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Kindred Montgomery was born August 13, 1838, in Greene County, Tenn., and is a son of John and Nancy (Malone) Montgomery, natives of Virginia and Tennessee, respectively. The father was born in 1810, and in an early day went to Tennessee, and from there went to Washington County, Ark., in 1858. In 1861 he came to Crawford County, where he died in 1877, and Kindred came with his father to this county. Our subject never attended school, all his learning being received while at the plow. When eighteen he began life for himself, and in 1868 was united in marriage to Mary Hale, who was born in Tennessee in 1844, and is a daughter of Benjamin and Nancy (Longmeyer) Hale, of this county. Mr. Hale was born in Tennessee in 1809, and died in Oregon, and Mrs. Hale was born in the same State, and died in 1865. Kindred Montgomery has 400 acres of land in Crawford County, 280 on Lee’s Creek and the remainder on Cove Creek, all of which he has accumulated by his own industry. In 1863 Mr. Montgomery enlisted in Company L, Fourteenth Kansas Cavalry, under Col. Haynes and Capt. Charles Harris, and served until discharged in 1865. In politics Mr. Montgomery is a Republican, and his first presidential vote was cast for Bell in 1860. Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery have had seven sons and three daughters.