Bio: T. C. Armstrong, Sabine Parish, Louisiana

Submitted: by : Gaytha Carver Thompson

Source: History of Sabine Parish by John G. Belisle, The Sabine Banner Press,

1912 (page 278-279)
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T. C. ARMSTRONG

Attorney at Law





This gentleman was born in Sabine parish on October 18, 1857, and is

consequently in the 58th year of his age.  His birthplace was in the San

Miguel neighborhood, in the northern portion of the parish.  His father was

William Hamilton Armstrong, who died when quite young and when Thomas his only

child was a baby.  Hamilton Armstrong, though young, was a teacher of high

repute, to whom some of our old citizens, his former pupils, still refer with

much respect and pride.  He was equally known as a marksman and hunter.



Thomas' grandfather, on his father's side, was James H. Armstrong, who came to

this parish or its vicinity in 1847 from Kentucky, originally, by way of

Alabama.  His grandfather on his mother's side, was William D. Stephens, who

came to this section of the state in 1835, before the organization of this

parish, from Virginia, originally, by way of Tennessee and Ohio.  



In his boyhood "Little Thomas" attended the ordinary old field schools of the

San Miguel neighborhood, and the somewhat superior one at Old Pleasant Hill. 

In 1875 he entered Emory and Henry college in Southwest Virginia, where he

graduated in 1878.  While at the old field schools referred to, he exhibited

considerable precocity, so to speak, and when he graduated at college he

pocketed the first honor of his class.  He studied law at home in Sabine

parish, and in New Orleans at the Law Department of the University of

Louisiana, and was admitted to the bar in 1882.  On beginning his professional

life, instead of hunting a location more suitable for a lively career, he

remained at home without regard to consequences.  Up to this time, these have

not been as serious as might have been expected.  He ranks well in our cotorie

of able and conscientious attorneys, has an interesting family, a pleasant

home at Sodus and another residence at Many; and, at last accounts, a

sufficiency of the necessaries of life.



While he has been rather slow about completing an ambitious and patriotic

literary task, commenced some time ago, we would hesitate to call him "Le

Faineaut," as we are not certain what he has up his sleeve. While he has not

entered the arena of politics, he may do so (as this notice is not intended as

his obituary), and may have good prospects in that direction.



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