Mary Jane "Mollie" Strain, born: 4 March 1859, Clover Hill, Blount County Tennessee, died: 30 September 1904, Blount County Tennessee, buried; Magnolia Cemetery, Maryville, Blount County Tennessee, daughter of: Robert Bogle Strain and Elizabeth Serena Gresham, married: 18 March 1879, Bond County Illinois, Wesley Pierce Armstrong, born: 7 January 1859, Elm Point, Bond County Illinois, died: 8 November 1883, Elm Point, Bond County Illinois, Aged 30 years 10 months 1 day, buried: Reno Bethel Cemetery, Reno, Bond County Illinois, Children; Kathleen "Blanche" (Armstrong) Johnson (Mrs. Elmer Israel Johnson) and Clyde Robert Armstrong.
Source; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900
ARMSTRONG, W. P., STRAIN, MOLLIE J. 1879-03-18 1/17 BOND
Source: Notes of Olive Kaune; The Bible of Robert and Amelia (Sawrey) Armstrong, has Wesley's middle name spelled "Pierce", Wesley married Mary Jane STRAIN, who was born 4 March 1859, and died 30 September 1904, they had two children, Katie Blanche Armstrong, and Clyde Robert Armstrong, Clyde Robert Armstrong, had an adopted son Jack, who was raised in Greenville, Illinois.
Source; Pitard.net Obituary, Maryville Record, 7 Oct. 1904:
"Mrs. Mary T. Armstrong was born near Clover Hill, Blount County, Tennessee, March 4, 1859. Her parents were Robert Strain and Serena Grisham. Her mother and two brothers, James and John, are still living. When she was four years old the family moved to Bond County, Illinois. She was married there, March 18, 1879, to Wesley P. Armstrong. He died November 8, 1883, leaving two children, Blanche and Clyde, to their mother's care. She worked very hard for more than a year to make little farm pay its indebtedness and support the three. Finding this impossible she gave up the farm and turned to the congenial work of the school-room. After a year's teaching at Reno, Illinois, her health failed completely and she was told by physicians that only a change to a milder climate would save her life.
"She moved with her two children to Eastern Colorado and took up a claim of land. Where here her health slowly returned in spite of the increasing burden of work, and she soon made her influence felt for by establishing a Sabbath School among the cowboys. Later it was found best to send her son back to Illinois to her mother's care while she moved with her daughter to Pueblo, Colorado. She taught school near Pueblo for three years, and found abundant opportunity to do good among her pupils. She joined the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Pueblo, taught in the Sabbath School, and threw herself actively into all the interests of the church and community. When her increasing deafness made it impossible for her to teach she did not despair, but turned courageously to a new work, and supported herself and children by establishing a greenhouse of her own in Pueblo.
"She was just getting firmly established and on a fair way to prosperity, when she was called back to Illinois to care for her son who had met with an accident so serious as to threaten lingering invalidism. She sold her greenhouse in 1897, and sadly turned her back upon the west and her busy life there. She felt that God had blessed her in her going. He would also bless her in her returning. She took up her life again with her mother and brother on the farm near Reno, Illinois. She planned, she economized, she worked for her children. By precept and example she set before them noble ideas of life. She prayed as only a consecrated mother can pray - for rich spiritual gifts for her children. She came back to the home, the church and the community with a new strength and beauty and sweetness of character born out of life's varied experiences, and her gifts were more fully laid on God's altar for service. Her limitations as to hearing made her only the more rapt listener to the love of friends, the needs of the suffering, the cry of the sorrowing, the service of the house of God.
"She remained here until March, 1900, when again the call came to move forward. This time it was God's leading that she should come back to her native state and care for her aged aunts living in Maryville, Tennessee. In a beautiful spirit of devotion she entered this home where feebleness and declining years had narrowed the life almost to its little daily round of toil. Quite Conscientiously she brought into the home a renewed interest in the lite of the community, a better knowledge of the enlarging work of the church, and the refreshing influence of her ever widening circle of friends. She brought also into the home her sunny outlook upon life, her broader scope of vision, her deeper interest in the world's best work. When the shadow of the Angel of Death hung over the home for so many long weeks, it was her loving care that smoothed away the weariness and pain for the aunt she watched tenderly, day and night, till the end came. No loving daughter ever cared for a mother more tenderly than did she for the aged aunt who still survives, having outlived all her immediate family circle.
