On This Day in Family History - April 20

 April 20, 1966 was a very bad day for Uncle George Arnold's family. (Fortunately for Uncle George, he didn't live to see it, having died in 1939.)

George Ned Arnold was the brother of my great-grandmother Annie Arnold Hicks.

George married Jessie Tamsett and they had 8 children - a boy and 7 girls.

The oldest child, Amos, died of typhoid fever at age 7. 

After Aunt Jessie died, George married Eula Mae Burnett and they had 5 children - a boy and 4 girls.

On 20 April 1966 three people in the family died.

Bud's son Buddy Lynn Arnold, age 6, was hit by a car while waiting for the school bus. (I don't have a picture of him.)

On the same day, Mildred Arnold Garrett was shot and killed by her husband, Everett Garrett. Everett then shot and killed himself. 

Photo: Mildred Arnold Garrett

I don't have a picture of her husband Everett Garrett.

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In preparing this post, I ran across another interesting tidbit of information about the Garrett family. Everett Garrett was first married to Mildred's sister Verlie. Then Mildred and Everett had an affair, and Everett and Verlie divorced. Verlie then married Everett's brother Ed Garrett. Ed and Everett had another brother, William Garrett, who married Elizabeth Baker. Elizabeth Baker was a the daughter of John Martin Carter - an uncle of George Ned Arnold. (The Arnold and Carter families are so intwined that it's not easy to separate them. George Ned Arnold's mother was a Carter, and his father was an Arnold. So both of those branches of the family are "ours".) 

Well, that's all a matter of record. The new fun fact that I discovered today is this -- 

The parents of those Garrett boys were Grover Cleveland Garrett and Cecile Wackerly Garrett. According to the FindAGrave memorial for Cecile Garrett:

 "She married Grover Garrett. He was convicted of killing her father [Clem Wackerly] & sentenced to 5 years in the pen in 1912. They married after his sentence."