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John Montgomery

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John Montgomery

Birth
Death
10 Sep 1805 (aged 51–52)
Burial
Riverside, Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA GPS-Latitude: 34.7902333, Longitude: -80.8313917
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Inscription

This/ Monument is dedicated/ to the Memory of/ JOHN MONTGOMERY ESQR./ who departed this life Septr. 10th/ 1805, Aged Fifty two years./ As a token of their great regard/ a tender and disconfolate wife/ and an only Son have caused/ this ftone to be erected/ to him memory./ Likewife at his feet/ lies his three fmall Children./ Would bounteous heav'n indulge my/ Prayer/ I'd frame a nobler choice/ Nor living wifh the pompous pile/ Nor dead regret the lofs/ In thy fair book of life divine/ My God infcribe my name/ There let it fill fome humble place/ Beneath the flaughterd Lamb./ [on back of footstone:] W. & H. M./



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  • Created by: Mary Clyde Reid
  • Added: Jan 4, 2005
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10224695/john-montgomery: accessed ), memorial page for John Montgomery (1753–10 Sep 1805), Find a Grave Memorial ID 10224695, citing Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Riverside, Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA; Maintained by Mary Clyde Reid (contributor 46772562).