Who is Mac Peel? And whatever happened to Frances Arnold?

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. 


I tried to check this out.  John W. Peel was easy to find -- he died in 1932 and was born in 1871.  Now Sterling's daughter Sarah was born in 1869, so something is wrong with the story above.

When you look at Sterling's daughters on the 1860 census, Frances looks like she might have been the right age.

I then found Ransom Mack Peel on the 1870 census, with wife Frances.  So that should complete the loop.

He remarried in 1877 or so, to Cynthia Jane Davis's aunt Eveline Davis (Cynthia Jane is John Thomas Arnold's wife) and had a son also named Mack Peel in 1878.  We find 22 year old Mac(k) Peel listed as a servant in Sterling's household in the 1900 census.

Various trees on ancestry have a William Peel 1874-1874 listed as being a son of Ransom Mack Peel.  This may be the "twin" who died, mentioned in the story above.  The trees all have Eveline Davis listed as mother, but this was before their marriage, and there are no historical documents as evidence. I wonder if Frances died in childbirth?

There are even a couple of trees who have a "Sarah Frances" as Peel's wife before Eveline Davis.  I wonder if that's just trying to make a story fit, or if she was really called Sarah Frances?

Anyway, it was nice to find out what happened to her even it is a bit tragic.