Obituary of Melissa Cryer Montgomery, St. Helena Parish, LA
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by  Jane Holiday, May, 2011

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MONTGOMERY, MELISSA CRYER

Old Aunt Melissa Montgomery died at her home near this town last Monday at 
the age of 104 years, according to the best information obtainable. She 
was an old-time darkey, indeed, and of that tribe whose ranks are so near 
depleted that but few are left, but they will live in song and story as 
long as the worlds stands. She had a number of children before the Civil 
War, many of whom long since died of old age, and some children at the 
funeral Tuesday had long ago passed their three score and ten years, all 
honorable and well esteemed by both races, not one of whom was ever 
charged with any crimes. We have been unable to secure anything like a 
definite number of her descendants, but they run into the hundreds, even 
to the fifth generation. She had often been referred to as the Mother of 
Cross Roads A.M.E. Church, and no one ever doubted her sincerity as a 
Christian. In that church yard cemetery she was laid to rest Tuesday with 
suitable and imposing ceremonies to rise again in "That Great Day"

Published around November 5, 1923

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