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Elias Armstrong (abt. 1825 - 1864)

Elias Armstrong
Born about in Shelby County, Alabama, United Statesmap
Son of and
Brother of , , , , and
Husband of — married 24 Mar 1849 in Shelby County, Alabama, United Statesmap
Husband of — married 21 Aug 1853 in Shelby County, Alabama, United Statesmap
Descendants descendants
Father of , and
Died at about age 39 in Shelby County, Alabama, United Statesmap
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Biography

Elias Armstrong was born about 1825 in Shelby County, Alabama. [1] Elias was the son of John Armstrong and Joanna Unknown.

Elias married Mary Elizabeth Gould on the 4th of March 1849, in Shelby County, Alabama. [2]

Elias appears in the 1850 Federal census in Shelby county, Alabama. Elias' household appears as follows: Elias age 25; Elizabeth age 25; and Elias age 1.[3]

Elias and Mary Elizabeth were the parents of one son, Elias Armstrong.

Elias married married his second wife, Louisa Crim on the 21st of August 1853, in Shelby county, Alabama.[4]

Elias appears in the 1860 Federal census in Shelby county, Alabama. Elias' household appears as follows: Elias age 30; Louisa age 25; Elias age 9; and Thomas J. age 3. Note: Elias' household was enumerated on the 4th of July 1860; and his son Elias age 9, also appears in this census in the household of his grandfather, John Armstrong with his age given as 8 years.[5]

Elias Armstrong served in the Civil War in Company E, 7th Alabama Calvary. Elias was hospitalized in Jackson, Mississippi. When the Confederates evacuated the hospital at Jackson, Mississippi the Sisters of Mercy accompanied the Confederate wounded in boxcars to the hospital at Shelby Springs, Shelby County, Alabama. Elias Armstrong died at the hospital on the 15th of October, 1864, and was buried in the Confederate cemetery behind the hospital.[6]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1850 Federal Census Shelby County, Alabama, household of Elias Armstrong. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432 Roll 14 page 229B
  2. ↑ ["Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQ6P-8QW : 21 July 2015), Elias Armstrong and Mary E. Gold, 1849.]
  3. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH54-RZL : 12 April 2016), Elias Armstrong, Shelby county, Shelby, Alabama, United States; citing family 785, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  4. ↑ "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQ6P-FZN : 6 November 2017), Elias Armstrong and Louisa Crim, 21 Aug 1853; citing Shelby, Alabama, United States, County Probate Courts, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1,571,844.
  5. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHDV-25P : 13 December 2017), Elias Armstrong, 1860.
  6. ↑ Elias Armstrong's date of death from tombstone at Confederate Cemetery, Shelby Springs, Shelby County, Alabama. Also Confederate service records held by the Alabama Department of History and Archives, Montgomery, Alabama.

See Also

For further reading on the Sisters of Mercy's service during the Civil War read the book: Angels of Mercy - An Eyewitness Account of Civil War and Yellow Fever by Sister of Mercy, Sister Ignatius Sumner, published 1998, Library of Congress Card No. 98-070216.

Read also: the Alabama Heritage No. 11, Winter 1989 issue article: "Sister of Mercy: From Vicksburg to Shelby Springs" by Barbara Roberts.





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Carol Wilder
Elias Armstrong's first wife was not Johanna Armstrong. Elias' first wife was Mary Elizabeth Gould
posted on Armstrong-20735 (merged) by Carol Wilder
Carol Wilder
Armstrong-20735 and Armstrong-5369 appear to represent the same person because: These are the same men. Armstrong-20735 has no sources except Ancestry. These should be merged to remove the duplicate.
posted by Carol Wilder

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