In checking the 1840 jackson county census for John Armstrong MD, he appears to have been married before Mazilla Cozart. here's the information from that census; He's listed as Doctor John Armstrong aged 40 but less than 50 a male child in the household is 10 but less than 15 (too old to be Mazilla's) Mazilla is listed as 20 but less than 30 a female child is also ennumerated as 10 but less than 15. This isn't firm proof because the children may be adopted etc. but ... Several of us have been trying to find Levi Cozart's origins but haven't had success yet. Merry Anne Pierson [email protected] wrote: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >WVJACKSO-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 115 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Re: COZART SAYRE KLINE ATMSTRONG U [[email protected]] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from WVJACKSO-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: COZART SAYRE KLINE ATMSTRONG UTT HATHAWAY EMBERSON/EMMERSON > SAFREED GIFFORD MCDOLE PICKENS > From: > [email protected] > Date: > 24 Jul 2005 05:59:50 -0600 > To: > [email protected] > > To: > [email protected] > > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Armstrong, Cosart, Matthews >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WCC.2ACE/1.3 > >Message Board Post: > >Mazella Cosart, daughter of Levi Cosart and Betsy Unknown, married John Armstrong, MD. I believe John Armstrong, M.D. to be the father of Alexis Leroy Armstrong, who married Mary Jane Riley in Davidson Co, TN, Feb 13, 1850. Census records show that Leroy Armstrong was born about 1830 in Virginia. If that record was accurate, he was not a child of Mazella Cosart, unless he was born five years before they married. Also, a family member has an undated obituary that shows Leroy Armstrong died at the age of 54. That would make the year of his death about 1884, but he and Mary Jane Riley Armstrong were both dead on the 1880 census, because their younger children are in the household of the oldest sister, Mary Childress in Davidson Co, TN. > >Would you have any information that shows John Armstrong, a physician in Jackson Co, VA, b. 1796, in England, was married before he married Mazella Cosart? > >I obtained the first name (Alexis) of Leroy Armstrong from a descendant. She also has in her possession a portrait of Alexine LeRoy and a Captain Doughton. It's possible these may be related to the Cosarts, but we don't know how. > >Have you had any success in going back further than Levi Cosart? Do you think this name is of French origin? I see that it's sometimes spelled Cazad. I was wondering if the original name could have been Cassatt? > >I would be happy to share information with you on the descendants of John Armstrong, MD. and Mazella Cosart (assuming she's the mother of Leroy Armstrong). Additionally a family member has a will of John Armstrong, MD and it shows another son, William C. Armstrong. I don't know what happened to him or where he lived. > >After Mazella Cosart Armstrong died, John Armstrong married Katherine Sophia Divine. Again, a family member has letters signed by her as "K.S.D. Armstrong." > >Leroy Armstrong and Mary Jane Riley Armstrong had seven children: Susan, Mary, Cora, Adelle, Effie, Ira and Edine. Edine Armstrong married Harley Matthews in Nashville, Davidson Co, TN Dec 5, 1899. They had four children: Katherine, Armstrong Robertson Matthews, Virginia and Ira Hughes Matthews. > >Armstrong Robertson Matthews married Elizabeth Sampson. > >