Husband: William ARMSTRONG
Birthdate: 20 Jan 1759
Birthplace: Paxtang, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Death date: 5 Sep 1841
Place of death: Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
Burial: Millerburg Baptist Cemetery, Callaway County, Missouri
Father: Robert ARMSTRONG (Abt 1716-1772)
Mother: Ann E THOMPSON (Abt 1727-Abt 1784)

Marriage date: 20 Jan 1779
Marriage place: , Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA (1)

Wife: Sarah Ann HUSTON
Birthdate: 25 Nov 1762
Birthplace: , Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA
Death date: Aug 1859
Place of death: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Burial:
Father:
Mother:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Nancy ARMSTRONG (2)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 14 Oct 1780
Birthplace: , Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA (3)
Death date: Aft 1850
Place of death: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Burial:
Marriage date: 26 Jul 1802
Marriage place: , Adair, Kentucky, USA (5)
Spouses' names: John KING (1782-After 1843) (4)

Child No. 2: George William Wilson ARMSTRONG
Sex: M
Birthdate: Abt 1782
Birthplace: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Death date: Aft 1841
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date: 6 May 1841
Marriage place: , Dubois, Indiana, USA
Spouses' names: Nancy S CORN (Abt 1811-After 1841)

Child No. 3: John ARMSTRONG
Sex: M
Birthdate: Abt 1787
Birthplace: , Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA
Death date: Aft 7 Apr 1812
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date: 7 Apr 1812
Marriage place: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Spouses' names: Jane STONE (Abt 1792-After 1812)

Child No. 4: Solomon William ARMSTRONG (6)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1790 (7,8)
Birthplace:
Death date: 26 Jul 1879
Place of death: Rogers, Benton, Arkansas, USA (9)
Burial: Grimes Cemetery, Benton County, Arkansas
Marriage date: 1814
Marriage place: , Cumberland, Kentucky, USA
Spouses' names: Ann DOSS (1793-Bef 1871) (11)

Child No. 5: Elijah ARMSTRONG
Sex: M
Birthdate: Abt 1793
Birthplace:
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
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Child No. 6: Jane ARMSTRONG
Sex: F
Birthdate: 5 Feb 1794
Birthplace: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Death date: 6 May 1878
Place of death: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Burial:
Marriage date: 11 Nov 1811
Marriage place: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Spouses' names: Simeon HAINES (1777-1862)

Child No. 7: Andrew ARMSTRONG
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1795
Birthplace: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
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Child No. 8: Mary ARMSTRONG (12)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1797
Birthplace: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA (13)
Death date: Aft 1850
Place of death: , , Missouri, USA
Burial:
Marriage date: 4 Apr 1828
Marriage place: , Callaway, Missouri, USA (15)
Spouses' names: George KIBLER (1800-After 1850) (14)

Child No. 9: William ARMSTRONG
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1798
Birthplace: , , Virginia, USA
Death date: Abt 1857
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date: Abt 1818
Marriage place: Chambersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA
Spouses' names: Sarah ??? (Abt 1798-Bef 1850)

Child No. 10: Elizabeth ARMSTRONG
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1800
Birthplace: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date:
Marriage place: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Spouses' names: William KING (Abt 1795-????)

Child No. 11: Melinda ARMSTRONG
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1805
Birthplace: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Death date: Aft 1826
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date: 15 Mar 1825
Marriage place: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA (16)
Spouses' names: Presley ATHEY (Abt 1800-After 1826)

Child No. 12: Sarah Ann ARMSTRONG
Sex: F
Birthdate: Abt 1806
Birthplace: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
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Spouses' names: LUKE (Abt 1800-????)

Child No. 13: Samuel ARMSTRONG
Sex: M
Birthdate: Abt 1809
Birthplace: , Fayette, Kentucky, USA
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: [1] Ann LANGLEY (Abt 1811-????) [2] BRECKENRIDGE (Abt 1814-????)
 
