Andrew Jackson Armstrong (1869 - 1946)

Born 16 Jan 1869 in Washington County, Arkansas, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Edna May (Wood) Armstrong — married 1 Dec 1897 in Hammon, Roger Mills, Oklahoma, United States

Husband of Nancy Cordelia (Parker) Armstrong — married 20 Jan 1931 in , Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States

Descendants

Died 19 Feb 1946 at age 77 in Elk City, Beckham, Oklahoma, United States

Biography

Name

Name: Andrew Jackson Armstrong

Given Name: Andrew Jackson

Surname: Armstrong^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Name: Jack

Given Name: Jack^[8][9]

Birth

Date: 16 Jan 1869

Place: Washington County, Arkansas, United States^{[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]}

Census

Date: Jul 1870

Place: Brush Creek, Washington, Arkansas, United States^[17]

Date: 28 Jun 1880

Place: Jones County, Texas, United States^[18]

Date: 15 Apr 1910

Place: Kiowa, Roger Mills, Oklahoma, United States

Note: He was a stock farmer.^[19]

Date: 30 Jun 1920

Place: Kiowa, Roger Mills, Oklahoma, United States

Note: He was a stock farmer.^[20]

Date: 5 Apr 1930

Place: Kiowa, Roger Mills, Oklahoma, United States

Note: He was a farmer.^[21]

Residence

Date: 1894

Place: Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Territory, United States

Note: He homesteaded there that year.^[22]

Date: 24 Jun 1943

Place: Hammon, Roger Mills, Oklahoma Territory, United States

Note: He was mentioned in his granddaughter DeLoye Armstrong's obituary.^[23]

Date: 1944

Place: Elk City, Beckham, Oklahoma, United States

Note: He moved there that year.^[24]

Marriage

Husband: Andrew Jackson Armstrong

Wife: Edna May "Kate" Wood

Date: 1 Dec 1897

Place: Hammon, Roger Mills, Oklahoma, United States^{[25][26][27][28]}

Child: Walter B. Armstrong ^[29]

Child: Bessie Maud Armstrong^{[30][31][32][33][34]}

Child: J. T. Armstrong^[35][36][37]

Husband: Andrew Jackson Armstrong

Wife: Nancy Cordelia Parker

Date: 20 Jan 1931

Place: Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States^[38][39]

Death

Date: 19 Feb 1946

Place: Elk City, Beckham, Oklahoma, United States

Cause: acute myocarditis^[40][41][42]

Burial

Date: 20 Feb 1946

Place: Hammon, Roger Mills, Oklahoma, United States^[43][44][45]

Interview

Source:#S109 Date:May 1987 Interviewer:Jim Protz Interviewee:Walter Armstrong Jim:Tell me about your grandfather, Thomas Armstrong. My grandfather, Tommy Armstrong was married in Arkansas to a lady named Vaughan. She had been married before to a fellow named Spinnell or Spindle who never came back from the war (Civil War). She was left a widow with two kids, George and a girl. I don't remember the name. My grandfather became father to those two. George later went to Arizona and was a rancher. My grandfather's wife died while they were still in Anson (Texas). He never got over losing her. Soon after that, he came to Oklahoma to this area (Roger Mills County). I once heard that he left Anson because he had killed a man, but don't know any more about that. He later did some mining in New Mexico. He received a military pension for being in the War. He died sometime in the 20's (1920's). What do you remember about his siblings, your great aunts and uncles? Tommy's brothers Jim and Joe ran cattle down in Granite (Greer County, Oklahoma) and died there. The rest of them I don't know about. I do remember Tommy saying something about Hugh, but I don't remember any more. I do have a picture of two of his sisters taken when they were teens. He carried that picture through the War. How about your dad Andrew Jackson Armstrong? Dad went by Jack. He was born in Arkansas. When my mother, Edna Mae Woods, died, he later married Cordelia Creach. Dad was a rancher. He and his brothers used to drive cattle up north on the Chisholm Trail. One time, while driving a herd of longhorns he saw lightning jumping from one animal to the other through their horns without harming the animals. That really impressed me. Dad's brother Oat (Otah) married a lady named Katherine and went to Montana, but before that he worked a time with George Spindle in Arizona. I think he died in Montana. Aunt Emma married Walter Breeding, Aunt Motah married Dolph Pickelsimer. Mary, your great grandmother, married Ed Winkler. He was a barber and a gambler. Mary died when I was only a child, but I vaguely remember a funeral, so I'm thinking she probably died and was buried around these parts. When she died, the kids (Cora, Lora, Mary) lived with us for awhile. Then they went to live with their dad and his new wife. Cora didn't get along too well with her, so she would show up here from time to time. You know my dad's family was farming in the Texas Panhandle in the second decade of this (20th) century. Do you remember contact with them? Oh yes. They were burned out sometime just after the war (WWI) ended. George and Cora and the kids stayed with us for a short time until they could go north. Jim:I heard that you and your brother J.T. married sisters Walter:Yes I married Verda Luttrell and J.T. married her sister Alta Mae. They had Erma, J.W. and Warren. My son's Ramon. You know Bessie (Walter's sister) married Solen (aka Tige) Spitzer. Their kids are J.D., A.D. and Gayle. A.D. died in childhood.

