St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Montgomery, Capt. Frank J. November 25, 1890
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St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, November 29, 1890, Image 1

Capt. F. J. Montgomery, the largest and most successful cotton planter in this 
parish, died of pneumonia at his home in Bellevue, last Tuesday, aged 58 years. 
He was born in Amite, Mississippi, and came to this parish twenty-one years 
ago. He was captain of a company in a Mississippi regiment, and served through 
the war in Virginia. After the war he and Mr. McNulty, whose wife was his 
niece, came to this parish and bought the Hudson plantation in Bellevue. They 
were partners. Owing to the losses by the war, they began with limited capital. 
Mr. McNulty soon died, and the partnership was continued with his widow. The 
accumulation of wealth by farming in generally slow; but success in this case 
has been phenomenal. The original plantation has been enlarged on all its 
borders, until it has become a small spot of the whole area; and all other 
property pertaining to the business has increased in proportion. The cotton 
crop this year is about 500 bales. Capt. Montgomery has always been considered 
the great cotton planter of St. Landry.

In January, 1876, he married Miss Mary Hollingsworth. Two sons were born, and 
one of them and the mother survive.

His great success in business was owing to his sound judgment, great energy and 
good management. He was a good neighbor and a good friend. Rich men are 
generally greedy and often hard-hearted. One little circumstance will 
illustrate this side of Capt. Montgomery's character much better than words 
expressing merely an opinion. Capt. Montgomery always made plenty of corn and 
had a surplus for sale. Several years ago an individual, who was on the most 
friendly terms with him, applied to him to buy a wagon load. He declined to let 
him have it, in words as well as can be recollected, as follows: "well ,now, 
you have money and can buy corn somewhere else; but I have a lot of neighbors 
who have no corn and no money to buy any, I must supply them and they will 
return the corn after the crop is made." Such an act speaks for itself; it 
could have proceeded from none but a kind heart. An epigram expressing it would 
be a fit inscription on his tomb.

Capt. Montgomery had been a great sufferer for many years. He was wounded 
during the war, and his thigh was amputated; several years ago another 
amputation was necessary. So much suffering probably wore him out so that he 
succumbed to the last sickness. He had an excellent constitution, and but for 
the suffering caused by the loss of his leg, he would no doubt have lived to a 
very old age.

He is now at rest, or if he lives in the hereafter the suffering of the flesh 
has been left behind.
 

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