Arnold Ancestors - Generation 1 - George and Peggy Bullard

 Just a short P.S. to yesterday's post --

I have found one of Emma Bullard's other children, with her second husband Alex McReynolds. The son's name was James Anderson McReynolds. In the 1880 U.S. Census both Emma and James were recorded as living in Arkansas with Elijah and Matilda Bates. Matilda was Emma's mother. Elijah Bates was Emma's stepfather. We do not know the first name of Emma Bullard's father. 

James married Mary Leona Blackgrove and they had five children. In the censuses they were recorded as living in Arkansas.

I still don't have any information about Alex McReynolds and what happened to him after he left Emma Bullard.

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Now, here is the information I have on George Bullard and his sister Margaret (Peggy) who raised John Henry Arnold. (The Bullard family is intertwined with the Arnold and Carter branches of our family tree in several ways. More about that when we get to the Bullard ancestry.)

George Bullard married Josephine Tamsett in 1879. (The Tamsett family is also intertwined with the Arnolds and Carters in several ways. More about that later.)

PHOTO: George Bullard and Josephine Tamsett Bullard with their daughter Leona.

In 1904 George Bullard married Mary Alice Morehead Robinson.

PHOTO: George and Mary Alice Bullard with their daughter Tessie and Mary Alice's two sons (Herbert and Levi) from a previous marriage.

George and Mary Alice had two daughters, Tessie and Georgia. I don't have a picture of Georgia.

PHOTO: Tessie Bullard

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Margaret 'Peggy' Bullard married Alex Williams. I don't have a picture of Alex. 

Here's what Annie Arnold Hicks (John Henry Arnold's daughter) wrote:

After they got my Dad about raised, Uncle George married Josie Tamsett, an aunt of Amy Tamsett that John Carter married. Then a little later, Aunt Peggy married Alex Williams, a very strange character. Aunt Peggy said she never could get acquainted with him or understand his actions. Lots of nights he would get up in the night and sit in the door with his gun just like he was expecting a murderer, but in just a few years he was walking home across an old field where there was some dead trees and one of them fell on him and killed him. Just the day before that, he had a snuff box packed full of $20 gold pieces and that would be a lot of money for them times. He evidently had hid that money for not a penny could be found (about 1897). In those days gold pieces were in common circulation. They got the idea that he bored a hole in a tree and put the box of money in the hole and put a peg in on it, but they had no idea which tree nor for sure that he did that, so there wasn’t any chance to find the money. This all took place in Missouri around Thayer. 

After the death of Alex Williams, Peggy married Bryant Holley. I don't have a picture of him, and I don't know much about him except that he died in 1922 (ten years after Peggy died) and is buried in Cave City, Arkansas. Peggy is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Floral, Arkansas.

PHOTO: Aunt Peggy's gravestone

PHOTO: Bryant Holley's gravestone.

Arnold Ancestors - Generation 1 - Emma Arlinda Bullard

Being the ancestors of my maternal grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford and her mother Bertha Ann “Annie” Arnold Hicks

GENERATION 1

EMMA ARLINDA BULLARD

I don't have a picture of Emma Bullard or Jack Arnold.

Emma Bullard married (1) Jack(?) Arnold (we don't know for sure that his first name was Jack, and we don't know anything else about him)

Child of Emma Bullard and Jack Arnold:

i. John Henry Arnold

John Henry Arnold was born 08 July 1869.

John Henry Arnold was raised by Emma’s brother and sister – George and Margaret ‘Peggy’ Bullard.

Here is what his daughter, Annie Arnold Hicks (my great-grandmother) 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 anymore. 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. 

  After they got my Dad about raised, Uncle George married Josie Tamsett, an aunt of Amy Tamsett that John Carter married. Then a little later, Aunt Peggy married Alex Williams, a very strange character. Aunt Peggy said she never could get acquainted with him or understand his actions. Lots of nights he would get up in the night and sit in the door with his gun just like he was expecting a murderer, but in just a few years he was walking home across an old field where there was some dead trees and one of them fell on him and killed him. Just the day before that, he had a snuff box packed full of $20 gold pieces and that would be a lot of money for them times. He evidently had hid that money for not a penny could be found (about 1897). In those days gold pieces were in common circulation. They got the idea that he bored a hole in a tree and put the box of money in the hole and put a peg in on it, but they had no idea which tree nor for sure that he did that, so there wasn’t any chance to find the money. 

  This all took place in Missouri around Thayer. My Father was grown and married before Aunt Peggy married. My Father married at the age of 19 or 18 years, to Adeline Carter (my mother). She was seven months older than him. I am not sure how old they were - they probably were not more than 18 years old. I know they were young when they married in Missouri around Thayer. Dad was born around McCrory, Arkansas, but the family moved to Missouri while he was a baby. My Dad was raised in Illinois.

Family Members 

SPOUSE Minerva Adaline Carter Arnold 1868–1946 

CHILDREN 

George Ned Arnold 1889–1939 

Bertha Ann Arnold Hicks 1893–1972 

John Davidson Arnold 1895–1954 

Marlie Alvin Arnold 1898–1970 

Etta Lee Arnold Jackson 1900–1945

PHOTO: George, Annie, John, Marlie, Etta

New Tack

Okay, so I have a new project in mind. What I want to do is get all the family photos and all the family genealogy, documents, anecdotes, etc. organized into one Magnum Opus.

