Funeral Services For James E. Armstrong Are Held Friday
James Ellis Armstrong, oldest son of James and Catherine Parnell Armstrong, born on a farm near Monica, died suddenly at his home in Urbana Thursday, April 24.
Services were held Friday at the First Baptist church of Urbana, of which Mr. Armstrong was a member, Rev. Charles L. Bromley, retired missionary, officiated. Burial was in Mount Hope cemetery.
Mr. Armstrong's life was full of varied experience. He graduated form the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Illinois in 1897 and from the College of Agriculture in 1904.
He was married July 4, 1899, to Lydia C. Auten, eldest daughter of Edward Auten, Sr. and Maria Cutter Auten of Princeville.
Mr. Armstrong was a teacher, a farmer, a teacher again and during his last years, a repairer and refinisher of antique and other furniture.
The schools in which he taught were Princeville Academy; Chillicothe high school; two government schools for Indians at Indian Reservation, Phoenix, Arizona, and at Haskell Institute, near Lawrence, Kan.; Drummer school, Gibson City, and Armstrong school in Vermillion county.
He left his farming near Claremont, moving to Mt. Carmel when his older children were ready for high school; then moved to Urbana in 1919 that they might enter the University of Illinois.
Surviving Mr. Armstrong are his wife; their four children; Mrs. Willard M. Olson, Chicago; Ralph W. Armstrong, Neptune, N.J.; Alice Armstrong, Urbana; and Agnes Armstrong, Milwaukee, Wis.; one grandson Alvin Olson of Chicago, a student at the University of Illinois; and sisters and brothers; Esther and Orpha Armstrong, Champaign, Mrs. Charles Buck, Battle Creek, Mich., Mrs. Clara Jones, Peoria; George Armstrong, Boudville, and Arthur Armstrong, Seymour.
Princeville Telephone, April 1944.
Son of James D. & Catherine "Kate" (Parnell) Armstrong, husband of Lydia C. Auten, m. Jul 4, 1899.
James Ellis Armstrong, oldest son of James and Catherine Parnell Armstrong, born on a farm near Monica, died suddenly at his home in Urbana Thursday, April 24.
Services were held Friday at the First Baptist church of Urbana, of which Mr. Armstrong was a member, Rev. Charles L. Bromley, retired missionary, officiated. Burial was in Mount Hope cemetery.
Mr. Armstrong's life was full of varied experience. He graduated form the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Illinois in 1897 and from the College of Agriculture in 1904.
He was married July 4, 1899, to Lydia C. Auten, eldest daughter of Edward Auten, Sr. and Maria Cutter Auten of Princeville.
Mr. Armstrong was a teacher, a farmer, a teacher again and during his last years, a repairer and refinisher of antique and other furniture.
The schools in which he taught were Princeville Academy; Chillicothe high school; two government schools for Indians at Indian Reservation, Phoenix, Arizona, and at Haskell Institute, near Lawrence, Kan.; Drummer school, Gibson City, and Armstrong school in Vermillion county.
He left his farming near Claremont, moving to Mt. Carmel when his older children were ready for high school; then moved to Urbana in 1919 that they might enter the University of Illinois.
Surviving Mr. Armstrong are his wife; their four children; Mrs. Willard M. Olson, Chicago; Ralph W. Armstrong, Neptune, N.J.; Alice Armstrong, Urbana; and Agnes Armstrong, Milwaukee, Wis.; one grandson Alvin Olson of Chicago, a student at the University of Illinois; and sisters and brothers; Esther and Orpha Armstrong, Champaign, Mrs. Charles Buck, Battle Creek, Mich., Mrs. Clara Jones, Peoria; George Armstrong, Boudville, and Arthur Armstrong, Seymour.
Princeville Telephone, April 1944.
Son of James D. & Catherine "Kate" (Parnell) Armstrong, husband of Lydia C. Auten, m. Jul 4, 1899.
