1887 Address of Logan Russell Montgomery:

Update: The graphic below was misdated. It  from the 1897 Polk Directory, but at the time of this article’s original posting 1897 was still the earliest date establishing the presence of Logan Russell Montgomery and family in Indianapolis. But we have now found proof re-establishing the Montgomery family’s arrival in 1887. The 1887 PCD does list Russell Logan Montgomery and his son Russell Montgomery. Both appear living at 373 North West Street. Russell is employed as a laborer working at Earnshaw & Taylor. Earnshaw & Taylor was a lumber company specializing in Coil Elm Hoop Works (the making of ‘hoops’ needed in the making of barrels & cask).

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1887 Indianapolis address of the former slave, and grandfather of Myrtle Montgomery Williams.

The 1887 Polk City Directory list "Montgomery Russell L," as living at 178 Agnes Street in Indianapolis. It indicates that he is a 'laborer' at the time. (upper red arrow) The Polk directories are helpful in verifying some facts but limited in many regards. They are not reliable as stand alone sources for verifying identities. This record does establish the earliest known address and possible record of the arrival (latest date of...) of Russell outside of marriage and birth records.

Of the Montgomery's in this listing Wm. (William) C. Montgomery interest me because we know that Russell had an older brother named William, but we don't know what happened to him. Did he stay in Kentucky? Or migrate with Russell and possibly other siblings and neighbors? We can assume that this William is African-American (see below) because he is living in the segregated portion of Indianapolis, 476 west North Street, and the distance between his address and Russell's is such that would make it worthwhile to look deeper at the possibilities.

Housing in Indianapolis was segregated by race in the 1880s. In some cases it was also segregated by nationality, Slovenians, and religion, Jewish. This segregation was dictated by social stigma and taboos as well as ordinances and law. It could also be dictated by group identity and safety needs. While the identity of neighborhoods might not have been forced by explicit laws it was seldom totally voluntary.

The address of Russell is within the boundaries of the African-American neighborhood. There may have been exception to the segregation, but they would be so rare that an assumption of race would be reasonable as well as probable. We can even consider that the assumption that the race of this Russell is African-American is more probable than the assumption that he is 'our Logan Russell Montgomery. There could always be two Logan Russell Montgomery's.

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Who is who in this article:

• Logan Russell Montgomery is a former slave and the grandfather of Myrtle Montgomery Williams.

James & Myrtle (Montgomery) Williams: Lockfield Gardens

February 2 at 8:27pm This an update to a previous post. The previous post has been archived/or/deleted.

In two earlier post I said that it appeared that James and Myrtle didn't live IN Lockfield Gardens in 1940 because their address was too far south and Lockfield Gardens was an apartment building not a house. The census taker had listed the residence they lived in in a manner that indicated it was a house, single family dwelling. Or at least that's how it looked to me.

This week I restarted another round of back-checking:

• Back-checking is when I complete a phase of research, such as researching census records, I take all the collected research up to that point and verify it against the newly collected census data.
• I do that with every phase:
  I started with researching the work of Frank Montgomery, and organized the information,
  then I researched and processed Jo Ann’s collection of family pictures and went back through the Frank research and the Jo research and compared it, looking for information that did or didn't match.
  Then I did a map research and back checked it against the Frank/Jo research.
  I will repeat this process about ten times as I progress through different steps.
  By the end of the research phase I will have rechecked every fact or assumption collected at least eight to ten times, and then will discard the information that can't be explained or verified by at least one other source.

So, to get to the point (hush-up out there!), this week I researched and back-checked the "Polk City Directories". The Polk directories are like the yellow pages and Phone books that existed before the phone was invented. Like the phone books they listed and advertised businesses. They also listed every house in the city and who was the head of the house in that year. The same way the phone book list whoever pays the bill (and their address) the Polk directory shows name, address, and sometimes occupation.
I am posting clips of the Census and Polk entries to explain my errors, nonetheless I am only willing to take 90% of the blame... I'm just saying.

