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His wife, Eunice, died in Corunna, Shiawassee Co., MI in April 1888 and is buried beside her husband at Mt. Hope
Cemetery in Lansing.

References of interest for Chester:
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Carrie Armstrong Chermak package – see the page 5 insert believed to have been prepared by Jerome B.
Armstrong – Chester’s birth and death dates differ from record to record. I have chosen to use the ones
shown in this record.
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A Genealogical Register of the Early Families of Shoreham, Vermont; Susan H. McIntire and Sanford S.
Witherell, Volume 2; 1992; Academy Books, Rutland, Vermont, pages 278 & 279 (Elliot, Chauncey &
Chester)
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Chester Armstrong and family - typed notes from Virginia Armstrong
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Chester Armstrong and family with notes and references, received from Virginia Armstrong
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Chester Armstrong and Family, The Phelps Family of America and Their English Ancestors, by Judge Oliver
Seymour Phelps and Andrew T. Servin
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Chester Armstrong and Family, Church of the Latter Day Saints, LDS Archive Record
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Chester Armstrong – 1840 U.S. Census, Town of Sandstone, Jackson County, Michigan
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Chester Armstrong – 1850 U.S. Census, Town of Sandstone, Jackson County, Michigan
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Dr. D. W. Armstrong’s Medical Account Book – First mention of Chester Armstrong in Parma, June 1852
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Chester Armstrong – 1860 U.S. Census, Village of Parma, Jackson County, Michigan
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Early Parma Business Directory which shows Chester and David W. Armstrong, Cracker Hill Crumbs, Parma
Community Improvement Association, Fourth Printing: July 1996, page 8
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Eunice Armstrong death notice, The Lansing Journal, 24 April 1888, page 3, column 1
Family Narratives – Rev. Dr. Charles Solon Armstrong (son of Chester & Eunice Armstrong)
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C. Solon Armstrong, History of the Presbyterian Church in the State of Illinois, Vol. 1, 1879, By Augustus
Theodore Norton, Pages 667 & 668
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Biography and death of Dr. Rev. Chester Solon Armstrong
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Rev. Dr. Chester Solon Armstrong and family, notes and references from Virginia Armstrong
4. Erastus Armstrong

Elliott's fourth son, Erastus, also died young.

5. Ransom S. Armstrong

As his older brothers Chauncey and Chester, Ransom searched for opportunities away from Shoreham, and by
1840 had moved further south to West Haven, Rutland Co., VT where he was farming at the time. Ransom
married his first wife; Ester (Minor) Page in 1820, about four months after his older brother Chester was married
(also in Shoreham?). An interesting side note - there may have been a blood relationship between Ransom's first
wife, Esther (Miner) Page whose mother was Lucy Griswold (born 24 April 1761, died 30 Aug. 1831 in Cornswall,
VT) and his oldest brother's wife Polly Griswold - perhaps they were cousins?

A couple of months after the birth of their eighth child, Eliza, in 1841, Ransom's first wife, Ester, died. Three
years later, in West Haven, he married again, this time to Mary (Minor) Church (a younger sister of Ester's?).
Sometime during this period, he also left farming, as by the fall of 1850 he was making his living as an Inn
Keeper, and is shown as being the owner of real estate valued at $1,500.00. Ransom, then 51 years old, had
apparently inherited his father's commitment to procreation, having reached a grand total of 11 offspring with
the birth of his son Ransom Jr. in August of that year. By this time, his four oldest daughters had left home, and

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