Franklin L Montgomery

1831 - 1856  (25 years)

• Name	Franklin L Montgomery
  Birth	1831	Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1850	Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA   [1]
  Death	9 Oct 1856	Adrian, Lenawee, Michigan, USA
  Person ID	I16259	Clan Montgomery Society | William Montgomery and May Aiken
  Last Modified	16 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Lewis Montgomery,   b. 1798, Harpersfield, Delaware, New York, USA d. 11 Feb 1874, Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Tirzah Thompson,   b. 1800   d. 1840, Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA (Age 40 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	31 Oct 1820	Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA
  Family ID	F5269	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Delia Andress,   b. 1834, Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA
  Marriage	1 Jan 1855	Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA
  Children	+ 1. Frank Alfred Montgomery,   b. 29 Jun 1856, Adrian, Lenawee, Michigan, USA d. 10 Jan 1946, Adrian, Lenawee, Michigan, USA (Age 89 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5271	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jul 2026

  
  

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  Birth - 1831 - Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA Residence - 1850 - Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA Marriage - 1 Jan 1855 - Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA Death - 9 Oct 1856 - Adrian, Lenawee, Michigan, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Franklin fell to his death from a church steeple he was building, in Adrian Michigan. Franklin is shown in the 1850 census of Geneva, Ohio age 19 in the household of Lewis Montgomery. James Montgomery of Atlanta has a copy of the marriage certificate of Franklin and Delia in 1855.

  
  

• Sources

  [S21] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio; Roll: M432_659;Page: 220A; Image: 112. Record for Franklin Montgomery