Alexander Montgomery

1760 - 1817  (57 years)

• Name	Alexander Montgomery  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Birth	1760	Earl, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Military	1778	Washington County, Virginia, USA   [1, 9]
  FamilySearch ID	LT43-JSM
  Reference Number	https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Montgomery-3885
  Burial	1817	Pigeon Forge, Sevier, Tennessee, USA   [5, 6]
  	Shiloh Memorial Cemetery
  Death	19 Dec 1817	Sevier County, Tennessee, USA   [1, 4, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I8622	Clan Montgomery Society | Alexander Montgomery and Margaret McKemy
  Last Modified	7 May 2024

  
  

  Father	Robert Montgomery,   b. Abt 1719
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F21982	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Napier McKemy,   b. 1778, Giles County, Virginia, USA d. 12 Dec 1830, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	13 May 1798	Montgomery County, Virginia, USA   [2, 7, 8]
  Children	1. Robert Montgomery   d. 1831  [Father: natural] + 2. John Alexander Montgomery,   b. 17 Nov 1784, Roane, Tennessee, USA d. 9 Aug 1860, Rockwood, Roane, Tennessee, USA (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]   3. William Montgomery,   b. 12 Jan 1788  [Father: natural]   4. Margaret Montgomery,   b. 1790, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA d. 4 Aug 1848, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA (Age 58 years)  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F2784	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 May 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1760 - Earl, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Military - 1778 - Washington County, Virginia, USA Marriage - 13 May 1798 - Montgomery County, Virginia, USA Burial - 1817 - Pigeon Forge, Sevier, Tennessee, USA Death - 19 Dec 1817 - Sevier County, Tennessee, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Source DAR NO. 710723, Served as a Sergeant in Capt. Beattie's Company of the Virginia Line in the Battle of King's Mountain. He also served as a private horseman in the militia in 1780-81. Documentation is not conclusive that this Alexander was the son of John and Esther Houston Montgomery according to Erik Montgomery, CMS 219, Apr. 1993. This particular Alexander Montgomery is not descended from the John Montgomery/Esther Houston Line

  
  

• Sources

  [S4767] DAR Ancestor A078951, (Name: Daughters of the American Revolution;), Alexander Montgomery. [S4768] Summers, Lewis Preston, Annals of Southwest Virginia 1769-1800, (Name: Lewis Prestion Summers; Location: Abingdon, Virginia; Date: 1929;), Book available on ancestry.com. [S4769] Bray, Bill, Genforum posting from Bill Bray, (Name: Genforum; Location: http://genforum.genealogy.com/montgomery/messages/6281.html; Date: 20 aug 2009;). http://genforum.genealogy.com/montgomery/messages/6281.html [S4770] Edwards, Olga compiler, The Montgomery Papers, (Location: Tacoma, Washington; Date: 1964;), Book found on LDS Family Search website TN-4469.pdf. [S3369] Ancestry.com, Web: Tennessee, Find A Grave Index, 1777-2012, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Record for Alexander Montgomery http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=websearch-4120&h=3131047&indiv=try [S4771] Shiloh Memorial Cemetery, (Name: Findagrave; Location: Pigeon Ford, Sevier, Tennessee, USA;). [S4772] FamilySearch.org, Virginia, Vital Records, 1715-1901, "Virginia, Vital Records, 1715-1901", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NF7-DFWS : 4 April 2023), Alexander Mountgomery, 1798. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NF7-DFWS [S4773] FamilySearch.org, Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989, "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D3G-8QZ5 : 28 June 2022), Alexander Montgomery, 13 May 1797; citing Marriage, Virginia, United States, Circuit court clerk offices, Virginia. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D3G-8QZ5 [S3116] American Revolutionary War, (Date: 1775-1783;), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War.