George Montague Jr.
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George Montague Jr. (1829 - 1904)

George Montague Jr.
Born in Utica, Oneida, New York, USAmap
Ancestors ancestors
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married 25 Dec 1852 in Bandera, Bandera, Texas, USAmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 75 in Wilburton, Latimer, Oklahoma, USAmap
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George was born in 1829. George Montague ... He passed away in 1904.[1]

GEORGE MONTAGUE Jr.
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(FORWARD NOTE: per to Names.... Record Citations appear to differentiate the herein Profiled subject from his father by affixing the suffix delineators 'Sr'. or 'Jr'. The FamilySearch model has preferred their distinction by addition to the younger, an initial representing a second name: "A". Because I have no historical record, nor even printed reference to either man with said initial or second name...I show it here out of deference ONLY. My preference here is for each to be identified as either, Sr. or Jr.)
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From: FamilySearch Family Tree ~
Parents & Siblings
GEORGE MONTAGUE Sr. (1802–1859)​​
Marriage: about 1828 Sherburne, Chenango, New York
MERCY LINCOLN (1807–1838)
The Children of Mercy Lincoln and George Montague
  1. GEORGE A. MONTAGUE aka Jr. (1829–1904)​​
  2. MARY MONTAGUE BIRD (1831–1873)​​
  3. HARRIET F. MONTAGUE (1838–1843)
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From: FamilySearch Family Tree ~
Spouse and Children
GEORGE A. MONTAGUE
Birth: 24 Jun 1829 New Hartford (near Utica), Oneida County, New York
Marriage: 25 December 1852 Hamilton Creek, Burnett, Texas
Death: 18 Sep 1904 Wilburton, Latimer County, Oklahoma
Spouse & Children
MARGARET FRANCES “Fannie” or “Fanny” ANDREWS (1833-1901)
  1. ARREMA EMILY MONTAGUE THOMPSON (1855-1927)
  2. GEORGE R. MONTAGUE (1856-1859)—NRF
  3. NANCY ELIZABETH MONTAGUE HOLDEN KOESTNER (1859-1947)
  4. JOSEPH ELDRIDGE MONTAGUE (1862-1947)
  5. MARY EMMALINE MONTAGUE WILSON (1864-1957)
  6. FRANCES GRACE ‘Gracie’ MONTAGUE VREDENBURGH (1867-1951)
  7. ALICE CARMELIA MONTAGUE CASE (1870-1960)
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Corresponding Name of Children's Spouse (s)
1. Spouse____FRANCIS LUCIUS THOMPSON
2. Unmarried. Died in childhood
3. Spouses___FRANCIS MARION ‘Frank’ HOLDEN and
KOESTNER or KELSO Given Name possibly "CONRAD" (see Note)
4. Spouse____EFFIE ALVA BARTHOLOMEW
5. Spouse____JAMES EDWARD WILSON
6. Spouse____AMOS HENRY VERDENBURGH
7. Spouse____HUBERT CASE
(NOTE PLEASE: other networks, ie: Ancestry.com indicate a “Second” marriage, and is identified as: [NELLIE McCLAIN 1856-1924]. Noting again the ‘Life-Event’ dating for George A. Montague and Margaret Frances Andrews would provide for a four-year window for said event to have occurred…Record supporting said Event was not found on FamilySearch, but it here reported ONLY as ‘elsewhere claimed’. As citation material explains...there is sufficient reason for the deference as shown. Jlph)
(REGARDING: 2nd Marriage 'KOESTNER' or 'KELSO'...Obviously somone with closer affiliation likely knows the answer to this, however, I find only two records Post-Divorce for Nancy. One surname = Koestner and the other = Kelso. Both record identifications appear compelling for Nancy. This however, at for now, is as far as I am researching her. jlph)
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THE HISTORY and GENEALOGY of the MONTAGUE FAMILY beginning with Line Progenitor RICHARD MONTAGUE the Founder of Leverette, down to the CHILDREN of NANCY ELIZABETH MONTAGUE HOLDEN and FRANCIS MARION HOLDEN
(I am beginning with Major Richard Montague, as identified, and not presuming earlier in part due to an established Montague Family Genealogy which explicitly names the Children of 'Major Richard'...of whom Dr. Uriel Montague is an identified, named, son..)
Source for following Genealogical/Historical material is from:
History and Genealogy of the MONTAGUE FAMILY of America:
Descended from RICHARD MONTAGUE of Hadley, Massachusetts, and
PETER MONTAGUE of Lancaster County, Virginia
with Genealogical Notes of Other Families
By:
Book by: GEORGE WASHINGTON MONTAGUE
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The children of Major RICHARD MONTAGUE, Founder of the Town of Levrett, Massachusetts.
2471___HANNAH, born: March 19, 1752.
2472___ZEBINA, born: July 23, 1754.
2473___URIEL, born: September 30, 1756.
2474___OREB, born: October 28, 1858.
2475___NATHANIEL, born: July 8, 1761.
2476___MOSES, born: August 7, 1763; died August 7, 1763.
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[*]It has been sometimes said that he gave the name to the adjoining town of Montague, but this is not so, that town was named in honor of Captain William Montague, who commanded "The Mermaid" at the taking of Cape Breton, and who was sent home with the news of the victory of Louisburg. He was the Son of Edward Richard Montague Viscount Hinchingbroke and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Huntingdon, England, and grandson of Edward, third Earl of Sandwich. He died in 1757, without issue.
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2474
OREB MONTAGUE, son of Major RICHARD b. Oct. 28, 1758, in North
Leverett, Massachusetts. Married: LYDIA GRIFFIN, Leverett, Massachusetts.
He was a private or non-commissioned officer in the Revolutionary Army
and was at WestPoint at the time Andre was captured and served a term
of enlistment of 5 years. About 1796, he removed from Leverett,
Massachusetts, : to Cazenovia, New York, where he died January 18, 1825.
His wife also died there in July 1823.
CHILDREN
2626____Mahala, b. Dec. 5, 1784, in Leverett, Mass.
2627____Lydia, b. March 3, 1787, in Leverett, Mass.
2628____Nancy, b. Nov. 18, 1788, in ' Leverett, Mass.; married Ephraim : Smith, brother of Orrin Smith's father; she resided many years in
Canandaigua, N. Y., and died there Feb. 24, 1859; left no children.
