Descendants of Unknown Unrecorded Arnold

Generation No. 1

1. Unknown Unrecorded¹ Arnold He married Unknown.

About TwentyThousand generations preceded this unknown ancestor.

The ancestors of Arnolds came from tribes that inhabited Europe for millions of years. The first name in the series of names that led to name Arnold was probably something like Ahh. There also have been hundreds of variations in the genealogy of the Arnold name. And the Arnold family has probably been killed off of the face of this planet many times only to be reappear over time again and again. The vast majority of our ancestors, which number in the millions, were gatherers, farmers and hunters. Only in the last 10,000 to 50,000 years did our ancestors learn that through cooperation the valuable knowledge that led to civilization. They learned to use tools of ever increasing complexity. They learned to use and to make fire. If you think they were not very smart you go out in the woods and make a fire with just your bare hands. You like my boy scouts learn that it takes quite a bit of know how. They learned how to domesticate animals. Theirs was a world of survival where the average life span was usually under 30. They had no modern conveniences or medicine; no food stamps or EMS. Yet at times their lives were as happy or happier than ours. And they paid no taxes, filled out no tax forms and never got stuck in traffic jams. Although the Romans started the modern naming system the barbarians swept across Europe wiped it out returning it back to a single name. Occasionally a place of birth or residence and later an occupation was sometimes added. Among the tribes that may have had Arnolds were Angles, Barbarians, Celts, Jutes, Saxons, Vandals, and Vikings. Arnold derives from Arnulf "eagle-ruler" which is a Germanic-Scandinavian name. It has several different spellings, some of which are Arnalt, Arnault, Arnuf, Arnold, Arno, Arnhold, etc. The early Arnolds were blond barbarians possibly Nordic pagans. They were very savage in war but were reportedly open among one another. The Roman Empire fell about 400 and shortly thereafter various tribes resumed the invasions of England that had been going on for unknown eons. In 410 Arnulf and his brother Alaric sacked and burned Rome. Various tribes repeatedly conquered Europe and England in bloody warfare where they murdered, maimed, sacked, raped and pillaged for hundreds of years.

In 1066 the Normans under William the Conqueror (in whose army were many Arnolds) invaded England. These were called Vikings or Northmen. English Arnolds are descended mainly from Saxton and Norman lines.

Acording to the American Genealogical Research Institute's book The Arnold Family, the majority of Arnold families in England are concentrated South of the Wash and Mersey rivers in East Central England mostly in Warwickshire and Leicestershire. These are primarily of the Saxon origin. Before the sixteenth century the ancestral home of the Arnolds was in the Welsh shire of Monmouth but later years the family expanded into the shires of Glouchester and Dorset. Kent County has a town named Arnold in the Hollingbourne district and several other coastal towns are named Arnold. A village and river on Lewis Island located in the old Viking sea-lane from Scandinavia are named Arnold. The Norman census of 1272-1307 shows many Arnolds.

Our ancestors were emigrants from England, Ireland, or Scotland. They came to the New World for many reasons but mainly because they hoped it would bring them a better life. To come here they often faced life-threatening hardships. First was to give up all that their homes and all that they had known as home. Then they faced an extremely unpleasant voyage on rickety wooden ships lasting from 45 to 140 days. Many died on the way. The living arrangements were miserable and extremely crowded. The "food" consisted of hardtack (a cracker-bread-biscuit), salt meat, peas, and cheese with water. Disease and pirates took their terrible toll as did shipwrecks and storms.

Descendant Register, Generation No. 1

1. Brothers, EZIKIEL ARNOLD, JAMES LEE ARNOLD, JOHN E. ARNOLD, FERNIE (FURNEY) F. ARNOLD, ASA ARNOLD, and JEREMIAH (JERRY) ARNOLD, (James ARNOLD 25, Arthur ARNOLD 24, James ARNOLD 23, Elisha ARNOLD 22, Isreal ARNOLD 21, Stephen ARNOLD 20, William ARNOLD 19, Thomas Nicholas ARNOLD18, Richard ARNOLD 17, Richard ARNOLD 16, Thomas ARNOLD 15, Roger ARNOLD, Lord of Cayty and Rogaid 14, Arnholt ap Arnholt VYCHAN 13, Arnholt ap Gwillim of MERIC 12, Gwillim ap MERIC 11, Meric ap ARTHUR 10, Arthur ap SYSSYLTH 9, Systyl ap DYFNWALL 8, Dyfnwall ap CARADOR, Lord of Gwent 7, Carador ap Ynir VICHAN 6, Ynir VCHAN 5, MERIC 4, YNIR 3, YNIR 2, CADWALADER 1).

2. The 26 generations listed above are the direct ancestors of the six brothers born in North Carolina and Tennessee. CADWALADER was King of the Britons, in the 11th Century; YNIR 3, King of Gwentland; MERIC, King of Gwentland; Ynir VICHAN, King of Gwentland; Carador ap Ynir VICHAN, Lord of Gwent, Dyfnwall Ap CARADOR, Lord of Gwent; and Systyl ap DYFNWALL, Lord of Upper Gwent, all royalty.

This information came from that recorded in the College of Arms, in England

This information is also entered into the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dona Pitts Bradley and Dona Schneider Hougaard, and Jeannie Hougaard were the ones primarily responsible for these entries.

Much of the following information is from a variety of sources, and primarily through the efforts of Dona Pitts Bradley, Dona Schneider Hougaard, Howard Leon Arnold, and many others from records and other sources. Records involved were from Craven County Marriage Bonds, NC; The Arnold Genealogy; many English Records, North Carolina Records, Rhode Island Records,

The two Donas and Jeannie Hougaard with others were responsible for entry into the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.

ID Numbers and Reference Numbers are numbers used to locate the individuals referred to in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The Arnold Genealogy book is the Family History name for Howard Leon Arnold publication of the Arnel's of North Carolina and the Arnold's of Virginia Family Histories.

We begin with the earliest known ancestor recorded in these records;

ID: I0750 Name: CALDWALADER Title: King of the Britons Reference Number: 751

Marriage; 1 Spouse Unknown Children: 1. YNIR

ID: I0753 Name: YNIR Reference Number: 754 Father: CADWALADER

Marriage: 1 Spouse Unknown Children: 1. YNIR b: BET 1024-1154 in Gwentland, Wales

ID: I0408 Name: YNIR Sex: M Title: King of Gwentland Birth: BET 1024-1154 in Gwentland, Wales

Father: YNIR Marriage: NESTA Children: 1. MEIRIC b: BET 1059-1185 in Gwent, Wales

ID: I0406 Name: MEIRIC Sex: M Title: King of Gwentland Birth: BET. 1059-1185 in Gwent, Wales

Reference Number: 406 Father: YNIR b: BET. 1024-1154 in Gwentland, Wales Mother: NESTA

Marriage: 1 ELEANOR Children: 1. Ynir VICHAN b: BET. 1094-1216 in Gwent, Wales

Child of Unknown Arnold preceded by TwentyThousand generations is:

+ 2 i. Cadwalader King of the² Britons, born 975 in Probably in Wales.

Generation No. 2

2. Cadwalader King of the² Britons was born 975 in Probably in Wales.

Child of Cadwalader King of the Britons is:

+ 3 i. Ynir³, born Bet. 1054 - 1154 in Gwentland, Wales.

Generation No. 3

3. Ynir³ (Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born Bet. 1054 - 1154 in Gwentland, Wales. Ynir was the second son of Cadwalader, Last King of the Britons.

Child of Ynir is:

+ 4 i. King of Gwentland Ynir⁴, born Bet. 1024 - 1154 in Gwentland, Wales.

Generation No. 4

4. King of Gwentland Ynir⁴ (Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born Bet. 1024 - 1154 in Gwentland, Wales. He married Nesta, daughter of Jestin ap Gurgan, King of Glamorgan.

Notes for King of Gwentland Ynir: Ynir, King of Gwentland, flourished in the 12th century and was paternally descended from King Cadwalader, who built Abergavenny, in Monmouthshire The castle was afterwards rebuilt by Hamlet, son of the Duke of Balladon of France. Portions of the wall still remain. This pedigree is recorded in the College of Arms, in England.

Child of Ynir and Nesta is:

+ 5 i. Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, born Bet. 1059 - 1185 in Gwent, Wales.

Generation No. 5

5. Meric King of⁵ Gwentland (Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born Bet. 1059 - 1185 in Gwent, Wales. He married Eleanor.

Child of Meric Gwentland and Eleanor is:

+ 6 i. Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, born Bet. 1094 - 1216 in Gwent, Wales.

Generation No. 6

6. Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland (Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born Bet. 1094 - 1216 in Gwent, Wales. He married Gladice Goch. She was born Bet. 1099 - 1220. Child of Ynir Vichan and Gladice Goch is:

+ 7 i. Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, born Abt. 1100 in Probably Wales.

Generation No. 7

7. Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent (Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born Abt. 1100 in Probably Wales. He married Nesta. Child of Carador Gwent and Nesta is:

+ 8 i. Dyfnwall ap⁸ Carador, Lord of Gwent, born Bet. 1129 - 1277 in Gwent, Wales.

Generation No. 8

8. Dyfnwall ap⁸ Carador, Lord of Gwent (Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born Bet. 1129 - 1277 in Gwent, Wales. He married Nesta Le Gros, daughter of Jestin ap Gurgan, King of Glamorgan.

Child of Dyfnwall Carador and Nesta Le Gros is:

+ 9 i. Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent, born Bet. 1165 - 1277 in Gwent, Wales.

Generation No. 9

9. Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent (Dyfnwall ap⁸, Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born Bet. 1165 - 1277 in Gwent, Wales. He married Joyes.

Child of Dyfnwall Carador and Joyes is:

+ 10 i. Systyl ap DyfnwallLord of Upper¹⁰ Gwent, born Bet. 1200 - 1308 in Gwent, Wales.

Generation No. 10

10. Systyl ap DyfnwallLord of Upper¹⁰ Gwent (Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent, Dyfnwall ap⁸, Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born Bet. 1200 - 1308 in Gwent, Wales. He married Annest Russell. She was born Bet. 1235 - 1338. Child of Systyl Gwent and Annest Russell is:

+ 11 i. Arthur ap¹¹ Syssylth, born Bet. 1235 - 1338 in Gwent, Wales.

Generation No. 11

11. Arthur ap¹¹ Syssylth (Systyl ap DyfnwallLord of Upper¹⁰ Gwent, Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent, Dyfnwall ap⁸, Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born Bet. 1235 - 1338 in Gwent, Wales. He married Jane. Child of Arthur Syssylth and Jane is:

+ 12 i. Meiric ap¹² Arthur, born Bet. 1271 - 1369 in Gwent, Wales.

Generation No. 12

12. Meiric ap¹² Arthur (Arthur ap¹¹ Syssylth, Systyl ap DyfnwallLord of Upper¹⁰ Gwent, Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent, Dyfnwall ap⁸, Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born Bet. 1271 - 1369 in Gwent, Wales. He married Annest. Child of Meiric Arthur and Annest is:

+ 13 i. Gwillim ap¹³ Meiric, born Bet. 1306 - 1399 in Gwent, Wales.

Generation No. 13

13. Gwillim ap¹³ Meiric (Meiric ap¹² Arthur, Arthur ap¹¹ Syssylth, Systyl ap DyfnwallLord of Upper¹⁰ Gwent, Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent, Dyfnwall ap⁸, Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born Bet. 1306 - 1399 in Gwent, Wales. He married Jane. Child of Gwillim Meiric and Jane is:

+ 14 i. Arnholt ap Gwillim of Meiric¹⁴ Esquire, born Bet. 1342 - 1429 in Gwent, Wales.

Generation No. 14

14. Arnholt ap Gwillim of Meiric¹⁴ Esquire (Gwillim ap¹³ Meiric, Meiric ap¹² Arthur, Arthur ap¹¹ Syssylth, Systyl ap DyfnwallLord of Upper¹⁰ Gwent, Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent, Dyfnwall ap⁸, Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born Bet. 1342 - 1429 in Gwent, Wales. He married Janet.

Child of Arnholt Esquire and Janet is:

+ 15 i. Arnholt ap Arnholt¹⁵ Vychan, born Bet. 1360 - 1389 in Llanthony, Monmouth, England; died Bet. 1414 - 1474.

Generation No. 15

15. Arnholt ap Arnholt¹⁵ Vychan (Arnholt ap Gwillim of Meiric¹⁴ Esquire, Gwillim ap¹³ Meiric, Meiric ap¹² Arthur, Arthur ap¹¹ Syssylth, Systyl ap DyfnwallLord of Upper¹⁰ Gwent, Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent, Dyfnwall ap⁸, Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born Bet. 1360 - 1389 in Llanthony, Monmouth, England, and died Bet. 1414 - 1474. He married Sybil ap MADOC Bet. 1401 - 1433. She was born Bet. 1369 - 1392 in Llanthony, Monmouth, England. Child of Arnholt Vychan and Sybil MADOC is:

+ 16 i. Roger¹⁶ Arnold, Lord of Cayty and Rogiad, born January 2, 1441/42 in Llanthony in Monmouth, Eng..

Generation No. 16

16. Roger¹⁶ Arnold, Lord of Cayty and Rogiad (Arnholt ap Arnholt¹⁵ Vychan, Arnholt ap Gwillim of Meiric¹⁴ Esquire, Gwillim ap¹³ Meiric, Meiric ap¹² Arthur, Arthur ap¹¹ Syssylth, Systyl ap DyfnwallLord of Upper¹⁰ Gwent, Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent, Dyfnwall ap⁸, Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born January 2, 1441/42 in Llanthony in Monmouth, Eng.. He married Joan Gamage, daughter of Sir Gamage and Matilda Denies. She was born Bet. 1423 - 1484 in Llanthony, Monmouth, England. Notes for Roger Arnold, Lord of Cayty and Rogiad: First to adopt a surname. Married the daughter of a Knight and inherited his lands.

Eng. Line descended from Ynir, King of Gwentland 1100. The name Arnold was adopted in the 12th gen from Ynir. Lord of Cayty and Rogiad. Child of Roger Arnold and Joan Gamage is: + 16 i. Thomas16 Arnold, born 1468 in Churcham, Gloster, England; died 15 September 1545 in Bagber, Dorset, England.

Joan GAMAGE, was the dau/o Thomas GAMAGE, b: 1384; d: BET. 1418-1475, and Matilda Dennis

(DENIES) b: 1388 d: BET. 1418-1482.

She was granddau/o Sir William GAMAGE b: 1358; d: BET. 1390-1449 and Mary RODBURGH b:

1360; d: Bet. 1389-1454. Mary was the dau/o Sir Thomas RODBURGH, b: BET. 1309-1338, d:

BET. 1363-14--. Sir William GAMAGE was the son/o GIlbert DE GAMAGE and grandson/o

Sir Payne DE TUBERVILLE; as well as Sir William SEYMOUR, father-in-law of Gilbert and the

father of his wife Lettice GAMAGE, b: BET. 1316-1339 d: BET. 1364-1427.

Child of Roger Arnold and Joan Gamage is:

+ 17 i. Thomas¹⁷ Arnold, born 1468 in Churcham, Gloster, England; died September 15, 1545 in Bagber, Dorset, England.

Generation No. 17

17. Thomas¹⁷ Arnold (Roger¹⁶, Arnholt ap Arnholt¹⁵ Vychan, Arnholt ap Gwillim of Meiric¹⁴ Esquire, Gwillim ap¹³ Meiric, Meiric ap¹² Arthur, Arthur ap¹¹ Syssylth, Systyl ap DyfnwallLord of Upper¹⁰ Gwent, Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent, Dyfnwall ap⁸, Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born 1468 in Churcham, Gloster, England, and died September 15, 1545 in Bagber, Dorset, England. He married Agnes Warnsted, daughter of Richard Warnsted. She was born 1470.

Notes for Thomas Arnold: Succeeded to Llanthony and other estates. More About Agnes Warnsted: Titles: Lady

Children of Thomas Arnold and Agnes Warnsted are:

+ 18 i. Richard¹⁸ Arnold, born 1494 in Bagber, Dorset, England; died Bet. 1527 - 1561.

19 ii. Eleanor Arnold.

20 iii. John Arnold.

