OHIO STATEWIDE FILES  OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 140

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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest				Volume 03 : Issue 140

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Dec 23, 1936 Union Herald Film #19328
GEORGE B. ARMSTRONG, ADOLPHI BANKER, DEAD
Successful Farmer, Business Man Dies After Short Illness at Home
    **Funeral Friday at 2
    ****Four Sons, Four Daughters Survive Hocking Native

George H. Armstrong 85, one of the organizers of the Adelphi Banking Co, and 
its president since 1922, died at his home in Saltcreek Township near 
Laurelville at 2:45 pm Wednesday.

Mr. Armstrong had been ill less than two weeks, his fatal ailment starting 
when he fell in a barn and suffered shock and bruises.  The funeral was Friday 
at 2 pm in the Adelphi Methodist church, of which he was a devout member, with 
the Rev. L. C. McClandish officiating.  Burial was in Green Summit cemetery by 
H. E. Defenbaugh and Son.

Mr. Armstrong was born near Laurelville in Hocking County in 1851, a son of 
William and Sarah Fetherolf Armstrong, pioneers in the community.  He married 
Sarah A. Dunkle, Saltcreek township native in 1872.  She died in 1929.  A 
daughter Mrs. E. H. Stous also preceded her father in death.

Mr. Armstrong spent his entire life within a few miles of farm on which he 
was born.  He was a successful farmer and business and became vice president of 
the Adelphi Banking Co, when it was incorporated in 1909.  He served in this 
capacity until 1922 when he was elected president.

Four Sons, Four Daughters
Surviving are fours sons, and four daughters, C. L. and G. H. of Saltcreek 
township; O, B. cashier in the Adelphi bank; C. L. comptroller of the city of 
Birmingham Ala; Mrs. A. H. Buchwalter Hilliards, Mrs. J. E. Bitzer Columbus: 
Mrs. J. M. Boecher Hallsville, and Mrs. D. C. Macklin at home.  Robert E. 
Armstrong, deputy sheriff is a grandson.

Sandy

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