
Documents dated 1872, found in the LaSalle County Courthouse, Ottawa, IL, indicating the transfer / sale of property in LaSalle County, Illinois, show John N. and Amanda living in Franklin County, Iowa, at the time. Surely the Strider-Montgomery farm property they left when they moved to Iowa, was sold in a joint transaction with Amanda's oldest (Strider) daughter, Mary Jane and husband John Milton Montgomery, of Fountain Creek, Iroquois County, IL. Mary Jane had had interest in the farm somehow as being an heir to its original owner, her father, John Strider, who died in 1851.
The US Census of 1880 finds the family in Lee Township, Franklin County, IA, thusly:
* John N., Amanda H., Minnie, Lee, and Annie E., and a laborer named Charles Thomas, living together.
* Daughter Luceva A., living with her husband Joseph M. Wells and their children John J., 3, and Bessie, 10 months.
* Daughter Florilla E. 22, living with her husband Edward L. Gibbs 27, and their child William A., 11 months.
In the "History of Franklin and Cerro Gordo Counties, Iowa 1883, Ch. XXIV, Lee Township, Pgs 458-459, Union Publishing Company, Spingfield, IL 1883", a Biography for John N. states:
"J. N. Montgomery was born in Pennsylvania in 1827, and was there married to Luceva Ward. In 1845 they moved to Illinois, where his wife died. He subsequently married Mrs. Amanda Strider. He is member of Masonic Fraternity. In politics he is a greenbacker and has held local offices."
The 1885 Iowa Census has John N and Amanda, Allen Lee and Anna Elva, living on a farm located at: Franklin County, Twp 90 (Lee), Range 21, Section 22, SW SE (160 acres), which is due east of Popejoy and due north of Iowa Falls. Also living on this farm are John N and Amanda's daughter Florilla Ursula Gibbs age 26 and her husband Thomas Gibbs age 30, and their children, William Allen Gibbs 4, Lewis Gibbs 2, and Edward Gibbs, infant.
In 1889, John N. purchased 78.64 acres for $2,000 on the west side of Iowa Falls, with a mill site on it. In 1892, John N. purchased 28 acres and 5 acres, respectively, on the west side of Iowa Falls, for $623, total.
The 1892 Hardin County, IA, Plat Book indicates "J. Montgomery" owned a total of 150 acres, west of Iowa Falls, IA, with a Mill Site or Brick Yard on it. A draft of John N.'s will (not probated) dated October, 1883, indicates ownership of property in the amount of approximately 150 acres just to the west of Iowa Falls, above the river.
In 1883 (John N's Draft Will) and in 1900 (US Census) they were living in Hardin County, Iowa.
In the US Census of 1900, John Nelson and Amanda are found to be living with their daughter, Minnie M. Montgomery Stewart (Stuart), age 34, along with Minnie's husband, Edmund W., age 39, and children, Ethel, 14, Myrtle C., 11, and Raymond, 9. Amanda died January 28, 1901, in Iowa Falls, IA.
According to documents located in 1991, in the Hardin County Courthouse in Eldora, IA, John N. began selling property in the Spring of 1901:
8 acres to Willie Mitchell, March 12, 1901;
8 acres to Henry Rush, May 17, 1901;
64 acres to J. Kennedy, July 3, 1901.
John N. died at Siloam Springs, Arkansas, September 19, 1908, after moving to Arkansas, in January, 1907, with his son, Allan Lee Montgomery, due to health (asthma / hay fever) concerns.
The graves of John N. and Amanda H. were found in the Union Cemetery in Iowa Falls, IA, in 1991, by William J. Montgomery (RIN 1 - g-g-grandson) at locations, 4.A. L10 s8 and s7.
John Nelson Montgomery's Mother, Malinda Platt Montgomery, may be buried in the cemetery next to the Lee Twp, Franklin County farm of John Nelson's (1870 Iowa Census, 160 acres) at T90, R21, S22, SW (1/2) SE (1/4)), since she died "at the home of her son, in Iowa Falls in 1874", and "is buried in Iowa Falls", according to her printed obituary. There was a cemetery designated with a cross on the 1875 Plat Map, located just north of the homesite location, also marked on the farm property. This property today is vacant, tilled farm land, as seen from satellite photography.
General Notes: Wife - Amanda Harriet Springstead
Amanda's first husband, John G. Strider, died 11 April 1851, shortly after his return from the California (Gold Rush) with 210 ounces of gold valued at $3,675.00. His total estate was valued at $4,797.37, less $1,130.89 in debts.
A lengthy Probate File exists at the LaSalle County Geneology Guild, Ottawa, IL, for John G. Strider, of which a copy has been obtained. John did not die until 11 April 1951, according to his Probate file. According to the 1850 Census of LaSalle County, IL, Amanda and her daughter were living with her parents, thought heretofore because John had died, but was it because John was in California for the gold rush? Amanda and John Strider had one daughter together, Mary Jane Strider.
Amanda married John Nelson Montgomery 84 days after her husband, John G. Strider, had died. Amanda was with child when her husband died 12 Apr 1851. George Albert Strider was born in May of 1851, according to later 1860 US Census records, and was in the household with Amanda and husband John N at age 8. George Albert is named as a brother to Mary Jane on land records of 1857, with Jeremiah Poor as the children's legal Guardian.
According to the 1900 Census, Amanda and John N. Montogmery indicated having had 10 children, of whom 8 were still living in 1900.
According to the 1900 Census, her daughter, Minnie, was listed as having been born in Illinois in 1865.
Notes: Marriage
Second marriage for both parties - first spouses having both died. Marriage License No. 2, Volume B, LaSalle County, from the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900 @ www.lscgg.org. (LaSalle County Geneology Guild)
General Notes: Child - Luceva Amanda Montgomery
US Census 1880: Living in Lee Township, Franklin County, IA, with husband, Joseph Wells, son John J., and infant daughter, Bessie.
General Notes: Child - Luevia Montgomery
Named on 1860 Illinois Census, Serena Twsp, LaSalle County.
Not on 1870 US Census in Iowa.
Buried in Springstead Cemetery?
Not named in Father's Draft Will of 1883.
General Notes: Child - Florilla Ursula Montgomery
1880 US Census: Living in Lee Township, Franklin County, IA, with husband, Thomas Gibbs, and son, William.
1885 Iowa State Census: Living in Lee Township, Franklin County, IA, with husband Thomas and 3 children on the same farm as her father and mother, brother Allen Lee and sister Anne Ella.
1893 - Living in Estherville, Iowa, according to her father's Draft Will.
Per William (Bill) Taylor, G-Grandson of Florilla and Edward:
After 1900, the Family moved to Eugene, Oregon.
Edward Gibbs worked for the railroad in Iowa, and they may have moved west in conjunction with the railroad (conjecture).
Prior to 1920, moved to Los Angeles, CA, with daughter Grace and husband Charles Hinkley.
General Notes: Child - Manley Montgomery
Named on 1860 Illinois Census, Serena Twsp, LaSalle County.
Not on 1870 US Census in Iowa.
Buried in Springstead Cemetery?
Not named in father's Draft Will of 1883.
General Notes: Child - Minnie M. Aria Montgomery
Birthdate taken from 1900 Census at Iowa Falls, IA.
Living on River Street, Iowa Falls, IA, on January 17, 1920: US Census.
General Notes: Child - Allen Lee Montgomery
Below is the text of three letters written by Alan Lee Montgomery to his half-brother, James Ivor Montgomery, around the time of their father's death in 1908. The letters were the only glimpse of "Lee" and his sisters, and of Lee's children, until receipt of the Obituary of Bessie, Lee's daughter, in 2005, by the G-Grandson of James Ivor, Willliam J. Montgomery 4 (James Robert 3, Ward Pease 2, James Ivor 1).
In the three letters, Alan tells his brother, Ivor:
He moved to Arkansas from Iowa in January, 1907, with his family and his father, John Nelson Montgomery;
Both he and his father suffered from asthma;
Their Father passed away (letter 2);
He had two children, Bessie (married to Mr. Grupe) and Charlie, 7 years old;
He lived in the town of Siloam Springs on a rented acre with house and orchard;
Bessie lived with her husband (Otto) on a farm six miles out of Siloam Springs on the Illinois River (Hico?);
Details of getting their father's body back to Iowa and who paid for same and why;
And more.
"Siloam Springs, Ark
9-16-(19)08
My Dear Brother,
Excuse me if I do not write much of a letter this time for Father is dying & I am watching him & writing, too.
My God, Ivor I am surprised at what you have written me. What are they made of? Are they so much wrapped up in the almighty dollar that they have forgotten that they are only flesh & blood? Ivor, you have my sincere sympathy. I only hope they will see their foolish mistake before it is irreparable.
Well, we came here 1 year ago last Jan(uary). I had the asthma so bad in Iowa I had to get out so came down here. I do not have it as bad here although am not well by any means. Father has been very hearty since we came here but he has just naturally broke down. He is still conscious but can hardly speak a word audible but lets me know what he wants by gesture. He wants me right by him all the time. He has been sick since two weeks ago last Friday. He cannot last long. Poor old Father. How I will miss him. The girls want him sent back to the Falls. But I do not know what I can do yet for I just have not got the money & do not know whether I can get it here or not. I would willingly pay all if I could. It seems to me they ought to help a little. I wish you were able to come for I think you would be better here.
More next time.
Your Loving Bro.
Lee"
__________________
"Siloam Springs, Ark
9-27-08
My Dear Brother,
I read your most welcome letter day before yesterday. Was very glad to hear from you, but sorry you are so poorly. I hope you are much better now.
Well Ivor, poor Father is gone. He died at 10 min to 8 o'clock, Sat. the 19th. He was sick just 3 weeks. He made up his mind he was going to die right from the start . . . and oh, how he did suffer and long for it to be over with. I never want to see anybody go through what he did again. The Dr. said he was just simply wore out. He would not take but very little medicine and ate practically nothing, living principally on milk. He was well and hearty up to the time he was taken sick. He was conscious up to a few hours before his death. Poor Father, how I miss him. He wanted me to take care of him all the time. Nobody could ehandle him, he thought, like Lee. I think I undressed & went to bed just twice in 3 weeks. But I was only doing my duty. I only wish I could have done more for him. So on last Monday I sent the remains back to Iowa Falls to be laid at rest beside of Mother/ God bless them.
Ella came down and stayed a few days but returned home about a week before he died. Minnie lost their youngest girl about that time. Ella reached home just in time for the funeral. She was 19 years old and graduated last June. She had I think what the Doctor called peritonitis.
Well, Ivor, I like it here very well. We have a fine climate, splendid water. While common labor is not quite as high here being from $1.00 to $1.50, skilled labor is fully as good or better. I have got at Carpenter work $2.50 to $2.75 all summer when there was work. It has been a little dull here this summer for the apple crop was almost a failure & that means a whole lot here.
Well, I must close. It is nearly 10 o'clock.
Write soon,
Your loving brother,
A.L.M."
(Denoted answered on October 6, 1908, by J. Ivor)
__________________
"Siloam Springs, Ark.
11-1-1908
J. Ivor Montgomery
My Dear Brother,
I rec'd your welcome letter some little time ago, but have been very busy & neglected answering sooner. We are well as usual. I hope this may find you much improved. Father is buried beside Mother in the Iowa Falls cemetery. Yes, I rec'd a card from Ella's girl saying her Ma came home sick, but that is the last word I have had direct from them. Not one word since I sent Father up there.
You ask me to tell you all about my family. Well, we have but 2 children. Bessie, the girl, is married & lives here. She is a bright little girl. She married a man by the name of Grupe. He has a farm here about 6 miles from town on the Illinois River. Then, we have 1 boy, 7 years old. We call him Charlie. He is a chip off the old block.
