Margaret was born in 1785 in Burke, Georgia, the daughter of James Montgomery and his second wife, Susannah Strange. She married Thomas Niblack at an unknown place and time. They had seven children, one of whom was Hugh Montgomery Niblack. After Thomas died in the early 1840s, Margaret lived with her son, Hugh, in Jackson County, Georgia, where she is listed in the 1850 US Census as being born in South Carolina (not Georgia), being seventy years of age, and having real estate valued at $800. She also is listed in the 1850 Census as owning seven slaves. Between 1850 and 1860, she moved to Tyler, Texas, where she probably lived with her son Augustin, one of the early settlers of Tyler. Augustin Niblack was one of the commission that established the first Presbyterian church in Tyler; he built a home in 1852 that was listed in a study of historical homes of Tyler and where Margaret probably spent her last days.157 The house no longer existed in September 2003.
Margaret died in April 1860 of pneumonia. Her age at death was listed as eighty-two years, which corresponds neither with the date given above nor with her age on the 1850 Census. The location of her burial is not known with any certainty; she is not listed in any of the surveys of early grave sites of Smith County. However, it is likely that she was buried in the Oakwood Cemetery in Tyler, where her son Augustin was later buried. It was the active cemetery in Tyler in 1860 and has many unmarked graves from that period.
There still is a Niblack Lane named for the family in Tyler and a Niblack Branch northwest of town.
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