 
Documentation:
  1. Pension File, Armstrong, William # W8334.
  2. 1850 Federal Census, Kentucky, Fayette, pg 317 (159A), d/f #692/685?. Nancy King.
  3. 1850 Federal Census, Kentucky, Fayette, pg 317 (159A), d/f #692/685?. age 69, Pa?.
  4. Kentucky County Marriages, 1797-1954 (FamilySearch.org), King, John. to Nancy Armstrong. This part of the database was filmed from "Adair County, Ky. Marriages 1802-1862"; Jane Lampton Chapter DAR; 1950.
  5. Kentucky County Marriages, 1797-1954 (FamilySearch.org), King, John. to Nancy Armstrong, daughter of William, 26 Jul 1802, Adair County.
  6. Gilman, Mildred Armstrong, Solomon Armstrong. Mildred gifted my uncle, Robert Armstrong with a copy of her work.
  7. 1850 Federal Census, Texas, Smith, pg 49. age 60, Virginia.
  8. 1870 Federal Census, Arkansas, Benton, pg 136. age 84, Kentucky.
  9. "Family History Library Catalog" (FamilySearch.org), IGI. 26 Jul 1879, Rogers, Arkansas. This is NOT an original source.
  10. "Family History Library Catalog" (FamilySearch.org), IGI. Grimes Cemetery. This is NOT an original source.
  11. 1850 Federal Census, Arkansas, Benton, pg 49. Anna Armstrong.
  12. 1850 Federal Census, Missouri, Callaway, pg 34, (268A). Mary Kibler.
  13. 1850 Federal Census, Missouri, Callaway, pg 34, (268A). age 53, Kentucky.
  14. 1850 Federal Census, Missouri, Callaway, pg 34, (268A). George Kibler.
  15. Calloway Co, Missouri, Marriage Books, Kibler, ?. to Mary Armstrong, 4 April 1828, Callaway County. Note that the marriage license leaves a blank space for the man's first name.
  16. "Fayette Co, KY Marriage Records," John King as surety. I neglected to record the details of this source.

