Margaret Shipley Armstrong
BIRTH
1752
DEATH
27 May 1829 (aged 76–77)
BURIAL
Smith Cemetery
Gaston County, North Carolina, USA
Gravesite Details: Wife of Matthew Armstrong
Margaret Sloan was only twenty-eight when her first husband, Robert Sloan was killed. Two years after his death, she remarried to Matthew Armstrong who had fought at the Battles of King's Mountain (October 7, 1780) and Cowpens (January 17, 1781). With Armstrong, she had several more children, including:
Mary Polly Armstrong 1784 – 1807
John Armstrong 1785 – 1822
George Armstrong 1786 – 1788
Matthew Armstrong 1787 – 1870
James Armstrong 1788 – 1869
Samuel Armstrong 1793 – 1857
Naomi Armstrong 1795 – 1872
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