This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Armstrong Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JS.2ADE/306.499.534.1.1.1 Message Board Post: According to an article in the Butler County Historical Society quarterly "Jesse M. Armstrong and his wife, Mary; Maximillian Armstrong Sr. and his wife, Elizabeth; Maxey Armstrong Jr. and his wife, Mary" were members of the Friendship Primitive Baptist Church in Butler County. The land for the church was donated by Jesse M. Armstrong and was located where the Damascus Baptist Church now stands Other Armstrong members were: John C. Armstrong and wife, Mary; William Armstrong and wife Mary. The Church was there from 1837-1855. At this time the Armstrongs were living in Butler County not Montgomery or Lowndes County. Maximillian is shown as between 50 & 60 years old in the 1830 Butler County Census Records and between 50 & 60 in the 1840 Records. Maybe the census were not taken in the same month each time, he could have just turned 50 in the 1830 record and was almost 60 in the 1840 records. I don't find a Thomas Armstrong connected to his family. Paying taxes in Butler County in 1856 were James W. Armstrong Prec. 3, Mac Armstrong Prec. 4, Jesse M. Armstrong Prec. 6 & J.W. Armstrong Prec. 9.