Name: John
ARNEY
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Birth: 26 May 1816 Terre Haute, Mad River Twp,
Champaign Co, OH
Death: 22 Oct 1881 Union Township, Davis County, IA
Burial: Troy,
Iowa, Green Lawn Cemetery
Father: Jacob ARNEY (1778-1848)
Mother: Nancy Martha TRUITT
(1781-1819)
Misc. Notes
Frederich ERNIGH (~1705 - 1771) & Anna Maria (~1705 -
bef 1730)
Jacob ARNEY (~1728
- ~1782) & Anna Ursula KRON (13 Dec 1722 – abt 1771)
Johann
Heinrich ARNEY (21 Nov 1755 - 27 Sep 1830) & Maria Magdalena FULK (1755 -
1849)
Jacob
ARNEY* (18 Mar 1778 - 19 Oct 1848) & Nancy Martha TRUITT (Feb 1781 - Feb
1819)
John ARNEY* (26 May 1816 - 22 Oct 1881)
& Margaret Brown GRAFTON (1818 - 1854)
Jacob Sylvester ARNEY* (23 Mar 1839 - 13 Feb 1927) & Linia Ann
BARNES (1840 - 1880)
Mary Ellen ARNEY (24 Apr 1861 - 9 Sep 1935) & Joshua Newton MACHLAN
(1859 - 1936)
Linnie Ellen MACHLAN* (30 Sep 1884 - 7 May 1974) & Everett Elmer
WALKER (1882 - 1948)
Elsie Maureen
WALKER (20 Nov 1903 - 12 Mar 1983) & Leo Newton COFFEY (1901 - 1998)
1840 CENSUS, OHIO, CHAMPAIGN CO.,
JACKSON TWP:
John and
Margaret are found in the 20-30 age range. They have one son under age 5 (that
would be Jacob Sylvester). John is engaged in agriculture.
MOVING WEST:
The 1860
census below says that daughter Mary C (11 Oct 1841) was born in Ohio,
Elizabeth E 27 Feb 1844) was born in Illinois, and son Ambrose 16 Nov 1847) was
born in Iowa. And in the 1856 Iowa census, John said he had been in Iowa about
10 years. So it looks like leaving Ohio in about 1843, spending a bit of time
in Illinois, and getting to Iowa in 1846.
NOTES FROM 1850 CENSUS, OHIO,
CHAMPAIGN CO., JACKSON TWP:
(This is a
real puzzle. There is a VERY similar family here, compared to the one in Iowa,
below. I almost have the impression that maybe the census taker was getting
false info from someone describing a family that had moved on?) Anyway, here we
have: John is 31 and a farmer, Margaret is 30. Children are Jacob (10 or 11),
Sarah 8, Elizabeth 6, Ambrose 1. Everybody was born in Ohio. No children are
indicated as attending school.
John’s step
mother Azubah is still in the county, as is his brother Joseph H. But I’m
convinced John and family had moved on! This Ohio record is almost certainly a
double-count!
1850 CENSUS, IOWA, UNION TWP, DAVIS
COUNTY:
I believe
this is the “real” John Arney family, even though they were indexed as
“Earney”. John is 31, Margaret is 30, Jacob is 11, and Charlotte is 8 –
all of these were born in Ohio. And there is Ellen (6, born in IL) and Ambers
(Ambrose) (2, born IA).
His brother
Jacob, with wife Clarissa, is also in Davis County, Iowa.
Note: First
wife Margaret died in 1854. John remarried, to Minerva Smith Taylor.
NOTES FROM 1856 IOWA CENSUS, MARION
TWP, DAVIS COUNTY, IOWA
John, age
40, is there with new wife Minerva (31). At home are Jacob S (17), Mary C (14),
Ellen E (12), Ambrose (8), and Joseph H (0). John says they have been in Iowa
for 10 years. He is in the militia. John and Jacob are the farmers. Also in
household is Rebecca Taylor (11), Minerva’s daughter by her first husband. The
agricultural statistics say they are raising hay, spring and winter wheat,
oats, corn, potatoes, hogs and cattle. And they are producing butter and wool,
but no cheese.