We came here 1 year ago last Jan. mostly on account of my asthma. Yes, I like it here very well. While the soil is not as good as Iowa, the climate more than makes up the difference. My asthma is not as near as bad as it was in Iowa.
This is quite a fruit country, but the late frost got us last Spring. The peaches were not over 1/2 crop & the apples at most a total failure. So, times have been dull this summer.
I live in town on a rented place. I pay $8.00 per month rent for a house & 1 acre of ground with orchard on. Father's sickness and funeral cost me over $100.00 but if I have any health I will try & wiggle out after a while. No, the other children did not pay anything but the express from here to Iowa Falls, about $21.00, and they hated to do that. I am very sorry the asthma troubles you so. I wish you were here. I do not believe you would be so bad. I do not do much of anything for mine any more, although I am up from 1 to 2 hours most every night. I do not have it so hard as I did up north. Father was delighted with the climate here. He enjoyed it so much.
Well, it is past my bedtime, so will have to close for this time.
Write soon, from your loving brother,
Lee"
1900 US Census: Living in Oakland Township (Popejoy), Franklin County, Iowa, with wife, Cora Belle, and daughter, Bessie, age 11. Shown to be a wagonmaker.
1907-1908 - Moved from Iowa to Siloam Springs, AR, with daughter, Bessie and her husband, Otto Grupe, and most likely his father, John Nelson Montgomery. Bessie moved with one child and another on the way (22 April) and had two more children between 1908 and 1917.
September 1908 - his father, John Nelson Montgomery, age 81, dies in Allen Lee's home in Siloam Springs, AR.
1910 US Census: Living on Texas Street, Ward 4, Siloam Springs, AR, with wife Cora Belle, and son, Charley S. Montgomery. Shown to be a carpenter. Texas Street is now South Elm Street. Many street names were changed after WWII, according to the Siloam Springs Museum, Siloam Springs, AR.
1920 US Census: Does not show up in Siloam Springs, AR. Moved to Texas??
Had lived in San Antonio for 10 years, 11 days at time of death = moved to San Antonio in March of 1917.
Died 25 Feb 1928, in San Antonio, TX, at 116 King Street.
His brother, James Ivor Montgomery, would died 16 days later in Illinois.
General Notes: Child - Anne Ella Montgomery
Below is the text of three letters written by Alan Lee Montgomery to his half-brother, James Ivor Montgomery, around the time of their father's death in 1908. The letters were the only glimpse of "Lee" and his sisters, and of Lee's children, until receipt of the Obituary of Bessie, Lee's daughter, in 2005, by the G-Grandson of James Ivor, Willliam J. Montgomery 4 (James Robert 3, Ward Pease 2, James Ivor 1).
In the letters, Alan tells his brother: He moved to Arkansas from Iowa in January 1907 with his family and his father, John Nelson Montgomery; both he and his father suffered from asthma; their Father passed away (letter 2); he had two children, Bessie (married to Mr. Grupe) and Charlie, 7 years old; he lived in the town of Siloam Springs on a rented acre with house and orchard; Bessie lived with her husband (Otto) on a farm six miles out of Siloam Springs on the Illinois River; details of getting their father's body back to Iowa and who paid for same and why; and more.
"Siloam Springs, Ark
9-16-(19)08
My Dear Brother,
Excuse me if I do not write much of a letter this time for Father is dying & I am watching him & writing, too.
My God, Ivor I am surprised at what you have written me. What are they made of? Are they so much wrapped up in the almighty dollar that they have forgotten that they are only flesh & blood? Ivor, you have my sincere sympathy. I only hope they will see their foolish mistake before it is irreparable.
Well, we came here 1 year ago last Jan(uary). I had the asthma so bad in Iowa I had to get out so came down here. I do not have it as bad here although am not well by any means. Father has been very hearty since we came here but he has just naturally broke down. He is still conscious but can hardly speak a word audible but lets me know what he wants by gesture. He wants me right by him all the time. He has been sick since two weeks ago last Friday. He cannot last long. Poor old Father. How I will miss him. The girls want him sent back to the Falls. But I do not know what I can do yet for I just have not got the money & do not know whether I can get it here or not. I would willingly pay all if I could. It seems to me they ought to help a little. I wish you were able to come for I think you would be better here.
More next time.
Your Loving Bro.
Lee"
__________________
"Siloam Springs, Ark
9-27-08
My Dear Brother,
I read your most welcome letter day before yesterday. Was very glad to hear from you, but sorry you are so poorly. I hope you are much better now.
Well Ivor, poor Father is gone. He died at 10 min to 8 o'clock, Sat. the 19th. He was sick just 3 weeks. He made up his mind he was going to die right from the start . . . and oh, how he did suffer and long for it to be over with. I never want to see anybody go through what he did again. The Dr. said he was just simply wore out. He would not take but very little medicine and ate practically nothing, living principally on milk. He was well and hearty up to the time he was taken sick. He was conscious up to a few hours before his death. Poor Father, how I miss him. He wanted me to take care of him all the time. Nobody could ehandle him, he thought, like Lee. I think I undressed & went to bed just twice in 3 weeks. But I was only doing my duty. I only wish I could have done more for him. So on last Monday I sent the remains back to Iowa Falls to be laid at rest beside of Mother/ God bless them.
Ella came down and stayed a few days but returned home about a week before he died. Minnie lost their youngest girl about that time. Ella reached home just in time for the funeral. She was 19 years old and graduated last June. She had I think what the Doctor called peritonitis.
Well, Ivor, I like it here very well. We have a fine climate, splendid water. While common labor is not quite as high here being from $1.00 to $1.50, skilled labor is fully as good or better. I have got at Carpenter work $2.50 to $2.75 all summer when there was work. It has been a little dull here this summer for the apple crop was almost a failure & that means a whole lot here.
Well, I must close. It is nearly 10 o'clock.
Write soon,
Your loving brother,
A.L.M."
(Denoted answered on October 6, 1908, by J. Ivor)
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"Siloam Springs, Ark.
11-1-1908
J. Ivor Montgomery
My Dear Brother,
I rec'd your welcome letter some little time ago, but have been very busy & neglected answering sooner. We are well as usual. I hope this may find you much improved. Father is buried beside Mother in the Iowa Falls cemetery. Yes, I rec'd a card from Ella's girl saying her Ma came home sick, but that is the last word I have had direct from them. Not one word since I sent Father up there.
You ask me to tell you all about my family. Well, we have but 2 children. Bessie, the girl, is married & lives here. She is a bright little girl. She married a man by the name of Grupe. He has a farm here about 6 miles from town on the Illinois River. Then, we have 1 boy, 7 years old. We call him Charlie. He is a chip off the old block.
We came here 1 year ago last Jan. mostly on account of my asthma. Yes, I like it here very well. While the soil is not as good as Iowa, the climate more than makes up the difference. My asthma is not as near as bad as it was in Iowa.
This is quite a fruit country, but the late frost got us last Spring. The peaches were not over 1/2 crop & the apples at most a total failure. So, times have been dull this summer.
I live in town on a rented place. I pay $8.00 per month rent for a house & 1 acre of ground with orchard on. Father's sickness and funeral cost me over $100.00 but if I have any health I will try & wiggle out after a while. No, the other children did not pay anything but the express from here to Iowa Falls, about $21.00, and they hated to do that. I am very sorry the asthma troubles you so. I wish you were here. I do not believe you would be so bad. I do not do much of anything for mine any more, although I am up from 1 to 2 hours most every night. I do not have it so hard as I did up north. Father was delighted with the climate here. He enjoyed it so much.
Well, it is past my bedtime, so will have to close for this time.
Write soon, from your loving brother,
Lee"
Husband Joseph Montgomery
Born: 1788
Baptized:
Died: 1859
Buried:
Father: William Montgomery
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M William Montgomery
Born: 1813
Baptized:
Died: 1816
Buried:
2 M Howell Montgomery
Born: 1814
Baptized:
Died: 1816
Buried:
3 M John H. Montgomery
Born: 1826
Baptized:
Died: 1829
Buried:
4 M William Montgomery
Born: 1828
Baptized:
Died: 1831
Buried:
Husband Joseph Montgomery
Born: June 15, 1866
Baptized:
Died: December 24, 1946 - Campbellton PEI
Buried: - Geddie Mem Cem New London PEI
Father: William Macewen
Mother: Jane Montgomery
Marriage: 1895
Wife Victoria Simpson
Born: March 16, 1867 - Hope River PEI
Baptized:
Died: December 30, 1902
Buried: - Geddie Mem Cem New London PEI
Children
1 F Jane Montgomery
Born: October 23, 1896
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
2 M Lorne Simpson
Born: October 4, 1898
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
3 M Frederick William Montgomery
Born: September 9, 1900
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
4 M Ernest Sutherland Montgomery
Born: December 15, 1902
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband Tim Tomlinson
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Judy Lynn Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Manton Montgomery
Mother: Catherine Newell Griffin
Other Spouse: Bigham
Children
General Notes: Husband - Tim Tomlinson
--Invalid Dates Birth: Private
General Notes: Wife - Judy Lynn Montgomery
--Invalid Dates Birth: Private
Husband Capt. John Buck Watrous
Born: January 15, 1790 - Saybrook, CT
Baptized:
Died: February 24, 1869
Buried:
Marriage: June 23, 1823
Wife Julia Montgomery
Born: December 14, 1806 - Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized: 1807 - Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
Died: October 24, 1882 - Ashtabula, Ashtabula County, OH
Buried: October 1882 - Ashtabula, Ashtabula County, OH
Father: Captain James Montgomery
Mother: Mary Polly Baldwin
Children
1 F Mary Cordelia Watrous
Born: June 10, 1824 - Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died: February 24, 1906
Buried:
Spouse: John J. Post
Marr: December 12, 1844
Spouse: Henry Fassett
Marr: April 16, 1884
2 F Ann Elizabeth Watrous
Born: March 19, 1826 - Jefferson, Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Darius Cadwell
Marr: April 13, 1847
3 M John Watrous
Born: May 27, 1828 - Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died: February 28, 1831
Buried:
4 F Cornelia G. Watrous
Born: March 16, 1830 - Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died: February 4, 1864
Buried:
Spouse: James D. Ray
Marr: August 21, 1850
5 F Julia Ann Watrous
Born: April 17, 1832
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
6 F Sarah C. Watrous
Born: January 25, 1835 - Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died: February 19, 1895
Buried:
7 M John E. Watrous
Born: September 25, 1837 - Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died: July 14, 1880
Buried:
8 F Ellen Adele Watrous
Born: August 19, 1839 - Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
9 M Frances H. Watrous
Born: March 26, 1842 - Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died: October 19, 1891
Buried:
10 M Richard W. Watrous
Born: August 15, 1848 - Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died: September 30, 1890
Buried:
11 M Leverett Watrous
Born: September 1, 1850 - Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died: September 9, 1884
Buried:
Husband Charles Wilmot Rideout
Born: April 24, 1907 - Riverbank, New Brunswick, Canada 5
Baptized:
Died: June 3, 1979 - Royal Oak, MI
Cause of Death: Lung Cancer
Buried: - Detroit, Michigan
Father: Samuel Wilmot Rideout 6
Mother: Harriet Louise Parent 6
Marriage: October 19, 1926 - Royal Oak, MI
Noted events in his life were:
1. Medical Condition, Cancer probably from asbestos brake linings. Very healthy otherwise.
2. Alt. Birth 5, Riverbank, New Brunswick, Canada, April 24, 1907
3. Emigration, From Riverbank, New Brunswick, 1925
4. Alt. Death, Royal Oak, MI, June 3, 1979
Wife Leota Isobel Montgomery
Born: September 1, 1907 - Landsdowne, New Brunswick, Canada
Baptized:
Died: August 26, 1993 - Royal Oak, MI
Buried: - Detroit, Michigan
Noted events in her life were:
1. Naturalization, Had name changed from Leotia Isabella, March 9, 1948
2. Alt. Death, Royal Oak, MI, August 26, 1993
Noted events in their marriage were:
1. Alt. Marriage, Royal Oak, MI, October 19, 1926
Children
General Notes: Husband - Charles Wilmot Rideout
An item in the Hartland, Observer, probably about 1917, Says that
Sewell McKeil's teams are unloaded by C.W. Rideout, our curly-headed boy. Later in the same article it states, Charles Rideout and Seth Brooks are running a Chinese Laundry, Sunday being their busy day.
