Editing Louis Armstrong (section)

===Family===
[[File:Lucille Wilson and Louis Armstrong.jpg|thumb|Armstrong with Lucille Wilson, c. 1960s]]

Armstrong was performing at the Brick House in [[Gretna, Louisiana]] when he met Daisy Parker, a local prostitute, and started an affair as a client. Armstrong returned to Gretna on several occasions to visit her. He found the courage to look for her home to see her away from work. There, Armstrong found out she had a [[Common-law marriage in the United States|common-law husband]]. Not long after that, Parker traveled to Armstrong's home on Perdido Street<ref name="bergreen134">Bergreen (1997), 134–137.</ref> and they checked into Kid Green's hotel that evening. On the next day, March 19, 1919, Armstrong and Parker married at City Hall.<ref name="bergreen134" /><ref name="Collier2">{{cite book |last=Collier |first=James Lincoln |author-link=James Lincoln Collier |title=Louis Armstrong: An American Genius |date=1983 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0195033779 |page=[https://archive.org/details/louisarmstro00jam/page/81 81] |url=https://archive.org/details/louisarmstro00jam |url-access=registration }}</ref> They adopted a three-year-old boy, Clarence, whose mother, Armstrong's cousin Flora, had died soon after giving birth. Clarence Armstrong was mentally disabled as a result of a head injury at an early age. Armstrong spent the rest of his life taking care of him.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0316,giddins,43368,22.html |title=Satchuated |first=Gary |last=Giddins |newspaper=[[Village Voice]] |date=April 16–22, 2003 |access-date=October 17, 2007 |archive-date=June 5, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605231223/http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0316,giddins,43368,22.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> His marriage to Parker ended when they separated in 1923.

On February 4, 1924, Armstrong married [[Lil Hardin Armstrong]], King Oliver's pianist. She had divorced her first husband a few years earlier. Armstrong's second wife helped him develop his career, but they separated in 1931 and divorced in 1938. Armstrong then married Alpha Smith.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.redhotjazz.com/lil.html |title=Lillian Hardin Armstrong |website=RedHotJazz.com |access-date=January 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023073640/http://www.redhotjazz.com/lil.html |archive-date=October 23, 2013 }}</ref> His relationship with Alpha began while he was playing at the Vendome during the 1920s and continued long after.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Brothers|first=Thomas|title=Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|year=2014|isbn=978-0393065824|location=New York|pages=318}}</ref> Armstrong's marriage to her lasted four years; they divorced in 1942. He then married Lucille Wilson, a singer at the [[Cotton Club]] in New York, in October 1942. They remained married until his death in 1971.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.louisarmstrongfoundation.org/louis.php |website=LouisArmstrongFoundation.org |title=Biography of Louis Daniel Armstrong |publisher=Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation |access-date=January 16, 2015 |archive-date=December 28, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228222300/http://www.louisarmstrongfoundation.org/louis.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Armstrong's marriages produced no offspring.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/about/faq.htm# |title=Louis Armstrong: FAQ |publisher=[[Louis Armstrong House]] Museum |access-date=December 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116083432/http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/about/faq.htm |archive-date=January 16, 2013}}</ref> However, in December 2012, 57-year-old Sharon Preston-Folta claimed to be his daughter from a 1950s affair between Armstrong and Lucille "Sweets" Preston, a dancer at the Cotton Club.<ref>{{cite news |title=Louis Armstrong's secret daughter revealed, 42 years after his death |first= Jacqui |last= Goddard |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=December 15, 2012 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9747518/Louis-Armstrongs-secret-daughter-revealed-42-years-after-his-death.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219071602/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9747518/Louis-Armstrongs-secret-daughter-revealed-42-years-after-his-death.html |archive-date=December 19, 2012 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In a 1955 letter to his manager, Joe Glaser, Armstrong affirmed his belief that Preston's newborn baby was his daughter, and ordered Glaser to pay a monthly allowance of $400 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|500|1955}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars){{inflation-fn|US}} to mother and child.<ref name="Collier3">{{cite book |last=Collier |first=James Lincoln |author-link=James Lincoln Collier |title=Louis Armstrong: An American Genius |date=1983 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0195033779 |page=[https://archive.org/details/louisarmstro00jam/page/158 158] |url=https://archive.org/details/louisarmstro00jam |url-access=registration }}</ref>