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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. William Harper Montgomery: Birth: 29 DEC 1819 in Madison Township, Geauga County, OH. Death: 15 MAR 1889

  2. Rebecca Montgomery: Birth: ABT 1823 in Madison Township, Geauga County, OH.

  3. John Nelson Montgomery: Birth: 30 MAY 1827 in Conneaut Township, Crawford County, PA. Death: 19 SEP 1908 in Siloam Springs, AR

  4. Almina Montgomery: Birth: ABT 1828 in Crawford County, PA.

  5. Charles Thomas Montgomery: Birth: 1830 in Crawford County, PA.

  6. Benjamin F Montgomery: Birth: 1833 in Crawford County, PA.

  7. Eliza O Montgomery: Birth: 1835 in Crawford County, PA.


Notes
a. Note:   Born in Fairfield, CT, or in Greene County, NY. Before getting married in 1819, lived with her family, father and mother Ebenezer and Abigail Platt, in the area which is today Denmark Township, which was near her brother Smith Platt's family and Smith's son Thayer's family, and near the Harvey family homestead on Pymatuning Lake Road, in Richmond Twp, Ashtabula County, OH.
  Some of Malinda's family, the Platts, were living in and around Penn Line, Pennsylvania, in the year 1897, as recorded in her grandson's journal (J. Ivor) during his travels in the area that year. ("Visited Maria, Eli, Bert and Ivor Platt.")
  Malinda Platt Montgomery most likely acted for a short time (9 June 1850 to 24 June 1851) in the role of Mother to her Grandsons, James Ivor and William Harper Montgomery, since her daughter in-law, Luceva Ward Montgomery, died at the age of 26 (1824-1850) shortly after they had moved to Illinois in1846 with their son, John Nelson Montgomery.
  Malinda lived until 1874, about four (4) years after her son, John Nelson Montgomery, moved to Iowa with his second wife and family, 7 years after her husband John Harper Montgomery died in 1867. She does not appear on the Census of 1870 at the home of her son, John Nelson Montgomery, in Iowa, so it is assumed she joined her son's family between 1870-1874.
  Obituary (August 22 1874, from Leland, IL, written by her oldest grandchild, Attorney James Ivor Montgomery of Leland and Sandwich, Ill):
 "Mrs. Malinda Montgomery, Mother of John Nelson Montgomery, and for a good many years a resident of the town of Dayton (IL), 6 miles north of Ottawa (IL), died at her son's residence at Iowa Falls, Iowa, on the 3rd inst., after a very severe illness of three weeks. Mrs. Montgomery was well known by all the early settlers of Dayton and vicinity, and died as she had lived, a kind mother and consistent christian, and has now gone to meet her partner in life, to be with him in eternity."
  According to her obituary, she died in 1874 at the home of her son, John Nelson Montgomery, "in Iowa Falls, Iowa", and is assumed to be buried there. That home was a farm about 3 miles west and 2 miles north of the town of Iowa Falls, in Lee Township, Franklin County. On an 1875 Plat Map of Lee Township, Franklin County, IA, it shows J. N. Montgomery owning 160 acres at that location. Across the road was a Blacksmith. On the farm is also a cemetery or gravesite, denoted with a cross. Malinda Platt Montgomery may well have been buried there. The farm and the cemetery are now gone from the land, as of 2008.
  When his father left for Iowa, Malinda's grandson, James Ivor Montgomery, remained in Illinois and was about 23 years of age. James Ivor Montgomery would have been 27 when his Grandmother Malinda died.


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