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| Birth: | 29 Aug 1856 in Knoxville, IL 1 2 |
| Death: | 28 Jan 1942 in Clinton, Custer Co OK 2 3 4 5 |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | John ARMSTRONG Jr b. 31 Dec 1819 in Livingston Co NY |
| Mother: | Nancy Ann MORRIS b. 21 Sep 1829 in Adams Co OH |
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| Reference: 0012 |
| Burial: 30 Jan 1942 Clinton, Custer Co OK 6 2 5 |
| Occupation: Merchant, sheriff 7 |
| Religion: Baptist |
| Changed: 2 Aug 2006 |
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Individual:
originally buried at Edwardsville Cemetery
The first two marriages were discovered by his children after the death of John Franklin Armstrong. The three children mentioned in Lula (Edmunds) (Hays) Armstrong s obituary were possibly the two children she had with Frank Armstrong and a Hays child by her first marriage.
His death certificate gives his grandmother s name instead of his mother s.
Frank s family was proud of his role as a deputy sheriff in the capture of Red BUck, an alias for a reknowned outlaw of early days. Outlaw Days in Oklahoma, p 52-53, has a picture of George Waightman, Red Buck, ready for burial, with this statement: for horse stealing, convicted, sentenced, and sent to the penitentiary, where he remained until 1893. Within thrity days after he was released, he had stolen seven horses seven good saddle horses which he took with him to Ingalls, and there joined the Wild Bunch, as the Doolin gang was known at that time.
An Internet site, www.theoutlaws.com, has this: While Tilghman was tracking down Doolin, other deputies were hot on the trail of George Waightman, alias Red Buck. Not much is known about the outlaw s early years, but after he joined the Doolin Gang, he was known to be meaner than a snake. He was a tall Texan horse thief with the reputation of a killer Ð a surly, vicious man who cared nothing for anyone. His hair was red, which gave him his nickname. In the Fall of 1890, Heck Thomas had arrested him for stealing mules in the Cherokee Nation, but he had escaped from the special prison car taking him to prison, and had not surfaced until he joined up with Bill Doolin. He killed for pleasure, and shortly after Doolin kept him from shooting Bill Tilghman in the back, Doolin tired of his cutthroat nature and tossed him out of the gang. Running on the fringes of the Wild Bunch, he ran into a desperado named George Miller, and the two of them finally shot it out with deputies Joe Ventioner and William Holcomb in March at a dugout near Arapaho. Red Buck was finally dead, and to prove it and because there were rewards totaling $4,800, his body was roped to an undertaker s board, propped against a wall, and photographed.
An old photo, possibly copied by Evelynne Alvis at the Oklahoma Historical Society, from an Arapaho OK newspaper, by Roy H Ball, 24 Apr 1969, showed a fish caught by Frank Armstrong and Frank Hartronft, 23 Jul 1909. It weighed 101 lbs. Two of these were caught in the Washita River.
Evelynne Alvis wrote that after dishes were done in the evening, they would sit around the stove and her grandfather would tell about the early days. He made the trip to El Reno twice a year for supplies. If things went well, the trip (about 75 miles each way) would take two weeks. Once when he was gone, a band of Indians came through and stopped at their homestead for water. They noticed daughter Nannie, with long black hair, and were so interested in her that Anna Samantha was afraid they would kidnap her.
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- Text: Mother Coulson Celebrates Eightieth Birthday, Friday, , La Harp
er, LaHarpe IL, 22 Nov 1940, original clipping in Documentation File. The clipping from the LaHarper, edited at the time by Alice (Armstrong) Coulson s son, gives details on all the children of John Armstrong Jr., as well as his two wives, his mother and her family. This article was written during the lifetime of John Franklin Armstrong and saved in the family.
- Text: John F. Armstrong, funeral card. Original, Beginnings File.
- Text: John Franklin Armstrong, death certificate no. 20-03170 (1942)
, Oklahoma State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics. Certified copy, Beginnings File.
- Text: John Armstrong will (1890), Harrison Co Will Book, Probate Judge
s Office, Bethany MO. Typed transcription, no specific source data included, in Ramona Duff, Armstrong Album and Light Lines, 5-8.
- Text: Rites Set for Foss Pioneer, undated clipping from unidentifie
d newspaper, found by Evelynne Alvis at Oklahoma State Historical Society, Microfilm Room. Xerox copy, Documentation File.
- Text: Armstrong-Turner tombstones, Clinton OK Cemetery, transcribe
d 4 Sep 1966 by Kathy Alvis, Beginnings File. Later photographed, Cemeteries File.
- Text: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Armstrong, Trail of 100 Years: Arapaho Okla
homa, 1892-1992, 90-91.
- Text: Armstrong-Hays marriage, 15 Mar 1888, Terre Haute, Henderson C
o IL. Certificate in the possession of Mansel G. Armstrong, 1966, when Kathy Alvis, his granddaughter, copied it. Xerox copy in Beginnings File.
- Text: Worth County Marriage Book C:193, County Clerk s Office, Grant C
ity MO. Certified copy, Documentation File.
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