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Note: "Thomas J. ARMSTRONG, b. 28 Apr. 1820 Mercer Co. (area now in Boyle Co.), Kentucky, was a Cpl. in Unit 9 from Danville, Kentucky during the Mexican War. After leaving the service he went to CA. He was in Calaveras Co. on the 1850 census, living in a hotel. A letter back home to Kentucky called his wife Adarene but on the 1860 census of Amador Co. she was called Alvina." Cathie Hargreaves 1850 Census Calaveras District, Calaveras County, California enumerated September 9, 1850 Dwelling #2, Family #2 (Hotel) ARMSTRONG, T. J., 30, male, trader, $1000, born in KY 1860 Census Township No. 2, Amador County, California enumerated June 3, 1860 Dwelling #25, Family #22 Post Office: Ione City ARMSTRONG, Tho's, 40, male, farmer, $2500/$500, born in Kentucky ___________, Alvina, 21, female, born in Ohio ___________, James, 4, male, born in California ___________, Florence J., 2, female, born in California ___________, Minnie, 6/12, female, born in California SMITH, Frank, 36, male, $0/$1200, born in Virginia BOGGS, D. W., 23, male, born in Ohio 1870 Census 4 Precinct 10 Ward, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA enumerated June 25, 1870 Roll 83 Book 1, Page 350b Post Office: San Francisco Dwelling #207, Family #172 STILES, Richard, 53, m/w, police officer, $0/$200, born in New York ______, Wealthy, 52, f/w, keeping house, born in Ohio ARMSTRONG, Thomas, 45, m/w, tanner, $3000/$300, born in Kentucky ___________, Al????, 30, f/w, keeping house, born in Ohio ___________, Florence F., 13, f/w, at school, born in California ___________, Minnie B., 10, f/w, at school, born in California ___________, Elizabeth, 1, f/w, at school, born in California OBITUARY--Marysville Appeal, Marysville, Yuba County, California, Sept. 25, 1877, page 2 DIED...In this city, September 23rd, Thos. J. Armstrong, a native of Danville, Kentucky, aged 57 years. FUNERAL NOTICE..Officers and members of Oriental Lodge No. 45, I.O.O.F. are ordered to meet at their Hall to attend the funeral of their deceased Brother, Past Grand T. J. Armstrong, this Tuesday afternoon, September 25th, at 1:30 o'clock. Members of Yuba Lodge No. 5, and Yuba City Lodge No. 183, and adjourning brothers, are invited to participate. HISTORY OF YUBA AND SUTTER COUNTIES CALIFORNIA by Peter J. Delay 1924 Page 341--Florence Welthy DeWitt...born at Jackson, Amador County....1857, a daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Alvina Ann (Stiles) Armstrong, natives respectively of Kentucky and Ohio. Thomas J. Armstrong was a veteran of the Mexican War, and in 1851 crossed the plains to California with an emigrant train and settled in Ione, where he conducted a butcher shop and was interested in some gold mines. Miss Alvina Ann Stiles also crossed the plains...and the family settled in Amador County, where she met and married Thomas J. Armstrong (Thomas about 34 and Alvina about 15). Four children were born to Thomas J. Armstrong and his wife: James deceased; Florence W., of this review; and Minnie and Elizabeth, both deceased. In 1862 the family removed to Sutter County, where Thomas J. Armstrong took up 160 acres of government land; and later he bought a squatter's right to eighty acres adjoining, where the family lived for ten years. The home place was then sold, and the father leased a ranch in South Butte Pass, which he farmed for two years. He then removed to Marysville, and there he passed on.
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