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Fair warning, there is a lot of tragedy and untimely death in today's post. Today we continue with the children of Theodore and Margaret (Wilson) Montgomery. The tree on the right should help you get your bearings - and now we set sail with their second son:
II. Commodore Wilson Montgomery (1854–1904)
"Com" Montgomery was born on 11 December 1854, just after his family returned from their adventure in California. He grew up on the farm his father established on the outskirts of Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, and he attended the local schools, where he did well. He even served as a teacher for seven years.On 7 June 1877, he married Alla M Shoup (1856–1939) in Fulton County. Alla was born in Independence, Missouri, in August 1855, daughter of John R Shoup (1828–1901) and Helen M. "Nellie" Barrett (1828–1905). Her family relocated to Indiana after the Civil War.
Com was one of the foremost farmers in the county; he was active in the Grange, a director for several years in the Agricultural and Fair Society, secretary of the Fulton County Anti Horse Thief Society, Vice-president of the Farmers Mutual Insurance Co., and always prominent in Farmers' Institute work.
Com was stricken with a fatal form of peritonitis which ended his life on 26 March 1904 at the age of 49. He was buried in the Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Alla moved to Long Beach, California, in 1913 to be near several of her siblings and children, and she died there on 17 August 1939. She was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California.
A. Clara Gertrude Montgomery (1878–1908) was born on 11 April 1878 in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana. She graduated from the local high school, and on 11 October 1903, she married Edward Eugene Murphy (1878–1920) in Rochester. Edward was the son of John Murphy (b. 1851) and Samantha "Mattie" True (1847–1918).
John Murphy bound for trial Tue, Nov 1, 1881 – Page 2 · The Indianapolis News (Indianapolis, Indiana) · Newspapers.comEdward was born on 26 February 1878 in Rochester, Fulton, Indiana, and was raised by his widowed mother along with his half-brother, Harry W Capp (1868–1917), from Samantha's first marriage. Records are not clear when his father died, or whether his parents divorced. The family appears in the 1880 Census as boarders in a house in Rochester, and there is a newspaper notice of a John Murphy of Rochester being bound for trial on fraud charges, but there is no indication that this is the same John Murphy, and that is the last record I can tie to anyone of that name in Rochester.
(It's possible that John Murphy is related to the other Murphy families I've written about, but it doesn't seem likely based on what little I know about him.)
Edward studied law under Peter Buchanan after he graduated from high school and was in that office for three years. He served one term as city clerk. He then accepted a position as deputy county clerk under William Wright, serving one term, then being elected county clerk in 1906. After filling his term he opened a law office. He also was prominently identified with Republican politics having served as county chairman in 1911 and district chairman in 1916 and was on the state central committee.
About 10:30 a.m. on 15 October 1908, Merle Ream, the milkman, drove down the alley behind the Murphy home and exchanged remarks with Clara about her day. She told him, "I'm trying to get rid of some of the trash." He had only reached the cross alleys when he heard a piercing scream come from the Murphy residence and he ran back to see Clara making her way to the house with flames all over her body. Before he could reach her, she sank to the ground. Mr. Ream, with others who had been drawn to the scene by the screams, succeeded in getting the flames out and moved her into the house. Most likely, the wind had blown her clothing over the fire and before she noticed it had spread. She died at 2 a.m. on 16 October. She was 30 years old.
Clara's sudden death left Edward alone to raise two small boys. He remarried, but not until a decade later, when he married the widowed Lillian I (Kissinger) Mohler (b. 1879) in Fulton County, Indiana, on 19 December 1918. One Saturday night in January 1920, though, he complained of an earache, which worsened the following day. He died on Monday afternoon, 12 January 1920, of what turned out to be meningitis, at age 40. Clara and Edward were survived by their two sons and were buried in Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
1. Robert Eugene Murphy (1905–1965) was born on 28 August 1905 in Rochester, Fulton, Indiana. After his mother died, Robert was reared in the home of his aunt and uncle, Robert Shoup and Winona (Baker) Montgomery, who lived in Gary, Indiana. He attended Indiana University at Bloomington in 1924, and later graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He became an attorney for General Motors.