Note

Source:#S408 "Obituary," 7 Jan 1995. Walter B. Armstrong was born November 10, 1898 in Roger Mills County, Indian Territory to Edna Mae and Andrew J. Armstrong and passed away January 4, 1995 in the Elk City Nursing Home at the age of 96 years, 1 month and 24 days. Walter grew up in Roger Mills County and married Verda Rachel Luttrell on November 4, 1917 in Hammon, Oklahoma. They lived in Hammon while he ran the cotton gin until 1928 when they moved on the Pete Thurmond Ranch and where he was a foreman for 17 years. They moved west of the Carpenter community until 1951 when they moved to Elk City to make their home. Walter managed the cotton gin in Elk City until 1970 when he retired. He was a member of the Elk City Firt United Methodist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, 1 brother and 1 sister. He is survived by 1 son and daughter-in-law, Ramon and Lillard Armstrong, Elk City; 3 grandchildren, Tim Armstrong, Guthrie, Larry Armstrong, Elk City, and Janice Walters, Seminole. Service were held January 6, 1995. Interment was in the airlawn Cemetery, Elk City.

Source:#S408 "Obituary," May 1989. Bessie Maud Spitzer was born Nov. 12, 1903 in Hammon, Oklahoma (Territory) and passed away May 14, 1989 in the Roger Mills Memorial Hospital at the age of 85 years. Bessie, the daughter of Andrew and Edna May Armstrong, married S.C (Tig) Spitzer on October 22, 1922 in Hammon and they lived in Hammon for 2 years before moving to Elk City in 1924. In the fall of 1926 they moved near Hammon and then near Kiowa in 1930. In 1932, they moved to Cheyenne and on March 22, 1932, they built the store known as Spitzer Corner in the Rose Hill Community. In 1959, they moved to the farm near Rose Hill, where they lived until the present time. She was preceded in death by her parents, 1 son, and 1 brother. She is survived by her husband, S.C. of the home; a daughter, Gayle Kilpatrick, of Oklahoma City, OK; a son and daughter-in-law, J.D. and Joan Spitzer of Tulsa, Okla.; a brother, Walter Armstrong of Elk City, Oklahoma; 5 grandchildren; 7 great grandchildren. Funeral services was Wed., May 17, 1989. Burial was in the Berlin Cemetery, Berlin, Oklahoma.

Source:#S497 "Deaths," 21 Feb 1946. Funeral services for Andrew Jackson Armstrong 75-year-old western Oklahoma pioneer and retired farmer, were held Wednesday afternoon in the First Baptist Church with Rev. H. L. Janes, pastor, officiating. Mr. Armstrong, who homesteaded in Roger Mills County in 1894, passed away Tuesday at his home, 510 North Main, after an illness of two months. He was born January 16, 1869 in Bentonville, Ark., and after coming to this territory in 1896, he married Miss Edna Mae Wood in Hammon. She preceded him in death in 1914. On January 20, 1931, Mr. Armstrong was married to Mrs. Dellia Creach, who survives. The Armstrongs lived on his Roger Mills homestead until two years ago when they moved to Elk City. He was a member of the Baptist Church. Besides, his wife, he is survived by three children of his first marriage; Walter B. Armstrong and J.T. Armstrong, both of Elk City; and Mrs. Bessie Maude Spitzer of Cheyenne. Burial was in Red Hill Cemeteery at Hammon with Savage Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Source:#S497 "Armstrong Rites To Be Thursday," 16 Sep 1954. Funeral services for Mrs. Nancy Cordelia Armstrong, 83, stepmother of Walter and J.T. Armstrong, will be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Baptist church in Hammon. Mrs. Armstrong died in a local hospital Tuesday night after having suffered a heart attack. She was a resident of the Hammon vicinity from 1901 until about 12 years ago, when she moved to Elk City, making her home here since at 510 North Main. Born Dec. 17, 1870 in Texas, Mrs. Armstrong was first married to Dan Creach, who preceded her in death in 1926. In 1931 she married A.J. Armstrong and he preceded her in death in 1946. Mrs. Armstrong was a member of the Baptist church. Survivors include her two stepsons, Walter and J.T. Armstrong, Elk City, two step-daughters; Mrs. W.L. Sifford, Hammon and Mrs. Bessie Spitzer, Cheyenne; three grandchildren, Mrs. Charles Bradley and Mrs. Clyde Trent, both of Hammon, and Herman Sifford, Canyon, Texas. Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. Minnie Ewing, Ranger, Texas; two brothers, Charles Parker, Biscoe, Texas, and John Parker, Loving, Texas and a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren. Burial will be in the Red Hill Cemetery at Hammon with the Savage funeral directors in charge of arrangements.

