History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog

Family Records 143
M. was born March 26, 1844; married Edwin Cotton Gardner; Willard
N. born Jan. 14, 1846, married Amanda Eggleston and resides in Fall River;
George A., born Feb. 26, 1850, died Dec. 29, 1894, married Emma Veazie;
Mary S., born Jmie 9, 1856, died Feb. 23, 1868.
(VIII) Samuel Green Arnold, son of Deacon Edmund Arnold, was
born in Portsmouth, R. I., Feb. 9, 1835. In 1856 he married Hannah H.
Gifford, daughter of George GifTord of Portsmouth, R. I. For a number of
years Mr. Arnold engaged in farming in Portsmouth, removing thence to
Hillside Stock Farm, owned by the late Frank S. Stevens. He remained
there, managing the farm, seven years, going thence to the Thomas Wood
place, at that time owned by Leander Gardner. After six years he removed
to the place just south of Swansea Village, on the Fall River road, where he
resided the rest of his life, dying Jan. 5, 1902. His wife died July 26, 1915.
In March, 1891, Mr. Arnold was elected selectman and continued to
serve in that office until March, 1901. He was chairman of the board from
1896 to 1901. In the spring of 1901 he was chosen sealer of weights and
measures. He was a charter member of Oakland Lodge, No. 32, 1. O. O. F.,
South Portsmouth, R. I., and helped to build the Hall for the society. He
was also a charter member of Dorothy Brown Rebekah Lodge of Swansea.
The children of Samuel Green and Hannah H. (Gifford) Arnold were:
Franklin Gifford, born Sept. 11, 1858, Arthur E., born April 29, 1860, Lois
E., born Oct. 24, 1866, married John R. Wood, Aug. 16, 1887; Abby A.,
born Dec. 23, 1867, married Preston H. Gardner, Nov. 22, 1888, and died
Jan. 17, 1892; George W., born April 25, 1870, married Nov. 3, 1896, Ida
M. Gardner, daughter of Stephen M. and Fanny (Slade) Gardner, who
died Jan. 8, 1900. Their children were: Harold Gifford, born March 13,
1897, and Grace Gardner, born April 29, 1898; Charles G., born Mar. 31,
1862, died July 31, 1864, in infancy.
(IX) Franklin Gifford Arnold, born Sept. 11, 1858, in Portsmouth,
R. I., married Dec. 14, 1881, Angeline Haile Wood, daughter of Nathan M.
and Abby M. (Kingsley) Wood, born June 30, 1859, died Dec. 1, 1916.
Children were born to them as follows : Edmund
Kingsley, June 27, 1884,
(graduate of Brown University, 1904, taught in Bridgeport, Conn., and in
CoUege in Honolulu, S. I., and is now Supt. of Schools at Wickford, R. I.,)
married Dec. 16, 1914, Gertrude Morrison, born May 13, 1889 at Vancouver,
B. C. ; Mary Wood, Oct. 30, 1886, (graduate of Pembroke, 1908, is a teacher;
Preston Franklin, Oct. 24, 1893, graduate of Brown University 1913, postgraduate
Harvard 1914, A. M. in History; Isabel Greene, July 24, 1895,
graduate of Dean Academy 1913, N. E. Conservatory of Music, one year,
sings in concerts and as entertainer.
(IX) Arthur Edmund, born April 29, 1860, married Eloise
Kingsley Wood, bom Aug. 19, 1861, daughter of Nathan M. and Abby M.
(Kingsley) Wood. Their children are: Howard Samuel, born July 13,
1889, married Meribah A,,daughter of John and Miimie M. Gifford, born
Dec. 2, 1888; Abby Almy, Dec. 10, 1890, married Harold R. Negus, July
17, 1913, and they have one son Russell A., born Jan. 11, 1914; Nathan
Wood, Feb. 14, 1893; George Albert, Oct. 31, 1894.
Bari^y Family
The Barneys of Bristol County, Mass., come from the early Rehoboth
and Swansea families, in which region of Country the name has been continuous
for two hundred and more years, during which it has had a creditable
and honorable standing among the sturdy yeomanry of New England.
(I) Jacob Barney, born about 1601, is said to have come from
Swansea, Wales, to Salem, Mass., about 1630. He was made a freeman