Invite to 50th. Amos and Lora Johnson Arnold

Funeral Notice

Funeral Notices for Amos and Lora, husband and wife.  Lora died in 1926 and Amos in 1913.  Both died at home and both held the funeral service in their home. 

What date did they move into Roberts?  And where did they live in the country?

Lyman Township Cemetery





 

 

 

Amos Arnold purchased the original Arnold burial site in Lyman Township Cemetery in 1887.  The deed to the burial lots is dated the 19th of July 1887.  His grandson, Amos Arnold, the oldest child of Johnson and Beckie Arnold died the 17th of July, 1887.

The child was the first burial on the family plot. 



 

 

Samantha Elizabeth Arnold

31 January 1869 Letter from New York to Lora

Letter to Lora Arnold
From Elisabeth Johnson
Schuyler Falls
Jan. 31st 1869

Dear Sister and all,

We are obliged to look for a letter for a long time before we get one from you. It has been so long since we have written that I shall have much to tell you. It is snowing to day after a few days of thaw, and we still have good sleighing, and have had for the last two months. Amanda with Elisabeth Weaver sat up last night over to Mr. Rosman’s. Mrs. Rosman died Friday afternoon and is to be buried to day funeral at the house at 10 ½. No sermon to be preached, only a prayer so I think none of us will go, it is so stormy. She died very easy, but has required a great deal of care for the last two months, and suffered much. Effie has been sick with the fever and is still very poorly, but so as to crawl around. The baby is quite sick, but I think nothing but worms. The others are as usual. Erastus Holmes is also buried to day, died last Tuesday – had one fit and went into another and never came out of it. I presume that Mr. Arnold’s folks have written of Grandma’s death which was two weeks ago to-day the 17th. She came here Christmas and as usual that day she and Ma went to Uncle Darins and sewed for two days on Lydia’s Brussels carpet, which was very hard work. Thursday she went up to Mansfield’s and Saturday over to Richard’s but laid down all the afternoon, went over to Mansfield’s and grew worse and Monday he came after Ma and she went and they brought her here the next day. She was here 12 days and we took all the care of her but one night when Mrs. Lobdell and her mother came down and insisted on taking care of her for that night to rest us. She suffered dreadfully but was very patient, and talked but very little and hardly to be understood. She died very easy, much easier than we expected, as we thought she would fill up with phlegm and strangle but she did not. She was laid out in her black dress as was also Mrs. Rosman. Her coffin was very nice probably cost $25, while Mrs. Rosman’s was but $6. Lydia was up but three times and stayed less than an (hour ?) each time. Uncle Darin’s the same, and he and Huldah came just as she was breathing her last. Mr. Lewis, wife and children came a few minutes after. Mela came the night before she died and stayed. Dr. Barnes visited her twelve times and called her disease typhoid pneumonia. The funeral was the next day (by Uncle Darin’s appointment,) here, and N. B. Wood of Peru preached from Job 19th, 25th verse, Mr. Gould was sick. Flora send you the dolls pattern and says cut the feet off where they are marked and sew them on straight so the will not turn out so. Sophronia Patchin and Emma Mills came home last night. Ma and Amanda have been out to Uncle Darin’s think they put on some style. Ma sends you a piece of her new dress. We have one little calf for cold weather. I do not think of any thing more so will leave room for some one else.
Elisabeth

New Writer
Pa has gone over to the funeral. Amos, Nate has been quite sick and is not well yet, has Esysipelas (?) in his head and dreadfully swelled, but he goes out some. Bub you will never be a man till you stop (whining ?) never for Lib says so.

Notes in Margins
How much would you give me to come and teach your school. You will see the shooting affair in the paper of Charles Foote, well he is a brother of Henry (H ? C ?) Foote our old teacher. Jane Colburn & children are down on a visit. I guess I’ll make Delina a visit sometime next summer, for I have not been out of town this winter wished Amos would carry us to donation.

Jane Colburn & husband and Charlie & Carrie here this evening.

Tom wants to move to Morrisonville now. 

RESEARCH:
Grandmother died 17 January 1869.  Who is she talking about?

