Wife of Elijah J.
PORTION OF BIO OF ELIJAH AND SUSAN's SON RYAL WHICH MENTIONS HIS PARENTS:
PAST AND PRESENT
OF
MENARD COUNTY, ILLINOIS - 1905
Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
Page 531,
RYAL ARMSTRONG. - Dependent upon his own resources and business ability from early manhood Ryal Armstrong has steadily worked his way upward and is today the owner of a valuable farming property near Oakford. Many of the representative business men of Menard county are numbered among its native sons and to this class Ryal Armstrong belongs.
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His birth occurred September 13, 1867, on the farm where lived his parents, Elijah J. and Susanna (Watkins) Armstrong. The father was born in Jasper county, Missouri, July 18, 1841, while the mother's birth occurred in Menard county, Illinois, December 11, 1840. They were married in December, 1860. Elijah J. Armstrong had been reared on the old family homestead and lived with his mother until her second marriage, when he began earning his own living by working as a farm hand and was thus employed until his marriage, when he started to farm on his own account. He removed to his farm in 1861 and thereon he engaged in the cultivation of the fields and in the raising of stock. He has been feeding and shipping stock for forty years and is now actively engaged in the breeding of coach horses. He is interested in the ownership of a fine stallion, Amandus, No. 1282. It is a standard bred and is of the best Oldenburg German coach stock. Mr. Armstrong has conducted a successful business as an agriculturist and stock raiser and is now one of the representative farmers of the community in which he has so long made his home, conducting his business affairs so as t win success and also gain an enviable reputation for reliability. His wife died in Menard county, December 28, 1898. They were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters: Matilda, who died in infancy; Samuel H., who died at the age of twenty years; Mary, who died in infancy; Ryal, of this review; John D., who died at the age of twenty-two years; Catherine R., who was fifteen years of age at the time of her demise; George K., who married Miss Elsie Davis, and is living on the old homestead; James S., who wedded Miss Maude Maltby and resides near the old homestead; and Will C., who married Fannie Boeker and is living on a part of the old home place. Mr. Armstrong is well known because of his advocacy of measures for the general good and has promoted social, intellectual and moral interests as well as business activity in his neighborhood. He has served as a member of the school board for about twenty years, gives his political support to the Democracy and is a member of the Concord Presbyterian church.
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Susan's mother was Sophia Kirby, 1812-1844.
Sophia was the daughter of Cyrus Kirby and Keziah Green.
Her father married Sophia's sister Matilda after Sophia died
PORTION OF BIO OF ELIJAH AND SUSAN's SON RYAL WHICH MENTIONS HIS PARENTS:
PAST AND PRESENT
OF
MENARD COUNTY, ILLINOIS - 1905
Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
Page 531,
RYAL ARMSTRONG. - Dependent upon his own resources and business ability from early manhood Ryal Armstrong has steadily worked his way upward and is today the owner of a valuable farming property near Oakford. Many of the representative business men of Menard county are numbered among its native sons and to this class Ryal Armstrong belongs.
*****
His birth occurred September 13, 1867, on the farm where lived his parents, Elijah J. and Susanna (Watkins) Armstrong. The father was born in Jasper county, Missouri, July 18, 1841, while the mother's birth occurred in Menard county, Illinois, December 11, 1840. They were married in December, 1860. Elijah J. Armstrong had been reared on the old family homestead and lived with his mother until her second marriage, when he began earning his own living by working as a farm hand and was thus employed until his marriage, when he started to farm on his own account. He removed to his farm in 1861 and thereon he engaged in the cultivation of the fields and in the raising of stock. He has been feeding and shipping stock for forty years and is now actively engaged in the breeding of coach horses. He is interested in the ownership of a fine stallion, Amandus, No. 1282. It is a standard bred and is of the best Oldenburg German coach stock. Mr. Armstrong has conducted a successful business as an agriculturist and stock raiser and is now one of the representative farmers of the community in which he has so long made his home, conducting his business affairs so as t win success and also gain an enviable reputation for reliability. His wife died in Menard county, December 28, 1898. They were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters: Matilda, who died in infancy; Samuel H., who died at the age of twenty years; Mary, who died in infancy; Ryal, of this review; John D., who died at the age of twenty-two years; Catherine R., who was fifteen years of age at the time of her demise; George K., who married Miss Elsie Davis, and is living on the old homestead; James S., who wedded Miss Maude Maltby and resides near the old homestead; and Will C., who married Fannie Boeker and is living on a part of the old home place. Mr. Armstrong is well known because of his advocacy of measures for the general good and has promoted social, intellectual and moral interests as well as business activity in his neighborhood. He has served as a member of the school board for about twenty years, gives his political support to the Democracy and is a member of the Concord Presbyterian church.
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Susan's mother was Sophia Kirby, 1812-1844.
Sophia was the daughter of Cyrus Kirby and Keziah Green.
Her father married Sophia's sister Matilda after Sophia died
Wife of Elijah J.
