The younger boys were the ever beloved and tender Sheridan, who at
twelve was still the pet of all the family; Andrew Franklin was 10;
James Alexander, "Little Chamis", so beloved of his namesake, James
Coryell, was only eight, the baby, William Moses Noris was six on August
27 of that year. It was this child who died at age 12 and was buried in
the family cemetery behind the big house at Wheelock, Texas.
For four years Cavitt Armstrong had been showing himself a great asset
to the family as he worked at whatever Ann said needed working at. He
was charming and young, a man of splendid background on both sides of
his family. In fact, the Armstrong family has an illustrious lineage
traced through Burkes "peerage", "Burkes Landed Gentry" and also his
"Heraldric Register". Other documents which give testament to the family
of William Lapsley Armstrong are State Documents of North Carolina and
North Carolina Histories.
In early times the Armstrong familiar settled in Scotland. At the turn
of the 17th Century Andrew Armstrong migrated from Scotland to the
country of Fermanaugh, Ireland. He was a devout Royalist, serving as a
cavalry officer in the army of King Charles. One of this Armstrong's
descendents was the ancestor of the Armstrongs of Bolly Cumber, King's
Country, Ireland, whose coat of arms is the ancient one and belongs to
the clan at large and may be rightfully claimed by both British and
American Armstrongs.
James Armstrong was born in Ireland in 1701, migrated to America between
1726 and 1730 and located in Pennsylvania where he remained until 1753
when he next moved to North Carolina.
While still in Pennsylvania, James Armstrong married Mary Bird, b. 1711.
Their children were: William, b, 5-10-1737, Sarah, b, 6-19-1740, James,
Jr., b. 2-14-1746, Mary, b, 8-14-1749, Susanna, b. 12-29-1754,
Elizabeth, b. 2-7-1758.
Following the line of the eldest of the six children of James and Mary
Bird Armstrong, we learn that William Armstrong was born in Pennsylvania
and was 16 years old when his family moved to North Carolina. He served
in the Revolution as Captain in the First North Carolina Regiment.
In 1784 William Armstrong moved to Wilson Co., Tenneessee, settling near
Thompsons Fort where he lived for the next four years. He located
permanently in Williamson County. In 1760 he married Jane Lapsley, whose
family had come from Ireland to Virginia in 1734. Their children were:
Thomas, b. 3-5-1762, James, b, 12-25-1768, Mary, b, 12-22-1771, William
Lapsley, b. 3-10-1773, d, 4-17-1862.
The children of William Lapsley Armstrong and his wife, Mary Cavitt, b.
11-27-1777, d. 11-27-1857, daughter of Richard and Margaret Cavitt, and
sister of Andrew Cavitt, were:
1. James Armstrong, b. 6-4-1797
2. Jane Armstrong, b. 11-13-1800
3. Susan Armstrong, b. 2-28-1802
4. Thomas Lapsley Armstrong, b. 6-14-1804
5. Hulda Armstrong, b. 3-12-1806
6. Cavitt Armstrong, b. 4-20-1808, d. 1-15-1854
7. Josephus Armstrong, b. 4-20-1810
8. Mary Armstrong, b. 3-14-1813
9. William Armstrong, b, 4-14-1815
10. John G. V. Armstrong, b. 10-23-1817
Tho sixth child of William Lapsley and Mary Cavitt Armstrong, Cavitt
Armstrong, was born at Cross Plains, Tennessee, 4-20-1808, and died at
Wheelock, Texas, January 15, 1854, at the age of forty-five.
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