2629____Richard, b. Feb. 5, 1791, in Leverett, Mass.; m. Nancy Warren. : He was a soldier in the war of 1812; d. in 1813, in Cazenovia, N. Y.
He left one dau. who was Mrs. Mary Eliza Foster, and resided at Southport,
Indiana. All further trace has been lost.
2630____Cynthia, b. Sept. 13, 1793, in Cazenovia, N. Y.
2631____Zebina, b. Oct. 10, 1795, in Cazenovia, N. Y.
2632____Clarissa, b. June 2, 1797, in Cazenovia; died in Cazenovia;
unmarried.
2633____Melinda, b. , in Cazenovia; m. Henry Benedict. She died in
Cazenovia. It is supposed that he d. in Oswego, N. Y. They had one dau.,
Marion Benedict.
After her mother's death, her father moved away, taking Marion with him
when she was an infant. No knowledge has been obtained concerning her. : It is thought that she is married and living in Canada, but no one knows
where.
2634____Linus, b. July 22, 1799, near Cazenovia, N. Y.
2635____Oreb, b. June 6, 1805, near Cazenovia, N. Y.
2636____Caroline, b. Sept. 8, 1810, near Cazenovia, N. Y.
2475
NATHANIEL MONTAGUE, son of Major RICHARD (2444), b. July 8,
1761 North Leverett, Masstts Marr: January I 1786, ELEANOR MINOR
(or Minard). She was born June 9, 1764; died: March 18, 1839, in New
Hartford, New York ae 75.
Mr. MONTAGUE was aid to his father during the Revolutionary War and
afterward removed to New Hartford, Oneida County, New York.. four
miles from the city of Utica. He purchased 200 to 300 acres of land. He
was a Ruling Elder, in the Presbyterian Church for a large portion of his
life, and rain or shine his carriage always went with him to church on the
Sabbath. He died: Dec. 15, 1824, on the farm which had been his home, at : Whitestown, New York. The town of Montague, 16 miles north of Rome,
New York, is said to have received its name from him.
CHILDREN
2637____Fanny—born—Nov. 20, 1786, in Leverett; d. Nov. 19, 1817; m. April 7, 1817, Dr. Nathaniel Sherril: no children
263S____Charlotte A., born: Dec. 3, 1788, in Leverett; d. Nov. 23, 1826
2639____Luke, born: July 28, 1791, probably at Now Hartford; d. Aug. 4, 1863
2640____Parmelia, born: May 21, 1794: d. Sept. 19. 1795
2641____Harriet, born: April 13, 1796, at Whitestown, New York; m. Aug. 10, 1818
2612____Cordelia, born: Feb. 23, 1798. at Whitestown New York; d. 5 1834, unmarried, at her father's house near Utica, New York
2613____Mary Eleanor, born: Nov. 10,1800, at Whitestown New York; d. Nov. 20, 1882.
3644____Marietta, born: Oct. 26, 1808; d. Jan. 11, 1816
2478
LUKE MONTAGUE, son of Major RICHARD (2444), born September 1, I766 in North Leverett, Massachusetts. He was a merchant in Amherst,
Massachusetts. His homestead, in the center of the village, is still owned by his descendants. His store adjoined his dwelling house, and both stood in the middle of the present street in front of where his old homestead now stands. He married November 15, 1798, IRENE, daughter of Nathan and Esther [Fowler] Dickinson. She was born Dec. 31, 1770 in Amherst. She died May 5 1849. He died—Nov. 26, 1818.
CHILDREN—(all born in Amherst)
2645___Irene born May 12 1800; died September 5, 1803
2646___Moses born January 29, 1802; died October 22, 1804
2847___George born September 14, 1804
2648___Julia born June 18, 1806 died February 2, 1807
2649___Harriet , b. Feb. 1, 1808.
2650___Zebina Clinton, b. April 9, 1810 ; d. Jan. 10, 1881.
2479
Reverend ELIJAH MONTAGUE, son of Major RICHARD, b. Nov. 26, 1768. Married, (1st) June 21, 1791, LOVINA JONES. She was b. Feb. 25, 1778, and died April 12, 1804, and was buried by the side of her husband, in the burial ground at North Leverett. The following, in the hand-writing of Rev. Elijah Montague, and to which he has affixed his name, appears upon his family record, directly under the record of the birth of Simeon:
"On the fatal, mournful 12th of April,1804, the most charming and dearest matrimonial ties (between me and her by whom I have had the above mentioned seven dear children), were dissolved by the stroke of death as the Messenger of the Lord, yet the memory of her still remains dear—30th May, 1804, Elijah Montague."
Married, (2nd) April 23, 1805, JERUSHA, daughter of JEREMIAH WOODBURY.
She was b. April 17, 1778. She died Dec. 5, 1859, aged 81 years and 8 months. He had preceded her eight years before, and she was buried by his side. He died Sept. 26, 1831, - aged 63, and was buried in North Leverett. His homestead and farm were upon the same side of the road as the burial ground, and quite near to it. As also was the homestead of his father, Major Richard Montague. He was a Baptist minister. The following inscription is upon his tomb:
"His life was not distinguished,
By fading honors of the world;
But by his warm and ardent zeal,
For Jesus and his word."
CHILDREN
2651___Emeline—b. July 5, 1792.
2652___Sophia—b. Sept. 21, 1794; d. March 9, 1798.
2653___Polly—b. March 7, 1796
2654___Minerva—b. Nov. 22, 1797.
2655___Elijah—b. Aug. 20, 1799.
2656___Hibbard—b. Nov. 18, 1801.
2657___Simeon—b. Oct. 9, 1803.
2658___Levi—b. Feb. 19, 1806; d. Feb. 20, 1806.
2659___Jonathan Amory—b. March 7 1807; sometime after he was 21 years of age he went to Canada, and it is said was drowned while fishing, Oct., 1832.
2661___Isaac Woodbury—b. July 23, 1809
2662___Richard—b. April I, 1811.
2662___Nathaniel—b. Feb. 8, 1813; d. April 5, 1814.
2663___Thomas B—b. July 16, 1815.
