Illinois Family Group Sheet for the Edgar Willis ARNOLD Family

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Submitted by: Linda ARNOLD PEPER
Email address: lpeper@earthlink.net


Husband: Edgar Willis ARNOLD
Birthdate: December 17th, 1855
Birthplace: Morgan Co, IL
Deathdate: April 29th, 1932
Place of death: Jacksonville, Morgan Co, IL,
bur. West Grove Cem, west of Thayer, IL
Father: Thomas Newton ARNOLD
Mother: Maranda Melvina WOODS

Marriage date: March 7th, 1886
Marriage place: Virden, Macoupin Co, IL

Wife: Ellen "Ella" Ann FERGUSON
Birthdate: March 15th, 1863
Birthplace: Salem, Roanoke Co, VA
Deathdate: May 20th, 1953
Place of death: Litchfield, Montgomery Co, IL,
bur. West Grove Cem, west of Thayer, IL
Father: Dennis K FERGUSON
Mother: Mary Magdalene DUTTON
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CHILDREN
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Child No. 1: Edith Ethel ARNOLD
Sex: F
Birthdate: December 1st, 1886
Birthplace: IL
Deathdate: January 16th, 1887
Place of death: IL, bur. West Grove Cem, Sangamon Co, IL
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Child No. 2: George Edwin ARNOLD
Sex: M
Birthdate: December 5th, 1887
Birthplace: Virden, Macoupin Co, IL
Deathdate: December 20th, 1962
Place of death: Nilwood Twp, Macoupin Co, IL
Marriage date: August 31, 1933
Marriage place: Bloomington, McLean Co, IL
Spouse's name: Bessie Ellen MULLIKIN

Child No. 3: Edgar Andrew ARNOLD
Sex: M
Birthdate: January 1st, 1890
Birthplace: Macoupin Co, IL
Deathdate: November 4, 1968
Place of death: Litchfield, Montgomery Co, IL,
bur. West Grove Cem, Sangamon Co, IL
Marriage date: December 21st, 1921
Marriage place: Farmersville, Montgomery Co, IL
Spouse's name: Bertha Estelle LEWIS

Child No. 4: John Homer ARNOLD
Sex: M
Birthdate: February 2nd, 1892
Birthplace: IL
Deathdate: October 21, 1897
Place of death: IL , bur. West Grove Cem, Sangamon Co, IL
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Child No. 5: Mary (May) Melvina ARNOLD
Sex: F
Birthdate: June 23rd, 1895
Birthplace: IL
Deathdate: September 19, 1918
Place of death: Litchfield, Montgomery Co, IL,
bur. West Grove Cem, Sangamon Co. IL
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Documentation:
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from family Bible, census, newspaper clippings,
cemetery and marriage records and funeral cards.

This family was my paternal grandparents and their children. They lived in the
area of Virden, IL and then moved to Pitman Twp, Waggoner, Montgomery Co, IL.
Edgar Willis (Called Willis) ARNOLD came from Morgan Co, IL. His grandparents,
John and Rachel GORDON ARNOLD came to Morgan Co. from Maury Co, TN. Previous to
that the ARNOLD family were in GA. Ellen (called "Ella") FERGUSON ARNOLD came
after the death of her father, with her mother, brother and sisters, from Bent
Mt. near Salem, VA to the area of Auburn, Sangamon Co, IL. "Aunt May" Melvina
ARNOLD died in 1918 of consumption during the flu epidemic of World War I,
leaving behind a fiancee'