Dorcas Montgomery

1758 - 1834  (76 years)

• Name	Dorcas Montgomery  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	1758	Augusta County, Virginia, USA   [1, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Death	29 Dec 1834	Washington County, Virginia, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I6485	Clan Montgomery Society | John Montgomery and Esther Houston
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	John Montgomery, Sr,   b. 1719, Londonderry, Northern Ireland d. 1795, Augusta County, Virginia, USA (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Esther Houston,   b. 1724, Londonderry, Northern Ireland d. 1790, Augusta County, Virginia, USA (Age 66 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	2 Jul 1738	New Providence, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA   [6, 7, 8]
  	by Rev Johann C Stoever, Jr; Earl Town
  Family ID	F2074	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lieutenant John Patrick Lowry,   b. 26 Feb 1749, Augusta County, Virginia, USA d. Oct 1792, Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, USA (Age 43 years)
  Marriage	1771	Washington County, Virginia, USA
  Children	+ 1. Robert Edmiston Lowry,   b. 24 Mar 1784, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA d. 5 Oct 1857, Virginia, USA (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3690	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2026

  
  

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  Birth - 1758 - Augusta County, Virginia, USA Marriage - 1771 - Washington County, Virginia, USA Death - 29 Dec 1834 - Washington County, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Montgomery-Houston Family of New Providence, Rockbridge Co., VA' by Robert H. Montgomery, FASG, of Cambridge, Mass. pub. New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol CXII January 1958.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3055] Montgomery, Roscoe, Botetourt Roots, (Name: Location: http://botetourtroots.org/index.php;;), Botetourt Roots website maintained by Roscoe Montgomery. [S5584] DAR Ancestor A072152, (Name: Name: Daughters of the American Revolution;;), John Patrick Lowry http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A072152. [S4183] Armstrong, Zella, Notable Southern Families, (Name: Lookout Publishing Company; Location: Chattagnooga, Tennessee, USA; Date: 1922;), Volume II, Pages 179-198 Houston. Available on Genealogical.com Disk GPC 7191 Montgomery Section Volume II Pages 241-252 Also available on ancestry.com also outlined: http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/showsource.php?sourceID=S484&tree=Legends Notable_Southern_Families.pdf [S5199] Montgomery, David B, A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and their Descendants, (Name: J P Cox; Location: Owensville, Indiana, USA; Date: 1903;), Pages 322-333 Montgomery-Houston Family of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Other States https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?count=50&f-F00032DB=322. Electronic Book .PDF 436 pages A_genealogical_history_of_the_Montgomery.pdf Also DBMontbgomery Index.doc Book found on Ancestry.com https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?ftm=1 https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?count=50&f-F00032DB=322 [S2879] Montgomery, Russ, RussMontgomery_FamilyLineReport, (Name: Date: Oct 8 2009;;), RussMontgomery-JohnMEstherHoustonLine.pdf. [S5571] Egle, WIlliam Henry, Egle's Notes and Queries of Pennsylvania, 1700s-1800s_Stoever, (Name: Date: 1896;;), Marriages performed by Johann Stoever. [S5516] Hoffman, Susan Vaughan Montgomery, http://johnmontgomeryancestry.com/_HoustonInfo, (Name: Location: Madison, Alabama; Date: 2009;;), Website posted by Susan Vaughan Montgomery Hoffman and other familycollaborators, including Russ Montgomery, about the history of John Montgomery and Margaret Alexander Montgomery as it relates to John Montgomery and Esther Houston of Virginia. Appendix section covering John Houston information [S5566] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, Lutheran Baptisms and Marriages, 1730-1799, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;). Record for John Mountgomery http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=4640&h=1734&indiv=try