When William Clair Montgomery was born in May 1863, in St. Francis, Arkansas, United States, his father, Samuel James Montgomery, was 36 and his mother, Rocurd McCammon, was 28. He married Ardalia " Dehila " Davis on 24 November 1886, in Forrest City, St. Francis, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Johnson Township, St. Francis, Arkansas, United States in 1910. He died on 23 January 1925, in Forrest City, St. Francis, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Saint Francis, Clay, Arkansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries - 1869: St. Francis, Arkansas, United States
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English, Scottish, and northern Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Sainte-Foy-de-Montgomery and Saint-Germain-de-Montgomery (Calvados). In Ireland this surname was present in the medieval period, died out, and was then reintroduced from Scotland in the 17th century. It has been Gaelicized in Ireland as Mac Iomaire and in Scotland as Mac Gumaraid.
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