This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Arnold Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1075.1.1.1.2.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Arnold, Samuel, Elder Samuel Arnold was one of a family of Arnolds of German descent, living in the Middletown Valley, Maryland, near Frederick. About the year 1785, he with others of the family, Zachariah, Dan, Catherine, and Charity, moved ot what is now known as Beaver Run, then called Manorland, near Burlington, West Virginia. There Samuel married Mary Ludwig and to them were born two sons and ten daughters, of whom Magdalena Arnold Fike was one. He is said to have owned the first top buggy in the vicinity and people came for miles to see it. On March 29, 1831, he had a span of colts hitched ot the buggy and they became frightened and, running away, killed him. He was a minister of great activity, traveling afar to preach, and was the first minister of the Church of the Brethren to preach in the environs of th Eglon congregation. He was known as the preacher with a beard. In the cemetery on the ridge east of Beaver Run Valley, Bro. Arnold was buried. The first sandstone marker has been replaced by one of more modern design, but is is still used as a marker at the entrance to show the grave of a great pioneer of the church in West Virginia. This may be said of his children: John died young; Jacob married Sarah Wine and later Sarah Ogg; Magdalene married Peter Fike; nancy married Jacob Garber; Hannah married Jacob Biser; Susan married Nicholas Biser; Betsy married John Ogg; Christina married Dan Livengood; and Rebecca married John Leatherman; Lydia married George High; Mollie married John Fleming; Catherine married John Long. Almoist all the Arnold relationship were member of the Chruch. Source: "A History of the Church of the Brethren in the First District of West Virginia", by Foster Melvin Bittinger, Brethren Pub. House, Elgin Illinois, 1945, p 120-121