General Notes: Wife - Leota Isobel Montgomery
Index to Late Registration of Births
Child MONTGOMERY, LEOTIA ISABELL
Sex F
Date of Birth 1907 | 09 | 01 (Y-M-D)
Place LANSDOWNE
County CARLETON
Father MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM J.
Mother FOSTER, JENNIE M.
Code 1907-802267
Microfilm F21588
Husband William Tuttle
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Marriage: June 20, 1822
Wife Letta Morehouse Montgomery
Born: 1799
Baptized:
Died:
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Father: Rev. Robert Montgomery
Mother: Lydia Morehouse
Children
1 M P. W. Tuttle
Born:
Baptized:
Died: 1878 - Geneva, OH
Buried:
2 F Mary Tuttle
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Makepiece Fitch
Husband Levi Montgomery
Born: July 1782 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died: April 14, 1845 - Maple Grove Cemetery, Conneaut, OH
Buried:
Father: Robert Montgomery
Mother: Mary White
Marriage: 1803 - Ashtabula, OH
Wife Elizabeth Woodworth
Born: 1789
Baptized:
Died: April 6, 1852
Buried: - Maple Grove Cemetery, Conneaut, OH
Father: Ezekial Woodworth
Mother: Lyon
Other Spouse: Mason Tower - 1847
Children
1 F Lucinda Montgomery
Born: 1805 - Salem / Conneaut, OH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: William Gale
2 M Alanson Montgomery
Born: 1806 - Salem / Conneaut, OH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Sally Bishop
Marr: April 30, 1827 - Ashtabula County, OH
Spouse: Montgomery
Marr: 1833 - Harpersfield Township, Ashtabula County, OH
General Notes: Husband - Levi Montgomery
1799 - went to Ohio with brother John and father Robert Montogmery.
Husband Lewis Montgomery
Born: 1798 - Harpersfield, Delaware County, NY
Baptized:
Died: February 11, 1874
Buried: 1874
Father: Captain James Montgomery
Mother: Mary Polly Baldwin
Marriage: October 31, 1819 - Ashtabula County, OH
Other Spouse: Sarah Evans - March 8, 1842 - Geneva, Ashtabula County, OH
Wife Tirzah Thompson
Born: 1803 - NY
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Franklin Montgomery
Born: 1831 - OH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
2 M Orrin Montgomery
Born: August 1, 1834 - Geneva, Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died: August 26, 1889 - Hampton, VA
Buried:
Spouse: Samantha Elizabeth Wilcox
Marr: December 10, 1855 - Ashtabula County, OH
Spouse: Samantha Hannah Wyman
Marr: December 18, 1855
3 F Louisa Montgomery
Born: 1836 - OH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
4 M Levi Lewis Montgomery
Born: 1838
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
5 F Julia M. Montgomery
Born: 1840
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
6 M Ross Montgomery
Born: - OH
Baptized:
Died:
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General Notes: Husband - Lewis Montgomery
1850 Federal Census, Ohio, Ashtabula County, Geneva Township, Reel No: M452-659, Sheet No. 220B
Enumerated on Nov. 11, 1850 by A.C. Hubbard, Assistant Marshall, Page No. 436:
Montgomery, Lewis, Age ??, M, Farmer, Farm Value $1,000, Born NY
Montgomery, Sarah, Age 47, F, Born NY
Montgomery, Franklin, Age 19, M, Chair Maker, Born Ohio
Montgomery, Orrin, Age 16, M, Farmer, Born Ohio
Montgomery, Louisa, Age ??, F, Born ??
1850 Federal Census, Ohio, Ashtabula County, Geneva Township, Reel No: M452-659, Sheet No. 221A
Enumerated on Nov. 11, 1850 by A. C. Hubbard, Assistant Marshall, Page No. 437:
Montgomery, Julia M., Age 10, F, Born Ohio, In School
Montgomery, ??, Age ??, M, Born Ohio
Husband Major Louis Montgomery
Born: August 18, 1891 - Geneva, Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died: December 29, 1950 - Ashtabula, OH
Buried:
Father: James Franklin Frederick Montgomery
Mother: Cora Ellen Osborn Custin
Marriage: October 16, 1915 - Ashtabula, OH
Wife Anna May Nelius
Born: January 3, 1894
Baptized:
Died: December 29, 1950
Buried:
Children
1 M Edward Louis Montgomery
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
2 F Frances Anna Montgomery
Born: January 28, 1919 - Ashtabula, OH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Clair Louis Harper
Marr: August 19, 1944 - Ashtabula, Ashtabula County, OH
3 M Robert Nelius Montgomery
Born:
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4 M James David Montgomery
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Eleanjeanne Rose
Husband Joseph M. Wells
Born: April 1844 - NY
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: December 22, 1872 - IL
Wife Luceva Amanda Montgomery
Born: November 1855 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Nelson Montgomery
Mother: Amanda Harriet Springstead
Children
1 M John J. Wells
Born: 1877 - Lee Township, Franklin County, IA
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
2 F Bessie Wells
Born: July 1879 - Lee Township, Franklin County, IA
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes: Wife - Luceva Amanda Montgomery
US Census 1880: Living in Lee Township, Franklin County, IA, with husband, Joseph Wells, son John J., and infant daughter, Bessie.
Husband Warren Walker
Born: 1872
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Lucy A. Montgomery
Born: 1874
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Lucius Montgomery
Mother: Mary A. Day
Children
1 F Viola A. Walker
Born: 1894
Baptized:
Died:
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2 M Minot G. Walker
Born: 1896
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband Majhugh Montgomery Of Mayhera
Born:
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Father: Hugh Montgomery Of Mayhera
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
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Died:
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Children
1 M William Montgomery Of Mayhera
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Husband Steel
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Margaret Montgomery
Born:
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Died:
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Father: Robert Montgomery
Mother: Montgomery
Children
Husband Reuben Smith
Born:
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Died:
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Marriage:
Wife Margaret Montgomery
AKA: Peggy, Peggy
Born: October 21, 1784 - Francestown, NH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Hugh Montgomery
Mother: Mary Campbell
Children
Husband Robert Sutherland
Born: May 16, 1846
Baptized:
Died: July 10, 1905 - Malpeque Peoples Cemetary PEI
Buried:
Father: John St. Clair Sutherland
Mother: Marion Miller
Marriage: January 28, 1875
Noted events in his life were:
1. Marriage License
Wife Margaret Ellen Montgomery
Born: November 3, 1848
Baptized:
Died: May 3, 1920 - Malpeque Peoples Cemetary PEI
Buried: - Malpeque PEI
Noted events in her life were:
1. Description
Children
1 M Robert Leigh Sutherland
Born: 1885
Baptized:
Died: January 1, 1948
Buried:
Spouse: Ethel Blanche Macgougan
Marr: January 10, 1912
2 M William Henry Sutherland
Born: 1876
Baptized:
Died: September 3, 1945
Buried: - Vancouver Canada
Spouse: Margaret Lillian Odonahue
Marr: September 11, 1908
3 M John David Sutherland
Born: 1875
Baptized:
Died: November 17, 1938
Buried:
Spouse: Ethel Maude McKinley
Marr: June 2, 1903
4 U Marion Amelia Sutherland
Born: 1879
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
5 M James St. Clair Sutherland
Born: 1882
Baptized:
Died: July 14, 1950 - Summerside PEI
Buried:
Spouse: Elean M. Alward
Marr: September 19, 1911
6 U Annie Florence Sutherland
Born: 1887
Baptized:
Died: 1967
Buried:
General Notes: Wife - Margaret Ellen Montgomery
AUNT TO LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY ,AUTHOR OF ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
Husband Wesley Robinson
Born: March 20, 1820 - Manchester, Dearborn County, IN
Baptized:
Died: May 31, 1900 - Sterling, Whiteside County, IL
Buried:
Father: Stephen Robinson
Mother: Mahitable Plummer
Marriage: April 27, 1847 - Whiteside County, IL
Wife Maria Montgomery
Born: November 6, 1818 - Roxbury, Delaware County, NY
Baptized:
Died: February 13, 1900 - Sterling, Whiteside County, IL
Buried:
Father: Martin Montgomery
Mother: Lois Wait
Children
1 M Frank Clay Robinson
Born: September 5, 1855 - Coleta, Whiteside County, IL
Baptized:
Died: March 24, 1940 - Rock Falls, Whiteside County, IL
Buried:
Spouse: Margaret Reap
Marr: January 1886 - Morrison, IL
Husband Eli Zoerb
Born:
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Marriage:
Wife Marion Mae Montgomery
Born: June 29, 1910 - Beach, ND
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Warren Edmund Montgomery
Mother: Monica Mae Raetaezyk
Children
Husband David Olds
Born:
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Marriage:
Wife Martha Montgomery
Born: October 12, 1782
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Hugh Montgomery
Mother: Hannah Mack
Children
Husband Martin Montgomery
Born: 1780 - Londonderry, Windham, VT
Baptized:
Died: 1860 - Sterling, Whiteside County, IL
Buried:
Father: Robert Montgomery
Mother: Polly
Marriage: 1800 - Roxbury, Delaware County, NY
Wife Lois Wait
Born: 1782 - West Greenwich, Kent, RI
Baptized:
Died: 1840 - Whiteside County, IL
Buried:
Father: Thomas Wait
Mother: Naomi Weeks Wickes
Children
1 F Eunice M. Montgomery
Born: 1801 - Roxbury, Delaware County, NY
Baptized:
Died: 1869 - Clyde, Whiteside County, IL
Buried:
Spouse: Zachariah Dent
2 M Charles Montgomery
Born: 1802 - Roxbury, Delaware County, NY
Baptized:
Died: - NE
Buried:
Spouse: Montgomery
3 M Thomas Montgomery
Born: 1804
Baptized:
Died:
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4 F Katherine Montgomery
Born: 1806 - Roxbury, Delaware County, NY
Baptized:
Died: 1876 - Whiteside County, IL
Buried:
Spouse: John Martin
5 M Martin M. Montgomery
Born: - Roxbury, Delaware County, NY
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
6 F Maria Montgomery
Born: November 6, 1818 - Roxbury, Delaware County, NY
Baptized:
Died: February 13, 1900 - Sterling, Whiteside County, IL
Buried:
Spouse: Wesley Robinson
Marr: April 27, 1847 - Whiteside County, IL
Husband Elihu Sperry
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Marriage: February 2, 1846
Wife Mary Montgomery
Born: 1825 - Madison Township, Geauga County, OH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Harper Montgomery
Mother: Malinda Platt
Children
Husband Hubbard Vandine
Born: April 16, 1882 - Mineral Springs, Carleton Co., New Brunswick, Canada
Baptized:
Died: August 25, 1955
Buried:
Father: Coburn Stelwood Vandine
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Williams
Marriage:
Wife Mary J. Montgomery
Born:
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Died:
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Children
1 F Mellissa L. Vandine
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Byron E. Thompson
Marr: September 30, 1952
2 M Alfred Vandine
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Florence Gordon
3 M Albert Vandine
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Betty Harmon
4 M Leslie Vandine
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Lillie Lawrence
5 M Joseph Vandine
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Mary Jewers
6 M Reuben Vandine
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Shirley Morse
7 F Elsie Vandine
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Ralph Tucker
8 F Marion Vandine
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Floyd Tozier
9 M Gareth Vandine
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Ann Jacobs
10 F Roberta Vandine
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Paul Snowman
Husband Hugh Godsey Withrow
Born: - PA
Baptized:
Died:
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Father: Withrow
Mother: Mother
Marriage: March 2, 1815 - Austinburg, OH
Other Spouse: Nancy Montgomery - October 20, 1821
Wife Mary Jane Montgomery
Born: 1795 - Harpersfield Township, Otsego County, NY
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Captain James Montgomery
Mother: Maria Gaylord
Children
Husband Harold Kenneth Obrien
AKA: Obie
Born: December 17, 1909 - Kingston, IL
Baptized:
Died: July 3, 1981 - Vancouver, WA
Buried:
Father: John William Obrien
Mother: Maud Lillian Moyers
Marriage: June 11, 1934 - Trinity Methodist Church, Denver, CO
Wife Mary Louise Montgomery
Born: July 18, 1913 - Sandwich, IL
Baptized:
Died: March 29, 2010 - Vancouver, WA
Buried:
Father: Ward Pease Montgomery
Mother: May Belle Fitzgerald
Children
1 M Obrien
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Patricia Lorraine Mowrey
Spouse: Smith
General Notes: Husband - Harold Kenneth Obrien
Excerpts from "It All Started", an autobrigraphy by Mary Lou Montgomery "O'Brien, Obie's wife;
"Harold Kenneth "Obie" O'Brien was born December 17, 1909 in Kingston, Illinois. His mother was Maude Lillian Moyers and his father was John William "Jack" O'Brien. At the time of his birth he had two sisters, Beulah, born Dec. 27, 1903 and Berneldine, born July 4, 1906. His brother, Boyd, was born July 5, 1911 and another sister, Anna, on December 30, 1913.