Notes:
for William Sr
  * I have no proof that OUR Solomon is the son of THIS William.
  * William's 1826 Patent was in Township 48, which bordered Boone County just east of Columbia, which I believe puts the patent west of Millersburg (which is in Section 35). This is part of Bourbon Township (established 1825).
  * Declaration for pension.
  * I was born on the 20th of January 1759 in Paxtang, Lancaster Co, PA. I have no evidence of my age but decrepitude and gray hairs. The Bible in which it was recorded I have often seen and is, I have reason to believe, in the hands of someone of the family in Kentucky. At about five years of age, my father moved across the Susquehannah to Cumberland Co [PA] near to Carlisle taking me along with him. I was living there when I first entered the service of my country. It was about the 12th day of May 1777 that I was enrolled in one Captain Jordan's Company of Militia and took the oath of alligiance to Congress along with all the troops on parade amounting to hundreds. From this time I held myself in readiness to march upon the first summons and it was not long until my services were required for the British and Indians having laid seige to fort Freeland on the west branch of the Susquehannah. Some five or six hundred men were ordered to march from York and Cumberland Counties to the relief of the Fort. Upon this occasion, I became a volunteer in Captain Asa Hill's Company (other company officers not recollected). And on the first day of July 1777, to the best of my recollection, we marched from Carlisle and went to Fort Freeland which we found in ashes having been taken and destroyed by the enemy. The fire was not yet extinguished and we found the bodies of men, women, and children lying about the Fort which we buried and then hastened forward in order to overtake the enemy but after pursuing them about 100 miles beyond the Fort in the direction of Niaora. The pursuit became hopeless and was given over and we spent some considerable time ranging backwards and forwards in the Buffalo Valley and on the frontiers in order to protect the frontier settlements. And after having undergone considerable hardships and privations, we returned to our homes which we reached months after the day we had left them and dispersed - for I cannot say we were discharged, as no written discharges were given. I think our force amounted to somewhere about six or seven hundred men in this expedition. We were joined on our outward march by some flaming fellows, field officers I suppose, but who they were I cannot now recollect. The only field officer of whom I have any recollections as having been engaged in that expedition was one Major Gibson. I think Thomas Gibson who resided in our town of Carlisle and who went out as our Major.
  * In the fall of the year 1777 there came an order from the government to raise troops in our part of the County to be marched to Valley Forge where General Washington and the American forces were encamped, the British being at the same time in possession of Philadelphia about sixteen miles off. Being an apprentice in Carlisle at that time, though I was anxious to march, I was not allowed to volunteer but had to stand a draft, and the lot fell upon me as one of those who would have to march. Accordingly, on Christmas, or a very few days before, we took up the line of march for Valley Forge. What makes me recollect the time is that either in York or Lancaster, through both of which places we passed, New Year's Day rejoicings were going on. The Congress was sitting in York, and I myself tho' young at the time had a conversation with one General Roberdoux, a member of Congress I think, as we passed through. The Company in which I marched was commanded by Captain William McClure who lived within three miles of Carlisle. I think the name of the Lieutenant was Donaldson, the Ensign I do not recollect. We were but two companies together on the march. We crossed the Susquehannah at Wright's Ferry and proceeded along the Philadelphia till we reached the White Horse where we turned off to the left, went by the Yellow Springs and thence to Valley Forge, which was but a few miles farther. We reached Valley Forge a few days after New Years in 1778 where we found the whole American Army under General George Washington. there was a General Wayne, General Lafayette Sutben (it is unclear whether this is a 'misrecorded' reference to two people: the Marquis de Lafayette and General Steuben, both of whom were at Valley Forge), there was my intimate acquaintance Major Hay who was wounded at the storming of Stoney Point. Captain James Morrison afterwards Colonel Morrison who died not many years since at Lexington, KY. Colonel Butler who was afterward General Butler and who fell at St Clair's Defeat, Captain Thomas of the regulars who was wounded at the Battle of Germantown. these last four I was well acquainted with personally. When we reached Valley Forge, we were placed under the command of one General Lacy who, though a Quaker, had suffered his love of country to subdue his Quaker principles so far as to engage him in warlike occupations.
  * We did not remain in camp, but almost as soon as we had reached it, we marched under the command of General Lacy across the Shikill into Bucks and Philadelphia Counties and cruised about between the enemy and Valley Forge in order to cut off the foraging parties of the enemy and protect the inhabitants. We had no engagement while out. We several times met with a few of the enemy who generally fled firing and receiving a fire from us. I recollect that one night during our march we were met at midnight by a detachment under the command of Colonel Butler who I presume was engaged in the same sort of service with ourselves. I remember seeing our General Lacy and the Colonel embrace and after having had some conference, the commanders and detachments parted. Some time in March we returned to Valley Forge, what fixes this in my recollection is that during our absence from camp we heard that a disturbance had occured in the Pennsylvania Line of the occasion of the celebrating of St Patrick's Day which was on the 17th of March. We marched back to Carlisle by the same way we had gone and saw Congress still sitting in Little York. We reached Carlisle on the last day of March or within not more than 6 or 8 days of that time as I firmly believe and were regularly discharged. When I say we were discharged, I understood we were discharged by General Lacy whilst we were in Bucks County under his command owing to the approach of the expiration of our term of service and thence went to Valley Forge and thence home to Carlisle. We received written discharges from our Captains but I have lost mine many a day ago. In fact I never thought about preserving mine. It is right that I should say what is a fact that tho' I was drafted no one was ever more willing to march than I was and I would have volunteered if I