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From: Jean Mayfield Cuevas <>
Subject: RE: [ARIZARD-L] {not a subscriber} Arnolds
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 20:34:13 -0400


La Myra,

Thanks for sharing your information and ideas. Do you belong to the Wayne
County mailing list? Perhaps a plea for a look-up on the information in
the book would be heeded by some kind soul.

Regarding Mahala & Melinda Knight, I seperated the two Charles H. MAYFIELDS
from each other until I can prove one way or another, but I was just
looking at the birth dates on both the wives, and they are 1837, and the
birthdates for both Charles H.'s are 1833. AND, they share two of the same
daughters' names.

After having found how close the MAYFIELDS lived to Baxter County, I have
become even more convinced that we are talking about the two same families.
When I read in the article that Charles Henderson MAYFIELD was born in
Mayfield, KY, then saw in some of Rosemary's Mother's notes on the
MAYFIELDS, that she had them listed as having been in Mayfield, KY, I
believe I am dealing with the same families. Plus, the HIGHTOWER
connection. Both MAYFIELDS had HIGHTOWER connections. AND, the name
HENDERSON was passed on to a nephew of Charles H., to boot!

I don't know if the transcription that I have is the same as yours, but I
will certainly look closer at the pages, in case something was not indexed.

Jean

At 02:35 PM 6/19/99 -0500, you wrote:
><<Age-wise, Dorinda looks like she would be a sister to Jefferson ARNOLD, b.
>cir.1839. I read somewhere, early on, that she was suspected to be a
>daughter of a Jefferson ARNOLD, so that leads me to ask....
>
>Could Jefferson ARNOLD, b. cir. 1839 have had a father named "Jefferson" as
>well?>>
>
>There have been several Jefferson Arnolds. The one born in 1839 had an
>uncle named Jefferson that some believe to be Dorinda Caroline's father. He
>has a daughter named Caroline who appears in census records, but I'm not
>sure if they're the same person or not. However, in the 1870 census in the
>White River Twp., Jefferson Arnold b. 1805 appears in HH # 8 and Philip and
>Dorinda Jeffery are next door in HH # 9. So in the absence of other
>confirming records, Dorinda Caroline Arnold may well be the daughter of
>Jefferson Arnold. If she is Jefferson's daughter, I think she would have
>been born in Tenn. as listed in 1850 instead of Missouri as shown for
>Dorinda in 1870 as all of Jefferson's other children by his first wife
>(except for the baby Sarah) were born in Tenn. There is also a discrepancy
>in the ages, Caroline in 1850 is 8 and Dorinda in 1870 is 21. I did not
>find this family in 1860 in Izard Co., so they may well have been somewhere
>in Missouri then.
>
>This is a very similar situation to trying to decide if Mahala and Melinda
>Knight are one and the same. I'd really like to find more records
>somewhere. Which by the way, I do have information that Jefferson Arnold
>(the elder) was a Baptist preacher.
>
>Also, there is a Wayne Co. Tn book that I have on my wish list. One of their
>look ups told me it has an article on this Jefferson. (Wayne County,
>Tennessee 1817 - 1995 History and People, a compiled history of the county
>with submitted family and community articles. Published in 1996, the book is
>hardbound, 448 pages, illustrated profusely, and has a surname index. Price:
>$65.00 postpaid Wayne County Historical Society P.O. Box 476 Waynesboro, TN
>38485-0476 ). If I get where I can afford it maybe I can tell you more from
>it.
>
>Note: Don't know if you've noticed are not but since I think you're using
>the same transcribed version of the 1870 census that I am, there seems to be
>much material from page 54 on that seems to have been skipped during the
>indexing. I keep stumbling across people I didn't think were there.
<snip>

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