Maude O'Brien's parents were John and Nancy (Goble) Moyers. Maude had three older brothers, Leslie, Boyd and Bert. She was born August 20, 1879. John "Jack" O'Brien's parents were William (born in County Tipperary, Ireland) and Johanna (Dohorty) O'Brien (born in Wigan England.) "Jack" was born in Wigan on September 18, 1868 and emigrated to the U.S.A. with his parents in 1869. He had two sisters who died in infancy and a younger brother, Joseph.
When Harold "Obie" O'Brien was eleven months old he was stricken with infantile paralysis, known today as polio. In those days not much could be done for polio. One thing they tried was "mud baths". I believe he spent some time in a sanitarium as a small boy. I have pictures of a wheelchair, and of him with a cane or crutches. Also, one with brother Boyd, standing on their heads! I know that Boyd would pull him to school in their little wagon. I don't know how old he was when he was first fitted for leg braces, but he wore a full one on his left leg and one up to his knee on his right leg for the rest of his life.
I also know that he grew up surrounded by love and discipline and music. Jack played the violin and trumpet, Maude played the mandolin, and they both sang in the church choir. Obie was taught to play the piano, but didn't like to practice, so his mom gave him the choice of practicing or washing dishes and he chose to wash dishes. He also learned to play the trumpet and he really loved that! He gained a reputation in Sycamore, Illinois (where the family now lived), DeKalb, and the Fox River Valley for his fine jazz trumpet and his improvisation. Unfortunately, his father didn't live to know of this. Jack contracted pneumonia and, complicated by spinal meningitis, passed away on March 5, 1923. Jack was only 54 years old and Obie was just 13. In High School his music teacher took an interest in him, helping to steer him to a career in music. He graduated from Sycamore High in 1928 and then took several music courses at Northern Illinois Teachers College in DeKalb.
I don't know what early groups he played with, but he often mentioned going to Harbor Springs, Michigan, several summers with Jerry Glidden's Orchestra. Other ones were Orrin Tucker at the Spanish TeaRoom in Naperville, Illinois and Carl Stetzel at the Log Cabin Ballroom at the Fairgrounds in North Aurora. The first time I met Obie he had played a job with my brother Bob (drummer), and came home with him to sleep. I was working at Fisher's bakery and it was Saturday and I came home for lunch. When they came down stairs Bob introduced us and Obie offered me a ride back to work. This was in the summer of 1932.
The next time I saw Obie was at the racetrack at the Fairgrounds. We met just by chance and we said, "Hi" and not much else. Then, in 1933, IT ALL STARTED."
BODY DONATED TO SCIENCE AT DEATH.
General Notes: Wife - Mary Louise Montgomery
Excerpts from "It All Started", an autobiography by Mary Lou Montgomery O'Brien, Obie's wife;
"My mother was May Belle Fitzgerald and my father was Ward Pease Montgomery. I am the youngest of three children. My sister, Marilla, was born February 17, 1907, and my brother, James Robert "Bob" was born December 13, 1911.
May Montgomery's parents were James and Ida (Compton) Fitzgerald. May had an older brother, Clifford, a younger sister, Maude, and two younger brothers, Norris and Harold.
May was born September 4, 1881. Ward Montgomery's parents were J. Ivor and Mary (Lett) Montgomery. Ward had an older sister, Jessie, a brother, Florian, and a sister, Edith. Ward was born October 24, 1879.
Marilla, Bob and I all attended a one-room country school. Bob started first grade three months before his sixth birthday and shortly after my fourth birthday. He loved it and would come home and play school with me every day. I started school when I was six and the teacher put me in second grade after the first week, since I'd had such good tutoring!
When I was nine I had a birthday party. The one gift I remember receiving was a box of candy - the first Whitman's Sampler I ever saw. Many things happened in the year that followed - some good and some bad. The first was leaving the farm and our pet hens, and our Collie, "Flossie", and our Shetland pony, "Bud". We used to ride him bareback and I remember one time our dad hitched Bud to a little cart and Bob and I drove him to our little red schoolhouse. So, we moved into Aurora and we went to city schools and we had electric lights! Then, I went to the hospital with a ruptured appendix and stayed there three weeks! But, worst of all was when my father was hospitalized with a ruptured duodenum and the doctor was unable to save his life. On July 2, 1923 he died at the age of 43. On the 18th I became ten years old. Bob was 11 and Marilla was 16 and in high school.
So our mother, May, was left with three children to raise and support. Since Marilla had two years of high school left, it was decided that she would live in Aurora with our paternal grandparents, Mary and Ivor Montgomery. Mother, Bob and I went to our maternal grandparents, Jim and Ida Fitzgerald, who, with Uncle Harold, lived on a farm north of Wheaton, Illinois. May had taught school before she was married and she found a job at a country school quite a distance from Wheaton. This meant we got to see her only on weekends. The next year we all moved to Aurora and May taught in the East Aurora schools. In 1925 Marilla graduated from West High. She got a job and the family was reunited and had our own apartment. Bob's first job was as a paperboy and he spent five dollars of his earnings on a second-hand snare drum. Then, during his last year at East High, he worked after school and Saturdays at Fisher's Bakery at 25 cents an hour. Bob added to his drum set and was soon playing dance jobs. When he graduated in 1929, I took over his job at the bakery. I graduated in 1930 and continued to work for Fisher's, part-time.
In 1931 we were living in a duplex on Evans Ave. and Mother took some summer classes at NITC in DeKalb in order to get more credits for her teacher's certificate. Of course we had no car and she had to depend upon public transportation. So, she was home on weekends only. One hot Friday night in August, Bob had played a job after having a headache all day. When he got home he had a backache, too, and couldn't get to sleep. He asked me to rub his back, which I did. I returned to my room and went to sleep. Soon, he was in my room, wanting me to rub his back again. I think he finally fell asleep in my bed. The next morning he was paralyzed and couldn't get out of bed. I don't know where Marilla was, but when Mother got home, that was what confronted her. She called Dr. Lindbergh, whom we knew from the Presbyterian Church. He was an osteopath and he came just about every day and massaged and massaged. He said it was polio and recommended lots of fluids, fruit and juices, which I took up to Bob. I used to help him out of bed, to the bathroom, back to bed, turn him over. I still worked at the bakery from 4:00 to 6:00 and Saturdays, so he wasn't left alone very much. When he got so he could go downstairs, he would sit at the top and go down a step at a time, sitting down. Then he used crutches and gradually got so he could do things and play the drums again. After this "recovery" he was still never able to run.
Fisher's opened a second store in 1932 and I was there by myself every day! Mrs. Fisher brought the day's supply of baked goods and the money and helped me open the store. She came back at noon while I went home for lunch and returned to help me close up at 6:00. It was the beginning of the Great Depression and by 1933 it was obvious that the second store would have to close. As a result, I was out of work. Grandpa Fitzgerald had died in November 1932, so Grandma came to live with us. We moved to a four-bedroom house at 440 Weston in 1933 and that's when IT ALL STARTED.
Bob was playing drums in a small band at a club north of Aurora and they needed a trumpet player. Obie was "between jobs" and joined the band, rooming with Bob. It wasn't long before Obie and I knew we were attracted to each other. He would wash the dishes (Bless his mother!) and I would dry them. So, we always said that love blossomed over the dishpan. Obie didn't have a car at that time, so when we had our first date in October we went to a movie by taxi.
We got engaged on Christmas Eve then, early in January, he left to join Jimmy Garrigan's band in Dallas, Texas. Next they played in Galveston and then up to Minneapolis. While there, Obie came down to Chicago. Marilla and I met him and he bought my engagement ring. Then Marilla and I went shopping for my white organdy wedding dress.
Obie rejoined the band, which went on to Denver. Jimmy was paying $40 a week plus hotel room, which was good, for Depression wages. During all of this time we were writing to each other just about every day. In fact I have a large box filled with our love letters. Phone calls were being made, too, because we were making plans for our wedding! In May, Mother and Marilla had given a Sunday afternoon Tea to announce our engagement. I had four bridal showers. Three cousins - Dorothy and Margaret Montgomery, and Mary Bernard, gave one of them. At noon, Sunday, June 10, friends and family were at the depot in Aurora as I boarded the train for Denver, Colorado. Obie had sent me a hand-trunk, which went in the baggage car. I carried a suitcase (shower gift) and my wedding cake (a gift from Fisher's Bakery) and a box holding my wedding dress. I was so nervous. Chicago was the farthest I'd ever been from home. And, besides, I wasn't sure I was doing the right thing. But, I got lucky.
Bill Smith and Pat Patelski, graduates from East High in 1928, were on the train. They were going to Seattle, Washington and had a few hours' layover in Denver. So, they took me under their wing. There were no eating facilities on the train, so when we got to Omaha, Nebraska, everyone went in the station to eat. The next morning, the train stopped in McCook, Nebraska. We all walked up a little hill to have breakfast at a diner. We arrived in Denver at noon and Obie was really surprised to see me get off the train with those two fellows, but he invited them to the wedding. And they came!
He took me to his place at the Winbro Apartments, then went to the apartment of the best man and his wife, Bob and Lucille Hill. On my wedding day, I couldn't find a washcloth, so I took my bath with a dishrag. I got dressed and we went to the Methodist Church for the four o'clock ceremony. "Skip" Letford, pianist with the orchestra, played the wedding march as Obie and I, wearing a gardenia corsage, went down the aisle together. Band members and wives attended and came to our apartment afterward for wedding cake and punch (generously "spiked" by several of the guys). The band had to play that night, but I spent part of the time napping in the car, making up for sleep lost on the train. Bands in those days often did "remote" radio broadcasts. That night Jimmy Garrigan's orchestra dedicated "I'll String Along With You" to the new Mr. and Mrs. O’Brien who were married that afternoon, June 11, 1934."