On 7 January 1933, Robert married Virginia M Ahlburn (1905–1989), daughter of Allen Edward Ahlburn (1875–1959) and Ella McKee (1880–1928), in Cincinnati. The young couple remained in Cincinnati for a few years before Robert took his job with General Motors and relocated to New York.
Robert died on 3 June 1956 at his home in Rockville Center, Nassau County, New York. He was 48 years old. Virginia eventually followed their daughter to Naples, Florida, where Virginia died at age 84 on 27 August 1989. They were survived by their daughter and numerous grandchildren.
a. Eileen M Murphy (1935–2017) was born on Valentine's Day, 14 February 1935, in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Eileen graduated from South Side High School in Rockville Centre, Nassau County, New York (on Long Island), and she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from St. Lawrence University. Her first job was editor in chief of the General Motors monthly newsletter. Shortly after, she became a flight attendant Eastern Airlines.
She married her first husband in 1959 in New York City, and they had five children together, whom they raised in Naples, Collier County, Florida. Soon after moving to Naples, Eileen founded Yesteryears Restaurant. She was also a volunteer with Hospice, Literary Volunteers, the Shelter for Abused Women & Children, and Naples Community Hospital. She and her first husband divorced in 1981, and she later remarried.
Eileen died on 19 March 2017 in Naples and was survived by her husband, five children, fourteen grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
2. Hugh M Murphy (1906–1924) was born on 26 November 1906 in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana. Late in the summer of 1922, while attending high school, he suffered from an attack of influenza and contracted pneumonia. His constitution was never strong and he contracted tuberculosis. In November 1922, he was taken to Healthwin Hospital in South Bend, St Joseph County, Indiana, where he grew worse until he died on 1 March 1924.
B. Dora E Montgomery (1880–1888) was born on 9 January 1880 in Rochester and died of diphtheria on Thursday, 27 September 1888. She was buried in Odd Fellows cemetery (I.O.O.F.) in Rochester.
C. Orbra Wilson Montgomery (1881–1951) was born in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, on 12 December 1881. Wilson married Ethel Belle Baker (1883–1961) on 29 November 1906 in Rochester. Belle was a daughter of Ananias Baker (1848–1909) and Tamer M Holder (1851–1926), and she was also born in Rochester on 9 April 1883.
Wilson started out as a farmer, but at some point, he took a job in Great Falls, Montana. The records aren't clear as to when the family left Rochester, but they appeared in both Great Falls and in Chicago, Illinois, where Wilson worked as a superintendent and general contractor. His eldest daughter may have been born in 1907 in either Rochester or Montana, depending on which records you accept as correct; their second daughter was born in Chicago in 1914; and Wilson's World War I registration placed the family in Great Falls in 1917-18. The whole family appeared in Great Falls in the U.S. Census for 1920, and the youngest daughter was born in Chicago in 1925.
The family seems to have remained in Chicago from at least 1925 forward. Wilson died on 11 May 1951 in Chicago, and his obituary noted that he was a member of the Great Falls (Montana) Masonic Lodge. His widow, Belle, moved down to Houston, where she died on 23 April 1961 in Bunkerhill Village. They were survived by their three daughters and four grandchildren.
1. Helen V. Montgomery (1907–1977) was born on 19 June 1907, either in Indiana or in Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana. She married Ralph Stanley Stackig (1904–1954), probably in 1931 in Chicago. He was born on 14 May 1904 in Chicago, the son of Victor Stackig (1872–1931) and Matilda "Tillie" Lindh (1874–1950).
Ralph seems to have been a life-long Chicagoan, and he died there on 18 February 1954, just a couple of months shy of his 50th birthday. Helen moved out west, probably to be closer to her surviving son, and she died on 10 February 1977 in Montclair, San Bernardino County, California.
a. Ralph S Stackig Jr (1932–1951) was born in Chicago on 4 October 1932. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves and was sent to fight in Korea. Private First Class Stackig was a member of the 90th Field Artillery Battalion, 25th Infantry Division. He was seriously wounded by the enemy in South Korea on 20 June 1951 and died of those wounds on 22 June 1951. He was awarded the Purple Heart, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
b. Harold Victor Stackig (1937–2003) was born in Chicago on 25 May 1937 and graduated from Hirsch High School. He moved out to California around 1960, was married, and had a daughter. He lived in Garden Grove, Orange County, for the last twenty years of his life, and died on 16 September 2003.
