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.