January 9, 1887, Letter dated January 9, 1887 from Kitty Armstrong in County Sligo, Ireland to her brother John F. Armstrong.

John F. Armstrong died at the Georgia State Lunatic Asylum on November 9th, 1893 after a long debilitating illness.

In June of 1883, John Devoy (1842-1928) lost a libel suit filed against him by New York banker August Belmont.

The images below are of the letter John F. Armstrong (1845-1893) wrote on July 8, 1883 to John Devoy (1842-1928).

John Luke Armstrong was born in Augusta, Georgia on October 17, 1876, the son of John Francis Armstrong (1845-1893) and Sarah Theresa McAndrew Armstrong (1845-1887).

Eamon de Valera was the only commandant from the failed 1916 Easter Rising who wasn’t executed by the British. This was due to his late surrender as well as the timing of his sentencing and protests from the US government.

The home of John Francis and Sarah McAndrew Armstrong at 1323 Broad St. in Augusta was torn down around 1901. Although there are no known photos of the house, it is depicted on the 1890 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps as a two-story wood frame domestic structure.

John Francis Armstrong (1845-1893) immigrated to Augusta, Georgia from County Sligo, Ireland in the summer of 1865, shortly before his twentieth birthday. In Augusta, he found work as a bookkeeper and met Sarah Theresa McAndrew, whom he married in 1868.

James Patrick Armstrong was born on September 11th, 1874 in Augusta, Georgia. The third child of John Francis and Sarah McAndrew Armstrong, he grew up at the family home at 1323 Broad Stree.

Sarah McAndrew Armstrong was born in Charleston, South Carolina about 1846. Her parents, Patrick and Ellen Langin McAndrew were Irish immigrants who owned a dry-goods store in the city.

May Armstrong Casey Morrison was her children and grandchildren’s primary source of information about her father, the Irish nationalist John Francis Armstrong (1845-1893).

Dick Casey wrote the obituary for John Francis Armstrong, his wife’s father, that appeared in the Augusta Herald on November 10th, 1893.

Mary Ellen Langin McAndrew Geraty was the mother of Sarah Theresa McAndrew Armstrong, the wife of John Francis Armstrong.

Mary Ellen “May” Armstrong Casey was the oldest child and only daughter of John Francis and Sarah McAndrew Armstrong. In 1892, she married William Celestin “Dick” Casey.