Lovicy Lobdell Arnold

Wife of Stukeley Arnold and Mother of Amos Arnold.
Born 19 September 1806.
Married 19 February 1829.
Died

Children of Stukeley and Lovicy (Lobdell) Arnold:
1.  Amos Stukeley b. 20 January 1831 married Lora Ann Johnson
2.  Mary Lovicey b. 5 November 1832
3.  Samantha b. 27 June 1835
4.  Eunice Abigail b. 8 May 1838 married Jehial B. White
5.  Harriett b. 17 November 1840 d. young

The Johnson Sisters of Morrisonville, New York

My great, great grandmother, Lora Johnson Arnold, is in the bottom row in the center of the photo. Also in the bottom row on the left in glasses is Mary "Elizabeth" Johnson and to Lora's other side, Lora's twin sister, Flora.  Neither Elizabeth nor Flora married, and they lived in rural Morrisonville, New York, all their lives. 

The top row from left to right:  Amanda Johnson Johnson (not a typo, she married a Johnson), Martha Johnson Ayers, and Ida Johnson Ladd. 

Lora Johnson Arnold

The Wedding of Elma Cook to Herbert Jacobs

--Roberts Herald. 29 December 1937.

Elma and Herbert Jacobs had no children. 

Lora Ann Arnold

Mrs. Lora A. Arnold

Lora Ann Johnson, daughter of David and Seba (Ayer) Johnson, was born at Schuyler Falls, New York, September 20, 1835, and died at her home in Roberts, Illinois, Wednesday evening, April 21, 1926, aged 87 years, 7 months, and 1 day. She grew to womanhood at the place of her birth and there she was married to Amos Arnold, Thursday, July 23, 1857.  They remained in Clinton County, New York ten years and then left for the wild prairies of Illinois arriving in Ford County, October 26, 1867. They settled on a farm in section nine, three miles north of where Roberts is now located.
To Mr. and Mrs. Arnold were born seven children, five of whom are living.  These are two sons Johnson D. and Seward M. of Roberts, and three daughter, Hattie McNeil and Seba Linn of Roberts and Mary Dickey of Heber Springs, Arkansas. Two children preceeded her in death. These were Silas S. who died about twenty-eight years ago and Mrs. Elma Cook who died in 1921. Mr. Arnold died April 13, 1913.
It has been the custom of the Arnold family to gather at least once each year at the parental home but the one great gathering of the family long to be remembered was that of the golden anniversary Tuesday, July 23, 1907. Then five years later, Tuesday, July 23, 1913, was the death of the father.
Mrs. Arnold was a member of the M. E. Church of Roberts and when her health permitted she was a regular attendant and has always been a substantial financial supporter even since her health has been such that she was unable to attend. She was a kind wife and mother and an excellent neighbor. She was a woman who believed in truth for truth's sake, abhorring anything that had even the appearance of falsehood or deception; ever ready to help one in distress and always ready to do her part towards helping humanity or the betterment of the community. The world has been made better by the lives of such people as Mr. and Mrs. Arnold. They were honest, plain spoken, never trying to conceal a fault, ever helping in the advancement of a good cause and never trying to disguise a bad one. They came from the highly developed civilization of the East to wild prairies of the West and have helped to develop this into a civilization equal to that from which they came.  (To which is added the advancement of the years.) Mrs. Arnold and her twin sister Flora were the oldest of a family of six daughters. Flora and Amanda died some years ago. Three of her sisters survive her. These are Miss Elizabeth Johnson and Mrs. Ida Ladd of Plattsburg, New York, and Mrs. Martha Ayers of Charlevoix, Michigan. Besides these and her children previously mentioned she leaves twenty-one grand children and thirteen great grand children.
The funeral service was held at the home, Saturday afternoon, April 24th at 1:30 o'clock, Rev. John T. Killip officiating. The remains were laid to rest in Lyman Township Cemetery. Among those from a distance who attended the funeral were Mrs. Mary Dickey of Heber Springs, Arkansas, Miss Alice Bunker of Chicago, Dr. and Mrs. O. A. Cook and daughter Ora Jean of Henry. Mrs. Lovina Hapenny and daughters Darlene and Josephine of Decatur, Arnold and Miss Frances Linn of Chicago, Mrs. Robert Hawthorne and daughter Miss Mary Frances, Jean Henry and Mrs. C. W. Newman and son Robert of Urbana, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Roland, Mr. and Mrs. Merton West and Mr. and Mrs. James Pierpont of Paxton, Mrs. Murriett Kendrick of St. Louis, Robert McNeil of Urbana, Mr. and Mrs. James Tarvin and family of Onarga, Mr. and Mrs. Merle Tarvin of Gilman and a host of friends from nearby places.

--Roberts Herald.  28 April 1926.