PORTION OF BIO OF ELIJAH AND SUSAN's SON RYAL WHICH MENTIONS HIS PARENTS:
PAST AND PRESENT
OF
MENARD COUNTY, ILLINOIS - 1905
Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
Page 531,
RYAL ARMSTRONG. - Dependent upon his own resources and business ability from early manhood Ryal Armstrong has steadily worked his way upward and is today the owner of a valuable farming property near Oakford. Many of the representative business men of Menard county are numbered among its native sons and to this class Ryal Armstrong belongs.
*****
His birth occurred September 13, 1867, on the farm where lived his parents, Elijah J. and Susanna (Watkins) Armstrong. The father was born in Jasper county, Missouri, July 18, 1841, while the mother's birth occurred in Menard county, Illinois, December 11, 1840. They were married in December, 1860. Elijah J. Armstrong had been reared on the old family homestead and lived with his mother until her second marriage, when he began earning his own living by working as a farm hand and was thus employed until his marriage, when he started to farm on his own account. He removed to his farm in 1861 and thereon he engaged in the cultivation of the fields and in the raising of stock. He has been feeding and shipping stock for forty years and is now actively engaged in the breeding of coach horses. He is interested in the ownership of a fine stallion, Amandus, No. 1282. It is a standard bred and is of the best Oldenburg German coach stock. Mr. Armstrong has conducted a successful business as an agriculturist and stock raiser and is now one of the representative farmers of the community in which he has so long made his home, conducting his business affairs so as t win success and also gain an enviable reputation for reliability. His wife died in Menard county, December 28, 1898. They were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters: Matilda, who died in infancy; Samuel H., who died at the age of twenty years; Mary, who died in infancy; Ryal, of this review; John D., who died at the age of twenty-two years; Catherine R., who was fifteen years of age at the time of her demise; George K., who married Miss Elsie Davis, and is living on the old homestead; James S., who wedded Miss Maude Maltby and resides near the old homestead; and Will C., who married Fannie Boeker and is living on a part of the old home place. Mr. Armstrong is well known because of his advocacy of measures for the general good and has promoted social, intellectual and moral interests as well as business activity in his neighborhood. He has served as a member of the school board for about twenty years, gives his political support to the Democracy and is a member of the Concord Presbyterian church.
******
Susan's mother was Sophia Kirby, 1812-1844.
Sophia was the daughter of Cyrus Kirby and Keziah Green.
Her father married Sophia's sister Matilda after Sophia died
PORTION OF BIO OF ELIJAH AND SUSAN's SON RYAL WHICH MENTIONS HIS PARENTS:
PAST AND PRESENT
OF
MENARD COUNTY, ILLINOIS - 1905
Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
Page 531,
RYAL ARMSTRONG. - Dependent upon his own resources and business ability from early manhood Ryal Armstrong has steadily worked his way upward and is today the owner of a valuable farming property near Oakford. Many of the representative business men of Menard county are numbered among its native sons and to this class Ryal Armstrong belongs.
*****
His birth occurred September 13, 1867, on the farm where lived his parents, Elijah J. and Susanna (Watkins) Armstrong. The father was born in Jasper county, Missouri, July 18, 1841, while the mother's birth occurred in Menard county, Illinois, December 11, 1840. They were married in December, 1860. Elijah J. Armstrong had been reared on the old family homestead and lived with his mother until her second marriage, when he began earning his own living by working as a farm hand and was thus employed until his marriage, when he started to farm on his own account. He removed to his farm in 1861 and thereon he engaged in the cultivation of the fields and in the raising of stock. He has been feeding and shipping stock for forty years and is now actively engaged in the breeding of coach horses. He is interested in the ownership of a fine stallion, Amandus, No. 1282. It is a standard bred and is of the best Oldenburg German coach stock. Mr. Armstrong has conducted a successful business as an agriculturist and stock raiser and is now one of the representative farmers of the community in which he has so long made his home, conducting his business affairs so as t win success and also gain an enviable reputation for reliability. His wife died in Menard county, December 28, 1898. They were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters: Matilda, who died in infancy; Samuel H., who died at the age of twenty years; Mary, who died in infancy; Ryal, of this review; John D., who died at the age of twenty-two years; Catherine R., who was fifteen years of age at the time of her demise; George K., who married Miss Elsie Davis, and is living on the old homestead; James S., who wedded Miss Maude Maltby and resides near the old homestead; and Will C., who married Fannie Boeker and is living on a part of the old home place. Mr. Armstrong is well known because of his advocacy of measures for the general good and has promoted social, intellectual and moral interests as well as business activity in his neighborhood. He has served as a member of the school board for about twenty years, gives his political support to the Democracy and is a member of the Concord Presbyterian church.
******
Susan's mother was Sophia Kirby, 1812-1844.
Sophia was the daughter of Cyrus Kirby and Keziah Green.
Her father married Sophia's sister Matilda after Sophia died
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