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Note: N41 Thomas Willborn Parsons's memoir (see note 1 below), p 151, says his sister Versallia Crabtree Parsons was born in Sept 1833; the Mt. Sterling obit for Mrs. Kate Montague say she died 7 Apr 1882 age 49 yrs 7 mo, which would put her birth around Sept 1832. The TWP memoir gives Versallia's date of death as 7 Apr 1922-- and I believe the year is a simple transcription error: Kate's eldest child, Samuel Foster Montague, died 16 April 1922; the person doing the copying probably dropped down a line and wrote his death year instead of hers. The fact that the month and day (7 Apr) match for Versallia and Kate persuades me that Versallia = Kate.
Her middle name, Crabtree, is the surname of her maternal grandmother Mollie Friend Wheeler's sister Alcie or Alice Friend Crabtree's husband, John Crabtree.
The Greencastle, Ind., Banner newspaper reported in Aug 1870 a real estate transfer from Samuel Catherwood to Kate Montague, west half lot 29, East Greencastle, $600.
Sometime after Kate's divorce in Clark Co, Ky., in 1874, she and her children moved to Lexington. She and daughter Annie Montague joined the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church in Lexington in Nov 1879.
1880 Census, Main Street, Lexington:
Kate Montague, 46, b Va., seamstress
Annie, 20, b Ky., seamstress
Willie, 12, b Ind., at school
Chas, 10, b Ind., at school
She (Montague Mrs. Kate) and daughter Annie appear in the 1881-82 Lexington city directory, occ: dress makers, res 55 W. Main.
From the <I>Lexington Daily Transcript,</i> Mon 10 April 1882:
"DIED.
"At her late residence, in this city, on Friday evening, April 7th, Mrs. Kate Montague.
"She leaves four children: one daughter and three sons. Her oldest son, Samuel F. Montague, is a printer by trade, and is absent from home. When last heard from [he] was in Illinois. The others are quite young. Western exchanges may be instrumental in bringing these facts to his knowledge, and return him to his brothers and sister, who look to their elder brother for help and comfort."
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From the <I>Mt. Sterling Democrat,</i> Tues 11 April 1882:
"Death of Mrs. Montague
"Died at her residence in Lexington, Ky., April 7, 1882, after an illness of some ten days with flux, Mrs. Kate Montague, aged 49 years and seven months. Mrs. Montague was well-known in this city, having lived here several years of her life. She leaves four children, three sons and one daughter, Samuel Montague, who was once the foreman of this office, being one of them. Her remains were brought to the residence of her sister, Mrs. C. B. Fizer, on Saturday, where her funeral was preached at 2:30 o'clock on Sunday, by Rev. T. J. Godbey, assisted by Rev. Green Clay Smith, when her remains were interred in Machpelah cemetery, in the lot belonging to her brother, T. W. Parsons. Deceased had been a consistent member of the Methodist church since her childhood, and has left an example worthy of imitation by her children."
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