James MONTGOMERY Col.

Birth: 22 Dec 1814, Austinburg, Ashtabula, Oh
Christening: 22 Dec 1814, Mechanicsville, Ashtabula, Ohio
Death: 1872, Fort Montgomery, Linn Co., Kansas
Burial: 1885, National Cemetery, Mound City, Kansas

Father: James MONTGOMERY
Mother: Mary (Polly) BALDWIN

Family 1: UKNOWN

Marriage: Licking Valley, KY

Marriage: 25 Jul 1844, West Liberty, KY

                                                                  _William MONTGOMERY _
                                              _James MONTGOMERY _|_Mary AKEN __________
                         _Robert MONTGOMERY _|
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                        |                    |_Mary HENRY _______|_____________________
 _James MONTGOMERY _____|
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|--James MONTGOMERY Col.
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|_Mary (Polly) BALDWIN _|
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Notes

xJames Montgomery went to Kentucky where he taught school for several years. He married a Kentucky girl and moved to Kansas. It was while he was in Kansas that he became involved in the fight to make Kansas a free state. He worked with John Brown and Jim Lane; John Brown was eventually captured and hung. Col. Montgomery went east to see if he could influence public sentiment for John Brown; but he finally had to let the law take its course. James Montgomery died shortly after the Civil War at Mound City, Kansas. He had commanded a brigade of Negro troops. James moved to Kentucky in 1837.. He married the daughter of a slave holder, Name Unknown, who died young, leaving him with two small children, James and Nancy. Soon after his wifes death James lost all of his property including a dam and saw mill, in a flood. On July 2, Clarinda Evans became James Montgomery's second wife, at West Liberty, Kentucky. Unable to accept the institution of slavery, in 1852, Montgomery moved his wife and five children farther west. They lived in Pike County, Missouri for a year, where his eighth child, Julia was born. Unhappy at living in a state committed to slavery, they again moved west, to Jackson county, Missouri in 1853 to wait for the opening of Kansas Territory to settlers....LINN COUNTY, KANSAS- A HISTORY, by William Ansel Mitchell, copy right 1928.


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