Sources

1. ↑ Source:#S251 T626, Kiowa, enumeration district (ED) 15-13, sheet 2A, dwelling 32, family 34, A.J. Armstrong, accessed 13 Dec 2010 1930 Roger Mills, OK Census for AJ Armstrong and Soland and Bessie Spitzer
2. ↑ Source:#S109
3. ↑ Source:#S443 Andrew J. Armstrong marker, personally read, 2011. Armstrong, Andrew J., Jan 16, 1869-Feb 19, 1946
4. ↑ Source:#S71 ED 187, p. 10, dwelling 88, family 91, Andrew J. Armstrong; NARA microfilm publication T9. Date: 4 Jan 2010 Enumerated 21 Jun 1880; Thomas H., 40, Stock raiser, b. TN, father b TN, mother b TN; Nancy C, 38, wife, keeping house, b AR, f TN, m MO; James W., 13, son, at home, b AR, f TN, m AR; Mary A, 11, daughter, b AR, f TN, m AR; Andrew J., 9, son, b AR, f TN, m AR; Emma A., 7, daughter, b. AR, f Tn, m AR; Otah L., 5, son, b TX, f TN, m AR; William R., 3, son, b TX, f TN, m AR; Motah M., 1, daughter, b TX, f TN, m AR; George A. Spindle, 21, stepson, stock herder, b AR, f MO, m AR; Margaret C. Spindle, 18, stepdaughter, at home, b AR, f MO, m AR 1880 Jones, TX THA Fam, Spindles, Mullins
5. ↑ Source:#S169 M593, Brush Creek, p. 17, dwelling 114, family 118, A.J. Armstrong, accessed 22 Nov 2010 Note: G.A. and M.C. surnames are Spindle. They are Nancy's children by her first husband Thomas Spindle who died in the Civil War. The 1880 Anson County, Texas U.S. census properly identifies them as Spindles. Enumerated July 1870; T.H. Armstrong, 31, farmer, real property value $1500, personal property value $600, born TN; Nancy, 29, keeps home, b AR; G.A, 12 b AR; M.C., 8, b AR; J.W., 3, b AR; A.J., 1, b AR 1870 Washington Co., AR U.S. Census for TH Armstrong Family Date: 1970
6. ↑ Source:#S247 T624, Kiowa, enumeration district (ED) 240, sheet 1B, dwelling 12, family 12, Andrew J. Armstrong, accessed 13 Dec 2010 Enumeration date 15 Apr 1910; Armstrong, Andrew J., head, male, white, married 12 yrs, b. AR, f b. U.S., m b. U.S., farmer, general farm industry, owns farm free of mortgage; Edna M., wife, female, white, 31, married 12 yrs, 3 children born, 3 alive, b. TX, f b. KY, m b. IA, no occupation; Walter B., son, male, white, 11, single, b. OK, f b. AR, m b. TX; Bessie M., daughter, female, white, 6, single, b. OK, f b. AR, m. b. TX; J.T., son, male, white, 3, single, b. OK, f b. AR, m b. TX; Thomas, father, male, white 71, widowed, b. U.S., parents b. U.S., no occupation 1910 Roger Mills, OK Census for AJ Armstrong Family
7. ↑ Source:#S248 T625, Kiowa, enumeration district (ED) 157, sheet 3B, dwelling 44, family 45, Jackson Armstrong, accessed 13 Dec 2010 Enumeration date 30 Jan 1920; Armstrong, Jackson, head, owned farm, male, white, 50, widowed, b. AR, f b. TN, m b. MO, farmer employed in general farming; Bessie, daughter, female, white, 16, single, b. OK, f b. AR, m b. TX, no occupation; J.T., son, male, white, 13, single, b. OK, f b. AR, m b. TX, no occupation; Thomas H., father, male, white, 81, widowed, b. TN, parents b. U.S., no occupation 1920 Kiowa, Roger Mills, OK Census for Armstrongs and Moads
8. ↑ Source:#S109
9. ↑ Source:#S350 marriage certificate (1897), Jack Armstrong-Katie Wood. Name:Jack Armstrong, Spouse:Katie Wood; marriage date 1897
10. ↑ Source:#S251
11. ↑ Source:#S443
12. ↑ Source:#S71
13. ↑ Source:#S169
14. ↑ Source:#S497
15. ↑ Source:#S510 entry for Andrew Jackson Armstrong's 1946 death Name:Andrew Jackson Armstrong; DOB:16 Jan 1969; DOD:betw 12-15 Feb 1946, Cause of death:Acute myocarditis, Buried:Red Hill Cmtry, Occupation:retired farmer
16. ↑ Source:#S248
17. ↑ Source:#S169
18. ↑ Source:#S71
19. ↑ Source:#S247
20. ↑ Source:#S248
21. ↑ Source:#S251
22. ↑ Source:#S497
23. ↑ Source:#S497
24. ↑ Source:#S497
25. ↑ Source:#S109
26. ↑ Source:#S497
27. ↑ Source:#S350
28. ↑ Source:#S247
29. ↑ Source:#S247
30. ↑ Source:#S109
31. ↑ Source:#S408
32. ↑ Source:#S497
33. ↑ Source:#S247
34. ↑ Source:#S248
35. ↑ Source:#S497
36. ↑ Source:#S247
37. ↑ Source:#S248
38. ↑ Source:#S350 marriage certificate (1931), Armstrong-Creach. A.J. Armstrong, Delia Creach, 1931
39. ↑ Source:#S109
40. ↑ Source:#S510 entry for Andrew Jackson Armstrong's 1946 death Name:Andrew Jackson Armstrong; DOB:16 Jan 1969; DOD:betw 12-15 Feb 1946, Cause of death:Acute myocarditis, Buried:Red Hill Cmtry, Occupation:retired farmer
41. ↑ Source:#S443 Andrew J. Armstrong marker, personally read, 2011. Armstrong, Andrew J., Jan 16, 1869-Feb 19, 1946 Andrew Armstrong, Kiowa Cmtry, near Hammon, OK Date: 1946
42. ↑ Source:#S497
43. ↑ Source:#S443
44. ↑ Source:#S497
45. ↑ Source:#S510 entry for Andrew Jackson Armstrong's 1946 death Name:Andrew Jackson Armstrong; DOB:16 Jan 1969; DOD:betw 12-15 Feb 1946, Cause of death:Acute myocarditis, Buried:Red Hill Cmtry, Occupation:retired farmer

