Judge Armistead Henry Churchill (Transylvania Law 1816), eldest son of Henry (1768-1842) and Penelope Pope Churchill (1769-1821), was born on October 19, 1796, near Louisville. He studied law in Lexington, Ky. in the office of his uncle, Gov. John Pope (1770-1845). He was an attorney in Elizabethtown, Ky. where he was circuit court judge, 1833-47. He was appointed as one of the original trustees of Elizabethtown and was elected to the Kentucky Senate in 1832. He contributed the land and most of the funds used in building in 1850, Christ Episcopal Church in Elizabethtown, where he sometimes conducted services. He married (1) in 1818, Elizabeth Crutcher (1798-1833), daughter of Major James (1767-1847) and Gilly Slaughter Crutcher (1773-1854), of Elizabethtown. Their daughters were Penelope Pope (1819-48) and Malvina Churchill (1821-97). Major James Crutcher was an original trustee of Elizabethtown in 1794, served in the Kentucky House in 1815, and Senate, 1817-22, 1824-28, was judge of the Quarter Session Court and assistant judge of the Hardin Circuit Court. He served in the War of 1812 at the battle of New Orleans in 1815, where he was aide to General John Thomas, commander of the Kentucky troops.

Judge Churchill married (2) in 1835, Maria H. Sneed (1801-c45), daughter of Achilles (-c1825) and Sally Stewart Sneed, of Frankfort, Ky. Her father was for many years clerk of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Their children were Emily Mariah (1837-70), Elizabeth Julia (1840-62) and Armistead Henry Churchill Jr. (1844-c48).

In 1847, Judge Churchill married (3) Mary Ellen "Nellie" Lancaster (1802-50), daughter of John (1766-1838) and Catherine Miles Lancaster (1773-1847), of Viney Level, Marion County, Ky. She had been a nun and was a sister of Judge William D. Lancaster (1814-90) who had married Judge Churchill's daughter, Malvina Churchill (1821-97). Their daughter was Mary Elleanor "Nell" Churchill (1848-1919). Judge Churchill married (4) in 1851, Anna Maria Sthreshly (c1812-c88).

Judge Churchill died March 22, 1880. His (1) wife, Elizabeth Crutcher, died on September 15, 1833. His (2) wife, Maria Sneed, died c1845. His (3) wife, Mary Ellen Lancaster, died in 1850. His (4) wife, Anna Maria Sthreshly, died c1888. They were all interred along with several of their children in the private cemetery on the Churchill estate. When the estate was subdivided the remains supposedly were removed to the Elizabethtown City Cemetery. If the remains were not actually removed, the cemetery is located at about 206 Churchill Court, Elizabethtown.

See William & Mary College Quarterly, IX: 247; Daniel L. McClure, Jr., Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky (Elizabethtown,Ky. 1979), 148-149, 224-226 (contains picture of church); J.M. Armstrong & Company, The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky (Cincinnati, 1878), 333; Samuel Voight Lancaster, The Lancaster Family of Maryland and Kentucky (1969), 135; Samuel A. Haycraft, A History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky (Elizabethtown, 1960)(Rprt.), 156; Hardin Heritage, The Historic Architecture of Hardin County, Kentucky (Elizabethtown, Ky., 1985), 143 (picture of church); Henry Augustine Sommers, History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1869-1921 (Owensboro, Ky., 1981), 33; Who Was Who in Hardin County (Elizabethtown, Ky.: Hardin County (Ky.) Historical Society, 1946), 30; Charles Timothy Todhunter, The Churchill Family Genealogy (Utica, Ky.: McDowell Pub., 1992), II: 268-281, 310-315; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 332.