John W. Armstrong (Capt.) (1901)
ARMSTRONG
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 9/12/2009 at 08:47:20
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, August 15, 1901
Page 8St. Charles
On Saturday morning intelligence reached this city that Capt. J. W. Armstrong, who for a short time recently has been an inmate of the Soldiers’ Home at Marshalltown, had been mustered out on last Thursday and that his remains would reach St. Charles on the 2 o’clock p.m. train to be delivered to the G.A.R. Post here, he having been a member prior to his transfer to Crocker Post of Des Moines. Arrangements were hastily perfected and a large attendance convened. The Post and W.R.C. and a numerous band of friends met the train and escorted the remains to the M.E. church park, where services were conducted by Revs. Palmer and Wiseman, the latter of Des Moines. Burial occurred at the St. Charles cemetery in a handsomely prepared, lined and decorated grave, under the ritual services of the grand army.
The deceased was 85 years of age, and a most worthy Christian gentleman, having been a member of the United Presbyterian church for almost a half century. He served through the war in the 12th O.V.C. and was mustered out as captain of Co. E. of the regiment. Three of his four sons served in the same command, and two were killed in the battle of Mt. Sterling, Ky., where they were all engaged. The third fell dead while visiting the soldiers in Camp McKinley. The oldest son, who was a member of a regular regiment and was in the first battle of Bull Run in 1861, died recently in Des Moines.
One son, two daughter-in-law and a number of grand children, besides numerous nephews and nieces survive this most excellent, patriotic and esteemed parent, uncle and friend whose life was made up of usefulness and remained to the last utterly unspotted before the world. His son, Mack Armstrong, informs the writer that during his stay in the Home, and especially in his illness, he received the most careful and kind attention possible to bestow on a suffering comrade.
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