General Notes: Child - Obrien
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Husband Edmund W. Stewart
Born: August 1860 - French Canada
Baptized:
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Father: Andrew W. Stewart
Mother: Olive F. Lee
Marriage: 1881 - IA
Wife Minnie M. Aria Montgomery
Born: July 1865 - Serena Township, Lasalle County, IL
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Nelson Montgomery
Mother: Amanda Harriet Springstead
Children
1 F Ethel E. Stewart
Born: June 1885 - IA
Baptized:
Died:
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2 F Myrtle C. Stewart
Born: May 1889 - IA
Baptized:
Died: September 1908 - Iowa Falls, IA
Cause of Death: Peritonitis
Buried:
3 M E. Raymond Stewart
Born: July 1890 - IA
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General Notes: Husband - Edmund W. Stewart
Immigrated to US in 1869 from Ireland (1900 Census).
Living on River Street, Iowa Falls, IA, on January 17, 1920: US Census.
General Notes: Wife - Minnie M. Aria Montgomery
Birthdate taken from 1900 Census at Iowa Falls, IA.
Living on River Street, Iowa Falls, IA, on January 17, 1920: US Census.
General Notes: Child - Myrtle C. Stewart
Cause of death: Peritonitis (according to letter dated 9 Sep 08 from her grandfather Alan Lee Montgomery to her half-Great Uncle, James Ivor Montgomery in LaSalle County, IL - see Notes for Alan Lee Montgomery.)
Husband John Wood
Born: May 1787
Baptized:
Died: August 29, 1868
Buried: - Fairview Cemetery, Madison, OH
Marriage: February 19, 1807 - Madison Township, Geauga County, OH
Wife Miriam Minnie Montgomery
Born: May 1800 - Salem/Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized: September 1804 - Congregational Church, Austinburg Twsp, Ashtabula County, OH
Died: March 20, 1867
Buried: - Fairview Cemetery, Madison, OH
Father: Thomas Montgomery
Mother: Rebecca Harper
Children
1 F Wood
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
2 M Wood
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
General Notes: Husband - John Wood
Came into Madison Township, OH, December 1805, at that time a young single man without family. Purchased Lot No. 20, Paine's Tract (immediately east of the village of Madison.
After marrying Miriam "Minnie" Montgomery, February of 1807, they settled his lot in June, 1807. Paine's Tract, including his lot, was to the east of the village of Madison, to the south of the village of Unionville.
In later years, he was residing with his wife, Miriam "Minnie" Montgomery Wood, "south of the Grand River near the east line of the township".
Buried in grave No. B3 Row 6 Lot 13; Monument: Old white marble stone with rounded top, propped with 2 marble pieces.
General Notes: Wife - Miriam Minnie Montgomery
After marrying John Wood in February of about 1817, she and John settled John's Lot 20 of Paine's Tract, Madison Township, in June of about 1817. Paine's Tract, including Lot 20, was to the east of the Village of Madison, southwest of the Village of Unionville.
In later years, she was residing with her husband John Wood, "south of the Grand River near the east line of the township".
Buried in grave No. B3 Row 6 Lot 12; Monument: Old white marble stone with rounded top, propped with 2 marble pieces.
Husband Hugh Wishrow
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: October 20, 1821
Wife Nancy Montgomery
Born: 1804 - Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Captain James Montgomery
Mother: Mary Polly Baldwin
Other Spouse: Hugh Godsey Withrow - October 20, 1821
Children
Husband Hugh Godsey Withrow
Born: - PA
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Withrow
Mother: Mother
Marriage: October 20, 1821
Other Spouse: Mary Jane Montgomery - March 2, 1815 - Austinburg, OH
Wife Nancy Montgomery
Born: 1804 - Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Captain James Montgomery
Mother: Mary Polly Baldwin
Other Spouse: Hugh Wishrow - October 20, 1821
Children
Husband Orrin Montgomery
Born: August 1, 1834 - Geneva, Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died: August 26, 1889 - Hampton, VA
Buried:
Father: Lewis Montgomery
Mother: Tirzah Thompson
Marriage: December 10, 1855 - Ashtabula County, OH
Other Spouse: Samantha Hannah Wyman - December 18, 1855
Wife Samantha Elizabeth Wilcox
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Milo Everett Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
2 F Clare Elmeda Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband Orrin Montgomery
Born: August 1, 1834 - Geneva, Ashtabula County, OH
Baptized:
Died: August 26, 1889 - Hampton, VA
Buried:
Father: Lewis Montgomery
Mother: Tirzah Thompson
Marriage: December 18, 1855
Other Spouse: Samantha Elizabeth Wilcox - December 10, 1855 - Ashtabula County, OH
Wife Samantha Hannah Wyman
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M James Franklin Frederick Montgomery
Born: November 23, 1860
Baptized:
Died: May 29, 1912
Buried:
Spouse: Cora Ellen Osborn Custin
Marr: January 1, 1890 - Geneva, OH
Husband Patrick Montgomery Of Clune Park
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Montgomery In Trinidad
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Robert Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband Patrick Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died: 1629
Buried:
Father: John Montgomery Of Blackouse And Drummere
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Hugh Montgomery Of Blackouse
Born:
Baptized:
Died: 1630
Buried:
2 M John Montgomery Of Blackouse
Born:
Baptized:
Died: 1650 - Killed At Dunbar
Buried:
Husband Patrick Montgomery Of Blackouse
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Montgomery Of Blackouse
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M John Montgomery Of Thirdpart
Born:
Baptized:
Died: 1720
Buried:
Husband Patrick Montgomery Heritor In Irvine
Born: 1689
Baptized:
Died: 1774
Buried:
Father: Robert Montgomery Heritor In Irvine
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M James Montgomery Of Knockewart
Born:
Baptized:
Died: 1796
Buried:
2 M John Montgomery In Trinidad
Born:
Baptized:
Died: 1831
Buried:
3 M Robert Montgomery Of Sevilla
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband Paul Michael Montgomery
Born: July 22, 1954 - Millinocket, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Julie Ann Tapley
Born: September 4, 1956 - Millinocket, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Wallace Wally Arthur Tapley
Mother: Irene M. Santerre Rena Twin
Other Spouse: Robert Mackenzie
Children
1 F Amy Lynn Montgomery
Born: September 19, 1975 - Millinocket, ME
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband Albert G. Otto
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Polly Montgomery
Born: 1800 - Harpersfield, Delaware County, NY
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Captain James Montgomery
Mother: Mary Polly Baldwin
Other Spouse: Jesse Noble Blackinton - October 31, 1821
Children
Husband Nathaniel Silsby
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Polly B. Montgomery
Born: February 27, 1775 - Francestown, NH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Hugh Montgomery
Mother: Mary Campbell
Children
Husband R. Bradford Montgomery
Born: June 16, 1826 - Lake County, OH
Baptized:
Died: November 22, 1889 - Hebron Township, Jefferson County, WI
Buried: - Munro Cemetery, Hebron Township, Jefferson County, WI
Father: Benjamin Montgomery
Mother: Atta Hill
Marriage: 1850 - Lake County, OH
Wife Esther Tracy
Born: April 26, 1835 - WI
Baptized:
Died: February 18, 1897 - Hebron Township, Jefferson County, WI
Buried: - Munro Cemetery, Hebron Township, Jefferson County, WI
Father: Hiram Tracy
Mother: Tracy
Children
1 F Martha Montgomery
Born: 1851 - WI
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
2 M Edwin Montgomery
Born: March 15, 1854 - Jefferson County, WI
Baptized:
Died: October 17, 1927 - Neillsville, Clark County, WI
Buried:
Spouse: Nellie Emma Reynolds
Marr: May 25, 1873 - Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County, WI
3 F Jenny Montgomery
Born: October 10, 1855 - Wisconsin
Baptized:
Died: February 3, 1885
Buried: - Munro Cemetery, Hebron Township, Jefferson County, WI
4 M James Montgomery
Born: 1856 - WI
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
5 F Catherine Montgomery
Born: 1858 - WI
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
6 F Esther Montgomery
Born: May 1860 - WI
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes: Husband - R. Bradford Montgomery
Tombstone inscription, Munro Cemetery, Hebron Township, Jefferson County, WI.
Munro Cemetery
Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Hebron Twp, T6N R15E Sec. 34
Lat: 42°55'55"N, Lon: 88°43'08"W
Contributed by Sandra Wellman, Oct 11, 2001 [sudsy@compufort.com]. Total records = 121:
"I was told that many stones were ruined when it was "cleaned up" in the 1950's and it has suffered much damage over the years. stones have been found at farms up and down the road, so it is definitely not complete."
On Hwy. 106 east of Fort Atkinson, WI behind an old schoolhouse (built in 1869) at Fire No.s W 3692 & W 3698. An old photostat of this cemetery is handed out to anyone who inquires at the old school house.
Cemetery transcribed by Sandra L. Wellman & Brian K. Larson, 25 Aug. 2001:
http://www.interment.net/data/us/wi/jefferson/munro/munro.htm
General Notes: Wife - Esther Tracy
Tombstone inscription, Munro Cemetery, Hebron Township, Jefferson County, WI.
Munro Cemetery
Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Hebron Twp, T6N R15E Sec. 34
Lat: 42°55'55"N, Lon: 88°43'08"W
Contributed by Sandra Wellman, Oct 11, 2001 [sudsy@compufort.com]. Total records = 121:
"I was told that many stones were ruined when it was "cleaned up" in the 1950's and it has suffered much damage over the years. stones have been found at farms up and down the road, so it is definitely not complete."
On Hwy. 106 east of Fort Atkinson, WI behind an old schoolhouse (built in 1869) at Fire No.s W 3692 & W 3698. An old photostat of this cemetery is handed out to anyone who inquires at the old school house.
Cemetery transcribed by Sandra L. Wellman & Brian K. Larson, 25 Aug. 2001:
http://www.interment.net/data/us/wi/jefferson/munro/munro.htm
General Notes: Child - Jenny Montgomery
Tombstone inscription, Munro Cemetery, Hebron Township, Jefferson County, WI.
Munro Cemetery
Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Hebron Twp, T6N R15E Sec. 34
Lat: 42°55'55"N, Lon: 88°43'08"W
Contributed by Sandra Wellman, Oct 11, 2001 [sudsy@compufort.com]. Total records = 121:
"I was told that many stones were ruined when it was "cleaned up" in the 1950's and it has suffered much damage over the years. stones have been found at farms up and down the road, so it is definitely not complete."
On Hwy. 106 east of Fort Atkinson, WI behind an old schoolhouse (built in 1869) at Fire No.s W 3692 & W 3698. An old photostat of this cemetery is handed out to anyone who inquires at the old school house.
