NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11183: NELSON CO – JOHN B. MONTGOMERY – Montgomery, Winston, Lawson, Miller, Dudley, Durham, Bailey, Greeley #11183: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 4th Ed. Nelson Co. JOHN B. MONTGOMERY, son of Nathan and Patsey (Winston) Montgomery, was born September 13, 1849. Nathan Montgomery, a native of Green County, was born in 1807; he was a farmer and slave-holder, was a constable, then sheriff of Adair County for nearly twenty years; was an elder in the Presbyterian Church and died April 15, 1860. His father, also named Nathan, married a Miss Lawson and came to Kentucky from Virginia with a party of surveyors, remained a while in Green County, but subsequently removed to Rushville, Ill. He married his second wife, a Miss Miller, in Adair County prior to his removal to Illinois. Mrs. Patsy Montgomery was born in Green County and was a daughter of John B. and Judah (Dudley) Winston. John B. Montgomery was born in Columbia, Adair County, and began life as a farmer and stock trader. In 1870 he went to Campbellsville and for five years was in the hotel business, and three more in the drug trade. He then returned to Columbia and served four years as deputy sheriff; in 1882 he resumed the hotel business in Campbellsville; in 1884 was elected to the Democratic National Convention, and was appointed storekeeper in 1885, when he located at New Hope, where he still resides. September 22, 1874, he married Sallie Bailey, of Taylor County, a daughter of Grief and Martha (Durham) Bailey, natives of Green County, and there has been born to him one child, Augusta. Mr. Montgomery is a Free Mason, an Odd Fellow, and, with his wife, a member of the Presbyterian Church. His first presidential vote was for Horace Greeley. SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html GGPublishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/