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

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retired to peaceful sleep which passed into the sleep of death. So
gently did the messenger of death beckon him to the other shore,
there was no struggle nor death agony. The deep sympathy and
strong attachment of friends and acquantances was manifested by a
memorial service, held for him in the Presbyterian church, by a large
audience, on the Sunday evening following his death. He was a
christian, and soon to become a member of the Presbyterian church.
An editorial notice of his death in a Huntsville paper, says of him :
" Many and long years will come and go, ere Huntsville will again
know a more noble gentleman, and tears will for a long while come
unbidden to many eyes at the memory of him, or the mention of his
name. He was universally esteemed, a model young man."
649.
John B. Montague, son of Dudley S. [195], b. Feb. 16, 1823.
For several years he followed the river as mate. He afterward
learned the river from Cincinnati to St. Louis with his brother Wil-
liam J., and for about five years before his death he was a pilot.
Shortly after the war of 186 1 began, he enlisted in the Miss. Gun-
boat service, and served as pilot, and d. in said service April 17, 1863.
He was buried on Papan Island, but afterward his remains were
removed to Red House, W. Va., and laid by the side of his sister in
the family burial ground, a spot belonging to Win. J. Montague. He
never married.
650.
William James Montague, son of Dudley S. [195],
b. Dec. 26,
1824, near Richmond, Va.; m., Sept. 20, i860, Anna Lynn Boyer, at
Louisville, Ky., who was b. May 6, 1842, in Louisville. They reside
at Wills Point, Van Zandt Co., Texas. Mr. Montague is employed
in steamboat business on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers as captain
and pilot, which occupation he has followed all his life.
CHILDREN.
1800. Adam IV. S., b. Aug. 18, 1861 ; ;//., May 22, 1889, Jessie Jones
Busby, who was b. March 24, 1868. in
Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La. They reside
in Wills Point, Tex., where he is local
freight and ticket agent of Texas & Pacific
R. R. Children, Bessie Banks, b. March