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Alexander Bruce “Alex” Arnold Sr.

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Alexander Bruce “Alex” Arnold Sr.

Birth
Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky, USA
Death
13 Mar 1900 (aged 73)
Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, Texas, USA
Burial
Sturdivant, Palo Pinto County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
B1 #27
Memorial ID
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Father: Absalom Arnold; Mother: Tabitha Clay Bruce; Spouses: (1) Margaret Ann Brown; (2) Sarah B. Bishop

1. Record of Sturdivant Cemetery (1974).

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According to the 1850 and 1860 U. S. Federal slave censuses, Alexander Bruce Arnold owned slaves in Garrard County, Kentucky.

He served in Company A1 Kentucky Cavalry during the Mexican War.

During the Civil War he served as sergeant in Company E, 7th Regiment Kentucky Cavalry, part of Morgan's Raiders. He was captured 9 July 1863 at Corydon, Indiana, and was listed on prison rolls for Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois.

After the Civil War he joined his family in Missouri and about 1880 moved first to Johnson County, Texas, and then to the Mineral Wells area of Palo Pinto County.

By his first wife Margaret Ann "Maggie" Brown he had three children: Breathitt Arnold (1850-before 1860), John Smith Arnold (1850-1907), and Harve Dean Arnold (1853-1920). By his second wife Sarah B. Bishop he had five children: Marion Arnold (1856-1857); Jane Bishop "Jennie" Arnold Withers (1859-1931); Alexander Bruce "Alex" Arnold, Jr.(1866-1941); David McKee "Dave" Arnold (1869-1956); and Henry Arnold (1872-1880 or later).

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A. B. Arnold, was born in Garrard County, The mother of H. D. Arnold, formerly Miss Margaret Brown, died at his birth, and three years later A.B. married again, to Miss Sarah Bishop, who is still living. There were in all eight children, five of them by the second marriage. The elder Arnold was brought up to agricultural pursuits, and his life, for a good many years, was that of the average "Blue grass" farmer. He served through the Mexican war, and at the outbreak of the Civil conflict, fifteen years later, took up arms again, under the leadership of that dashing Confederate, General John Morgan. He afterward moved to Missouri, and, in 1880, to Texas, first locating in Johnson County, but subsequently in Palo Pinto County, where he is still living and actively engaged in farming. (Source: Historical and Biographical Record of the Cattle Industry and the Cattlemen of Texas by James Cox, Published by Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co, St Louis, 1895
Father: Absalom Arnold; Mother: Tabitha Clay Bruce; Spouses: (1) Margaret Ann Brown; (2) Sarah B. Bishop

1. Record of Sturdivant Cemetery (1974).

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According to the 1850 and 1860 U. S. Federal slave censuses, Alexander Bruce Arnold owned slaves in Garrard County, Kentucky.

He served in Company A1 Kentucky Cavalry during the Mexican War.

During the Civil War he served as sergeant in Company E, 7th Regiment Kentucky Cavalry, part of Morgan's Raiders. He was captured 9 July 1863 at Corydon, Indiana, and was listed on prison rolls for Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois.

After the Civil War he joined his family in Missouri and about 1880 moved first to Johnson County, Texas, and then to the Mineral Wells area of Palo Pinto County.

By his first wife Margaret Ann "Maggie" Brown he had three children: Breathitt Arnold (1850-before 1860), John Smith Arnold (1850-1907), and Harve Dean Arnold (1853-1920). By his second wife Sarah B. Bishop he had five children: Marion Arnold (1856-1857); Jane Bishop "Jennie" Arnold Withers (1859-1931); Alexander Bruce "Alex" Arnold, Jr.(1866-1941); David McKee "Dave" Arnold (1869-1956); and Henry Arnold (1872-1880 or later).

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A. B. Arnold, was born in Garrard County, The mother of H. D. Arnold, formerly Miss Margaret Brown, died at his birth, and three years later A.B. married again, to Miss Sarah Bishop, who is still living. There were in all eight children, five of them by the second marriage. The elder Arnold was brought up to agricultural pursuits, and his life, for a good many years, was that of the average "Blue grass" farmer. He served through the Mexican war, and at the outbreak of the Civil conflict, fifteen years later, took up arms again, under the leadership of that dashing Confederate, General John Morgan. He afterward moved to Missouri, and, in 1880, to Texas, first locating in Johnson County, but subsequently in Palo Pinto County, where he is still living and actively engaged in farming. (Source: Historical and Biographical Record of the Cattle Industry and the Cattlemen of Texas by James Cox, Published by Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co, St Louis, 1895


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