Generation No. 18

18. Richard¹⁸ Arnold (Thomas¹⁷, Roger¹⁶, Arnholt ap Arnholt¹⁵ Vychan, Arnholt ap Gwillim of Meiric¹⁴ Esquire, Gwillim ap¹³ Meiric, Meiric ap¹² Arthur, Arthur ap¹¹ Syssylth, Systyl ap DyfnwallLord of Upper¹⁰ Gwent, Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent, Dyfnwall ap⁸, Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born 1494 in Bagber, Dorset, England, and died Bet. 1527 - 1561. He married Emmote (Emale) Young Bet. 1527 - 1561, daughter of Pierce (Pearce) Young. She was born 1496 in Damerham in Wiltshire, England, and died 1561.

Notes for Richard Arnold: Richard removed into Somersetshire and resided in the parish of Street.

Child of Richard Arnold and Emmote Young is:

+ 21 i. Richard Arnold Lord of¹⁹ Babgber, born 1520 in Bagber, Dorsetshire, England; died May 15, 1593 in London, Middlesex, England.

Generation No. 19

21. Richard Arnold Lord of¹⁹ Babgber (Richard¹⁸ Arnold, Thomas¹⁷, Roger¹⁶, Arnholt ap Arnholt¹⁵ Vychan, Arnholt ap Gwillim of Meiric¹⁴ Esquire, Gwillim ap¹³ Meiric, Meiric ap¹² Arthur, Arthur ap¹¹ Syssylth, Systyl ap DyfnwallLord of Upper¹⁰ Gwent, Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent, Dyfnwall ap⁸, Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born 1520 in Bagber, Dorsetshire, England, and died May 15, 1593 in London, Middlesex, England. He married Jaquita. She was born 1520. Notes for Richard Arnold: ARNOLD:--Richard Arnold and John Gray, in 1668, surveyed a tract of land in Anne Arundel County, Md., called "Arnold Gray" (300 acres), on the west side of South River; which was resurveyed in 1701 for Sylvester and John Welsh and found to contain 605 acres (Anne Arundel County, Rent Rolls). Richard Arnold purchased from Thomas Pratt 100 acres of land, being a part of a larger tract called "Cumberston", and d--about 1684. He m--Martha, dau--of Philip and Sarah Harrison Thomas, and had Sarah Arnold, who m--Samuel Waters (see Keene Chart). Richard removed to Dorsetshire and became seated at Bagbere, parish of Middleton, otherwise called Milton Abbas. His manor house at Bagbere was standing till 1870, when it was demolished. He was twice married. Spouce 2 unknown married bet 1551-1583. Will dated 15 may 1593.

Children of Richard Babgber and Jaquita are:

+ 22 i. Thomas Nicholas²⁰ Arnold, born January 1, 1549/50 in North Over, Somerset, England; died January 24, 1621/22 in Ilchester, Somerset, England.

23 ii. Repentence Arnold, born 1546.

24 iii. Robert Arnold, born 1552.

25 iv. John Arnold, born Abt. 1550.

Generation No. 20

22. Thomas Nicholas²⁰ Arnold (Richard Arnold Lord of¹⁹ Babgber, Richard¹⁸ Arnold, Thomas¹⁷, Roger¹⁶, Arnholt ap Arnholt¹⁵ Vychan, Arnholt ap Gwillim of Meiric¹⁴ Esquire, Gwillim ap¹³ Meiric, Meiric ap¹² Arthur, Arthur ap¹¹ Syssylth, Systyl ap DyfnwallLord of Upper¹⁰ Gwent, Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent, Dyfnwall ap⁸, Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born January 1, 1549/50 in North Over, Somerset, England, and died January 24, 1621/22 in Ilchester, Somerset, England. He married (1) Grace. She was born Abt. 1552. He married (2) Alice Gullay January 1, 1569/70 in Ilchester, Somerset, England, daughter of John Gullay and Alice Gullay. She was born September 26, 1553 in North Over, Somerset, England.

Notes for Thomas Nicholas Arnold: Thomas lived for a time at Melcombe Horsey, from which place he removed to Cheselbourne and seated himself on an estate previously belonging to his father. His first wife was Alice, daughter of John Gulley, parish of Tolpuddle. By his second wife he had Thomas. Second was Grace.

More About Alice Gullay: Baptized: 29 September 1553, Nortover, England

Children of Thomas Arnold and Grace are:

26 i. Elizabeth²¹ Arnold, born 1586.

27 ii. Thomas Arnold, born April 18, 1599.

28 iii. Elanor Arnold, born July 31, 1606.

Children of Thomas Arnold and Alice Gullay are:

+ 29 i. William²¹ Arnold, born June 24, 1587 in Ilchester, Somerset, England; died September 7, 1685 in Pawtuxet, P, Rhode Island.

30 ii. Thomazine Arnold, born April 18, 1599.

31 iii. Joanna Arnold, born November 30, 1577. She married William Hopkins 1600 in Cheselborne, England.

Notes for Joanna Arnold:WILLIAM HOPKINS lived at Cheselborne, England, and about 1600 married Joanna Arnold, daughter of Thomas and Alice (Gulley) Arnold, of the same town.

32 iv. Margery Arnold, born August 30, 1581.

33 v. Robert Arnold, born 1583.

34 vi. John Arnold, born 1585.

Generation No. 21

29. William²¹ Arnold (Thomas Nicholas²⁰, Richard Arnold Lord of¹⁹ Babgber, Richard¹⁸ Arnold, Thomas¹⁷, Roger¹⁶, Arnholt ap Arnholt¹⁵ Vychan, Arnholt ap Gwillim of Meiric¹⁴ Esquire, Gwillim ap¹³ Meiric, Meiric ap¹² Arthur, Arthur ap¹¹ Syssylth, Systyl ap DyfnwallLord of Upper¹⁰ Gwent, Dyfnwall Ap⁹ Carador, Lord Of Gwent, Dyfnwall ap⁸, Carador ap Ynir Vichan Lord of⁷ Gwent, Ynir⁶ Vichan, King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born June 24, 1587 in Ilchester, Somerset, England, and died September 7, 1685 in Pawtuxet, P, Rhode Island. He married Christian Peake 1614 in Muchelney, Somerset England, daughter of Thomas Peake. She was born February 15, 1582/83 in Muchelney, Somerset, England.

Notes for William Arnold: Savage p67: ARNOLD, William, Higham 1635, br. of the first Thomas, b. as is said, 1589, had Benedict, Thomas, Stephen, besides one daughter Joanna, who married Zechary Rhodes, and another Elizabeth who married Thomas Hopkins, all born as is thought in Eng. rem 1636, with Roger Williams to Providence, and was one of the found. of the first Baptist church on our side of the ocean, had grant of land at Newport, RI 1638, but I presume resid. at P. was among freemen in 1655. Backus notes, that he was anc. of the infamously unhappy Benedict of West Point. Of the ch. of one Arnold of Reading recov. from sickness near to d. we may read the story in Mather's life of Brock, Magn IV.142, that is lamenta. extravag. and seems more ridicul. than extravag. Arnold is the name of a parish in Eng. a. 6 miles N. from the borough of Nottingham. REFERENCE SAVAGE, pp.64-67. \ Sailed from Dartmouth , England on May 1, 1635 and landed in New England on June 24th. Was at Hingham, Mass. for a time. In 1636 he removed to Providence, RI with Roger Williams and others who purchased land from the Indians. Arnold acquired large landholdings in Pawtuxet, Providence, and Warwick. In 1639 he became one of the first twelve members of the Baptist church on this side of the Atlantic.

Children of William Arnold and Christian Peake are:

+ 35 i. Stephen²² Arnold, born December 22, 1622 in Bighere Ilchester, Sumerset, England; died November 15, 1699 in Pawtuxet, P, Rhode Island.

36 ii. Benedict Arnold, born December 21, 1615.

ARNOLD, Benedict, Providence 1636, eldest s. of William the first (& Christian Peak), b. in Eng. 21 Dec. 1615, perhaps in Co. Nottingham, m. Damaris, d. of Stukely Westcott (&Julian Marchante), had Godsgift; Josiah; Benedict, b. as tradit. tells, in 1641; Freelove; Oliver; and Caleb; besides other ds. Damaris, Priscilla, and perhaps Penelope; was the richest man in the Col. and by thoro. acquaint. with the manners as well as lang. of the aborig. bec. the most effect. auxil. in all negotiat. with them. In 1653 he rem. to Newport, was chos. Assist. next yr. and in 1663 made by the royal chart. Presid. and by ann. elect. so cont. for eight years and d. 1678. His will of 24 Dec 1677, with codic. of 10 June foll. was pro. 1 July. Both Godsgift and Freelove, are by differ. auth. made to m. Edward Pelham, and, possib. he had the two; Penelope is said to have m. Roger Goulding; and Damaris m. John Bliss. See R. I. Hist. Coll II. 51, and III. 294; Callender; Winth. and Knowles. Governor Benedict Arnold: Saints and Strangers, p.339: Benedict Arnold was agent for Plymouth in averting war with Narragansetts (Indians) in 1645. p.344: Benedict was interpreter between Indians and the settlers, negotiated settlement of dispute. /NKC.

37 iii. Thomas Arnold.

38 iv. Joanna Arnold, born February 27, 1616/17 in England.

+ 39 v. Elizabeth Arnold, born November 23, 1611 in Ilchester, Somerset, England; died 1683 in Providence, Johnston, Rhode Island.

Generation No. 22

35. Stephen²² Arnold ( ) was born December 22, 1622 in Bighere Ilchester, Sumerset, England, and died November 15, 1699 in Pawtuxet, P, Rhode Island. He married Sarah Smith November 24, 1646 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, daughter of Edward Smith. She was born November 15, 1629 in Rehoboth, B., Massachusetts. Notes for Stephen Arnold: GENEALOGIES BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SINCE 1986, SECTION III Page 1129 CS71.A75 1896 Arnold, George Carpenter, 1803-1884. Pedigree of Arnold. AD 1100 [microform] : [family tree : descendants of Stephen and Sarah Arnold and William and Christiane Arnold]. --

Providence : G.C. Arnold, c1896. Reprinted with additions from the 1877 edition. Call number of original: CS71.A75 1896. Master microform held by: DLC. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1986. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. I. Title. Microfilm 86/5223 (C) 86-128724 Child of Stephen Arnold and Sarah Smith is:

+ 38 i. Isreal22 Arnold, born 30 October 1649 in Pawtuxet, P, Rhode Island;

Children of Stephen Arnold and Sarah Smith are:

+ 40 i. Isreal²³ Arnold, born October 30, 1649 in Pawtuxet, P, Rhode Island; died September 15, 1716 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island.

41 ii. Ester Arnold, born September 22, 1647.

42 iii. Stephen Arnold, born November 27, 1654.

43 iv. Elisha Arnold, born February 18, 1661/62 in Providence, Rhode Island.

44 v. Sara Arnold, born June 26, 1665.

45 vi. Phoebe Arnold, born November 9, 1670.

39. Elizabeth²² Arnold ( ) was born November 23, 1611 in Ilchester, Somerset, England, and died 1683 in Providence, Johnston, Rhode Island. She married William Carpenter Bet. 1641 - 1673, son of Richard Carpenter. He was born Abt. 1609. Notes for William Carpenter: CARPENTER, WILLIAM 1637. Providence. He had land granted him. 1638. He was one of the twelve persons to whom Roger Williams decided land that he had bought of Canonicus and Miantonomi. 1639. He was one of the twelve original members of First Baptist Church.

1640, July 27. He was one of the thirty-nine signers to compact for good government.

1642. He and other Pawtuxet settlers subjected themselves to government of Massachusetts, the separation lasting sixteen years. 1658-63. Commissioner. 1660. He was on a committee to receive contributions for expenses of agents in England, viz.; Roger Williams and John Clarke. 1660, Aug 2. He deeded cousin (i.e. niece), Joan Sheldon, wife of John Sheldon, 5 acres. He landed one anker of liquor this year.

1661, Feb 5. He deeded cousin (i.e. nephew), William Vincent, 64 acres. He was on a committee to bridge the pawtucet, about this time. 1664, 1665, 1675, 1676 ^ 1679. Deputy. 1665 > 1672 Assistant.

1669 He gave 5s "for the present" toward expenses of Mr. John Crandall's voyage to Connecticut, and the next year laid down 8s for the present, to accommodate a committee who were going to Connecticut.

1670, Dec 8. He deeded land to daughter Priscilla Vincent, and a house and land at Rocky Hill, to son Ephraim.

1671. He authorized to make assessment on Providence, for arrears of taxes due colony.

1671, Mar 31. In a confirmatory deed to certain parties, he mentions that it was procured for Indian sachems by himself and his brother Zachariah Rhodes, deceased. 1673, Dec 14. he deeded sister Fridgeworth Vincent, as a free gift, "my dwelling house with what land belongeth to me adjoining to the said house, the which said house is standing in the town of Amesbury, in Wiltshire, and in a street commonly called by the name of Frog Lane, my sister being inhabitant of said town; the which said house did in the original belong to my father, Richard Carpenter, now deceased, but fell to my right, as I was the son and heir unto my aforesaid father," &c.

1673. Town Council. 1675, Feb 8. "To the town now met the tenth of this instant; I understand that the Town is about the division of the land on the west side of the Seven Mile Line, and I not able to come myself, I thought good to signify unto you what rights, and of whom I bought them, and also to whom I give them; that is to say, for five shares I have the deeds in my hands and are all in the Town Records. That which was Robert Cole's I give to my son Timothy; that which was Robert Mowry's own, I give to my son Silas; that which was Henry Neal's which I bought of Roger Mowry, I give to my son Benjamin; that which was Robert Colwell's, I bought of Robert Mowry also, and do give it to my daughter Sarah's son Joseph; that which I bought of John Smith Mason, I give to my son Joseph's son William; and my own I give unto my son William. I do entreat, if the town so please, that this paper may be entered in the Town Records, lest I should fall before I can make another provision." The paper was granted by the town to be recorded though William Carpenter lived to make a more formal will. 1676, Jan 20. his house was attacked by about three hundred Indians, and was fired by them, but the flames were extinguished by the defenders. He lost two hundred sheep and (fifty?) cattle, and two of his household were killed. 1676, Apr 4. It was voted by Assembly "that in these troublesome times and (stsores?) in this colony, the Assembly, desiring to have the adivce and concurrence of the most Judicious inhabitants, if it may be had for the good of the whole, do desire that their next (spring?), the company and counsel" (of sixteen persons, among them William Carpenter.) 1679, Jul 1. Taxes L10 (10 pounds), 5s, with sons Silas and Benjamin. 1683, Apr 25. He made a confirmatory deed to the representatives of the thirteen original proprietors of Pawtuxet lands, he being the last survivor and owning three shares, his own thirteenth and two shares that he had purchased. 1679, Feb 10. Will--codicil 1683, Mar. 15--proved 1685, October 1. Exs, sons Silas and Benjamin. to eldest son Joseph, 20s., and like amount to daughters Lydia SMITH and Priscilla VINCENT. To sons Silas, Benjamin, Timothy and Ephraim, land. To grandson Ephraim, eldest son of Ephraim, by his first wife, land, and if he died before twenty-one, then his sister Susanna to have. To grandson William, and grandson Joseph Smith, son of Lydia, certain land, and if Joseph died, Simon to have his share. To daughter Priscilla Vincent, land. To wife Elizabeth, all movable estate, and sons Silas and Benjamin to take whole care of their mother, "to provide for her in all respects and conditions as a woman ought to be provided for, during her natural life." In codicil, as his son Joseph had died, he gave to grandson Joseph, son of Joseph, legacy intended for his father. As he had heard his son Ephraim was intending to sell, he revoked his legacy and gave to Ephraim Jr. and Susanna. Inventory, L22 (22 pounds), including 5 night caps, 2 silk neck cloths, &c.

@ SAVAGE: Richard's estate descended from father to him (Wm) in deed 4 Dec 1671, given to his sister (Fridgeworth) who had married Mr. Vincent of Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, which did belong to her father Richard Carpenter. @ SAVAGE: William was an Ass't 16165, swore allegiance 1666.