Funeral Services For James E. Armstrong Are Held Friday
James Ellis Armstrong, oldest son of James and Catherine Parnell Armstrong, born on a farm near Monica, died suddenly at his home in Urbana Thursday, April 24.
Services were held Friday at the First Baptist church of Urbana, of which Mr. Armstrong was a member, Rev. Charles L. Bromley, retired missionary, officiated. Burial was in Mount Hope cemetery.
Mr. Armstrong's life was full of varied experience. He graduated form the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Illinois in 1897 and from the College of Agriculture in 1904.
He was married July 4, 1899, to Lydia C. Auten, eldest daughter of Edward Auten, Sr. and Maria Cutter Auten of Princeville.
Mr. Armstrong was a teacher, a farmer, a teacher again and during his last years, a repairer and refinisher of antique and other furniture.
The schools in which he taught were Princeville Academy; Chillicothe high school; two government schools for Indians at Indian Reservation, Phoenix, Arizona, and at Haskell Institute, near Lawrence, Kan.; Drummer school, Gibson City, and Armstrong school in Vermillion county.
He left his farming near Claremont, moving to Mt. Carmel when his older children were ready for high school; then moved to Urbana in 1919 that they might enter the University of Illinois.
Surviving Mr. Armstrong are his wife; their four children; Mrs. Willard M. Olson, Chicago; Ralph W. Armstrong, Neptune, N.J.; Alice Armstrong, Urbana; and Agnes Armstrong, Milwaukee, Wis.; one grandson Alvin Olson of Chicago, a student at the University of Illinois; and sisters and brothers; Esther and Orpha Armstrong, Champaign, Mrs. Charles Buck, Battle Creek, Mich., Mrs. Clara Jones, Peoria; George Armstrong, Boudville, and Arthur Armstrong, Seymour.
Princeville Telephone, April 1944.
Son of James D. & Catherine "Kate" (Parnell) Armstrong, husband of Lydia C. Auten, m. Jul 4, 1899.
James Ellis Armstrong, oldest son of James and Catherine Parnell Armstrong, born on a farm near Monica, died suddenly at his home in Urbana Thursday, April 24.
Services were held Friday at the First Baptist church of Urbana, of which Mr. Armstrong was a member, Rev. Charles L. Bromley, retired missionary, officiated. Burial was in Mount Hope cemetery.
Mr. Armstrong's life was full of varied experience. He graduated form the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Illinois in 1897 and from the College of Agriculture in 1904.
He was married July 4, 1899, to Lydia C. Auten, eldest daughter of Edward Auten, Sr. and Maria Cutter Auten of Princeville.
Mr. Armstrong was a teacher, a farmer, a teacher again and during his last years, a repairer and refinisher of antique and other furniture.
The schools in which he taught were Princeville Academy; Chillicothe high school; two government schools for Indians at Indian Reservation, Phoenix, Arizona, and at Haskell Institute, near Lawrence, Kan.; Drummer school, Gibson City, and Armstrong school in Vermillion county.
He left his farming near Claremont, moving to Mt. Carmel when his older children were ready for high school; then moved to Urbana in 1919 that they might enter the University of Illinois.
Surviving Mr. Armstrong are his wife; their four children; Mrs. Willard M. Olson, Chicago; Ralph W. Armstrong, Neptune, N.J.; Alice Armstrong, Urbana; and Agnes Armstrong, Milwaukee, Wis.; one grandson Alvin Olson of Chicago, a student at the University of Illinois; and sisters and brothers; Esther and Orpha Armstrong, Champaign, Mrs. Charles Buck, Battle Creek, Mich., Mrs. Clara Jones, Peoria; George Armstrong, Boudville, and Arthur Armstrong, Seymour.
Princeville Telephone, April 1944.
Son of James D. & Catherine "Kate" (Parnell) Armstrong, husband of Lydia C. Auten, m. Jul 4, 1899.
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