Sunday, June 23, 2019
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
The Farm with Glen and Frances Arnold
My dad, Glen Arnold and his only sibling, Frances (Arnold) Stephens at the farm they both grew up on. Both are deceased. Dad was born in 1933; so I would guess photos are from the early to mid 1930s to early 1940s. The location is also the farm where their father and his siblings lived, northwest of Roberts, Illinois, in Lyman Township, Ford County.
I recognize some of the out buildings. Frances is standing in front of the "cob shed." This building was actually the home of my great-great grandparents, Carl and Tena Zwig. It was moved to this location from the end of the north lane at the farm. I was in the building when it was the cob shed. I recall old wallpaper, junk and darkness, that's about it. All the buildings are gone now. But I was so happy to find these photos. I am always looking for photos of the farm house.
The bottom photo is the home, but it looks nothing as I remembered. Gray asphalt siding was added, a basement, and a front porch over the years, and possibly a second story.
I recognize some of the out buildings. Frances is standing in front of the "cob shed." This building was actually the home of my great-great grandparents, Carl and Tena Zwig. It was moved to this location from the end of the north lane at the farm. I was in the building when it was the cob shed. I recall old wallpaper, junk and darkness, that's about it. All the buildings are gone now. But I was so happy to find these photos. I am always looking for photos of the farm house.
The bottom photo is the home, but it looks nothing as I remembered. Gray asphalt siding was added, a basement, and a front porch over the years, and possibly a second story.
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Amos Silas Arnold
I was just going through some photos and found this wonderful image. This is Amos, the first child of Johnson and Beckie (Zwig) Arnold. Little guy only lived six months. I can't believe I have this. The photo was taken in 1887 in Chatsworth. The handwriting on the back looks like Mildred (Robbins) Arnold's script.
Death Certificate
I was hoping to get a clue to the birthplace of his mother, Rebecca (Zwig) Arnold. But the certificate information provided by his brother, Roger Arnold, is not accurate. Rebecca was born in Germany. It appears Roger was living in the same area as Clyde, as he notes his address as Wanda, Minnesota.
It does show that Clyde lived for two days after his accident. The cause of death being shock. With notes "Burning house - kindled fire in stove with gasoline. And a contributory factor being burns of skin.
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Hard Winter up Here in Canada
Jan 21st 1911
Dear Uncle:
How are you all well, getting ready for spring work I suppose. Nice sunshiny weather here now but not thawing much yet. It has been a hard winter up here in Canada. A few homesteaders in different localities were lost and frozen to death. One of the pollocks living a mile and half northeast from me let his two small children freeze their faces by staying in such a cold shack he tried to make a ton of coal last him all winter. A lot of teaming going on now while the sleighing is good. Two new settlers came in last week and have section five just west from me. There was seven quarters open in this township last week. A lot of land to be thrown open for homesteading just north of Edmonton the first of March sixty townships. So you see there is land for the landless. The papers have been booming lately for the great peace river district. You know the Grand Trunk is building in through that country now across by Fort George and Prince Rupert. I am figuring on buying a team of horses this spring if I can manage to do it. The horses are selling pretty high around Carlstadt. But they are far more reasonable up towards Calgary. I guess will be able to get a fair team for $325 to $350. I have got to get busy to cut down expenses. I did not have to pay too much for hired work last year and don't want to start now if I can help it. I am going to have you send that money up now as I will want part of it. When I wrote you once before I intended to leave it down there another year but have been compelled to change my mind since then. If I remember you said once for me to tell you how to send it. Send it the safest and cheapest way. I guess that will be by bank draft and registered mail will that be as good a way as any? Try and get it here by the first Friday in March if you can with out too much bother. As you know the mail comes out here to the post office on Fridays and I will get it over there you see and then pick my day to go to town and in doing that can catch a ride in. Seed grain is also high here, oats are 65 cts a bushel wheat $1.25 a hundred pounds, flax three dollars a bushel. I intend to put in ? what ground I have broke. Trusting to hear from you I will ring off for this time and give you my address which is Clyde Arnold. Tide Lake. P. O. Via Carlstadt, Alta, Canada.
Dear Uncle:
How are you all well, getting ready for spring work I suppose. Nice sunshiny weather here now but not thawing much yet. It has been a hard winter up here in Canada. A few homesteaders in different localities were lost and frozen to death. One of the pollocks living a mile and half northeast from me let his two small children freeze their faces by staying in such a cold shack he tried to make a ton of coal last him all winter. A lot of teaming going on now while the sleighing is good. Two new settlers came in last week and have section five just west from me. There was seven quarters open in this township last week. A lot of land to be thrown open for homesteading just north of Edmonton the first of March sixty townships. So you see there is land for the landless. The papers have been booming lately for the great peace river district. You know the Grand Trunk is building in through that country now across by Fort George and Prince Rupert. I am figuring on buying a team of horses this spring if I can manage to do it. The horses are selling pretty high around Carlstadt. But they are far more reasonable up towards Calgary. I guess will be able to get a fair team for $325 to $350. I have got to get busy to cut down expenses. I did not have to pay too much for hired work last year and don't want to start now if I can help it. I am going to have you send that money up now as I will want part of it. When I wrote you once before I intended to leave it down there another year but have been compelled to change my mind since then. If I remember you said once for me to tell you how to send it. Send it the safest and cheapest way. I guess that will be by bank draft and registered mail will that be as good a way as any? Try and get it here by the first Friday in March if you can with out too much bother. As you know the mail comes out here to the post office on Fridays and I will get it over there you see and then pick my day to go to town and in doing that can catch a ride in. Seed grain is also high here, oats are 65 cts a bushel wheat $1.25 a hundred pounds, flax three dollars a bushel. I intend to put in ? what ground I have broke. Trusting to hear from you I will ring off for this time and give you my address which is Clyde Arnold. Tide Lake. P. O. Via Carlstadt, Alta, Canada.
