I have the wrong date; Sicily George was born Dec. 5, 1819;
She married Andrew J. Armstrong Feb. 20, 1859, sorry!!

I am looking for ANY information on Andrew J. Armstrong, married Sicily George Dec. 5, 1819 in Henry County. Sicily was the step-daughter of Absalom Hasty and Daughter of his wife Martha Hammock George Hasty. Andrew witnessed the marriage of Susan Monroe in Columbia in 1858 (I think). Any help greatly appreciated.
Robin Adams

William Armstrong, who married Mary Ann King in Cumberland co., North Carolina on 30 March 1815, was the son of Thomas Armstrong,Jr. and Janet Campbell daughter of Ferquhard Campbell of the same County. Thomas Armstrong,Jr. was a Colonel in the Colonial Militia of North Carolina in the 1st Revolution. He was a member of Old Bluff Presbyterian Church where one of his daughters, Ezabel, was baptised in August of 1786. In june of 1781 Col. Thomas Armstrong was named executor of the estate of Ferquhard Cambell along with William and James Armstrong. Thomas was the Brother-in-Law of Ferquhard Campbell.
Thomas' Mother and Father Thomas Armstrong, Sr. and Margaret were born about 1700 in Argylleshire, Scotland. This was on the Southwest coast of Scotland and the Isles of Jura, Argylle,Inslay and Gigha. He came to this country aboard the ship 'The Thistle' along with about 350 other Scots from Argylleshire. These were called the 'Argylle Scots' and they settled along the Cape Fear River in the Cumberland County area of North Carolina. These were the first of a great flood of Scots to this country. It may be suprising to know that many of these Scots were loyalists during The 1st Revolution and many had their property confiscated.
The Thistle was owned in part by Coll Mcalister, which he brought an interest in after selling his estate in Scotland.
Coll was the Grandfather of Janet Campbell Armstrong. I mention all of this to show how all of these families intermarried in North Carolina. Ezekial King,Brother of Mary Ann King Armstrong, Married Mary Ann Buchannon whose Mother was Janet Campbell's Sister, Ann Campbell.
Mary Ann King Armstrong had two sisters and two brothers to migrate from North Carolina to Henry Co., Alabama. One, Sarah King, met and married Richard McGriff while visiting Mary Ann and William in 1834. Brothers, Michael DeVane King m. Arenna Wall in Georgia, Joseph King, m. Rebecca Harvey(Joseph died shortly after) and another sister Elizabeth Ann King who married Andrew J. Cawthon were the others. There may have been a third sister,Eliza, to move here, but I don't know yet.
William and Mary Ann King Armstrong's first Three Children,Thomas J., Jeanette, George W., were born in Cumberland co., North Carolina. Andrew was the first born in Henry Co. This family suffered greatly during the War for Southern Independence, losing two sons on the same day at The Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia,Augustus Marion and George W., Farquhard Campbell died at Blains Crossroads, Tennessee of pneumonia. Andrew enlisted on the 10th of May 1862 and never saw his father again as he was captured and terribly mistreated by the Union until his release at the end of The War in 1865. His Father died in 1864 and these tragic events probably hastened his death. Andrew was the only son out of four to return home after The War.

On a visit this week to the Camp Springs Cemetery in Henry County, Alabama,week, I saw the graves of Andrew Jackson Armstrong's parents, William Armstrong and Mary Ann King. William Armstrong was born January 18, 1784 and died during the War for Southern Independence (1861-1865) on December 9, 1864. Mary Ann KING Armstrong was born December 24, 1795 and died May 6, 1870. Both are buried in the southeast quadrant of the cemetery. The original tombstones (if they existed) have been replaced with new markers in the 20th Century. I mention that they may not have been marked because Henry County suffered greatly during the war losing many young men, feeling the starvation by the Yankee blockade that kept mundane supplies, needed medicine and other items from being shipped up the Chattahoochee River to river landings, just three to four miles east of Camp Springs. (The Hitachi Indians were still in the Camp Springs area when the Elliotts settled here in 1855. In fact there is an Indian burial ground, its exact location lost to this generation, on the Elliott Plantation. One grave in the Camp Springs cemetery is, according to local folklore for over 100 years, a Native American grave. This story was related recently by Lora Hasty Holland while she and I toured the Camp Springs Cemetery.

On July 1, 2000, the Scottish Clan Elliott celebrated 145 years on the same red clay farm in Camp Springs, which the Native Americans called "Dry Ridge." Surely this name best applies this year as the "Drought of 2000" has wiped out the crops in the area with farmers already plowing in thousands of acres of land where the planted cotton or peanuts did not make a stand. A very grim picture there!)

In old Scotland, the Armstrongs were neighbors to the Elliotts, both of whom were of the "Fighting Border Clans of the Middle March of Scotland." A priest traveling through this area centuries ago found the local church in terrible disrepair. The priest inquired of a local, "Are there any Christians here?" The reply was, "Nay, we're all Elliotts and Armstrongs here." This is from the book, THE STEEL BONNETS, the Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers, by George MacDonald Fraser.

At Camp Springs, Andrew Jackson Armstrong's family farm bordered 1,500 acres of land settled by the Clan Elliott migrating from southern Randolph County, Georgia. This part of Georgia today, which includes the Cotton Hill and Day's Crossroads area, is the northern part of Clay County with Fort Gaines, Georgia as the county seat (and my birthplace in the Fort Gaines-Clay County Hospital--the nearest medical facilities on July 17, 1957, to Camp Springs and her sister community, Haleburg).