Everyone in the Polk Directory is listed in at least 2 places: the alphabetic list and the by address. This is the alphabetic listing for Jas (James) and Myrtle at 901 Locke Street Apartment 571.
Remember I hadn't seen this when I was evaluating the information on the census.

This is the 'by address' list for James' address. Again I hadn't seen this before, once I stumbled upon it I realized my error. This is from 1941, James and Myrtle didn't have a phone then... the only one in the building that year belonged to apartment 544. Noticed how they distinguished that... anyone out there get the significance of the icon?

This is a 'mashup' of the 1940 census page. The top arrow points to the line #41 entry, '901/566'. The second arrow points to Mr. Williams entry on line #52. In this mashup it looks like Mr Williams entry is right under Line 41 and I shouldn't have missed the 901/566 entry, but in fact its 11 lines down the page. I cut and paste it right under the column headers.
But the real mistake wasn't that I missed the 901/566 address. I probably saw it and figured it was one of those private notation that census takers often make and that was my first mistake.
My second mistake was that I couldn't make out the critical notation in column 1. "apt", obviously for apartment. But this is a blow-up of the census form... on paper it was not easily read and the 'apt' was eligible.
My bad...

OK, here is the full story of the Williams family in Lockfield Gardens. (So far):

James & Myrtle were married in 1935. Sometime between 1935 and 1940 they moved into Building 901, apartment 571 of Lockfield Gardens. 901 Lock St. APT 571, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Their rent was $18 a month in 1940 when James was a Hotel Porter making $728 a year. Myrtle had just started a job as a waitress in a Restaurant. Both were 25 years old and 4 year old Roy was living with them. By 1942 they had a phone in the apartment and at the time they were the only ones in the building who had one. They lived in Lockefield Gardens until after the 1955 birth of Jo Ann. Before the end of the year they moved in with Myrtle's mother on Columbia. It appears Cheri, Dickie, James and Carl were all born while the Williams family lived in Lockefield Gardens.

Siblings:

3552 N. Salem: Viola Gertrude Williams’ last residence:

In 1964 Mr. Williams's mother, Viola, was staying with her daughter Lora Murray (formerly Williams-Montgomery) when she died of a heart attack brought on by a myocardial infarction. Viola was the widow of Walter Alvin Williams who had died in 1930. Viola re-married after the death of Walter.

At this point I cannot determine who else was living at this residence in 1964, but so far this is the earliest, still standing, residence of the Montgomery-Williams family I can find.

I have discovered 27 addresses in Indianapolis where the family has lived since 1880. I've visited most of them and only three are still standing; this one and the last two locations that Mr. Williams lived at in the 70s and at the time of his death in 1999.

In the case of two houses, churches now stand on the property (N. West Street and N. Columbia). Two more would have been in the general area of the end zone of the Crispus Attucks High School's football field. As for the remainder most of them were located in areas where the entire neighborhood is gone, such as Lockfield Gardens and the surrounding area.

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Who’s who in this article:

• Viola Gertrud (Bell-Williams) Langford is the mother of James Francis Williams. (Walter Alvin Williams was his father.)
• Lora (Williams-Montgomery) Murray is the daughter of Viola and sister of James. Lora was married to James R. Montgomery, the brother of  Myrtle Montgomery, the wife of James Williams.
• The descendants of James & Myrtle Williams and the descendants of Lora & James R. Montgomery are what’s called ‘double-cousins’.
• James and Myrtle (Montgomery) Williams are the focal point of this project.

Richard ‘Dickie’ Lawrence Williams

Why was Myrtle Montgomery born in Chicago?

After the ancestors of James Williams and Myrtle Montgomery arrived in Indianapolis nearly all the births for the next few generations occur in Indianapolis. With at least two exceptions. John and Myrtle Montgomery.