2664___Uriel—b. Oct. 1 1817
2665___Benjamin—b. May 17, 1821
2471
HANNAH MONTAGUE, the eldest daughter of Major RICHARD, born March 19, 1752, in Sunderland, Massachusetts
Married, January —, 1774 (published December 8, 1773), Capt. NATHANIEL GUNN* son of Lieut. NATHANIEL GUNN of Sunderland. He was born January 15, 1752, in Montague, Massachusetts; and died at his home in Montague, on March 6, 1832, aged 80 years.
HANNAH died January 8, 1836, aged 83 years, 9 months and 20 days. They resided in the homestead, in Montague, of Capt. NATHANIEL GUNN, which was also occupied by his son, APOLLOS. He was a jovial, kind man, very pleasant with children.
CHILDREN
2608___Parley, born 1771 in Montague,
2609___Lucretia, born October 3, 1775 in Montague.
2610___Clarissa, born August 1, 1779 in Montague
2611___Luther, born September, 1782, in Montague
2612___Hannah, born September 5, 1783, in Montague
2613___Sophia, born _______, 1785, in Montague
2614___Apollos, born February 7 1788, in Montague
2615___Cephas M. born October 23 1790, in Montague
2616___Fanny, born February 22 1792 (Tombstone states 1793) in Montague
2617___Mary, born probably 1794 or 5, in Montague
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[*]The name, Gunn, is an ancient personnel, or, rather, contraction of one such as Gundebert, Gundrie, Gundbald, etc. Another authority says it is one of those names derived from parts of armor. Burke says the family is originally from Caithness, N. B.. and mentions two branches, namely : William Gun, Esq., seated at Lisahane Castle, County Kerry, 1641, seat Rattoo, Tralee, and
George Gunn, Esq., of Carigafoile Castle, County Kerry, ancestor of the Ballybunion branch. In America, we find that Jasper Gunn of Roxbury came in the "Defense " in 1635, aged 29, with Ann, aged 25, either his sister or wife. He was freeman, May 25, 1636. After ten years he removed to Hartford; he was a physician. After 1657 removed to Milford; died 1670, leaving one dau. and four sons: Job, Anna, Abel, Daniel, and Samuel.
Thomas Gunn was of Dorchester, freeman, 1635; removed to Windsor and died, 16S1.
Nathaniel Gunn of Hartford (perhaps a son of Thomas), may have been b. in England; m. Nov. 17, 1658, Sarah, dau. of Robert Day; lived not long at Branford, and his widow m. 1664, Samuel Kellogg of Hatfield. His only son, Samuel of Hatfield, m. 1684, or 5, Elizabeth, youngest dau. of the first John Wyatt, and had six daughters, and Nathaniel, b. 1693; Samuel, b. 1696; Abel, b. 1700; John, b. 1707.
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2472
General ZEBINA MONTAGUE, son of Major RICHARD, born July 23 1754.
Married, December 30, 1778, JEMIMA GUNN (sister of Capt. Nathaniel Gunn). She died September 10, 1832, aged 83 years.
He was a merchant in Amherst, justice of the pence, councilor, and for seventeen years, nearly in succession, member of the General Court, either as senator or representative; also brigadier-general of the militia the last half of his life.
He died February 12, 1809, S.P. The following inscription is upon his tomb:
"He held, for many years, with dignity to himself and usefulness to the public, the offices of justice of the peace, brigadier- general in the militia, and a representative in the General Court of this Commonwealth, he was a benevolent man and a distinguished and useful member of society."
2473
Doctor URIEL MONTAGUE, son of Major RICHARD born September 30, 1756, in North Leverett, Massachusetts.
Married, November 25, 1783, DEBORAH FAY, daughter of Major JOSIAH and MARY [BENT] FAY, who was born___1731, in Westboro, Massachusetts, and died in the city of New York, August 12 1776, a major in the Continental army.
She (DEBORAH) was of Southboro, Massachusetts, and was born October 24, 1764. Her parents also resided at Marlborough, Massachusetts.
After the death of Doctor URIEL, she married (2),____ THORNTON, and continued to reside at New Hartford, then a part of Whitestown, New York.
She died July___, 1845, aged 80 years.
URIEL MONTAGUE studied medicine in his youth in Boston, Massachusetts, and was an able physician of the town of Southboro, and was also town clerk as long as he remained in the town, he removed in 1798 to New Hartford, New York where he died June 1812, aged 55 years.
CHILDREN
2618___Deborah, born April 12, 1784
2619___Harriet, born March 29, 1786; married John Huggins
2620___John Frink, born Sept. 24, 1788, in Southboro, Mass; it is thought he died young.
2621___Benjamin Franklin, born December 18 (or 10), 1790
2622___Alice Frink, born February 10, 1793
2623___Lucy Ann, born September 17, 1794; married Ephraim Tobey
2624___Hannah, born November 1798
2625___George, born June 29, 1802
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GEORGE MONTAGUE, son of Dr. URIEL MONTAGUE (2473), born June 29, 1802, at New Hartford, New York.
He joined the Mormons about 1835 and went to Nauvoo, Illinois. When Joseph Smith was killed, Brigham Young divided the flock, taking one portion to Salt Lake, while GEORGE MONTAGUE went with the other portion to Texas. It is thought he settled in Austin, Texas. He at one time lived in Palermo, New York.
It is known that at the age of 17 he was attending school at New Hartford, New York.
He was married at Sherburne, Chenango County, New York, where he resided until he went to Nauvoo, Illinois.
CHILDREN
8816____GEORGE, born_______
8817____MARY, born_____ , and other children.
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(I initially found Posted to the FamilySearch Profile for George Montague, 'Sr.', The following information which is correctly cited to):
HISTORY of The TOWN of SUNDERLAND, MASSACHUSETTS
by John Montague Smith,
prepared by Henry W. Taft & Abbie T. Montague.
Press of E. A. Hall & Co., Greenfield, Mass.,
1899.
Begins on Page 458.
Removed to Texas.
Source: Donna Hogue
GEORGE MONTAGUE was a Universalist in belief but joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (known as Mormons) and was baptized into the church in 1835.
In June of 1841, the Family sold their farm and went to the church headquarters which was then in Nauvoo, Illinois. They lived across the river from Nauvoo in a town called Zarahemia, Iowa.
