Looking for my elusive gggrandfather-Lathaniel Lafayette Armstrong. Know that he was in the Cairo, Alexander County, IL in the 1880's, he approx 20 years old. Married to Angeline Skiles in 1879, but I lose him after that. On the 1880 census records there were no children. But on the 1900 census Angeline is listed as head of household with children-Clarence 16 Effie May 14 Mrytle 12 and Claud 9. Old Lathaniel had be have been around for a few years after the 1880 census! Can't imagine where he would have disappeared to! Looks like the remaining family members stayed in this general area until at least 1916 when Angeline died at the home of her daughter Effie Woodward. I do not know what ever happened to Mrytle-Claude died in E St Louis, IL in 1943 Clarence , my grandfather, married Almedia Mize approx 1909, can not find where they were wed, but they were in Cairo in 1910 census, children-Effie, Louis, Carl, Leona (Flossie), Eugene. Clarence died in 1931 in Cairo IL. Almedia (Medy) died in 1955 in E St Louis, IL. Any one with any information of this family, would sure be a godsend! Good Luck to all Linda