Armstrong Staley
Armstrong Staley was born in Shelby County in 1844. He married Ellen Bruce in 1867. They have two children: Elizabeth J., born 1868; and Jennie May, born 1875. Eugene Bruce, the father of Mrs. Staley, was born in Germany, and came to the United States in 1847, and first located in Cleveland, where he lived till 1858, when he came to Shelby County, where he lived, until during the war of the rebellion, he enlisted in the army, and was killed at the battle of Atlanta, August 11, 1864. Mr. Staley is located in fractional section 36, on the old homestead of Benjamin Manning, settled in 1819.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883