Person:Elbert Montgomery (1)

About Elbert Montgomery

From "Goodspeed's History of Tennessee, Containing Historical and Biographical Sketches of Thirty East Tennessee Counties", reprinted from Goodspeed's History of Tennessee, 1887, published and distributed by Charles and Randy Elder Booksellers, 2115 Elliston Place, Nashville, Tennessee, 1972:

page 1076:

Elbert C. Montgomery (deceased), a farmer, was born December 23, 1825, in Roane County, where he died May 3, 1886. His limited education he supplemented to a great degree by his own study and reading, in after years. In 1851 he married Elizabeth C. Stephens, daughter of William and Emeline Stephens, natives of Bledsoe County. Mr Stephens was a justice of the peace for many years, and a son of Isaac and Anna (Davis) Stephens, among the earliest pioneers of the Sequatchie Valley. Our subject's children were Mary E., now Mrs. W.W. Smith; William S. (deceased), a graduate of Emory and Henry College, Virginia, in the class of 1879; Maggie, a graduate of Martha Washington College, Virginia, in the class of 1876; John A., a graduate of Emory and Henry College, in the class of 1883, and for some time a teacher, but later a farmer; and Laura F., educated at Martha Washington College. Our subject was, from his majority, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and after the separation, in 1844, was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He was a prominent and influential church worker. His wife and children belong, likewise to that denomination. He was a Democrat at the time of his death, but was formerly an old line Whig, and first voted for Taylor. He began life for himself when twenty-five years of age, and at his death owned a fine farm of 1,000 acres, all, excepting a gift from his father, the result of his own care and ability. He was a successful farmer, and a prominent and respected citizen, and greatly missed by all who knew him. He was the sixth of seven children - four sons and three daughters - of John and Mary (Wenton (s/b Winton)) Montgomery. All the children are living in Missouri, excepting our subject and Alexander, and Mary (Mrs. White) who moved to Missouri, then to Texas, and finally to California. The father, probably a native of Sevier County, was a pioneer there and in Roane County, where he died.

1. ↑ Alya Dean Smith Irwin Collection - unpublished work, McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville, TN
   John Montgomery Bible Record.

   History of Tennessee Illustrated - by Silas E. Lucas, Jr. - Southern Historical Press - 1980

2. ↑ Alya Dean Smith Irwin Collection - unpublished work, McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville, TN
   Elbert C. Montgomery Bible Record.
3. ↑ .

   History of Tennessee Illustrated - by Silas E. Lucas, Jr. - Southern Historical Press - 1980

4. ↑ Doyle C. Thomas. The Settling of Post Oak Springs.
5.   Find A Grave.

   Elbert Cunningham Montgomery
   BIRTH
   23 Dec 1825
   DEATH
   3 May 1886 (aged 60)
   BURIAL
   Winton Chapel Cemetery
   Roane County, Tennessee, USA
   
   Co.A, 16 TN Cav. CSA
   
   Inscription
   Elbert C. Montgomery
   Born Dec. 23, 1825
   Died May 3, 1886
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126736235/elbert-cunningham-montgomery