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Helen I Montague

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:

August 11, 1849

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DATE OF DEATH:

September 22, 1929

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OTHER KNOWN NAMES:

Helen I Montague, Helen Isabel Johnson, Mrs. John A Montague

MAIDEN NAME:

Johnson

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RELATED TO:

Mary McKay, sister
Charles M Montague, son

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Niles

Michigan

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STATUS:

Survivor

AGE:

54

MARITAL STATUS:

Married

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CEMETERY:

Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles, MI

OTHER NOTES:

"Charles M. Montague went to Chicago yesterday to see his mother who was in the Iroquois theatre when the fire started. His mother is badly burned about the face and right hand and her left shoulder is bruised. She was in the second row from the front in the first balcony, from which death trap only about twenty of the 600 who were there escaped....she was taken to the home of Mrs. Orson McKay [her sister] from whom she had become separated in the panic." (Niles Daily Star)

Mrs. Montague was widowed in February 1903.

CITATION:

The Herald Palladium (Benton Harbor, Michigan) 09 Aug 1928 page 16
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Michigan) 02 Jan 1904, Sat, page 3
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40156141/helen-isabella-montague

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