Clyde Arnold Post Card
Mrs. Cora Arnold
Roberts, IllinoisU.S.A.
R.F.D. #1
Jan. 30th
Dear Aunt.
I am home again once more after having been away for some time it seems good to get back as there is no place like home. How are you all? What is Seward doing these days. This card is a view of Carlstadt. There is one elevator but it is not shown on this picture. We are having fine weather here now. Plenty of snow good sleighing.
Yours truly,
Clyde Arnold
Tide Lakes
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.
--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.
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.
Some other newspaper clippings:
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.
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Seven Sons and One Daughter
As mentioned in previous posts Johnson and Beckie married 6 April 1886, in Lyman Township "at the home of the bride's parents, which was known as the Canada Smith farm." I believe this farm was directly across the road from where Johnson Arnold grew up. Did Johnson marry the girl next door?
--Roberts Herald. 8 April 1936. Page 1.
They had seven sons and one daughter:
1. Amos Silas b. 11 Jan 1887 d. 17 Jul 1887
2. Chester Clyde b. 1888.
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.
1. Amos Silas Arnold was born 11 January 1887 and died 17 July 1887. He was the first burial in the Arnold family plot at Lyman Township Cemetery. Six months old. I cannot find an obit for his death.
Link to a previous post about the Canada Smith farm location.
Link to a previous post about the Arnold family plot in Lyman Township Cemetery.
To be continued . . .
They had seven sons and one daughter:
1. Amos Silas b. 11 Jan 1887 d. 17 Jul 1887
2. Chester Clyde b. 1888.
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.
1. Amos Silas Arnold was born 11 January 1887 and died 17 July 1887. He was the first burial in the Arnold family plot at Lyman Township Cemetery. Six months old. I cannot find an obit for his death.
Link to a previous post about the Canada Smith farm location.
Link to a previous post about the Arnold family plot in Lyman Township Cemetery.
To be continued . . .
Friday, March 29, 2019
Related?
Just browsing in Find A Grave and found this photo.
Albert Arnold
(son of George Arnold and Hannah Randall)
George Arnold
(son of Thomas and Hannah Arnold)
Birth: unknown Death: Nov. 12, 1819
Note: in his 89th year; h/o Hannah
Burial: Brayton Cemetery, Apponaug, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA
Albert Arnold, born 26 Dec 1807 in Providence, R.I.; died 18 Sep 1881 in Victoria, Illinois; married (1) Elizabeth Wall 16 Jun 1834 in Poland,Herkimer,N.Y.; married (2) Samantha Lavinia Huntington 21 May 1845 in Burlington,New York.
Moved from Poland, N.Y. to Victoria Ill. after 1846 with his second wife Samantha Huntington.
He had a land grant deed which was registered in Knox county, Ill. on January 9,1853.
The land grant was originally given to John Brooks for his service in the war of 1812, and was signed by President Monroe. Brooks was a private in Sevett's Artillary, Warrent No. 10,620. Signed December 9,1817.
At the time M. Eliza Arnold's estate was being settled, October 4,1900, the mortgage on the farm was signed off by the two brothers (George in New York) and reissued and sent to Fanny, now Mrs. Barrer.
This is documented in a letter sent by the estate lawyer.
The land grant was donated to the Montgomery County Historical Society, Rockville, Maryland in 1996.
Purchaser: BROOKS JOHN Record ID: 564452
Date: 12/09/1817
Acres: 160
Price: 0.0
Type of sale: Military Tract (MT)
County: 48
Section: 24 Section Part: NE
Township: 12N Range: 03E
Meridian: 4 Purchaser Res: 550
Arch. Vol. No: 807 Vol. Page No.: 283
Cash warrant code: Record corrected: 0
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9577362/albert-arnold
(son of George Arnold and Hannah Randall)
George Arnold
(son of Thomas and Hannah Arnold)
Birth: unknown Death: Nov. 12, 1819
Note: in his 89th year; h/o Hannah
Burial: Brayton Cemetery, Apponaug, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA
Albert Arnold, born 26 Dec 1807 in Providence, R.I.; died 18 Sep 1881 in Victoria, Illinois; married (1) Elizabeth Wall 16 Jun 1834 in Poland,Herkimer,N.Y.; married (2) Samantha Lavinia Huntington 21 May 1845 in Burlington,New York.
Moved from Poland, N.Y. to Victoria Ill. after 1846 with his second wife Samantha Huntington.
He had a land grant deed which was registered in Knox county, Ill. on January 9,1853.
The land grant was originally given to John Brooks for his service in the war of 1812, and was signed by President Monroe. Brooks was a private in Sevett's Artillary, Warrent No. 10,620. Signed December 9,1817.
At the time M. Eliza Arnold's estate was being settled, October 4,1900, the mortgage on the farm was signed off by the two brothers (George in New York) and reissued and sent to Fanny, now Mrs. Barrer.
This is documented in a letter sent by the estate lawyer.
The land grant was donated to the Montgomery County Historical Society, Rockville, Maryland in 1996.
Purchaser: BROOKS JOHN Record ID: 564452
Date: 12/09/1817
Acres: 160
Price: 0.0
Type of sale: Military Tract (MT)
County: 48
Section: 24 Section Part: NE
Township: 12N Range: 03E
Meridian: 4 Purchaser Res: 550
Arch. Vol. No: 807 Vol. Page No.: 283
Cash warrant code: Record corrected: 0
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9577362/albert-arnold
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