Myrtle's mother had four children*:

• John b. 19 1908   In Illinois
• James b.1912 in Indiana
• Myrtle b.3-18-1915 in Illinois
• Pauline b.2-19-1916 in Indiana

Traveling between Chicago and Indianapolis in 1908 was not the convenient three hour drive over a multi-lane interstate that it is today. In 1908 there was no Interstate 65(I-65). Most roads were two lanes and many stretches were still unpaved roads.

Why would Myrtle's parents, Frank and Nanny, move the entire family 200 miles four times over eight years?
Was it for employment? If so was it the hope of permanent employment? If that was the case it apparently didn't work out the first time so why repeat such a drastic move the second time? Was it a case of visiting Chicago (while pregnant) and delivering unexpectedly on the trip? Of course that would explain the first birth, but what about the second?
The most likely assumption might be that it was visiting one time (probably the first) work one time (probably the second birth).

At first this makes since once we discover the research of Frank R. Montgomery, were he states: "

In 1905 William Brown Sr. deceased in Indianapolis, Indiana. By 1906 Nannie and Edna were married, and "Big Momma" Rosa Brown moved to Chicago, Illinois with her son William Brown Jr".

With Nannie's mother now living in Chicago, visiting Chicago might be something that happens every few years. Wanting to have her first child near her mother would be natural. Then years later making a family move in search of employment would make since too.

If it was only that simple. As we've expanded the family research beyond the earlier work of Frank Montgomery we discover some knew information. The dates of Momma Rosa's move to Chicago are to early:

Following the death of Rosa’s husband, William Brown, in 1905, Big Mama would remarry less than 7 months later to David Hopper, but they did not move in 1906. There is no doubt that Rosa Brown disappeared from the public record in 1906 (due to her name change) and there is no doubt that she moved to Chicago following Williams death. Just not in 1906.

On the 1910 census for Indianapolis  Nannie and Frank, married 3 years, appear at 711 Hadley Street with their child John, and her brother William Brown. The brother who is supposed to be in Chicago with Big Mama. What has been overlooked is that in the same house, not household, is another family. That of David and Rose Hopper, Nannie's mother and step father.
So even though Nannie's first son was born in Chicago in 1908, EVERYONE was in Indianapolis in 1910!

Discovering facts in records and old documents can only tell part of the story. Memories tell the rest. No matter how insignificant  how doubtful  or how incomplete a memory or thought might be it could be even a tiny piece of the story that ties together all the facts. We need you to tell us what you know, think you know or remember to make this family history complete.

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*note: Nannie actually had a fifth child. The 1910 census included two questions for the mother: "How many children have you had" and "How many children now living. Nannie answered "2" and "1" respectively. This means that Nannie had a child who was born and died before the 1910 census. We as yet have no information on this child.

Who is who in this article.

• Frank & Nannie Montgomery: Myrtle Montgomery’s parents, Joseph Frank Montgomery and Nannie Belle Brown .
• John, James, & Pauline: Myrtle’s siblings.
• William Brown: William Thomas Brown, Myrtle’s grandfather.
• William Brown, Jr.: Myrtle’s uncle (Nannie’s father).
• Big Mama Rosa Brown: Rosanna Jones, Myrtle’s grandmother (Nannie’s mother)
• David Hopper: Big Mama’s second husband. previously misidentified as David Hooker. The 1910 census taker must of heard the name wrong; his handwriting very clearly say David Hopper, but subsequent documents consistently say David Hocker. We will use Hocker.
• Frank R. Montgomery: A nephew of Myrtle's and the author of the early research and documentation on the Montgomery Williams family.
• Myrtle Montgomery (wife of James F. Williams): Myrtle and James are the focal point of the Montgomery/Williams Project

Need some help on some information.

James Frances Williams family lived:

1935 to at least 1940 lived at 571 Locke Street
194? to 1960 Where*
1960 to about 1963 at 2557 Columbia
1964 to ???? at 250 W. 44th Street
19?? to 1999 at 711 E. 34th Street.
* Before living in Lockefield Gardens James & Myrtle at 571 Locke St., but when did they move in and out of Lockefield Gardens.
I'm sure I got some dates wrong, so please let me know.

