EDGAR E. MONTAGUE.
Col. Edgar B. Montague, son of Lewis B. Montague, of Middlesex
county, Virginia, married Virginia Eubank, of that county. Their son,
Edgar E., was born in Halifax county, Virginia, in December, 1862.
He attended school at the Virginia A. & M. C., was graduated in law at
Cumberland University, Tennessee, June 6, 1886, admitted to the Bar
in the same month at Lebanon, Tennessee, and in the same year settled
in Hampton, where he is still practicing. He is captain in command,
Company D, 4th Virginia regiment, to which office he was elected September
10, 1888.
His father, Colonel Montague, commanded the 32d Virginia regiment
C. S. A., from April, 1861, to the close of the war between the States.
Colonel Montague died February 21, 1885, aged fifty-three years. His
widow survives him, living now in Middlesex county.