@ SAVAGE: in will 1674 all children are mentioned as living and William, son of Joseph; and Lydia m. Benjamin Smith. VOL II ---"William, Co. Wilts, England. He came to this country with his wife and two children of his own and two children of his sister Fridgeworth, who had married a VINCENT. In 1637 he had a grant of land in Providence; in 1640 was one of the 30 signers of the compact. He was assistant in 1665-72; Commissioner in 1658, 60, 62 and 63; Deputy in 1664, 65 and 69. He married Elizabeth ---- (NOT Arnold as Savage has it). He was influential and had much real estate. he died Sept 7, 1685. His children were Joseph, Ephraim, William, Silas, Benjamin, Timothy, Lydia (m.Benj Smith), and Priscilla (m. William Vincent). He lived in Pawtuxet." @ FARMER: 1636, William came to America, settled in Providence, RI, married and had at least one child: Benjamin 16141; *was Benj born in 1641?) was one of the founders of the first Baptist Church *was it William who was founder of the church, or Benjamin?). NOTE BY NKT: son William, One notation indicates that he drowned 29 October 1708 and another indicates he was killed in an Indian attack 20 January 1676--what are we to believe:???---NKT. NOTE BY NKT: Renew Weeks, wife of son Benjamin, is listed as a "Permanent resident of Rehoboth" at the time of her marriage to Benjamin; she remarried twice more following his death. @ DIR. OF ANC. HEADS OF NE FAM: William carpenter, s. of Richard of Amesbury, Wilts, Eng., and of the 10 generation from John, settled in Providence, RI 1637 and was founder of the RI branch of the same (Carpenters). @ COLONIALA WARS: Carpenters William of Providence RI, deputy 1664, Gov. asst. 1665-72.

@ HOTTEN p.140: 20 Nov 1635, William Carpenter age 19, was aboard "Expedition" Peter Blackler, master, from London to Barbadoes. REFERENCE: DIRECTORY OF ANC HEADS OF NE FAMILIES 1620-1700 by Holmes 1964. GENEALOGY DIRECTORY OF RHODE ISLAND 1978 by Austin. GENEA. REG. OF 1ST SETTLERS OFNEW ENG. BY John Farmer 1979. GENEA. REG. Society of Colonial Wars 1916, P.589.

HOTTEN'S LISTS; P.140; NEW ENGLAND DICTIONARAY OF EARLY SETTLERS by Savage: p.337-338.

NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700; p.136. VOL II (some source sent by CJC 19193 from FLA.) p.424. \ Ref. Carpenter Genealogy Virkus Compendium IV 234- 265,V 496,566, 584,707. VI 663, VII 496-498, 824,887.

Children of Elizabeth Arnold and William Carpenter are:

46 i. Joseph²³ Carpenter, born 1635.

47 ii. Lydia Carpenter, born 1638.

48 iii. Ephraim Carpenter, born 1640.

49 iv. William Carpenter, born 1645.

50 v. Priscilla Carpenter, born 1648.

51 vi. Silas Carpenter, born 1650.

52 vii. Benjamin Carpenter, born 1653.

Generation No. 23

40. Isreal²³ Arnold (Stephen²², ) was born October 30, 1649 in Pawtuxet, P, Rhode Island, and died September 15, 1716 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island. He married Mary Smith Barker April 16, 1677 in Sept 18 1723, daughter of James Barker. She was born Abt. 1652 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island.

Notes for Isreal Arnold: HISTORY: Swore allegiance May 1671. No record of birth known nor even names of children, other than son Israel-1678, except in Israel-1649 will. @ Savage.p.64-67. \ "Peirce's Colonial Lists" "1682...Isreal Arnold..." "1690...Isreal Arnold..." "1699...Isreal Arnold...."

Notes for Mary Smith Barker: Mary was a widow (Smith); she was dau/o James BARKER and Barbarah of Newport, Rhode Island Children of Isreal Arnold and Mary Barker are:

+ 53 i. Elisha²⁴ Arnold, born February 18, 1661/62 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island; died December 23, 1748 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island.

54 ii. William Arnold., born Bet. 1681 - 1687 in Warwick, Rhode Island.

55 iii. James Arnold., born 1689.

56 iv. Isreal Arnold, born January 18, 1677/78.

57 v. Stephen Arnold, born Abt. 1685.

58 vi. Mary Arnold, born 1690.

59 vii. Josiah Arnold, born 1694.

60 viii. Barbara Arnold, born Bet. 1670 - 1696.

61 ix. Joseph Arnold, born Bet. 1670 - 1696.

62 x. Sarah Arnold, born Bet. 1670 - 1696.

Generation No. 24

53. Elisha²⁴ Arnold (Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born February 18, 1661/62 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, and died December 23, 1748 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island. He married (1) Patience Hyde. She was born Abt. 1664. He married (2) Hannah Carpenter December 9, 1709 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, daughter of Timothy Carpenter and Hannah Burton. She was born Abt. 1688 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island.

Child of Elisha Arnold and Patience Hyde is:

63 i. Mary²⁵ Arnold, born June 11, 1712.

Children of Elisha Arnold and Hannah Carpenter are:

+ 64 i. James²⁵ Arnold, born September 30, 1719 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island; died December 3, 1777 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island.

65 ii. William Arnold, born April 11, 1710.

Generation No. 25

64. James²⁵ Arnold (Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born September 30, 1719 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, and died December 3, 1777 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island. He married Freelove BURLINGAME May 3, 1740. She was born January 4, 1703/04.

Children of James Arnold and Freelove BURLINGAME are:

+ 66 i. Arthur²⁶ Arnold, born 1749 in Craven, North Carolina; died 1784 in Six Mile Creek, below Charlotte, NC..

67 ii. Martha Arnold, born April 1, 1783.

68 iii. Hannah Arnold, born July 31, 1744.

69 iv. James Arnold, born December 21, 1745.

70 v. Elizabeth Arnold, born January 17, 1746/47.

71 vi. Eleazer Arnold, born October 27, 1748.

72 vii. Caleb Arnold, born June 28, 1750.

73 viii. Dorcas Arnold, born November 1751.

74 ix. David Arnold, born July 15, 1753.

75 x. George Arnold, born October 12, 1754.

76 xi. Peleg Arnold, born February 16, 1756.

77 xii. Waite Arnold, born December 31, 1758.

78 xiii. Freelove Arnold, born July 12, 1760.

79 xiv. Reuben Arnold, born January 25, 1762.

80 xv. Simon Arnold, born December 16, 1763.

81 xvi. Elijah Arnold, born March 7, 1769.

Generation No. 26

66. Arthur²⁶ Arnold (James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born 1749 in Craven, North Carolina, and died 1784 in Six-Mile Creek, below Charlotte, NC.. He married MrsArthur Abt. 1766. She was born Abt. 1752.

2. John ARNOLD b: ABT 1771 in Craven, North Carolina

3. Sarah ARNOLD b: ABT 1775 in North Carolina

NOTE: ! Arthur Arnold was in the Militia and Revolutionary War for seven years, and according to the University of North Carolina, he gave his life for his country at Six-Mile Creek, below Charlotte, NC. Arthur joined the militia in 1778, listed in Militia # 669, 3rd Regiment-Blouts Company - Continental Line. He was killed in the service in 1784 at six-Mile Creek, close to Charlotte, North Carolina.

Sarah married Samuel BEESLEY

Arthur was awarded a 640-acre land grant on March 22 for military service in 1784. He sold this immediately to a Nathaniel Street. He was killed not long after.

Children of Arthur Arnold and MrsArthur are:

+ 82 i. James²⁷ Arnold, born 1768 in Craven Co., North Carolina; died 1807 in Rutherford Co. TN.

+ 83 ii. John Arnold, born Abt. 1771 in Craven, North Carolina; died Aft. 1819.

84 iii. Sara Arnold, born Abt. 1775 in North Carolina.

Generation No. 27

82. James²⁷ Arnold (Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born 1768 in Craven Co., North Carolina, and died 1807 in Rutherford Co. TN. He married Dorcas Taylor (Source: Will, census, Family record.) Abt. 1790 in NC, daughter of James Sr. and Dorcas Waters. She was born 1769 in Craven Co., North Carolina, and died 1845 in Weakley Co TN.

James became an orphan at 16 years of age when his father was killed in battle in the revolutionary war. He was bonded to a John Nelson to learn the carpenter trade. His younger (age 13) brother was bonded to a shoemaker. Nine July 1784 it is mentioned in a court document that they became indentured apprentices. He moved to Rutherford Co TN about 1804. It is said that he is buried in an unmarked grave about 5 miles from Murfreesboro TN. west on Hwy 96, 2 or 3 miles to Beesley Road, north on Beesley Rd 2 or 3 miles to Beesley Primitive Baptist Church. The Overall Creek Cemetery is adjacent to the church. James Arnold of New Bern NC was listed as head-of-household on the first US Census in 1790. This would have been shortly after he had served his carpenter's apprenticeship aprox age 21/22. Inventory of James Arnold's estate was Feb 12 1808. The administrator was James Taylor Sr. He mentions Dorcas Arnold in the will. Dorcas Arnold's husband was dead by 1810 as she was listed as head of household. Her and children lived near James Taylor Sr. in 1810. The family had come from NC to Rutherford Co Tenn by 1806. Rutherford County Tenn order book A page 129 states that James Arnold was ordered to work on a road in Rutherford Co Tenn Jan 7 1806.

Absolom Taylor in 1814 in Williamson Co Tenn (was in Rutherford Co in 1810) mentions "My sister Dorcas Arnold's two youngest sons, Jeremiah and Asa." Asa died in Rutherford Co. and Jeremiah went to Weakley County.

No James Arnold owned land in Rutherford County before 1808 or paid any tax. (Per known records.)

Jeremiah 1880 stated his parents were born in NC. John listed his parents as born in NC.

The 1790 census of Craven Co NC lists James Arnold living alone with James Taylor living nearby.

James Taylor Sr of 1800 census fits known children. A James Taylor and Jr are listed in the 1810 Rutherford County Tenn census. James Arnold bought land in Craven Co in 1792 but nothing useful in the deed.

Oral tradition of the Arnold family was that James and Dorcus were the parents of John Arnold and of the other Arnolds of Weakley Co Tenn.

The son of the above James, a James Lee Arnold, and family were in Weakley County about two years before they moved over into Gibson County according to James Lee's widow Melinda. When she applied for a pension on James Lee's 1812 War service.

Arnold family origins. Arnold derives from Arnulf "eagle-ruler" which is a Germanic-Scandinavian name. It has several different spellings some of which are Arnalt, Arnault, Arnuf, Arnold, Arno, Arnhold, etc. Arnold is an English name brought to that country by several tribes who invaded England from 380-1066. Arnolds were represented in the Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Celts, and Normans. These were tribes that invaded England. The early Arnolds were blond barbarians possibly Nordic pagans. They were very savage in war but were reportedly open among one another. The Roman Empire fell about 400 and shortly thereafter various tribes resumed the invasions of England that had been going on for unknown eons. In 410 Arnulf and his brother Alaric sacked and burned Rome.

In 1066 the Normans under William the Conqueror (in whose army were many Arnolds) invaded England These were called Vikings or Northmen. English Arnolds are descended mainly from Saxton and Norman lines.

The majority of Arnold families in England are concentrated South of the Wash and Mersey rivers in East Central England mostly in Warwikshire and Leicestershire. These are primarily of the Saxon origin. Before the sixteenth century the ancestral home of the Arnolds was in the Welsh shire of Monmouth but later years the family expanded into the shires of Glouchester and Dorset. Kent has a town named Arnold in the Hollingbourne district and several other coastal towns are named Arnold. A village and river on Lewis Island located in the old Viking sea lane from Scandinavia are named Arnold. The Norman census of 1272-1307 shows many Arnolds. The Arnold name and its variations is not prominent in the first US Census. But in 1964 the Social Security Administration showed that Arnold was the 153rd most common name. In 1972 the United States had 132,800 Arnolds.

There is little doubt that our ancestors were emigrants from England, Ireland, or Scotland. They came to the New World for many reasons but mainly because they hoped it would bring them a better life. To come here they often faced life-threatening hardships. First was to give up all that their homes and all that they had known as home. Then they faced an extremely unpleasant voyage on rickety wooden ships lasting from 47 to 140 days. Many died on the way. The living arrangements were miserable and extremely crowded. The "food" consisted of hardtack (a cracker-bread-biscuit), salt meat, peas, and cheese with water. Disease and pirates took their terrible toll as did shipwrecks and storms.

James Arnold emigrated from England to Virginia on the ship Assurance on 24 July 1635 aged 37.

Henry Mitchell Arnold came to Maryland on the ship Patapscoe about 1730 as an indentured servant.

Edward Arnold came from London to Philadelphia on the ship London Packet in Oct 1774 age 16. He was a laborer and indentured servant. William Arnold came to Virginia in 1651.

James Arnold came to Maryland on the Patapscoe in 1730 as an indentured servant.

John Arnold came from Kent on the ship Justitia in May 1744. Willie Arnold to Virginia in 1638.

Thomas Arnold baptized 18 Apr 1599 died Sep 1674 emigrated from Cheselbourne, Dorsetshire to Watertown Mass on the ship Plaine Joan in 1635. He moved to Providence Rode Island before 1661; deputy to the general court, 1666-1667, 1670-1672; Marries 1st wife name unknown, 2nd to Phebe Parkhurst in 1640; children were Thomas, Nicholas, Susana, Ichabod, Richard, and Ebenezer.

Thomas Arnold emigrated from Herfordshire to Maryland on the ship Letitia Feb 1774 aged 27 gardener and indentured servant. The widow Dorcas Taylor Arnold was listed in the 1810 census of Rutherford County Tenn with six males and two females.

The 1830 census of Rutherford Co showed her age 50-60 with 2 males 20-30.

The 1840 of Weakley Co Tenn she is listed in the household of her son Jeremiah as one female 60-70.

Children of James Arnold and Dorcas Taylor are:

85 i. Ezekiel²⁸ Arnold, born 1792 in NC. He married Mary Gilliland January 2, 1816 in Rutherford County Tenn; born Abt. 1795.

86 ii. James Lee Arnold, born Abt. 1794 in NC; died November 13, 1837 in Gibson County Tenn. He married Melinda Gilliland December 2, 1815 in Rutherford County Tenn; born Abt. 1800.

Married Melinda ? who applied for a pension on his 1812 War service.

87 iii. ? Arnold, born 1796.

+ 88 iv. John E Arnold, born December 3, 1799 in NC; died Abt. 1875 in Henry Co TN.

89 v. Furney F Arnold, born 1802 in Weakley County Tenn; died May 9, 1836 in Weakley County Tenn. He married Marian Gwinn April 14, 1822 in Williamson County Tenn; born Abt. 1804; died Bef. 1904.

Notes for Furney F Arnold: Unknown source states "Ferney" born in Craven, NC

90 vi. Asa Arnold, born 1804 in Tenn; died Bef. June 21, 1836 in Murfreesboro Tenn. He married Tenacy Rucker January 30, 1832 in Rutherford County Tenn; born Abt. 1806.

91 vii. Jeremiah Arnold, born 1806 in Rutherford County Tenn. He married Amanda ?; born Abt. 1808.

Notes for Jeremiah Arnold: Traditional information says there were seven sons as Thomas Sheridan Arnold son of Jeremia was known to have said he was the seventh son of a seventh son.

83. John²⁷ Arnold (Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born Abt. 1771 in Craven, North Carolina, and died Aft. 1819. He married (1) Elizabeth Taylor December 3, 1793 in Craven Co NC. She was born Abt. 1773. He married (2) Susanah Avery January 23, 1819 in Craven Co NC. She was born Abt. 1773.

Notes for John Arnold: John became an orphan at age 13 when his father was killed in the revolutionary war. He was bonded to Charles Johnson to learn the trade of shoe making.

It is probable that Sarah Arnold who married Samuel Beesley on Aug 2 1796 was probably his daughter. The Beesleys and the Arnolds maintained close family ties after moving to Tennessee. The area the Arnolds settled in close to Murfreesvboro TN is adjacent to the Beesley's Chapel Church.

Children of John Arnold and Elizabeth Taylor are:

92 i. Absalom²⁸ Arnold, born Abt. 1794.

93 ii. Thomas Arnold, born Abt. 1795.

Generation No. 28

88. John E²⁸ Arnold (James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) (Source: Family record.) was born December 3, 1799 in NC, and died Abt. 1875 in Henry Co TN. He married Nancy Hogan (Source: Family record.) September 10, 1818 in Williamson County Tenn, daughter of John Hogan and Martha King. She was born December 29, 1799 in SC, and died December 9, 1871 in Henry Co Tenn.

