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Robert S. Montague (Taylor County, Kentucky, attorney and county clerk)

b. 1824-01-28 d. 1900-01-01

Taylor County, Kentucky, attorney and county clerk. Harrodsburg, Kentucky, native. Son of James Montague. Married to Margaret E. Cox in 1847. Father of Sallie E. Montague, Virginia Montague, Mary Montague, and Margaret Montague. Attorney in Campbellsville, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Carthage, Illinois, in 1860. Employed Mary A. Troutman as a servant in Carthage in 1860. Attorney in Taylor County, Kentucky, in 1863. County clerk of Taylor County from December 1864 to October 1866.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 194A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Hancock County, Carthage, p. 677.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Taylor County, Campbellsville, p. 235B.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY:

George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Taylor County, 1863, p. 115.

George William Montague, History and Genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and Lancaster Counties, Virginia, and his Descendants, 1621-1894, (Amherst, MA: Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, 1894), 210.

"Robert S. Montague (1824-1900)," Find A Grave, Memorial 71065692, accessed June 22, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71065692 .

KYR-0001-004-1383.

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Montague, Robert S.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204131 (November 12, 2026).

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