William Owen Montgomery, first child of Rev. Giles Foster Montgomery and Emily Ruth Redington, b. Feb. 26, 1865 at Adana, Turkey where his parents were then in missionary service with the Congregational Church.
As a young boy William was sent to the United States to attend school residing with the family of his cousin, Rev. William Albert Robinson, and the latter's widowed mother, Semantha (Washburn) Robinson. William d. unmarried at Homer, NY on Aug. 2, 1886 and is interred at the Robinson family plot at Homer's Glenwood Cemetery.
As a young boy William was sent to the United States to attend school residing with the family of his cousin, Rev. William Albert Robinson, and the latter's widowed mother, Semantha (Washburn) Robinson. William d. unmarried at Homer, NY on Aug. 2, 1886 and is interred at the Robinson family plot at Homer's Glenwood Cemetery.
William Owen Montgomery, first child of Rev. Giles Foster Montgomery and Emily Ruth Redington, b. Feb. 26, 1865 at Adana, Turkey where his parents were then in missionary service with the Congregational Church.
As a young boy William was sent to the United States to attend school residing with the family of his cousin, Rev. William Albert Robinson, and the latter's widowed mother, Semantha (Washburn) Robinson. William d. unmarried at Homer, NY on Aug. 2, 1886 and is interred at the Robinson family plot at Homer's Glenwood Cemetery.
As a young boy William was sent to the United States to attend school residing with the family of his cousin, Rev. William Albert Robinson, and the latter's widowed mother, Semantha (Washburn) Robinson. William d. unmarried at Homer, NY on Aug. 2, 1886 and is interred at the Robinson family plot at Homer's Glenwood Cemetery.
Inscription
WILL
Son of
Rev. G.F. & E.R.
Montgomery
Died
Aug. 2, 1885
Æ 20 Y'rs
On the day William died he was 20 years old, and Aetatis (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of his Age, etc.) 21. However, by the late 1800s the meaning of the symbol "Æ" for the Latin term Aetatis had long been forgotten, and assumed to have meant one's chronological "age."
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