So, instead of doing a daily birthday calendar, I want to start focusing on one branch of the family tree at a time, one generation at a time. This may or may not turn into a series of books. (Well, actually, I've already done that -- the Cloud of Witnesses series -- but now I will add more pictures and more anecdotal information.) Or I might just organize them into individual documents that could later be printed and assembled into loose-leaf binders -- and those documents could be shared electronically, too, with anyone who wanted them...

Well, the plan is still sort of nebulous in my brain, but I'm going to start off and see what happens.

January 28

 Donnie Jeneal Burford was born 28 January 1949

Donnie is the daughter of Neil and Mildred Burford

Neil was a brother of my grandfather Lester Burford

PHOTO: Lester and Neil 1956

Here are all the pictures I have of Donnie Burford

Donnie and Ronnie Burford

Ronnie, Donnie, and Bobby Burford (Ron and Bob are sons of Lester Burford)

This would have been sometime around 1954 or 1955

I'm guessing this is Donnie's high school senior portrait.

This group photo was taken in 1956. Lester's brothers Neil and George made a trip to Michigan with some of their children and grandchildren. I don't know for sure who all of them are. In the back, left to right, are George and his wife Willie Mae, Neil and Mildred, Lester and his wife (my grandmother) Cleffie. Between Lester and Cleffie is their daughter Wathada (my mother). The boy in front in the striped shirt is my mother's brother Ronnie. On the far right in front is Donnie Burford. I'm not at all sure who the other five children are. I think two of them are Larry and Linda Slocum (George and Willie Mae's grandchildren) Don't know the other three youngsters. Deb and Florence were also there at the time this picture was taken. (Deb was a brother of George and Lester and Neil.)

PHOTO: Florence, Deb, Lester, Cleffie

January 27

 Renue L. Thomas Wells died 27 January 1958, age 64

Aunt Renue was a sister of my grandfather Bill Thomas.

PHOTO: Back - Nancy Thomas (my great-grandmother), cousin Wilsie from New York, William Ford (Nancy's father), Renue Thomas, Charles Thomas (my great-grandfather). Front - Melvin Thomas, Bill Thomas (my grandfather). The little girl in the middle is Georganna Thomas, daughter of Roy Thomas (Roy was an older brother of Renue and Mel and Bill).

Renue married Erwin Leslie Wells

Renue and Erwin had one child, a son, Melvin T. Wells, who died at birth.

January 26

Billy Jack Anderson died 26 January 2019, age 82

Bill was the husband of June Barnett

June is a daughter of Doc and Irene Hicks Barnett

PHOTO: Doc and Irene with (L-R) Velma Lee, Betty, Bobbie, June

Irene Hicks Barnett was a sister of my grandmother Cleffie Hicks Burford

PHOTO: Irene and Cleffie Hicks 1928

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Bill and June Anderson had two children - Melissa and Randy

PHOTO: June and Bill with Melissa and Randy and their children

OBITUARY

 Billy Jack Anderson passed peacefully at his home, Saturday, January 26 at 2:13 a.m., at age 82. Bill was the son of the late Fred and Lucy Anderson born July 19, 1936 in Broseley, Missouri.

The family moved to Malden when Bill was 6.  He attended Malden Public School and worked odd jobs in Malden as a teen.  As a young adult, he worked several years at the Pepsi plant in Malden.

On September 4, 1959, he married June Barnett, daughter of the late Doc and Irene Barnett of Campbell.

At that time he began his farming career in Campbell, which continued until they moved to Morley, Missouri in 1988.  He then began to work at Clearview Nursing Center as a floor technician until 2014 when he retired and moved back to Campbell.

Survivors include his wife and two children; Randy Anderson (Bridgett) of Campbell, Melissa Ensor (Paul) of Sikeston; seven grandchildren, Scott Anderson (Barbie) of Pollard, Samantha Reeves (Kevin) of Piggott, Derek Anderson (Lindsay), Whitney Anderson and Dalton Anderson all of Campbell, Ashley Ensor and Annie Ensor both of Sikeston; seven great-grandchildren; three sisters, Geraldine Baker of Doniphan, Pat Rawlings, Ellen Nix and sister-in-law, Vivian Anderson all of Malden; several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephew.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Norma Jean Warren and Peggy Presley and one brother, Freddie Anderson.

Visitation will be from 12 to 1 p.m., Saturday, February 2, 2019 at the Campbell Civic Center in Campbell on the corner of Grand and Locust with a short informal memorial service at 1 p.m.  There will be a private graveside service for family afterward. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you please make memorial donations to St. Jude Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Pl, Memphis, TN  38105-9959.

January 25

 Allan Washburn Miller was born 25 January 1921

Allan was the son of John Cleveland Miller and Gulielma Hoxie Miller

John Cleveland Miller was the son of Alice Ford and Dale Miller

Alice Ford was a sister of my great-grandmother Nancy Ford Thomas

PHOTO: Stephen, Alice, Nancy Ford

Allan Miller had two older brothers, Jerry and Preston

PHOTO L-R: Jerry, Allan, and Preston Miller

Gulie died 12 days after Allan was born (reportedly from complications of childbirth). So Allan was taken in and raised by Harry and Effie Thomas Wieland. Effie was a daughter of Nancy Ford Thomas (Alice's sister). Jerry and Preston stayed with their father.