Nancy Elizabeth Armstrong.5, ( Robert Armstrong.4, John Armstrong Jr.3, John Armstrong Sr.2, Robert Armstrong.1) born: 16 April 1847, Reno, Bond County Illinois, died: 27 August 1909, Donnellson, Montgomery County Illinois, buried: Elm Point Cemetery, Bond County Illinois, daughter of; Robert Armstrong and Amelia Jane Sawrey, married first; 21 March 1867, Bond County Illinois, Allen Oliver Miller, One Son; Frederick Allen Miller.,
Nancy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Miller, married second; 2 March 1876, Bond County Illinois, James Mains, One daughter; Olive Falby (Mains) Kaune.
Nancy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Miller-Mains, married Third; 14 September 1899, Bond County Illinois, William Carroll Haydon Smith, no issue from this marriage.
Source; Obituary for Nancy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Miller-Mains-Smith
Mrs. Nancy Smith, widow of William Smith of Reno Illinois, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Kaune in Donnellson, on Friday of last week, August 27th 1909, aged 62 years and 11 months, the deceased has been suffering from cancer for many months and her death was not unexpected. She was married three times and leaves her daughter and a son to mourn her death. The funeral was held Sunday from the Donnellson Presbyterian Church, Rev Turner officiating, the remains were taken to Elm Point for burial.
Source; Notes of Olive Kaune and Mary Enos
Nancy was named for her father first wife, Nancy Elizabeth Sawrey, who died after child birth, he then married to her sister Amelia Jane Sawrey. Nancy's father Robert, was always partial to her, and called her "Pink" although her sisters and brothers called her "Nin", the peaches were later then they had been two years before, and they were in bloom when she was born, she was more fortunate in regards to her gentlemen callers, it seems her father liked Allen Miller, he was a school teacher, when they married, Nancy and Allen had one son, Frederick Allen Miller, who was about 15 months old when his father died.
Allen Miller died of Brain fever, he must have been living and teaching school in Nokomis, Illinois, Nancy was in Reno and Elm Point visiting her sisters, Martha and Ellen, when he took sick suddenly, a letter was sent to her father Robert's place in Elm Point, but because he was still upset with the choices of husbands her sister's married, he didn't send the letter over to Nancy, and by the time she got it, she barely made it back home to his bedside when Allen died.
Then Nancy had came back to her fathers house in Elm Point to live, and she taught school for a while some where, she was only 21, when her husband died. Her father Robert rented a house in Greenville for Nancy and he sent his three youngest sons to live with her to attend school there.
I guess that would be Albert, Wesley and Charles, the house that he rented was very near my second Grand mother, Falby (Mains) Drake, my grandfather, James Mains, had returned from the Civil War and was soon a widower, he and his three children lived with their grandmother Drake.
Nancy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Miller, married second; 2 March 1876, Bond County Illinois, James Mains, One daughter; Olive Falby (Mains) Kaune.
Nancy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Miller-Mains, married Third; 14 September 1899, Bond County Illinois, William Carroll Haydon Smith, no issue from this marriage.
Source; Obituary for Nancy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Miller-Mains-Smith
Mrs. Nancy Smith, widow of William Smith of Reno Illinois, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Kaune in Donnellson, on Friday of last week, August 27th 1909, aged 62 years and 11 months, the deceased has been suffering from cancer for many months and her death was not unexpected. She was married three times and leaves her daughter and a son to mourn her death. The funeral was held Sunday from the Donnellson Presbyterian Church, Rev Turner officiating, the remains were taken to Elm Point for burial.
Source; Notes of Olive Kaune and Mary Enos
Nancy was named for her father first wife, Nancy Elizabeth Sawrey, who died after child birth, he then married to her sister Amelia Jane Sawrey. Nancy's father Robert, was always partial to her, and called her "Pink" although her sisters and brothers called her "Nin", the peaches were later then they had been two years before, and they were in bloom when she was born, she was more fortunate in regards to her gentlemen callers, it seems her father liked Allen Miller, he was a school teacher, when they married, Nancy and Allen had one son, Frederick Allen Miller, who was about 15 months old when his father died.
Allen Miller died of Brain fever, he must have been living and teaching school in Nokomis, Illinois, Nancy was in Reno and Elm Point visiting her sisters, Martha and Ellen, when he took sick suddenly, a letter was sent to her father Robert's place in Elm Point, but because he was still upset with the choices of husbands her sister's married, he didn't send the letter over to Nancy, and by the time she got it, she barely made it back home to his bedside when Allen died.
Then Nancy had came back to her fathers house in Elm Point to live, and she taught school for a while some where, she was only 21, when her husband died. Her father Robert rented a house in Greenville for Nancy and he sent his three youngest sons to live with her to attend school there.
I guess that would be Albert, Wesley and Charles, the house that he rented was very near my second Grand mother, Falby (Mains) Drake, my grandfather, James Mains, had returned from the Civil War and was soon a widower, he and his three children lived with their grandmother Drake.
