1795 - 1885
Virginia - Ohio - Iowa
Originally, this was sourced through census information and some family trees on Rootsweb. Recently however, I came across the “Marcellus and Martha Wotring Arnold Family Tree” on Ancestry, by Judy Jennings. She included some documents, one of which was "Moses Arnold's Reminiscences of His Life" - what could be a better source than that? [If the link above doesn't work, you can try this one - alternate Moses reminiscences] [Although property records seem to show he was slightly mixed up about when they were in Maryland and when in Virginia.] I have used the birth and death dates from Judy's tree if they weren't available elsewhere.
1795 - born 10 March 1795 = Moses Marion
parents John Arnold - Elizabeth Ashley
1800
1810 census - with parents in Allegany Co, MD
From Moses's Reminiscences: "I lived at home with my parents in the northern part of Maryland, west of the Alleghenies. At that time they were called the "Backbone of America". Many's the time I have picked cranberries there and carried them to Morefield in Hardy County, Virginia. We used to take a heap of them there." [Note - his grandfather Moses lived in Hardy County at that time.]
1810 Allegany Dist 1, p. 19 - John 21001 21110 - b bef 1765
2m, 2f under 10 1800-10 William 1799, John 1803,
Winnifred 1801, Elizabeth 1804
1m, 1f 10-16 1794-1800 Moses 1795, Rebecca 1797
1f 16-26 1784-94 Sarah 1793
1f 26-45 1765-1784 Elizabeth 1769
1m 45+ bef 1765 John 1768
Continuing with his reminiscences:
Yes, I went to school about five weeks in Maryland, and then after that, I went about six months in Virginia, and that was all I ever went to school. I used to study at night in the light of a pine knot. Then I taught one term of school on a little mountain called Snaggy Mountain in Pennsylvania. The schoolhouse was a hewed log one. Let's see, I can tell you some of the children's names: Oliver, Childs and Jesse, and Lucinda. 'Twas not very cold weather.
Clothes? Well, they were made of buckskin and linen. We raised the flax, cut it, and let it rot. What do you mean by letting it rot? Why, the bark rots and leaves just the fibers. Then we took it in bundles and hackled it, then spun it and wove it into cloth and made it into shirts and other things.
My shoes were moccasins made of deer-skin. They drew a drawer knife over the skin to get the hair off, then dried it and worked it until it was soft.
They had no salt in those days until they learned to take it from the ground. It was then yellow, but now they make it white by some process.
I remember the first money I ever had. It was a fourpenny bit (six pence) that a stranger gave to me, and I was so afraid that someone would take it from me that I took it out and hid it on a stump of a tree which my father had cut down near the house, and covered it with a chip - one of the larger ones.
Yes, I used to go coon hunting often, and once I killed a bear. I had a cousin who was a hunter; he is dead and gone to a Better World, I hope. We went out one afternoon and both of us had guns. We went to some chestnut trees where the bears were so busy they didn't notice us. He shot one and I did too. Then the bears run and we run and finally there were two of them run up a tree and we each shot one; he, a young cub, and I, an old 'she.'
1820 census - not found (not with father in Allegany Co) [Maybe this was when he was teaching in Pennsylvania?]
1821 Feb 22 - married Mary Ann Morgan - Monongalia County, VA
Moses and Mary Ann lived for at least a few years in Virginia - his reminiscences continue:
[Apparently a bit is missing here] I thought it was one that someone else had shot and lost, so I carried it home. After I was gone, the Indian came to the house and said, "White man, rascal, rascal, rascal, take my deer." My wife told the Indian that he might have it, to take it and skin it. He did skin it and then gave her the hindquarters and went away. This was in Virginia.
"Here Aunt Matilda asked him about the laurel thickets." The laurel thickets were so thick that I couldn't walk through them. They grew like thick hazel brush and were crooked and all woven together. They were green all year 'round, and had blossoms on them. Berries? I don't think so.
Streams? Yes, lots of them.
Muddy? Yes, if there was any travel in them. There were some of them pebbly and clear.
I went down the Ohio to the Mississippi, and down that past Saint Louis to New Orleans, both of which were at the time only log cabins, and the inhabitants were French, some Irish. I sold the boat and coal; got $110.00. Came back on a steamboat.
I was sick on the way home and had to stop at William Morgan's, my wife's uncle, in Illinois. Had chills and fever. Then I bought a colt and rode home from the southwestern part of Illinois to Virginia. Got home on the twenty-seventh of November. My corn crop that year was good. Others said it was the best of anywhere around.
And this is the end of the reminiscenses.
1822 Sept 5 - son Jonathan Timmons born
1825 May 24 - son William Morgan born
1827 May 4 - son Moses Marion born
1829 Jan 25 - dau Civilli Ann born
At some point between 1821 and 1830, they moved to Ohio.