"She joined New Providence Presbyterian Church, and, from the first identified herself with its interests; the prayer-meetings, the Sabbath School, the Missionary Society, the church service and the revival. Other interests also claimed her time and service; the Ladies' Aid Society, the Women's Council, the Neighborhood House in town, the Summer School in the mountains, the W.C.T.U., and the Chilhowee Literary Club. To each and all of these she gave her heart's best, carrying inspiration into them, and out from them to bless other lives. She was broad in the truest and best sense of the word, availing herself of every means of grace, every aid to philanthropy, every incentive to intellectual development.
"The keynote of her life was a sunny unselfishness of which she was all unconscious in the joy she felt in doing for others. She made a golden ladder by which to mount to Heaven out of life's daily round of toil. She died of erysipelas, after a two week's illness, September 30, 1904. The beauty of her daily life, merged in the valley of the shadow of death into a glorified peace, and faith, and resignation, that made it a hallowed privilege to watch beside her. Loving friends cared for her, day and night, in her last illness, doing all in their power to alleviate her sufferings. To the last God left her mind clear to commune with others, and leave messages for the dear ones who could not be with her. When the brave heart at last was still, and the rest for which she sighed came, many a heart felt glad, that for a few years at least, here in Maryville, God had lent us the benediction of her noble life as He had lent it to other communities for a widening circle of widening influence. God called her away from Tennessee, in early childhood, when the dark shadow of a war cloud hung over the Southland. He brought her back when the peace lay upon its hills and valleys.
"She lies buried in Magnolia Cemetery, in Maryville, Tennessee. It is fitting that her last resting place should be in the sacred soil of her devout, pioneer ancestors in the valley of East Tennessee. Out of the shadow and storm, and stress of life, its many broken plans, its unceasing ministry for others, she came at last to the peace of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, through it entering into that blessed life where 'they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.'" M.E.H. Died 30 Sep 1904 Maryville, Blount Co., Tennessee. Buried Magnolia Cemetery, Maryville, Blount Co., Tennessee
Source; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900
ARMSTRONG, W. P., STRAIN, MOLLIE J. 1879-03-18 1/17 BOND
Source: Notes of Olive Kaune; The Bible of Robert and Amelia (Sawrey) Armstrong, has Wesley's middle name spelled "Pierce", Wesley married Mary Jane STRAIN, who was born 4 March 1859, and died 30 September 1904, they had two children, Katie Blanche Armstrong, and Clyde Robert Armstrong, Clyde Robert Armstrong, had an adopted son Jack, who was raised in Greenville, Illinois.
Source; Pitard.net Obituary, Maryville Record, 7 Oct. 1904:
"Mrs. Mary T. Armstrong was born near Clover Hill, Blount County, Tennessee, March 4, 1859. Her parents were Robert Strain and Serena Grisham. Her mother and two brothers, James and John, are still living. When she was four years old the family moved to Bond County, Illinois. She was married there, March 18, 1879, to Wesley P. Armstrong. He died November 8, 1883, leaving two children, Blanche and Clyde, to their mother's care. She worked very hard for more than a year to make little farm pay its indebtedness and support the three. Finding this impossible she gave up the farm and turned to the congenial work of the school-room. After a year's teaching at Reno, Illinois, her health failed completely and she was told by physicians that only a change to a milder climate would save her life.
