My grandfather, Robert Henderson Montgomery, was born in Washington County VA in 1871. His family moved to Greenup County KY and it was there he learned to sing. My grandmother said he learned he could sing by driving a team of oxen. I don't know how or where he learned Shaped Notes, but he became a Singing School teacher. He had a piece of oilcloth attached to a broom handle and on it was painted the staff and notes. Each note had a different shape and people learned to sing by recognizing the different shapes. He would ride horseback to different churches and conduct Singing Schools. I have a photograph of one of the schools. There were about fifty well-dressed folks in front of the church and Grandpa in the middle. I remember going to his church and listening to a quartet of my relatives singing the beautiful old hymns. Grandpa died five years before I was born, but when I went to this church with Granny I felt a connection with him. Sue McN.