Albert Gallatin Armstrong (1848-1930)

ARMSTRONG, KIRKENDALL, RYAN, AYERS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal November 3, 1930 (page 1)

PIONEER COLLINS MAN ANSWERS CALL

A. G. ARMSTRONG 82, DIED SUNDAY--FUNERAL ON TUESDAY

Special to the Journal.
Collins, Nov. 3--Albert G. Armstrong, 82, one of the real pioneers of this part of the state, died Sunday noon, after having been an invalid for several months, during which time he had suffered a stroke of paralysis and heart complications.

Mr. Armstrong was a native of Upshur county, West Virginia, where he was born January 16, 1848. He came to Iowa with his parents when a lad of 17 years and they settled in the old Peoria neighborhood, south west of Collins.

He was united in marriage in April of 1872, and two years later they moved up in the Collins neighborhood in Story county and located on the Armstrong homestead, a mile south of Collins, where he continued to farm successfully and became a large landowner in this part of the county.

Mrs. Armstrong died about two years ago and he is survived by four children, they being Mrs. Maude Ryan of Collins, Ed Armstrong of Reinbeck, Albert Armstrong of Marshalltown and Mrs. W. T. Ayers of Des Moines.

He also leaves 5 brothers, 3 sisters, 4 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.

The funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30, at the U. B. church in Collins, with Rev. V. Hougham in charge, after which interment will be in the Collins cemetery, under the rites of the Masonic lodge of which he was a longtime member.