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6. Irene (Irena) Armstrong

Elliott's first daughter, Irene, was born in Shoreham in 1802. She never married and lived with her parents until
her mother's death in 1859. In the fall of 1860, she went to live with her younger brother Spencer who had
moved to Minnesota a few years earlier. Irena is the last Armstrong of her generation and line to leave
Shoreham and the state of Vermont. Known by her nieces and nephews as Aunt Moon, she died in 1887, a few
months earlier than her brother Spencer. She is believed to have been buried in Troy, MN.

7. Spencer Armstrong

Elliott and Eleanor's sixth son, Spencer, was 19 when he married his first
cousin, Clarinda Stephens in February 1825 (daughter of his mother’s sister
– Susannah Phelps). They waited a few years to begin their family, but
between 1829 and 1847, they had a total of four boys and four girls, all
born in Shoreham, VT. Spencer was the last of the Armstrong males of his
generation to leave Shoreham, and like his older brother Ransom, waited
until he was over 50 years of age until turning his sights westward.

While Spencer's son Anson, attended Middlebury College from 1855 to
1857, he is known to have been in Minnesota in the winter of 1857, so it
appears that he followed his parents when they made their westward
pilgrimage sometime during that year. We also know that Anson later
returned to Shoreham where he taught school and first married.

As mentioned above, unlike his siblings Chester, Ransom, David and Elliott
Orlando, Spencer did not stop in Michigan, but kept going until he finally
settled at Pilot Mound, Fillmore County, Minnesota. With him went his
wife, Clarinda, his unmarried older sister, Irene, and at least four of his Newton Academy near Shoreham, VT.
children - Henry, Anson, Martha, and Sarah. His oldest son, Orville, married Photo taken in 1940 (received from
Bill Gardner in 1996)
in Vermont in 1854, but at some later date also migrated to Minnesota
where he died at Eaton in 1889.

Spencer's daughter Laura, married in 1850, and may have stayed in Vermont. Another daughter, Ellie, married
in 1857 and remained in Shoreham where her husband, Edwin Thompson, became the principal of Newton
Academy in 1860.Spencer moved to Winona County, MN in the 1870s, and in 1876, his wife, Clarinda, died in
the town of Troy, MN where she is buried. A couple years later, he married Cornelia Smith and fathered
another son named Linden Scott Armstrong. Spencer died in St. Charles, MN in 1887.

References of interest for Spencer:
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A Genealogical Register of the Early Families of Shoreham Vermont - pages 280 (Spencer) and 281 (David
Wing)
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Spencer Armstrong and family with references from Virginia Armstrong
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Spencer and Family, Church of the Latter Day Saints, LDS Archive Record
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Spencer Armstrong - 1850 U. S. Census, Shoreham, Addison County, Vermont
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Spencer Armstrong - 1860 U. S. Census, Pilot Mound Township, Fillmore County, Minnesota
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Spencer Armstrong - 1860 U. S. Census, Pilot Mound Township, Fillmore County, Minnesota
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Armstrong, Stephens and Barnum genealogy information received from Bill Gardner
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Armstrong Genealogy Information received from Cathy Owens in1995 (most of this information was originally

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