Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Montgomery, Samuel C. 1849 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  SAMUEL C. MONTGOMERY, farmer, P. O. Flat Rock, born March 25, 1849, in this
county, grandson of Andrew and Elizabeth (Colwell) Montgomery, who came from
Ireland and settled in this county in an early day when the settlements were
very few and the dark forest was filled with lurking wild blasts and still
wilder men; amid the dangers of pioneer life they reared a large family who were
all honored citizens of their respective communities. One of the children,
Andrew, was married twice. First to Sarah Carter, who had five children; his
second wife, Martha J. Highsmith, was the mother of eight children, four of
them—Nathaniel, Wiley, Sarah J. and Lucinda—are married; Mary E., John D.,
Martha V. and our subject are living on their father's homestead, he having died
September 27, 1880, the mother died December 9, 1872. The children are living on
a farm of 200 acres of good land-The boys are Democratic in politics. When the
grandparents of our subject first came to the United States they settled in
South Carolina, from there they moved to Tennessee, thence to Kentucky, and then
to Indiana, where they forted at Ft Knox, and finally came to this county as
stated above. Andrew Montgomery was in the Black Hawk war.

Nathaniel Highsmith, the grandfather of our subject on the mother's side, was
also in the Black Hawk war with his brother William, who was Captain of his
company.


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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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