General Nathan Bedford Forrest

1821 - 1877  (56 years)

• Name	Nathan Bedford Forrest  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Title	General
  Birth	13 Jul 1821	Bedford County, Tennessee, USA   [1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1850	DeSoto County, Mississippi, USA   [7]
  	Northern Division
  Residence	1860	Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA   [5]
  	Ward 3
  Military Service	1 May 1861	Tennessee, USA   [3]
  Burial	1877	Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA   [4]
  Death	29 Oct 1877	Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA   [2, 3, 4, 10]
  Person ID	I5041	MontyHistNotes_III | John Montgomery_Esther Houston
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	Mary Ann Montgomery,   b. 2 Oct 1826, Franklin County, Tennessee, USA d. 22 Jan 1893, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	25 Sep 1845	Hernando, DeSoto, Mississippi, USA   [6, 10]
  Children	> 1. Captain William Montgomery Forrest,   b. 26 Sep 1846, Hernando, DeSoto, Mississippi, USA d. 7 Feb 1908, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA (Age 61 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3151	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 13 Jul 1821 - Bedford County, Tennessee, USA Marriage - 25 Sep 1845 - Hernando, DeSoto, Mississippi, USA Residence - Ward 3 - 1860 - Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA Military Service - 1 May 1861 - Tennessee, USA Burial - 1877 - Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA Death - 29 Oct 1877 - Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Folios

  The Montgomerys and their Descendants D B Montgomery Book - Pages 322-333 Montgomery-Houston Family of Pennsylvania, Virginia and Other States Montgomery, David B, A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and their Descendants (Owensville, Indiana, USA, J P Cox, 1903), BooksAndPeriodicals https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?count=50&f-F00032DB=322 . Electronic Book .PDF 436 pages A_genealogical_history_of_the_Montgomery.pdf Also DBMontbgomery Index.doc Book found on Ancestry.com https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?ftm=1.

  
  

• Sources

  [S842] Bio Info on Forrest Nathan Bedford, (Name: Name: Wikipedia; Location:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest;;). [S843] Weant, Kenneth E., comp, Lincoln County, Missouri Deaths, 1866-1936, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2004;;), Database online. Record for Nathan Bradford, Gen. Forrest [S462] Historical Data Systems, comp., American Civil War Soldiers, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999;), Database online. Side served: Confederacy; State served: Tennessee;Enlistment date: 1 May 1861. Record for Nathan Forrest [S807] Ancestry.com, Web: Tennessee, Find A Grave Index, 1796-2011, (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave, 2012. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 31 January 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave, 2012. http://www.findag;;), Database online. Record for Nathan Bedford Forrest [S237] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;;), Database online. Year: 1860; Census Place: Memphis Ward 3, Shelby,Tennessee; Roll: ; Page: 91; Image: 188. Record for W B Forrest [S781] Montgomery, Erick Dale, The Montgomery Family of Franklin County, (Name: Franklin County Historical Review; Location: Franklin County, Tennessee, USA; Date: Jan 1978;). [S510] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern Division, DeSoto, Mississippi; Roll: M432_371; Page: 368A; Image: 323. Record for Bedford Forrest http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=3396623&indiv=try [S768] Anderson, Beulah Henry, John and Esther Montgomery, 1719-1973, (Name: Brazos Printing Company; Location: Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, USA; Date: 1974;), Chapter 03 Pages 073-077 Hugh Migrated to Franklin County. [S1435] Montgomery, David B, A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and their Descendants, (Name: J P Cox; Location: Owensville, Indiana, USA; Date: 1903;), Pages 322-333 Montgomery-Houston Family of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Other States https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?count=50&f-F00032DB=322. Electronic Book .PDF 436 pages A_genealogical_history_of_the_Montgomery.pdf Also DBMontbgomery Index.doc Book found on Ancestry.com https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?ftm=1 https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?count=50&f-F00032DB=322 [S768] Anderson, Beulah Henry, John and Esther Montgomery, 1719-1973, (Name: Brazos Printing Company; Location: Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, USA; Date: 1974;), Chapter 03 Pages 063-065 Family of James Houston Montgomery and Margaret ElizabethWeir.