William Harrison Armstrong

Notes:

My great uncle Will met Cora Alice Todd At a church function and they were later married by Rev. A.A. Miller of Sangersville, Virginia. My dad, Dice, loved his uncle Will and gave me one of his pet sayings which I have found very applicable in my life "I loves those comers and goers, but dad gum those comers and stayers"!! JHA 2001.

From the files of Janice L. (Armstrong) Nicholas

11234 WILLIAM HARRISON ARMSTRONG

11234 William Harrison Armstrong
b. 8/16/1867 Sugar Grove, Pendleton Co., WV
d. 11/17/1932 Mount Solon, VA
Bur: Emmanuel Church of the Brethren Cemetery,
Mount Solon, VA
m. 4/2/1893 Cora Alice Todd
b. 5/2/1873 Sugar Grove, Pendleton Co.
d. 12/7/1949 Staunton, VA
Bur: Emmanuel Church of the Brethren Cemetery,
Mount Solon, VA
Parents: John & Catherine (Whistleman) Todd

William Harrison Armstrong was born August 16, 1867, the fourth child of Eli and Elizabeth Ann (Bodkin) Armstrong. He met Cora Alice Todd at a church function and they were married on April 2, 1893, by the Rev. A. A. Miller of Sangersvill. Cora Alice was born May 2, 1873, one of fourteen children born to John and Catherine (Whistleman) Todd. William died November 17, 1932, and Cora Alice died December 12, 1949.
William and Cora Alice were hard workers and raised 12 children. NOTE: At the end of this report on William and Cora Alice there is information on the TODD FAMILY, given to me by Joe Armstrong.

Children of William H. & Cora Alice (Todd) Armstrong

1-12-3-4-1 HARRY WELDON ARMSTRONG -------- 1894-1965 1-12-3-4-2 LULA BELLE ARMSTRONG ---------- 1896-1984 1-12-3-4-3 JOHN WILLIAM ARMSTRONG -------- 1897-1958 1-12-3-4-4 ARLIE HUBERT ARMSTRONG -------- 1899-1984 1-12-3-4-5 GEOA ALICE ARMSTRONG ------- 1901-1999 1-12-3-4-6 MARGARET ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG -- 1902-1980 1-12-3-4-7 ROY ELI (PARKER) ARMSTRONG ---- 1904-1968 1-12-3-4-8 ANNA CATHERINE ARMSTRONG ------ 1906-1979 1-12-3-4-9 BRYAN TODD ARMSTRONG ---------- 1908 1-12-3-4-10 LENA VIRGINIA ARMSTRONG ------- 1910-1961 1-12-3-4-11 CORINNE WOODROW ARMSTRONG ----- 1912-1994 1-12-3-4-12 JOSEPH ALFRED ARMSTRONG ------- 1916

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NOTE: My father, Norman Armstrong, stayed with Uncle Will and Aunt Cora a short time and went to school. Frances, (Will and Cora's granddaughter) was also living there at that time. From the stories he told, Daddy and Joe enjoyed teasin. Daddy told me the reason he had been sent to Virginia to finish that school year was because he had been expelled from school in West Virginia for fighting. It seems the other boy was older and bigger and kept picking on Daddy. He took it as long as he could and then one day whipped the tar out of him. It just so happened the bully was the son of the superintendent of schools.


NOTE: The personal sketches in the following report were copied from the notes used by Joe Armstrong when he gave a report on the William H. branch of the Eli Armstrong Family at the reunion in 1986. Joe sent me a complete update on this family in 1991. ***********

Buried:
6 May 2013--There is no William Harrison Armstrong in the Emmanuel Church Cemetery of Mount Solon, Augusta County, Virginia or anywhere else on findagrave.com.