Sarah Jane Dowdney was the daughter of Clayton and Lucinda (Pickering) Dowdney. (Variations in spelling of surname: Doudney; Daudney). She was the third of their four children. After her father's death, her mother married again and had one more child, a half-sister, Josephine Campbell.
In 1863, Sarah married William Arnold, a young man one-year-to-the-day younger than she, after William's brief service to the Army of the Confederacy. (His service was cut short due to a health problem.) The couple set up housekeeping in Franklin County. Their first three children, fraternal twins Marion Richard and Mary Vienna and their second son, William Bunyon, were born there. Four more children, Emma Venora, Lucinda Victoria, James Dowdney, and Telitha, would be born in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. There would be no further births.
As nineteenth century was in its waning years, Sarah Jane and William Arnold relocated to Smith County, Texas, where their son, Marion Richard, was working for the Cotton Belt Railroad. Only their oldest daughter stayed in Louisiana, being married and a mother. She would die in late 1892.
Marion Richard had built a house in Smith County. When he decided to marry, he believed a larger house would be necessary for his bride and the children he hoped would complete their family. He gave the existing house to his parents. Tragically, in December 1899, a short two weeks before his wedding, Marion Richard died.
Of their children, Sarah Jane and William would outlive three: the twins and Lucinda Victoria. The youngest, Telitha, called Tillie, namesake of William's Choctaw mother, would die in mid-1929 from an illness that might have been curable had her husband not refused to administer the prescribed medication the doctor had left for her. The Arnolds would open their home to Lucinda's two little children and to Tillie's son by her first marriage. Their other children would survive to die of old age.
Sarah and William had been married 60 years when she passed in 1923. He would follow her to the grave in 1925.
ED. NOTE: The oldest of William and Sarah Jane Arnold's daughters is not linked here. No grave has been found for Mary Vienna, wife of Wiley A. Knapp of La Salle Parish, Louisiana.
In 1863, Sarah married William Arnold, a young man one-year-to-the-day younger than she, after William's brief service to the Army of the Confederacy. (His service was cut short due to a health problem.) The couple set up housekeeping in Franklin County. Their first three children, fraternal twins Marion Richard and Mary Vienna and their second son, William Bunyon, were born there. Four more children, Emma Venora, Lucinda Victoria, James Dowdney, and Telitha, would be born in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. There would be no further births.
As nineteenth century was in its waning years, Sarah Jane and William Arnold relocated to Smith County, Texas, where their son, Marion Richard, was working for the Cotton Belt Railroad. Only their oldest daughter stayed in Louisiana, being married and a mother. She would die in late 1892.
Marion Richard had built a house in Smith County. When he decided to marry, he believed a larger house would be necessary for his bride and the children he hoped would complete their family. He gave the existing house to his parents. Tragically, in December 1899, a short two weeks before his wedding, Marion Richard died.
Of their children, Sarah Jane and William would outlive three: the twins and Lucinda Victoria. The youngest, Telitha, called Tillie, namesake of William's Choctaw mother, would die in mid-1929 from an illness that might have been curable had her husband not refused to administer the prescribed medication the doctor had left for her. The Arnolds would open their home to Lucinda's two little children and to Tillie's son by her first marriage. Their other children would survive to die of old age.
Sarah and William had been married 60 years when she passed in 1923. He would follow her to the grave in 1925.
ED. NOTE: The oldest of William and Sarah Jane Arnold's daughters is not linked here. No grave has been found for Mary Vienna, wife of Wiley A. Knapp of La Salle Parish, Louisiana.
Sarah Jane Dowdney was the daughter of Clayton and Lucinda (Pickering) Dowdney. (Variations in spelling of surname: Doudney; Daudney). She was the third of their four children. After her father's death, her mother married again and had one more child, a half-sister, Josephine Campbell.
In 1863, Sarah married William Arnold, a young man one-year-to-the-day younger than she, after William's brief service to the Army of the Confederacy. (His service was cut short due to a health problem.) The couple set up housekeeping in Franklin County. Their first three children, fraternal twins Marion Richard and Mary Vienna and their second son, William Bunyon, were born there. Four more children, Emma Venora, Lucinda Victoria, James Dowdney, and Telitha, would be born in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. There would be no further births.
As nineteenth century was in its waning years, Sarah Jane and William Arnold relocated to Smith County, Texas, where their son, Marion Richard, was working for the Cotton Belt Railroad. Only their oldest daughter stayed in Louisiana, being married and a mother. She would die in late 1892.
Marion Richard had built a house in Smith County. When he decided to marry, he believed a larger house would be necessary for his bride and the children he hoped would complete their family. He gave the existing house to his parents. Tragically, in December 1899, a short two weeks before his wedding, Marion Richard died.
Of their children, Sarah Jane and William would outlive three: the twins and Lucinda Victoria. The youngest, Telitha, called Tillie, namesake of William's Choctaw mother, would die in mid-1929 from an illness that might have been curable had her husband not refused to administer the prescribed medication the doctor had left for her. The Arnolds would open their home to Lucinda's two little children and to Tillie's son by her first marriage. Their other children would survive to die of old age.
Sarah and William had been married 60 years when she passed in 1923. He would follow her to the grave in 1925.
ED. NOTE: The oldest of William and Sarah Jane Arnold's daughters is not linked here. No grave has been found for Mary Vienna, wife of Wiley A. Knapp of La Salle Parish, Louisiana.
In 1863, Sarah married William Arnold, a young man one-year-to-the-day younger than she, after William's brief service to the Army of the Confederacy. (His service was cut short due to a health problem.) The couple set up housekeeping in Franklin County. Their first three children, fraternal twins Marion Richard and Mary Vienna and their second son, William Bunyon, were born there. Four more children, Emma Venora, Lucinda Victoria, James Dowdney, and Telitha, would be born in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. There would be no further births.
As nineteenth century was in its waning years, Sarah Jane and William Arnold relocated to Smith County, Texas, where their son, Marion Richard, was working for the Cotton Belt Railroad. Only their oldest daughter stayed in Louisiana, being married and a mother. She would die in late 1892.
Marion Richard had built a house in Smith County. When he decided to marry, he believed a larger house would be necessary for his bride and the children he hoped would complete their family. He gave the existing house to his parents. Tragically, in December 1899, a short two weeks before his wedding, Marion Richard died.
Of their children, Sarah Jane and William would outlive three: the twins and Lucinda Victoria. The youngest, Telitha, called Tillie, namesake of William's Choctaw mother, would die in mid-1929 from an illness that might have been curable had her husband not refused to administer the prescribed medication the doctor had left for her. The Arnolds would open their home to Lucinda's two little children and to Tillie's son by her first marriage. Their other children would survive to die of old age.
Sarah and William had been married 60 years when she passed in 1923. He would follow her to the grave in 1925.
ED. NOTE: The oldest of William and Sarah Jane Arnold's daughters is not linked here. No grave has been found for Mary Vienna, wife of Wiley A. Knapp of La Salle Parish, Louisiana.
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