Youngblood-Armstrong & Allied Families
James W. and Dolly (Tucker) Armstrong had six children.
A. William Tucker, eldest child of Jas. W. and Dorothy (Tucker) Armstrong, was born in Hancock Co. Ga. and died near Buckhorn, Austin Co. Tex. After Texas had won her independence from Mexico and settlers were moving into the new Republic from Alabama and other states, William Tucker Armstrong and his brother Gabriel M. Armstrong joined the families who went from the Mt. Meigs section.
The following letter from Miller Francis Armstrong to his first cousin, Mrs. Fannie Armstrong Youngblood, written March 21, 1923, is of interest.
"Dear Cousin Fannie: Am sorry that I have waited so long to write you this time. As you know father's mother was Dorothy Tucker and his father was a lawyer. Father was in the Seminole Indian War before he came to Texas. Do not know whether Uncle Gabe was in that war or not. He and father volunteered for the Mexican War and enlisted, I think, at Brenham. Uncle Gabe was a Captain and father was a Lieutenant in the same company. They were in one battle after another, as you will see from history, until the capture of the City of Mexico, on Sept. 13, 1847.
"While there, Uncle Gabe made a study of the Spanish language, as spoken by the Mexicans, and in six weeks learned enough to converse with them. After the war, whether immediately after his discharge, or after an interval, he settled in Brownsville, I think, and practiced law. Mamma thinks it was Corpus Christi instead of Brownsville. I do not know in what year he died, but I do know that his property in Brenham was divided between Uncle Jim and father, after a lawsuit to recover from a squatter. He might have had property in Brownsville or Corpus Christi, but we never heard of it and it was lost to us.
"Father was in ill health for many years due to exposure on account of the high altitude of the mountains of Mexico. They were in the cavalry and did quite a lot of scouting. After his discharge, Father returned to Chappell Hill, where he was in the mercantile business.
"I suppose you remember Mother's Father, for he visited your family in Alabama many years ago. Grandfather Francis, (Miller Francis) was born in 1810. He was in the War for Texas Independence, in 1836. He married Nancy Lakey, whose family came to Texas in 1823.
"Mamma left the family Bible with Tom and his wife at the old home and it was lost there. For that reason I can give you no records."
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