SMITH, Montgomery

Date of birth:  About 1816 – Tennessee
Date of death: 9 Sep 1894 – Hensley, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, September 14, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 10, page 1 column 2

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Montgomery Smith, died Sunday at his home near Morgantown in his 78th year. He was one of the oldest residents of Hensley township and highly res­pected. The funeral occurred Tuesday attended by a large concourse of friends and relatives.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 19, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 15, page 3 column 5

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Administrator’s Sale.

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NOTICE is hereby given that the under­signed administrator of the estate of Montgomery Smith, deceased, late of Johnson county, Indiana, will sell at public auction on

Tuesday, October 23rd, 1894.

two and one-half miles northeast of Morgan­town, Indiana, all the personal property of decedent not taken by the widow, consisting of household and kitchen furniture, plows, buggy, harness, hay in mow, one brood mare, two-year-old colt, sucking colt, two milch cows, two steers and one two-year-old heifer, eighteen head of hogs and shoats, corn in the field and many other articles common to a farm. Also a lot of clover seed.

TERMS.—Cash on sales of $5.00 and under, and all sales over $5.00 a credit until September 1st 1895 will be given, the purchaser giving note with approved surety, bearing no interest if paid at maturity, but if not paid at maturity to bear eight per cent interest from date until paid.

Sale commences at 10 o’clock a. m.

GEORGE W. COLEMAN,  

Howard Lee  ‐           Administrator.

   Auctioneer.                       12‑3t.

Note: The 1840–1880 US Federal Censuses for Hensley, Johnson County, Indiana record the household of Tennessee-born Montgomery Smith. He is also mentioned as one of the earliest settlers of Hensley in
A Historical Sketch of Johnson County, Indiana, page 157, by D. D. Banta.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson