wife of her first cousin John Alexander McArthur and only child of Sarah Jane Morrison (Barry) and John Badley. Her widowed mother and she traveled to visit her grandfather John Badley, F.R.C.S. and her cousins in England after her father's death. Forbidden from marrying her first cousin, as her father's parents had been first cousins, she married first Thomas Howell Richards on 26 October 1878 at Bunker Hill, Macoupin County, Illinois by whom she had two daughters: Sarah Badley Dickman and Louise Clarkson. Having a delicate constitution she found childbearing very burdensome and it is said that she had a miscarriage of a third child when she tripped on a stile. After her mother's death, as a single mother and not intending any more children she followed her original intentions and married her cousin, John Alexander McArthur on 7 January 1886 at Brooklyn, New York. They were only to have just short of six years of married life, but they were able to enjoy travel to the continent and visits to her first cousins the Misses Badley and their brother John Haden Badley in England. He raised her daughters as his own and they took his name which the entire family started spelling MacArthur during the early part of the twentieth century. She died of pernicious anemia not five months short of her 48th birthday.
(bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)
~bio is a work in progress~
(bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)
~bio is a work in progress~
wife of her first cousin John Alexander McArthur and only child of Sarah Jane Morrison (Barry) and John Badley. Her widowed mother and she traveled to visit her grandfather John Badley, F.R.C.S. and her cousins in England after her father's death. Forbidden from marrying her first cousin, as her father's parents had been first cousins, she married first Thomas Howell Richards on 26 October 1878 at Bunker Hill, Macoupin County, Illinois by whom she had two daughters: Sarah Badley Dickman and Louise Clarkson. Having a delicate constitution she found childbearing very burdensome and it is said that she had a miscarriage of a third child when she tripped on a stile. After her mother's death, as a single mother and not intending any more children she followed her original intentions and married her cousin, John Alexander McArthur on 7 January 1886 at Brooklyn, New York. They were only to have just short of six years of married life, but they were able to enjoy travel to the continent and visits to her first cousins the Misses Badley and their brother John Haden Badley in England. He raised her daughters as his own and they took his name which the entire family started spelling MacArthur during the early part of the twentieth century. She died of pernicious anemia not five months short of her 48th birthday.
(bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)
~bio is a work in progress~
(bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)
~bio is a work in progress~
