This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1075.1.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Rosalie, Elder Samuel Arnold is NOT listed in the book, "Some Who Led", by D.L. Miller and Galen B. Royer, pub. 1912. I think the book is out of print. The wives got very little publicity and were thought of as "help-mates". It would be uncommon to see more than a maiden name, her parents names, and the names of their children. Charles Edward Arnold 1866-1902 IS listed. He was the son fo Bishop Daniel B.and Mary Elizabeth Ludwick Arnold. Elder Samuel Arnold is also NOT in the biographies in "Two Centuries of the Church of the Brethren in Western Pennsylvania 1751-1950,pub. by the Historical Comm. Which Brethren church was Samuel Arnold a member? Eglon, WV, Bear Creek, Accident, MD? Dianne

Dianne, Elder Samuel lived on land, in the Mill Creek Drainage, near what is Rt. 50. Elder Arnold, actually belonged to the Beaver Run Congregation, in Hampshire Co. VA (WV) He traveled many miles to establish Brethren Congregations. His daughter Elizabeth Arnold married an Ogg,and attended the Bear Creek Congregation. It is known that Samuel preached there. There is some evidence he preached at a tavern at Sunnyside, MD. and why not as this was the area that was part of the German Settlement. It is known he preached in the Reno District, in Preston, Co. His daughter Magdalene married Peter Fike, and they lived not far from Eglon. Churches then were not what we think of today. Small groups in one vicinity might meet in a school, a home, or a barn. The Mother Church, or congregation might be some miles away. Remember, we are talking about horse and wagon, or horse and buggy days. When I was 3 years old in 1931, I remember a Brethren funeral our family attended in the home, and the casket was taken for burial on a wagon pulled by horses.