Obits Edwin G. S. and Alice Ann Vanduzer Robbins

 --Paxton Daily Record.  2 September 1905.  Page 2.

--Paxton Record.  2 July 1931.

Clyde's Accidental Death

Children of Johnson Arnold & Beckie (Zwig) Arnold:

1. Amos Silas b. 11 Jan 1887 d. 17 Jul 1887
2. Clyde Chester b. 10 May 1888 d. 23 Feb 1918.
3. Michael Ralph b. 1890
4. David Johnson b. 1892
5. Roger b. 1895
6. Henry Stuckley b. 1897
7. Ernest Linn b. 1899
8. Samantha Elizabeth b. 1901.

--Paxton Record.  28 February 1918.  Page 7. 

--Roberts Herald.  27 February 1918.  Page 1.

--Buried Lyman Township Cemetery.  Roberts, Ford County, Illinois.

Some other newspaper clippings:

--Paxton Record.  4 December 1913.  Page 7.

--Paxton Record.  25 December 1913.  Page 6.

--Gibson City Courier.  24 September 1915.  Page 3.

--Paxton Record.  4 November 1915.  Page 3.

https://amosarnoldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/lonesome-in-canada.html

https://amosarnoldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/06/clyde-chester-arnold.html

https://amosarnoldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/04/hard-winter-up-here-in-canada.html

Post Card from Clyde to Cora (Yackee) Arnold, his aunt.

 

Beckie (Zwig) Arnold Obit 1938

 

 

--Roberts Herald.  30 March 1938.  Page 1.

Johnson David Arnold Obit 1938

 

 

--Roberts Herald.  10 August 1938.  Page 1.

Chester Dillon Obit

--The Pantagraph.  Bloomington, Illinois.  23 October 1971.

Lulu Pearle "Pearle" McNeil is the oldest child of Eli T.and Harriet (Arnold) McNeil, Harriet (Arnold) McNeil is the oldest child of Amos and Lora (Johnson) Arnold).  Pearle McNeil married Chester Dillon August 11, 1915.  Chester and Pearle eventually landed in Birmingham, Alabama, where Chester had accepted a position as instructor and coach in a prominent educational institute.  The winter of 1920, Eli, Hattie, and Pearle's sister, Ellen, went to Birmingham to visit at the home of Chester and Pearle.  Pearle became ill with influenza while her family was visiting at her home, and they were with her when she died February 12, 1920.  She was 32 years old.

--Newspaper Clipping.
The Kendrick Family Album notes Pearle was pregnant at the time of her death.  Pearle is buried in Lyman Township Cemetery.
Chester later married Martha R. Keith.  They had two children:  Robert and Patricia.

Arthur V. Smith Obit

--Newspaper Clipping.

 



Buried at Lyman Township Cemetery, Roberts, Illinois.

Lora S. McNeil Smith Obit

--Newspaper Clipping.

 



 Buried Lyman Township Cemetery, Roberts, Illinois.

Ida Mae Johnson Obit

 

--K. Family Photo Album.

Ida Mae Johnson is the daughter of Corral Johnson and Amanda (Johnson) Johnson. Amanda Johnson is a sister to Lora (Johnson) Arnold.  Ida Mae died 6 September 1900.  She was 22.
Below Ida's mother, Amanda, writes to her sister in Illinois about her daughter's death:

