Wallace
Bruce
Armstrong
Born in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Walter Root Armstrong, Lucy Armstrong, Anna Brown (Armstrong) Youngman, Clara Armstrong, Emmett Paul Armstrong and Ralph W. Armstrong
Husband of
Clementina (Brenneisen) Armstrong
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Father of
Lenore Armstrong
Died
at age 28
in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States
Profile last modified
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Biography
Wallace Bruce Armstrong was born on the 16th of August 1870.[1] He was the son of Russell Bigelow Armstrong and Rachel Brown.[1] In 1875 he lived with his parents and two siblings in Wyandotte, Kansas, where his father worked as a real estate agent.[2] Five years later they were still in Wyandotte.[3] His father's occupation was now listed as "editor & real estate & insurance."[3] Wallace, now nine, stayed home with his mother and four siblings.[3] None were marked as having attended school.[3]
Wallace married Clementine Breueisen on the 20th of Jan 1896 in Armourdale, Wyandotte, Kansas.[4]
Wallace died on Sunday morning, April the 9th 1899.[1] He had been ill for a short time.[1] Wallace was thought to be a "man of temperate habits, kind and thoughtful to his friends, and fond of his home."[1] Wallace was survived by his widow and two young daughters.[1] He had not yet reached his twenty-ninth birthday.[1] Their daughter Lenora "Brownie" Armstrong died shortly after at the age of two.[5] Cause of death was pneumonia.[5]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Wallace B. Armstrong obituary, Kansas City, Kansas, The Wyandott Herald, 13 April 1899, p. 3, col. 2.
- ↑ "Kansas State Census, 1875," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL6F-M5FQ : 7 November 2020), Wallace B Armstrong in household of R B Armstrong, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States; citing Census, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, , Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka; FHL microfilm .
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF5T-CSV : 19 February 2021), Wallace Armstrong in household of R B Armstrong, Wyandotte, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 194, sheet 382C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,400.
- ↑ "Kansas Marriages, 1840-1935", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW2D-D5N : 14 January 2020), Wallace B. Armstrong, 1896
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Obituary of Lenora Armstrong, The Wyandott Herald, Kansas City, Kansas, 27 April 1899, page 3, col. 1.
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 08 April 2021), memorial page for Wallace B. Armstrong (1871–9 Apr 1899), Find a Grave Memorial no. 6965976, citing Quindaro Cemetery, Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas, USA ; Maintained by GBern.O (contributor 46539202) .
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Wallace by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Wallace:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Wallace by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Wallace:
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