Editing Montgomery County, Kentucky (section)

==History==
In 1793 Shoe Boots (''Tarsekayahke'') led Cherokee and Shawnee warriors in a raid on Morgan's Station, in what was known as the last Indian raid in Kentucky. Some settlers were killed and two adolescent girls, including Clarinda Allington, were taken captive and the party returned to Cherokee territory. Believing he had saved Clarinda's life, Shoe Boots later married her, and they had three children together. He was a wealthy, successful leader. Several years later, Clarinda gained a visit back to her family in Kentucky with her children and decided to stay. They could not support her, but the state voted a 3-year pension for her.<ref name="miles19">[http://www.ucpress.edu/content/chapters/9746001.ch01.pdf Tiya Miles, ''Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom'', University of California Press, 2nd edition, 2015, pp. 19-21] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120140942/http://www.ucpress.edu/content/chapters/9746001.ch01.pdf |date=January 20, 2016}}</ref>

Montgomery County was established in 1796 from land given by Clark County. Montgomery was the 22nd [[list of Kentucky counties|Kentucky county]] in order of formation.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Collins, Lewis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZFQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA26 |title=Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, Volume 2 |publisher=Collins & Company |year=1882 |pages=26}}</ref>

Montgomery County was named in honor of [[Richard Montgomery]], an [[American Revolutionary War]] [[Brigadier General]] killed in 1775 while attempting to capture [[Quebec City]], [[Canada]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ |title=The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Volume 1 |publisher=Kentucky State Historical Society |year=1903 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ/page/n36 36]}}</ref>  An alternative story holds that the county was named for Thomas Montgomery from [[Virginia]], who served in the Revolutionary War. In 1793 Thomas Montgomery settled in Mt. Sterling. In 1805, Thomas Montgomery moved on to [[Gibson County, Indiana]].