KENTUCKY: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887,
Boyle Co.

JUDGE CHARLES THOMAS ARMSTRONG was born May 9, 1824, on the Harrod Faunt
LeRoy tract of land, near Danville, and was reared to manhood in Mercer and
Lincoln Counties.  In 1849 he located in Perryville, where he acted as
police judge for seven years, and in 1876 he purchased and located on the
Col. Wade farm, on Chaplin Creek, two miles south of Perryville, Boyle Co.,
where he has since resided.  His father, John Armstrong, a native of County
Fermanagh, Ireland, was born near Enniskillen in 1783, immigrated with his
parents in 1797 to the United States and located at Greencastle, Penn.  In
1815 he removed to Saundersville, Fayette Co., Ky., where he had
supervision of the woolen mills of Lewis Saunders for many years.  He was a
machinist, and a finished mechanic.  His death occurred at Perrysville in
1852.  His father, Thomas Armstrong, was a country gentleman in Ireland,
and a Loyalist.  He erected and conducted the woolen factory at
Greencastle, Penn.  He was a zealous Methodist, and John Wesley often
visited his family in Ireland.  His death occurred in 1807.  His wife was
Mary, daughter of John Williams of Lappan, Ireland, and their children were
Sally, Catherine Jane (wife of James Campbell, of Westmoreland Co., Penn.),
John, Eliza (wife of Samuel Williams of Chillicothe and Cincinnati, Ohio),
Hugh, William (lieutenant in the regular army of 1812; captain of the Sixth
Infantry in 1821, and died at Pensacola, February 11, 1827, aged
thirty-three years) and Ann (intermarried with Jacob Aid of Brown County,
Ohio).  In 1813 John married Miss Rebecca, daughter of Charles and Jane
(Johnstone) Rule of Kingston, N.J. (died in 1852, aged sixty-three years),
and from their union sprang William, Sarah J. (deceased), Charles Thomas,
and John (deceased).  William lived for twenty years in Lexington, Ky., and
died April 28, 1886, leaving four daughters, viz. : Ella, Josephine, Rose
and Lilly-the last two twins.  Judge Armstrong was first married May 8,
1845, to Miss Lucy, daughter of George and Mary (Brown) Huston of Lincoln
County (born in 1825, died in 1851), and their one daughter is Mrs. Jennie
Jelf of Nicholsville.  August 1, 1853, the Judge espoused Miss Talitha W. ,
daughter of James and Mary (Taylor) Green of Washington County (born
January 31, 1832), and to them have been born William G. (deceased), Ludic
(deceased), Nannie L., Lizzie, and Mary (deceased).  In 1849 Judge
Armstrong, in partnership with his brother William, built a flouring-mill
and carding factory at Perryville, which he operated with marked success
and profit until 1876, when his mill was destroyed by fire, entailing a
loss of $12,000.  At present he is engaged in farming, possessing 423 acres
of superior land in a fine state of cultivation.  He has for twenty years
been an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and is superintendent of the
Sunday-school.  He is a strong advocate of temperance and prohibition, is a
member of the Masonic fraternity, is an Ancient Odd Fellow, and in politics
is a Democrat.

Armstrong Wade Saunders Williams Campbell Aid Johnstone Rule Brown Huston
Jelf Taylor Green
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Mercer-KY Lincoln-KY Fayette-KY Washington-KY Westmoreland-PA Brown-OH
Ireland

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