GEORGE was called to take a mission and left his family there and returned to New York for a year, starting out on foot without a cent, going just according to the commandment, "without purse or scrip." While he was gone, Harriet was taken sick and died. When George returned, the Family went to Black River, Wisconsin (about 1843).
GEORGE was with the Lyman Wight Group and they milled lumber to send back to Nauvoo. The group came back to Nauvoo in 1844 and after the death of the church leader, Joseph Smith, moved to Texas in 1845.
GEORGE and his Family were still with the Lyman Wight group now following the REORGANIZED Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. (Brigham Young kept the original church name and went to Utah. This group is today known as "Mormons.")
In the 1850 Texas Census...GEORGE and his family are found in Gillespie County, with George listed as a blacksmith.
Dates of death for GEORGE and ELIZA are unknown.
GEORGE MONTAGUE Jr. also served the church and held many positions in the priesthood. He was baptized on 7 October 1860 at Galland's Grove, Shelby County, Iowa into the RLDS church. He died of perambulating typhoid fever and is buried in Okarche, Oklahoma.
Note: This information was taken from church archives. The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints changed its name to Community of Christ in 2001. The archives are located in Independence, Missouri. History and Genealogy of the Montague Family of America, Compiled by George Wm. Montague, Revised and Edited by William L. Montague, Press of J. E. Williams, Amherst, Mass., 1886. p. 390.
He joined the Mormons about 1835, and went to Nauvoo, Illinois. When Joseph Smith was killed, Brigham Young divided the flock, taking one portion to Salt Lake, while George Montague went with the other portion to Texas. It is thought he settled in Austin, Texas. He at one time lived in Palermo, New York. It is known that at the age of 17 he was attending school at New Hartford, N.Y. He was married at Sherburne, Chenango County, New York, where he resided until he went to Nauvoo.
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The Following historical material is from following Source Article as cited, and was researched separately, as such, due in part to the Posted-to-Profile, fragment of Sentence as appears in the FamilySearch Profile for George Montague Sr. Due to the somewhat confusing, fragmentary information...rather than merely reference the Post and try to explain...here are the discovered instances in the article I found naming George Montague Sr, George Montague, Jr. and their immediate Family Members, as identified. The rather voluminous fore text is being shown because I could find no online Hathi Trust or other conservatories hosting the article which could be linked to, and the text is essential to understanding this Family and their context:
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(As Posted to the FamilySearch Profile K19N-7VG for George Montague, Sr. [*] indicates the end of Posted information, which I hope itself explanation for my query of the Source Article ... my cited material to the same immediately follows [without break] the [*]. jlph )
POLYGAMY on the PEDERNALES:
Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845-1858
by Melvin C. Johnson, p. 201.
Elsewhere in the book he [GEORGE] is mentioned as alive in 1857.
GEORGE MONTAGUE is mentioned once in this article in regard to having three wives.
According to "Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845-1858" George had only one plural wife. His first wife, Mercy, died young. He then married Eliza Ann Segar. After moving to Texas he took one plural wife, Nancy Anderson Daniels Montague. So, yes, he had three wives, but not all at once. [*]
EDITOR’S NOTE — This is the 177th of a series of articles marking Kerr County’s 2006 sesquicentennial.
By Irene Van Winkle
West Kerr Current
Often, new religions have turbulent beginnings, as they struggle to enter into the mainstream consciousness and become accepted.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is no exception. Its roots in Texas were planted on the frontier with the arrival of a splinter group led by Elder Lyman Wight, who was nicknamed “Wild Ram of the Mountain.”
Although their presence as a group was fairly short-lived, their echoes still resonate in the generations that sprang up afterward. In later times, the church in Texas became better-established.
LDS churches in the Hill Country continue to thrive. Kerr County native and historian Sibyl Sutherland said she was the first person in Kerr County, along with her mother and others, baptized in the Mormon faith in the Guadalupe River by Turtle Creek on Sept 7, 1947, when they lived in Center Point.
Her husband’s (G.C.) great-grandfather was Joseph Lyman Sutherland, son of Colony members David and Jane Menzies Sutherland. The Sutherlands were baptised in Scotland by Orson Pratt, a close friend of the church’s founder, Joseph Smith.
Most of the Lyman Wight Colony’s settlements in the area, including Zodiac and Mormon Mill, were eventually destroyed and little remains thereof.
Mountain Valley, their community in Bandera County, ended up at the bottom of Medina Lake in 1913 when the dam was built. The church had been besieged since it began, both from within and without.
After the death in 1844 of LDS founder Joseph Smith, killed by a mob in Illinois during his candidacy for president of the United States, Lyman Wight split from the church, rejecting the leadership of Smith’s successor, Brigham Young.
Wight arrived in Bandera with about 250 men, women and children, formed from 22 households. Some of their descendants remain there today, notably the Langfords, Hays and other clans.
The Langford/Hay group also includes the Banta, Minear, Bedwell and Chipman lines. Last weekend, a group of descendants held a family reunion in Bandera next door to the restored historic home of Benjamin Franklin “Frank” Langford, Jr. (1876-1950), and his wife, Mary Emma Hay (1880-1971), at the corner of Hackberry and 14th Streets.
The story of the home, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, explains the ties to various families, who were part of the early colony, who arrived just one year after Bandera was incorporated.
In 1890, John and Jennie Davenport Miller bought the site from colonists George and (his second wife) Virgine “Virginia” Minear Hay for $25. George and Frank’s father, Isaac “Berry” Langford, helped build a home for the Millers, who sold it in 1904 to Frank and Mary.
Frank and Mary had eight children: Cohen, Olin, Lora, Leotta, Othell, Eldon, Merle and Lera, and photo portraits of most of the family hang on the wall near the doorway of their house.
In 1915, Frank, Berry and Tom Noonan built additions to the L-shaped home, blocking off the first floor, and adding a second story with bedrooms, a sleeping porch and bathroom. They also donated land across the street for the Reorganized Church of Latter-Day Saints, where now sits the still-active Community of Christ Church.
Lyman Wight’s followers, who began the trek into Texas in March 1845, was comprised of 22 households, who came from places such as Scotland, Canada, New York, Connecticut, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Most of them brought valuable skills, which came in very handy in their journeys: weaver, millwright, stonemason, furniture maker, carpenter, farmer and herdsman.
