Riley Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties-Samuel Montgomery
Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1890
SAMUEL MONTGOMERY. This well-to-do farmer of Ogden Township, may usually be found at his headquarters�a fine and well-improved homestead of 320 acres on section 7. He has under the plow 200 acres, and the balance is largely devoted to hay and pasturage. He keeps about forty head of cattle, fifty head of swine and nine horses. His family consists of a very intelligent wife and twelve children, all of whom are living. The latter comprise a most interesting group of sons and daughters, whose births are recorded as follows: Zachariah, March 10, 1851; Thomas Dec. 19, 1853; John, Nov. 1. 1855; Emily, Feb. 7, 1858; Irene, Nov. 30, 1859; George, March 28, 1862; Cynthia, March 13, 1864;
Samuel, Feb. 14, 1868; Marian, Aug. 17, 1871; Grant, Nov. 19, 1873; Nancy, Aug. 31, 1875; Walter, Feb. 5, 1879.
Mr. Montgomery was the seventh in a family of ten children, and was born March 2, 1828 in Green County, Ky. His father, Thomas Montgomery, was a native of Virginia and a farmer by occupation. The maiden name of the mother was Sally Morris, and she was a native of Kentucky. The parents spent their last years in Missouri, the father dying in 1855 and the mother in 1874. Samuel, like his brothers and sisters, received a common-school education in Buchanan County, Mo., to which the family removed in 1838. He at an early age became familiar with the science of agriculture, and remained under the parental roof until after reaching his majority. On the 29th of December, 1849. he was united in marriage with Miss Nancy Jane Parker, the wedding taking place at the bride's home in Center Township, Buchanan.
Mrs. Nancy Jane (Parker) Montgomery was born in Surrey County, N. C., Sept. 6, 1834, and was the seventh child in a family of thirteen children, the offspring of Edmund and Nancy (Hickman) Parker, who were natives respectively of North Carolina and Virginia. They were married in the first-mentioned State, and lived there until 1840. Then crossing the Mississippi they settled in Buchanan County, Mo., where the father died in 1860. The mother survived her husband for a period of twenty-four years, remaining a widow, and died in 1884, at the home of her youngest son. C. M. Parker, in Sumner County, Kan., when quite aged.
Mrs. Montgomery spent her childhood and youth in a comparatively uneventful manner, acquiring her education in the common school, and growing to an interesting and attractive womanhood. She has been the able assistant of her husband in the accumulation of their property, and is recognized as a leader in her community, where the family, notwithstanding the fact that they have not been long-time residents, are looked upon as constituting a part of its most respectable element. Mrs. Montgomery is a member in good standing of the Baptist Church, and with her husband, is warmly interested in the training and education of their younger children. Mr. Montgomery, who came with his family to Riley County, in 1887, was a member of the School Board of his district in Missouri, and also officiated as Road Supervisor. He refuses to be governed by party lines in politics, but usually votes the Republican ticket.