Nancy Elizabeth Armstrong.5, ( Robert Armstrong.4, John Armstrong Jr.3, John Armstrong Sr.2, Robert Armstrong.1) born: 16 April 1847, Reno, Bond County Illinois, died: 27 August 1909, Donnellson, Montgomery County Illinois, buried: Elm Point Cemetery, Bond County Illinois, daughter of; Robert Armstrong and Amelia Jane Sawrey, married first; 21 March 1867, Bond County Illinois, Allen Oliver Miller, One Son; Frederick Allen Miller.,
Nancy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Miller, married second; 2 March 1876, Bond County Illinois, James Mains, One daughter; Olive Falby (Mains) Kaune.
Nancy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Miller-Mains, married Third; 14 September 1899, Bond County Illinois, William Carroll Haydon Smith, no issue from this marriage.
Source; Obituary for Nancy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Miller-Mains-Smith
Mrs. Nancy Smith, widow of William Smith of Reno Illinois, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Kaune in Donnellson, on Friday of last week, August 27th 1909, aged 62 years and 11 months, the deceased has been suffering from cancer for many months and her death was not unexpected. She was married three times and leaves her daughter and a son to mourn her death. The funeral was held Sunday from the Donnellson Presbyterian Church, Rev Turner officiating, the remains were taken to Elm Point for burial.
Source; Notes of Olive Kaune and Mary Enos
Nancy was named for her father first wife, Nancy Elizabeth Sawrey, who died after child birth, he then married to her sister Amelia Jane Sawrey. Nancy's father Robert, was always partial to her, and called her "Pink" although her sisters and brothers called her "Nin", the peaches were later then they had been two years before, and they were in bloom when she was born, she was more fortunate in regards to her gentlemen callers, it seems her father liked Allen Miller, he was a school teacher, when they married, Nancy and Allen had one son, Frederick Allen Miller, who was about 15 months old when his father died.
Allen Miller died of Brain fever, he must have been living and teaching school in Nokomis, Illinois, Nancy was in Reno and Elm Point visiting her sisters, Martha and Ellen, when he took sick suddenly, a letter was sent to her father Robert's place in Elm Point, but because he was still upset with the choices of husbands her sister's married, he didn't send the letter over to Nancy, and by the time she got it, she barely made it back home to his bedside when Allen died.
Then Nancy had came back to her fathers house in Elm Point to live, and she taught school for a while some where, she was only 21, when her husband died. Her father Robert rented a house in Greenville for Nancy and he sent his three youngest sons to live with her to attend school there.
I guess that would be Albert, Wesley and Charles, the house that he rented was very near my second Grand mother, Falby (Mains) Drake, my grandfather, James Mains, had returned from the Civil War and was soon a widower, he and his three children lived with their grandmother Drake.
Nancy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Miller, married second; 2 March 1876, Bond County Illinois, James Mains, One daughter; Olive Falby (Mains) Kaune.
Nancy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Miller-Mains, married Third; 14 September 1899, Bond County Illinois, William Carroll Haydon Smith, no issue from this marriage.
Source; Obituary for Nancy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Miller-Mains-Smith
Mrs. Nancy Smith, widow of William Smith of Reno Illinois, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Kaune in Donnellson, on Friday of last week, August 27th 1909, aged 62 years and 11 months, the deceased has been suffering from cancer for many months and her death was not unexpected. She was married three times and leaves her daughter and a son to mourn her death. The funeral was held Sunday from the Donnellson Presbyterian Church, Rev Turner officiating, the remains were taken to Elm Point for burial.
Source; Notes of Olive Kaune and Mary Enos
Nancy was named for her father first wife, Nancy Elizabeth Sawrey, who died after child birth, he then married to her sister Amelia Jane Sawrey. Nancy's father Robert, was always partial to her, and called her "Pink" although her sisters and brothers called her "Nin", the peaches were later then they had been two years before, and they were in bloom when she was born, she was more fortunate in regards to her gentlemen callers, it seems her father liked Allen Miller, he was a school teacher, when they married, Nancy and Allen had one son, Frederick Allen Miller, who was about 15 months old when his father died.
Allen Miller died of Brain fever, he must have been living and teaching school in Nokomis, Illinois, Nancy was in Reno and Elm Point visiting her sisters, Martha and Ellen, when he took sick suddenly, a letter was sent to her father Robert's place in Elm Point, but because he was still upset with the choices of husbands her sister's married, he didn't send the letter over to Nancy, and by the time she got it, she barely made it back home to his bedside when Allen died.
Then Nancy had came back to her fathers house in Elm Point to live, and she taught school for a while some where, she was only 21, when her husband died. Her father Robert rented a house in Greenville for Nancy and he sent his three youngest sons to live with her to attend school there.
I guess that would be Albert, Wesley and Charles, the house that he rented was very near my second Grand mother, Falby (Mains) Drake, my grandfather, James Mains, had returned from the Civil War and was soon a widower, he and his three children lived with their grandmother Drake.
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Martin Van Buren Armstrong
1837–1869
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William Ross Brazille Armstrong
1839–1878
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John Henry Armstrong
1841–1902
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Thomas Dudley Barnett Armstrong
1843–1844
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Mary Martha "Polly" Armstrong McCracken
1845–1915
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Tabitha "Ellen" Armstrong McCracken
1849–1929
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Rebecca "Emma" Armstrong Pryor
1850–1915
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Wesley Pierce Armstrong
1853–1883
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Albert Hamilton Armstrong
1855–1883
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Charles Allen Armstrong
1858–1926
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Olive Isaline Christabel "Isa" Armstrong Willcockson
1861–1889
