A timeline of John F. Armstrong’s life from 1887 to 1890.

John F. Armstrong died at the Georgia State Lunatic Asylum on November 9th, 1893 after a long, debilitating illness. His body was brought by train to Augusta the next day and, after a funeral mass at Sacred Heart Church, he was buried at Magnolia Cemetery.

In June of 1883, John Devoy (1842-1928) lost a libel suit filed against him by New York banker August Belmont. Devoy had made accusations against Belmont that were later proven false. Found guilty, he was sentenced to sixty days in prison on Blackwell’s Island in Manhattan’s East River.

These images are of the letter John F. Armstrong (1845-1893) wrote on July 8th, 1883 to John Devoy (1842-1928), while Devoy was imprisoned on Blackwell’s Island (now Roosevelt Island) in New York.

John Luke Armstrong was born in Augusta, GA on October 17th, 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. Their carriage stone now sits at the home of their great-great-granddaughter, Marie Van Sant Hudson.

John Francis Armstrong (1845-1893) immigrated to Augusta, GA, 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, GA. The third child of John Francis and Sarah McAndrew Armstrong, he grew up at the family home at 1323 Broad Street.

Sarah McAndrew Armstrong was born in Charleston, SC, 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. May and Dick had four children.