Arnold Ancestors - Generation 2 - John Henry Arnold

 John Henry Arnold was born 08 July 1869 in McCrory, Woodruff County, Arkansas

 

Henry's parents were Jack? Arnold and Emma Bullard. When Henry was a young child he was taken in and raised by Emma's brother and sister, George and Peggy Bullard.

Henry married Adaline Carter 15 April 1888

Henry and Adaline had five children: George, Annie (my great-grandmother), John, Marlie, and Etta

PHOTO L-R: Aunt Peggy Bullard, George, Adaline holding Etta, Annie (back), John, Henry holding Marlie

PHOTO L-R: George, Annie, John, Marlie, Etta

PHOTO: Back - John and Annie. Front - Marlie, Henry, Adaline, Etta

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

This picture includes Annie's husband Ulysses Hicks and George's wife Jessie Tamsett 

("Ettie" is what they called Etta.)

Here is some of what Annie wrote about her family:

  My Father married at the age of 19 or 18 years, to Adaline 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. My parents had five children, three boys and 2 girls. George was the oldest child. I was next, John was the third, then we moved from Missouri to Arkansas. Then Marlie was born, then Ettie was the last one - born in 1900. 

  When my parents came to Arkansas they homesteaded a piece of land and built a log house on it and lived on it for five or six years, and sold it and bought another farm. Then our house burned. We lost everything we had almost. Then we had to get another place so we bought 40 acres for $100. A fair price for land in those days. My Father was a sorghum maker so he paid for the farm with sorghum molasses. A fifty-gallon barrel or two of them every year at about 20 cents a gallon, a fair price for sorghum in those days. That was in about 1906. We lived on that place a few years and then we traded that place and a wagon and team of mules for 160 acres of land with a good house on it. That was about the best place anywhere around there. After living there three or four years, my Father died at the age of 39 years. The doctor said he had pleurisy. That is water around the lungs. In a few years, Ma divided the place among the children, forty acres apiece for all the children except me. She gave me a cow. I preferred the cow instead of splitting four forties into five blocks. We kids were already married.

John Henry Arnold died 11 November 1909, age 40

He is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Floral, Independence County, Arkansas