had liberty to do so. In this campaign I was engaged three months or more I believe. After this I remained in Carlisle until I was married and very soon after that removed to Westmoreland County in the same state. Whilst there a detachment of British and Indians made an attack upon Hannah's Town about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh. Several Companies were immediately raised all volunteers who, under the command of one Colonel John Perry, marched to the relief of Hannah's Town. I was with this expedition in Captain Daniel williamson's Company, subaltern officers not recollected. When we reached Hannah's Town it was involved in smoke. The town was burned to ashes, a small Fort that had been in the town had, however, held out and escaped the flames. Many of the people were killed. Mrs. Hannah and her daughter with many others were taken prisoners. The enemy had left the town about 24 hours before we reached it. We pursued them northwardly about one hundred miles. Finding it impossible to overtake them we returned towards home and were ordered in detachments of fifty, twenty-five, to different Stockdale forts that were about the frontiers to scout and guard the settlements and after having been engaged in this service from the first day of our marching about two months, we were discharged without any particular formality, being permitted to go to our several homes. I think this happened near the close of the War about the year 1781/1782 but to state the day on which we marched out and the day we were discharged is impossible and I hope will not be considered indispensible when my great age is considered. I refer, however, to history which I presume must have noticed the burning of Hannah's Town. It must have been not more than a day or two previous to that event that we marched as we lived in the same county of which is the (Last of Justice) and I have stated that we were not discharged from active service for two months or thereabouts, I can not be more particular. Mrs. Hannah and several of the other prisoners afterward got back home for I remember to have seen them. Hannah's town was burned in July and the succeeding fall, I think in October, a campaign was projected against the Indians up the Allegany and a considerable number of troops were raised by volunteering of which I was one. We marched under the command of General Erwin of Pittsburgh and ascended the Allegany for a considerable distance but, whether the General thought our force insufficient or what other cause there might have been I never could learn certain it is, we were ordered back and returned home after an absence of about six weeks. I served in the expedition under the same Captain Dan williamson as a volunteer. We did no good on that expedition and I always considered it a complete failure. We however spent some of our time in scouting and ranging on the frontier in order to protect the settlements and allay the fears of the inhabitants. A year or two after this I removed to Lexington, KY and found there that although the war was over with for England, it was not over with the Indians for I volunteered in a company of horses commanded by Captain Nathaniel Wilson of Lexington whence we marched to Major Shelby's house whence we marched under his command southward into what was then called Tennessee against the Chicamauge Indians. Whilst on our march we were met by an express from the governor of North Carolina and informed that some sort of a treaty had been made with those Indians which would render our further services unnecessary whereupon we marched back home after an absence of about six weeks.
  * I, after this, volunteered to march against the Indians northwest of the Ohio and made a fruitless march of some days or weeks being ordered back by General Scott. I have not mentioned all the military services which I have rendered my country as it would make too long a story. I have always marched when there was a prospect of danger. I have had two brothers who were killed in the Revolutionary War, one near Philadelphia under General Washington, another in Clark's Campaign to the west. Taking my first three expeditions together, I served fully seven months and taking all together I believe more than a year. I am old and fortune has not smiled upon me. Both these have probably conspired to prey as well upon my memory as upon my body. I do not know any living person by whom I can prove the rendition of the services which I have mentioned. Colonel Morrison of Lexington who died a few years ago is the last man within my knowledge with whom I was acquainted in service.
  * I lived in Kentucky about Lexington for a great many years of my life where I was well known and could refer to many respectable men of that state to testify as to my character both a man of integrity and truth of my Revolutionary Services. I could name as such W I Barry, Felix Grundy, Henry Clay, all of whom I knew when they were boys and who, if they will tax their memories a little, can speak of me. From Kentucky, I came to this country and have resided in this County of Callaway for the last few years and am known here to many, several of whom knew me in Kentucky and some of whom have heard their parents speak of me. Amongst those to whom I be known I will name the Judges of this Court, also Colonel William A Rupell, Colonel J I Moore, E B Litton, and many others.
  * William and Sarah lived in Cumberland County until about 1783, then moved to the following places: Westmoreland, Lexington KY with 13 children: John, Nancy, George, Elijah, Solomon, Jane, William, Elizabeth, Malinda, Sarah, Mary, Andrew, and Samuel. Some of the children moved west into Calloway Co MO in 1831.
  * William and Sarah moved to Louisa, Va then to Lexington, KY. Shortly before his death, they moved to Callaway Co, MO. After William's death, Sarah returned to Fayette, KY to the home of her daughter and was living there in 1860 at age 91. Federal Census 1860.
  * DAR Application of Jennie Belle Wilmont Philippi, approved April 12, 1951. She sent copies of Bible records, wills, deeds, obituaries, and grave inscriptions, and other records for each generation below - filed under NSDar #320371 and 372205. She states on Ancestor's services:
  * William Armstrong enlisted first about May 12, 1777 in the Cumberland Co, PA Militia. He served under Captains Jordan, Asa Hil,, William McClure, Daniel Williamson, and Colonel John Perry. In his Pension application he stated he was at Valley Forge with Washington in 1777. He fought against the Indians after the Revolutionary War. He was pensioned under the Act of June 7 1832 on Certificate # 13 362 which was paid at the Missouri Agency. His widow. Sarah, was pensioned under the Act of June 4, 1836, on Certificate # 4 382 and was paid at the Kentucky Agency. Pension listed as "Armstrong, William W."
  * Was sued by Thomas Anderson of North Carolina who appointed Henry Clay as his lawyer.