At least seven of the men had multiple wives. The precedent had been set by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Lyman Wight himself had three wives — Jane Margaret Ballantyne, Mary Hawley, and Mary Ann Hobart, who together produced 14 children. His son, Orange Lysander, also had three wives who bore 14 offspring as well.
Other colonists with more than one wife included Ezra Alpheus Chipman, George Hawley, Ralph Jenkins, John F. Miller (with five wives) and___George Montague, with three___.
Fraught with hardships, discord and rejection, the Wight Colony meandered frequently. Wherever they went, although they traded and built communities, they never remained in one place very long, often due to financial hardships.
Earlier, when the Mormons had come to Nauvoo, Ill., Joseph Smith had sent inquiries about conditions in Texas. Although Lyman Wight got permission from Joseph Smith to come to Texas, after Smith’s death, the new leaders set their sights on Utah, which contributed to the rift.
Departing from settlements in Wisconsin, across Iowa, Missouri and through Indian Territory, Wight’s party crossed the Red River at Preston and eventually arrived in November 1845 at an abandoned fort in Grayson County, Texas.
After wintering there, they arrived in Austin in June of the following year but a flood destroyed their gristmill on the Colorado River.
In 1847, the group reached a favorable spot across the Pedernales River, four miles southeast of Fredericksburg. After receiving permission from John O. Meusebach, who was in charge of helping to bring Germans to Texas, the band settled in the community they named Zodiac.
The industrious group quickly built Gillespie County’s first sawmill and a new gristmill, and were able to supply the German community with seeds, flour and lumber. They also erected a temple, school and store, and helped build Fort Martin Scott.
Then disaster struck — Zodiac was hit by a large flood and most of it washed away. Undaunted and stubborn, Wight moved the colony to Hamilton Creek in Burnet County, establishing the Mormon Mill Colony five miles north of Marble Falls and 10 miles south of Burnet. They farmed and hunted, and built a three-story mill building with a 26-foot water wheel. Once more plagued by debt, Indian raids and criticism of their beliefs, they decided to move to Bandera County.
First, however, they returned to Zodiac to recover their millstones, which were found after Lyman Wight saw them in a vision. Just as Joseph Smith had visions upon which his religion was based, Lyman Wight also did. In one of them, he said he foresaw the Civil War.
After the colony left, Noah Smithwick, who bought the Mormon Mill property, built it up with a post office and school. Years later, its population dwindled. In 1901, the mill closed, the flume and other buildings burned down a year later, and in 1914, the rest of it went up in smoke.
After four years in Bandera, in 1858, Lyman Wight died suddenly. He was buried in Zodiac, after which most of his colony dispersed.
The following is a narrative of the Langford family, and related branches, taken mostly from information supplied by descendant, Lauren Langford, a doctor in Houston.
Early ancestor, Benjamin Langford (1780-1844), Sr., the son of Henry and Mary Langford, was born either in Virginia or Carolina and died in Pope County, Arkansas, and was a man of many accomplishments. Besides being a landowner who was willing to move, Benjamin became a justice of the peace, magistrate, commissioner and teacher.
In 1805, he married Martha “Patsy” Pace, who was born in South Carolina. That same year, Benjamin bought 218 acres in Mush Creek, a fork of the South Tygar River Greenville District. Within the next few years, he and Patsy had daughters Prudence, Sinai, Evaline, then Benjamin and Anna, all born in Greenville, S.C.
In 1815, along came son Milton Hazelton, and in 1819, John Pace, who was born in Jackson County, Alabama. Here, in 1820, Ben was commissioned as Justice of the Peace, and two years later, son Robert Berry was born.
In 1830, the family settled in Boiling Springs, one of the first settlements in Pope County, about a mile west of where the city of Hector now stands. Along with the Langfords was Rev. Mahlon Bewley who, opened the first school in the area.
Benjamin and Patsy’s sixth child, Milton (1815-1893), was born in Greenville County, S.C. They moved west through Jackson County, Alabama (1819), and Crawford and Pope counties in Arkansas. by 1830. By 1837, in Fannin County, Republic of Texas, Milton applied for a land grant and received 640 acres. In 1841, the War Department of the Republic of Texas issued him a promissory note for horses sold, for a total of $810.
Milton married Mary Ann “Polly” Banta, daughter of Isaac William Banta and Elizabeth Barker, in Lamar County, Texas in 1843. Records show that he cosigned the first bond recorded after the organization of Hunt County and Isaac was a county founder. Some of the Banta clan who are connected to Andrew Kent’s line are buried in nearby Harper.
Between 1845-1865, they had 10 children: Martha Evelyn, Benjamin Franklin (1847-1923), John D., Isaac Berry (1851-1914), Sinai W., Alfred W., Andrew E., Eliza, Lee Wilson and James Monroe.
During the Civil War, in 1864, after three of their children succumbed to smallpox, Milton and Polly moved south with their family in search of a less populated area and better grazing land for their livestock. They found plenty of grass and water on the Seco, but the Indians became so troublesome they could not keep horses to tend the stock. The family finally settled in Bandera for protection and school purposes.
Duty-bound to serve and protect, from 1868-1870, Milton was Bandera County sheriff, earning a whopping $25/year. Polly died in 1870.
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32. Miller, Correspondence of Bishop George Miller, 10, 11.
33. Will Bagley, ed., Scoundrel’s Tale: The Samuel Brannan Papers (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1999), 47; George Montague, “Reminiscences,” Autumn Leaves 9, no. 9 (September 1896): 387, 388, 389; Levi Lamoni Wight, “Autobiography of L. L. Wight,” Journal of History 9, no. 3 (July 1916): 261; Miller, Correspondence of Bishop George Miller, 14, 15; Allen Stout letter, quoted in Rowley, “The Mormon Experience,” 139; Cannon and Cook, Far West Record, 196
42. Taylor, The Kingdom or Nothing, 89; George Montague, “Reminiscences No. 2,” Autumn Leaves 10, no. 1 (January 1897): 73; History of the Church, 1:176n; 3:289–90, 315, 420, 445–49; 4:341; 6:260–61, 356, 377; Willard Richards diary, 14 May 1844; Lyman Wight to Cooper and Chidester, July 1855; L. Wight, An Address, 3–4, 5–6; Lyman Wight to William Smith, 26 July 1849, Melchizedek and Aaronic Herald (Covington, KY) 1 (September 1849): 2.
