Colonel Hugh Montgomery was born Jan.8, 1767 in S. Carolina. He was the son of James Montgomery, himself a member of a family which, because of religious persecution, left Scotland in the early part of the eighteenth century and settled in Ireland. The family came to America not many years later, and after a possible residence in Virginia, settled to Pendleton District, S. C. about 1749. Receiving a grant of land in Franklin County, Ga., James Montgomery moved to that county not long after it’s organization in 1786. His son Hugh, was shortly engaged in surveying boundary lines between the territory of the Indians and whites. Colonel Montgomery represented Jackson County in the state legislature 1807-1811 and in the state senate 1812-1825. He removed shortly thereafter to Tennessee.
He had been interested in the Cherokee Indians for some years and had been instrumental, with Governor Joseph McMinn of Tennessee in sending missionaries among them. He was appointed Indian agent in 1825, serving until 1838. He then removed to Chattooga County, Ga., and died Jan. 22, 1852, near Alpine, where he is buried. Colonel Montgomery was the brother of Major James McC. Montgomery, of Standing Peachtree, on the south side of the Chattahoochee River.
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Mrs. James T. Anderson, of Marietta, was great - grandniece of Colonel Montgomery.