  * Sarah Ann HUSTON - Other source says she died in 1855.
  * Andrew ARMSTRONG or Mary ARMSTRONG - Or born alternatively in 1808.

for Solomon
  * I have no proof that OUR Solomon is the son of this William.
  * He was born in Virginia or Kentucky.
  * Solomon went to Smith Co., Texas, just south of present day Tyler, sometime before 1850 and claimed land as his pension right for service in the War of 1812. A family tale has it that his son, Jackson Calvin, went to work for a man there who refused to pay him. In an altercation over this, Solomon struck the man with a fireplace tool. Fearing reprisal, he left his lands to his mentally retarded daughter, Elizabeth, asked her brother, William, to care for her and returned to Arkansas where he settled and raised the younger children.
  * Solomon died in Rogers from injuries suffered in a fall. His son, Elijah, in claiming his veteran's burial costs explained it as "fell, brained hisself, and was insane til he died."
  * According to the 1850 census of Smith County, Solomon was born in Virginia.
  * He enlisted in the War of 1812 at Adair Co, KY and served as a private in Captain Adkisson's Company. He was honorably discharged at Columbia, Adair Co, KY in 1814.
  * He married Ann at Cumberland, Harlan Co, KY in 1814. They had a son, Solomon, born in 1816 and a son, William, born in 1818, both births in KY. Another son, Elijah, was born in Missouri. The 1850 Census has the family living in Tyler, Smith Co, TX. Six children living with them : Elizabeth, b. 1832, MO; James, b. 1834, MO; Etta, b. 1836, MO; Jackson, b. 1838, MO; Edmund, b. 1842, AR; and John, b. 1844, AR.
  * In 1857, Solomon and Ann left their children in Tyler and went by horseback to Bentonville, Benton Co, AR, where they lived with their son, William, until their deaths. Ann died first. Solomon died at age 89 on July 26, 1879 following injuries received in a fall.
  * Solomon and Anna are listed from 1852-1855 in the Roll Books of the Seven Leagues Church. "Seven Leagues, Texas and the Baptist Church of Christ at Seven Leagues. Located near present-day Noonday not far from the Neches River in southwestern Smith County. This article submitted by Wilma Thedford comes from a book belonging to Lois Cambern Marsh, 2200 Evergreen, Pampa, TX 79065, entitled "They Came to Stay." Lois March, the author of this book, was a descendant of the Kutch and Cambern families. The Seven Leagues Society was a member of the Jacksonville Circuit, Tyler District, Methodist Episcopal Church South, East Texas Conference. All names copied according to the clerk's spelling."