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Wight and his followers did not recognize the authority of Young and the Twelve to direct their movements. If the Wightites had known the events of a church financial conference held two weeks earlier at Nauvoo, Brigham Young may not have received even the courtesy of a reply. Present at the meeting were church officials, including the Twelve and the local bishops, who, among other matters, decided the bishops would sell the Maid of Iowa, the steamboat the Wisconsin lumbermen thought that they were to receive in return for the lumber rafted to Nauvoo the previous summer. Forty years later John Hawley reported a conversation he had with Brigham Young about 1860, the gist being that Young told Hawley Bishop George Miller had sold the Maid of Iowa out from under the Wightites. Young implied that he had no or little responsibility in the matter. The Wightites began distrusting Young’s administration of economic affairs, and it would rankle them for decades.
Both John Hawley and George Montague mentioned the Maid of Iowa matter more than forty years later, and Pierce Hawley, living in the Cherokee Nation, refused rebaptism into the LDS Church in 1856, unlike other family members, because he still could not forgive Brigham Young for evidently stealing Wightite property. The elder Hawley affirmed his belief he would be better off waiting for Joseph’s sons to assume their roles as successors to their father than follow the lead of Brigham Young.
Singing praises to God and “to Joseph the Prophet and Seer, the Angel of the Seventh and Last Dispensation of God on earth,” wrote Lyman Wight, his followers moved on 12 May 1845 with eighty-two oxen, eight wagons, a cart, and several tents. Stopping occasionally to work for provisions, the following six months found Wight’s little group journeying through Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Indian Territory. In the first part of November, they crossed into Texas.
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Conversion by conviction of one’s sinful state, as in the case of Smithwick, and the credulity of the Wightite who believed that the boy’s leg truly had been healed by faith and prayer had much in common. They both partook of the miraculous wonder invested in frontier Christianity. Faith-healing, the laying on of hands for blessing and power, the searching spiritual investigation provoked by conviction of sin, and other such practices were part of the folk practices of Hill Country religion. It was not uncommon for numerous frontier Texans to take refuge in prayer and faith-healing against the commonplace accidents and diseases in their lives.
An incident involving GEORGE MONTAGUE’s mother illustrates such practices in Wight’s colonies.
MERCY LINCOLN MONTAGUE was a slight woman of frail constitution and often ill. She had been suffering a particularly difficult bout with sickness. The elders laid their hands on her, blessing her to become well. She immediately arose, her son wrote, and went about the household duties as if she had never been ill.
Another involved George Miller, which happened shortly before his baptism in 1839. He believed two Mormon elders had healed him of a disease, so deadly that three doctors, according to Miller, had advised him
“if I had any matters to arrange in regard to my estate I had better be about it, as I could not possibly live.”
His healing set the “entire village [in an] uproar.” Many of Miller’s neighbors exhibited Smithwick’s later doubt, thinking the elders and Miller had preyed “upon the credulity of the people.”
Because it is not unnatural for one to misjudge the depth and quality of another’s religious life, many Texans had trouble in accepting the legitimacy of the Mormon faith experience in Zodiac.
The village’s covenanted life, particularly when involving practices disapproved of by local secular and sectarian belief, undoubtedly encouraged the Wightites to develop private modes of communication intelligible only among themselves.
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4. H. A. Graves, Andrew Jackson Potter, The Fighting Parson of the Texan Frontier (Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1881), 80–81.
5. History of the Church, 1:147; Montague, “Reminiscences,” 386; Miller, Correspondence of Bishop George Miller, 6–7.
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When comparing the males and females and their marriage status, a serious shortage of marriage-age females and an excess of marriage-age males emerge. This growing disparity plagued the community throughout its existence.
For example, at Zodiac in 1850, only slightly less than sixty percent of the adult males were married heads-of-household, while almost every female over the age of fifteen was a spouse. Polygamy compounded the problem. Only four—and possibly two more—of twenty-nine married males had plural spouses: Lyman Wight, Ezra Chipman, George Montague Sr., and Orange Lysander Wight. Abram Moncur probably had a conjugal relationship with his wife’s sister, Ellen Bell (Helen Ballantyne), who lived in their household. John F. Miller may have been another polygamist.
On the other hand, a female was two to three times more likely than a male to be a polygamous spouse. In a small village, polygamy then was paradoxically both the strength and weakness of the community, for it contributed a socio-economic strength in the present, while robbing the village’s future.
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9. Population schedule, census of 1850, Zodiac, Gillespie County; Zodiac database and Wightite family database. Marriage and family relations were not always obvious. For instance, the plural status of one wife, MARGARET FRANCIS ANDREWS, before the death of Rosina Minerva Wight Miller on 26 March 1850, is problematic. Although MARGARET FRANCIS became John Miller’s legal wife on 11 July 1850, it is not known if Miller and ANDREWS had been plurally joined before the death of Rosina Wight Miller. MARGARET FRANCIS was the daughter of plural wife NANCY DANIELS RICHARDSON MONTAGUE, who lived next door to the Millers.
In a strange twist of irony, MARGARET FRANCIS ANDREWS MILLER divorced John F. Miller before 25 March 1852, [the date she married GEORGE MONTAGUE Jr., making NANCY DANIELS RICHARDSON not only the mother but also the mother-in-law of her own daughter, as well as making MARGARET FRANCIS the stepsister of her husband, GEORGE (see Turk, “Mormons in Texas,” 19–20, 65). The marriage of Montague and Andrews is not recorded in the records of Burnet County, although that of John F. Miller to Martha Chatfi eld can be found in book A, index to marriage records, Burnet County, Texas 1852–62, 7.
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Table 1
Married Individuals at Zodiac in 1850
Residence--Household--Heads and Spouses Ages Married Status
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262 George Montague Sr. and Eliza Segar Montague 48, 37..........Legal Husband and Wife
Nancy Anderson Daniels Montague...39.....Plural Wife
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Table 2
Lyman Wight Colony Marriages and Plural Relationships 1844 to 1858
Date____Names____________Place____________________Status
1849/1850___Nancy Richardson to George Montague Sr._Zodiak, TX.