21 September 1900.To Lora Johnson Arnold from Amanda M. Johnson.

Dear Sister and all,
I suppose Mary has written you as far as she knew about Ida's sickness and death, as she said she would, our time was all taken up and we had no time for letter writing. Seba did the house work and I took care of Ida for eleven weeks. She could not bear me out of her sight to eat or go into another room to change my clothes. When she was first taken we sent immediately for the Dr. and as he lives first door and was at home he was here within ten minutes after she was taken, he at first thought it a severe attack of peritonitis as the pain was all in her stomach and bowels - but after a day or two he began to tell me he was afraid it was another tumor or something which resulted from the one she had removed the 8th of June last year, so when Diah (Dr.) came up from N.Y. I had Dr. Buck come over & they examined her together, still Diah had very little to say and went out to Point-Au-Roche and staid there - for Lora he knew too well - after about six weeks I asked Dr. Buck if he would like to council with some other Dr. and on his saying yes, I sent for Dr. Barnes, he on examination at once said "I think it a sarcoma (which means cancerous.) right on the old spot where the other was removed and best thing to do is, to get her into a hospital and find out if I am right." I took her into Montreal as they all thought that the best place and on Aug 14th Dr. Cameron assisted by Dr. Armstrong and Brown operated on her. I made them promise that if there was no help for her that they would not experiment on her but sew up the insisions (of which there were two about five or six inches) and let her live as long as she could. They were gone from the room an hour and thirty five minutes - she bid me good bye and said you will be here Mamma when they bring me back, and then when they did Dr. Armstrong called me into the office & told me there was no hope, that it must have been malignant last year and they had kept it from me for it could never have come up and reached the growth it had in so short a time but it was just as well I did not know it for I could have done no different & I think the thoughts of it would made me crazy. So all that was done was to draw away the fluid & sew up the insisions. We staid there three weeks & two days when David came up from New York and we brought her home Sept 1st taking her on stretcher & ambulances to & and from depots and on a bed in vestibule care. She stood the journey very well and was so glad to get home as that was all she teased for was to be taken home. Dr. Brown came with us as he was coming to Plattsburth & he had the care of her while she lived. We sent to Montreal for a nurse, and everything was done that could be done for her comfort and to keep her from suffering, at times her sufferings were something terrible to witness & as great that I would have been willing to seen breath her last a good many times while in Montreal and I all alone with her. She would say, "This is agony, torture, it is like crucifixion Mama." It does not seem as though I could ever go through it again but suppose if I were obliged to - there would strength be given me to endure it. She had an air bed and electric fan there and all the nurses were very kind - and as I told Mrs. Hall that if I had the same thing to go through again I did not know or see one single thing that could be done more than was done. I do not think she thought she was going to get well from the first as she told Dr. Buck the first morning that she was going to die, although we did not tell her that it was impossible for her to get well until Tuesday. She seemed perfectly resigned only said "nurse I am young to die only twenty-two" she wished to see some of her friends and we sent for them & she had a word & good bye for all, she gave her things away said she wished to be buried in white, chose her bearers, and thought of everything & said she did not wish anyone to cry for she was not going to & she never shed a tear. She called each one of the family to her & kissed us & bid us good bye, left a good bye for Aunt Lib, Aunt Lora, and Aunt Martha and tell them she loved them all, said she was not afraid to die she was satisfied she had suffered enough & she was going to die at peace with all the world for she loved everybody. Mrs. Hall & the nurse said in all their experience they never saw anything so beautiful. She passed away Thursday morning at half past one without a single struggle not even opening her eyes and had I not been sitting on the side of the bed & looking right into her face she would have gone without our knowing it. We wished to keep her until the third day as she wished but were unable to do so, as the undertaker said we could run no such risk, her stomach and bowels were a mass of putrification and they never had such a time embalming a case before. Her casket was hard wood covered with white brocaded velvet, her robe white cashmere, shirred silk U front trimmed with chiffon. I bought it ready made and it was much prettier than anything I could have had made to order. There was a beautiful plate with her name & age and six handles on the casket. Robbie was home two weeks and David was home three days, but was unable to come to the funeral on account of the conventions & his work, he is not his own boss, but it was far better he came when he could be of some use to her. Carrie came & staid two weeks with Seba while I was in Montreal but her sister was taken sick & she was sent for as Elsie had to go into a hospital. I never saw such beautiful flowers, as was sent here the house was full, there was ten designs and beauquets without number. Arthurs grave as well as hers was covered and lots left at the house, there was four wreaths, three anchors two stars and a Maltese cross, and all hot house flowers and they were just beautiful. Ida had lots of friends - Mr. Hall conducted the services & the choir sang "A little while" and "Some time we'll understand" two very pretty pieces. I have not got rested yet for eleven weeks I had very little sleep as she could not bear to let me sleep a minute when she was awake - I have a terrible cold & Seba also, yesterday your birthday & as usual it rained all day and was so cold, we have had our coal fire in the sitting room running for a week. Aunt Lib has never written to us since she went away - had she treated either Eli or Robbie half as well as she does the Brelies they would probably be there now. Martha is in Charleroix we hear from her occasionally - Susan Weaver is very poorly is going to a hospital next week I think - time will tell but I am afraid they will find it is cancer of the stomach. I was down to see her Wednesday - she does not seem to think it anything serious. No more paper in the house so have got to stop - with love to all
Amanda M. Johnson

https://newyorktoillinoisletters.blogspot.com/

Ida Mae Johnson is buried at Riverside Cemetery, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148661017/ida-mae-Johnson

Obit Irving G. Bunker

Irving G. Bunker was the first husband of Mary Ella Arnold.  I believe their only child was Alice Bunker.