Notes for John E Arnold: Notes above from research by Pauline Scott. John is buried in Olive Branch Cemetery Henry County Tenn. In 1830 John was in Rutherford County Tenn next to his mother. In 1840 he had moved to Weakley County Tenn . It is said that John, his brothers and father operated a sawmill. He was a Primitive Baptist Minister. He owned a good farm and house. They were not well educated but spoke good English. They were interested in education for their children but didn’t have much opportunity themselves. Family legend has it that they came from NC and by Bledsoe’s Station for awhile in Humphries County. Some of uncles took barges of produce down the Tenn River. Most of his sons fought in the Civil War except one who fought for the north. One may have been killed in the war. John doctored the family with herbs as the Indians did. He was energetic and intelligent. Grandmother was proud of her people. Many of them lived to very old ages. When one uncle left to fight for the North Grandpa said he could never come home again but when he came home after the war Grandpa ran shouting and praising the Lord that another son was home. Arnolds were among the most prominent and earliest settlers in the 15th District of Henry County, which joins Weakley and Carroll Counties in the area where the Arnolds first settled near Gleason, which was called Oakwood before the Civil War. Some of the kin lived in Gibson Co. The above info is from a combination of census records, family records and from a family bible bound in leather (Kimber and Sharpleas no 93 Market St Philadelphia 1824). John Arnold died after 1872 as he gave land to daughter Mary in 1872. Grandma Mary Jones lived to be 101 and was born in Philadelphia Pa. She went to the oldest church in Phil. She remembered revolutionary soldiers in the streets. She had a cancer on her head. She died when Parlee Arnold (dau of J.W.) was about six. Parlee was born in 1860. Grand ma Jones could have been a Jones and married a Hogan. Some of the older Arnolds married cousins. Some moved away. Some of chart information is also based on family marriage records and census data. Some family sources indicate that John Arnold's middle initial was E. but this is unproved as the 1870 shows W. The 1870 Weakley Co Tenn 30 June 1870 District 11 Dresden p174-39 Arnold, John W 70 Farmer -300 NC can't read or write, Nancy 70 f wife SC can't read or write, Mary 43 f T, Lucy V? 32 f T, Francis M 29 m T, Fanny P 24 f T, Ellen M, 5 f T, Thomas NC 2m T, James D. 3/12 m T. And a Sarah A Kimball 9 f T. The 1860 census of Weakley County dist 11 27 Aug 1860 shows on 340-248 John Arnold 60 Farmer 300 NC, Nancy 60 f SC, Mary 33 f T, Marion 20 m T. The 1850 census of Weakley Dist 11 on 10 Sept 1850 25-731 shows J. Arnold 51 farmer 250 NC, Nancy 51 SC, Mary 22, William 18, John 17, Asa 16, Terece 12, Marion 10. The family is listed in the 1840 census of Weakley County Tenn page 266-7 (by ages) 13 people total. There were on same page as Maron Arnold, Jerry Arnold and Westley D Arnold. These are the only Arnolds in the entire county. The 1830 census of Weakley County shows no Arnolds. There is a John M in Hardeman Co 120001-21001 next to Richard. Also a John in Tipton 00001-20001 next to Moses Arnold. Also a John Arnold in Humphres county 00001-20001 next to Ephraim 20001-10001.

Family sources stated that John and James Lee were brothers. Wm Henry Arnold married Myrah Arnold daughter of John Watson and descendants of this family knew how much kin Wm H and Myrah were. James Lee's oldest daughter was Tabitha Dorcas.

Notes for Nancy Hogan: Nancy Hogan has a small marker in the Arnold Family Cemetery,

located off Hwy 190, in Weakley Co., TN. from Hwy 22 go east on Hwy 190 to paved Garret road right just before crossing Middle Fork of Obion River. The cemetery is not maintained; partially destroyed by bulldozer and vandals. It is located in woods directly behind 267 Garret Rd, 50 feet north of the South barbed wire fence and about 100 feet east of the West fence. You will pass a shed with brown refrigerator with bullet holes in it. Someone was shooting while I was in the woods searching. Last known person to occupy the red brick house just to the east of 267 was Bill Wayne Arnold deceased. Woods can be entered more easily from behind Bill's house. Bill was the son of G. W. Arnold who married Ruby Garret and Hattie and M Pearl. G W was the son of Horace 1889-1977, who appears to be the son of John Daniel and Addie who was the eldest and perhaps only son of John Watson Arnold and Matilda Rogers. John Watson was a son of John E Arnold and Nancy Hogan. Bills house sets on the exact site of the family’s big log cabin. It had several rooms.

Family legend states that there are 10 to 12 graves in the Arnold Family Cemetery

There are: Nancy Hogan Dec 29 1799 - Dec 9 1871

John Daniel Arnold 1864 - 1934

His wife Sadie Hubbard 1853 -

Robert Trevathan Feb 21 1896 - Mar 5 1896

Baby Daughter of G W Arnold abt 1950

other children

Children of John Arnold and Nancy Hogan are:

+ 94 i. Absolom B²⁹ Arnold, born February 1, 1821 in Tenn.

95 ii. David James Gordon Arnold, born December 8, 1823 in Tenn. He married Mary ?; born Abt. 1825.

+ 96 iii. Thomas Andrew Jackson Arnold, born December 30, 1824 in TN; died 1884 in Ripley County Missouri.

97 iv. Mary Jane Jones Arnold, born September 11, 1826 in Tenn.

Notes for Mary Jane Jones Arnold: Some family sources refer to her as Mary Jane Arnold however the family bible has her as Mary Jones Arnold with her birth date. Family sources state she was never married.

+ 98 v. Lewis Clark Arnold, born September 17, 1828; died Abt. January 22, 1911.

99 vi. Dorcas Arnold, born April 12, 1829.

+ 100 vii. William Leadbetter Arnold, born February 4, 1832.

+ 101 viii. John Watson Arnold, born November 17, 1833.

+ 102 ix. Asa C Arnold, born May 11, 1835 in Tenn; died October 13, 1859 in Henry Co TN.

+ 103 x. Terreca Arnold, born December 30, 1837 in Tenn; died January 15, 1860 in Weakley Co TN.

+ 104 xi. Francis Marion Arnold, born March 2, 1840 in Weakley County Tenn; died August 20, 1925 in Mckenzie Weakley Co TN.

Generation No. 29

94. Absolom B²⁹ Arnold (John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born February 1, 1821 in Tenn. He married Pentelopa Jane Morris May 9, 1850 in Henry Co Tenn. She was born Abt. 1823.

Children of Absolom Arnold and Pentelopa Morris are:

105 i. Susan³⁰ Arnold, born 1860 in TN. She married J. D. Morris; born Abt. 1860.

106 ii. John K. W. Arnold, born 1862 in TN.

96. Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹ Arnold (John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) (Source: Family record.) was born December 30, 1824 in TN, and died 1884 in Ripley County Missouri. He married Mary Huggins (Source: Family record.) Abt. 1852. She was born 1822 in NC, and died 1881 in Pollard Clay County Ark. Notes for Thomas Andrew Jackson Arnold: Narrative regarding Thomas Andrew Jackson Arnold b1824 The 1880 census stated that his father was born in NC and his mother in NC. His parents were pioneers who cleared the land with primitive tools, farmed the land without aid of modern equipment or knowledge, fought off savages and bushwhackers, without help and without most of the conveniences we now consider necessities. They had great courage and strong character. Thomas A J Arnold was raised as a poor farmers son in TN. He did not get enough education to read or write well. As the family lived on the frontier, work for survival came before schooling. He and his parents were real pioneers. They lived, or more correctly struggled on the frontier near Davy Crockett. They braved what most would consider insurmountable hardships to just exist in the wilderness. North Carolina was the "mother state" to Tenn. The Indians were allies of the British. The pioneers lived with gun in hand and worked long and hard just to live. Thomas probably married about 1847 in Weakley Co TN to Mary Huggins who was born 1822-3 in NC Her parents were both from NC.

On April 18 1853 an A. ad T.A.J. Arnold sold 117 acres of land in S.W Weakley Co TN for one dollar per acre to Ben Dunlap. See deed in book. Thomas Andrew Arnold told us about his grandpa in the Civil War. He said that grandpa did not want to fight in the war but especially on the Confederate side. Grandpa was a practicing Christian and Baptist Preacher. He carried a small bible and Hymnbook with him. One day a gang of confederate soldiers came to the house in Weakley Co TN. When grandpa saw them he hid. Mary stood over the trap door which was hidden by her hoop skirt and petty coats, with a butter churn in front of her and worked the churn while talking to the soldiers. The soldiers nastily threatened the wife and four children that if grandpa did not report to the confederate camp in the morning that they personally would burn down the house and barn and kill off all stock. Grandpa figured that the best thing to do was to get his family out of there. In hopes of finding a safer haven for the family he headed for Missouri. His grandson Thomas Andrew later told us that when the war came up his grandfather T.A.J. Arnold took grandma and three boys to Dexter MO where he made a meager living and worked at a saw mill there. He also stated that his grandfather tried to rent a small farm but couldn’t so he bought a place close to the New Hope Church "Close to where grandmas relatives were buried and dad was also buried there. After looking into the matter we know now that TAJ had a farm near Pollard Ark NW of Piglet about seven miles. Beamon Arnold showed his son the site part of which is owned by the McLeskey family now two miles north of Pollard Ark route 62 on Langley road. We searched the compilation of the New Hope Cemetery records at the Piggott Public Library and did not find any Arnolds buried circa 1850-1900. We found several references to related families. Another researcher stated that there was a Thomas A J Arnold in Weakley Co TN and she thought he was the son of her grandfather John Arnold and that TAJ had moved away and evidently did not keep in touch with the rest of the family.

I Wesley Arnold did not find any other records of TAJ Arnold in Weakley Co TN but there are other records on other family members there and many of the descendants of his brothers and sisters live in nearby counties. The state of Tenn did not keep birth and death records until 1914. Weakley Co TN has no records prior to 1914. The Tenn State Library and archives in Nashville do not have these records either except what have been noted in church or private records. The archivist referred me to the federal census and some pension applications for data, that's all. TAJ’s family is listed in both the 1850 and 1860 census. In 1870 they appear in Bradshaw Township PO Loyal Hill in Green County Ark. which later became Clay County Ark. At that time the family consisted of just Tom and Mary and the three boys. Tom’s real estate was valued at 0 and his personal estate at $250. at that time. The same census page also shows a James Arnold. In 1880 the last census before TAJ and Mary died shows them in Chalk Bluff Township of Clay County Ark with the following people in the same household. Alford E., James M, Benjamin F., Lucinda P. age 1 (gd Ak T T) and Martha L. A. (14 gd T NC T). Tom’s wife Mary by family legend died in 1881 and is probably buried in New Hope Cemetery Pollard Ark. We think Tom then moved to Doniphan Mo. The only record of TAJ’s death is that passed on by word or mouth in the family which states that he died in 1884 near Doniphan Mo. I was unsuccessful in locating any death record on him either in Ripley Co MO or Clay Co Ark. Legend has it that TAJ moved there for his health for his health along with his son Ben. If one looks at where Ben’s children were born it appears that the legend is true. In the old days people sometimes used large stones to mark graves. There are many such graves in N.E. Ark and SE Mo.

Notes for Mary Huggins:

Her parents were both born in NC per Federal census.

Mary buried most likely at New Hope Cemetery Pollard Ark.

Children of Thomas Arnold and Mary Huggins are:

107 i. Sarah³⁰ Arnold, born 1848 in Weakley County Tenn; died Abt. 1855 in Weakley County Tenn.

+ 108 ii. Alford Elmo Arnold, born 1853 in Weakley County Tenn; died 1913.

+ 109 iii. James M Arnold, born 1856 in Weakley County Tenn; died Bef. 1956.

+ 110 iv. Benjamin Franklyn Arnold, born March 24, 1858 in Weakley Co TN; died February 22, 1902 in Zink-Harrison Boone Co Ark.

98. Lewis Clark²⁹ Arnold (John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born September 17, 1828, and died Abt. January 22, 1911. He married (1) Sarah Ann Rogers February 3, 1853 in Henry Co Tenn. She was born Abt. 1825. He married (2) Nancy Walters June 22, 1895 in Weakley County Tenn. She was born Abt. 1830.

Notes for Lewis Clark Arnold: Found in Tom Arnold's estate was a note Luis Arnold died June 30 1956 age 66 and 1 day. This computes to Luis being born July 1 1890. So it is not This Lewis.

Lewis Clark also married Nancy Elizabeth Walters.

Children of Lewis Arnold and Sarah Rogers are:

111 i. Cornelia³⁰ Arnold, born October 1854.

112 ii. Matilda Frances Arnold, born October 1854. She married James Turner; born Abt. 1852.

113 iii. Martha Jane Arnold, born October 17, 1856; died October 1, 1922. She married Ulysis S. Grant Hubbard; born Abt. 1854.

114 iv. Addison Frank Arnold, born March 1859; died 1938. He married Louisa J Dunlap; born Abt. 1860.

115 v. William Ledbetter Arnold, born 1863; died 1921. He married Anna J Click; born Abt. 1864.

116 vi. James Edward Arnold, born September 17, 1877; died February 17, 1920. He married Raney Myers; born Abt. 1860.

117 vii. Lewis Wyatt Arnold, born January 1897. He married Edna Coleman; born Abt. 1899.

118 viii. Myrtle Arnold, born November 22, 1902; died March 24, 1934. She married George Hall; born Abt. 1900.

Notes for Myrtle Arnold: She also married a Grooms.

Notes for George Hall: also married a Grooms.

119 ix. Onis Arnold, born May 15, 1906. She married Charles McGill; born Abt. 1905.

Notes for Charles McGill: also married Claude Dotson

100. William Leadbetter²⁹ Arnold (John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born February 4, 1832. He married Pearline C Rogers March 2, 1854 in Henry Co Tenn. She was born Abt. 1835. Notes for Pearline C Rogers: also known as Pollyanna Cathy

Children of William Arnold and Pearline Rogers are:

120 i. Elizabeth Cordelia³⁰ Arnold, born April 27, 1855. She married Unknown Baker; born Abt. 1853.

121 ii. Jackson Gordon Arnold, born January 3, 1857; died September 24, 1919. He married May Bell Molly Etheridge; born Abt. 1858.

+ 122 iii. John William Arnold, born 1859 in Paris TN; died 1938 in Weakley Co TN.

101. John Watson²⁹ Arnold (John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born November 17, 1833. He married Matilda Rogers December 19, 1854 in Henry Co Tenn. She was born 1832, and died 1902. John Watson Arnold also married L M Maddox.

Children of John Arnold and Matilda Rogers are:

+ 123 i. Myriah³⁰ Arnold, born 1855; died 1891.

+ 124 ii. John Daniel Arnold, born July 29, 1854 in Gleason, Weakley Co Tn; died 1934 in Arnold Family Cemetery, Weakley Co Tn..

125 iii. Rachel H Arnold Arnold, born November 22, 1857 in Weakley Co Tn. She married Alfred McAdoo Atkins; born November 27, 1851; died December 19, 1875 in Weakley Co Tn.

126 iv. Monette Arnold, born 1859.

127 v. Paralee Arnold, born December 7, 1861 in Gleason, Weakley Co Tn. She married Charles Walter Trevethan; born Abt. 1863. Notes for Paralee Arnold: In the Arnold Family Cemetery in the woods Along with Nancy Hogan and John Daniel Arnold is a stone for a Robert Trevathan (as spelled on stone) b 1896 died 1896. We don't know who the parents were.

+ 128 vi. Anna Arnold, born October 1868 in Weakley Co Tn; died 1939 in Weakley Co Tn.

102. Asa C²⁹ Arnold (John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born May 11, 1835 in Tenn, and died October 13, 1859 in Henry Co TN. He married (1) Malvina Kimbrell October 13, 1859 in Henry Co Tenn. She was born 1829. He married (2) Delila C Kimbrell September 7, 1879 in Henry Co Tenn. She was born Abt. 1837. Notes for Malvina Kimbrell: Other sources state her name was Delilah Kimbell. Other sources give Delilah as a seperate wife. Notes for Delila C Kimbrell: Delila was the sister of Malvina and had brother Frances M who married Terecia Arnold. Children of Asa Arnold and Malvina Kimbrell are:

129 i. William E³⁰ Arnold, born 1860.

