{"id":889,"date":"2015-09-20T19:05:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=889"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:01","slug":"robert-s-montgomery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/robert-s-montgomery\/","title":{"rendered":"MONTGOMERY, Robert S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ROBERT S. MONTGOMERY<\/strong> was born November 30, 1829, in South Carolina, and is a son of <strong>Thomas Montgomery,<\/strong> who was born in 1808 and is of Irish parentage.\u00a0 He came to Tennessee in 1844, locating near Palmetto and in 1854 erected a dwelling-house, in which our subject now lives.\u00a0 <strong>Robert S.<\/strong> began to reside permanently in the State in 1855, and the same year engaged in merchandise business with <strong>Samuel Carpenter<\/strong>, continuing up to the date of the late war.\u00a0 After its close they again resumed business and, in 1874, <strong>T. S. Montgomery<\/strong> purchased Mr. Carpenter&#8217;s interest, the style of the firm being then changed to Montgomery Bros.\u00a0 In 1885 they sold out to <strong>J. O. Montgomery,<\/strong> a cousin.<\/p>\n<p>March 13, 1855, he married <strong>Miss Susan Dysart,<\/strong> daughter of <strong>James P.<\/strong> and <strong>Leah Dysart<\/strong>. To <strong>Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery<\/strong> were born eight children: A<strong>lice E. (Mrs. J. F. Tillman), Mary<\/strong> (deceased), <strong>Jimmie<\/strong> (deceased), <strong>Thomas A., Lillie<\/strong> (wife of <strong>Dr. W. C. Ransom<\/strong>), <strong>Denny, Gertrude Inez and Robert H<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Mrs. Montgomery<\/strong> died April 19, 1881.\u00a0 He is a Republican and a strict member of the Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROBERT S. MONTGOMERY was born November 30, 1829, in South Carolina, and is a son of Thomas Montgomery, who was born in 1808 and is of Irish parentage.\u00a0 He came to Tennessee in 1844, locating near Palmetto and in 1854 erected a dwelling-house, in which our subject now lives.\u00a0 Robert S. began to reside permanently &#8230; <a title=\"MONTGOMERY, Robert S.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/robert-s-montgomery\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about MONTGOMERY, Robert S.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2857,2860,2859,2861,2868,2869,2858,2864,2866,2863,2870,2855,2856,2865,2867,2862],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-carpenter-samuel","tag-dysart-james-p","tag-dysart-susan","tag-montgomery-alice-e","tag-montgomery-denny","tag-montgomery-gertrude-inez","tag-montgomery-j-o","tag-montgomery-jimmie","tag-montgomery-lillie","tag-montgomery-mary","tag-montgomery-robert-h","tag-montgomery-robert-s","tag-montgomery-thomas","tag-montgomery-thomas-a","tag-ransom-w-c","tag-tillman-j-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}