This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IMi.2ACEB/960.1 Message Board Post: MISS KITTY! ARNOLD IS MY GGGRANDFATHER, IT'S THE FIRST I'VE HEARD ABOUT A SECOND MARRIAGE, TO CAROLINE HELTON,WHERE DID YOU GET THIS INFORMATION? ALSO,ARNOLD HAD A SON JOSEPH, MY GGRANDFATHER, BORN, 3/3/1849, HE MARRIED KATHRINE(KATE) MASON BORN 3/3/1845.JOSEPH WAS A BAPTIST MINISTER, HE WAS AMBUSHED,ON HIS WAY HOME FROM EVENING SERVICES AND SHOT DEAD THIS HAPPENED IN THE WINTER OF 1915, WHEN MY MOTHER WAS 6 YEARS OLD, JOSEPH AND KATE HAD A SON, WILLIAM ARNOLD HELTON, AND HE FOLLOWED IN HIS FATHERS FOOTSTEPS, AND BECAME A MINISTER, HE WAS BORN IN 1870, AND MARRIED, ELVIRA MARIE BRYANT, BORN, 1877, THEY PRODUCED 10 CHILDREN, ONE OF WHICH WAS MY MOTHER, ETHEL LEE HELTON,BORN, 6/14/1909, SHE PASSED AWAY LAST YEAR AT THE AGE OF 93, SHE MARRIED MY FATHER ON 8/27/1927,HIS NAME IS MARSHALL VERNON WOOD BORN IN DOW OK. 8/28/1905, MY FATHER PASSED AWAY IN 1959,FROM BLACK LUNG, FROM WORKING IN THE COAL MINES IN SOUTHEASTERN KY. I AM THE 4TH SON OF 5 BOYS WE HAVE BUT 1 SISTER. I HO! PE I'VE CONTRIBUTED A LITTLE SOMETHING TO YOUR TREE. IN KINSHIP GEORGE WOOD