--K. Family Photo Album.

"Pearle" McNeil

Born in Wessington, South Dakota, on July 24, 1887, Lula "Pearle" McNeil is the oldest child of Eli T. and Harriet M. (Arnold) McNeil.  Pearle's mother Harriet "Hattie"(Arnold) McNeil is the oldest child of Amos and Lora (Johnson) Arnold.  
Pearle graduated from Roberts High School in the class of 1904.  (Peale is in the center, just to the right of the principal.) She continued her education at the Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois.  For several years she was a very successful teacher in the public schools. 

--"Let's Talk About Roberts.  Larry Knilands and Jean Fox.  

Pearle married Chester Dillon August 11, 1915.  The marriage took place on the lawn of the rural Melvin home of the McNeil family with about 60 guests in attendance. 

 

--Melvin Motor.  13 August 1915.

Chester's career  eventually landed the couple in Birmingham, Alabama, where Chester was working for the Birmingham State University.  
In the winter of 1920 Pearle's parents and her sister Ellen went to Birmingham to visit.  While there, Pearle was taken ill with influenza and passed away February 12, 1920, at the age of 32.  She was expecting their first child at the time of her death.
She is buried at Lyman Township Cemetery in Roberts, Illinois, near her parents. 

 

--Roberts Herald.  18 February 1920.

Pearle is easy to identify in family photos, always wearing her dark hair in a high bun.

Howard Edgar Harry Cook

--Newspaper Clipping.

--Buried Lyman Township Cemetery.  Roberts, Illinois.

Olive Lewis

 

Olive L. Lewis, 99, of the Irish Settlement Road, died Friday, January 14, 2011 at her home. She was born in Beekmantown on October 4, 1911 the daughter of Frederick and Katherine (Conley) Bradley. Olive married Edward D. Lewis in the Schuyler Falls Methodist Parsonage on December 30, 1930.

Edward died in 1984. She was a very active member of the Schuyler Falls Methodist Church where she was the organist for many years. She was also a former member of the Grange.

Olive was a wonderful homemaker, mother and grandmother. She was also known for her great cooking and baking. Survivors include, a daughter, Joyce Conners of Plattsburgh; a sister, Myrtle Bradley of Morrisonville; a sister-in-law Claudia Bradley of Pt.

AuRoche; 5 grandchildren, Sherry Willauer of Titusville, FL, Deborah Conners of Cumberland Head, Barbara Pavone and her husband Michael of Morrisonville, Patricia Conners and partner Dale Dudley of Plattsburgh, and Dana Conners and his wife Michaele of Charlotte, NC; 9 great-grandchildren, 8 great-great-grandchildren, several beloved nieces, nephews and cousins, and a dear friend of the family, Artis Brown of Plattsburgh. She was predeceased by her son, David Lewis; her brothers, Ralph and Earl Bradley; four sisters, Hazel Slosson, Gladys Bradley, Grace Rabideau and Sarah Arnold; a granddaughter, Laura Conners; a great-granddaughter, Michelle Greer and a great-great-granddaughter, Heidi Kirby. Calling hours will be held on Friday, January 21, 2011 from 11:00 to 2:00 pm at the R. W. Walker Funeral Home, 69 Court Street, Plattsburgh.

A funeral service will follow at 2:00 in the Robert W. Walker Memorial Chapel. Burial will be in the Schuyler Falls Cemetery in the spring. Memorial donations may be made to the Salvation Army, the Schuyler Falls Cemetery Association or to Hospice of the North Country.

https://www.afterlife.co/us/obituary-plattsburgh-olive-lewis-5683102

 

Olive was the sweet lady who invited us to her home for lunch while we were in Clinton County, New York.  It was so nice.  She had some family history and a diary kept by Elisabeth Johnson that she let us take to a local printer so we could make copies.  Mom and I both had copies made.  I think we paid close to $70 each, worth every penny. She was related through the Johnson/Lewis line.

Jehial Beardsley White

Amos Arnold's sister, Abigail (her given name was Eunice Abigail Arnold), married J. B. White 14 October 1857 in New York.  J. B. White died while visiting at the home of his sister-in-law, Samantha Arnold, on September 13, 19. He was 81.

