Obituaries:  Thomas C. Armstrong, Sabine Parish       A-652
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Dec 8, 1933
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net


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The Sabine Index - Thomas C. Armstrong

  8 Dec 1933 - Attorney Thomas C. Armstrong, 66, died in Pleasant
Hill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. R. P. Bufkin, at a late hour
Sunday night, followed by the funeral Monday at 3 p.m. conducted by
the Rev. H. E. Pfost and the Rev. R. A. Bozeman.

  Surviving Attorney Armstrong are three daughters:  Mrs. C. A.
Ford, Dayton, Texas; Mrs. R. P. Bufkin, Pleasant Hill, and Mrs.
Donald Reynolds, Crockett, Texas.

  Seven years ago Mr. Armstrong was stricken with paralysis, which
marked the end of his legal career, never recovering from the effects.

  He was born in Sabine parish October 18, 1857, the birthplace being
in the San Miguel neighborhood in the northern portion of Sabine.
His father, William Hamilton Armstrong, died when Thomas, his only
child, was a baby.  In his boyhood "Little Thomas" attended the
ordinary old-field schools of the San Miguel community, and the
somewhat superior one at Pleasant Hill.  In 1875 he entered Emory
and Henry college in Virginia.  While at the old-field schools,
referred to, he exhibited considerable preciosity, so to speak,
and when he graduated at college he merited the first honor of his
class.  He studied law at home 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 and before the stroke of
paralysis had a splendid practice with offices in Pleasant Hill
and Many and has been identified with some of the outstanding
litigation of the early twentieth century in Sabine parish.  His
demise truly marks the going of Sabine's pioneer lawye4r, a
progressive citizen and a genius.