The Children of
Mark and Jennie Arnold
Melrose, Monroe County, Iowa in about 1871, then to Burlington, Kansas in 1887 where, on September 21, 1898, she married Mirvan Clyde Bailey.
Clyde Bailey was born in 1870 in Lima, Ohio to Isaac and Barbara Bailey. His father was City Marshal of Burlington, Kansas in 1880. Clyde listed his occupation in 1925 as a "Coal dealer," but had also been Chief of the Burlington Volunteer Fire Department for many years. He died October 21, 1946.
Their son, Mirvan Arnold Bailey, was born in Burlington on July 28, 1904. They also had twins who died at birth or soon after.
Far left: Mirvan Clyde Bailey; Left: Estella June holding Mirvan Arnold Bailey;
Elsie Martha Arnold was born March 25, 1870 in La Grange, Iowa. After relocating with her family to Burlington, Coffey County, Kansas, she met Robert C. Krueger. She and Rob eloped on Monday, March 7, 1904 in Emporia, Kansas.
Rob was born August 17, 1868 in Wyandotte, Wayne Co., Michigan, the son of Frederick Krueger and Wilhelmina Mueller Krueger, both born in Germany. Rob, a Master Mason, owned a grocery store in Burlington when he and Elsie were married, the 1920 census lists his occupation as "stock breeder," he owned a cafe at one time and was a candy salesman later in life. After Rob retired, he and Elsie relocated to San Bernardino, California.
James Willis Arnold was born December 25, 1872 in Melrose, Monroe County, Iowa. He was named after his paternal grandfather, Willis James Arnold, and went by his middle name, Willis.
Ella Stewart Arnold was born April 21, 1875 in Melrose, Monroe County, Iowa and relocated with the rest of her family to Burlington, Coffey County, Kansas in 1887.
Ella spent a few weeks in Chicago learning the ladies hat trimming trade. At that time, ladies bought a basic hat and had the store custom trim it so that no two hats were alike. She later lived for a time in Aurora, Nebraska where she may have met her future husband, Jesse Walker Detrick.
Jesse Walker Detrick was born May 24, 1868 in Baltimore, Henry County, Iowa, the son of Horton M. and Caroline B. Detrick.
Ella and Jesse were married on Wednesday, September
Jesse, Ella and Virginia moved to Glendora, California in 1907 and were joined there in 1909 by Ella's parents, Mark and Jennie Arnold who relocated from Burlington, Kansas. The 1910 U.S. Census shows Ella's brother, Donald Jarboe Arnold, living with the Detricks.
Jesse suffered from Bright's Disease and died of pneumonia on December 11, 1913. At the time of his death, the family was living on Elgin Street in Los Angeles, but Ella and Virginia eventually relocated to the home of her parents in Monrovia, California.
Ella Stewart Arnold Detrick married Harold H. Floyd on November 18, 1916 in Vancouver, Washington. Harold was born in Iowa January 21, 1886 (according to his death certificate) and worked as a soap salesman. Harold died February 23, 1952 in San Bernardino, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Ella died less than a month later, on March 22, 1952 in Los Angeles.
Virginia Estell Detrick married Herman G. Rusch, who'd been born in Tecumseh, Nebraska on October 16, 1894 to Herman and Almeda Rusch. Herman and Virginia were living in Lincoln, Nebraska as of 1920, where Herman was a life insurance executive, according to the U.S. Census.
Blanche Arnold was born August 26, 1877 and died March 18, 1879 from drowning in a tub of water in Melrose, Monroe County, Iowa. Blanche was buried in the Melrose Methodist Cemetery. Her grave and stone are shown to the left.
Edna Pearl Arnold was born October 14, 1879 in Melrose, Monroe County, Iowa.
As a teenager, Edna attended boarding school. She was musically talented with an excellent voice and greatly enjoyed playing the piano.
She married James Albert Davis September 23, 1903 in the family home with the Rev. John M. Rankin, Rector of the Episcopal Church of
Donald Jarboe Arnold was born December 3, 1890 in Burlington, Coffey County, Kansas. He moved with his family to California in 1909 and, according to the 1910 U.S. Census, Don was living with his sister, Ella, and her family in Glendora.
About that same year, 1910, Donald Jarboe Arnold married Margaret Harriet Bandholt, most likely in the the Los Angeles area. Margaret Bandholt Arnold was born December 26, 1892 in Los Angeles.
Don's 1917 Draft registration record appears below:
The 1920 U.S. Census indicates that the family was living in Los Angeles and Don was working in insurance sales.
By 1930, Don and Margaret had divorced and the census record for
The 1930 U.S. Census also reported that Don, then 39, had remarried in about 1929. Georgia Arnold (maiden name unknown) was born in Colorado in 1897. The couple was living in a large apartment complex at 2901 Van Ness in San Francisco. Don was still working in insurance sales.
Also in 1930, Julia Bandholt took her granddaughter, Marjorie, to Europe. The passenger list below from the SS Hamburg includes the two for their return voyage to the U.S. Although Marjorie is listed as being 21 years of age, this was an error, as she would turn 17 not long after their return home.
After Clyde's death in 1946, Estella moved to Los Angeles to be near her son and lived with her sister, Edna, in an apartment building managed by her niece, Virginia. When Estella began to need more care, her son hired a live-in housekeeper and moved her to a larger apartment where they could live together. She later fell, breaking a hip, and relocated to a rest home where her sister, Elsie, was living and occupied the room next to her. Estella died December 26, 1961 in Los Angeles, California and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.
