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John Montgomery

JOHN MONTGOMERY was the son of Robert Montgomery and Rebecca Coffee.  He  was born in South Carolina.  Apart from this nothing is known for certain about him.

The following is possible information on our John Montgomery, yet to be proven:

John's parents and most of his siblings migrated to Mississippi by the late 1820s.  Family notes handed  down from Goode Montgomery, Sr. indicate that he settled in Cotton Gin Port, Monroe County, Mississippi.  These notes also suggest that he married a woman named "Aggie."  We have found information in Monroe Co. MS about John C. Montgomery married to Margaret Craig.  I believe (but cannot yet prove) that Goode Montgomery's notes are either mistaken or have been wrongly interpreted during the transmission.  "Aggie" is actually "Maggie," a common nickname for Margaret.

We have found a John C. Montgomery on the 1850 census of Monroe County (Dwelling  # 74, Family #79).  We currently have no way to establish whether this is our John or not.  Could the "C." stand for "Coffee," his mother's maiden name?  If so, then he was born in 1798 and worked as a carpenter.  He was married to Nancy, not Margaret, Maggie or Aggie.

John C. Montgomery and Margaret Craig Montgomery had at least one child:  Mary Elizabeth Montgomery (b. October 29, 1843) who married Wade Hampton Gordon on December 13, 1859.

A John C. Montgomery married (as Justice of the Peace) Eliza Caroline Dilworth and John Anderson Thompson in Monroe Co. MS on March 4, 1844.

         

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