NOTES FROM 1860 CENSUS, IOWA, DAVIS
COUNTY:
Pretty sure
this is the right John Arney. He was born in Ohio and is living next door to
Thomas Grafton, age 33, who would be his brother-in-law by his first wife
Margaret, who would now be dead. He now has a new wife, “Manerva” age 36 born
in Tennessee. Living with them are three of his and Margaret’s children; Mary
C. age 18, Eliz. E. age 16, and Ambrose N. age 12. There are three other children,
may belong to his second wife? Also a Sarah Taylor, age 64 – that would
be Manerva’s mother-in-law from her first husband.
1870 CENSUS, IOWA, DAVIS CO., UNION
TWP:
Census
record almost illegible, but John age 54 is there. Born in Ohio. This time his
wife’s name is indexed as “Maneroy H Arney”. Children are Thomas, Joseph, John,
and Hannah.
1880 CENSUS, IOWA, DAVIS CO., UNION
TWP:
Family is
indexed as “Amey”. He is a farmer, born in Ohio, living with wife Minerva, sons
Joseph and John, daughter Hannah.
BURIALS – FIND-A-GRAVE:
John is
buried in Troy Cemetery, Troy, Davis County, Iowa, USA. His second wife,
Minerva is also there, and there are photos of both markers. Also there is his
son John Scott Arney; his son Joseph Henry Arney; Joseph Henry’s son Herbert A.
Arney; his half-brother Jacob Arney; and Jacob’s wife Clarissa Cook Arney.
There also
appears to be an “Arney Cemetery” in Troy, with only two listings, no other
info. But the listings are for his first wife Margaret Brown Grafton Arney, and
his step-mother, Azuba West Arney. Reported “From 1930s WPA Graves Registration
Survey: Wife of J. Arney Sr.”. Suspect the location has since been lost?
Spouses
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1: Margaret
Brown GRAFTON
Birth: 2 Aug 1818 Champaign, OH
Death: 13 Aug 1854 Troy, Iowa, Green Lawn Cemetery
Father: Ambrose GRAFTON (1792-1866)
Mother: Elizabeth KELLEY (1799-1881)
Marriage: 21 Sep 1837 Ohio
Children:
John ARNEY (26 May 1816 - 22 Oct 1881) & Margaret Brown
GRAFTON (2 Aug 1818 - 13 Aug 1854)
Jacob Sylvester
ARNEY* (23 Mar 1839 - 13 Feb 1927) & Linia Ann BARNES (6 Mar 1840 - 5 Apr
1880)
Jacob Sylvester
ARNEY* (23 Mar 1839 - 13 Feb 1927) & Lucinda Catherine RYAN (14 Oct 1846 -
24 Jan 1928)
Mary Charlotte ARNEY
(11 Oct 1841 - 4 Oct 1889) & Henry Clay DAY
Sarah ARNEY (1842
- 29 Dec 1942)
Elizabeth Ellen
ARNEY (27 Feb 1844 - 25 May 1883)
Ambrose N. ARNEY
(16 Nov 1847 - aft 1871)
Thomas ARNEY (1849 - )
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2: Minerva
A. SMITH
Birth: 4 Jul 1824 Tennessee
Death: 13 Aug 1897 Troy, Davis Co., IA
Marriage: 12 Dec 1854 Troy, Davis Co., IA
Notes:
Minerva’s
first husband was Hezekiah Taylor (1822-1847). They appear to have had two
children, Rebecca (20 Oct 1844 – 26 Sep 1929) and Sarah (abt 1847 –
bef 1856). Hezekiah’s parents were William Taylor (1793-1853) and Sarah Roby
(1796-1887).
In the 1850
Davis County census, Manerva is living in the household of her parents-in-law
William and Sarah Taylor, along with her two daughters, Rebecca A (age 5) and
Sarah J C (3). However in the 1856 Iowa census, only Rebecca (age 11) is with
her, suggesting that Sarah has died. In the 1860 census Sarah Taylor, Minerva’s
mother-in-law, age 64, is living with the Arneys.
Children:
John ARNEY (26 May 1816 - 22 Oct 1881) & Minerva A.
SMITH (4 Jul 1824 - 13 Aug 1897)
Joseph Henry ARNEY
(29 Dec 1855 - 4 Jul 1937)
Thomas Coke ARNEY
(19 Dec 1858 - abt 1904)
John Scott ARNEY
(22 Apr 1861 - 13 Feb 1944)
Hannah May ARNEY
(5 Dec 1863 - aft 1883)
Winfield Briggs ARNEY (21 Nov 1865 - 14 Nov
1868)
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