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

BRANCH OF HIS SON PETER. 263
He's lost. She drifts without control;
But ere the bark went down,
Angels, we trust, caught up his soul,
And wreathed it with a martyr's crown.
Raise to his memory the cenotaph,
Let poets chant his praises o'er,
And let his words be his epitaph,
" I'll hold her till she strikes the shore."
655.
Peter C. Montague, son of Dudley S. [195],
b. Dec. 8, 1835, m
Bath Co., Va.; m., Feb. 8, 1866, Miss N. Almeda Brown, dau. of
Capt. Alfred Brown, a farmer of Red House, West Va. Resides at
Red House Shoals, Putnam Co., West Va.
1814 Grace A.,
1815 Mattie M.,
1816 Lizzie 7?.,
1817 Alfred A.,
1818 Ho??ier E.,
1819 Frank A\,
1820 Em 7/i a L.,
1821 Sa?mi el E.,
1822 Euan B.,
CHILDREN.
b. Dec. 9, 1866; ///., Dec. 1, 1886, Charles Patterson of
Richmond, Va.
b. Dec. 10, 1867.
b. March 19, 1869.
b. Dec. 30, 1870.
b. Dec. 4, 1872.
b. July 23, 1874.
b. Nov. 25, 1876.
b. June 8, 1879.
b. March 22, 1883.
656.
Martha J. Montague, dau. of Dudley S. [195], b. Jan. 16, 1838.
She d. April 20, 1858, at Red House, West Va.
The following tribute to her memory appeared in the Point Pleasant
Register soon after her death :
"
When we first knew her, three
years ago, she was a lively, sprightly, intelligent, amiable girl, just
blooming into womanhood, the pride of her parents and the delight
of her companions, and had every appearance of living a long life of
usefulness and pleasure. But how vain are all our expectations
How fruitless all our hopes !
In
a few short months she was attacked
with scrofula, and from that time until her dissolution, lived a lin-
gering death ; yet during that long period of her sickness she bore
her afflictions with a fortitude that we never saw equalled. She was
remarkable for her industry, and during her protracted illness she did