John Barclay Armstrong Sr. (1783 - 1836)

Born 28 Sep 1783 in Surry County, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy Mooreland (Turner) Armstrong — married 24 Oct 1807 in Smith, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 20 Jul 1836 at age 52 in Smith County, Tennessee

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Biography

Dr. John Barclay Armstrong, Sr., was born 28 September 1783 in Surry County, North Carolina, at the height of the American Revolution. He was the son of Martin Armstrong Jr. (1739 - 1808), a colonel in the Surry County militia, and Mary Ann (Tate) Armstrong (1733 - 1792), the daughter of James Tate and Elizabeth Baxter.

Jean Bradley Anderson states in his biography of Col. Martin Armstrong Jr. (cited below) that Martin and his wife Mary Tate had five known children.

" Five of their children are known:

1. Thomas Temple (b. 1770), who married Mary McMurry;
2. Jane (b. ca. 1773), who married firstly William Hewlett and secondly John Evans; #Mary Ann Elizabeth (b. 1775), who married to Alexander McCall;
3. John Barclay Armstrong (b. ca. 1777); and
4. Joseph."

Dr. John married Nancy Mooreland Turner, the daughter of Berriman Turner and Susannah Saunders, on 24 Oct 1807 in Smith Co., Tennessee. Nancy was born on 23 March 1790 in Caswell, North Carolina. She died after 1850 in Smith Co., Tennessee.

John and Nancy (Turner) Armstrong had 11 known children:

1. Martin Wilson Armstrong, b. 1808, who married Mary Minerva DORAN, 1834 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. They moved to Cherokee County, Texas.
2. Susannah Armstrong, b.1811, who never married and moved to Texas with sister Martha.
3. Molly Armstrong, 1813-1831, who died young.
4. Thomas Temple Armstrong, b. 1816, who married Martha Washington POLLARD, 1850, in Monroe County, Mississippi, and married secondly to Mrs. Fannie D. BROWN, 1871, in Lee County, Mississippi. He died in Lee County, Mississippi in 1874.
5. Nancy Moreland Armstrong, b. 1817, who married Dr. Lewis Vance YOUNG, no known children.
6. John Barkley Armstrong Jr., b. 1819, who married Maria READY, 1842, at Rutherford County, Tennessee, and who died at McMinnville, Tennessee in 1875; father of Texas Ranger John Barclay Armstrong III.
7. Martha Armstrong, b. 1821, who married Thomas Clinton PEACE, 1853, at Smith County, Tennessee. They moved to Texas. Their children died in Hale County, Texas.
8. Berryman Turner Armstrong, b. 1823, who married Martha "Mattie" LAGRONE, 1858, in Monroe County, Mississipi.
9. Joseph William Armstrong, b. 1825, who married Missouri HOWARD about 1857, probably in Missouri, and who died about 1860 in St. Louis)
10. Robert Jackson ARMSTRONG, b. 1828, who never married. He died in Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War.
11. David Hosack Armstrong, b. 1831, who married Julia Francis McALLISTER in Grayson County / Cooke County, Texas in 1859). Hed died 3 September 1904, Austin, Travis Co., TX.

Dr. John B. Armstrong Sr. passed away on 18 July 1836 in Smith County, Tennessee.

Online Sources

• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_descendants/?action=list&MyPrimary_Seqn=151739&MyLineageCount=1
• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A003147

• "John Barclay Armstrong," RootsWeb
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:33K2-ZGD : accessed 2017-10-01), entry for /Mr Armstrong/.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SYXT-14X : accessed 2017-10-01), entry for John Barclay /Armstrong/.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:M43P-7ML : accessed 2017-10-01), entry for John Barclay ARMSTRONG.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SRGY-SZW : accessed 2017-10-01), entry for John RN-5540 Barclay /Armstrong/.

Books

Armstrong, Zella. Notable Southern Families (Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Lookout Publishing Co., 1918) Vol. 1. See Armstrong pp. 5 - 25. See also Volume III, James "Trooper" Armstrong, pp. 1 - 18.

8 Oct 1807 Marriage to Nancy Turner

John B. Armstrong in the Tennessee, Compiled Marriages, 1784-1825

• Name: John B. Armstrong
• Spouse: Nancy Turner
• Marriage Date: 8 Oct 1807
• Marriage County: Stewart

Source Information Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Compiled Marriages, 1784-1825 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.

Original data: Dodd, Jordan, comp.. Tennessee Marriages to 1825. Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Tennessee.

Description Database of Tennessee marriages to 1825

1830 U.S. Census [Smith, Tennessee]

John B Armstrong in the 1830 United States Federal Census

• Name: John B Armstrong
• Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Smith , Tennessee
• Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 2
• Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2
• Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
• Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
• Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1
• Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
• Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
• Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
• Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
• Free White Persons - Females - 70 thru 79: 1
• Slaves - Females - Under 10: 2
• Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23: 1
• Slaves - Females - 24 thru 35: 2
• Free White Persons - Under 20: 8
• Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
• Total Free White Persons: 12
• Total Slaves: 5
• Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 17

Source Citation

1830; Census Place: Smith, Tennessee; Series: M19; Roll: 181; Page: 51; Family History Library Film: 0024539

Source Information

Ancestry.com. 1830 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Original data: Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Description This database details those persons enumerated in the 1830 United States Federal Census, the Fifth Census of the United States.