History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

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promptly ranged himself among the friends of the union ; and
his
health not permitting him to take the field, he received from Gov.
Pierpoint, under the re-organized government of Va., Sept. 5, 1861,
the appointment of clerk of courts of Putnam Co., and was elected
to the same position by the people, May 28, 1863. After the organi-
zation of the new state of West Va. he was also recorder of the 'Co.
and clerk of the board of supervisors. His official duties were
always discharged with unusual promptness and fidelity, and rarely
does a public officer receive as great a share of the confidence of the
people, as was most deservedly given him. He was endowed with a
kind and genial disposition, a frank and confiding heart. Generous
to a fault, he gave according to his ability to relieve the wants of the
poor, and his ear was never deaf to the appeals of charity. Univer-
sally beloved, Mr. Montague had not perhaps a personal enemy in
the world, and his memory will long be cherished by the community
in which he dwelt. For several years his health had been delicate,
but it was only during the last six months of his life that it became
apparent that his days were numbered, and that the fell scourge
consumption—would claim him among its victims. He bore his long
and painful illness with heroic fortitude, and at last his spirit gently
passed away from earth to seek its eternal home beyond the skies."
" So fades a summer cloud away,
So sinks the gale, when storms are o'er,
So gently shuts the eye of day,
So dies a wave along the shore."
652.
Sarah H. Montague, dau. of Dudley S. [195], b. May 25, 1829,
in Bath Co., Va.; m., Dec. 7, 1848, in Putnam Co., West Va., Edward
T. Simms of Winfield, West Va. He is a farmer, resided in Putnam
Co. until Feb. 5, 1889, when he moved to Mason Co., West Va., on
a farm on the great Kanawha, six miles from its mouth. Post-office,
Brighton, Mason Co., West Va.
CHILDREN.
1804. Alice A., b. Nov. 15, 1S49; m., Oct. 4, 1869, J. W. Childress of
Putnam Co., W. Va. Their children are, Hettie
L., b. Oct. 1, 1870; Gertie O., b. Oct. 24, 1872;
Walter E., b. April 19, 1874; Ira E., b. Dec. 29,
1876; Annie L., b. July 1, 1878; Mamie B., b.
May 19, 1885 ; Homer H., b. Feb. 22, 1887.