The Proeger Family · Generation 5 — Kristin's great-great-grandparents

Mary E. Montgomery Baker

Probable daughter of James P. Montgomery · c.1865–1942

Mary E. Montgomery Baker

Probable

Probable daughter of James P. Montgomery · c.1865–1942

Born
in Texas
Died
at Austin, Travis County
Parents
James P. Montgomery & Elenor Frances Bradford
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE daughter of James P. Montgomery and Elenor Frances Bradford, and a younger sister of Virginia Francis Montgomery. Evidence: the index of the Texas death record of Mary E. Baker, who died at Austin in 1942, names her father as James L. Montgomery and her mother as Mary Ellen Bradford S1189; a Mary of the right age is in James and Elenor’s household in DeWitt County in two censuses read from the images, aged 6 in 1870 S1094 and 14 in 1880 S1095. Added to the family tree on 8 October 2026. Added 8 October 2026

Evidence: The index of the Texas death record of Mary E. Baker, who died at Austin in 1942, names her father as James L. Montgomery and her mother as Mary Ellen Bradford (S1189); a Mary of the right age is in James and Elenor Montgomery's household in DeWitt County in two censuses read from the images, aged 6 in 1870 (S1094) and 14 in 1880 (S1095). Weak or missing: The death record is read from its index only, not the image, and its informant is unknown; it calls her father James L., not James P., and her mother Mary Ellen; nothing read yet ties the Mary of the DeWitt County household to the Mary E. Baker of Austin except the parents' names in that index; no marriage record has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1865
Born in Texas about 1865, on a 2 June; died at Austin, Travis County, on 27 May 1942, aged 76, all by the death index S1189

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Siblings1868
A probable sister now has a card of her own: Margie Idella Montgomery Turner (1868–1959), the Idella of the 1870 and 1880 households.

Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it

Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: the death record is read from FamilySearch’s index only, not the image, and its informant is unknown; it calls her father James L., not James P., and her mother Mary Ellen, not Ellen or Elenor; her age at death gives a birth about 1865, the 1870 census about 1864 and the 1880 census about 1866; no marriage record has been found, and her husband, probably Green Baker, is known only from the index of a son’s death record, so he is not named as a fact here. Nothing read yet ties the Mary of the DeWitt County household to the Mary E. Baker who died at Austin except the parents’ names in that index. Reading the 1942 certificate would settle it. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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Mary E. Montgomery Baker · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

3 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S10941870 United States Federal Census — Precinct No. 1, DeWitt County, Texas, post office Clinton, page 20, dwelling 119, family 119. Ancestry record 7642917. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed June 1870: Jas. Montgomery, 37, farmer, born Tennessee; Ellen, 35; Evaline, 14; Harvey, 11, and Virginia, 11, bracketed ‘Twins’; Mary, 6; La Fayette, 4; Idella, 1; the children born Texas.
  2. S10951880 United States Federal Census — Precinct No. 1, DeWitt County, Texas, S.D. 6, E.D. 46, page 68. Ancestry record 10575200. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed 10 July 1880: James P. Montgomery, 47, farmer, born Tennessee, parents born North Carolina; Elenor, wife, 45, born Tennessee; Harry Alex, son, 21, and Virginia, daughter, 21, at home, bracketed as twins; Mary, 14; James L., 13; Idella, 11; Louisa and Eliza, 9, twins; Ida, 7; the children born Texas. Nothing on these three pages names Piland. The link to Jennie Montgomery, who married E. R. Piland in neighbouring Gonzales County in 1883 (S913), is her name, her age and the county.
  3. S1189FamilySearch index, Texas, Deaths, 1890–1977 — Mary E. Baker, 1942, Austin. FamilySearch record K3DW-KR4, checked 1 October 2026. Probable Father James L. Montgomery; mother Mary Ellen Bradford. An index only; the image has not been read.

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