SSGT
Roy
Edwin
Armstead
aka Olmstead
Born about in Newnan, Coweta, Georgia, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Thomas Jefferson Olmstead, Elmer Olmstead, Edna Pearl Olmstead, Martha Jean (Olmstead) Durrough, Thomas Terry Olmstead, Bobby Olmstead and Gerald Olmstead
Husband of
[private wife (1930s - 2010s)]
Father of
Roy Edwin Armstead Jr.
Died
at about age 84
in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States
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Biography
Roy was born estimated about 1929 the child of Thomas Olmstead and Mary Barentine.
Roy Olmstead is included with the family in the 1940 census as 11 years of age and in third grade in school.
Roy's father "T.J." gave his family name as Almstead when he joined the Army to serve in WW -I; returning to civilian life T.J. reverted to use his original family name Olmstead, When Roy joined the US Army Air Corp. in 1945 at the age of 16-1/2, he claimed his birth year as 1928 though in was actually 1929. He also gave the family name as Almstead.
Roy Almstead married Ellen Jean Masden and they had two children, Eddie and Ronald.
He served in the US Army[1] for 25 years, achieving the rank of Staff Sergeant.[2]
Roy died in 1986 and is buried next to his wife in the Greenlawn Memorial Park, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.[3]
Research Note
There are Armstead listings in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia. Relationship, if any, not established.
Sources
- ↑ US Army Enlistment Records (ancestry)
- ↑ US VA BIRLS file
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #147819896
- Olmste(a)d files of Walt Steesy
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