Texas Ranger (Ret.)
Noah Armstrong was one of Coleman County's most colorful characters. His parents were William B. and Amanda Jeans Armstrong who had eleven children. William B. also had two sons by his first wife (name unknown).
The family moved near Salado Texas, shortly after his birth in Missouri. He went to school at the old Salado College and grew up living in the old Stage Coach Depot. He joined the Texas Rangers in 1876 and engaged in many running gun battles with Indians. After two years with the Rangers he settled in Coleman County. At one time he bought a saloon in Coleman and ran it for twelve years.
Noah was one of two Armstrong brothers arrested and acquitted for the shooting of Sheriff John Olive in the early 1890s. Ten years earlier, Sheriff Olive had shot and killed two of Noah's brothers, John and Cornelius. He was cleared of the killings but bad blood remained.
He was the oldest living Texas Ranger in 1947 and spoke often to reporters of his time as a Ranger and taking part in the buffalo hunts of 1876-78. In 1955, when he turned 103, he obliged reporters by emptying a revolver into a rolling tin can without missing a shot.
(29 Feb 2012 - Information provided by Major Walker.)
Noah Armstrong was one of Coleman County's most colorful characters. His parents were William B. and Amanda Jeans Armstrong who had eleven children. William B. also had two sons by his first wife (name unknown).
The family moved near Salado Texas, shortly after his birth in Missouri. He went to school at the old Salado College and grew up living in the old Stage Coach Depot. He joined the Texas Rangers in 1876 and engaged in many running gun battles with Indians. After two years with the Rangers he settled in Coleman County. At one time he bought a saloon in Coleman and ran it for twelve years.
Noah was one of two Armstrong brothers arrested and acquitted for the shooting of Sheriff John Olive in the early 1890s. Ten years earlier, Sheriff Olive had shot and killed two of Noah's brothers, John and Cornelius. He was cleared of the killings but bad blood remained.
He was the oldest living Texas Ranger in 1947 and spoke often to reporters of his time as a Ranger and taking part in the buffalo hunts of 1876-78. In 1955, when he turned 103, he obliged reporters by emptying a revolver into a rolling tin can without missing a shot.
(29 Feb 2012 - Information provided by Major Walker.)
Texas Ranger (Ret.)
Noah Armstrong was one of Coleman County's most colorful characters. His parents were William B. and Amanda Jeans Armstrong who had eleven children. William B. also had two sons by his first wife (name unknown).
The family moved near Salado Texas, shortly after his birth in Missouri. He went to school at the old Salado College and grew up living in the old Stage Coach Depot. He joined the Texas Rangers in 1876 and engaged in many running gun battles with Indians. After two years with the Rangers he settled in Coleman County. At one time he bought a saloon in Coleman and ran it for twelve years.
Noah was one of two Armstrong brothers arrested and acquitted for the shooting of Sheriff John Olive in the early 1890s. Ten years earlier, Sheriff Olive had shot and killed two of Noah's brothers, John and Cornelius. He was cleared of the killings but bad blood remained.
He was the oldest living Texas Ranger in 1947 and spoke often to reporters of his time as a Ranger and taking part in the buffalo hunts of 1876-78. In 1955, when he turned 103, he obliged reporters by emptying a revolver into a rolling tin can without missing a shot.
(29 Feb 2012 - Information provided by Major Walker.)
Noah Armstrong was one of Coleman County's most colorful characters. His parents were William B. and Amanda Jeans Armstrong who had eleven children. William B. also had two sons by his first wife (name unknown).
The family moved near Salado Texas, shortly after his birth in Missouri. He went to school at the old Salado College and grew up living in the old Stage Coach Depot. He joined the Texas Rangers in 1876 and engaged in many running gun battles with Indians. After two years with the Rangers he settled in Coleman County. At one time he bought a saloon in Coleman and ran it for twelve years.
Noah was one of two Armstrong brothers arrested and acquitted for the shooting of Sheriff John Olive in the early 1890s. Ten years earlier, Sheriff Olive had shot and killed two of Noah's brothers, John and Cornelius. He was cleared of the killings but bad blood remained.
He was the oldest living Texas Ranger in 1947 and spoke often to reporters of his time as a Ranger and taking part in the buffalo hunts of 1876-78. In 1955, when he turned 103, he obliged reporters by emptying a revolver into a rolling tin can without missing a shot.
(29 Feb 2012 - Information provided by Major Walker.)
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