Cemetery transcribed by Sandra L. Wellman & Brian K. Larson, 25 Aug. 2001:
http://www.interment.net/data/us/wi/jefferson/munro/munro.htm
Husband Ralf Montgomery
Born: 1080 - Cubley, Yorkshire, England
Baptized:
Died: 1121
Buried:
Father: Ralph Montgomery
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Robert Montgomery
Born: 1100 - Cubley, Yorkshire, England
Baptized:
Died: 1139
Buried:
Husband Ralf Montgomery
Born: 1132 - Cubley, Yorkshire, England
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Robert Montgomery
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Ralph De Montgomery
Born: 1160 - Cubley, Yorkshire, England
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband Ralf De Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 1100
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Robert De Montgomery
Born: 1100 - Cubley, Yorkshire, England
Baptized:
Died: 1139 - Sualston, Derbyshire, England
Buried:
Husband Ralf De Montgomery
Born: 1132 - Cubley, Yorkshire, England
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Robert De Montgomery
Mother:
Marriage: 1160 - England
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Ralph De Montgomery
Born: 1160 - Cubley, Yorkshire, England
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband Ralph Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 1160 - England
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Ralph De Montgomery
Born: 1160 - Cubley, Derbyshire, England
Baptized:
Died: 1260 - England
Buried:
Husband Ralph Montgomery
Born: 1062 - Cubley, Yorkshire, England
Baptized:
Died: 1086
Buried:
Father: Hughes De Montgomery
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Ralf Montgomery
Born: 1080 - Cubley, Yorkshire, England
Baptized:
Died: 1121
Buried:
Husband Ralph De Montgomery
Born: 1160 - Cubley, Yorkshire, England
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Ralf De Montgomery
Mother:
Marriage: 1186 - England
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M William De Montgomery
Born: 1186 - Cubley, Yorkshire, England
Baptized:
Died: 1249
Buried:
Husband Ralph De Montgomery
Born: 1160 - Cubley, Derbyshire, England
Baptized:
Died: 1260 - England
Buried:
Father: Ralph Montgomery
Mother:
Marriage: 1180 - England
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M William Mongomery
Born: 1186 - Cubley, Derbyshire, England
Baptized:
Died: 1286
Buried:
Husband Raymond Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Almon Montgomery
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 F Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Heilbrun
General Notes: Child - Montgomery
Contact submitter for discretionary information about Living Individuals.
Husband Morse
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Rebecca Montgomery
Born: 1823 - Madison Township, Geauga County, OH
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Harper Montgomery
Mother: Malinda Platt
Other Spouse: Simon Gager Jr - December 29, 1845
Children
Husband Reverend Hugh Montgomery Of Grey Abbey
Born:
Baptized:
Died: 1815
Buried:
Father: William Montgomery Of Grey Abbey,M.P.
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M William Montgomery Of Grey Abbey
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
2 M Captain Hugh H. Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died: 1833
Buried:
3 M Reverend Edward Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died: 1821
Buried:
4 M Arthur H. Montgomery Of Tyrella
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
5 M John Montgomery , Barrister
Born:
Baptized:
Died: 1845
Buried:
6 M Francis O. Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
7 M George Montgomery
Born: 1808
Baptized:
Died: 1827
Buried:
General Notes: Child - George Montgomery
Husband Reverend James Montgomery D.D.
Born: 1787
Baptized:
Died: 1834
Buried:
Father: John Montgomery
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M John T. Montgomery
Born: 1817
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
2 M James Henry Montgomery
Born: 1819
Baptized:
Died: 1858
Buried:
3 M Reverend William W. Montgomery
Born: 1828
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
4 M Thomas H. Montgomery
Born: 1830
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
5 M J. H. Hobart Montgomery
Born: 1831
Baptized:
Died: 1831
Buried:
6 M Austin Montgomery
Born: 1833
Baptized:
Died: 1834
Buried:
Husband Richard R. Montgomery
Born: 1817
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: William W. Montgomery Of New Orleans
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M William W. Montgomery
Born: 1845
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
2 M Archibald R. Montgomery
Born: 1847
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
3 M Horace B. Montgomery
Born: 1854
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
4 M Richard A. Montgomery
Born: 1860
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband Robert Montgomery Of Barnahill
Born: 1760
Baptized:
Died: 1825
Buried:
Father: John Montgomery Of Barnahill R. N.
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Captain John H. Montgomery 76th Foot Regm't.
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
2 M Robert Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
3 M James Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
4 M Fransic Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
5 M Duncan Montgomery
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Husband Robert Montgomery
Born: July 13, 1741 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died: October 15, 1822 - Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
Buried: - C 03 96, City Cemetery, Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
Father: James Montgomery
Mother: Mary Meary Henry
Marriage: December 2, 1764 - Blandford, Hampton County, MA
Wife Mary White
Born: December 2, 1741 - Simsbury, Hartford, CT
Baptized:
Died: October 1, 1804 - Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
Buried: - C 03 96, City Cemetery, Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
Children
1 M Captain James Montgomery
Born: 1765 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died: 1834 - Ashtabula, OH
Buried:
Spouse: Maria Gaylord
Marr: 1795 - Harpersfield, NY
Spouse: Mary Polly Baldwin
Marr: 1796 - Schoharie, NY
2 M Thomas Montgomery
Born: 1767 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized: 1804 - Congregational Church Of Austinburg, OH.
Died: - Madison Township, Geauga County, OH
Buried: - Madison Township, Geauga County, OH
Spouse: Rebecca Harper
Marr: 1789 - Harpersfield, Delaware, NY
3 M Rev. Robert Montgomery
Born: 1771 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died: March 29, 1851 - Conneaut Township, Erie County, PA
Buried:
Spouse: Lydia Morehouse
Marr: 1798
Spouse: Charlotte Sanford
4 M Henry Montgomery
Born: - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died: June 13, 1832 - Lumberland, Sullivan County, NY
Buried:
Spouse: Margaret Dunbar
Marr: 1813
5 F Sarah Sally Montgomery
Born: February 10, 1773 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died: October 31, 1845 - Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
Buried: - Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH, City Cemetery
Spouse: Captain James Harper
Marr: March 8, 1792 - Blandford, MA
6 M John Montgomery
Born: 1776 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Rhoda Norton
Marr: November 1796
7 M Levi Montgomery
Born: July 1782 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died: April 14, 1845 - Maple Grove Cemetery, Conneaut, OH
Buried:
Spouse: Elizabeth Woodworth
Marr: 1803 - Ashtabula, OH
8 F Marian Montgomery
Born: 1783 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Capt. Jesse Dunham Jackson
Marr: 1815 - Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
9 F Abigail Montgomery
Born: October 13, 1785 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died: 1832 - Manclovia, Lucas County, OH
Buried:
Spouse: Aaron Noble
Marr: May 20, 1802 - Salem / Conneaut, OH
10 F Anna Montgomery
Born: August 13, 1786 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died: January 25, 1857 - Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
Buried:
Spouse: Aaron Wright
Marr: March 12, 1800 - Salem/Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
11 M Eli Montgomery
Born: 1789 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died: October 15, 1822 - Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
Buried: - City Cemetery, Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH
12 M Calvin Montgomery
Born: February 5, 1797 - Blandford, Hampden County, MA
Baptized:
Died: May 28, 1819 - Harpersfield, OH
Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Robert Montgomery
Lived in Blandford, MA - Land deeds: 1762-1787, Blandford, MA.
One book, "Taverns and Turnpikes of Blandford, MA 1733-1833", in describing the early settlement of Blandford, MA, explains the following about a very early Blandford road / rood / turnpike, "The road had been originally laid out coincident with the division line between the two tiers of first division home lots, but had to be shifted somewhat irregularly to the westward in order to avoid the ravine and brook running through it. The road is now spoken of sometimes as Falls road. A very early town lay-out of the road was on this wise: "Put to voat to see if the Town will establish the Road South of the meeting hous beginning at the Northwest Corner of the Rev. mr mortons ortcherd as the road now goes to the west of the widoe Hamiltons House from thence as the road now Goes through widow Provans Land from thence as the Road now gos through the Land of James Campbls from thence through James and Robert M' Gomarys Land Said Rood to be three Roods wid.
In 1771, this road was somewhat minutely described in a county lay-out. On the course from Granville, after crossing "Pebbles Brook", it (the turnpike) was described as extending to a great rock in the middle of the River. Then climbing the steep hill, it ran by Robert Montgomery's fence to a heap of stones near a path in the field about 7 rods west of Montgomery's house, then north 42 perch (perch = 5-1/2 yards) to a great red oak six rods west of James Montgomery's.
The first Montgomery lived on the Lot first owned by Hugh Black (known in 1908 as the Osborne place). James occupied the next lot to the north. Not long after this, Robert Montgomery sold out his possessions there and moved up to Beech Hill, where he was living in the eighties (1780's) and carried on a retail license (after his Revolutionary War service, 1779?). James Montgomery had bought his lot of 1761 of Samuel Stewart who had an innholder's license . . ." Many times in these early records the surname was spelled, "Mt Gomery", and "Mongumery", etc.
Revolutionary War Service: Under Colonel Mosley and Captain Sloper, Hampshire Company, he served as Tythingman, Blandford, MA, 1779. A Tythingman was the closest thing to a policeman, responsible for bringing law breakers to justice, with 10 members of the community under him / reporting to him with knowledge of offenders of the law. For purposes of Revolutionary War service, this duty performed by Robert during the War was considered Civil Service.
Revolutionary War Service: Under Captains Simon Lefever and Cornelius Newkerck, Lieutenants Johannis Blansham, Peter Osterhout, and Abraham G. Van Aken, and Ensign Aart Van Wagenin, he served three years in the "Ulster County, New York, Militia, (Land Bounty Rights) - First Regiment", from 1 March 1779 to June 1782. It is possible this Regiment never saw active duty as "Land Bounty Rights" Regiments were similar to a Reserve Unit, trained and ready to serve on active duty when called upon. "Land Bounty Rights" Regiments consisted of men mustered into the militia with up to 500 acres of Bounty Land as their reward for service.
"In the law named, "An act for settling the Militia of this Province, and the making of it useful for the security and defense thereof", which established the Militia, the following was prescribed and required of the foot soldier: "Every foot soldier must provide himself, and appear and muster with a good, well-fixed musket or fuzee, a good sword, belt and cartridge box, six cartridges of powder, a horn and six sizable bullets. At home, he must always have on hand one pound of good gunpowder and three pounds of sizable bullets." For want of these articles a fine of twenty shillings and prison charges were imposed till the fine was paid. At his discretion, the Captain was allowed and authorized to levy upon and sell the delinquent's goods." In case the offender be unable or refuse to pay, and he have no goods to distress, he shall ride the wooden horse, or be laid by the neck and heels in a public place for not to exceed an hour." No mention of compensation for military service was ever made, and when the number of articles which each soldier must furnish are taken into consideration, it will be seen that the tax was, by no means, an inconsiderable one. This was the condition of the Militia when the cloud of the Revolutionary War threw its shadow over the land. JAMES A. ROBERTS, ALBANY, N. Y., November, 1897. Comptroller"
At about the age of 40, in the late 1780's, he moved his family to Harpersfield, NY.
Lived in Harpersfield, NY; 1790-1799.
U.S. 1790 Census, shows the following for Harpersfield, NY, Lot No. 39:
Head of Household - Robert Montgomery
Free white males 16 and older: 2
Free white males under 16: 4
Free white females: 7
Robert, at age 60, and wife, Mary White, at age 59, reportedly moved their family to the Connecticut Western Reserve, in 1800, a year after their second son, Thomas, had moved there and had become the first permanent settler of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Thomas had landed at the mouth of a creek on Lake Erie in 1798, went back for provisions over the winter of 1798-99, and returned with his family, friend Aaron Wright and others to settle at the mouth of Conneaut Creek.
The Montgomery families helped found the town of Salem, later called Conneaut, Ashtabula County, OH, with the following son's families, daughter's families, and grandchildren, in 1800:
(Captain) James Montgomery - age 35, together with second wife, Mary "Polly" Baldwin, and three children*. Six more children born in Ohio. (*James' first wife, Mamre Gaylord, had died after two children were born to them in 1795, 1796. The first child, daughter Mary Jane "Mamre", was brought to Ohio with the two step-siblings from the second marriage; the second child, son Levi, was left with relatives in New York State. Levi later came to Ohio.)
