Family Information for Reuben Arnold and Margaret Hudson

Contributed by Newman Arnold Hall

Reuben Arnold accompanied his parents to one of the Carolinas prior to the Revolution. He returned and settled in Culpeper Co., Virginia where he married.

By profession he was a blacksmith as were both of his sons, David and Isaac. He received land from his father-in-law, David Hudson, in 1782, which he sold in 1787 and moved to Kentucky. He purchased his homestead on Boone's Mill Creek a few miles northwest of Lancaster in Garrard Co. in 1789, where he died at a relatively early age.

His widow, Peggy, continued to lived there with her son, Isaac, until she died some forty years later. Only the descendants of Isaac remained in Garrard County. David settled in Jessamine and in due course some of his descendants returned to Garrard.

Both Reuben and Peggy were buried near the Lancaster Pike on their home place. Their tombstones in recent years have been transferred to the Lancaster Cemetery.

Parents

Reuben Arnold, son of Isaac and Elizabeth Arnold
b. abt. 1755, Orange Co., Virginia, USA
m. 17 July 1780, Culpeper Co., Virginia, USA
d. 7 February 1807, Garrard Co., Kentucky, USA

Margaret Hudson, daughter of David and Keziah (Plunkett) Hudson
b. 21 June 1756, Orange Co., Virginia, USA
d. 26 October 1848, Garrard Co., Kentucky, USA

Children

Lucy Arnold
b. 11 July 1782, Culpeper Co., Virginia, USA
m. 25 February 1801, Armistead Bruce Reeds
d. 17 August 1859

Elizabeth Arnold
b. 3 January 1784, Culpeper Co., Virginia, USA
m. 28 July 1801, John Bourne
d. 23 November 1862

Sarah Arnold
b. 24 February 1786, Culpeper Co., Virginia, USA
m. 27 December 1804, Benjamin Moberly
d. abt. October 1808

David Arnold
b. 26 January 1788, Garrard Co., Kentucky, USA
m. August 1809, Elizabeth Hudson
m. 27 September 1827, Mariah Tapp
d. 7 April 1858

Keziah Arnold
b. 11 March 1790, Garrard Co., Kentucky, USA
m. 9 July 1807, George Bryant
d. July 1858

Isaac Arnold
b. 10 March 1793, Garrard Co., Kentucky, USA
m. 16 February 1815, Jane Bryant
d. 26 November 1849

Margaret Arnold
b. 10 Nov. 1797, Garrard Co., Kentucky, USA d. 26 Dec. 1840
m. 14 Dec. 1816, George Herring
m. Eli Pitchford
m. 18 May 1839 John Crow