LEFT FOR TEXAS: Armstrong Family Resemblances

Monday, November 16, 2009

Armstrong Family Resemblances

The first three of these photographs have been identified as Edward McCarty Armstrong, Sr., my husband's great-great grandfather. The resemblances between the photos are very strong, so strong that they seem indeed to be the same person.

Then who are these men who also seem to resemble Edward McCarty Armstrong, Sr? Is the first one a younger Edward McCarty Armstrong. Sr?

I suspect this last one is that of one of Edward's oldest sons, perhaps David Gibson Armstrong or William Dillon Armstrong. However, it's impossible to tell for sure because people didn't write identifying marks on the backs of these photographs.

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Left for Texas: For the Ones Who Came Before Us

Although I am no genealogist, I am interested in the stories, ethics, and views passed down through generations. I grew up in Texas hearing stories associated with my Dugat ancestors who first journeyed from France to The New World and what is now known as Nova Scotia. Eventually booted out by the British, these Acadians found their way to South Louisiana and became known as "Cajuns." My particular branch of Dugats then settled in Texas while it was still under Spanish governance. Other ancestors perhaps fled religious persecution in England, and still others came to America for a number of reasons, traveling south and west, leaving kinfolk behind, transforming their stories over time. Most of my ancestors left little behind except for stories and a few photographs though over time their descendants have pieced together some of the family sagas. (Some family names: Benton, Scott, Deweese, Cole, Simmons, Cooper, Schlobaum, Dobbs)

In contrast, my husband's family left a wealth of family documentation in the form of photographs, letters, and other ephemera. I have created this blog in an attempt to create order from the chaotic family papers that my husband and his sister have inherited. This blog first tells some of the stories of the Armstrongs who left Ireland for America in the 1790s. At the age of ten, William Armstrong accompanied his parents to the New World, and by the time of his death in 1865, he had risen to the United States Congress, as a representative of Virginia. The blog will also include information about the Nugents, the Cooks, the Greenes, and other family names. And I'll add links to information about my own family genealogy. Our stories are much like the stories of other Americans whose ancestors left their original countries for new opportunities in the New World. And they kept traveling, searching, once they arrived.
Anita Dugat-Greene