"She moved with her two children to Eastern Colorado and took up a claim of land. Where here her health slowly returned in spite of the increasing burden of work, and she soon made her influence felt for by establishing a Sabbath School among the cowboys. Later it was found best to send her son back to Illinois to her mother's care while she moved with her daughter to Pueblo, Colorado. She taught school near Pueblo for three years, and found abundant opportunity to do good among her pupils. She joined the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Pueblo, taught in the Sabbath School, and threw herself actively into all the interests of the church and community. When her increasing deafness made it impossible for her to teach she did not despair, but turned courageously to a new work, and supported herself and children by establishing a greenhouse of her own in Pueblo.
"She was just getting firmly established and on a fair way to prosperity, when she was called back to Illinois to care for her son who had met with an accident so serious as to threaten lingering invalidism. She sold her greenhouse in 1897, and sadly turned her back upon the west and her busy life there. She felt that God had blessed her in her going. He would also bless her in her returning. She took up her life again with her mother and brother on the farm near Reno, Illinois. She planned, she economized, she worked for her children. By precept and example she set before them noble ideas of life. She prayed as only a consecrated mother can pray - for rich spiritual gifts for her children. She came back to the home, the church and the community with a new strength and beauty and sweetness of character born out of life's varied experiences, and her gifts were more fully laid on God's altar for service. Her limitations as to hearing made her only the more rapt listener to the love of friends, the needs of the suffering, the cry of the sorrowing, the service of the house of God.
"She remained here until March, 1900, when again the call came to move forward. This time it was God's leading that she should come back to her native state and care for her aged aunts living in Maryville, Tennessee. In a beautiful spirit of devotion she entered this home where feebleness and declining years had narrowed the life almost to its little daily round of toil. Quite Conscientiously she brought into the home a renewed interest in the lite of the community, a better knowledge of the enlarging work of the church, and the refreshing influence of her ever widening circle of friends. She brought also into the home her sunny outlook upon life, her broader scope of vision, her deeper interest in the world's best work. When the shadow of the Angel of Death hung over the home for so many long weeks, it was her loving care that smoothed away the weariness and pain for the aunt she watched tenderly, day and night, till the end came. No loving daughter ever cared for a mother more tenderly than did she for the aged aunt who still survives, having outlived all her immediate family circle.
"She joined New Providence Presbyterian Church, and, from the first identified herself with its interests; the prayer-meetings, the Sabbath School, the Missionary Society, the church service and the revival. Other interests also claimed her time and service; the Ladies' Aid Society, the Women's Council, the Neighborhood House in town, the Summer School in the mountains, the W.C.T.U., and the Chilhowee Literary Club. To each and all of these she gave her heart's best, carrying inspiration into them, and out from them to bless other lives. She was broad in the truest and best sense of the word, availing herself of every means of grace, every aid to philanthropy, every incentive to intellectual development.
"The keynote of her life was a sunny unselfishness of which she was all unconscious in the joy she felt in doing for others. She made a golden ladder by which to mount to Heaven out of life's daily round of toil. She died of erysipelas, after a two week's illness, September 30, 1904. The beauty of her daily life, merged in the valley of the shadow of death into a glorified peace, and faith, and resignation, that made it a hallowed privilege to watch beside her. Loving friends cared for her, day and night, in her last illness, doing all in their power to alleviate her sufferings. To the last God left her mind clear to commune with others, and leave messages for the dear ones who could not be with her. When the brave heart at last was still, and the rest for which she sighed came, many a heart felt glad, that for a few years at least, here in Maryville, God had lent us the benediction of her noble life as He had lent it to other communities for a widening circle of widening influence. God called her away from Tennessee, in early childhood, when the dark shadow of a war cloud hung over the Southland. He brought her back when the peace lay upon its hills and valleys.
