Union-Logan-Butler County OhArchives Obituaries.....Armstrong, Lucy B. January 1, 1892
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Newspaper clipping from gr. grandmother
Expired Suddenly at the Dawn of the New Year.
   Mrs. Lucy B. Armstrong, who for nearly half a century has been a prominent
figure in Wyandotte county, died early yesterday morning at her residence on New
Jersey avenue, with congestion of the lungs.
   In her death the county and city lose one of their oldest and most respected
residents, one who left in the history of the county, not only during the early
days and stormy scenes of border civilization, but later, when the city assumed
metropolitan importance, a record and an influence for good which links her name
inseparably with that of the record of much that is good in the formation of
society in this part of the Missouri valley.
   On account of her marriage and consequent association with the Wyandottes it
is generally supposed that she was partly Indian, but this is a mistake.
   Mrs. Armstrong's maiden name was Miss Lucy Bigelow. She was the daughter of
Rev. Russell Bigelow, a Methodist preacher from the East, who went to Upper
Sandusky, Oh., as a missionary to the Wyandotte tribe of Indians for the
Methodist Church. She was born July 31, 1818 in Northern Ohio. Her early
childhood was spent with her father in missionary work at various new towns,
trading posts and agencies, where his labors were crowned with phenomenal
success. From him Mrs. Armstrong inherited those firm traits of character and
positive convictions of right that enabled her to exercise so powerful an
influence for good among those with whom she associated and made her prominent
in the work of educating and Christianizing her associates.
   When 19 years of age she was united in marriage to John McIntyre Armstrong,
who, although only a part Indian, was known as a Wyandotte. He was a finely
educated man and a leader in dealing with many of the important questions
affecting the interests of the Wyandottes. 
   In July, 1843, she moved with her husband to Westport Landing, living there
for a few months until a cabin was built on the Wyandotte hills. December 10,
1843, the family moved to their cabin, which was built near where her residence
now stands on New Jersey Avenue, between Fifth and Sixth streets. In 1846 the
present structure was erected, and from that time until her death it was her
home, a place where she always took a great  (the rest of obit is missing) 
  

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