130 ii. Frances M Arnold, born 1865.

131 iii. James M Arnold, born 1866.

103. Terreca²⁹ Arnold (John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born December 30, 1837 in Tenn, and died January 15, 1860 in Weakley Co Tn. She married Francis M Kimbell January 15, 1860 in Tenn. He was born Abt. 1835.

Child of Terreca Arnold and Francis Kimbell is:

132 i. Cynthia³⁰ Kimbell, born March 1862. She married James B Hunter; born Abt. 1860.

104. Francis Marion²⁹ Arnold (John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born March 2, 1840 in Weakley County Tenn, and died August 20, 1925 in Mckenzie Weakley Co Tn. He married (1) Clementine F Golden August 2, 1861 in Henry Co Tenn. She was born Abt. 1842. He married (2) Frances P Golden October 25, 1863 in Henry Co Tenn. She was born Abt. 1842. He married (3) Mary Julia Elizabeth Golden July 18, 1881 in Weakley County Tenn. She was born Abt. 1842.

Children of Francis Arnold and Frances Golden are:

133 i. Elinor³⁰ Arnold, born 1865. She married Clinton Parks; born Abt. 1864.

134 ii. Thomas Henry Arnold, born 1866. He married Alice Gertrude Page; born Abt. 1867.

135 iii. John Oliver Arnold, born March 8, 1870. He married Lillian Ida Anderson; born Abt. 1871.

136 iv. Nancy Arnold, born 1872.

137 v. Vivie Arnold, born 1875. She married Peter Wray; born Abt. 1874.

138 vi. Bertie Arnold, born 1875. She married D. C. Dailey; born Abt. 1875.

139 vii. Ida Lee Arnold, born March 21, 1876; died June 10, 1928. She married George Washington Phillips; born Abt. 1874.

140 viii. Frances Arnold, born 1877.

Children of Francis Arnold and Mary Golden are:

141 i. William Foster³⁰ Arnold, born December 1882. He married Lou Allie Williams; born Abt. 1881.

142 ii. Edna Arnold, born May 1884.

143 iii. Bell Arnold, born March 1886. She married A. McGuire; born Abt. 1884.

144 iv. Fanny Arnold, born October 1887. She married Unknown Anderson; born Abt. 1886.

145 v. James Marion Buster Arnold, born April 1889. He married Eulah Anderson; born Abt. 1890.

146 vi. Hattie Arnold, born May 1891. She married Oscar Crews; born Abt. 1890.

147 vii. Reuben Arnold, born May 1896.

Generation No. 30

108. Alford Elmo³⁰ Arnold (Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born 1853 in Weakley County Tenn, and died 1913. He married (1) Martha Jane Taylor. She was born Abt. 1856. He married (2) Adeline Gasinger in Boone County Ark. She was born Abt. 1855. He married (3) Lucinda. She was born June 1862 in MO.

Notes for Alford Elmo Arnold: Lived near Baxter Co Logan Twp in 1900

Children of Alford Arnold and Lucinda are:

148 i. John³¹ Arnold, born 1884 in Ark.

149 ii. Nancy Arnold, born 1886 in Ark.

150 iii. Robert Arnold, born 1888 in Ark.

151 iv. Sarah Arnold, born 1893 in Ark.

109. James M³⁰ Arnold (Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born 1856 in Weakley County Tenn, and died Bef. 1956. He married (1) Unknown Higgins. She was born Abt. 1860. He married (2) Jane Slape September 25, 1890 in Boone County Ark. She was born Abt. 1860, and died Bef. 1960. Notes for James M Arnold: Some family sources indicate he may also have married a woman named Page. The family lived in Blythe Twp of Boone Co Ark in 1900.

Children of James Arnold and Jane Slape are:

152 i. Mary L³¹ Arnold, born July 1891 in Ark.

153 ii. John M Arnold, born April 1893 in Ark.

154 iii. Jocs B Arnold, born March 1895 in Ark.

155 iv. Amanda Arnold, born Abt. 1896.

110. Benjamin Franklyn³⁰ Arnold (Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) (Source: Family record.) was born March 24, 1858 in Weakley Co TN, and died February 22, 1902 in Zink-Harrison Boone Co Ark. He married Mary Polly Palestine Blake (Source: Family record.) Abt. 1881, daughter of Autry Blake. She was born August 9, 1857 in Ark, and died November 10, 1912 in Harrison Ark.

Notes for Benjamin Franklyn Arnold: Buried at Greene Cemetery Lead Hill Boone County Ark.

Narrative about the Benjamin Franklyn Arnold family mostly from comments by his son Thomas Andrew Arnold Ben’s childhood life was that of the son of a poor farmer on a rented farm in Weakley County Tenn. in the area of Dresden. Some of the neighbors owned and used slaves but our family did not. Tennessee was a southern state with southern background and ways. At the time Ben was born Weakley County was divided in opinion over slavery, succession, and other issues. Officially the Civil War began in April 1861. In June of 1861 the people of Tennessee voted for succession but far from unanimously. Ben would have been about three years old at this time. The very rural county of Weakley raised 1100 Confederate soldiers, 400 Union soldiers, unknown number of neutrals and a few guerrillas backed by their uncounted wives, children and parents. The first federal troops appeared in the county in 1862 at Lochards Mill. The population of Weakley County in 1860 was 13,985 white and 4,231 colored mostly slaves, After the fall of Fort Donelson and Fort Henry in 1862 most of Western and Middle Tennessee came under Federal control. General Grant suspended the civilian government and declared martial law in effect. In March of 1862 Andrew Johnson (later President Johnson) became military governor of Western and Middle Tennessee which included of course Weakley Co Tn. Federal troops camped in the county at times and there were several minor skirmishes but it seems that the citizens suffered more from guerrillas which infested the county and did more damage than either the Federal or Confederate army. The federal troops were not over sympathetic with local people and to quote one source "foraged heavily" at times on local citizens. Many families suffered greatly during the Civil War. Federal control remained until 1866 when President Andrew Johnson readmitted Tennessee as the first state to be readmitted to the union. (It had been the last state to succeed from the union.) Hard times and violence continued for several years after this war. Thomas stated that the war had split up the Arnold family. Ben may have witnessed the family self-destruct as his relatives argued and fought over the heated issues of the day. He may have seen uncle fight uncle in this war in which brother fought brother. The little family of Thomas Andrew Jackson Arnold lived in Weakley Co Tn until after 1860. Thomas Andrew Arnold told us about his grandpa in the Civil War. He said that grandpa did not want to fight in the war but especially on the Confederate side. Grandpa was a practicing Christian and Baptist Preacher. He carried a small bible and Hymnbook with him. One day a gang of confederate soldiers came to the house in Weakley Co Tn. When grandpa saw them he hid. The soldiers nastily threatened the wife and four children that if grandpa did not report to the confederate camp in the morning that they personally would burn down the house and barn and kill off all stock. Grandpa figured that the best thing to do was to get his family out of there. In hopes of finding a safer haven for the family he headed for Missouri. His grandson Thomas Andrew later told us that when the war came up his grandfather T.A.J. Arnold took grandma and three boys to Dexter Mo where he made a meager living and worked at a saw mill there. He also stated that his grandfather tried to rent a small farm but couldn’t so he bought a place close to the New Hope Church "Close to where grandmas relatives were buried and dad was also buried there. After looking into the matter we know now that TAJ had a farm near Pollard Ark NW of Piggott about seven miles. Beamon Arnold showed his son the site part of which is owned by the McLeskey family now two miles north of Pollard Ark route 62 on Langley road.

In 1870 they were in Greene County Arkansas which later became Clay County, in Bradshaw Township. The family consisted of Ben, his two older brothers, and his parents. In 1870 Ben was 12, Jams 14, a d Alford 17. Some of grandmother’ kin are buried in New Hope Cemetery in Pollard which is about seven mils N. W. of Piggott Arkansas. The family derived nearly all of its income and food from farming and raising stock. In addition Ben’s father hunted wild game. There were deer, squirrels, rabbits, wild hogs, coon, turkey and fish. Ben liked to hunt. He could stun a Squirrel in a tree with a rock or just sit still and wait for game to come by. The game usually ended up being a meal for the family. Turkey traps (ditches with bate) were used to trap the birds. Dogs were used to hunt wild hogs. Catfish and carp were frequently caught. Crops were corn for eating on the cob or dried for corn meal. Cain was made into molasses, wheat harvested with a hand cradle, oats, cotton, sorghum and a large garden with all of the usual plants. The stock consisted of horses, cows, hogs, chickens, sheep geese, guinea hens, bees, mules, dogs and cats. The family also ate wild fruits and other edibles. An average day want like this. Up at four AM. The men taking care of the stock while mother making biscuits (to later be eaten with butter and molasses), of course a fire had to be started from wood and once started had to be tended. Cooking was done on a wood fueled cook stove. Fire starting was a real skill then along with fire tending and fire baking. Matches were often not to be found. Coffee was made if there were any grounds by boiling the grounds over often several times. Sometimes they had meat and gravy or eggs. But eggs were often sold to buy coal oil for lamps, sugar, coffee and some cloth and tools. Otherwise the farm family was almost totally self sufficient. After breakfast the men went out to plowing, hoeing, cutting, repairing, planting, building or hunting while the women did laundry by hand board and tub with the wash kettle boiling in the yard or cooking, drying and canning food for winter use. Corn was often dry roasted or in winter parched to make hominy and grits. At noon there was a vegetable meal and corn bread then back to work. At evening we always had cornbread and milk. They especially liked butter milk. Although during hard times sometimes the milk was watered down a little so everyone got some. In winter mama cooked the bread in iron covered skillets on the hearth with live coals of fire. It was delicious and more nourishing because the hometown mills ground the whole corn. It has been said that country foods were better for one because they all were natural and had no additives or preservatives or other chemicals added to them.

In the evenings most took a well earned rest, chatted, popped corn or caught up on chores. At Christmas they made molasses taffy and popcorn balls. Oranges were very rare but grapes were used as well as berries and other fruits with honey for treats and drinks. The beds were made of straw with pillows made of home raised goose feathers all covered with patched quilts. In the winter irons or bricks were used to heat beds as the fireplace did not heat the sleeping areas.

Sunday was a real day of rest then. People rested, visited, courted, showed off the crops, played horseshoes, checkers, popped corn, pulled taffy, went to church, held square dances, quilting bees, patching parties, barn raisings, did some berry picking, singing and picnicking. Of course these events happened on other days also.

The Thomas Arnold family was General Baptist.

They tanned their own leather from which Elmo made shoes. Mother made her own soap. There no bathrooms or toilet paper. The outhouse was outside. It was a real experience in the winter especially is one had to brush the snow off of the seat. Baths were taken in tubs or by wash cloth.

Transportation was by for, horseback, wagon, or sled. Sometimes even other families used oxen.

In 1880 Ben now age 22 worked on the family farm in Chalk Bluff Township Clay County Arkansas with his father Thomas then age 56, his mother Mary J then age 57, his brother Alford Elmo age 27, his brother James M age 24 and with his nieces Lucinda P age 1, and Martha L. A. age 14. Ben had siblings as well as children that died young. At that time women died more frequently from childbirth which is possibly what happened to Alfords first wife who may have been the mother of these two nieces.

Ben’s mother Mary died in 1881 when Ben was only 23. Ben married Mary (Polly) Palestine Blake about 1881. She was born about 1858 the daughter of Autry Blake.

Ben and Mary moved to Doniphan Missouri probably with the widower Thomas A. J. Arnold in search of a better climate for their health. One has to point out that the school education poor farm children received at the time was very limited and that many failed to even learn to read or write let alone cover geography and climates.

Ben and Mary had the following children in addition to several unnamed or unrecorded children that died young:

Thomas Andrew Arnold born January 31, 1882 I Doniphan Missouri.

James R. Arnold born June 1883 probably in Doniphan MO.

George L. Arnold born January 1885 probably in Boone County Ark.

Ann (Anether) Arnold born October 1889 probably in Boone County Arkansas.

Wade C. Arnold born September 1894 probably in Boone Co Ark .

Lora B. Arnold born December 1897 probably in Boone Co Ark

Ben’s father died about 1884 near Doniphan Missouri according to family legend. Not very long after this it appears Ben and Mary with their two young children packed up all of their worldly belongings and headed into the wilderness to start a new life in a better location. The oldest of these two children Thomas later stated that his dad went through the woods (actually a wilderness of woods, unbridged rivers, lakes, swamps and meadows) to Boone Co Ark in the Boston Mountains. "Me and George and Annie went to Boone Co." This journey meant climbing many steep hills called the Ozark Mountains with many natural obstacles such as hills and valleys, rivers, swamps etc. There were no roads, signs, motels, or eating places. Thomas stated that they bought a squatters claim in the Boston Mountains and stayed there five years. He stated that they cleared five acres and raised cain, corn, sorghum greens and other crops. He stated that they lived a total of twelve years in the Boston Mountains. He described some of the places they lived as follows: "the holes….near John Henderson who killed his neighbor over 60 acres of land…nearest PO ws Udall on Mt top.. a good piece from Jasper...not so far from Buffalo River Brickland Creek, Ridgetown, Quincy was two miles from the house…Wilsons…K or Tripland by E. Wilsons and George Wilsons, Tom two of them we passed went by Wilsons to old mans John Taylors lived near creeks, went up to Mts. cave creek, in Boone Co Ark by Mike Green place, little creek North Harrison Mike Rains old place old cemetery where Pa is buried first North South Part of that Mike Greens old farm close Zink Ark. between Red Hill and Harrison on road comes to the Shoes old Green Graveyard 100 graves in all a lot of kinfolk buried there..Mike Green, Hanna Green wife, John Green and his wife, John Bailey family, George, Jim..Uncle Jud went to Greens place put flat crock to mark grave 41/2 log 31/2 wide tall thin put name on it. Dads so and children buried there. There after got us a place. This is from Thomas Andrew Arnold’s tape. "Hillsides rocky but had one of the best spots of land got all paid for..21 years old. Charly Bryant and John Collhorn two witnesses that ma got old land, nice farm ¾ 75 cents an acre 25 sold $75 went to John. George bought land, got $500 for it gave him $500 got the other 120 acres on each place. He bought it barn got $150 for 120 acres, Crooked Creek, lead ore 500, Joplen MO, RR came up creek, Crooked Creek, just gave us a liven working in the mines we made as high as $10 a day. "Amanda M. Arnold gave this description on tape about the location of the farm in Boone Co Ark: "We had a mansion at Harrison Arkansas near Everton by Bill McAlisters. When we left we rented our place to George McAlister and son of Bill McAlister…Lived up above Harmon Howards place above creek." Thomas had had a stroke and could no longer talk well.

The family went through some very difficult times. Ben was not in the best of health. In the low country there were epidemics of malaria and yellow fever that killed hundreds of people young and old alike. There were many other illnesses that claimed lives also. Medical Practice in the hills of Arkansas with no hospitals and the closest doctor often many hours away left a lot to be desired. Ben searched for better climates for his health his son Thomas took him at his request into Missouri in futile searches for answers to his health problems but they ended up back in Harrison Arkansas finding that about the best that could be found with their limited resources. The hill people were very independent and resourceful. They often did without what the city folk couldn’t live without. Of course back in those days most people did not even have what we now consider necessities such as: grocery stores, restaurants, cars, toilet paper, education. Thomas the oldest had to work on the farm to support the others and only got thru the second grade. electricity, utilities, running water, telephones, most papers and books, libraries, movies, TV, radio, canned food, frozen food, prepared foods, doctors, hospitals, good medicine, knowledge of the causes of illness, knowledge of the proper treatment of illnesses, dentists, coffee for the most part, pop, showers, heated baths, nice soap and shampoo, wash and wear clothing, ready made clothing, good shoes, automatic furnaces and stoves, flush toilets, bedrooms, bathrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, utility rooms with washing machines and dryers, basements, refrigerators, electric lights, and appliances, much free time, and all of out modern conveniences.

When Ben was too weak to do anything else he would sit out in the woods quietly and wait for game to approach and the family would have fresh meat to eat. Sometimes he went out in the morning and sat on a stump. Soon a squirrel would "bark" at him and it wasn’t long until that very animal was in the frying pan for breakfast. The Arnold’s could even hunt small game with rocks. The old timers knew much more about survival than we do today. They had to use muzzle loading rifles, rocks, arrows for hunting and had to build fires without matches.

