Thank you for responding to my e-mail. I'm not sure my John Armstrong is any relation to yours or not because that is far as I can go back in my family tree as yet. My Armstrong family is from the Lockport/Joliet area. That is not far from two other areas of interest. Just northeast of Arcola is a town named Armstrong. South of Arcola is Shelbyville, atown with Armstrong residents. Do you know anything about these areas? My John Armstrong(great grandfather) lived in Joliet with his wife and 3 children around 1880-1890. He left there without his family and went to a mill in Kentucky where he supposedly died. I have no info of where he died nor the names of his parents. I do know his family came from Ireland. If you have any further info, I would appreciate your help.