Margaret Jane Armstrong

  General Notes:

The 1860 Federal Census for Martic Township, Lancaster Co., PA, Bethesda P. O., page 501A records Mahlon Eckman (28 - PA) and his son Hugh H. Eckman (1). Also in the household are family members Susan Eckman (68), Susan Eckman (31), Eliza E. Groff (38), Cyrus Groff (13), and Maria Groff (12). Next door is the Armstrong family: Joseph Armstrong (46), Hugh Armstrong (81), Jane Ann Armstrong (70), Hugh Armstrong (24), Margaret J. [Armstrong] Eckman (25) [wife of Mahlon Eckman], Daniel Armstrong (8), and Thomas J. Armstrong (4). Mahlon is a Laborer while Jospeh is a farmer with real estate valued at $10,000 and a personal estate at $1,000.

See general notes on her father, Hugh Armstrong, for a Biographical Sketch from: History of Martic Township from History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches published in 1883.

Margaret J. [Armstrong] Eckman is listed in the Cemetery Records of Martic Township as buried in Row 16 of the Bethesda Methodist Church Cemetery. Her record states: Margaret J. Eckman, mother, 1834 - 1907

Margaret married Mahlon P. Eckman. (Mahlon P. Eckman was born in 1831 in Pennsylvania, died in 1902 in Martic Township, Lancaster Co., PA and was buried in Bethesda Methodist Church Cemetery, Martic Twp, Lancaster Co., PA.)