"She lies buried in Magnolia Cemetery, in Maryville, Tennessee. It is fitting that her last resting place should be in the sacred soil of her devout, pioneer ancestors in the valley of East Tennessee. Out of the shadow and storm, and stress of life, its many broken plans, its unceasing ministry for others, she came at last to the peace of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, through it entering into that blessed life where 'they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.'" M.E.H. Died 30 Sep 1904 Maryville, Blount Co., Tennessee. Buried Magnolia Cemetery, Maryville, Blount Co., Tennessee
Mary Jane "Mollie" Strain, born: 4 March 1859, Clover Hill, Blount County Tennessee, died: 30 September 1904, Blount County Tennessee, buried; Magnolia Cemetery, Maryville, Blount County Tennessee, daughter of: Robert Bogle Strain and Elizabeth Serena Gresham, married: 18 March 1879, Bond County Illinois, Wesley Pierce Armstrong, born: 7 January 1859, Elm Point, Bond County Illinois, died: 8 November 1883, Elm Point, Bond County Illinois, Aged 30 years 10 months 1 day, buried: Reno Bethel Cemetery, Reno, Bond County Illinois, Children; Kathleen "Blanche" (Armstrong) Johnson (Mrs. Elmer Israel Johnson) and Clyde Robert Armstrong.
Source; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900
ARMSTRONG, W. P., STRAIN, MOLLIE J. 1879-03-18 1/17 BOND
Source: Notes of Olive Kaune; The Bible of Robert and Amelia (Sawrey) Armstrong, has Wesley's middle name spelled "Pierce", Wesley married Mary Jane STRAIN, who was born 4 March 1859, and died 30 September 1904, they had two children, Katie Blanche Armstrong, and Clyde Robert Armstrong, Clyde Robert Armstrong, had an adopted son Jack, who was raised in Greenville, Illinois.
Source; Pitard.net Obituary, Maryville Record, 7 Oct. 1904:
"Mrs. Mary T. Armstrong was born near Clover Hill, Blount County, Tennessee, March 4, 1859. Her parents were Robert Strain and Serena Grisham. Her mother and two brothers, James and John, are still living. When she was four years old the family moved to Bond County, Illinois. She was married there, March 18, 1879, to Wesley P. Armstrong. He died November 8, 1883, leaving two children, Blanche and Clyde, to their mother's care. She worked very hard for more than a year to make little farm pay its indebtedness and support the three. Finding this impossible she gave up the farm and turned to the congenial work of the school-room. After a year's teaching at Reno, Illinois, her health failed completely and she was told by physicians that only a change to a milder climate would save her life.
"She moved with her two children to Eastern Colorado and took up a claim of land. Where here her health slowly returned in spite of the increasing burden of work, and she soon made her influence felt for by establishing a Sabbath School among the cowboys. Later it was found best to send her son back to Illinois to her mother's care while she moved with her daughter to Pueblo, Colorado. She taught school near Pueblo for three years, and found abundant opportunity to do good among her pupils. She joined the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Pueblo, taught in the Sabbath School, and threw herself actively into all the interests of the church and community. When her increasing deafness made it impossible for her to teach she did not despair, but turned courageously to a new work, and supported herself and children by establishing a greenhouse of her own in Pueblo.
"She was just getting firmly established and on a fair way to prosperity, when she was called back to Illinois to care for her son who had met with an accident so serious as to threaten lingering invalidism. She sold her greenhouse in 1897, and sadly turned her back upon the west and her busy life there. She felt that God had blessed her in her going. He would also bless her in her returning. She took up her life again with her mother and brother on the farm near Reno, Illinois. She planned, she economized, she worked for her children. By precept and example she set before them noble ideas of life. She prayed as only a consecrated mother can pray - for rich spiritual gifts for her children. She came back to the home, the church and the community with a new strength and beauty and sweetness of character born out of life's varied experiences, and her gifts were more fully laid on God's altar for service. Her limitations as to hearing made her only the more rapt listener to the love of friends, the needs of the suffering, the cry of the sorrowing, the service of the house of God.
"She remained here until March, 1900, when again the call came to move forward. This time it was God's leading that she should come back to her native state and care for her aged aunts living in Maryville, Tennessee. In a beautiful spirit of devotion she entered this home where feebleness and declining years had narrowed the life almost to its little daily round of toil. Quite Conscientiously she brought into the home a renewed interest in the lite of the community, a better knowledge of the enlarging work of the church, and the refreshing influence of her ever widening circle of friends. She brought also into the home her sunny outlook upon life, her broader scope of vision, her deeper interest in the world's best work. When the shadow of the Angel of Death hung over the home for so many long weeks, it was her loving care that smoothed away the weariness and pain for the aunt she watched tenderly, day and night, till the end came. No loving daughter ever cared for a mother more tenderly than did she for the aged aunt who still survives, having outlived all her immediate family circle.