Pictured: Carl & Jodi on the porch on Columbia.

Visit 'Montgomery Williams Family Places' interactive map using this link: http://www.communitywalk.com/location_info/2004070/13274450

Can anyone identify these two?

Winona and John Henry Williams:

1876 Winona Helm & John Henry Williams were both born the same year in Fayette County Kentucky.
By 1889 they had moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where Walter A. Williams was born.
We know they were in Indianapolis, Indiana no later than 1902 when John and Winona [Helm] Williams were married.

http://www.communitywalk.com/location_info/2004070/13266346

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Who is who in this article:

• John Henry & Winona (Helms) Williams are the parents of Walter A. Williams, as well as the grandparents of James F. Williams.
• James & Myrtle (Montgomery) Williams are the focal point of this project.

Mr. Williams and ""WHO""

Myrtle’s Birthplace

Jo Littrell, the only connection that I can find to Chicago is 'Big Momma' (Rosa (Jones) Brown, who moved to Chicago after her husbands (William Thomas Brown) death in 1905. Rosa and William would be your mother's grandparents. She died in Chicago in 1920. Buried in Montrose Cemetery.

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Who is who in this article.

• William Brown: William Thomas Brown, Myrtle’s grandfather.
• Big Mama Rosa Brown: Rosanna Jones, Myrtle’s grandmother.
• Myrtle Montgomery (wife of James F. Williams): Myrtle and James are the focal point of the Montgomery/Williams Project.

Logan Russell Montgomery: 11th Street area in 1915 and 1931:

Russell Montgomery lived on west 11th Street in 1915 and in 1931 at the time of his death. The stretch of 11th street that he lived on no longer exist, having been replaced by the expansion of the Crispus Attucks campus after 1945. When Russell lived on 11th street in 1915 CAHS had not even been built. (It was built in 1927.) The campus expansion didn’t occur until after 1945. Long after Russell’s death.

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2017 map view of the area.

Today, what remains of 11th street where Logan Russell Montgomery once lived is just a half block section from Brooks Street to the edge of the Crispus Attucks High School campus. Russell's house would have been in this stretch, on the right, just on the CAHS campus.

In 1915 CAHS was not yet built. 11th street continued on from here uninterrupted all the way past Senate Avenue.

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Who is Russell Montgomery?

Russell was born a slave in Adair County Kentucky. He moved his family to Indianapolis about 1900. He is the grandmother of Myrtle E. Montgomery (wife of James Francis Williams), the focal points of this project. (the Montgomery/Williams Project)

The Montgomery/Williams Project: Video @1 (unidentified pictures)

24 family photos of unknown/identified persons.

Please view and if you recognize anyone let me know:

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The mystery grows, the plot thickens.... on a dark and rainy night.

It almost sounds like a 1940 film plot or a country western lyric, but there is a mystery afoot.

On Christmas day I explained to Jodi and Jimmy that according to the information provided on the family it looked like Logan Russell Montgomery, born a slave, had (as I understood it) purchased his mother out of indentured servitude following the civil war and the 13th Amendment.

Under Jim Crow laws indentured servitude, via tenant and servitude contracts, were used to contain and restrict the freedoms of freed slaves in many states.

In the case of Russell's mother, Darkas Montgomery, the record* of him purchasing her contract has led earlier researchers to conclude that the seller of the contract, Ermine Montgomery, was the owner of Darkas's contract after the death of Ermine's husband Robert Montgomery. The sale of the contract by Ermine has led the same researchers to assume that she was white, and therefore the wife of Robert Montgomery(deceased), the original slave owner of Russell and Darkas. Robert also is believed to be the father of Russell.

The assumption is that Ermine must be white in order to own a contract (under Jim Crow Laws) of a former slave, but this assumption is risky when you consider that in Kentucky, under slavery, there were freed blacks who owned slaves!

