John Lewellen Armstrong (1918)

ARMSTRONG, WEBB, MOUNT, HERRICK, SELLERS, HARPER, REDFIELD

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 2/1/2017 at 07:01:36

Stuart Herald
Stuart, Iowa
Thursday, August 15, 1918
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John Lewellen Armstrong was born in Indiana March 8, 1849, died at his home in south Stuart August 7, 1918, aged sixty-nine years, four months and thirty days. In 1851 he came with his parents to Dallas County, Iowa locating where the town of Redfield now stands. He remained in Dallas County until 1885 when he moved to Madison County, Iowa living there seven years and from there to Adair County where he has since resided.

He was married December 5, 1873 to Hannah J. Webb, to them were born thirteen children, ten boys and three girls, three boys dying in infancy, Grace at seventeen and Ward nearly eleven years of age died June 22, 1897. They are buried in one grave in the Pitzer cemetery.

In 1897 Mr. Armstrong was baptized and taken into the Christian Church at Early Chapel in Madison County. In 1912 his letter was put into the Christian church in Stuart.

Mr. Armstrong was a kind husband and indulgent father doing all that he could for his children. He was very generous to the poor and needy and ever ready to help those in distress. Tho sadly afflicted during the last four years of his life he was very patient. His cheerful disposition will ever live in the memory of those who knew him best.

He leaves to mourn his loss his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Frank Mount of Faulkton, South Dakota, and Mrs. Elmer Herrick, near Stuart; six sons Ernest in the West, Mart, Frederick, Wis., Elliott, Camp Pike, Ark., Thomas Clifford and Leonard of Stuart; four grandchildren; one brother, James Armstrong of Redfield; four sisters, Mrs. Newton Sellers, and Mrs. Ves Harper of Redfield, Iowa and Mrs. Fred Redfield, Idaho and Mrs. Flora Harper of California, and many other relatives and friends.

The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at the Christian church; the pastor Rev. Brandenburg officiating.

A quartette composed of Mrs. Walter Haynes, Mrs. Walter Hartman, Miss Rogers and Mr. Dixon, accompanied by Mrs. Earl Williams sang Rock of Ages, Beautiful Isle and Asleep in Jesus.

The burial was at Pitzer, the pallbearers being Messrs. Brooks, Wolverton, Lynn, Stewart, S. P. Low and O. P. Maline.

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