There is a death record on the Sweet Owen web site for Phoebe Arnold in Dec.
1907. She was the daughter of William Criss and Nancy France of Owen
County, and was married to Philip Beatty, Phillip Jarvis, and Jacob Arnold.
The Arnold's 1900 census record shows them in Clay County, Sugar Ridge Twp,
but the death record is for Owen County.
An Arnold researcher says she thinks that Phoebe died at the poor farm, so
since the online death record is Owen, I am assuming, perhaps incorrectly,
that it
was the Owen County Poor Farm, not one in Clay county. A rootsweb posting
for a similar question suggested to contact Roger Peterson, but the
suggested
email address bounced.
Can someone direct me to someone who can
check to see if Phoebe is on a list for the poor farm? She was my
great-grandfather's sister, and I am working with a Criss researcher in Iowa
to try to sort out the family and we are down to final facts and resting
places for two of the sisters of the large family.
Phoebe was born in Sept. 1833 in Ohio and died Dec. 26 or Dec. 21, 1907. I
do not have a death certificate for her, but may try to get one if I can't
get any more information. I have also sent off for microfilm of the Brazil
newspaper, as it did not appear that an Owen county newspaper was available
from the state library that would cover Dec. 26. Whether there will be an
obit or
not is unknown at this point.
She is not buried in the cemetery where her third husband Jacob Arnold is
supposedly buried at Patricksburg, but he does not have a stone either. His
first wife Maria/Ann Mariah Mallory Arnold does - the book says Christian
cemetery
which appears to be close to Patricksburg on the map. At least neither of
their names
appears in the cemetery book where Maria's is. But perhaps the stones
disappeared, or
there never were stones.
Thank you.
Laura Mitchell
Terre Haute