Kentucky, by comparison, was one of the more liberal of the slave states before the war with no prohibitions against Slaves learning to read and write and freed slaves having some property rights. Remember, even though a slave state Kentucky did not choose to succeed from the Union and actually fought on the northern side during the war.

The above information was the focus of that Christmas Day discussion with Jodi and Jimmy.

But...

As if all of the above was not enough, I discovered a marriage certificate for Russell to Sarah E. Miller. The marriage certificate indicated that the wedding was performed at the house of ERMINE MONTGOMERY! Present at the wedding was Russell and the 16 year old bride, the brides mother, a Parish Montgomery (surety for the marriage bond), Ermine, and two witnesses (names unreadable).

The marriage certificate for Russell to Sarah E. Miller. The marriage certificate indicated that the wedding was performed at the house of Ermine Montgomery. Present at the wedding was Russell and the 16 year old bride, the brides mother, a Parish Montgomery (surety for the marriage bond), Ermine, and two witnesses (names unreadable).

Would the former slave owner, Ermine, be so generous to the former slave(Russell), and illegitimate son of her late husband(Robert), as to host the wedding ceremony of that former slave 12 years after the end of slavery?

Was Ermine white? If so was she the wife of Robert Montgomery? The entire basis for the identification of Ermine as the possible white wife of Robert Montgomery appears to be the indentured servant contract sale.*

There is a problem with the assumptions associated with the contract. The acceptance of those assumptions are suspicious when the marriage license is looked at independent of the contract. In other words examining the marriage license we would conclude that all members of the wedding party, including Ermine, were black. The contract not withstanding, we should conclude that Ermine was neither white or the wife of Robert Montgomery. Nothing in the contract information* actually disputes or establishes that conclusion.

*(the existence of which I haven't been able to verify yet)

Yesterday, January 3rd, 2017 on a research trip to the Indiana State Library I obtained/discovered some additional documents:

1. In the marriage record book for Adair County, Kentucky I found a listing for the marriage of Milton Montgomery(age 38, farmer) to Ermine Smith(age 25) dated 1874. Three years before the indentured servant contract. The page in the marriage book had the handwritten title "Adair Colored List"
2. Pre-civil war Census records for Adair County, Kentucky. Having never done a search or research on pre-Civil War slaves I for now have stuck with doing what's familiar and tried to locate Robert Montgomery, slave owner.

The marriage record for the marriage of Ermine Smith to Milton Montgomery reinforces our new conclusion that Ermine was not white. In obtaining census records for 1850, 1860, and 1870. We are able to identify, not only who Robert's wife was, but we are also able to establish a connection of Darkas to Robert Montgomery:

From these three census we are able to establish two Robert Montgomery families in Adair county: one extended family in second district; and one in the first district.

1. From the 1850 census the family in the second district is headed by Robert and C.S. Montgomery. By 1860 Robert is deceased and the family is now consolidated, some children have moved out, and the family is headed by the widow Clementine (C.S.) Montgomery. There is no information other than the surname to suggest a connection between this Robert Montgomery family and Darkas and Russell Montgomery.
2. The family in the first district is headed by Robert and Elizabeth Montgomery on the 1860 census. Child Martha D.(age 32) and Jane(age 53), probably a sister of Robert.

From this information we are unable to establish either as the Robert Montgomery we are looking for. We may even start to question either Robert’s parentage or his identified date of death(after 1860) because we find a James Montgomery. This James appears on the 1860 census with his family. If either Robert is the father of this James (and Darkas’ son) has he relocated to Robert’s estate, or has he moved Darkas, a freed slave, to his 1860 estate. Which he occupied while both Robert’s were still alive.

It is more likely that Robert was dead before 1860.

The absence of proof is not proof. Because I can’t identify or find a connection to Robert that verifies the conclusions of earlier researchers doesn’t mean they are wrong. They may have had proof, shared the information from the proof, but not shared information about the proof. While I may now question the identification of Robert as the father of Logan Russell Montgomery or his date of death we will respect the conclusion of earlier researchers for now. we need copies or source information on the indentured servant contract and the birth record of Logan to clear this up.