Ben died February 22, 1902 at age 44 after a long illness. We think he is buried in the Green Cemetery (Laffoon) Lead Hill Ark S E. of Lead Hill off of the Zink road past Onus Raleys Farm about ½ mile. Or in Mcord cemetery two miles W of Lead Hill. Mary P Blake died November 10, 1912 near Harrison and is buried in Crawford Cemetery near Harrison Arkansas.

Notes for Mary Polly Palestine Blake: Some surces say Nov 9, 1912 The 1900 census of Boone County Ark Blythe Twp page 9087 district 27 number 283? hard to read shows Ben F wm Mar 1858 age 42 farmer TN TN NC, Mary P wife wf Aug 1858 age 42 AR ILL TN MOTHER OF 11, 6 LIVING, Tom A wm son Jan 1882 MO TN AR, James R wm son Jun 1883 16 MO TN AR, George L wm Jan 1885 15 AR TN AR, census takers writing hard to read Anetha F wf dau Oct 1889 age 10 AR TN AR, Widil L or S wm son Sept 1890 age 5 AR TN AR, Lora B wf dau Dec 1897 age 2 AR TN AR.

Children of Benjamin Arnold and Mary Blake are:

+ 156 i. Thomas Andrew³¹ Arnold, born January 31, 1882 in Doniphan MO; died September 9, 1972 in Piggott Ark.

+ 157 ii. James R Arnold, born June 22, 1883 in Boone Co Ark; died April 12, 1967 in Dallas TX.

+ 158 iii. George L Arnold, born January 31, 1885 in Everton Boone Co Ark; died September 21, 1970 in Boone Co Ark.

+ 159 iv. Ann Ether Arnold, born October 17, 1888 in Zink-Harrison Boone Co Ark; died February 18, 1975 in Harrison Ark.

+ 160 v. Wadie Columbus Arnold, born September 5, 1893 in Boone Co Ark; died June 5, 1957 in Cleveland Okla.

+ 161 vi. Laura Arnold, born December 1897 in Zink-Harrison Boone Co Ark; died 1968.

122. John William³⁰ Arnold (William Leadbetter²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born 1859 in Paris TN, and died 1938 in Weakley Co Tn. He married Anna Arnold, daughter of John Arnold and Matilda Rogers. She was born October 1868 in Weakley Co Tn, and died 1939 in Weakley Co Tn. Children of John Arnold and Anna Arnold are:

162 i. Homer Gordon³¹ Arnold, born Abt. 1887.

163 ii. Cora Paralee Arnold, born January 1888; died 1972. She married James Montgomery; born Abt. 1886.

164 iii. Nancy Elizabeth Arnold, born January 18, 1889.

165 iv. Ivey Estille Arnold, born August 1895; died July 25, 1986.

166 v. Herbert Watson Arnold, born April 18, 1897; died May 19, 1970. He married Hazel; born Abt. 1898.

167 vi. William Herman Arnold, born September 1898; died July 11, 1983. He married Vida Dunlap Travis; born Abt. 1900.

168 vii. Vernon Clifford Arnold, born 1901; died 1974.

169 viii. Robert Curlin Arnold, born January 25, 1905; died September 15, 1966. He married Georgia Downs.

123. Myriah³⁰ Arnold (John Watson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born 1855, and died 1891. She married William Henry Arnold. He was born 1855 in Gibson Co TN, and died 1915 in Gibson Co TN.

Children of Myriah Arnold and William Arnold are:

+ 170 i. Emma F³¹ Arnold, born 1874 in Gibson Co TN; died 1957.

+ 171 ii. Robert Green Arnold, born June 4, 1877 in Weakley Co Tn; died May 7, 1962 in Gibson Co TN.

+ 172 iii. Joel Wilse Arnold, born March 1879 in Weakley Co Tn.

+ 173 iv. Thomas Oliver Theodore Arnold, born January 20, 1888 in Weakley Co Tn; died March 18, 1920.

+ 174 v. John Henry Arnold, born 1883; died 1964.

124. John Daniel³⁰ Arnold (John Watson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born July 29, 1854 in Gleason, Weakley Co Tn, and died 1934 in Arnold Family Cemetery, Weakley Co Tn.. He married Sadie Hubbard. She was born Abt. 1853.

Notes for John Daniel Arnold: He was called J D. He is buried in the Arnold Family Cemetery in Weakley Co Tn behind 267 Garret Rd which is off Highway 190 near Gleason TN. It is likely that Addie is buried in the same little family cemetery. Jim Arnold who lived there stated there were at least 5 graves. In Aug of 2003 when Jim and Wes Arnold visited this site we only found markers for four graves. And addie's marker is now not visible or gone. It was located 20-100 feet away from the other graves and Jim could not remember exactly where. See notes on Nancy Hogan. The 1920 census shows

John D /head/M/W/55/marr/TN/TN/TN/Farmer/can't read and write, with

Addie / wife /F/W/56/mar/TN/TN/TN/ can't read and write. This family was located next to Horace Arnold.

The 1880 census shows a John D Arnold born in 1865 in TN age 15 in household where Head was John W fa born in TN Mo in Ky census location Gleeson Store Weakley Co Tn film 79 1285 299A.

Linda Arnold Martin gggranddaughter stated that there were 10 or 12 graves there. Late in life J D suffered a fit of depression and hung himself across the road from the house.

Child of John Arnold and Sadie Hubbard is:

+ 175 i. Horace³¹ Arnold, born March 2, 1889 in Weakley Co Tn; died October 13, 1977 in Weakley Co Tn.

128. Anna³⁰ Arnold (John Watson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born October 1868 in Weakley Co Tn, and died 1939 in Weakley Co Tn. She married John William Arnold, son of William Arnold and Pearline Rogers. He was born 1859 in Paris TN, and died 1938 in Weakley Co Tn. Children are listed above under (122) John William Arnold.

Generation No. 31

156. Thomas Andrew³¹ Arnold (Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) (Source: His son's statment.) was born January 31, 1882 in Doniphan MO, and died September 9, 1972 in Piggott Ark. He married Amanda Melvina Edwards (Source: (1) Her son's statement., (2) Luke Monroe Edwards.FTW, Date of Import: Jun 25, 2001.) November 10, 1904 in Harrison Ark, daughter of Felix Granvil Grundy Edwards. She was born October 4, 1883 in Piggott Ark, and died April 22, 1973 in Piggott Ark.

Narrative about Thomas Andrew Arnold family. As told by his son Beamon Edward Arnold. Since he was the oldest child he took on a man’s job very young to help support the family. His father was not always in health moved from place to place for his health. This is why the family moved to the mountain country around Harrison in Boone County Ark. His father Benjamin Harrison Arnold b 1858 in Weakley Co Tn died Feb 22 1902 at Harrison Ark. occupation farmer aged 44, after a long illness. My dad Thomas had to take over as he was the oldest of six children and he only got to go thru the second grade in school. Some of the people lived thru very hard times in the Boston Mountains near Harrison Ark. They hunted wild hogs in the winter for meat and sometimes dug roots and collected kinds of tree bark for medicine. Some lived in little log huts. Thomas was always a strong man until the age of seventy. He married Amanda Melvina Edwards b Oct 4 1853 at Piggott Ark mar on Nov 10 1912 at Harrison Ark she died April 22 1973 at Piggott Ark. She was a lot of comfort to him and grandmother. Grandmother Arnold who was Mary Polly Palistine Blake b Aug 9 1857 married c1881 and died Nov 10, 1912 at Harrison Ark. ? "was in bad health and died fairly young." They were married by William McAllister Leon Arnold’s grandfather in Everton Ark. TAA as age 28 of Zink and AME was age 21 of Zink. The ceremony was done in a furniture store owned by the Justice of the Peace Mr. George McAlister. George Arnold and his wife Annie were the witnesses. Thomas worked some on the new railroad that was being put through Ark. Dirt was moved by hand and by mules or horses. Rocks were blasted out. Everything was done by hand. There was quite a lot of mining going on so Thomas and Amanda moved to Zink Ark. TAA said that he had a good farm but it was hilly. They belonged to the Methodist Church. Amanda M Edwards was b Aug 9 1884 in Piggott Ark her father came fron Tn her mother from Ill. They lived near Bill and Art McAlister close to Everton. The first son was born there (Felix Ben Arnold b May 27 1906 d Dec 17 1976) Little Rock Ark. Zink was a very small town then and is today. The government took the post office out and most of the people are gone. They had only one country store when I visited there in 1976. Thomas cleared land and made a good showing everywhere he lived. He moved to Clay County Ark near Piggott about 1913 and had four children there Zelma b1908, Dovie 1910, Gladys 1912, Beamon Edward 1914, Joel 1916 (died young), Lavern 1917, and Lois b 1921. That was eight children total. World War I came on and my father was called for service but was deferred because he had family. Thomas was never an idle man. The only book he tried to read was the bible. On Sunday he would read his bible out loud. He loved the church and the local ministers of the gospel that came to our church. Our home was always open to preachers. We had our ups and downs. My father never drank or smoked. Whiskey was sometimes used for medicine only in the home. Once my father slipped while working in the woods and fell under a heavily loaded wagon. My brother got him to the house and got the doctor out who sewed up a bad cut on his head. I was scared. He lay on the porch and that is where the doctor worked on him. (Remember we had no fans or air conditioners then.) It was cooler and they could see better. Teeth were pulled by the family doctor on the porch where he could see better. My father always kept a rifle or shot gun but never used them. He never liked to kill anything, not even for food. He was a good butcher and the boys helped. He could do almost any kind of work but never drove a car. He always did a good job whatever he did. He built several houses alone. He lived to be 90 years old. "I could never express what his good life has meant to me." Beamon Arnold.

Zelma stated that "I know that both parents were intellectually smart and spiritually ripening unto old age. Only their faith in God could have brought them through their many trials and backsets in proving and rearing their family which in old age showed up more tender and strong. They were the hardest working people I ever knew, trying to make an honest living from nothing but poor soil, plus animals bought on credit, and hard long hours of heavy work. Their ambition finally accomplished of putting us thru high school, which they themselves never had the opportunity to do. Only then could they begin to save for themselves. Papa got a night watching job at a nearby saw mill to get his social security credits. Farming was not counted then. After moving to town to educate us he still farmed, ploughed, hauled wood etc. But his highest achievement, not having education or training, was building rent houses out of mostly used lumber and blocks etc., which helped to buy other properties and the rents were their life’s savings. Not much but enough to see then thru."

Amanda was a member of Wright’s Chapel Methodist Church in Piggott Ark. She was president of the Ladies’ Aid Society and Sunday School Superintendent and teacher. She had a deep love for people of all faiths and a strong concern for the welfare of her friends, relatives and family. Her faith was an inspiration to all.

Dovie stated that with her father’s papers she had a tattered copy of the minutes of the fifth annual meeting of the state Line Assn of General Baptists held with Little Vine Church Fulton Co Ark Sep 23-25 1898. "Papa always considered himself a General Baptist even though he joined the Methodist Church with Mamma and the older ones of us as we became interested. I suspect the GB was the church of his family. She also stated that the food supply in Papa’s family was so low at times that his mother had to dilute the milk with water so that each could have a cupful.

Lavern stated that family legend has it that the family traveled from one hot spring to another and that we are descended from Benedict Arnold and Johnathan Edwards, related to Arnolds at Coring, related to Mckleskies and Braden.

Beamon stated that he heard his dad talk about his aunt Adeline, his cousin John Arnold, his uncle Jim and Elmo and his mothers brother Cola Blake who only shaved his face once I his life and was a big strong man who worked at the Methodist church. The Blakes were Methodist. I remember uncle Jim or James as you have him. Papa played violin music for dances and parties. Papa’s mother was a Methodist like her mother. The Arnolds were largely English, the Blakes Irish. FG Ed fought alongside his cousin Mr Spense as a calvary soldier, confederate. One battle was fought just north of Piggott near the MO/Ark line. It is a park now. I think the Blakes lived near there. I have been in the old Methodist church where they attended. The Johnson place farm. Another was the place where Beamon was born was three miles west of Piggott old County Farm Road. Dovie said that she heard papa talk many times about a cousin Parilee and got impression she was older than Papa.

Wesley Arnold stated, "I remember grandmothers wonderful cooking and how she did that on that old oil burning stove. I assume that before that she had a wood burning stove. I remember one hand water pump was right in the kitchen and that we all drank out of a big dipper at times. Grandmother did without most of the things we take for granted today such as: electricity, electric lights, electric mixers, toasters, refrigerators, washers, dryers, disposers, compactors, coffee makers, hair dryers, running water, water heaters, paper towels, air conditioners, redimixed mixes, canned goods, modern prepared foods, packaged easy to make foods such as tang, minute rice, ricearoni, stove top stuffing, powdered mixes, macaroni dinners, frozen foods etc. They had no freezer or refrigerator. There were no supermarkets. The local store sold mostly dry items such as flour, sugar, crackers, yeast, yard goods from which a woman would have to make the families clothes by hand sewing because most families didn’t own even a foot powered sewing machine. There were few restaurants and no fast food places and eating out was rare except when visiting other families. If the family was to survive the winter hundreds of hours had to be spent on preserving food by canning, drying, etc. There were no permanent press fabrics. All washing and ironing were done by hand. The iron had to be heated on the stove or by coals from the fire. There was no running water and they had to make their own soap and the used water had to be carried outside and dumped. In most of past history there were no flush toilets, toilet paper or paper napkins. In the old days if one had to go to the bathroom on a cold winters night one would not even find a bathroom only a big washtub and a bucket. There was usually an outhouse out back which was a real adventure in the cold winters. It was a certainty that one did not linger there especially if someone else had left the door open and you had to brush the snow off of the seat. Also again worst of all no toilet paper most of the time. There weren’t even any flashlights. Light at night was by home made candles or oil lamp if the family was prosperous enough to be able to afford oil. A fire had to be lit every morning often without matches and wood had to be cut and stacked near the stove. The morning chores began at daybreak. The animals had to be cared for. There was no social security, welfare or food stamps. Everything was a result of hard work. If you didn’t work you didn’t survive. If one got sick or hurt there was no telephone or hospital or ambulance. Some one had to walk or ride for miles to find a doctor if there was a doctor at all. Infirm and elderly were cared for within their own family. If the crop failed the family had to somehow do without. Despite all of this it appears that most people were happy and usually healthy, and people helped each other. In some ways life may have been better then. We were not afraid to walk down a street at night then.

Portrait of a Working Man Felix Ben Arnold’s salute to his father

No man ever worked harder than our father. He worked for the same reason that most men sometimes loaf: for enjoyment. He worked while others went fishing. He worked on the Fourth of July and on Christmas, in cold weather and in hot. Whenever the ground was too wet to plow, he fixed a fence or cut and hauled wood. If the rain drove him from the field or from the woods, he fund harness to mend or shoes to half sole. If the bitterest cold forced him indoors to the fire, he shelled corn, fashioned an ax handle or filed a saw. If he ran out of things to do, even for a half-day he became impatient, bored and restless. Work was his hobby, his recreation, his joy, as well as his livelihood. He would sometimes work to utter exhaustion, to to the table too tired to eat, and afterwards fall asleep in his chair.

Never did he own fine tools or farm implements, but he took care of those he had, and took pride in doing things well. At planting, he made a straight row; at breaking ground he disdained to cut and cover. No one could make better sorghum, molasses or more cleanly butcher a hog. He was skillful with plow, hoe, shovel, ax and froe, and kept such tools sharp and free of rust. He was scornful of men who left the stumps of trees standing high and jagged; who did things by halves sloppily. He chopped neatly, left low stumps that a wagon or plow could pass over, made tidy brush piles, left no litter. He saved everything that he thought might be useful: nuts bolts, screws, nails, and pieces of wood, metal, rope, wire and leather. His pocket knife was his special pride, be it only a barlow and worth but a quarter.

