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Mansel Grant ARMSTRONG 1
Birth:30 Aug 1897 in Arapaho, OK 2 3
Death:13 Feb 1977 in OK City, OK 3 4 5
Sex:M
Father:John Franklin ARMSTRONG b. 29 Aug 1856 in Knoxville, IL
Mother:Anna Samantha TURNER b. 19 Aug 1869 in Allendale MO
  
Reference: 0006
Burial: 15 Feb 1977 Hydro Masonic Cemetery, Hydro OK 6 3
Occupation: Teacher, Station agent, farmer 7
Education: Southwestern State Teachers College, Draughton s Business College 7
Religion: Baptist (1926); Methodist 5 7
Social Security Number: 448-36-4494 8
Changed: 2 Aug 2006

Spouses & Children
Ethel Marguerite LIGHT (Wife) b. 11 Dec 1900 in Geary, OK
9 10
Marriage: 17 OCT 1920 in Hydro, Caddo Co OK
Children: 
  1. DescendantsLiving ARMSTRONG
  2. Mansel Eugene ARMSTRONG b. 6 Feb 1929 in El Reno, OK
  3. DescendantsLiving ARMSTRONG
  4. DescendantsDorsey Dean ARMSTRONG b. 14 Feb 1937 in Hydro, Caddo Co OK
 

Notes
Individual:

Memberships: 32nd Degree Mason; North Caddo County Soil Conservation District board; Honorary Junior Master Farmer, FFA (1941).

The first glimpse Mansel had of Ethel was when he came to Hydro to work for her father in the depot. She had been out milking in work clothes and unsuccessfully tried to slip up the stairs without being seen. Their first date was to the Methodist Church; she walked him right down to the very front row.

Mansel tried in vain to enter the military during World War I, but being deaf in one ear prevented him. He traveled to the Mayo clinic in MN, but nothing could be done. He was living alone at Driftwood when the terrible flu epidemic of 1918 hit.


Sources
  1. Text: Hydro, Oklahoma, 1901-1998, Ramona Armstrong Duff et al, 1999.
    Text: p 100.
  2. Text: Mansel Grant Armstrong, delayed birth certificate no. 1601-248
    , filed 23 Jan 1961, Oklahoma State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics. Xerox copy, Documentation File.
  3. Text: Mansel Armstrong, funeral card. Xerox copy in Ramona Duff, Armst
    rong Album and Light Lines, 112.
  4. Text: Mansel Grant Armstrong, death certificate no. 03106 (1977), Okla
    homa State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics. Xerox copy, Documentation File.
  5. Text: Armstrong Dies; Rites on Tuesday, and other Mansel Armstrong o
    bituaries, undated clippings from unidentified newspapers. Xerox copies in Ramona Duff, Armstrong Album and Light Lines, 112.
  6. Text: Masonic Cemetery, Hydro OK, transcribed by Katherine Patterson a
    t time of death of each of her grandparents. Photos in Cemeteries File.
  7. Text: Smith, A. Clarence, ed. Who s Who in Caddo County. Anadarko OK
    : The Anadarko Tribune, 1926, 61-62. Armstrong #1 File.
  8. Text: Mansel Armstrong, no. 448-36-4494. Social Security Death Index
    , Family Search (Salt Lake City: Family History Library, 1988). Documentation File.
  9. Text: Caddo County Marriage Book 10: 403, Court Clerk s Office, Anadar
    ko OK. Xerox copy, Documentation File.
  10. Text: Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Armstrong Celebrate Golden Wedding Anniversa
    ry Over Week-end, undated clipping probably from the Hydro Review. Original clipping, Armstrong #1 File.

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