Many of the men in "Dry Ridge" were in Company I of the 46th Alabama Infantry, Confederate States Army joining in Old Columbia, then in Henry County. Some of those serving with First Lt. Andrew Jackson Armstrong were Corporal Davis Andrew Jackson Elliott (my great-great-grandfather who is buried just feet from Lt. Armstrong and William and Mary Ann KING Armstrong), Henry Day (my g-g-g-grandfather), John Pinkston "Pink" Glover (my g-g-grandfather), and John Elbert Elliott, I. John Elbert Elliott's land bordered the Armstrong land where even today a William Armstrong is farming. John Elbert Elliott, I, moved to Smith County, Texas 125 years ago. The reunion I mentioned earlier was the 33rd organized Clan Elliott Alabama/Texas Reunion since 1967. And as always, several of "The Texas Folks" were in attendance. My nearest kin is a sixth cousin, yet in the love of the Clan, she is my sister! Reunion #34 will be in Tyler, Smith County, Texas in 2001.

G. W. Armstrong fell at the Battle of Seven Pines on May 31, 1862, having lived 31 years and 8 months. Augustus M. Armstrong also died that day defending Dixie from an invading army of Yankees. He had only lived 24 years and 6 months. F. C. Armstrong died in the service of the Confederacy on November 2, 1862, dying of pneumonia at age 21 years and 10 months. (All information on the Armstrongs as it relates to the "War of Yankee Aggression" is from THE HISTORY OF Henry County, by Mrs. Marvin (Clyde Stovall) Scott, 1961.)

Mrs. Scott relates that William and Mary Ann KING Armstrong had six (6) children:
1) Thomas A* born August 9, 1817 and died February 19, 1891 in Columbia, Henry County, Alabama. Thomas married Charity Roxanne Elizabeth Anderson, daughter of Lewis W. and Jane Bargeron Anderson (this was Thomas's second wife); He was a farmer; Justice of the peace of Columbia; Sheriff of Henry County, Alabama during the early days of the War Between the States: 1861-1863. He and his second wife are buried in the Columbia.
2) Jeanette A* born November 10, 1824 and married John Anderson.
3) George Wash A* born September 16, 1830.
4) Andrew Jackson A* born July 13, 1835 (The first child born in Henry County according to the facts given that William and Mary Ann King A* moved into the county circa 1831.)
5) Augustus Marion A* born November 20, 1837.
6) Farquherd Cam'l A* born January 7, 1841.

Andrew Jackson Armstrong married Sicily Adeline George February 20, 1859. She was the daughter of Pendleton George and his wife Martha Hammock of Carrollton County, Georgia. After the death of Pendleton George, Martha Hammock George was married to Henry County pioneer Absalom Hasty. Absalom Hasty was born circa 1814 and is buried at Camp Springs. Lora Hasty Holland mentioned earlier is a great-great grandaughter of Absalom Hasty. She is 81 years old.

Andrew Jackson Armstrong and Sicily Adeline George had the following children:
a) Mary Ann A* b December 24, 1859
b) William Pendleton A* b July 1, 1861
c) Sarah Cambell A* b January 29, 1863 and died August 7, 1865.
Note: The 46th Alabama Infantry that A. J. A* served as a Lt. in was mustered into service in the late spring of 1862.
d) Joseph E. Johnston A* b June 26, 1866
e) John Morgan A* b April 26, 1868.
f) Martha Tuscora A* b March 13, 1870
g) Erie Clyde A* b April 18, 1872
h) Adrina Janette A* b March 20, 1874
i) George Washington A* b May 10, 1876
j) Henry Vinson A* b April 2, 1878
k) Ella Isabelle A* b October 24, 1880
l) Thomas Dow A* b October 24, 1880
m) Margie Ann * b April 19, 1883
--A total of 14 children!
S. A. Armstrong died September 26, 1911 and A. J. Armstrong died October 19, 1912. Both were 72 years and a few months old upon death.

If I can help further, please let me know.

Steve Elliott
Haleburg, Alabama Historian

Andrew Jackson Armstrong, b. abt. 1835, Henry Co., Alabama, d. aft. 1878. He was the son of William and Mary Ann King Armstrong of Cumberland Co., North Carolina. They Moved to Henry Co., Alabama about 1831. Three of Andrews brothers died in The War for Southern Independence and Andrew was captured in May of 1863 in Mississippi. He spent the remainder of the war as a POW. He was one of "The Immortal 600" of Morris Island, South Carolina infamy. He served as a 1st Lt. in Co. I, 46th Alabama Infantry Regt. Married Sicily George and had two sons, William Pendleton Armstrong and Henry Vincent Armstrong. I have more on the Kings and Armstrongs if you will email me I will be glad to share.

hello I have been looking for info. on my armstrong family I just saw your add wondering if the andrew your talking about was born in1800 in nc.and died 1869 in ky.he was a farmer.he married elmira a. mccoy i also have a lucy a. margaret "armstrong"and middleton h.frances they had twin boys george washington and james madison identical twins born 11/28/1865. any chance this could be the same line? kathy

No, the Andrew J. Armstrong I refer to was born in 1835, Henry County, Alabama. His Mother and Father were born in Cumberland County, North Carolina, they were William and Mary Ann King Armstrong

Does Membrance Armstrong who married Martha Hix appear in research of your Armstrongs? Known children are Lot and Caldonia (Callie). Membrance fought and died for the Confederacy and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond

Cherry, I don't have Memberance Armstrong in my records. I believe he belongs to a different Armstrong Family than mine.
You might like to know that I visited Hollywood Cemetary in Richmond several years ago. I visited the grave of one of my heros James Ewell Brown Stuart. It is a beautiful place and was well kept though the Richmond area was disgraceful on the whole.
Sorry I couldn't help.

Hi, I,m trying to find out info on Lot L. Armstrong (Bn. 1855) He was Married to Emma L. Armstrong. Looking for his parents. I think they may be Membrance and Martha. Can you Help? Mark Hunt.