Estella June Arnold was born June 20, 1868 in La Grange, Lucas County, Iowa. She moved with her family to nearby
To the right: a beautiful pastel of Estella
The couple had no children. Rob died November 19, 1959 in San Bernardino and Elsie moved to a rest home in Los Angeles, where she died October 21, 1961. They are buried in the Brotherly Love section of Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Glendale, California.
Willis sustained a serious injury while working in his capacity of railroad brakeman when a barrel of sugar crushed his foot. On the day he returned to work following his recuperation, February 15, 1899, he fell under a moving railcar and caught his foot in the guard rail. He was so badly injured that he lived only a few hours.
Willis' wife, Ena Farley Arnold, went to work as a secretary and traveled widely. Some years later she married her boss, Joseph J. Godfrey. Ena died on February 15, 1930 in Joplin, Missouri and was buried in the Fairfield, Nebraska Cemetary with Willis.
29, 1897 in the family home in Burlington by the local Episcopal priest, and started their married life in Washington, D.C.
Ella returned to Burlington in 1899 to have her baby. On August 7, 1899, Jesse and Ella's daughter, Virginia Estell Detrick, was born. Jesse's assignment in Washington ended at that time and the family moved to York, Nebraska, where the 1900 U.S. Census shows Jesse, Ella and Virginia Detrick living with Jesse's parents and siblings.
By 1930, according to the U.S. Census, the family had moved to Sterling, Colorado and Herman was operating a hotel. Herman died August 30, 1959 in Portland, Oregon. Virginia Estell Detrick Rusch died October 30, 1985 in San Diego, California.
the Ascension, conducting the ceremony.
The Burlington Kansas Republican
Friday, February 24, 1899
The particulars of the death of Willis Arnold, mention of which was made last week, are almost too harrowing to be told. Sufficient it is to say that, by one of those terrible accidents that too often occur in railroad yards, he fell beneath the wheels of some moving freight cars and his limbs and lower part of his body were so badly crushed that he lived but two or three hours.
The funeral took place Friday and the whole town turned out to do him honor, among those present being several officials of the road.
He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen, but the insurance feature of the latter order is annulled by the fact that the extra-hazardous calling of a railroad brakeman is prohibited.
The Knights of Pythias attended in a body and contributed a beautiful floral emblem of the order. The railroad men were also most kind and considerate and added to the floral
decorations for the sad occasion. It was in every way one of those extremely sad and tragic affairs that stirs the sympathies of a community to its deepest depths, and where mere words seem meaningless and insufficient to express the sorrow and compassion that all feel.
The Fairfield, Nebraska Tribune
Friday, February 17, 1899
...Willis Arnold was a model young man, bright and intelligent, and was for a number of years connected as clerk with the clothing firm of H.G. and M.T. Arnold. He had friends by the score and knew naught of enemies. All who knew him had in him a friend. He made friends with all whom he met and his friendship was reciprocated.
He leaves a young, sorrowing wife, a father, mother, four sisters, and one brother to mourn his untimely departure from this earth, to whom the Tribune, with their many friends, extends in this their affliction, its tenderest sympathies.
Don and Margaret had two daughters, both born in Los Angeles County, CA: Marjorie H. Arnold, born September 11, 1913, and Dorothy Jane Arnold, born January 17, 1918.
At the time of his marriage to Edna, Jim, the son of W.T. Davis, was proprietor of the Forest City Hotel and manager of the Forest City Ranch in Burlington. The newlyweds' first home was in the Forest City Hotel.
The 1920 U.S. Census shows the couple living in Kansas City, Jackson Co., Missouri, where James was a pool hall manager and Edna rented to lodgers in their home. Although the couple had no children, Edna was always busy helping 3 generations of mothers care for their babies.
James Albert Davis died May 11, 1933 in Kansas City and was buried in Mt. Washington Forever Cemetery in nearby Independence, Mo. In the early 1940's Edna moved to Los Angeles, California where she shared an apartment with her sister, Estella Bailey, at Villa Maria, 633 Berendo Street.
Estella's health eventually required full-time care and Edna moved to another apartment building in the neighborhood at 670 Shatto Place. She died November 3, 1960 while undergoing surgery for stomach cancer and is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California where 3 of her sisters and other family members are buried.
No further information is currently available regarding Marjorie H. Arnold, but her sister, Dorothy Jane Arnold, married Robert Wheeler Stickrod (born August 26, 1913; died June 27, 1994 in Santa Clara, California), and died December 9, 1995 in Santa Clara.
To the left is Don's second Draft registration from 1942 which shows that he has remarried, as his next of kin is listed as "Mrs. Dora Arnold."
Don's first wife, Margaret Harriet Bandholt Arnold, died June 26, 1944 in Los Angeles Co. Donald Jarboe Arnold died January 24, 1972 in Santa Clara, California.
that year shows Margaret and daughters, Marjorie and Dorothy, living in Los Angeles with Margaret's mother, Julia H. Bandholt, and grandmother, Catherine Cannon.
He first worked in his father's merchandise store and later became a brakeman for the railroad.
Willis married Ena Farley (daughter of James M. and Mary Lee Farley) on March 12, 1895 in Fairfield, Clay County, Nebraska. Willis and Ena had one child who died at birth or soon after.
Inscription on Blanche's Tombstone
A flower but so pure and white
To us in love was given
An angel came on purpose bright
And took the sweet flower from our sight
That it might bloom in Heaven.
