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

348 DESCENDANTS OF PETER MONTAGUE.
this life and immortality to light," 2 Tim. 1 : 10.
He has been pas-
tor of Aarons Creek and North Fork churches in Va., and Mt. Har-
mony, Providence, Antioch, and Snow Hill churches in Person Co.,
N. C. He is now (1894) pastor at the latter place. He m., Dec. 5,
1869, Sarah Virginia Allen, dau. of Drury Allen, of Allensville,
Person Co., N. C, where he now (1894) resides.
CHILDREN.
2665. Fannie Kate, b. Jan. 14, 1872.
2666. Mary Ella, b. May 19, 1873.
2667. Emma Graves, b. Aug. r, 1874.
2668. Sallie Rochester, b. Aug. 7, 1875.
2669. Rosa Elizabeth, b. Nov. 4, 1876.
2670. Joseph Edwin, b. Oct. 3, 1878.
1255-
Thomas Fleetwood Montague, son of Samuel [396], b. July
17, 1834, in Granville Co., N. C.
He m., 1857 or 8, Betsey Olmstead, who d. about 1870, near Flat
River Bridge, N. C. He was a Confederate soldier, member of the
56th N. C. Reg't ; was
shot in the bowels June 20, 1864; d. June 25,
having lain six or eight hours on the battlefield where he fell, on the
lines below Petersburg. He was a brave soldier, a promising youngj
man, popular, not vain, but understood the law of kindness.
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" No sun had e'er dawned on
So fearful a day,
No trumpet had marshalled
So dread an array.
As if earth in her frenzy
From each region afar,
Had poured forth her nations
For the shock of that war.
In the flush of their manhood,
In the bud of their prime,
In veteran ripeness,
The men of each clime
Came thronging and rushing,
Like rivers in flood."
" 'Tis first the night,—stern night of storm and war,
Long nights of heavy clouds and veiled skies
Then the far sparkle of the Morning-star,
That bids the saints awake, and dawn arise."