Julia: My ARMSTRONG line is descended through Mary Jane ARMSTRONG that married Joel Lewis FOSTER. She is possibly descended from William ARMSTRONG & Margaret WOOD \ WOODS from Lancaster Co. PA. Are you familiar with any of these? Bobby Prosser prossergenealogy@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jmolitz@aol.com> To: <TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:58 PM Subject: [TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS] JOHN ARMSTRONG b. 1784, d. 1847 LCT > ARMSTRONG and KING researchers need your help! > > John ARMSTRONG, son of Thomas and Mary "Mollie" BROWN in his will he gives > everything to his son Josiah R. and ------"That he provide for the Support and > comfort of his mother during her natural life and also to Support and raise my > four Grand children that is to Say, John Wesley ARMSTRONG, Jasper Newton > ARMSTRONG, George Higgins and Sarah Jane ARMSTRONG". > > 1. Everyone has these "Grand Children" as his and Sarah Frances KING'S > children not grand children. > > 2. Why was ARMSTRONG not written in after George Higgins name like all of > the other children? > > 3. Notes I found in Ruth MORGAN research has: > "John ARMSTRONG m. Mary Delia KING, then list these children; John Wesley, > Jasper Newton, George Higgin, Sarah Jane, Juliann, Margaret, Thomas "Hi" Josiah > and David. This are all of the names of John and Sarah KING'S children except > she has Juliann and I have Mary Ann and she has all of the respective spouses > as I have. She questions her notes "son of John and Sallie KING ARMSTRONG, > did he marry twice"? > > 4. I do not have a spouse for George Higgin ARMSTRONG. Could he have been > George (surname) HIGGIN? There was a George HIGGIN married to Sarah L. STONE > 11-July-1850, this does not sound likely. > > Also there was a write up on John ARMSTRONG, son of Thomas and Mary BROWN > ARMSTRONG, in the Petersburg Homecoming 1986 publication. It states:"John > ARMSTRONG was an entry officer of claims for the western North Carolina lands", > While there was a John ARMSTRONG brother to Martin ARMSTRONG, both of who were > surveyers and were entry officers of claims. They both gave themselves 5000 > acre grants in Lincoln CO. and Giles CO. and perhaps more. This John ARMSTRONG > was not our John, was he? I have not found out what happen to this John but his > brother Martin's people went on to Ohio or ILL. > > VICKY MOORE, you said there was a write up on John ARMSTRONG in Goodspeed can > you give me some of the details? > > Can anyone shed any light on the above????? > > Julia > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >