Here is what I have on Martin V. Montgomery. He would have been my husbands 3rd great-
granduncle. Martin’s grandfather, Mitchel Lowery K. Montgomery, was a private in the 
Revolutionary War. Mitchell Montgomery is buried in West Montgomery Cemetery, Millwood 
Township, Guernsey County, Ohio. Martin Montgomery is buried in Howe (Puckett) Cemetery, 
Grant County, Indiana.
  I’m sending you a copy of Martin’s bio. I think you will appreciate the information in 
it. Notice also, Martin had a brother, Thomas M. Montgomery, who also fought with the 
89th regiment. Martin and Thomas’s brother, William R. Montgomery, was my husbands 3rd 
great-grandfather, and he fought in the Civil War, Company K, 23 Indiana Infantry. My 
interpretation of this bio is that Martin fought with the 60th regiment.

  Biography extracted from:  Centennial History of Grant County, Indiana 1812-1912
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York 1914

MARTIN V. MONTGOMERY. 
  A half a century ago hundreds of thousands of men and boys marched away from comfortable 
homes and dear ones, to offer up their lives on the alter of patriotism. Some dyed that 
alter with their life blood and never returned; others came back but have borne through 
the succeeding years the indelible imprint left by the hardships and privations of war. 
Those who were spared to return found difficulties awaiting them; after years of strenuous 
endeavor, when each minute might be their last when a nation’s life hung upon their bravery 
and endurance, it was no easy matter to resume the ordinary occupations of a work-a-day 
life. Yet thousands did this very thing, and composed of veterans of the great struggle 
between the North and the South men of sound principle, possessed of high moral and physical 
courage who have rounded out lives that will set an enduring example for generations to come. 
Grant county furnished its full quota of volunteers during the dark days of the Civil war, 
and among these was Martin V. Montgomery, now a highly respected farmer-citizen of Center 
Township, where he has passed many years in the tilling of the soil.
  Martin V. Montgomery was born March 26, 1841, in Guernsey county Ohio, and is a son of 
James and Jane (Smith) Montgomery, also natives of that state. Some time after their 
marriage, Mr. Montgomery’s parents removed to Vinton county, Ohio, and in 1854 came to Grant 
county, Indiana, locating in Center township, where they passed the remainder of their lives. 
They were honest, sturdy people, industrious and thrifty and Mr. Montgomery was well known in 
public affairs in his community serving in a number of Offices. They had a family of ten 
children, of whom two are living at this time: Martin V.; and Thomas M., now a resident of 
Pekin, Illinois, who during the Civil war served for three years as a member of Company C, 
Eighty-ninth Regiment, Indiana volunteer Infantry.
  Martin V. Montgomery received his education in the district schools of Vinton county, Ohio, 
and Grant county, Indiana, and was still little than a lad when he enlisted for service in 
Company H, Sixtieth Regiment, Indiana volunteer Infantry, after the outbreak of hostilities 
between the States. This company was later attached to Company D, of the same regiment, and 
of the 104 men who originally composed the organization, but four returned to Grant county at 
the close of the war, Mr. Montgomery being one of the four. Mr. Montgomery participated in 
some of the most sanguinary engagements that marked the great struggle, and at all times 
deported himself as a gallant and faithful soldier, ever ready and eager to perform the 
duties which fell to his lot. At the battle of Mumfordsville he was taken prisoner, and 
confined for seventeen days, and after Vicksburg took part in the operations on the 
Mississippi, being again captured by the Confederates at New Iberia, Louisiana, when he was 
held for three months before receiving his exchange. Later, under Gen. U.S. Grant, he served 
in Arkansas.
  At the close of the war Mr. Montgomery returned to Grant Count and in the same year was 
married to Miss Martha J. Taylor, now deceased. He moved to Michigan in 1873, and was there 
married to Mary E. Camper. Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery never had children of their own, but they 
raised three boys and one girl. Mrs. Montgomery died October 24, 1913. While a resident of 
Big Rapids, Michigan, Mr. Montgomery met with an accident which cost him an arm, and 
following this misfortune he returned to Grant County, Indiana and again engaged in 
agricultural pursuits, in which he has continued to the present time. He makes a specialty of 
raising Poland-china hogs. His farm is in excellent condition and is located on the Soldiers’ 
Home pike, about five miles southeast of Marion. He is a Republican in his political views, 
but has taken only a good citizen’s interest in public matters. He receives a pension from 
the government in recognition of his services in behalf of his country’s flag at a time when 
secession reared its gory head.
-----Submitted by
Dawn Maddox Montgomery
Montpelier, Indiana

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