I decided to forward this info to the list in case anyone else is interested in it. Kim -----Original Message----- From: Kim Austin <[email protected]> To: Mary Austin Whitaker <[email protected]>; Jeff Austin <[email protected]>; Chester Whitted <[email protected]>; Carolyn J. Cooper <[email protected]>; Bob Austin <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 9:43 PM Subject: Martha A. Austin, daughter of Laban Turk Austin, Sr. >Thanks to a lead from Mary Whitaker who supplied me with the marriage record >info on Martha A. Austin, I was able to find out more information on her >today. I spent the day at the National Archives and Records Admin. SW >branch in Ft. Worth . Listed below is the census info I located. > >Martha Ann AUSTIN was the daughter of Laban Turk AUSTIN, Sr. and Artimissa >Mariah WILLIAMSON. On 12 October 1865 in Cusseta, Chattahoochee Co. GA, >Martha A. AUSTIN married Josiah ARMSTRONG. > >On the 1880 Bullock Co. AL census, volume 3, e.d. 161, sheet 26, line 1, >Bullock Co. Beat #6, Perote, the household of Joseph (sp) ARMSTRONG , age >40, white male, born in GA, included: wife, Martha ARMSTRONG, age 38, born >in GA, with daughters Elizabeth, age 13, born in AL; Artemissa, age 10, born >in AL, and Lula, age 3, born in AL. > >On the 1900 Pike Co. AL census, vol. 51, e.d. 136, sheet 1, line 79, Josiah >ARMSTRONG is listed as a white male age 60, born in GA in Feb 1840. This >family lived in the Josie community in Precinct 12 of Pike Co. AL. In the >household besides Josiah were wife, Martha, born in May 1841 , age 59, born >in AL, and daughter Lula, born in May 1879 in AL , age 21, and daughter, >Martha C., born in March 1883, age 17 born in AL. > > >