Sarah (Sally) Montgomery - age 27, together with husband, Capt. James Harper, and four children. Five more children born in Ohio.
Henry Montgomery - age 25 (Married Margaret Dunbar, 1813, in Ohio)
John Montgomery - age 24, together with wife, Rhoda Norton - Married, 1796, in New York State
Levi Montgomery - age 20 (Married Elizabeth Woodworth, 1803, in Ohio)
Marian Montgomery - age 17 (Married Capt. Jesse Dunham Jackson, 1815, in Ohio)
Abigail Montgomery - age 15 (Married Aaron Noble, 1802, in Ohio)
Anna Montgomery - age 13 (Married Aaron Wright, 12 Mar 1800, first marriage in The Connecticut Western Reserve)
Eli Montgomery - age 11 - not known if he married
Calvin Montgomery - age 3
. . . a total of 20 people, joining Thomas and his family of six.
(Thomas Montgomery - age 32, had already moved in 1798, with wife, Rebecca Harper, and four small children. Ten more children born in Ohio.)
(Robert's son Rev. Robert Montgomery, age 28 in 1800, later came to Ohio, ca 1815-1817.)
The Congregational Church of Conneaut, OH, had its birth in Plymouth Massachusetts, in 1620. The Conneaut Congregational Church started in the home of Robert Montgomery in 1819. Congregationalism flourished in this area because of Rev. Joseph Badger who came as a missionary in 1801 and started many churches in the Western Reserve. (See Thomas Montgomery's 1814 Baptism by Badger.)
From "The History of Ashtabula County, 1894":
THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH of CONNEAUT, OH
"The Congregational Church of Conneaut was organized April 14, 1819, at the house of Robert Montgomery. The services were conducted by Revs. Joseph Badger, Giles H. Cowles, and Ephraim T. Woodruff. The first members were Ebenezer Buck, Ada Buck, Robert Montgomery, Stephen Webb, Luther Jones, Mary Jones, Sarah Sanford, Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs. Julia Kennedy, and Miss Laura Buck.
The church was organized on the union plan of government, Congregational and Presbyterian. It was a Congregational church joined to a presbytery. It was changed into a Presbyterian church in 1835, and remained such until December 30, 1847, when it was unanimously voted to make its government purely Congregational.
The first church edifice -- the old brick church on Liberty Street -- was commenced in 1826, seven years after the church was organized. Religious services prior to this time were held in school-houses and private dwellings. The members were intensely interested in the project of building the church, and most of them made great sacrifices in order to accomplish it. The labor was interrupted for a time in consequence of lack of means, but a fund necessary to complete it was after a little realized from a sale of the seats. Services were held in the church before it was finished. The year 1828 witnessed its completion, and the year 1829 its dedication. The dedication sermon was preached by Rev. Luther Humphrey.
The new brick edifice, situated on the corner of Main and Buffalo streets, was erected in 1873, and finished in 1876. Sixteen hundred dollars were paid for the lot, and the building cost about eighteen thousand dollars. It was dedicated in the spring of 1877, Rev. Mr. Wolcott, of Cleveland, preaching the dedication sermon.
From 1829 to 1836 the following gentlemen officiated as pastors and ministers: Revs. Luther Humphrey, Olds, John Pettit, Maltbee (Methodist), Jesse Viets (Methodist), Kelsey, J. J. Bliss, John Keep, Wheeler, and William Whittley. Since 1836 the pastors have been Revs. William Fuller, two years; Norris Day, one year; John Hovey, three years; E. F. Dickenson, ten years; William Scales, four years; J. A. Woodruff, two years; Alvin Nash, three years; A. Bartlett, four years; and R. M. Keyes, the present pastor, nearly thirteen years. The present membership of the church numbers two hundred and sixteen."
On September 9, 1999, John and William Montgomery, g-g-g-g-g-grandsons of Robert, discovered the grave of this Robert Montgomery at the City Cemetery in Conneaut, Ohio, burial site C 03 96. An American flag was standing next to the grave to commemorate Robert's Revolutionary War service. To the north of Robert is buried his daughter, Sally (Harper). To the immediate south of Robert is buried his wife, Mary, and then his son, Eli.
Conneaut Star-Beacon, October 27, 1995:
"The graves of Robert and Mary lie in the shadow of "Big Red", a red maple that in 1993 was designated Conneaut's first landmark tree by the Conneaut City Council. The tree's proximity to the graves of early settlers helped it earn landmark status."
Curiously, Robert and Eli died on the same day, October 15, 1822.
Mary died October 9, 1804, as inscribed on their headstones.
General Notes: Child - Captain James Montgomery
Born 1765 in Blandford, MA. Moved with his father to Harpersfield, Delaware County, NY, in 1790.
James married Maria "Mamre" Gaylord in 1795.
The Ashtabula County History mentions; “Mamre married James Montgomery and had one child and she died shortly thereafter. Mamre died in Harpersfield, Delaware County, NY, 1796.” Other sources claim they had two children, Mary Jane "Mamre" Montgomery b 1795, and a son, Levi Gaylord Montgomery b 1796.
James married Mary "Polly" Baldwin in 1796.
The Ashtabula County History says "James and his wife, Mary "Polly" Baldwin, came to Conneaut, Ohio, (with his father, Robert b 1741, in 1800?) with 4 children, three children by Mary and the first child by Maria "Mamre" Gaylord." (But, those 4 children may have been Mary Jane b 1795 and Levi b 1796 of the first marriage, and Lewis b 1798 and Polly b 1800 of the second marriage.)
RE: Levi Gaylord Montgomery, b. 1796 of Mamre Gaylord: Other sources claim Levi was left with relatives in New York, and the older child of Mamre and James, a daughter named Mary Jane "Mamre" Montgomery b 1795, made the trip to Ohio with her 3 step-siblings. Levi's dates: As published in the Geneva (OH) Times article, by H.R.R. Gaylord, on August 28, 1873.
James' children born in Ohio should probably all be born in Salem/Conneaut for the years 1802-1813 as James is known to be in Austinburg in 1814 when Colonel James, Jr. is born, and then came Hugh b abt 1820.
James owned a hotel in Conneaut, and owned, with others, a boat which ran to Buffalo for immigrants and provisions. Later they built a grist mill in Conneaut.
Elected Clerk of the town of Conneaut in its initial organization in 1804, at that time it was called Salem.
Was, for two terms, Representative for the Conneaut area/portion of Ohio, to the Ohio Legislature when their sessions were held in Chillecothe.
In 1813, moved his family to the banks of the Grand River at Austinburg, OH.
In 1832, James was Clerk of Township, also a highway supervisor.
General Notes: Child - Thomas Montgomery
According to property records in Blandford, Massachusetts, Thomas' father, Robert, held land there until about 1790, when they moved to Harpersfield, NY.
Thomas is listed as the first permanent settler in the Western Reserve, at Salem (Conneaut), Ohio, 1799, with his wife, Rebecca, and children Miriam, Benjamin, John, Margaret and Ruth, and friend Aaron Wright. The following year Thomas' Father, Robert, and the rest of the Thomas' brothers and sisters, except for brother (Rev.) Robert, Jr., came to the new land and settled in Conneaut. His brother Robert came later.
Source: Aaron Wright related in 1841, in a dictated statement, "Sketch of the Early History of Conneaut, Ashtabula County, Ohio, as related by Aaron Wright, Esq.") that he and Thomas Montgomery first visited Conneaut Creek harbor in 1798. They went back to Delaware Co., New York, to gather the necessary provisions and then returned to settle in Ohio during the spring of 1799. The first settlers at Conneaut Creek included the Thomas Montgomery family, Aaron Wright, Robert Montgomery and family, Levi and John Montgomery, Nathan and John King, and Samuel Bemus. Aaron Wright married Thomas' younger sister, Anna, when Anna was 14.
January 1804: Joined the Congregational Church at Austinburg, Ohio: This is an entry in the diary of the pioneer preacher Rev. Joseph Badger: "January, 1804. Wednesday, rode to Conneaut, twenty-four miles; Thursday, wrote journals and letters; Friday, preached; Saturday, made family visits and examined Thomas Montgomery and wife for admission to the church; Sabbath, preached twice, admitted the two persons into the church and baptized five of their children." Source: CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - The Story, Loral, and Past Historic Sketch of Local Churches. Austinburg Congregational Church records show Thomas and Rebecca were received into membership in June 1804.
18 Nov 1809 - After being instrumental in the beginnings of Salem / Conneaut, OH, Thomas purchased property in Harpersfield Township, Ohio; Lot 76, except 4-1/2 acres, 50 134/160 acres, according to Jefferson County, Ohio, Recorder's Office Records. This Jefferson Record differs slightly from the Chardon County, OH, Recorder's Office, vol. 4, pg 20, which shows the same Lot 76, but 46 126/160 acres, $300.00, from James Thompson. (Subsequently purchased in Harpersfield Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, was; "Levi Montgomery (Thomas' brother) purchased 100 acres, Lot 78, 1809.")
On Incorporation of the Township of Madison, per the Clerk, "Pursuant to which, the citizens convened. Abraham Tappan was chosen Chairman, Samuel Potter and John A. Harper, Judges, and Samuel Potter, Clerk. The Officers elected on this occasion were Uriah Bartram, Asa Turney and Thomas Montgomery, Trustees, April 1, 1811." Madison Library, Middle Ridge Road, Madison, OH.
On early Madison Township, Geauga County, Ohio, Religious Matters:
"July 29, 1814, a Congregational Church was organized at the log cabin house of Lemuel Kimball. There were nine members, as follows: Jesse Ladd, Sr., John Cunningham, Thomas Montgomery, Rebecca Montgomery, Jesse Ladd, Jr., Ruby Ladd, Lemuel Kimball, Polly Kimball and Abigail Mixer. Prior to the ordination of Rev. A. Hyde, August 1819, this church worshiped upon the south ridge. After that time, and until 1830, the Middle Ridge was the place of their meetings, occupying for that purpose the Town Hall, then standing on Lot 1."
According to Abraham Tappan's notes:
"Thomas Montgomery settled in Madison (Twp), June 18, 1811." (Was actually before April 1, 1811 - see incorporation of Madison Township, above)
"Thomas Montgomery was hurt by the fall of a tree, June or July 9, and had his leg amputated in consequence of the injury, in 1818." NOTE: His name does not appear on the Plat of the 100 acres dated 1820, but the name of son, John Harper, (J.H. Montgomery) appears.
So, Thomas and Rebecca settled in Madison Township, on Lot 9 Tract 9, approximately 100 acres or more, between April and June 18, 1811, with 8 of 10 children in tow. This land was later owned and lived on by Mr. & Mrs. Oliver and Rachael Smead, ca. 1830-1878, and as late as 1880, as recorded on two Deeds dated 10-03-1864 and 04-24-1878, and in a speech given by General Abel Kimball to the Congregational Church in Madison, on March 4, 1880, about the "General History of the (Madison) Township", when Mr. Kimball wrote, Thomas had originally "pioneered on the land now lived on by the widow Rachael Smead". The name Oscar Smead appears on Tax Maps for this 100 acres, in 1830, Rachael Smead in 1874.
Thomas may have not owned, but rented (and paid the taxes before 1820 on) the 100 acres in Geauga / Lake County as that 100 acre parcel was sold after 1820 (1827) to an Oscar Smead, not by Thomas / John Harper Montgomery but by the ORIGINAL Land Owner / Speculator, Titus Street, who obtained the land (and about 24,000 other acres) in about 1797 from the Connecticut Land Company (Western Reserve) as part of the original sale of lands of the Reserve. Had Thomas Montgomery owned the land, his sale to Smead would reflect the names Montgomery to Smead on the record, not Titus Street to Oscar Smead.
