Dorcas Montgomery

Female 1758 - 1834  (76 years)

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  • Name Dorcas Montgomery  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Birth 1758  Augusta County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5
    Gender Female 
    Death 29 Dec 1834  Washington County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I5664  MontyHistNotes_III | John Montgomery_Esther Houston
    Last Modified 4 Jul 2025 

    Father John Montgomery, Sr,   b. 1719, Londonderry, Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1795, Augusta County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Esther Houston,   b. 1724, Londonderry, Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1790, Augusta County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 2 Jul 1738  New Providence, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 8
    • by Rev Johann C Stoever, Jr; Earl Town
    Family ID F3127  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lieutenant John Patrick Lowry,   b. 26 Feb 1749, Augusta County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Oct 1792, Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years) 
    Marriage 1771  Washington County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    >1. Robert Edmiston Lowry,   b. 24 Mar 1784, Rockbridge County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Oct 1857, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F3497  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Jul 2025 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1758 - Augusta County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1771 - Washington County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 29 Dec 1834 - Washington County, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 
    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Folios
    The Montgomerys and their Descendants
D B Montgomery Book - Pages 322-333
Montgomery-Houston Family of Pennsylvania, Virginia and Other States
    The Montgomerys and their Descendants D B Montgomery Book - Pages 322-333 Montgomery-Houston Family of Pennsylvania, Virginia and Other States
    Montgomery, David B, A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and their Descendants (Owensville, Indiana, USA, J P Cox, 1903), BooksAndPeriodicals
    https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?count=50&f-F00032DB=322
    . Electronic Book .PDF 436 pages
    A_genealogical_history_of_the_Montgomery.pdf
    Also DBMontbgomery Index.doc
    Book found on Ancestry.com
    https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?ftm=1.

  • Sources 
    1. [S823] Montgomery, Roscoe, Botetourt Roots, (Name: Location: http://botetourtroots.org/index.php;;), Botetourt Roots website maintained by Roscoe Montgomery.

    2. [S880] DAR Ancestor A072152, (Name: Name: Daughters of the American Revolution;;), John Patrick Lowry http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A072152.

    3. [S642] Armstrong, Zella, Notable Southern Families, (Name: Lookout Publishing Company; Location: Chattagnooga, Tennessee, USA; Date: 1922;), Volume II, Pages 179-198 Houston.
      Available on Genealogical.com Disk GPC 7191
      Montgomery Section Volume II Pages 241-252
      Also available on ancestry.com
      also outlined:
      http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/showsource.php?sourceID=S484&tree=Legends
      Notable_Southern_Families.pdf


    4. [S1435] Montgomery, David B, A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and their Descendants, (Name: J P Cox; Location: Owensville, Indiana, USA; Date: 1903;), Pages 322-333 Montgomery-Houston Family of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Other States https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?count=50&f-F00032DB=322.
      Electronic Book .PDF 436 pages
      A_genealogical_history_of_the_Montgomery.pdf
      Also DBMontbgomery Index.doc
      Book found on Ancestry.com
      https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?ftm=1
      https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?count=50&f-F00032DB=322

    5. [S766] Montgomery, Russ, RussMontgomery_FamilyLineReport, (Name: Date: Oct 8 2009;;), RussMontgomery-JohnMEstherHoustonLine.pdf.

    6. [S778] Egle, WIlliam Henry, Egle's Notes and Queries of Pennsylvania, 1700s-1800s_Stoever, (Name: Date: 1896;;), Marriages performed by Johann Stoever.

    7. [S767] Hoffman, Susan Vaughan Montgomery, http://johnmontgomeryancestry.com/_HoustonInfo, (Name: Location: Madison, Alabama; Date: 2009;;), Website posted by Susan Vaughan Montgomery Hoffman and other familycollaborators, including Russ Montgomery, about the history of John Montgomery and Margaret Alexander Montgomery as it relates to John Montgomery and Esther Houston of Virginia.
      Appendix section covering John Houston information

    8. [S772] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, Lutheran Baptisms and Marriages, 1730-1799, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;).
      Record for John Mountgomery
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=4640&h=1734&indiv=try