1830 census Oh Marion Washington 131
Arnold, Moses 120001 100011
1m, 1f under 5 b 1825-30 Marion 1827, Civilli 1829
2m 5-10 b 1820-25 Jonathan 1822, William 1825
1f 20-30 b 1800-10
1m, 1f 30-40 b 1790-1800 Moses 1795, Mary Ann 1801
1831 Mar 8 - son David born
1833 Nov 1 - son Nathan born
1835 Aug 13 - wife Mary Ann died
1835 Nov 23 - married Phoebe Hartwell
1836 March - wife Phoebe died
1837 Feb 23 - married Jemima Barnes
1838 Jan 18 - dau Pamela born
1839 Jan 22 - dau Minerva born
1840 March 8 - son John Christie born
m 30 Sep 1864 in Decatur County, IA - Mary Ann Taylor b 1845 Lee Co, IA
ch Frank Justin b 1866 in Des Moines, Cora Ann b 1869 in Decatur Co
d 7 Aug 1872 in Center Township, Decatur, IA
1840 Oh Marion Washington 101 b
Arnold, Moses N (or M) 2121001 21001
2m, 2 f under 5 b 1835-1840 John Christie 1840, Nathan 1833?, Pamela 1838, Minerva 1839
1m, 1f 5-10 b 1830-35 David 1831, Civilli 1829
2m 10-15 b 1825-30 Marion 1827, William 1825
1m 15-20 b 1820-25 Jonathan 1822
1f 20-30 b 1810-20 Jemima b ~1813
1m 40-50 b 1790-1800 Moses b 1795
1841 June 1 - dau Sarah Jane born
1842 Aug 22 - dau Matilda born
1843 Oct 13 - dau Martha born
m 1860 Oct 11 - Martin Van Buren Hale - Crescent City, Pottawatomie Co, IA - 11 ch
lived for a while in Box Elder Co, Utah (1871 -1881)
d. 1921 July 17 - Osgood, Bonneville, Idaho
1845 Mar 6 - dau Mary born
1846 Sept 11 - son Hiram born
1846 - moved to Miami Co, Ind
1850 June 26 - son James Wesley born Ind
1850 Indiana Miami Washington (172)
1291-1319 Moses M Arnold 54 farmer VA
Jemima 37 VA
Ann 21 / David 19 /(next page) Nathan 16 / Pamela 12 / Minerva 11 /
John 10 / Sarah 9 / Matilda 8 / Martha 6 / Hiram 4 / Mary 5 - all OH
James 3/12 Ind
1853 June 29 - dau Anna born Ind
1855 - moved to Decatur County, Iowa
1856 Iowa State Census - Decatur, Center
124-xxx Moses M Arnold 61 Va farmer native voter
Jemima 43 Va
Nathaniel 22 OH carpenter / Minerva 17 / John C 16 / Sarah J 15 / Matilda 12
Amy (indexed May) 10 / Hiram B 9- all born OH
James M W forgot to write age/ Anna 2 born Ind
1860 Iowa Decatur Burrell
p. 150 - Moses M Arnold 65 VA / Jemima 47 VA
John C 20 / Sarah 19 / Matilda 18 / Martha 16 / Hiram 14 - all b OH
James M W 10 / Anna 7 - both b IND
Marion 33 (male) carpenter OH
1870 - not found
some of his children
1870 IA Decatur Franklin Garden Grove 283
78-80 Arnold, John C 30 OH / Mary 25 IA / Frank J 4 / Cora 11/12 both IA
1870 IA Harrison St John p. 93
18-18 Jacob Cox 49 OH / Hannah 33 Ind / Candice 13 IA / John 10 / Sarah 9 / Nancy 5 /
Charles 3 - all b IA
HB Arnold 23 OH
1870 IA Harrison St John p. 99
100-102 Arnold, Marion 42 farmer OH / Susan 32 TN / Ella J 8 / Albert F 7 / Mary E 4
Chas E 3/12 - all b IA
1870 IA Pottawattomie Council Bluffs wd 2 p. 8
73-73 Arnold, Moses 44 carpenter VA, Sarah 18 KH Va / Joseph 16 Va
not sure who this is!
1880 Iowa Harrison Taylor SD3 ED86 sh 14b
94-96 Arnold, Moses 85 farmer blindness Md E Va Va
Jemima 67 Va Penn NH?
James 30 farmer Ind Md Va / Ann 27 dau schoolteacher Ind Md Va
Harding, Matilda 38 dau schoolteacher
Taylor, Amelia 14 gdau Ia unk Ind
1885 Dec 18 - died Modale, Harrison, Iowa
1890 Aug 31 - wife Jemima died
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