According to 1820 US Census records, Thomas and Rebecca were living on the 100 acre farm with their son, John H(arper) Montgomery, in Madison Township, Geauga County (now Lake), OH, and had 6 girls in the household between the ages of 10 and 26, of whom three were, Dyantha, Clarissa and Rebecca. The other three young women are a mystery. (J. H. Montgomery was listed as Head of Household on the Census.) The US Census of 1820, Madison Township, Geauga County, OH, shows the following "head counts" and age groups which apply to those individuals known, as of 31 Aug 08, to be family members of Thomas and Rebecca and members of his son's family, that of John H. Montgomery. Also shown below is each person's age and status as of 1820:
FWM 0 to 10 yrs - 1 = infant son of John H. (?)
FWM 26 - 44 yrs - 1 = John H, age 27 (head of household, whose name is on Land Tax Map, 1820)
FWM 45 + up yrs - 1 = Thomas, age 53 (one leg amputated June/July 9, 1818)
FWF 10 to 15 yrs - 3 = Dyantha age 14, Clarissa age 12, Eliza age 10 (daughters of Thomas and Rebecca), all single as of 1820
FWF 16 to 25 yrs - 4 = Malinda age 21 (wife of John H) and 3 unknown females
FWF 45 + up yrs - 1 = Rebecca age 47 (wife of Thomas)
Other known older children of Thomas and Rebecca not in the "J. H. Montgomery" household, their ages and status, as of 1820:
Miriam age 30 - married John Wood 1807 - not in above household
Benjamin age 29 - married Atta Hill 13 January 1811 - not in above household
Margaret age 26 - married Jonathan Hill 15 April 1813 - not in above household
Ruth age 24 - married Cyrus Earl 8 December 1815 - not in above household
Sarah age 20 - married Jarvis Pike 1819 - not in above household
Robert (deceased 1819: accident from the felling of a tree)
Thomas' daughter, Miriam Montgomery Wood, is buried in Fairview Cemetery, 0.4 miles south of Madison Village Park, Madison (Township), OH, with her husband John Wood. These two lived and raised a family just south of the Grand River, to the eastern edge of the Township of Madison.
However, the graves of the earlier generation's Thomas and Rebecca do not appear on an index of graves for this cemetery. Fairview Cemetery may not date back far enough (on a Land tax Map dated 1874), except for many graves and stones moved to this cemetery (see above) from other resting places by the Township around 1854. See "History / Inscriptions / Section Map, Fairview Cemetery, Madison Village, River Street", as compiled by the LCGS (Lake County Genealogical Society - Ohio). The original Fairview burying ground covered the areas now known as Sections B2, B3, and the south part of Section BB, and a strip on the south side of Section A2.
Thomas' and Rebecca's graves are yet to be located (as of 22 Aug 08).
NOTES RE: Connecticut Western Reserve / Madison, Geauga / Lake County, OH:
In 1795, Titus Street and Caleb Atwater, brothers-in-law (Titus’ wife was an Atwater), were among the original purchasers of parts of the 1,200,000 acres of land contained in the Connecticut Western Reserve. The lands of the Reserve were divided into Townships which were variously divided into saleable Lots.
Connecticut Western Reserve Deed #25, 2 Sep 1795, Titus Street $22,486 / 56,215 acres @ 40cents/acre
Connecticut Western Reserve Deed #24, 3 Sep 1795, Caleb Atwater $22,486 / 56,215 acres @ 40cents/acre
RE: Atwater to Platt, 2 Western Reserve/Ohio Lots, Denmark Township, Ashtabula County:
March/April 1814:
Caleb Atwater sold 2 Lots to Ebenezer Platt in Denmark Township, Ashtabula County, OH, in the Spring of 1814. This land is described as "two several pieces or parcels of land in Denmark Township so called being number 11 in the second range of Townships in Connecticut Reservation in the State of Ohio." The original deed was drawn and signed on 19 April 1815, just over a year from the time that Ebenezer originally purchased the land from Caleb Atwater. According to tax records, Ebenezer pays taxes on that land until 1820, when his son, Smith Platt begins paying the taxes on that same piece of land, Number 11, second range. (Ebenezer Platt was the father of Malinda Platt, wife of John Harper Montgomery.)
RE: Street to Smead, 100 acres in Madison Township, Geauga County, OH:
This 100 acre parcel is shown on the 1820 Tax Map with the name “J. H. Montgomery”, and on the 1830 Tax Map with the name “O. Smead”
April/June 1811-??
Thomas Montgomery and family “pioneered” 100 acres in Madison Township, Geauga County, OH at in Range 6, Township 11 Madison, Lot 9.
October 27, 1827
100 acres Deeded from Titus Street to Oscar Smead in Range 6, Township 11 Madison, Lot 9.
Questions as to Thomas Montgomery “pioneering 100 acres of land” in 1811 . . . and the land being later Deeded to Oscar Smead in 1827, from the land’s original owner / developer . . .
· What had been the arrangement between Mr. Titus Street and Thomas Montgomery and / or Thomas’ son, John Harper Montgomery, between April/June of 1811 and October 1827? Was a Deed never drawn for this arrangement? Was there an unrecorded Deed between Montgomery and Street?
· Was such a tax payment arrangement common to Mr. Street?
· Was such a tax arrangement a condition for settlers / purchasers of the Western Reserve?
· Did Thomas rent the land for taxes from 1811 to ca. 1820?
· Did John Harper Montgomery rent the land for taxes, as his name appears on the Tax Map of 1820? (Doubtful, as John H was only 18 in 1811)
· Did John Harper and Malinda decide to move to Denmark Township upon the death of Thomas in perhaps 1825, or after the death of Rebecca in 1826?
· Did they need to move off the land because Mr. Street was selling the land to Smead?
Age of Thomas Montgomery, at key dates:
Name Years Ages
Thomas 1767 00 Born in Blandford, MA
1787 20 Moved with family to Harpersfield, NY
1789 22 Marries Rebecca Harper in Harpersfield, NY
1790 23 Daughter born, Minnie, 1 May
1791 24 Son born, Benjamin
1793 25 Son born, John Harper, 1 March
1794 27 Daughter born, Margaret
1796 29 Daughter born, Ruth, 14 October
1798 31 Pioneered to Connecticut Western Reserve with Aaron Wright
1799 32 Moved family to Western Reserve, founded Salem
1799-1809 32-42 One of Founding families of Salem/Conneaut, OH
1800 33 Daughter born, Sarah
1804/5 36 Son born, Robert
1804 37 Mother, Mary, dies at Salem/Conneaut, OH, 1 October
1804 37 Admitted to Congregational Church in Austinburg, OH, January
1804 37 Five of his children baptized in Congregational Church, in Austinburg, OH, January
1806 39 Daughter born, Dyantha, 8 October
1807 40 Daughter, Miriam, marries John Wood
1808 41 Daughter born, Clarissa
1809 42 Purchased 160 acres in Harpersfield Township, Ashtabula County, OH
1810 43 Daughter born, Eliza Lorraine, 20 September
1811 44 Son, Benjamin, married 13 January
1811 44 Moved family to 100 acres in Madison Township, Geauga County, OH
1811 44 Made an original Trustee of Madison Township, Geauga County, OH, April 1
1813 46 Daughter, Margaret, marries Jonathan Hill, 15 April
1814 47 Among Founders of Congregational Church, Madison, OH
1815 48 Daughter, Sarah, marries Cyrus Earl, 8 December
1818 51 Amputated Leg after injured felling a tree
1818 51 Grandson born, Edwin
1819 52 Son, John H, married 29 April
1819 52 Son, Robert, dies from accident in felling of a tree, 31 May
1819 52 Daughter, Sarah, marries Jarvis Pike
1820 53 Date of Landowners Tax Map, Madison Twp
1820 53 Grandson, John Nelson, born to son, John Harper
1820 53 Counted on US Census, Madison Twp, OH, in John Harper's household
1822 55 Father, Robert, dies at Conneaut, OH, 15 October
1822 55 Brother, Eli, dies at Conneaut, OH, 15 October
1823 56 Granddaughter born, Rebecca, to son John H
1824 57 Daughter, Dyantha, marries Ashley Follett, 19 June
1825 58 Granddaughter born, Mary, to son John H
1820-1826 53-59 Dies in Madison Township, Geauga County, OH
1826 - Wife, Rebecca, dies, 26 July
1827 - 100 acres he "pioneered" Deeded from Titus Street to Oscar Smead
General Notes: Child - Rev. Robert Montgomery
He was age 29 when his family moved to The Western Reserve (in about 1800).
He was a preacher in MA or NY (most likely New York State, as his father, mother and brothers, et al, came to Ohio from Harpersfield, NY).
It is not known what year he moved his own family to OH, but before 1817:
He was a Methodist Minister at Geneva, OH, in 1817.
Moved to Wrightsburg, OH, by 1820.
Moved to Saybrook, OH, by 1830.
He moved to Erie, PA, before 1840.
He was in Conneaut Township, Erie County, PA, in 1850, married third wife within a year of his arrival.
He seems to have married three times:
1) to Lydia Morehouse m 1798 at Wilton, Conn.
2) to Charlotte Sanford, who died 1836 at Geneva, OH, age 44
3) to Hannah ______ b 1829, m 1850-51:
General Notes: Child - Henry Montgomery
Residence; Lumberland, Sullivan County, NY. Occupation: Worked on the Delaware Hudson Canal.
Source for Henry, Henry's family and descendants: Josh Delaney
A Henry Montgomery is listed as a Private in the War of 1812, in Capt. WIlliam B. Jone's Company, from the official "Roster of Ohio Soldiers in War of 1812", Page 311. Served from September 14, 1812 until October 14, 1812.
General Notes: Child - Sarah Sally Montgomery
Came to Conneaut, OH, in an open boat in 1800, from Buffalo, NY.
General Notes: Child - John Montgomery
1799 - Went to Ohio with father Robert and brother Levi.
Lived Conneaut, Madison or Harpersield.
Richmond Township, 1828.
General Notes: Child - Levi Montgomery
1799 - went to Ohio with brother John and father Robert Montogmery.
General Notes: Child - Marian Montgomery
Last child listed for Robert Montgomery. Order may not be correct.
General Notes: Child - Anna Montgomery
Married Aaron Wright, at the age of 14, 12 March 1800.
General Notes: Child - Eli Montgomery
In the 1812 War, Eli enlisted from Harpersfield Township, Harpersfield, OH.
Eli is buried (d 1822) to the south of his mother (Mary) and father (Robert) with his sister Sally (Wright) buried to the north of Robert, in the old City Cemetery in Conneaut, Ohio, on Liberty Street, burial site(s) C 03 96.
It is not known if Eli married.
Husband Robert Montgomery Of Eglinton
Born: 1687
Baptized:
Died: 1766
Buried:
Father: William Montgomery Of Brigend
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M William Montgomery
Born: 1714
Baptized:
Died: 1715
Buried:
2 M William Montgomery
Born: 1717
Baptized:
Died: 1718
Buried:
3 M James Montgomery
Born: 1720
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
4 M John Montgomery
Born: 1726
Baptized:
Died: 1730
Buried:
Husband Robert Montgomery Heritor In Irvine
Born:
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Montgomery Of Thirdpart
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
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Died:
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Children
1 M Patrick Montgomery Heritor In Irvine
Born: 1689
Baptized:
Died: 1774
Buried:
2 M John Montgomery Of Barnahill R. N.
Born: 1723
Baptized:
Died: 1775
Buried: