Genealogy

1810 Daniel Gaspard and Baptiste Gaspard are next to each other Daniel Gaspard Household 1 m <10 1 m 10-15 1 m 16-25 1 m 45+ 1 f <10 1 f 26-44 Baptiste Gaspard Household 1 m 26-44 2 f <10 1 f 26-44 How do these match up with the "standard undocumented genealogy" from ancestry.com? We have the following targets: (a) Daniel Gaspard  I    1746-1818 (b) Daniel Gaspard II    1775-1825 (c) Jean Baptiste I   1776-1843  (d) Jean Baptiste II   ? - 1880  (b) and (c) are sons of (a), and (d) is son of (c) Census Daniel could be (a), but then what are the ramifications? Census Baptiste matches (c) nicely on age.  The reported family dates on the Ancestry "historical family search" don't match very well in either situation. We know from the Avoyelles history book Liz found on google books that (a) and (b) had land next to each other. If the Daniel Gaspard is Daniel Gaspard II, the age is of...

1850 Census Data Household 1 John F. Sellers     54 Eleander              50 John                     20 Nanny                 18 Rebecca              14 Thomas                9 Matthew               5 Household 2 Asbury F. Sellers   30 Sarah R.                 30 Franklin                   6 John F.                     5 Julius                       3 Sarah Jane               0 Sarah R. Sellers was originally Sarah Rebecca Hewitt.  Benjamin Hew...

Here's some circumstantial evidence that Frederick, Anthony, Sterling, and Owen are all connected: 1) Family Names (a) Frederick's Family: Son Owen T. Arnold born circa 1843, and a grandson named Joseph Sterlin Arnold (by way of son Fred) [He appears as Joe Arnold many places, but his death certificate gives him middle name "sterlin".] (b) Sterling's Family: Sterling has a son named Owen N. Arnold born in 1867. (c) Anthony's Family: Anthony's son Dempsey had a son named Sterling E. Arnold (17 years old in 1900 Census).  Dempsey also has a son born in 1879 named Dempsey O. Arnold (see 1880 census).  It looks like Dempsey O. died young, as he's not on the 1900 census, and instead the older Dempsey has another son born in 1890 named "Dempsey R." NB:  There is another Dempsey Arnold floating around on the 1880 census. This one is 20, and attached to a widowed "Cynthy arnold" who is 63.  I will follow up to see if I can c...

Most of the family trees we stumble across on Ancestry.com and familysearch.org that list a father for Sterling Arnold assign the name Owen Arnold.  I'm going to lay out what the early censuses have to say about Arnolds in Brunswick County 1790 Census has Elinor Arnold listed, with household  1 M 0-16  3 F   no info ages given 1800  Census has Owen Arnal listed, with household: 1 M 26-44 1 F   0 - 10 1 F  26-44 1810 Census has O. Arnold, with household: 1 M   0-10 1 M   45+ 1 F    0-10 1 F   10-15 1 F    45+ No Arnolds appear on 1820 Census for Brunswick County Owen Arnold is commonly listed as Sterling's father on user-generated family trees on both Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org We do have a marriage bond for a marriage between Owen Arnold and Mary Hewett, dated 24 July, 1823. The marriage is consistent with Sterling being born in the range 1820-1825, and with the...

I'll start by reminding myself that I need to look at the neighbors of the Arnolds and see how the Hewitts are connected. There are many more Arnolds in Brunswick County in 1850, so I'm just going to list the households, and try to make sense out of them later. In 1850, we have: Household 1 Sterling Arnold       26 Sarah     Arnold       25 Washington Arnold   7 Eliza Arnold              5 John Arnold               4   (<--- great grandfather) Household 2 Anthony Arnold    35 Sarah Arnold         28 Melissa Arnold      10 Drucilla Arnold       8 Mary Arnold            6 Kesiah Arnold         4 Dempsey Arnold     1 Household 3 William Arnold   25  [From South Ca...

Backing up 10 years to 1830, we find two Arnold households:  Polly Arnold and Mathias Arnold Polly is a nickname for Mary, so she's really "Mary Arnold".  Also, they are living next to each other, as they appear on consecutive lines of the census. Polly's Household contains the following: 1 M  5-10 2 M  10-15 1 F    15-20 1 F    40-50 Mathias's Household contains 1 M 20-30 1 F   0-5 1 F  20-30 Polly (Mary) is probably Sterling's mom, based on comparing the 1830 and 1840 censuses.  In 1840, the three males would be 15-20  (Sterling?), 20-25 x 2 (both out of house?), while the females would be 25-30 and 50-60 (which both match people in Sterling's household of 1840). I want to float the possibility that Mathias is the Nathan we find in 1840.  Here there is absolutely no real evidence, other than that when you take your glasses off and look at the handwritten name in the census logs, the names have the ...

1840 Census Sterling Arnold first appears on the 1840 Census in Brunswick County. He is listed as head of household, a household that contains the following people: 1 M aged 15-20 1 F aged 20-30 1 F aged 50-60 By default, the male has to be Sterling himself, putting him born between 1820 and 1825. We conjecture that the older woman in the house is his mother.  We will look at evidence for that. Not sure who the other female is, but we will work on possibilities. Hewetts on the same page of the census include Isaac Alfred Joseph Mary Randall Uriah John Elijah He's living among a bunch of Hewetts.  There is also a John Sellars -- we'll check him out as a possible future father-in-law later. There is a Nathan Arnold listed in the county as well, with household 1 M 20-30 1 F 0-5 1 F 15-20

The document on the Davis family we found today has the following blurb mentioning Sterling Arnold: Steve Simmons: There was an associational meeting at the South port Baptist church and delegates from Orange Hill Baptist church were R.W.Peel and S. Arnold.Of course R.W. was R,M. someone couldn't read it.S. was Sterling Arnold who was Ranson's father-in-law.Ranson first married Sarah Arnold.They had twins.Sarah died and also one of the twins.The one that lived was named John W. Peel.He was our neighbor as were most of the others for years.  In Ranson's pension application he states that he was captured and kept in prison at New Orleans, LA. until the after the end of the war. (2 months after Gen. Lee's surrender) He was in prison 1 1/2 months.He contracted Piles due to the poor food and water and suffered with ill health the rest of his life.He also was shot in the hand and forearm with out permanent injury during a battle between New Hope church and Marrietta, GA....