History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

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1578.
1579.
Samuel.
William Hamnet.
1580. E. Virginia.
1 58 1. Bettie.
1582. James A.
1583.
Thomas E.
1584. J. F?-ancis.
DESCENDANTS OF PETER MONTAGUE.
CHILDREN.
1585. Isabella, m. Mr. Sanderson. Her children are, Wesley,
Albert, Minnie, Bailey, and John.
1586. Martha, m. Mr. Thomas. Her children are Mary E., who
m. Mr. Farrar; Clara A., who m. Mr. Pollard
and had children Emory, Wade, Bessie, and
Walter P. Thomas, who m. and had
Maud ;
children Milton and Sallie; Bettie J.; Charles
C; Virginia A., and Sallie B. Thomas.
544.
William McC. Montague, son of Rice D., Jr., [167], b. Sept. 24,
1825, near Shawsville, Montgomery Co., Va.
At the age of sixteen he assisted his father in the clerk's office of
the Co. Then attended Washington College, and at the age of
eighteen was qualified at deputy clerk of the Co., which post he filled
until he married. Then engaged in farming, and for five years
worked a coal bank and furnished all the coal to enable parties to
furnish additional kettles to increase the quantity of salt, of which the
South was sore in need (during the war). Also furnished coal to
Howardsville to parties making shot and shell for the use of the
confederate army. In 1864 he joined Co. I, 36th Va. Inf. and served
under Gen. Early until the 2d of March, 1865. Was captured at
Waynesborough in an unequal fight [936 against 10,000] was taken
to Fort Delaware and held until 21st of June, 1865, and then released.
Since the war he has sold his farm in Montgomery Co. and purchased
a beautiful farm known as " Melrose Castle," near Casanova,
Fauquier Co., Va., where he resided until 1893, when he returned to
Christiansburg, near his native place. Mr. Montague is five feet, eleven
inches in height, full chest, broad shouldered, form round and tapering,
complexion neither fair nor dark, weight 208^- lbs. He m., Aug. 20,
1846, Henrietta McKelvey Kyle, dau. of Jeremiah Kyle of Christians-
burg, who was formerly a merchant in New York but a native of
Brackey, Tyrone Co., Ireland.