Arnett, Thomas
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Arnett, Thomas
| Anonymous (View posts) | Posted: 17 May 1999 12:00PM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Arnett, McFerren, Smith, Ashley, Mosgarger
from reprint of Clarke County Historical and Biographical Record by Lewis Publishing, 1886. p. 193
THOMAS ARNETT, one of the early settlers of Clarke County, and an enterprising citizen of Osceola township, was born near Sharpsburg, in Bath, Kentucky, the date of his birth being April 16, 1813. His parents, Thomas and Martha (McFerren) ARNETT, were both natives of the State of Virginia, and were among the first settlers of Kentucky, the father helping many a pioneer who came after him to his part of that State.
They left Kentucky with their family in 1828, and settled in Montgomery County, Indiana, where they lived till their death. They were the parents of twelve children, of whom Thomas, our subject, was the youngest child. Thomas ARNETT passed his youth on the home farm, remaining with his parents till their death.
He has been twice married. His first marriage took place in his twenty-fifth year, with Sarah A. Smith, who, at her death several years later, left two children--Mary, now the wife of William Ashley, and Jacob, living in Clarke County. For his present wife Mr. Arnett married Lucinda Mosgarger, a native of Ohio, but at the time of her marriage living in Montgomery County, Indiana. To this union has been born one daughter, named Nancy J.E.
Mr. Arnetts son, Jacob, was a soldier in the late war, a member of Company B, Eighteenth Iowa Infantry, and has never recovered from the injuries he received while in the service.
Mr. Arnett has made farming the principal avocation of his life, and since 1870 has followed agricultural pursuits on his present farm, in Osceola township, where he has forty acres of well-cultivated land. Besides his home farm he owns forty-seven acres of choice land in Jackson township, which is also under a high state of cultivation. In politics Mr. Arnett was formerly an old-line Whig, later a Republican, and at present affiliates with the Greenback party.
THOMAS ARNETT, one of the early settlers of Clarke County, and an enterprising citizen of Osceola township, was born near Sharpsburg, in Bath, Kentucky, the date of his birth being April 16, 1813. His parents, Thomas and Martha (McFerren) ARNETT, were both natives of the State of Virginia, and were among the first settlers of Kentucky, the father helping many a pioneer who came after him to his part of that State.
They left Kentucky with their family in 1828, and settled in Montgomery County, Indiana, where they lived till their death. They were the parents of twelve children, of whom Thomas, our subject, was the youngest child. Thomas ARNETT passed his youth on the home farm, remaining with his parents till their death.
He has been twice married. His first marriage took place in his twenty-fifth year, with Sarah A. Smith, who, at her death several years later, left two children--Mary, now the wife of William Ashley, and Jacob, living in Clarke County. For his present wife Mr. Arnett married Lucinda Mosgarger, a native of Ohio, but at the time of her marriage living in Montgomery County, Indiana. To this union has been born one daughter, named Nancy J.E.
Mr. Arnetts son, Jacob, was a soldier in the late war, a member of Company B, Eighteenth Iowa Infantry, and has never recovered from the injuries he received while in the service.
Mr. Arnett has made farming the principal avocation of his life, and since 1870 has followed agricultural pursuits on his present farm, in Osceola township, where he has forty acres of well-cultivated land. Besides his home farm he owns forty-seven acres of choice land in Jackson township, which is also under a high state of cultivation. In politics Mr. Arnett was formerly an old-line Whig, later a Republican, and at present affiliates with the Greenback party.