"She joined New Providence Presbyterian Church, and, from the first identified herself with its interests; the prayer-meetings, the Sabbath School, the Missionary Society, the church service and the revival. Other interests also claimed her time and service; the Ladies' Aid Society, the Women's Council, the Neighborhood House in town, the Summer School in the mountains, the W.C.T.U., and the Chilhowee Literary Club. To each and all of these she gave her heart's best, carrying inspiration into them, and out from them to bless other lives. She was broad in the truest and best sense of the word, availing herself of every means of grace, every aid to philanthropy, every incentive to intellectual development.
"The keynote of her life was a sunny unselfishness of which she was all unconscious in the joy she felt in doing for others. She made a golden ladder by which to mount to Heaven out of life's daily round of toil. She died of erysipelas, after a two week's illness, September 30, 1904. The beauty of her daily life, merged in the valley of the shadow of death into a glorified peace, and faith, and resignation, that made it a hallowed privilege to watch beside her. Loving friends cared for her, day and night, in her last illness, doing all in their power to alleviate her sufferings. To the last God left her mind clear to commune with others, and leave messages for the dear ones who could not be with her. When the brave heart at last was still, and the rest for which she sighed came, many a heart felt glad, that for a few years at least, here in Maryville, God had lent us the benediction of her noble life as He had lent it to other communities for a widening circle of widening influence. God called her away from Tennessee, in early childhood, when the dark shadow of a war cloud hung over the Southland. He brought her back when the peace lay upon its hills and valleys.
"She lies buried in Magnolia Cemetery, in Maryville, Tennessee. It is fitting that her last resting place should be in the sacred soil of her devout, pioneer ancestors in the valley of East Tennessee. Out of the shadow and storm, and stress of life, its many broken plans, its unceasing ministry for others, she came at last to the peace of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, through it entering into that blessed life where 'they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.'" M.E.H. Died 30 Sep 1904 Maryville, Blount Co., Tennessee. Buried Magnolia Cemetery, Maryville, Blount Co., Tennessee
Source; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900
ARMSTRONG, W. P., STRAIN, MOLLIE J. 1879-03-18 1/17 BOND
Source: Notes of Olive Kaune; The Bible of Robert and Amelia (Sawrey) Armstrong, has Wesley's middle name spelled "Pierce", Wesley married Mary Jane STRAIN, who was born 4 March 1859, and died 30 September 1904, they had two children, Katie Blanche Armstrong, and Clyde Robert Armstrong, Clyde Robert Armstrong, had an adopted son Jack, who was raised in Greenville, Illinois.
Source; Pitard.net Obituary, Maryville Record, 7 Oct. 1904:
"Mrs. Mary T. Armstrong was born near Clover Hill, Blount County, Tennessee, March 4, 1859. Her parents were Robert Strain and Serena Grisham. Her mother and two brothers, James and John, are still living. When she was four years old the family moved to Bond County, Illinois. She was married there, March 18, 1879, to Wesley P. Armstrong. He died November 8, 1883, leaving two children, Blanche and Clyde, to their mother's care. She worked very hard for more than a year to make little farm pay its indebtedness and support the three. Finding this impossible she gave up the farm and turned to the congenial work of the school-room. After a year's teaching at Reno, Illinois, her health failed completely and she was told by physicians that only a change to a milder climate would save her life.
