THOMAS G. MONTGOMERY was born June 26, 1831, in what is now Webster County, Ky., but was then a part of Hopkins County, and is a son of Samuel and Rebecca B. (Givens) Montgomery. He was employed on his father's farm until he attained his majority, after which he bought a partially improved farm, a part of his grandfather's old farm, upon which he still resides, and to which he has continued to add from time to time, now owning well improved farms amounting, in the aggregate, to 400 acres. For the past twenty-two years he has been quite entensively [sic] engaged in the live stock trade, and during the war he was engaged in the tobacco business to some extent. In 1857, in company with a younger brother, he manufactured a flat-boat load of staves, and ran them down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans in the following year. Mr. Montgomery was never sued in his life, neither has he ever been a witness or grand juror. He was married, November 31, [sic] 1853, to Miss Martha E. Hunter, a native of the town of Providence. Nine children were the fruit of this union, of whom five sons and two daughters are yet living. Mr. and Mrs, Montgomery are members of the United Baptist Church. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having advanced to the Royal Arch degree, and is at present W. M. of his lodge. In politics he is a Democrat.

 

Source:  J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Pages 1039-1040.