Armstrong, John Hume

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Title: Armstrong, John Hume
Alias: Armstrong, John H.
Gender: Male
Biography: The 1870 census lists a single African-American living in John Armstrong's household in 1870, shortly after emancipation. Merriah Williams, listed as a domestic servant, is the correct age to have been the enslaved woman recorded in previous census records.
Member: Armstrong family
Birth date: 9 Mar 1803
Father: Armstrong, James A.
Mother: Hume, Sarah
Life event(s): Marriage: 24 May 1824; Campbell County (Ky.); Campbell County (Ky.)
Spouse(s): Watts, Margaret
Child(ren): Ervin, Jame Armstrong; Prewitt/Pruett, Matilda Armstrong; Armstrong, Charles Seebury; Armstrong, James A.; Armstrong, Sarah Elizabeth; Armstrong, Malissa; Armstrong, Ezra F.
Death date: 1886
Death and burial information: Armstrong Cemetery #1 (Kenton County, Ky.)
Occupation(s): Farmer (1850, 1860, 1880)
Relationship: Probable enslaved: Williams, Merriah; Williams, Merriah
Description: Enslaved held in 1850: Female, 14 years old, black; Enslaved held in 1860: Female, 23 years old, black
Bibliographic citation(s): FindAGrave.com, memorial #180123670; Index to Order Books, 1840-1962, pages 44-46
Source(s): Northern Kentucky Marriages, 1795-1850; Kentucky, Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850; Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; Population Schedules of the Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Slave Schedules; Eighth Census of the United States, 1860; Population Schedules of the Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Slave Schedules; Ninth Census of the United States, 1870; Tenth Census of the United States, 1880; Find A Grave.com; Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989

Item sets: AA--Slaveholders--Kentucky--Kenton County

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