• Source:S109 Armstrong, Walter. Elk City, Oklahoma. Interview by Jim Protz, abt 1990. Transcript. .
• Source:S169 1870 U.S. census, Arkansas, Washington Publication: Ancestry.com:National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
• Source:S247 1910 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Roger Mills National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
• Source:S248 1920 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Roger Mills National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
• Source:S251 1930 U.S. census, Oklahoma, Roger Mills National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
• Source:S350 Marriage Certificates. Oklahoma. RogerMills.
• Source:S443Grave markers: Red Hill Cemetery (Roger Mills, Oklahoma; 35.61060, Longitude:-99.38250
• Source:S497The Elk City Daily News: Oklahoma.
• Source:S510 "Savage Funeral Home Records." Author: (Elk City, Oklahoma
• Source:S71 1880 U.S. census Author: Texas, Jones Publication: Washington D.C.:National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.

Notes

HI221(Research):The following was from the Eulogies section of the Crane book as described in an e-mail from Rob Walker of the Elk City area.

Andrew Jackson Armstrong was an early day settler of Roger Mills County. In 1873, with his parents, he moved from Arkansas to Jones County, Texas. In 1885 they moved they moved to the gap of the mountains, where Granite, Oklahoma, is now located. When Andrew was 23 years old, he homesteaded on Whiteshield Creek 5 miles south of Old Hammon. He made cattle drives from 1892 to 1897. ...lived on the homestead until 1940, when he moved to Elk City, Oklahoma, where he made his home until death.

As a young man, Jack worked the trail drives from Texas to Kansas City and later to Woodward, Oklahoma, when the arrival of the railroad to western Oklahoma helped to eliminate the need for the long trail drives of previous years. He eventually settled in Oklahoma Territory, homesteading eleven miles north of Elk City in 1894. Three years later he married Edna Mae "Kate" Wood, a native of Texas. When she died, he married Cordelia Parker, widow of Dan Creach. They lived on his homestead until 1944 when he moved to Elk City, where he died two years later.

Armstrong-4121 was created by Jim Protz through the import of GED for WIKI.ged on Mar 14, 2014.