John Montgomery and Elizabeth Barnes

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Husband John Montgomery ^{1 2}

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         Father: William Montgomery (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary Nichols (      -      ) 2

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Wife Elizabeth Barnes ²

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1 M William Montgomery ³

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2 M John Montgomery ³

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3 M James Montgomery ³

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4 F Mary Montgomery ³

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5 F Nancy Montgomery ³

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         Spouse: Alexander Porter (1811-Aft 1888) 4

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6 F Esther Montgomery ³

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7 F Sarah J. Montgomery ³

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8 F Martha Montgomery ³

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9 F Elizabeth Montgomery ³

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10 M George Montgomery ³

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11 M Thomas Montgomery ³

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12 M Samuel Montgomery ³

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General Notes: Husband - John Montgomery

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John Montgomery, a man of Scotch descent, was born in the State of Delaware, and came early to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and settled four miles from Pittsburgh, in the Chartier's valley. In the spring of 1797, he removed to territory now in Wolf Creek township, Mercer County, and settled 200 acres of land, including the present site of Montgomery's mill. At the time he was a young man, and belonged to a family of ten children-five boys and five girls-who all came with their father, William Montgomery. On ac­count of Indian troubles, only a part of them stayed in the county during the winter, while most of them went back to Allegheny County. They made no extensive improvements the first year, but in 1799, most of them came back, and a cabin was built. That winter the family again returned to the Chartiers valley, except two of the boys, who stayed in their new home dur­ing the winter to hunt. They made a final and permanent settlement in 1801.
Some time after they came, old Mr. Montgomery broke his arm, and, of course, this rendered him unable to work. To save the family from starvation, some of them went to Benjamin Stokely's, in Cool Spring township, for provisions.
William Montgomery and his five sons, William, Thomas, John, Alexan­der, and David, were out in the War of 1812, one of them, John, being just old enough to go. After the war, they all settled farms in the same neighbor­hood, and lived on them all their lives.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 87.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 809.

3 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1016.

4 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1016, 1063.