Mary Catherine (Morris) Armstrong

OBITUARY:
ARMSTRONG--At her home near Randolph, Iowa, Dec. 5, 1892, of cancer, Mary C. Armstrong.
Mrs. Armstrong was born April 6, 1846, in Warren Co., IL. Her father and mother, Mr. [Capt.] and Mrs. Wm. Morris, were old settlers well known in the neighborhood of Belmont, Henderson county. Mrs. A. was united in marriage to Levi W. Armstrong on Feb 8th, 1866, at Sunbeam, IL. They lived in the Belmont neighborhood until the latter part of 1869, when they moved to Iowa. She was the mother of eight children, six boys and two girls. They all survive her except one, the youngest child, who died May 20th, 1889. She has two brothers living in Illinois; Wm. M. Morris lives on the old home farm and D. R. Morris is in business in Little York. Mrs. Armstrong has suffered over a year. She had seven surgical operations performed at different times, but the last one did not heal and continued to grow worse until about three weeks ago when homorrhage set in and finally blood poisoning was the direct cause of death. She suffered intensely most of the time but died very peacefully and without the least pain seemingly. She was respected by all who ever became acquainted with her. [end]
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