Willis Arnold ^{1 2}

  Notes:

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Warren County.

LEWIS P. ARNOLD is a native of Warren County, where he now resides, and was born October 3, 1825. His father, Willis Arnold, was born in 1794, in Culpeper County, Va. He married a Miss Elizabeth Potter, a native of Virginia. She died in 1857, aged sixty-five years. She left seven sons and five daughters: John, William, George, Lewis, James, Elijah, Moses, Nancy, Polly, Frances, Martha and Elizabeth. Willis Arnold as a farmer. In his earlier days he was a soldier and served in the wars against the French and Indians on the Canadian border. He was a son of Benjamin Arnold, who was of Swiss parentage. But little is remembered of him by his descendants, further than he was through life a quiet and unassuming farmer, and died in his native State - Virginia. Lewis P. Arnold remained with his parents until he attained the age of twenty years; he then entered the United States Army as a volunteer, and served for a time in the Mexican war; assisted in the storming of Vera Cruz, and was also in the engagement at the famous Cerro Gordo pass, where he received a wound which disabled him for the United States service. He was soon discharged and returned to his home in Kentucky, where, on the 10th of February, 1848, he married Miss Julia A., a daughter of James Hendricks, of Warren County. She died October 26, 1881, leaving three children: America F., Lowring and Luther. After his marriage Mr. Arnold purchased 100 acres of land and engaged in farming, which he continued until 1861. In October, of that year, he, for the second time, joined the United States Army; was a member of Company A, of the Eleventh Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and for two years held the commission of chaplain of the regiment. He afterward, for one year, held the commission of lieutenant in Company I, of the Fifty-second Mounted Infantry. Upon his being discharged from the army he returned to Kentucky, and again engaged in agricultural pursuits. Mr. Arnold has been successfull; his farm of 200 acres is well kept and improved and very productive; he raises some good stock, but is principally engaged in the culture of grain and tobacco. As a minister of the gospel Brother Arnold has not ceased to labor in the vineyard of his Master, and the flourishing little communities of Mount Zion, Mount Pleasant, New Hope and Bethlehem attest the efficacy of his zeal. He is a member of the K. of H., and is also a Master Mason in Bowling Green Lodge, No. 273. Politically he is a liberal Republican.

  Details of his life include:

• Alt Death: 1835.

Willis married Elizabeth "Betsy" Potter, daughter of Lewis Potter Major and Nancy Hickerson, on 15 Dec 1815. (Elizabeth "Betsy" Potter was born in 1791-1792 in , , Virginia(now Lincoln County - Kentucky) ¹ and died in 1857 in , Warren County, Kentucky ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

Warren County, Kentucky, Marriages 1797-1870
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Willis Arnold Elizabeth Potter Dec 15, 1815
Warren County, KY Marriages dau of Major Lewis Potter, witnessed by John B. Johnson, sec., and William Willis




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