__Polygamous
25 Dec 1852___Margaret Andrews to George Montague Jr
Margaret Francis Andrews and John Miller were monogamous at the time of their divorce, although they may have been plurals before the death of John’s first wife, Rosina Minerva Wight Miller. Margaret and John both remained in the colony. Miller married Martha Chatfi eld on 11 November 1852, and on 25 December 1852 Margaret became the wife of George Montague Jr., the son and namesake of the man who had earlier taken Margaret’s mother as a plural spouse.
Identifying the polygamous households in 1850 at Zodiac is problematic. Turk recognizes the plural relationships of Lyman Wight, Orange Wight, Ezra Chipman, Joel S. Miles, George Montague Sr., George Miller, and the possible polygamous situation of John F. Miller, although Turk believes that Miller was not married to Margaret Francis Andrews before the death of Rosina Minerva Wight. By 1850, known plural households at Zodiac included those of Lyman Wight, Orange Wight, George Montague Sr., and Ezra Chipman, a total of four men and sixteen wives. Joel S. Miles may have been living at Grape Creek. The households of John F. Miller and Abraham Moncur as well may have also been polygamous by 1850.
County and Census documents support the assumption that John Miller’s household in 1850 was monogamous. A Gillespie County mortuary schedule penciled on an “Assessor’s Guide Book— Gillespie County” for 1850 notes that Roseanna Miller, age twenty-three and born in Ohio, died on 26 March 1850 from a two-day illness, resulting from a “mortification” of the chest. Undoubtedly still weakened from the birth of daughter Rosina Romilia on 6 February 1850, the young mother could not withstand the pleurisy or pneumonia that struck her down. The population schedule for Zodiac in 1850, from information gathered during the late summer, enumerates Frances Miller, a female eighteen years of age, living with John Miller and his three children, the oldest being four years of age. This teenage girl was MARGARET FRANCIS ANDREWS, a daughter of NANCY DANIELS RICHARDSON, the plural wife of GEORGE MONTAGUE Sr. Mother and daughter lived next door to one another.
(Following material Posted to the FamilySearch Profile for Nancy Daniels Richardson: she was mother of Margaret Frances Andrews, referenced above: Widowed in 1843 when her husband Joseph Albert W (JAW) Andrews died of the Measles in Nauvoo , Illinois; Nancy did not pioneer all the way to Salt Lake--Lived back in Tennessee in the 1850's--Then Lived in Texas for a while--Remarried a second time to GEORGE MONTAGUE [Sr] in 1849--They had one son REMORA ANDREWS MONTAGUE--She moved with her second husband GEORGE MONTAGUE to Texas following the Lyman Wight followers, who began the trek into Texas in March, 1845. It was comprised of 22 households, who came from places such as Scotland, Canada, New York, Connecticut, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Most of them brought valuable skills, which came in very handy in their journeys: weaver, millwright, stonemason, furniture maker, carpenter, farmer and herdsman.

At least seven of the men had multiple wives. The precedent had been set by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Lyman Wight himself had three wives — Jane Margaret Ballantyne, Mary Hawley and Mary Ann Hobart, who together produced 14 children. His son, Orange Lysander, also had three wives who bore 14 offspring as well.

Other colonists with more than one wife included Ezra Alpheus Chipman, George Hawley, Ralph Jenkins, John F. Miller (with five wives) and George Montague, with three wives. Nancy Daniels Richardson's second husband

Fraught with hardships, discord and rejection, the Wight Colony meandered frequently. Wherever they went, although they traded and built communities, they never remained in one place very long, often due to financial hardships.

Earlier, when the Mormons had come to Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith had sent inquiries about conditions in Texas as a possible place for the Saints to relocate. Although Lyman Wight got permission from Joseph Smith to come to Texas, after Smith’s death, the new leaders set their sights on Utah, which contributed to the rift between Wight and Brigham Young's inspired plan to move to the West.
Departing from settlements in Wisconsin, across Iowa, Missouri and through Indian Territory, Wight’s party crossed the Red River at Preston and eventually arrived in November, 1845 at an abandoned fort in Grayson County, Texas.
After wintering there, they arrived in Austin, Texas in June of the following year but a flood destroyed their gristmill there on the Colorado River.

In 1847, the group reached a favorable spot across the Pedernales River, four miles southeast of Fredericksburg. After receiving permission from John O. Meusebach, who was in charge of helping to bring Germans to Texas, the band settled in the community they named Zodiac.

The industrious group quickly built Gillespie County’s first sawmill and a new gristmill, and were able to supply the German community with seeds, flour and lumber. They also erected a temple, school and store, and helped build Fort Martin Scott.
Then disaster struck — Zodiac was hit by a large flood and most of it washed away. Undaunted and stubborn, Wight moved the colony to Hamilton Creek in Burnet County, establishing the Mormon Mill Colony five miles north of Marble Falls and 10 miles south of Burnet. They farmed and hunted, and built a three-story mill building with a 26-foot water wheel. Once more plagued by debt, Indian raids and criticism of their beliefs, they decided to move to Bandera County.
First, however, they returned to Zodiac to recover their millstones, which were found after Lyman Wight saw them in a vision. Just as Joseph Smith had visions upon which his religion was based, Lyman Wight also did. In one of them, he said he foresaw the Civil War.
After the colony left, Noah Smithwick, who bought the Mormon Mill property, built it up with a post office and school. Years later, its population dwindled. In 1901, the mill closed, the flume and other buildings burned down a year later, and in 1914, the rest of it went up in smoke.
After four years in Bandera, in 1858, Lyman Wight died suddenly. He was buried in Zodiac, after which most of his colony dispersed.
Buried in Iowa where her daughter Abigail lived
Final Resting Place - Spring Valley Cemetery
Find A Grave Memorial #91903192
after 3 October 1881
Moorhead, Monona, Iowa, United States
Nancy Andrews__Female__39___Tennessee
Marian Andrews___Male__20____Tennessee
Anna Andrews___Female__13___Tennessee
Emeline Andrews_Female_10___Tennessee
Ramora Andrews__Male____0________Texas
Her mother Elizabeth Cox--The idea held out was that the Mormons had everything in common therefore if she gave to you she was giving to all the Mormons society if you had of been here you would no doubt have got your part of the property as was you did not get any nor never will for it has been squandered principally as I have understood. Josiah Robbins own land and a negro named Sam that he got in the division by paying two hundred dollars. Orrin Fisher and Robt I am told are quite poor your mother I think is a good woman but think she was led astray by her counselors there were seven or eight hundred dollars a piece for those who got it all keep this to yourself or at least don’t use my name as your author for fear I might make enemies of some of my friends if though it could benefit you I would not object to its being known anywhere though as I see no chance for it to benefit you it might be as well for me that it should be kept. You might write to your mother and let her know that you are in possession of all about it and perhaps you might induce her to write to you though be your judge of that.”