Here is where the 1870 census gets interesting. Next door to the Montgomery family(white) is the black family of, none other than... Darkas Montgomery! Besides being neighbors, there is in the white household a son, Logan Russell Montgomery, and in the black household a son, Russell Montgomery. James and Darkas are the same age...hmmm.

NOTE: Under slavery Darkas would not have appeared on any census.

One last footnote to the 1870 census. Remember Russell Montgomery and Sarah Miller are married at the household of Ermine Montgomery (formerly Smith). Next door to Darkas is another black family of 5. The family of Robert Smith.

• From the above information I would suggest that these previous assumptions should now be considered inconclusive or no longer accurate: Ermine Montgomery was not white or the wife of Robert Montgomery. The servitude contract needs to be found and further researched.
• I believe from the above information we can conclude the following to be true: Darkas and her children where former slaves owned by the family of Robert and Elizabeth Montgomery, but that the records previously used to establish Robert as the father of Russell needs to be rediscovered. That in 1870 Darkas (not Russell) were under a indentured servitude contract, farming on the land of the late Robert Montgomery (now owned by the son James). That Ermine Smith married Milton Montgomery (both former slaves) in 1874. That Ermine hosted the wedding of Russell and Sarah. That somehow Ermine obtained the indentured servant contract of Darkas, either for or from Russell. We need a date for the transfer of the contract also.

The mystery continues...

**UPDATE: 1880 Census information sheds new light on the family of Martha Montgomery. Speculation above about the make-up and relationship of Martha and James Montgomery is disputed and clarified by the 1880 census. Previous to 1880 census information listed members of the household as follows: the head of household, followed by everyone in the household arranged by age, with no reference to the relationship of the members in the household. This too often leaves the researcher to try and deduct the relationship of the household members. Beginning on the 1880 census a column was added for the census taker to indicate the relationship:

Household # 177 is the family headed by James Montgomery, white, male, 52 years old father, occupation is farming. below him is everyone else in the household, of the same name, their race, sex, and age. Martha (M.D.) is identified as wife of James and is keeping house. 2 sons are involved in farming.

Household #178, still next door to the white family of James and Martha is Darkas Montgomery, mulatto, female, age 52, head of household/mother, keeping house. With her is Joseph, mulatto, male, age 18, son of Darkas/head, and he is farming, Russell now grown is not in the household.

In doing family research every new piece of information creates a new mystery to be solved and subsequently the need for further investigation.

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Who is who in this post:

• Russell Montgomery married Sarah E. Miller in 1877.
• Logan & Sarah are the grandparents of Myrtle E. Montgomery.
• Darkas Montgomery would be her great-grandmother.
• Robert is thought to be the slave owner, white father of Russell Montgomery. Whatever happened to Robert and his wife we do not know, but we believe that James M. Montgomery is his son/heir living next to Darkas on the 1880 census.
• Ermine Montgomery was once thought to be the white wife of the slave owner Robert Montgomery. We now know she was African-American, probably connected to Russell and Darkas by blood or marriage and was involved in the indentured contract matter in some other way.
• James F. & Myrtle (Montgomery) Williams are the focal point of this project.

Fannie Pope Belle Roulette. UPDATE

 This article is an update to the January 3, 2017 article.

Fannie was born a slave in Kentucky at the beginning of the Civil War in 1861.

Even though Kentucky entered the war on the side of the Union it was a slave state. Kentucky had some laws that were more lenient that most slave states, such as freed slaves were not required to leave the state. As a result Fannie might have been born a free person, but it is more likely that Fannie born a slave. If so she did not gain her freedom as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 as it only applied to slaves in the Confederate slave states. She also didn't gain her freedom  at the end of the war either, May 9, 1865.

