Joseph Montgomery Mounts

Joseph Montgomery Mounts BIRTH 10 May 1810 Gibson County, Indiana, USA DEATH 3 Sep 1882 (aged 72) Blue Grass, Scott County, Iowa, USA BURIAL Blue Grass Cemetery Blue Grass, Scott County, Iowa, USA MEMORIAL ID 94987399 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 4 FLOWERS 1 Blue Grass, Ia. 04 Sep 1882; Written by Rose Secoy, per family notes.

As we listened to the solemn peal of the church bell this morning it told us that another old settler had gone to his long rest and home. Mr. Joseph Mounts died September 3rd at 11 o'clock p.m. Funeral September 5th from the family residence conducted by Elder Whisler, pastor of the Christian Church at Buffalo, Iowa of which church Mr. Mounts was a member in good standing at the time of his death which was caused by a cancer on his face from which he suffered four and a half years. The deceased was born on a farm near Princeton in Gibson County, Indiana May 10, 1810. He was the son of Mathias and Mary Montgomery Mounts. They were natives of Virginia. They had a family of 13 children. Joseph Mount's mother was a cousin to Davy Crockett, also of General Richard Montgomery who was killed at the Battle of Quebec. Mr. Mount's father died in the year 1814 near Albion, Edwards Co., Ill. His mother died in 1854 near Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa at her daughter's (Polly Stennett) on a farm owned by her son Mathias Mounts, joining Joseph Mounts' farm on the East. The two brothers owned farms at that time along the shores of the Mississippi River west of Buffalo. Joseph Mounts moved to Edwards County, Illinois with his parents when he was but four years old. There he lived until he met and married Miss Elizabeth Stennett on December 1st 1831. After spending five years of his married life in Edwards County, in June of 1835 Mr. Mounts came to Scott County, Iowa to look at the county and August the twelfth he moved his family here, which consisted himself, wife and one son Sylvester, their oldest child born near Albion, Illinois July 7th, 1833. On the 2nd of September 1835 their oldest daughter was born being the first white child born in Scott County, Iowa. After moving his family here, Joseph Mounts settled on what is now known as the Sours [Sauer] farm. Mr. Mounts settled on a claim in Buffalo Township which he disposed of in April 1936 to two men named Brunson, for a Townsite. They paid him eight hundred dollars for the claim, which enabled him to get a start in the world having but six and a fourth cents in his pocket when he landed on this side of the Mississippi River. He rented land for one year. He then moved on a farm near Buffalo where he remained 5 years. Later he bought the 160 acre farm in section 7, Buffalo Township, Scott County, Iowa, joining the farm of James D. Burnsides. He also owned 80 acres known as the Meter Timber Farm, and about 3 years before his death he bought 10 acres known as the William Bostin place where he lived at the time of his death. Mr. Mounts had fenced four hundred acres of land and built 6 houses, one of them being the finest house in Buffalo Township at that time, costing $3,000. Joseph Mounts was the only man living of the men who came here in the year 1834. He was one of the wealthiest and most prominent men of the County. When he came to Scott County in 1835 it was then an unbroken prairie, uninhabited save by Indians. Deer and wolves existed in abundance. To see it now, need to further praise of the hardihood and industriousness of those early settlers. Mr. Mounts helped his neighbor, Andrew Campbell, set out the first orchard planted in Scott County on what is now known as the Henry Moorehead Farm. The trees came from Indiana. He also sat on the first grand jury held in Bloomington, (now Muscatine) Iowa, Judge Irwin presiding. He also was on the first Petit jury held in Scott County, which position he held for 8 years. When a case was tried he received 25 cents. If it settled out of court he got nothing. He held several prominent offices during his life time. He also fought in the Black Hawk War as a private in Capt. Champions Maddings Co., 3rd Regiment, Illinois volunteers and under Col. Pearce and Gen. Alexander Hoving and Major Jones as his mess mate. His mother's uncles Joseph and Hugh Crockett served in the Revolutionary War. His grandfather, Thomas Montgomery (a Lt. in the Revolution), came to Kentucky and helped to hold the fort with Daniel Boone. He went with him on many a hunting expedition. Mr. Mounts' grandfather came to Philadelphia with William Penn, and helped to lay the cornerstone of the first house built there. Mr. Mounts' father was born there.

Family Members Parents Mathias Mounts 1772–1819

Mary Montgomery Mounts 1770–1854

Spouse Photo Elizabeth Stennett Mounts 1817–1900 (m. 1831)

Siblings Jane Mounts Morse unknown–1896

Photo Matthias Silas Mounts unknown–1851

Photo Nancy Mounts Emmerson 1792–1876

Smith Mounce 1795–1864

Photo Martha Mounts Ayers 1796–1873

Photo Celia Mounts Hunt 1805–1897

Children Photo Sylvester Mounts 1833–1913

Photo Harriet Surrilda Mounts Fridley 1835–1906

Photo Louisa Mounts 1837–1914

Photo Mathias M Mounts 1838–1851

Photo Mary Elizabeth Mounts Moore 1841–1922

Photo Nancy Jane Mounts 1843–1854

Lucy C Mounts Bowne 1846–1925

Photo Joseph Mounts 1848–1848

Photo Mahala Brady Mounts Holt 1850–1928

Photo Margaret Ellen Mounts Myers 1853–1927

Photo Charles M Mounts 1856–1919

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