Lester O. ARNOLD ²

  General Notes:

1900 IA CENSUS, Sherman Co., Putnam Twp: Lester O. Arnold, May 1895, 5, b. IA, father b. IN, mother b. MO. He was living with his parents, John & Mary B. Arnold, and siblings.

1925 IA STATE CENSUS, Wayne Co, Monroe Twp: Lester O. Arnold, 28, 4th grade education, b. IA, father: John Arnold who was b. IN, mother: Mary B. Cook who was b. IN and married MO, engaged in agriculture; wife Ada M. Arnold, 25, 4th grade education, b. MO, father: William Murphy who was b. IN, mother: Nellie Metz who was b. WI and married MO; 4 children who were b. IA.

1930 IA CENSUS, Wayne Co, Walnut Twp, Seymour town: Lester Arnold, 34, 1st marriage age 22, b. IA, father b. IN, mother b. IN, laborer, farm; wife Vada M., 30, 1st marriage age 18, b. MO, father b. IN, mother b. KS; 6 children b. IA and MO.

Lester married Ada M. MURPHY about 1918.¹ (Ada M. MURPHY was born about 1900 in MO ¹.)

Lester next married Anna Eliza SHAMBLEN, daughter of Thomas Jefferson SHAMBLEN and Anna Eliza MERRILL, on 4 Jan 1969 in Seymore, Wayne Co, IA.² (Anna Eliza SHAMBLEN was born on 29 May 1899 in Deer Creek Twp, Mills Co, IA,⁴ died on 13 Aug 1974 in Seymour, Wayne Co, IA ⁵ and was buried in Waubonsie Cem, Mills Co, IA ⁵.)