Obituary - Montgomery County Sentinel (Rockville, Maryland), February 3, 1899:
Death of Rev. A. O. Armstrong.—
Rev. Alfred O. Armstrong died at the parsonage of the M.E. Church South, in this town, on Sunday last, after a lingering but patient illness.
The deceased was in the forty-fifth year of his age, was born in Pendleton county, West Virginia, and was engaged in the ministry for twenty-four years, and served churches in the following circuits: Hillsdale and Greenbank, W. Va.; Covington, Stafford, Mount Crawford, and Berryville, Va., and Rockville, Md. He married Miss Ella Stanaker, of Lewisburg, Va.
Mr. Armstrong was the senior member on this circuit, and during the two years of his charge he was faithful and earnest in the discharge of his duties. The germs he planted were nutured by his sterling qualities of head and heart and grew into bonds of close fellowship that were strong and would have been stronger had not the relentless scythe of death cut him down.
He impressed every one from the beginning as a man of more than ordinary merit, a man of fixed determination, and quiet but modest and active purposes. His gentlemanly bearing won for him friends in every circle. He was ever a welcome guest among his neighbors and friends and people, his society affording more than casual entertainment.
As the winds sang requiem dirges through the leafless branches of th trees, and the earth covered with a spotless robe of snow, in a spot as bright and fair as in his own beautiful and picturesque home among the blue hills of his native State, he was laid to rest, where a true-hearted people will preserve in ever green rememberance the name of the honest, the pure and the good.
Death of Rev. A. O. Armstrong.—
Rev. Alfred O. Armstrong died at the parsonage of the M.E. Church South, in this town, on Sunday last, after a lingering but patient illness.
The deceased was in the forty-fifth year of his age, was born in Pendleton county, West Virginia, and was engaged in the ministry for twenty-four years, and served churches in the following circuits: Hillsdale and Greenbank, W. Va.; Covington, Stafford, Mount Crawford, and Berryville, Va., and Rockville, Md. He married Miss Ella Stanaker, of Lewisburg, Va.
Mr. Armstrong was the senior member on this circuit, and during the two years of his charge he was faithful and earnest in the discharge of his duties. The germs he planted were nutured by his sterling qualities of head and heart and grew into bonds of close fellowship that were strong and would have been stronger had not the relentless scythe of death cut him down.
He impressed every one from the beginning as a man of more than ordinary merit, a man of fixed determination, and quiet but modest and active purposes. His gentlemanly bearing won for him friends in every circle. He was ever a welcome guest among his neighbors and friends and people, his society affording more than casual entertainment.
As the winds sang requiem dirges through the leafless branches of th trees, and the earth covered with a spotless robe of snow, in a spot as bright and fair as in his own beautiful and picturesque home among the blue hills of his native State, he was laid to rest, where a true-hearted people will preserve in ever green rememberance the name of the honest, the pure and the good.
Obituary - Montgomery County Sentinel (Rockville, Maryland), February 3, 1899:
Death of Rev. A. O. Armstrong.—
Rev. Alfred O. Armstrong died at the parsonage of the M.E. Church South, in this town, on Sunday last, after a lingering but patient illness.
The deceased was in the forty-fifth year of his age, was born in Pendleton county, West Virginia, and was engaged in the ministry for twenty-four years, and served churches in the following circuits: Hillsdale and Greenbank, W. Va.; Covington, Stafford, Mount Crawford, and Berryville, Va., and Rockville, Md. He married Miss Ella Stanaker, of Lewisburg, Va.
Mr. Armstrong was the senior member on this circuit, and during the two years of his charge he was faithful and earnest in the discharge of his duties. The germs he planted were nutured by his sterling qualities of head and heart and grew into bonds of close fellowship that were strong and would have been stronger had not the relentless scythe of death cut him down.
He impressed every one from the beginning as a man of more than ordinary merit, a man of fixed determination, and quiet but modest and active purposes. His gentlemanly bearing won for him friends in every circle. He was ever a welcome guest among his neighbors and friends and people, his society affording more than casual entertainment.
As the winds sang requiem dirges through the leafless branches of th trees, and the earth covered with a spotless robe of snow, in a spot as bright and fair as in his own beautiful and picturesque home among the blue hills of his native State, he was laid to rest, where a true-hearted people will preserve in ever green rememberance the name of the honest, the pure and the good.
Death of Rev. A. O. Armstrong.—
Rev. Alfred O. Armstrong died at the parsonage of the M.E. Church South, in this town, on Sunday last, after a lingering but patient illness.
The deceased was in the forty-fifth year of his age, was born in Pendleton county, West Virginia, and was engaged in the ministry for twenty-four years, and served churches in the following circuits: Hillsdale and Greenbank, W. Va.; Covington, Stafford, Mount Crawford, and Berryville, Va., and Rockville, Md. He married Miss Ella Stanaker, of Lewisburg, Va.
Mr. Armstrong was the senior member on this circuit, and during the two years of his charge he was faithful and earnest in the discharge of his duties. The germs he planted were nutured by his sterling qualities of head and heart and grew into bonds of close fellowship that were strong and would have been stronger had not the relentless scythe of death cut him down.
He impressed every one from the beginning as a man of more than ordinary merit, a man of fixed determination, and quiet but modest and active purposes. His gentlemanly bearing won for him friends in every circle. He was ever a welcome guest among his neighbors and friends and people, his society affording more than casual entertainment.
As the winds sang requiem dirges through the leafless branches of th trees, and the earth covered with a spotless robe of snow, in a spot as bright and fair as in his own beautiful and picturesque home among the blue hills of his native State, he was laid to rest, where a true-hearted people will preserve in ever green rememberance the name of the honest, the pure and the good.
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