... Zachariah Francis Montgomery,
grandfather of the Liberty banker, was born in Adair County in 1818, and
likewise spent his life there, with accumulating responsibilities as a
farmer and had slaves until they were freed by the war. He was a
soldier in the Mexican war, going through that struggle with the troops
under Gen. Joel Quitman, and he named one of his sons for his favorite
commander. He died in Adair County in 1887. His wife was Miss Rachel
Powell who was born in Adair County in 1836 and died at Liberty,
Kentucky, in 1916. ...