Documentation:
* "Abstracts of Old Ninety-Six and Abbeville District" it was compiled by
Pauline Young
* GRAY, FREDERICK Box 36 Pack 793 Will dated 24 Nov 1836 in Abbeville Dist. Proved 7 Oct
1837 Extrs: Wm., J.F. Gray Wit: Williamson Norwood, David F. Cleskey and Alex Hughes Wife:
Mary Gray Children.: Geo., Wm., Jno. F., T. Jefferson Gray, Washington R. Gray(decd.),
Henry Gray(decd.) Mary Ann Marshall, Cloutte Boyd, Jane Thomas. Grand Daughter: Eliza
Klugh. Sett. made 13 Nov 1839. Shares recd. by F.G., Timothy Thomas, Robt. H. Boyd, Thos.
J. Gray, Jno. Marshall Jas. M. Thomas, Z.W. ARNOLD and wife, Wm. C. Norwood and wife, W.
Wade and wife, Elizabeth Gray, Jno. H. Linch and wife, Martha E. Gray.
* The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research
SCMAR, Volume VII Number 3, Summer, 1979
Estate Partitions in the Washington District Court of Equity SCMAR, Vol. VII, Summer
1979, No. 3, p.185 EXHIBIT C. August 17 1820 Rec'd of Jacob Niswanger the sum of $1350 for
five negroes which are bound by different Judgements: Amey, Jenny, Tom, Lemuel &
Jordan, which being appraised by Mr. Lewis Watson & Zachariah Arnold amounts to the
above stated sum.
* Listed in the book:
Pruitte, Janye Conway. Migrations of South Carolinians on the Natchez Trace. Fairfax,
Virginia: 1949. [GEN F 341 P95]
* PETTIS, JAMES W. - BOX 73 PACK 1778
Est. admnr. 9 Sep 1831 by John S. Stone, Wm. S. Jones, ZACHARIAH W. ARNOLD, bound unto
Moses Taggart Ord., sum of $2000.00 Cit. pub. at Providence Church. Elizabeth Pettis
Widow. Inv. made 14 Oct 1831 by John Cochran, Chas. Cobb, Stanley Crews.
* Found J.F. Arnold in the 1850 and 1860 Tishomingo County, Federal Census. He was NOT
in the 1840 State Census according to the Mississippi State Census records.
* Judge J.F. Arnold served Tishomingo county many years as a Circuit Judge. He
represented Tishomingo county in the legislature of the state in 1848
(source: "Abstract of Goodspeed Mississippi" book 1962, page 48). He was
born in the Aberville District of South Carolina in 1826, but grew to manhood in
Mississippi. He was practically educated there and prepared himself for the law. During
the rebellion, he served in the Mississippi 32nd as a quartermaster with the rank of
Major, in the Confederate service, and married a Tippah county lady, Miss Julia Fields, in
1855. Following the war, he returned to his profession and was closely identified with it
the remainder of his busy life. He was a Chapter Mason, and in his political views a
Democrat. His wife, survived him five years.
* Found John F. Arnold listed as being in the "Thirty-Second Mississippi
Regiment" out of Tishomingo County, Mississippi during the Civil War. It states that
John F Arnold was a Quartermaster serving with the 32 Mississippi Regiment, but he was a
also found as a first sergeant in Company A (Tishomingo Avengers).
Source: Tishomingo County Civil War Web Page.
* John Arnold entered into a partnership with a Robert A. Hill, in Jacinto,
Mississippi. He was then, and had been for a number of years, a probate Judge for the
county. This partnership continued until May 1866.
* 1826 - Abbeville County, South Carolina
* 1848 -Tishomingo County, State Legislature
* 1850 - Jacinto, Tishomingo County, Mississippi State Census
* 1860 - Tishomingo County, Mississippi State Census
* 1870 - Corinth, Old Tishomingo County, Mississippi State Census (now Alcorn County,
Mississippi)
* 1880 - Graham, Young County, Texas State Census
* "1857 - The town of Corinth was growing. John Fredrick Arnold; W. F. Lambert;
J.C. Reed; C.A. Taylor; C.D. Key; and Robert Williams were committee to view out and
establish road between north Mississippi and Jacinto." (source "History of Old
Tishomingo County" by Fran Alexander Cochran)
Tombstone Transcription: Old Clausel Hill Cemetery
1850 Old Tishomingo County Census - HH#385
"Abbeville District, South Carolina Marriages - 1777-1852" page 2, GEN 975-
735A (Fort Worth City Library) book, "History of North and West Texas" pg. 265.