Arnold is the oldest of 8 children born to William and Ann (McAtee) Elder. Apparently, his parents moved west to Kentucky by the time he was 5 years old. He married Sarah "Sally" Hayden February 15,1800 and to this union 11 children were born.. A Catholic church stood on the lowlands by the river at Chenaultt, and served the Catholics in the area of Derby, Indiana, across the Ohio, as well as those on the Kentucky side. The history of the church is brief, for it so on became too far removed from the greater number of parishioners , who settled more and more to the East and in 1826 it was abandoned when the more centrally located second church was erected. Attached to the Church was a little Cemetery, and here William Elder(Arnold's father) and others, who died at that period, were laid to rest as Arnold is beleived to have been buried,Later, floods from the river swept over the land, wrecking the building and covering the Cemetery with silt and debris, and today nothing remains to mark the site of St. Theresa's first Church and Cemetery.
Arnold is the oldest of 8 children born to William and Ann (McAtee) Elder. Apparently, his parents moved west to Kentucky by the time he was 5 years old. He married Sarah "Sally" Hayden February 15,1800 and to this union 11 children were born.. A Catholic church stood on the lowlands by the river at Chenaultt, and served the Catholics in the area of Derby, Indiana, across the Ohio, as well as those on the Kentucky side. The history of the church is brief, for it so on became too far removed from the greater number of parishioners , who settled more and more to the East and in 1826 it was abandoned when the more centrally located second church was erected. Attached to the Church was a little Cemetery, and here William Elder(Arnold's father) and others, who died at that period, were laid to rest as Arnold is beleived to have been buried,Later, floods from the river swept over the land, wrecking the building and covering the Cemetery with silt and debris, and today nothing remains to mark the site of St. Theresa's first Church and Cemetery.
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