Caleb Montgomery (1799 - 1872)

Born 23 Jun 1799 in Jefferson, OH [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Callin) Montgomery — married 13 Aug 1822 in Richland County, Ohio

Descendants

Died 23 Feb 1872 at age 72 in Newcastle, Fulton, Indiana

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Biography

Caleb Montgomery was a son of Olivesburg’s founder, Benjamin Montgomery (1766–1841) and Nancy (Ann) Nottingham (1768–1866), born on 23 Jun 1799 in Virginia. His family moved to Richland County, Ohio, when he was about 17 years of age. He married his first wife, Elizabeth Callin, on 22 August 1822 in Richland County, Ohio.^[1]Caleb and Elizabeth had five children and lived in Olivesburg in 1830. She died on 5 Nov 1834 at age 36 in Richland County, Ohio, and was buried in the Olivesburg Cemetery.^[2][3]

After Elizabeth died, Caleb remarried Sarah L. Mercer in 1836 in Richland County, Ohio. Sarah was born in Ohio in 1812. Caleb moved his family to a farm east of Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, in 1837. ^[4][5][6]

Caleb died in Fulton County on 23 Feb 1872 at the age of 72. Sarah died on 10 Nov 1877 and was buried in Reichter Cemetery in Talma, Fulton County, Indiana. ^[7][8][9]

Slightly different versions of Caleb’s biography were published alongside sketches of his sons, Theodore and William (his second youngest son by Sarah Mercer).

Theodore’s sketch included the following^[10]:

Caleb Montgomery, a pioneer from birth, and a sturdy son of toil, was born June 23,1799, in Virginia, of Scotch-Irish descent, the name Montgomery, being of Scotch origin-"Oh ye hills and castles of Montgomerie." His father, Benjamin Montgomery, was a native of Virginia, and a miller by trade. His mother, Nancy, was a native of the state of Delaware. They left Virginia when Caleb was a small boy, and settled in Richland Co., Ohio., where they died, and where Caleb grew from a mere boy to a man of the family. He was the fifth of eleven children, and his education as a mere rudimentary one, on account of having settled in a new and thinly populated district. The thing most important to young men and boys in those days was to have some trade or profession. In his case, being of a migratory disposition, and having settled in a new and heavily wooded county, the carpenter's trade was the most important. He chose this and followed it in connection with his agricultural pursuits. In 1820, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Callen, a native of Pennsylvania, as before stated, born August 7,1798 and a native of the same county as her husband. To these parents were born five children- Mary, now deceased; Sarah, now the wife of Henry Davidson, living in Halsey, Oregon; Theodore, of whom this sketch is concerned; Porter, deceased at Vicksburg, Miss.; and Callen, now interested in the mining business in Coloma, Cal. In 1834, Mrs. Montgomery deceased, leaving a mourning husband and family, and in 1836 he married Sarah L. Mercer, a native of Ohio, born 1812. To these parents were born ten children, four sons and six daughters, all of whom are now dead but three.”

The biographical sketch of William J. Montgomery added some details^[11]:

This gentleman of whom we now write is a descendant of the family to which Gen. Richard Montgomery, who fell at Quebec, belonged. His father, Caleb Montgomery, mentioned elsewhere in this work, was born in Richland County, Ohio, in 1799, and was a nephew of Gen. Richard Montgomery. He emigrated to this county and landed on the Montgomery homestead March 1, 1837, when this was an unbroken wilderness. Here the subject of this sketch was born on the 4th of October, 1849, and here he lived till it pleased his Creator to call him away. He was the ninth of his mother's ten children, his father having previously been married, to which marriage had been born five children.

Sources

1. ↑ Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Film Number 000388735 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61378/TH-1-17957-69827-27/901815401 : accessed 12 July 2019), Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016, Lehi, UT, USA.
2. ↑ 1830 U.S. Federal Census, Place: Olivesburg, Richland, Ohio; Series: M19; Roll: 139; Pg: 130; FHL Film: 0337950.
3. ↑ U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Memorial #82105569.
4. ↑ 1840 U.S. Federal Census, Place: Fulton, Indiana; Pg: 344; FHL Film: 0007724.
5. ↑ 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Place: Newcastle, Fulton, Indiana; Roll: M432_146; Pg: 457B; Image: 597.
6. ↑ 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Place: Newcastle, Fulton, Indiana; Roll: M653_260; Pg: 659; FHL Film: 803260.
7. ↑ U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Memorial #63393476.
8. ↑ Indiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999, Ancestry.com Ops, Inc., 2015, Probate Place: Fulton County, Indiana.
9. ↑ U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Memorial #63393407.
10. ↑ Helm, T.B., Fulton County Atlas, A.L.Kingman, 1883, p.30.
11. ↑ Wendell C. and John B. Tombaugh, Fulton County Indiana Handbook M, TOMBAUGH HOUSE, 700 Pontiac Street, Rochester, Indiana, 46975-1538, 2001; <http://genealogy.fulco.lib.in.us/handbook_m/>