He never read a book in his life except a little from the Bible. He would read the Good Book aloud to himself, usually on Sunday mornings. He went no farther in school than the second grade, not from lack of intelligence but from lack of opportunity. No conversationalist, he was a courteous listener, and once caught cold standing at his own gate, late at night in winter, waiting for a neighbor to run-down and go home. He always made company welcome but seldom went visiting and never went to town except o business He once traded a rifle for a phonograph and later bought a second-hand reed-organ for his teen-age children, but he never - in his life- went to a picture show or other public entertainment. He knew no songs, had no stories, remembered no jokes, yet he was sometimes merry, generally cheerful, by nature hopeful and optimistic. He was proud of building his own house including a fireplace which, nothing for looks, would really draw. He was clean of speech and never used alcohol or tobacco, though one bad winter he bought a bottle of whiskey which he kept on the mantle until he used it up by the tablespoonful as a medicine.

He kept a gun but never used it, not so much as to kill a rabbit. He would wring a chicken’s neck, if he had to, or castrate a pig; but he once balked at killing a favorite horse with a broken leg, and a neighbor did it for him unbeknownst to the children. Though he was quick to fly-off-the handle, his anger evaporated just as quickly, and he never held a grudge.

There was stubbornness in him but no meanness. He was changeable, impatient, sometimes arbitrary and harsh, but these were moods of passing duration. Not always easy to live with, he was nevertheless tender-hearted, lovable and affectionate. He could be stingy, but he could also give you his last dollar, gladly and freely and insist that you take it. Never did he forget a favor received or leave a debt unpaid. All his life he was humble and simple, possessed of a childlike spirit, a man in whom there was o guile.

Felix Ben Arnold Dec 10, 1968

Tom is buried in the Piggott Cemetery, Piggott Arkansas .

Notes for Amanda Melvina Edwards:

Amanda married Thomas A Arnold and moved to Zink Ark where he worked in the mine there. Their oldest child was born there. Dad worked hard at many jobs from working in the mines to working in the timber and making pictures. My mother was lonely at times but happy. She loved her children and her husband. Her health was bad and their old family doctor (Dr. Floyd) told my dad he didn't think she was going to live long so he thought that my dad should take her back where she could get near her parents. My father packed up and moved to Clay County Ark. This is where I was born. (Beamon Arnold b 1914) The family bought the Jackson farm two miles west of Piggott Ark. My mother canned most of what we ate. The farm was well stocked with fruit and berries. I can remember when I was very small she canned in 1/2 gallon fruit jars, gallons of peaches and tomatoes. We also kept sheep and other livestock. We had honey bees. Once my brother got too close and a bee crawled into his ear. He was about scared to death but my mother kept calm. She put some ear oil into his ear and the bee backed out without doing any real harm. There was sickness in the family from time to time. The brother next to me died at age 17 months. I remember when I was very young my mother was very sick at different times. The family doctor came out from Piggott. He did his best but things looked dark. I remember the doctor was a good Christian man dedicated to the work the Lord had called him to do. if he had car trouble he came on foot even if it was miles. Thomas and Amanda were members of the Wrights Chapel Methodist Church which was located a mile west of Piggott. The children were brought up Methodist. I must say with all respect to our good honest doctors that the Lord did something special for my mother. After being in very poor health for years, she was healed by the lord at home. I have heard her say in church many times that the Lord healed her body at home. After that she was in much better health. She picked cotton in the fall and enjoyed it. She helped her husband with his sorghum and honey. She lived to be 89 years old. Few women have done any more hard work than her but she enjoyed cooking and canning and making quilts to keep us kids warm in the winter and to give us plenty to eat. (Before she died she gave a beautiful Quilt to her grandson Wesley Arnold.) She was active in church work. She came from a very large family. Her father was a veteran of the civil war. He was a fearless man, a good Christian who said what he meant and meant what he said. He could be trusted in every way. Amanda died Apr 22 1973 in Piggott Ark.

PORTRAIT OF A WORKING MAN'S COMPANION

Our mother sang happily in the kitchen. She often sang as she worked. I was to wonder in later years whether she showed her happiness by singing when the crops were good and the family was well clothed and fed or whether this was her usual state of mind and her way of voicing confidence in the Almighty to take care of all emergencies. Always the songs were songs of faith, expression of need, words of exultation. It was a good day when our mother sang as she worked.

Seven children did not bother or burden her particularly for she implicitly believed that each mother should have "her number" of children. The work and worry, the concern for shelter and clothing, plans for their education--all these were problems almost insurmountable to most but she had a faith so remarkable that it never occurred to her to question that it would work out. It would work out if everybody worked at it. Hers was not a blind faith that required Providence to do all of the work.

Before daylight every morning whether winter or summer she was in the kitchen preparing breakfast, making school lunches, planning and assembling the home grown vegetables for dinner. Because nearly all of the ingredients of every meal were home grown and because cooking was done by wood stove, hours were consumed in the preparation. In addition to this she must get out in the garden and with the help of the older children hoe the vegetables or gather them before the heat of the noonday sun was too great.

Feeding nine mouths three times a day must have been a monstrous job. Breakfast was hearty with ham or sausage, biscuits, and sorghum molasses and butter-- all homemade. Not only did she prepare breakfast but at the same time she was making fried pies, boiling corn on the cob, and putting great slabs of meat in split biscuits for school lunches. There were no school cafeterias. She canned unheard of amounts of fruit from the orchard and vegetables from the garden and then to be sure that the food supply was adequate spent much time preparing and drying apples and peaches. The cellar held turnips, two kinds of potatoes, and sometimes apples. At the barn there were great baskets or tubs of field peas for cooking. These were shelled at night around the fireplace by the whole family.

By nature she was exceedingly outgoing and liked nothing better than to be with people. She had grown up in a big family. She had a big family, but she reached out for more. She had young people and adults in for Sunday dinners, enjoyed all contacts with her neighbors, attended Sunday School and church, had the minister and his family over often, and welcomed members of both her and our father's families. She was genuinely fond of our father's brothers and sisters and seemed as close to them as to her own.

A sensitive, intelligent woman with a great capacity for love, much compassion and understanding, a tendency toward perfectionism, and a desire for further education was inevitably to meet with conflict. Her environment simply could not supply what she wanted for herself and her family. She had headaches. Though she did not connect the illnesses with the struggle in her life, it seems likely they connected. Once the illness passed her sense of humor shone through and she laughed and joked with all who came her way. When the children were gone and the struggle eased, the headaches disappeared. By anybody's standards she went far. Hopefully her set of values and many of the things she reached for will be realized in the lives of those she loved. Dovie Arnold December 1978.

Children of Thomas Arnold and Amanda Edwards are:

176 i. Felix Benjamin³² Arnold ), born May 27, 1906 in Zink-Harrison Boone Co Ark; died December 17, 1975 in Little Rock Ark.

Felix Benjamin Arnold was born May 27, 1906 in a log house in Coon Holler near Zink, Boone County Ark. At 20 he gave up a job at the post office to work his way through college at College of The Ozarks at Clarksville Ark under plans to become a minister. Although he never became a minister he did organize two churches and served each as its first elected leader. They were the First Unitarian Church of Alburquerque, New Mexico 1949, and the First Unitarian Church of Little Rock. 1950-53. He attended or earned degrees from Harvard Divinity School 1931-32; Venderbelilt School of Religion 1946-47; College of the Ozarks; and two from University of Arkansas; one from Peabody College. He was last employed as instructor of humanities at the Beebe Branch of Arkansas State University. 1968-73.

He was outgoing and his interest in and concern for family members and others made much difference in many lives. He helped students financially in addition to individual academic help and counseling, so much so that some returned as adults to express gratitude. Teaching was to him a high calling. He once said that what an actor, a singer, or orator does with his audience a good teacher does with his class. His last years were the happiest. One of the last things he did was to establish a memorial lecture fund at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. He truly believed the famous quotation: "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good there that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." He not ony believed it; he practiced it. Velma Lou Dovie Arnold.

He was married three times but had no children. In order Dora Macy, Freda Nesbitt, Ruth Ann Braun. He died December 17, 1975 in Little Rock Arkansas and is buried in the Piggott Cemetery, Piggott Arkansas.

+ 177 ii. Zelma Ladona Arnold, born February 9, 1908 in Everton Boone Co Ark; died March 19, 2000 in Piggott Ark..

178 iii. Velma Lou Dovie Arnold, born March 1, 1910 in Everton Boone Co Ark; died June 27, 1992 in Piggott Ark.

Dovie had a career of 45 years in public education. She was writing a scientific book about birds and wild flowers in her later years. She wrote, "My most special memories are twofold. 1. Of the oneness of the family, the constant sharing of everything. There was no 'I'; it was always 'we' whether it was gathering inside bark from hickory trees to dye flour sacks to make dresses for us girls to wear to school or helping to plant and chop an acre of cotton to enable Ben to go to high school his first year. We were all involved. 2. Of the set of values our parents gave us and the conscious and unconscious decisions it took to establish habits of honesty, truthfulness, fairness, give and take, and general integrity. This is the most precious inheritance we could possibly have." She is buried in the Piggott Cemetery, Piggott Arkansas.

+ 179 iv. Mary Gladys Arnold, born February 1, 1912 in Everton Boone Co Ark; died September 7, 1997 in Redlands CA.

+ 180 v. Beamon Edward Arnold, born February 2, 1914 in Piggott Ark; died February 14, 1994 in Popular Bluff Mo.

181 vi. Joel Clifton Arnold ), born May 17, 1916 in Piggott Ark; died November 5, 1918 in Piggott Ark.

Notes for Joel Clifton Arnold: He died of whopping cough in his sisters arms probably while his mother was working in the fields. He used to say "oppie" (short for poppie as they called their father ) while riding in the wagon with Beamon between Mon and dad. He has a stone in Little Flock Cemetery W of Piggott. Albert Meadows (not related) is at other end no stone. Eight empty graves in between.

+ 182 vii. Censored.

+ 183 viii. Bertha Lois Arnold, born April 4, 1921 in Piggott Ark; died January 7, 1991 in St Louis MO.

157. James R³¹ Arnold (Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born June 22, 1883 in Boone Co Ark, and died April 12, 1967 in Dallas TX. He married Alice Ramsey February 15, 1907 in Everton Boone Co Ark. She was born Abt. 1890 in Ark?, and died Abt. 1973 in Dallas Tx. Notes for James R Arnold: Buried in Restview Cemetery Dallas TX

Lived at 525 Paulene Dallas TX Notes for Alice Ramsey: Social Security Death Indes shows an Alice Arnold b May 10 1890 card issued in Ark died Nov 1973 Dallas Tx 75214

Children of James Arnold and Alice Ramsey are:

184 i. Fern³² Arnold, born Abt. 1908. She married Unk McKinney in Wichita Kan.

+ 185 ii. Faye Ruth Arnold, born 1914; died Aft. 1998.

186 iii. Wilba Arnold, born Abt. 1912; died in Dener Colo?. She married (1) Unk Birdsong; born Abt. 1910. She married (2) Braden; born Abt. 1910.

187 iv. Rosemary Arnold, born Abt. 1913; died in Dallas TX?. She married Unk Ellis; born Abt. 1912.

188 v. Lorena Arnold, born Abt. 1914; died in Dallas TX?. She married Burl W Feverston; born in Feverston?; died in Wichita Kan?.

189 vi. E. J. Arnold, born Abt. 1921; died in Dallas TX?.

158. George L³¹ Arnold (Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born January 31, 1885 in Everton Boone Co Ark, and died September 21, 1970 in Boone Co Ark. He married Annie Mcalister November 29, 1903 in Everton Ark. She was born November 6, 1884 in Boone Co Ark, and died September 14, 1970 in Boone Co Ark.

Notes for George L Arnold: Buried at Maplewood Cemetery Harrison Ark.

Notes for Annie Mcalister: Buried at Maplewood Cemetery Harrison Ark.

Children of George Arnold and Annie Mcalister are:

+ 190 i. Mamie³² Arnold, born June 7, 1905 in Boone County Ark.

+ 191 ii. Hugh Arnold, born October 8, 1909 in Everton Boone Co Ark; died 1996.

+ 192 iii. Leon Arnold, born April 26, 1920 in Everton Boone Co Ark; died December 18, 1994 in Harrison Ark.

+ 193 iv. Marvell Arnold, born October 16, 1922 in Everton Boone Co Ark.

159. Ann Ether³¹ Arnold (Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born October 17, 1888 in Zink-Harrison Boone Co Ark, and died February 18, 1975 in Harrison Ark. She married Ross Richardson October 4, 1905. He was born December 1, 1883 in Owensville MO, and died September 26, 1960 in Little Rock Ark.

Children of Ann Arnold and Ross Richardson are:

194 i. R. D.³² Richardson, born October 3, 1907 in Marion Co Ark. He married Faye Casey January 15, 1930; born Abt. 1910. Notes for Faye Casey: They had no children.

Marriage Notes for R. Richardson and Faye Casey: no children

195 ii. George Franklin Richardson, born July 31, 1909; died February 26, 1910.

+ 196 iii. Edith Birtha Richardson, born January 14, 1911 in Marion Co Ark; died August 1996.

197 iv. William Zimra Richardson, born March 16, 1913 in Marion Co Ark; died December 13, 1914 in Marion Co Ark.

+ 198 v. Linell Richardson, born April 12, 1915 in Marion Co Ark.

+ 199 vi. Edwina Richardson, born March 24, 1917 in Marion Co Ark.

+ 200 vii. Talmage J Richardson, born November 15, 1920 in Marion Co Ark.

201 viii. Gus Dudley Richardson, born November 13, 1922 in Marion Co Ark. unmarried no children

+ 202 ix. Minnie Imogene Richardson, born January 31, 1925 in Marion Co Ark.

160. Wadie Columbus³¹ Arnold (Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born September 5, 1893 in Boone Co Ark, and died June 5, 1957 in Cleveland Okla. He married Bertha Mae February 15, 1915 in Boone County Ark. She was born April 7, 1897 in Boone Co Ark, and died 1987 in Cleveland Okla. Notes for Bertha Mae: Died at age 90.

Child of Wadie Arnold and Bertha Mae is:

+ 203 i. Harold Eugene³² Arnold, born April 20, 1918 in Zink.

161. Laura³¹ Arnold (Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born December 1897 in Zink-Harrison Boone Co Ark, and died 1968. She married Neal Townsley April 25, 1911. He was born 1892 in Ereese Ark, and died 1964.

Children of Laura Arnold and Neal Townsley are:

204 i. Zetta Jackqulene³² Townsley, born 1912.

+ 205 ii. Effil Bunseal Townsley, born 1921; died Abt. 1995.

170. Emma F³¹ Arnold (Myriah³⁰, John Watson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born 1874 in Gibson Co TN, and died 1957. She married Calvin F Berryhill. He was born 1866, and died 1944. Children of Emma Arnold and Calvin Berryhill are:

206 i. Otis³² Berryhill, born Abt. 1888 in Gleason, Weakley Co Tn. He married Lora Magee; born July 4, 1889.

207 ii. Carlos Berryhill, born 1896 in Gleason, Weakley Co Tn; died August 23, 1980 in Hugo Ok. He married Mollie Berryhill; born Abt. 1899.

171. Robert Green³¹ Arnold (Myriah³⁰, John Watson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born June 4, 1877 in Weakley Co Tn, and died May 7, 1962 in Gibson Co TN. He married Sophronia Ellen Jones. She was born September 10, 1880, and died April 21, 1943 in Gibson Co TN.

Children of Robert Arnold and Sophronia Jones are:

+ 208 i. Erby Lee³² Arnold, born September 26, 1899; died March 6, 1975.

209 ii. Monnie B Arnold, born October 4, 1902; died March 2, 1968. She married Fred Newbill; born September 26, 1900; died April 13, 1983.

172. Joel Wilse³¹ Arnold (Myriah³⁰, John Watson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born March 1879 in Weakley Co Tn. He married Nancy Dora Turner. She was born February 1880. Children of Joel Arnold and Nancy Turner are:

210 i. J W³² Arnold, born Abt. 1896.

211 ii. Theodore Arnold, born Abt. 1897. He married Isabella Unknown.

212 iii. Elenzie L Arnold, born 1898; died 1969. He married Lillian Harrison; born 1904.

173. Thomas Oliver Theodore³¹ Arnold (Myriah³⁰, John Watson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born January 20, 1888 in Weakley Co Tn, and died March 18, 1920. He married Emmie McCartney. She was born March 10, 1882, and died April 16, 1952 in Gibson Co TN.

Children of Thomas Arnold and Emmie McCartney are:

213 i. Rice³² Arnold, born August 20, 1905; died August 20, 1905.

