Westwood Smith Armistead (1854 - 1890)

Born 17 May 1854 in Richmond,Virginia (usa) [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Adele (Talbott) Armistead — married 10 Oct 1883 (to 2 Jan 1890) in Richmond, Virginia (USA)

Died 2 Jan 1890 at age 35 in Chicago,Illinois (usa)

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Biography

WESTWOOD SMITH ARMISTEAD, son of Rev Robert Augustine Armistead and Martha Anne Savage, was born on May 17,1854, 7 years before the American Civil War (Franklin Pierce's 2nd year as 14th U.S.President). He married Mary Adele Talbott, October 10,1883 in Richmond, Virginia. Westwood died, age 35, in Chicago, Illinois, 25 years after the Civil War on January 02,1890 (Benjamin Harrison's 1st year as 23rd President) and was buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery

Sources

"The Armistead Family:1635-1910"...by Virginia Armistead Garber; Whittet & Shepperson, printers, Richmond,Virginia (1910):

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• WESTWOOD SMITH, twelfth child and sixth son of Robert Augustine Armistead and Martha Ann Savage, his wife, was born 17th day of MAY 1854...
• In 1883, October 10th, he married Mary Adele Talbott, of Richmond, Virginia
• died in Chicago suddenly when thirty-five years old; buried in Hollywood (cemetery), Richmond, Va
• [Note]: the author is Westwood's sister

Findagrave Memorial#41487523

(Hollywood Cemetery Gravestone):

Westwood S Armistead.....(1854-1890)

Adele Talbott Armistead...(1854-1929)

Hollywood Cemetery Records

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WESTWOOD S ARMISTEAD

Date of Burial: 01/04/1890

Section:15, Lot:122