Mahala Jane Armstrong
Mahala Jane (Shockey) Armstrong was also the widow of Thomas W. Goldsmith. They were married 5 Sep 1876 in Lincoln, Logan, Ill. She married W.S. Armstrong, 17 May 1889 in Sedalia, Pettis, MO. She was born 27 Feb 1857 in Iowa to Nelson and Susan King Shockey. Nelson died in Clay Co., MO in the 1860s and Susan and family moved to Mason Co., Ill. Nelson was the great grandson of the immigrant, Johann Christoffel Schacke. Mahala’s grandparents were Abram and Susan Shockey, buried in Wayne Co., Iowa. She and Thomas had 2 children in Missouri, Dollie Ann (b. 1882) and an unknown infant. Mahala and Wm. S Armstrong had 2 daughters, Nora A (b. 1890) and Lottie (b. 1893).
