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This website gives the ancestry
of Sarah Montgomery (84)[1],
who married Timothy Hill (83)
of Crawford County, Pennsylvania in Meadville, PA on 1 November
1827[2]. Sarah's father, James Montgomery
(212) arrived in Mercer County with several of his brothers
about the time the county was erected in 1800. James went on
to become a prominent citizen of the county, commanding a company
of militia at Erie during the War of 1812 and later serving serveral
terms in the Pennsylvania Legislature. He also was a member of
the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1837[3].
Sarah's sister, Margaret (378),
married Samuel Hill (374),
the brother of Timothy Hill, an event not unusual in pioneer
days. Therefore, the descendants of Timothy and Samuel Hill are
all also descendants of James Montgomery and his wife, Sarah Fulton (213). It is also possible
that the Montgomery's and Hill's were cousins: Archibald
Hill (210) married Mary
Buchanan Fulton (211). Archibald is the father of Timothy
and Samuel Hill. Although Mary's ancestry is known to me, however,
Sarah's is not.
Although they lived in different counties, there seems to have
been a lot of interaction between the Montgomery's of Mercer
County and the Hill's of Crawford County. Some of this is documented
in the Civil War letters written by Samuel Hill's son Archibald Fulton Hill (379)
to his cousin John Hill (424),
son of Timothy Hill, and to other members of his family. In these
letters, Archibald refers to "Uncle
George" Carringer (744) and to Belle Carringer
(865), his cousin. He also refers to Andrew Montgomery, who
may have been Andrew Carnahan Montgomery
(788), another cousin.
I have recently received information
from several cousins concerning Montgomery families, specifically
William (707) and his descendants, who
moved west around 1840. I am slowly incorporating some of this
information into this website.
Tracing the Montgomerys has presented a challenge, not only because
records of the generations preceding James are sparse, but also
because of the appearance of the same names (particularly "Archibald")
in many generations and many branches of the family. I have tried
to gather the information presented in this pamphlet accurately,
but I am interested in any documented information that contradicts
anything presented herein,
The author of this document, Timothy Daniel Evans (1),
is a direct descendant of Timothy Hill and Sarah Montgomery.
He can be reached by email:
[1] Numbers in parentheses ()
are RIN numbers used to uniquely identify a person in the PAF
(Personal Ancestry Filer) database. These RINs are identical
in all material written by the present author.
[2] Crawford County Messenger,
Nov 8, 1827
[3] History of Mercer County,
Pennsylvania compiled and published by Brown, Runk &
Company, Chicago, 1888
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