2. Mary Alice Montgomery (1914–2004) was born on 29 December 1914 in Chicago, and grew up in Great Falls, Montana, returning with her family to Chicago in her teen years. She married Lawrence Lown McDonald (1913–2001) about 1935 and eventually moved with him to Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.
Lawrence was born on 17 January 1913 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, to Paul Tamble McDonald (1884–1936) and Kitty L Lown (1885–1936). He was a mechanical engineer. He died in Fort Worth on 11 July 2001, and Mary Alice followed three years later on 16 July 2004.
3. Jane Baker Montgomery (1925–2011) was born in Chicago on 20 January 1925. She married Paul James Stocks (1923–2014) on 16 June 1944 in Cook County, Illinois. Paul was the son of August Joseph Stocks (1900–1958) and Geraldine Elizabeth Bannon (1902–1963), born on 16 January 1923 in Chicago.
Jane and Paul moved out to Galena, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, where Jane died on 18 January 2011 and Paul died on 17 August 2014.
Note: Belle and Wilson had four grandchildren as of 1961 - assuming that number includes the late PFC Ralph Stackig, and his brother Harold, that leaves two additional children between Jane Stocks and Mary Alice McDonald.
D. Robert Shoup Montgomery (1884–1935) was born on 14 April 1884 in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana. He graduated from Purdue University, Class of 1909, and became a manager of the Indianapolis plant of the Chevrolet Commercial Body corporation.
On 15 June 1911, Robert married Winona Jennie Baker (1887–1945). She was the daughter of Oscar Rowan Baker (1854–1940) and Mary A Aydelotte (1858–1946), born on 24 March 1887 in Knightstown, Henry County, Indiana. They raised their son and a nephew, Robert Eugene Murphy (see above).
Robert died at his home in Indianapolis on 28 November 1935. Jennie moved to Mecklenburg, North Carolina, but returned to Winchester, Randolph County, Indiana, in 1944 to live with her mother. Sadly, about a week after undergoing major surgery in Detroit, Jennie died there on 26 August 1945 and was buried in Fountain Park Cemetery in Winchester.
1. Robert Baker Montgomery (1912–1970) was born on 13 May 1912 in Gary, Lake County, Indiana. He was living with his uncle, Paul Baker, when he died on 23 December 1970 in Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana.
E. Charles Lee Montgomery (1886–1927) was born on 20 July 1886 in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana.
He married Mary Fern Ault (1890–) on 26 September 1908 in Rochester. Fern was born on 5 September 1890 in Rochester, and her parents were Oliver S Ault (1866–1930) and Hester Elvina "Hattie" Barrett (1866–1954). Not long after their wedding, the entire Ault family - Oliver and Hester, Fern and Charles, and Fern's five siblings - moved to Everett, Snohomish County, Washington.
Charles found work as a mason in Everett, where he and Fern appeared on the 1910 Census. A couple of years later, they were back in Rochester, where their daughter was born, and then, Charles took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi, where he worked for the Dantzler Shipbuilding Company. Their son was born there, and they appeared in the 1920 Census, but a few years later, Fern and the children returned to Washinton State. That's where they were living on 27 March 1927, when Charles died in Jacksonville, Florida, following an operation for the removal of a kidney. His body was returned to Rochester, and he was buried in the Oddfellows Cemetery there.
Fern remained in Seattle after Charles died, working as a clerk in a department store. About 1932, she married the widowed proprietor of a bottle factory named Albert Lewis Vanvaley (1868–1941) and moved with him back to Everett in Snohomish County. After Albert died on 26 November 1941 and was interred in View Crest Abbey Mausoleum in Everett.
