April 15

John Henry Arnold married Minerva Adeline Carter 15 April 1888

Henry and Adaline were my great-great-grandparents.

(I've seen her name spelled Adaline and Adeline -- I don't know which one is accurate. Whenever I heard anyone mention her in conversation they always just called her "Ma" or "Ma Arnold".)

Henry and Adaline Arnold had five children.PHOTO L-R: George, Annie, John, Marlie, Etta

PHOTO L-R: Marlie, John, Henry and Adaline, Annie, Etta 

(George is not pictured. He might have been the one who took the photo.)

PHOTO L-R: Margaret Bullard ('Aunt Peggy'), George, Adaline holding Etta, Annie, John (in front of Annie), Henry holding Marlie.

"Aunt Peggy" was John Henry's aunt. She raised him from the time he was a toddler. Here is what Annie wrote:

Grandmother’s name before marriage was Emma Bullard. She married a man by the name of Arnold.  They had one child, Henry (my father).  They didn’t live together but three or four years.  They had trouble because he wanted to move from Missouri to Texas (or at least that’s what set off the separation), with his folks and she wouldn’t move, but he went ahead and moved without her and in a little while he came back and wanted her to take him back but she wouldn’t.  Then in a year or two she married a man by the name of Alex McReynolds.  They had one boy and twin girls and they had trouble and he took the girls and left, and they never heard from him any more.  But about the time she married the second time, her brother and sister (neither one married) took my Dad - just a small boy about maybe 2 years old, and set up housekeeping and raised him.  Their names were George Bullard and Margaret Bullard (Peggy).  Uncle George and Aunt Peggy was always exactly like my Grandpa and Grandma. 

PHOTO: George Bullard (cropped from a larger photo -- that's his daughter's hand on his shoulder)

I'm guessing Henry and Adaline's first child was named after Uncle George Bullard.

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PHOTO: Ulys and Annie Arnold Hicks, my great-grandparents.

My OCD loves the fact that Annie's parents were named 

John Henry and Minerva Adaline, 

and Ulys' parents were named 

John Henry and Malisa Evaline.