This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kQB.2ACIB/2455.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Barbara, Glad to meet you! I'll send you an email, but for posterity, I'll review our connection as I know it. My g-grandfather John Lafayette "Lafe" Armstrong (b.1859, VanWert, Ohio-probably s/b county of Van Wert) had the siblings Elijah (b. 1845 d.1846), Adam b.1847 in Delaware County, Ohio, d. 1897 Middle Point, Ohio, John Oscar b. 1852, and Sarah Ellen, b. 1862, Van Wert county, Ohio. Adam Armstrong (b. 1847) m. Eva Reeder, 1882, Allen County, Ohio. They had 11 children, not all survived to adulthood, with "Chester" being #2 (don't have date, but #1 was Etta, m. Wm Gattshall 10-1905). I think your grandfather and mine were 1st cousins. :) My g-grandfather married twice, as his first wife (Mary Elizabeth "Lissie" Shrider) died in childbirth. My grandfather was born of the second wife, Mary Melinda Sterling. The Sterlings and Armstrongs intertwine here and other places too. Anyway, we are talking about 17 kids here, when all is said and done (not all lived to maturity). This is all in Middle Point, Ohio, btw, in Van Wert County. My dad was born there too 1936, but they all moved to Ft. Wayne, IN, in about 1942-3, the Depression took it's toll on those farm people. But, to go back in time from Lafe and Adam: Their parents were Thomas H. Armstrong (b.1814 in Kenawah Co. in what is now West VA) and Sarah Ann Saum (b. 1844, Knox County, Ohio). They followed a couple of Saums out to that county in about 1846, and they eventually had about a 200 acre farm. Please see the Saum name, they are very active in geneology, and very nice. Anyway, John Lafayette Armstrong, Sr. (b.1778 Kenawah Co., WVA) and Melinda Hinton (b. 1787 in VA) married in Knox County, Ohio, in 1812. Their children were: Henry (b. 1813, Delaware, OH d. 1886 Knox Co. Ohio), Thomas H. (b. 1814), George William b. 1820 Knox Co. OH, Joshua b. 1823, John Lafayette Jr. b. 1826, d. 1896, (m. Rebecca-no kids known-uncle to my Lafe--I have visited their grave in Centerburg, Knox Co., Ohio--someone re-did the stones about 50 years ago, it's lovely), Charles b. 7-4-1828, Mary b. 1829, susan b. 1831, Rachel . 1833--all Knox County, Ohio. The parents of John Lafayette Armstrong, Sr. (b.1778) were, and this I was told had not been "proved" were Adam "Armie" Armstrong, b. 1753 in Mangerton, Scotland-d. 1827, Ross County, OH, and Elizabeth Marie Elliot b. 1756 in Mangerton, Scotland-d. 1794 in Franklinton, OH (original site of Columbus, Oh, the state capital). Here's the scoop on these unfortunate immigrants. Elizabeth Elliot, and several small children, were killed by the Indians, and 3 children taken hostage by Deer and Turtle Tribe Wyandot Indians. The 3 hostage children were returned eventually, but 2 were fairly well assimilated. William, the oldest, was not captured, nor was Adam (b.1753). John Lafayette Armstrong (to be Sr., b.1778) was taken by the Turtle Tribe, Jeremiah by the Deer Tribe, and an unnamed sister by the Turtle Tribe. John Lafayette was about 16 at this time. I have been to the Franklinton Historical Society, but they are unsure if she is in Greenlawn Cemetery, and probably did not have a stone anyway. What happened to John Lafayette Armstrong, Sr.'s siblings, I do not know. Hope this is of interest! Dawn