Fern remained in Everett for many years but she eventually married again. She and Paul F Glaser (1878–1973) were married on 6 February 1953 in San Diego, California, and lived in Seattle. Paul died on 24 November 1973, and Fern followed on 8 August 1975; they are buried together in the Acacia Memorial Park in Seattle, King County, Washington.
1. Unnamed Montgomery (1910–1910) was a baby boy born to Charles and Fern in Everett on 7 March 1910. He died on 2 May 1910.
2. Margaret Beth Montgomery (1913–1997) was born on 4 January 1913 in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana. She attended Lincoln High School in Seattle, class of 1931.
In 1932, she married a chief petty officer in the U.S. Navy, and traveled with him, working for the war effort in California and Virginia. They had four small children together, then divorced in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1942. She remarried William Calvin Hutson (1914–1974) on 4 October 1944 in Camden County, North Carolina, and they returned to Marysville, Snohomish County, Washington in December 1945. They ran farms in Snohomish County until 1969 when they moved to Tulare Beach (also in Snohomish County).
Bill died on 5 June 1974 in Marysville, and Margaret died there on 11 January 1997. Margaret was survived by six of her seven children, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
3. James Edgar Montgomery (1917–1980) was born on 10 May 1917 in Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi. He served in the U.S. Navy from 12 February 1945 to 14 April 1946, and he died on 23 August 1980 in Everett, Snohomish County, Washington.
Edgar most likely married Genevieve Cecelia "Jennie" Zuk (1915–2002) between 1937, when he appeared in the Everett city directory living at 2130 Colby avenue, and 1940 when the couple appeared in the U.S. Census. Jennie was born on 22 May 1915 in Seattle, the daughter of Polish immigrants, Alex Zuk (1889–1966) and Julia Wojnar.
Edgar worked for his step-father, driving a truck for the Van Valey distribution company, and he and Jennie appeared in the Everett city listing through 1957.
Edgar died on 23 August 1980; Jennie died on 21 January 2002.
F. Guy D Montgomery (1891–1960) was born on 1 February 1891 in Fulton County, Indiana. On 18 December 1909, he married Ethel Lackey (1889–1976), daughter of Andrew Lackey (1846–1894) and Angeline Goss (1848–1943). She was born on 3 January 1889 in Rochester.
Guy worked in a garage, as a mechanic, and in sales, with a brief stint working in Chicago as a grocer in 1913-1914 before returning to Rochester. Guy and Ethel had their daughter while they were in Chicago, and their son was born back in Rochester. Then at some point between appearing in Rochester on the 1920 U.S. Census and appearing in Los Angeles on the 1930 Census, the family moved to California.
Guy died on 20 November 1960, when he and Ethel were living in Whittier, Los Angeles County, California. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. Ethel remained in their home there until she died on 29 November 1976 and her remains were cremated. They were survived by their son, Harold.
1. Frances Mae Montgomery (1913–1958) was born on 14 January 1913 in Illinois, probably in Chicago. Her family relocated to Rochester, and then to Los Angeles, where she graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1932. In 1940, she was single, living at home with her parents, and working as a stenographer.
While I was not able to find documents to fill in the rest of her story, we know from her record in the California, Death Index, 1940-1997, which lists her parents' surnames, that Frances M. Andre died in Los Angeles County on 17 September 1958. She was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles County, as her father would be two years later.
2. Harold D Montgomery (1915–1983) was born in Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, on 16 December 1915. He graduated from Los Angeles High School three years after his sister, in 1935. He enlisted in the U.S. Army on 18 November 1945 and was stationed at Amarillo Army Air Field. Records indicate that he lived in Los Angeles after the war, and he died there on 26 November 1983.
As far as I can tell, no one from this family survived Harold.
G. Hugh Montgomery (1894–1895) was born to Com and Alla Montgomery on 9 August 1894, died on 29 March 1895 at 7 months of age and was buried in Rochester's I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
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Just a few more people to talk about, but we're getting closer to the end of the tree! Yes, again. I know, I said that more than a year ago. But we shall press on next week!
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