214 ii. William Raymond Arnold, born August 6, 1906. He married Willie Mai Crocker; born Abt. 1907.

215 iii. Annie Nell Arnold, born December 1, 1911; died July 16, 1957. She married Linnart Holt; born Abt. 1910.

216 iv. Willie Grace Arnold, born April 13, 1916. She married Cecil Hassell Carroll; born Abt. 1914.

217 v. Sidney Foster Arnold, born September 27, 1918. He married Freida Magdaline Wren; born Abt. 1919.

218 vi. John Ross Arnold, born February 15, 1909; died March 30, 1963. He married Buna May Bradford; born Abt. 1910.

174. John Henry³¹ Arnold (Myriah³⁰, John Watson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born 1883, and died 1964. He married Mary Molly Francis Mullins. She was born October 30, 1885 in Gibson Co TN, and died February 20, 1973 in Gibson Co TN.

Children of John Arnold and Mary Mullins are:

219 i. Floyd Alonzo³² Arnold, born 1905.

220 ii. Coley Alton Arnold, born 1909.

221 iii. Falcon Finnie Arnold, born 1911; died 1912.

+ 222 iv. Hollis Thomas Arnold, born November 29, 1914 in Gibson Co TN; died April 25, 1995 in Gibson Co TN.

223 v. Leman Paul Arnold, born May 27, 1916 in Gibson Co TN; died July 30, 1917 in Gibson Co TN.

224 vi. William Claude Arnold, born June 7, 1919.

225 vii. Lessie Mae Arnold, born October 20, 1907. She married Daniel Chambers Williams; born 1899.

175. Horace³¹ Arnold (John Daniel³⁰, John Watson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born March 2, 1889 in Weakley Co Tn, and died October 13, 1977 in Weakley Co Tn. He married Mattie P. She was born February 12, 1888 in TN, and died July 29, 1980 in TN.

Notes for Horace Arnold: Horace had three wives first Katie who had the two children. Second was Hattie who had no children. Third was Ester who had no children. The second log cabin was build on the foundation of the first log cabin. Horace and katie added on to the second log cabin making it two story with a bed room upper. There was a barn, smoke house and outhouse in back. There also was a well and cistern.

Children of Horace Arnold and Mattie P are:

226 i. Lucile³² Arnold, born 1912; died Abt. 1940.

+ 227 ii. G W Arnold, born November 23, 1914 in Weakley Co Tn; died January 8, 1973.

Generation No. 32

177. Zelma Ladona³² Arnold ( King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) was born February 9, 1908 in Everton Boone Co Ark, and died March 19, 2000 in Piggott Ark.. She married (1) Jonas M Lobmaster September 21, 1927 in St Louis MO. He was born April 7, 1899 in area of Oran MO, and died October 1985 in Piggott Ark. She married (2) Jonas M. Lobmaster ) September 21, 1927 in St. Louis, Missouri ). He was born April 7, 1900 in Lutesville, Missouri ), and died October 9, 1985 in Campbell, Missouri ).

Notes for Zelma Ladona Arnold: The marriage to Jonas broke up about 1956. Zelma spent several years taking care of her parents in later years. She thought it was her duty to help other members of the family. She once stated "I have never regretted this work of love." She helped this historian by providing information and a narrative about her parents. She is buried in the Piggott Cemetery, Piggott Arkansas. Jonas Lobmaster was raised by his sisters as his mother died after bringing kids from germany. His father had died in his fourties of white leg disease.

Children of Zelma Arnold and Jonas Lobmaster are:

+ 228 i. Samuel David³³ Lobmaster, born August 23, 1929 in St Louis MO; died February 25, 1964 in Valparaiso Ind.

229 ii. Censored

179. Mary Gladys³² Arnold ( was born February 1, 1912 in Everton Boone Co Ark, and died September 7, 1997 in Redlands CA. She married (1) Coatsy Beaman Hill ) October 2, 1929 in St louis MO. He was born November 27, 1912 in Mayfield, Kentucky ), and died January 19, 1973 in St. James, Missouri ). She married (2) Coatsy Beaman Hill ) October 2, 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri ). He was born November 27, 1912 in Mayfield, Kentucky ), and died January 19, 1973 in St. James, Missouri ).

Notes for Mary Gladys Arnold: Buried in Piggott Ark. Was a good cook, baker, did fine enbroidery and had a temper particularly with her children. She is buried in the Piggott Cemetery, Piggott Arkansas.

Children of Mary Arnold and Coatsy Hill are:

+ 230 i. Dolores Mae³³ Hill, born December 19, 1932 in St Louis MO.

+ 231 ii. Mary Louise Hill, born January 11, 1936 in St Louis MO.

180. Beamon Edward³² Arnold ( King of Gwentland, Meric King of⁵ Gwentland, Ynir⁴, Ynir³, Cadwalader King of the² Britons, ) (Source: Marriage Certificate.) was born February 2, 1914 in Piggott Ark, and died February 14, 1994 in Popular Bluff Mo. He married (1) Dorothy Jane Stewart ) July 18, 1942 in San Antonio Tx, daughter of Daniel Stewart and Flossie Shaver. She was born June 13, 1919 in Pontiac MI, and died March 27, 1982 in Mt Clemens MI. He married (2) Mary Naomi Thompson ) August 18, 1951, daughter of Tommie Thompson and Robie Wornell. She was born April 1923, and died October 1995 in Pocahontas Ark. Beamon Edward Arnold as a lad worked in the fields, and helped on his parents farm. He entered the US Army in 1941 saw action in Northern France and Belgium and spent time in England. He was in the Infantry and the Normandy Invasion (D-Day) and went to the front every three months. He received an honorable discharge in July 1945 after four years service. He joined the Ms Willis Christian revival group and helped build tabernacles. This is how he came to S. Lyons Michigan where he met Dorothy. They bought a small house in Center Line MI then a little house on a ten acre farm just west of Pocahontas Ark just west of Highway 62. He worked at the Salee Handle Company. Beamon did mostly general labor work all of his life. The marriage to Dorothy ended and He married Naomi Thompson Aug 18, 1951. Censored stated that his dad was one of the most gentle persons he ever knew. Beamon and Naomi adopted a boy, Philip. Beamon did everything he could to help Philip and his ailing wife Naomi. The family moved from Rockford Ill to Pocahontas Ark to be with Naomi's aging parents. Beamon was always active in church work even distributing tracks he had printed. In retirement he did beekeeping and gardening. He helped his son Censored with this family history. He stated that family legend had it that his family dated back to when three Arnold brothers came over on a ship from England. They had red mustaches. Censored has a few red hairs evident if he doesn't shave. He stated that the family was English and Irish. On Beamon's mothers side he stated that the family came from Illinois and was Dutch. He is buried in Pocahontas Ark.

Notes for Dorothy Jane Stewart: In 1918 when she was eighteen she and others were mowed down by a drunk driver as they stood in a safety zone in Detroit. She overcame many medical problems. Her son stated that she was a good mother and a good person. She had a nice personality. Her hobbies were many including playing Clarinet, accordion, mandolin, organ, collecting salt and pepper shakers and owls, crocheting, spinning wool from the rabbits we raised, making fudge, chili sauce, ketchup, sewing, and listening to old records. She is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Detroit MI

182. Alma Laverne³² Arnold ( was born March 9, 1919 in Piggott Ark.Died 2010 She married Paul Olen Miller ) September 4, 1942 in St Charles MO, son of John Miller and Hattie Earl. He was born June 26, 1918 in Boyse Ok, and died September 12, 1994 in buried St Ann Lebanon Cem St Ann MO.

Children of Alma Arnold and Paul Miller are: Censored

183. Bertha Lois³² Arnold ( was born April 4, 1921 in Piggott Ark, and died January 7, 1991 in St Louis MO. She married Truman Woodrow Smith ) September 20, 1942 in St Louis MO, son of Ashley Smith and Beulah Turner. He was born February 3, 1915 in Daisy MO.

Notes for Bertha Lois Arnold: Social Security Death Index showes a Bertha Smith b Apr 2, 1921 died Jan 7 1991 residence St Louis Mo 63121 Buried at the Piggott cemetery Piggott Ark. Notes for Truman Woodrow Smith: Was an aircraft inspector for McDonnell-Douglas. Went to the Hitt School in Piggott Ark.

Children of Bertha Arnold and Truman Smith are:

Censored

185. Faye Ruth³² Arnold (James R³¹, Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born 1914, and died Aft. 1998. She married Albert Frank Seal in Piggott Ark, son of Ollie T Seal. He was born 1914, and died Bef. 1998 in Piggott Ark.

Notes for Albert Frank Seal: Buried in the main Piggott Cemetery.

Children of Faye Arnold and Albert Seal are:

+ 242 i. Ronald Max³³ Censored

+ 243 ii. Jerry Lyn Seal Censored

+ 244 iii. Jim Censored.

190. Mamie³² Arnold (George L³¹, Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born June 7, 1905 in Boone County Ark. She married Homer Jones Abt. 1930. He was born March 15, 1906 in Ark?.

Child of Mamie Arnold and Homer Jones is:

+ 245 i. Bobby Censored

191. Hugh³² Arnold (George L³¹, Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born October 8, 1909 in Everton Boone Co Ark, and died 1996. He married (1) Hazel Robenson 1927 in Ark. She was born Abt. 1911. He married (2) Gladys Varner June 20, 1938 in Harrison Ark. She was born Abt. 1911. He married (3) Martha Hester Breeding May 6, 1983 in San Springs Oklahoma, daughter of Qunton Winfred and Nancy Ethel. She was born October 18, 1918 in Arena Colo.

Notes for Hugh Arnold: Lived at 5812 Page Blvd Tulsa OK

Notes for Gladys Varner: Had no children.

Child of Hugh Arnold and Hazel Robenson is:

+ 246 i. Charlen³³ Arnold, born July 22, 1929 in Everton Boone Co Ark; died March 1983.

Child of Hugh Arnold and Martha Breeding is:

+ 247 i. Censored

192. Leon³² Arnold (George L³¹, Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born April 26, 1920 in Everton Boone Co Ark, and died December 18, 1994 in Harrison Ark. He married Mabel Lowery June 29, 1939 in Crawford Ark. She was born October 31, 1921 in Everton Boone Co Ark. Notes for Leon Arnold: Lived on Route 1 everton Arkansas 72633

Children of Leon Arnold and Mabel Lowery are: Censored

193. Marvell³² Arnold (George L³¹, Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born October 16, 1922 in Everton Boone Co Ark. She married Glen McDaniel May 11, 1940 in St Joe Ark, son of William McDaniel and Vella Salters. He was born July 17, 1917 in Censey Co Ark, and died April 2000.

Child of Marvell Arnold and Glen McDaniel is:

+ 253 i. Censored

196. Edith Birtha³² Richardson (Ann Ether³¹ Arnold, Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born January 14, 1911 in Marion Co Ark, and died August 1996. She married Logunza Callahan July 7, 1930. He was born Abt. 1908, and died 1993. Child of Edith Richardson and Logunza Callahan is:

254 i. Davy Lee³³ Censored

198. Linell³² Richardson (Ann Ether³¹ Arnold, Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born April 12, 1915 in Marion Co Ark. He married Audrey Brown Abt. 1940. She was born Abt. 1918.

Children of Linell Richardson and Audrey Brown are: Censored

199. Edwina³² Richardson (Ann Ether³¹ Arnold, Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born March 24, 1917 in Marion Co Ark. She married (1) James Warren Swafford May 6, 1933 in Harrison Ark. He was born Abt. 1915, and died May 1947. She married (2) Ray W Westfall May 14, 1946 in Cherokee Co Kan. He was born July 4, 1919 in Greene Co MO.

Children of Edwina Richardson and James Swafford are: Censored

200. Talmage J³² Richardson (Ann Ether³¹ Arnold, Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born November 15, 1920 in Marion Co Ark. He married Bonnie Smith Abt. 1947. She was born Abt. 1923.

Child of Talmage Richardson and Bonnie Smith is:

261 i. Calvin³³ Richardson, born 1947; died Abt. 1974.

202. Minnie Imogene³² Richardson (Ann Ether³¹ Arnold, Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born January 31, 1925 in Marion Co Ark. She married Kenneth Hart March 6, 1954. He was born Abt. 1923, and died 1973.

Children of Minnie Richardson and Kenneth Hart are: Censored

203. Harold Eugene³² Arnold (Wadie Columbus³¹, Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born April 20, 1918 in Zink. He married Eula Mae Adams July 4, 1940 in Cleveland Okla, daughter of Tony Adams and Vera Pearl. She was born October 29, 1923 in Osage Co Okla. Notes for Harold Eugene Arnold: Was an only child. Was a long distance truck driver. It was reported he was a very nice person. LM. His wife sold Avon.

Children of Harold Arnold and Eula Adams are: Censored

205. Effil Bunseal³² Townsley (Laura³¹ Arnold, Benjamin Franklyn³⁰, Thomas Andrew Jackson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born 1921, and died Abt. 1995. She married Marvin Whitmire September 11, 1937 in Smithville Ark. He was born Abt. 1919.

Children of Effil Townsley and Marvin Whitmire are: Censored

208. Erby Lee³² Arnold (Robert Green³¹, Myriah³⁰, John Watson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born September 26, 1899, and died March 6, 1975. He married Allie B Pratt. She was born August 14, 1909.

Children of Erby Arnold and Allie Pratt are:

272 i. Katie Lucille³³ Arnold, born December 19, 1926.

273 ii. Thelma Louise Arnold, born May 17, 1932.

274 iii. Bobby Gene Arnold, born July 7, 1939.

222. Hollis Thomas³² Arnold (John Henry³¹, Myriah³⁰, John Watson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born November 29, 1914 in Gibson Co TN, and died April 25, 1995 in Gibson Co TN. He married Inelve Baker. She was born January 18, 1917.

Children of Hollis Arnold and Inelve Baker are:

+ 275 i. Wanda Jane³³ Arnold, born Abt. 1938.

276 ii. John Everett Arnold, born January 14, 1936. He married Zula Nell Stafford; born Abt. 1937.

+ 277 iii. Billy Wayne Arnold, born November 12, 1948.

227. G W³² Arnold (Horace³¹, John Daniel³⁰, John Watson²⁹, John E²⁸, James²⁷, Arthur²⁶, James²⁵, Elisha²⁴, Isreal²³, Stephen²², ) was born November 23, 1914 in Weakley Co Tn, and died January 8, 1973. He married Ruby P Garret December 4, 1948, daughter of Robert Garrett and Annie L. She was born August 18, 1925, and died July 8, 1987. Notes for G W Arnold: GW had no name just initials. He was called Coug.

According to Linda Arnold her father had two wives first Margie. No kids Second Ruby her mother.

According to Jim Arnold his father G W had 3 wives: Ruby Garret, Hattie, M Pearl.

At New Hope cemetery I found: Ruby P Garret b Aug 18, 1925 d July 8, 1987

Also found markers for following nearby

Katie Arnold b July 15, 1880 or 1890 d Aug 9, 1948

James E Arnold 9 -17-1877 -2-17-1920

child markers noted were: Ruby D Arnold b feb 4 1922 d Jan 2 1923

M Pearl Arnold b July 4, 1917 d Oct 8 1918

Mallie W 1902-1904

Flossie V 1919-1919

Children of G Arnold and Ruby Garret are: Censored

Generation No. 33

228. Censored

Here are Franklin’s Maxims:

Silence. Speak only what will benefit others or yourself.

Order. Let all things have their places. Let each part of your business have its time.

Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

Frugality. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; that is; waste nothing.

Industry. Louse no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions.

Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes or habitation.

Tranquillity. Be not disturbed at accidents, common or unavoidable, or at trifles.

Example. Imitate Jesus and Socrates. Practice Love and Kindness and ask questions.

He donated his organs to help save lives and will be cremated

His grave stone reads " GOD IS LOVE. PRACTICE LOVE AND KINDNESS TO ALL. AMPLE FOR ALL CAN BE CREATED. WISDOM STANDS THE TEST OF TIME. STOP THE SUFFERING AND DYING ON SPACESHIP EARTH. BE CAREFUL.

Other Arnolds

Warren Union Cemetery 
row 47-37 Arnold Sophia C Jan 17, 1907 Jan 8, 1988*

No census data found in Warren 1850-1920