Brief Life History of Lacey DeKalb
When Lacey DeKalb Armstrong was born on 3 October 1872, in Sharp, Arkansas, United States, his father, James Le Roy Armstrong, was 38 and his mother, Martha Hodge, was 34. He married Maude Morgan Schell on 31 January 1891, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Richwoods Township, Sharp, Arkansas, United States in 1880 and Mountain Township, McDonald, Missouri, United States for about 40 years. He died on 30 November 1956, in Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Owsley Union Cemetery, Longview, McDonald, Missouri, United States.
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- Lacey Armstrong, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Lacey D Armstrong - Published information: birth-name: Lacey D K Armstrong
- L D Armstrong, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish (mainly Northumberland and the Scottish Borders): nickname from Middle English arm + strang, for someone who was ‘strong in the arm’.
Irish (Ulster): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Labhradha Tréan ‘strong O'Lavery’ or Mac Thréinfhir, literally ‘son of the strong man’.
History: This surname was brought to PA, NJ, and NH in the 18th century by several different families of northern Irish and northern English Protestants. One such was James Armstrong, who emigrated from Fermanagh to Cumberland County, PA, in 1745; another was John Armstrong (1720–95), who settled in Carlisle, PA, c. 1748.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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