Today, we will wind up with a look at the youngest of the three daughters of Jonathan Montgomery (1801–1898) and Sarah Callin (1807–1830). There aren't a lot of descendants in the branch, so this will be relatively brief - and that will bring us to the end of this branch of James Callin's family!
III. Mary "Polly" Montgomery (1830–1926)
Polly was born on 23 December 1830 in Richland County, Ohio, and her mother, Sarah, died a week later on 31 December. Polly and her sister were raised by her father and step-mother, Eleanor "Ellen" Eichard (1802–1858).
She married John Houston (1827–1889) in August 1849. As far as I can tell, he was the son of Robert Houston, Sr. (1798–1863) and Sarah Owens (1804–1880), born in Ohio on 27 July 1827. They had their first three children before the Civil War, and their youngest was born a few years after the end of the war; John and Polly raised their family in Butler Township, Richland County.
A. Sarah "Sadie" Houston (1850–1928)
B. Nancy Jane Houston (1852–1929)
C. Dr. Robert R Houston (1860–1890)
D. Izora M Houston (1869–1944)
Sadie, their eldest, married in 1870, but Nannie remained at home. The three younger Houstons went along when John and Polly moved to Fulton county in 1883, where they lived on a farm four miles northeast of Rochester.
John died on 14 September 1889 and was buried in the Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Polly eventually (around 1920) moved in with her youngest daughter, Izora Sheets, whose family lived in Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana. Her health deteriorated in her last six years, and she died there on 8 January 1926 at the age of 96. She was buried with her husband in Rochester.
A. Sarah "Sadie" Houston (1850–1928) was born on 26 May 1850 in Butler, Richland County, Ohio, and grew up on her family's farm. She married John Minor Ford (1848–1910) on 7 April 1870. The son of Joshua Ford (1805–1883) and Elizabeth Hammond (1811–1888), born in Ohio on 6 June 1848.
John and Sadie lived on a farm in Nankin, in Orange township, Ashland County, Ohio, where they raised their two sons. John died on 12 March 1910 in Montgomery, Ashland County, Ohio. Sadie died on 19 August 1928 and they are both buried in the Nankin Cemetery.
1. Omar Houston Ford (1872–1905) was born on 10 May 1872 in Orange Township, Ashland County, Ohio. He worked on his father's farm, and he died after a lingering illness at only 34 years of age, on 9 January 1905.
2. Eugene Hammond Ford (1873–1949) was born on 28 October 1873 in Orange Township, Ashland County, Ohio. On 15 June 1899, he married Emma C. Smith (1874–1956). Emma was born on 3 November 1874 in Orange Township, Ashland County, Ohio, the daughter of David Smith (1824–1908) and Rosetta Bales (1834–1923).
The couple lived on a farm in Orange Township and raised their daughters there. Hammond enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in Company K, 365th Infantry 92nd Division, returning from France in February 1919 aboard the Olympic. He was 45 years old at the time.
Hammond died at 75 years of age on 17 June 1949 in Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, and was buried in the Ashland Cemetery. Emma died on 25 November 1956 while she was visiting her daughter, Kathryn, in Akron.
a. Kathryn Mercile Ford (1902–1993) was born on 20 July 1902 and grew up in Nankin. She married Earva Carl Bender (1901–1988) on 27 December 1930. Earva was the son of Andrew Jackson Bender (1848–1933) and Ida Alice Krum (1856–1941), born on 14 September 1901 in Barberton, Summit County, Ohio.
A farmer all of his life, Earva operated a 300-acre farm in the Cuyahoga Valley and was well known for his sweet corn and other vegetables. He and Kathryn were married for 58 years. He died on 31 December 1988 in Akron, Summit, Ohio, at Akron City Hospital, after a long illness. Kathryn died on 25 March 1993 in Akron. They were survived by numerous nieces and nephews, but no children.
b. Helen Elizabeth Ford (1911–1994) was born on 8 January 1911 in Nankin. She married Gladimere William Schreck (1909–1987) on 17 November 1935 in Ashland County, Ohio.
William was a general sales manager for a manufacturing company. He died on 22 Oct 1987 in Lake County, Florida. Helen died on 1 January 1994 in Fostoria, Seneca, Ohio.
They were survived by their son and two grandchildren.
B. Nancy Jane Houston (1852–1929) was born on 3 August 1852 in Richland County, Ohio, and moved with her parents to Fulton County. Nannie remained single her whole life, and in her later life, she suffered from heart trouble and other age-related illnesses. She died at the county infirmary, where she lived when she could no longer care for herself, on 18 September 1929. She is buried in the Rochester IOOF Cemetery.
C. Dr. Robert R Houston (1860–1890) was born on 4 October 1860 in Richland County. He was a bright scholar and, when he graduated from college, had a very bright future before him. Unfortunately, he suffered from what the local newspaper described as "disease fastened upon his brain," and he died on 16 August 1890 while under treatment at Long Cliff Asylum in Logansport. He is buried in the Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
D. Izora M Houston (1869–1944) was born on 29 October 1869 in Blooming Grove, Richland County, Ohio, and grew up on her family's farm in Butler Township.
Izora married Allen Deloss Sheets (1868–1943) on 25 November 1890. He was the son of David Sheets (1819–1874) and Sarah A Nixon (1832–abt. 1915), born on 12 July 1868 in Fulton County, Indiana. Allen's father died when he was small, and Allen grew up in the home of his mother and step-father, Isaac Good, whom she married in 1875.
Allen ran a farm and later worked as a salesman in an agriculture business. The couple raised their son in Rochester before moving to Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana, where they appeared on the 1920 U.S. Census. Allen died on 13 May 1943 in Elkhart County and Izora followed soon after on 1 April 1944. They are buried in the Violett Cemetery in Goshen.
They were survived by their son.
1. Everett Houston Sheets (1903–1969) was born on 17 January 1903 in Rochester, Fulton, Indiana, and his family moved to Goshen by the time he was 17. There, he met and married Edna M Glines (1900–1991) daughter of George S Glines (1858–1913) and Cora M Pindell (1865–1948), on 20 May 1922. Edna was born in Union, Branch, Michigan, on 18 August 1900, and she grew up in Mason, Branch County.
The couple settled in Elkhart, where Everett owned and operated a cabinet shop at his home address for many years. He died unexpectedly at his home in Elkhart on 5 November 1969. Edna died on 26 May 1991, and they are buried in Violett Cemetery in Goshen.
They were survived by their son and two grandchildren.
a. Ronald Dean Sheets (1933–2008) was born on 14 August 1933 in Goshen, Indiana. He attended Concord High School in Elkhart and worked at the former Howk Motorcycle Shop in Goshen. He was a Korean War Army veteran, having served from 10 July 1956 to 19 July 1958. He loved motorcycles and collected knives. Along with his wife, he lived in the Goshen/Elkhart area for many years before moving to Marshall, Arkansas.
Ronald died on 3 August 2008 at the Veteran's Administration hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the age of 74. He was survived by his wife, two sons, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
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If you're new to my blog, you probably don't know how much I love unusual names, and "Gladimere Schreck" is probably the best name I have found since "Zelpha Hoot" or "Thor Day." (Willadean Thunder, though; that one's pretty awesome, too!)But - once again I think I have arrived at the point in this ongoing project where I can start compiling everything into a manuscript for the Book! As I said in "The Other Montgomery Connection," there don't appear to be any more "missing" children from the families of either John or James (the Brothers Callin, who moved to Ohio in the 1810s). The only other breakthrough I can anticipate that might delay the book any further would be to find their father, James, the Revolutionary War soldier whose records still elude us.
And if I found that, well, that would be awesome.
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