Walking Among The Stones:

Went looking for some tombstones today. Found the map location for the grave-sites of Nannie (Brown) & Joseph Frank Montgomery and Franks father, Logan Russell Montgomery; also Donald Montgomery. According to cemetery officials all are in unmarked graves. When weather permits I will do an on site search to be sure.

The Montgomerys are in Floral Park cemetery on the west side of Indianapolis.

Donald’s grave is in the Washington Park Cemetery on Kesslar Avenue on the northwest side of town. I went there looking for his mother’s grave, Pauline (Aunt Pauline) Montgomery, but according to the cemetery records she is not there. On one census record her and Donald are shown as Pauline and Donald ‘Payne’? So we looked for her as Pauline Payne, but couldn’t find her. This unexplained name problem has previously prevented me from finding anything about Donald, but the cemetery had some new information that allowed me to find additional information about him: date of death, wife’s name and father’s name. His father was Oscar Johnson so I returned to the cemetery and tried looking for her as Pauline Johnson, but still no luck. I have since been told that Uncle Press’s last name was either Miller or Bellamy so I will give that one more shot.

Did Aunt Pauline ever marry or take someone else's name? Any memories of Donald and/or Pauline would be helpful.

I also returned to New Crown Cemetery. As I was getting my cemetery notes together to look for the Montgomerys and Pauline I realized that I had overlooked James Francis William's mother Viola (Bell) Williams-Langford when I visited New Crown Cemetery looking for James & Myrtle’s gravesite.  I found her about 40 feet from Jame's wife Myrtle (Montgomery) Williams, picture below.