Robert Armstrong.4, (John Armstrong Jr.3, John Armstrong Sr.2, Robert Armstrong.1) born: 28 September 1806, Franklin County Georgia, died: 1 February 1881, Elm Point, Bond County Illinois, buried: Elm Point Cemetery, Donnellson, Bond County Illinois, son of; John Armstrong Jr. and Mary "Polley" Dudley, married first: 12 November 1834, Bond County Illinois, Nancy Elizabeth Sawrey, born: 4 October 1808, Northampton County North Carolina, died: 31 August 1835, aged 27, Bond County Illinois, Nancy died in child birth she and her newborn babe are buried together.buried; Mulberry Grove Cemetery, Mulberry Grove, Bond County Illinois, daughter of: Henry Sawrey III and Mary Sherrod. Child: Infant died at birth

Robert, married second; 31 October 1836, Bond County Illinois, Amelia Jane Sawrey, born: 22 December 1816, Maury County Tennessee, died: 20 January 1866, Bond County Illinois, buried: Elm Point Cemetery, Donnellson, Bond County Illinois, daughter of: Henry Sawrey III and Mary Sherrod, Children; Martin Van Buren Armstrong, William Ross Brazille Armstrong, John Henry Armstrong, Thomas Dudley Armstrong, Mary Martha Polly (Armstrong) McCracken (Mrs. James McCracken Jr.), Nancy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Miller-Mains-Smith, Tabitha Ellen (Armstrong) McCracken (Mrs. William Pleasant McCracken), Rebecca "Emma" (Armstrong) Pryor (Mrs. Thomas A. Pryor), Wesley Pierce Armstrong, Albert Hamilton Armstrong, Charles Allen Armstrong, Olive Isalina Christabel (Armstrong) Willcockson (Mrs. Clay Willcockson).

Robert, married third; 23 July 1873, Bond County Illinois, widowed, Mahalia Mildred (Roach) Phillips, born: 6 May 1836, North Carolina, died: 16 April 1922, Shoal Creek, Bond County Illinois, aged 85 years 11 Months 20 days, buried: Elm Point Cemetery, Donnellson, Bond County Illinois, daughter of: William Roach and Miss Roark, Children; Arthur Cary Armstrong, Edia Fay (Armstrong) Pasco (Mrs. Harvey Elsworth Pasco), Ada May (Armstrong) Boyd (Mrs. Lemuel William Boyd).

Source; Greenville Advocate February 10th. 1881, Robert Armstrong, Obituary
Died at the residence of his Elm Point home, February 1st. 1881, Robert Armstrong, of Lung fever, aged seventy four years, four months and four days. The subject of this sketch was born in the state of Georgia, September 28, 1806, and with his parents came to Tennessee in his infancy, where he resided until his majority, when he came to this county in 1830, with his parents, having been a resident of Bond County for 50 years, he made a profession of religion at the age of eighteen and joined the Presbyterian Church and holding fast his profession, being strictly true to his principals and doctrines of the church until his master bid him come up higher. On November 13, 1834, he was married to Nancy E. Sawrey who lived but a short time being the mother of one child, who died October 1, 1836. He was again married to Amelia Sawrey, a sister of the former wife, who died January 20, 1866, she being the mother of thirteen children, ten of whom survived their father, all reaching their majority. January 23, 1873, he again married to Mathilda Phillips who is the mother of three, father Armstrong was a man of decisive character, strict in family discipline but governing in tenderness, and it could be said raised a highly respectable family. A Friend