Andrew Jackson Montgomery

The town that shares Andrew Jackson Montgomery's name grew from a store on Lake Creek, and the Handbook of Texas, revised in 2022, tells its founding in detail. William W. Shepperd opened a store in the Lake Creek Settlement in 1835. In July 1837 he and John Wyatt Moody, the Republic's first auditor, founded the town of Montgomery at Shepperd's home and store. Montgomery County, created five months later, took its name from the town. Montgomery himself lies here, some distance west, under two plaques of different dates.

What the plaque says

Andrew Jackson Montgomery Born in Alabama in 1805. Came to Texas in 1830 with his brother John. Participated in the Battle of San Jacinto as a member of Captain James Gillaspie's Company. Erected by the State of Texas 1957 [supplemental plate: Born in Tennessee in 1801 Came to Texas in 1819] Andrew Jackson Montgomery (Apr. 4, 1801 - Dec. 3, 1863) Born in Blount County, Tennessee, Andrew Jackson Montgomery came to Texas in 1819 with the James Long Expedition. In 1823, as the first known settler in Montgomery County, he opened a trading post at the crossing of two Indian trails. From his post emerged the town of Montgomery from which Montgomery County took its name. A veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto, Montgomery married Mary Mahulda Farris at age 43, and they had nine children. Recorded - 1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site — 9.4 mi
  A cedar-log dogtrot cabin of 1834 on the road through Anderson that grew into a seventeen-room inn and post office for travelers of the Republic, kept by one family until 1976.
• Navasota — 10 mi
  A railroad and cotton town where the La Bahia Road crossed the Navasota River, scarred by an 1865 explosion and yellow fever, and the home ground of the songster Mance Lipscomb.
• Star of the Republic Museum — 14 mi
  A star-shaped museum of the Republic of Texas years, 1836 to 1846, built at Washington-on-the-Brazos after a Brenham campaign and opened on March 1, 1970.
• Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site — 14 mi
  The townsite on the Brazos where delegates met in a cold, unfinished hall in March 1836 to declare Texas independent, with Independence Hall rebuilt and Anson Jones's Barrington farm worked as in 1850.

More markers nearby

• John Montgomery — steps away
• The Stoneham Cemetery — steps away
• Stoneham Methodist Church — 1.4 mi
• Education in Plantersville — 4.0 mi