"She moved with her two children to Eastern Colorado and took up a claim of land. Where here her health slowly returned in spite of the increasing burden of work, and she soon made her influence felt for by establishing a Sabbath School among the cowboys. Later it was found best to send her son back to Illinois to her mother's care while she moved with her daughter to Pueblo, Colorado. She taught school near Pueblo for three years, and found abundant opportunity to do good among her pupils. She joined the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Pueblo, taught in the Sabbath School, and threw herself actively into all the interests of the church and community. When her increasing deafness made it impossible for her to teach she did not despair, but turned courageously to a new work, and supported herself and children by establishing a greenhouse of her own in Pueblo.
"She was just getting firmly established and on a fair way to prosperity, when she was called back to Illinois to care for her son who had met with an accident so serious as to threaten lingering invalidism. She sold her greenhouse in 1897, and sadly turned her back upon the west and her busy life there. She felt that God had blessed her in her going. He would also bless her in her returning. She took up her life again with her mother and brother on the farm near Reno, Illinois. She planned, she economized, she worked for her children. By precept and example she set before them noble ideas of life. She prayed as only a consecrated mother can pray - for rich spiritual gifts for her children. She came back to the home, the church and the community with a new strength and beauty and sweetness of character born out of life's varied experiences, and her gifts were more fully laid on God's altar for service. Her limitations as to hearing made her only the more rapt listener to the love of friends, the needs of the suffering, the cry of the sorrowing, the service of the house of God.
"She remained here until March, 1900, when again the call came to move forward. This time it was God's leading that she should come back to her native state and care for her aged aunts living in Maryville, Tennessee. In a beautiful spirit of devotion she entered this home where feebleness and declining years had narrowed the life almost to its little daily round of toil. Quite Conscientiously she brought into the home a renewed interest in the lite of the community, a better knowledge of the enlarging work of the church, and the refreshing influence of her ever widening circle of friends. She brought also into the home her sunny outlook upon life, her broader scope of vision, her deeper interest in the world's best work. When the shadow of the Angel of Death hung over the home for so many long weeks, it was her loving care that smoothed away the weariness and pain for the aunt she watched tenderly, day and night, till the end came. No loving daughter ever cared for a mother more tenderly than did she for the aged aunt who still survives, having outlived all her immediate family circle.
"She joined New Providence Presbyterian Church, and, from the first identified herself with its interests; the prayer-meetings, the Sabbath School, the Missionary Society, the church service and the revival. Other interests also claimed her time and service; the Ladies' Aid Society, the Women's Council, the Neighborhood House in town, the Summer School in the mountains, the W.C.T.U., and the Chilhowee Literary Club. To each and all of these she gave her heart's best, carrying inspiration into them, and out from them to bless other lives. She was broad in the truest and best sense of the word, availing herself of every means of grace, every aid to philanthropy, every incentive to intellectual development.
"The keynote of her life was a sunny unselfishness of which she was all unconscious in the joy she felt in doing for others. She made a golden ladder by which to mount to Heaven out of life's daily round of toil. She died of erysipelas, after a two week's illness, September 30, 1904. The beauty of her daily life, merged in the valley of the shadow of death into a glorified peace, and faith, and resignation, that made it a hallowed privilege to watch beside her. Loving friends cared for her, day and night, in her last illness, doing all in their power to alleviate her sufferings. To the last God left her mind clear to commune with others, and leave messages for the dear ones who could not be with her. When the brave heart at last was still, and the rest for which she sighed came, many a heart felt glad, that for a few years at least, here in Maryville, God had lent us the benediction of her noble life as He had lent it to other communities for a widening circle of widening influence. God called her away from Tennessee, in early childhood, when the dark shadow of a war cloud hung over the Southland. He brought her back when the peace lay upon its hills and valleys.
"She lies buried in Magnolia Cemetery, in Maryville, Tennessee. It is fitting that her last resting place should be in the sacred soil of her devout, pioneer ancestors in the valley of East Tennessee. Out of the shadow and storm, and stress of life, its many broken plans, its unceasing ministry for others, she came at last to the peace of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, through it entering into that blessed life where 'they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.'" M.E.H. Died 30 Sep 1904 Maryville, Blount Co., Tennessee. Buried Magnolia Cemetery, Maryville, Blount Co., Tennessee
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