Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Montgomery, James Newton August 20 1827 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JAMES NEWTON MONTGOMERY was born in Limestone county, Ala., August 20, 1827.
His parents were James and Mary (Steele) Montgomery. The former was born in
Mecklenburg county, N. C., and was of Scotch-Irish extraction. Mrs. Mary
Montgomery was born in South Carolina, though her father was born in Ireland.
She was reared in South Carolina. Mr. Montgomery's father was twice married, his
first wife being a Miss Shields, whom he married in Tennessee, and by whom he
had one son and one daughter. After her death her husband married Miss Steele in
Limestone county, Ala. To their marriage were born six children, four sons and
two daughters, the mother dying when James Newton Montgomery was about three
years of age, and the father some twenty years later. James Newton Montgomery
was reared on a farm, assisting his father, who was a farmer by occupation, but
who maintained a workshop on his farm where he made chairs and flax wheels. J.
N. Montgomery received what was called an old field school education, his time
in boyhood being allotted, the summers to farm work and the winters to
attendance at the old field schools. He started out in life for himself at the
age of twenty-one, and going to Pulaski, Tenn., secured a position cutting
stone, at which trade he worked for two years. He then went to Columbia, Tenn.,
where he engaged in the same business for a similar period. In January, 1852, he
came to Selma, when that now prosperous town was but a small village. For three
years he worked at marble-cutting as a journeyman and then at the same trade for
one year in Montgomery. In 1856 he began business in Selma, as a marble dealer,
and continued in that business up to the time the war broke out, when he left
his growing business in the charge of an employee and in September, 1861,
entered, as a second lieutenant, the service of the Confederacy, in company B.,
Twentieth Alabama regiment of infantry. In June of 1863, he was promoted to be
first lieutenant of his company at Fort Gibson, Miss. In 1863 he received a
gun-shot wound in the right arm, in consequence of which he was retired in 1864
and assigned to conscript post duty in Shelby county, Ala., where he continued
until the end of the war. He then returned to Selma and has there continued his
marble business ever since, his son W. R. Montgomery, becoming a partner in the
firm in 1889. J. N. Montgomery & Son are dealers in all kinds of Italian and
American marble, and imported and native granites of all kinds. They employ
artistic workmen and turn out very satisfactory work, being both practical
workmen and therefore well able to judge of the quality of the work done by
their men. In November, 1857, Mr. Montgomery married Miss Minerva Ferguson, who
was born and reared in Selma, Ala., and to their marriage five childern have
been born, three of whom are now dead. Mrs. Montgomery died in 1878. Mr.
Montgomery is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, a master Mason and
a member of the Knights of Honor.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 890-891
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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