Even while engaging on the union side in the fight against slavery, several of the 'border states' retained slaves until the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the constitution, December 6, 1865. Ending slavery in all states.

In the context of the American Civil War (1861–1865), the border states were slave states that did not declare a secession from the Union and did not join the Confederacy. To their north they bordered free states of the Union and to their south they bordered Confederate slave states.In the case of Kentucky the state tried to maintain a neutral, non-participation stance, but this ended when Confederate General Polk occupied Columbus, Kentucky.

"I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. Kentucky gone, we cannot hold Missouri, nor Maryland. These all against us, and the job on our hands is too large for us. We would as well consent to separation at once, including the surrender of this capitol [Washington, which was surrounded by slave states: Confederate Virginia and Union-controlled Maryland]."                        Abraham Lincoln

 

Lincoln reportedly also declared, "I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky.”

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Who is who in this post:

• Fanny Pope is the grandmother of James F. Williams.
• She married first, James Buchanan Bell (James’ grandfather), and later Joseph Rowlette/Roulett, the Civil Ware Union Army veteran.
• James F. & Myrtle (Montgomery) Williams are the focal point of this project

Francis ‘Fannie’ Pope

Fannie was born a slave in Kentucky at the beginning of the Civil War in 1861.
Even though Kentucky entered the war on the side of the Union it was a slave state. Kentucky had some laws that were more lenient than most slave states, such as freed slaves were not required to leave the state. As a result Fannie might have been born a free person, but it is more likely that Fannie born a slave. If so she did not gain her freedom as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 as it only applied to slaves in the Confederate slave states. She also didn't gain her freedom at the end of the war either, May 9, 1865.
Even while engaging on the union side in the fight against slavery, several of the 'border states' retained slaves until the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the constitution, December 6, 1865. Ending slavery in all states.
To view the Williams Montgomery Family map click this link:

http://www.communitywalk.com/location_info/2004070/13262406

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Who is who in this post:

• Fanny Pope is the grandmother of James F. Williams.
• She married first, James Buchanan Bell (James’ grandfather), and later Joseph Rowlette/Roulett, the Civil Ware Union Army veteran.
• James F. & Myrtle (Montgomery) Williams are the focal point of this project.

Darkas Montgomery

The Montgomery family was established in pre-civil war Kentucky. Slave owner, Robert Montgomery and a slave, Darkas Montgomery had a child, Logan Russell Montgomery in Adair County in 1853. Logan had at least 4 siblings (parentage un-researched).
1850 William Montgomery born in Adair Co., KY
1853 Logan Russell Montgomery born in Adair Co., KY
1854 Louisa Montgomery born in Adair Co., KY
1864 Joseph Montgomery born in Adair Co., KY
1878 Liela Montgomery [daughter of Logan & Sarah] born in Adair Co., KY
1880 Location of Logan's family in the White Oak county sub-division of Adair Co., KY

To view the pictured map click this link: http://www.communitywalk.com/location_info/2004070/13255502

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Who is who in this post:

• Logan married Sarah E. Miller in 1877.
• Logan & Sarah are the grandparents of Myrtle E. Montgomery
• Darkas would be her great-grandmother.
• James F. & Myrtle (Montgomery) Williams are the focal point of this project.

Rosanna Jones Brown

1864 Rosanna Jones Brown was born to Thomas & Amanda Jones in Fayette County, Kentucky (possibly Lexington).
After the Civil War The Jones' moved to Jefferson County, Kentucky (possibly Louisville) were Rosanna married William Thomas Brown.
The oldest daughter of Rosanna and William Brown, Nannie, married Joseph Frank Montgomery in Indianapolis sometime before 1908. Nannie would have been 22 in 1908.

http://www.communitywalk.com/location_info/2004070/13259015

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Who is who in this post:

• Rosa Jones in the grandmother of Myrtle Montgomery. Rosa married first William T. Brown and then David Hocker/Hopper after the death of William.
• James F. & Mertle (Montgomery) Williams are the focal point of this project.