The Mormon Cowboys of Bandera County......Page 187
The secularizing process of transforming former Wightites into citizens in the larger community continued. Private matters, once handled within the community, were now sent to the district court for resolution.
The fall 1857 term of the District Court of Bandera County heard the case of Amasa Clark vs. Frances Clark. The husband accused his wife of adultery and sued for divorce. Seven members of the jury—former Wightites Marion Andrews, William Curtis, Cyrus Isham, Aaron Hawley, William Gaylord, John Gressman, and George Montague—formed a majority.
The jury found for the plaintiff—awarding him custody of the child, all of his property before the marriage, and half of the property acquired after the marriage. Miles and Curtis were directed to inventory the property and report their findings, which were two cows, two calves, and one unimproved town lot in Bandera City.
Bibliography
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Montague, George. “Reminiscences.” Autumn Leaves 9, no.9 (September 1896): 387–89.—.“Reminiscences No. 2.” Autumn Leaves 10, no.1 (January 1897): 73.
Index
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Montague, George Jr., 56, 76n9, 80, 82,186, 187, 201. (See also Andrews,
Margaret Francis)
Montague, George Sr., 78, 80, 146, 153, 154, 186. (See also Daniels, Nancy
Anderson; Segar, Eliza)
Index 229
Montague, Mercy Lincoln, 73
Nancy was born in 1859. She passed away in 1947.




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The social and material culture of the colony began to stabilize during the winter of 1843–44. The nucleus of Wight’s colony in Texas began here.
Several young men and women married and started families, including those of Allen and Elizabeth Stout, Spencer and Anna C. Wight Smith, John F. and Rosina Minerva Wight Miller, and Orange L. and Matilda Carter Wight. Only the Stouts did not go to Texas. Pierce Hawley and a “Brother Bird” (probably Phineas Bird, the family patriarch) were counselors to Bishop George Miller, and they comprised the local leadership for the sawmill community and logging camps.
All three would become members of Wight’s Texas community. Other family names that appear in Wight’s Texas villages, as well as in Wisconsin, include Gaylord, Curtis, Jenkins, and Monseer (Moncur). 34
Wight and Miller organized a common-stock economic order much like the earlier Rigdonite and Mormon communities in Ohio. Allen Stout described these affairs in a letter to family members. The bishopric (Miller, Hawley, and Bird) had “taken a schedule of every mans property to make a general distrabution.” Provisions were kept in a storehouse where individuals could draw necessities.
"We have gon in to the whole law of God on Black River that is every man has given a scedule of his property to the bishop and we have all things common according to the law in the book of covenants....Every man his own goods to do what he pleases with.....The thing is we are all on an equality eve man fars alike labours alike eats drinks ware alike but at the same time he lives to himself and what he has he has to himself and at his own controll. . . . I have bin thus perticular because of the man falce reports gon out."
Stout invited his readers to come to Black River “if Benj Hoseas or uncle Jim Pace thinks they can go the caper of concecration and (Below break)
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34. Susan Easton Black, comp., Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1993), 6:235 (hereafter cited as Black, ERLDS); Turk, “Mormons in Texas,” 28, 29, 76, 81; Rowley, “The Mormon Experience,” 138. Militant Mormonism on the American Frontier 27
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equality we wish you to come by all means . . . the law of black river is that he will not work shal not eat.”
The material culture of the Black River community, by necessity, grew from its environment. Furniture was crafted from milled lumber rather than felled logs. Allen Stout, the community carpenter, described his home as “a frame house one story and a half high sixteen feet square with two loos floors and a petition [partition] and a most half sealed.” Before Stout and the others finished sealing the cracks in their walls, floors, and ceilings, the winter winds made the buildings drafty and chillingly uncomfortable, leading to influenza, colds, and pneumonia.36
The settlement continued to grow in permanence, as men and boys drove herds of sheep, oxen, cattle, and milk cows to Black River in the fall of 1843 and the spring of 1844. The families prepared for the winter of 1843–44, growing potatoes, turnips, tomatoes, pumpkins, squash, and cabbages in the community gardens, as well as wheat in the larger fields. They took and preserved the bigger game animals (bear, deer, elk, and buffalo), and fished and netted the abundant resources of the nearby lakes and streams. With all that, the winter was still terrible. The snow was heavy, the cold intense, and because the church office, according to the younger Montague, had failed in delivering all of the necessary supplies to Black River, the families and crews had to ration food carefully. George Miller remembered a group of starving Menominee Indians who came to the camp. The Mormons voted unanimously to feed the Indians with their own limited supplies, and gave them flour and an ox.37
The hunger caused terrible times. Men, women, and children suffered. Elmira Pond Miller, the wife of Henry W. Miller, wrote:
“Before spring opened our provisions gave out and we had only potatoes and salt for several weeks. . . .The baby was only fourteen months old, but when the flour came he could not wait for it to be baked, but wanted a piece of dough.”
Half-rations were issued. Levi
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35. Allen Stout letters, 10 and 13 September 1843, quoted in Rowley, “The Mormon Experience,” 133, 134, 139.
36. Rowley, “The Mormon Experience,” 138; Allen Stout letter, quoted in Rowley, 139.
37. Montague, “Reminiscences,” 388, 389; Mills, “De Tal Palo Astillo,” 125, 126, 129–30.
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Lamoni Wight remembered eating what he called a “miserable article of bread.” One little boy was elated when, after several days without bread, he found a biscuit in a rat’s nest. The small child ran to tell his mother the wonderful news. She at first would not let him eat it, then, when the child broke into a torrent of hunger-induced tears, relented. Allen Stout recalled that in March, just as he was preparing to eat a cut from an ox that “had been dead three weeks,” a shipment of fl our arrived, saving him from tainted meat. No one starved, yet no one ever forgot that terrible winter.38

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