 

--Newspaper Clipping from Susan M. Email in 2017.
--The article can be found in the Plattsburgh Daily Press.  14 September 1908. Page 5.

Daughters of the American Revolution

Did you want to join the D. A. R.? Here's a connection through the Lobdells.

 

--Plattsburgh Republican.  17 September 1910.

8 September 1910

Amos Arnold's sister, Eunice Abigail Arnold (also known as "Abigail"), married Jehial B. White in upstate New York. They made their home in Peru, New York. J. B. and Abigail White had one child, Mary, affectionately nicknamed "Pet" by her family.
On September 8, 1910, Mary is returning home from "the fair" and is fatally injured after the car in which she is riding is hit by a train at a crossing about three mile south of Peru.  Mary was 51 years old.
Mary was married at the time of her death to Hiram Heyworth and had two daughters, Abigail and Sarah.

One of the saddest automobile accidents which has ever occurred in this section took place at the crossing of the Chateaugay railroad on the Peru road, about three miles south of this city, shortly before six o'clock last evening, resulting in the instant death of Mrs. H. E. Heyworth of Peru and serious injury of Russell Clark and Miss Bessie Clark, children of Datus Clark of the same village.
Mr. and Mrs. Heyworth and Mr. Clark and his son and daughter had spent the day at the fair and were returning home in Mr. Clark's automobile, which was driven by Russell Clark.  Mr. Heyworth occupied the front seat with the chauffeur, Miss Clark the center seat and Mrs. Heyworth and Mr. Clark the rear seat.  At least two other automobiles were on the road with the Clark car and one of these had passed over the crossing and young Clark, evidently thinking that no train was approaching started to follow.  When within a few feet of the crossing he saw the passenger train from Saranac Lake, due here at six o'clock, bearing down upon him. Realizing the danger he applied the emergency brakes and turned his car to the east, hoping to avoid an accident.  He was too late, however, and his automobile struck the side of the baggage car as it rapidly passed by.  All of the occupants were thrown out, Mr. Heyworth falling near his wife.  He escaped with practically no injuries and when he turned to where his wife lay he found that she was dead.  A gash about four inches in length had been cut in her forehead, indicating that she had in some way struck the baggage car as she flew through the air.
Miss Clark was unconscious when picked up and remained so far some time.  Her brother was suffering great pain from a dislocated shoulder.  The brother and sister were hurriedly brought to the post hospital, where an examination showed that Miss Clark's shoulder was dislocated, her spine probably injured and she also suffered other injuries.  Mr. Clark, like Mr. Heyworth, escaped without injury.  The remains of Mrs. Heyworth were as soon as possible taken to her home in Peru. 
The automobile was practically demolished in its collision with the train.  Conductor Long, who was in charge of the train, stopped within a short distance of the accident and offered every possible assistance to the unfortunate people.

--Republican Press.  9 September 1910.

Mary L. Arnold Obit

On December 31, 2017, I treated myself to some new genealogy resources. 

I cancelled my membership to the Illinois State Historical Society.  A great resource, with two great publications for their members.  But after being a member for two years, I just did not find any information for local or family history. I decided to renew my membership at the NEHGS (New England Historical and Genealogical Society), and to join NYG&B (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.)  I also joined Ancestry for 6 months on their recent offer of half-price memberships.  And in 2017 I upgraded to the new Family Tree Maker 2017. 

So I am ready to do some Arnold Family research and possibly some Runyon research if I last that long. 

I still like to post and comment on the Roberts Illinois History page in Facebook and the Roberts History blog.  There is just enough hours in the day. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1724425851108326/

 

http://robertsillinoisfordcounty.blogspot.com/2017_02_01_archive.html

 

So this morning I started entering the siblings of Amos Arnold (my great, great grandfather) in my new Family Tree Maker (FTM) program.  I was stumped on Amos's sister, Mary Lovicy Arnold's birth and death exact dates.  I decided to try out all my new researching tools.  

 

I found Mary's death date. I also found a short notice of her death in a Plattsburgh newspaper. I am still hoping to find a formal obituary, but . . .   

 

Mary Lovicy Arnold died March 5, 1911.  Schuyler Falls, Clinton County, New York. 

 

 

--New York State Death Index.  1911. 

 

 

 

--Plattsburgh Daily Press.  Plattsburgh, New York.  6 March 1911.  Page 4.

Samantha M. L. Arnold Obit

--Roberts Herald.  17 February 1926.