1850 Census list a Margaret Armistead, 55, (1795), with John N. and Clarissa, probability his mother.
Sources
Source: Garber, Virginia Armistead "The Armistead Family (1635-1910)." Whittet & Shepperson, Printers, Richmond 1910. The original was full of errors due to its poor organization. It has been reorganized and corrected by: Douglas E. Zimmerman, 2002-2004.
"Virginia, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J343-6B8 : accessed 1 March 2016), John N Armistead, 1861; from "Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing military unit Sixty-first Infantry (Wilson's Regiment, Infantry; Seventh [Wilson's] Battalion, Infantry); Sixty-first Militia (Matthew's Battalion), NARA microfilm publication M324 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1961), roll 1031.
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