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Thomas Evans Montgomery
April 21, 1833 - December
22, 1892
THOMAS
EVANS MONTGOMERY (Son
of Hugh Montgomery and
Annie
Underwood Battle) was born April 21, 1833 in Monroe Co., Mississippi.
He married Frances ("Fannie") Cornelia McClesky (daughter of Eusebias J. McClesky
and Mary A. Shropshire) on January 1, 1874. He died December 22, 1892 in
Pontotoc Co., Mississippi1..
He is buried in the
Campground Church Cemetery,
Pontotoc Co., Mississippi next to his wife near the entrance of the cemetery.
The Campground Cemetery is off Highway 15 south of Pontotoc. From the
junction of Hwys 41 and 15 travel 2.9 miles south on 15. Turn right onto
Campground Road, County road 134. The church is 1.7 miles on the left, one
tenth of a mile prior to the fork in the road and county road 139. Next to
the church is the Old Natchez Trace. This is also the general neighborhood
of Nette Montgomery Goode's home. She raised the orphaned Montgomery
children, Irene, and Goode (Story of Pontotoc by E. T. Winston (1931), page
143).
Thomas' tombstone reads:
Father
Tho. E.
Montgomery
Died Dec 22, 1892
Aged 58 yrs
8 mo. 1 day
His last words
"Jesus is with me"
The tombstone is shared with his wife, "Fannie." He is buried on the left,
she on the right.
Children
of THOMAS MONTGOMERY and FRANCES MCCLESKY
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Ann
Irene Montgomery, m. John F. Sansing.
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Sara Elvira Montgomery, d. about. 1916, Redland, Pontotoc Co., Mississippi; m.
Thomas Hickman Williams III.
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Goode
Montgomery, Sr., b. October 07, 1877, Pontotoc, Pontotoc Co., Mississippi;
d. September 30, 1940, Atlanta, Fulton Co., Georgia; m. Nora Vilula Herrington,
December 25, 1905; b. January 28, 1878, Ellisville, Jones Co., Mississippi; d.
April 04, 1960, Laurel, Jones Co., Mississippi.
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Corrie Battle Montgomery, b. 1890; d. 1896.
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