"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 1844-1943"
by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by Messenger Job
Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky.  Used by permission.  pp. 284-5
Daviess

J. D. ARNOLD.  J. D. Arnold spent the last years of his life within the
bounds of the Daviess County Baptist Association, and was a valuable laborer
in the Master's vineyard.  His birth occurred in Macon County, Tennessee, on 
August 12, 1839.  At the age of seventeen he lost his father, and his mother 
could afford him but scant means for an education.  He was studious
however, and acquired a fair knowledge of the English branches.  In
the year 1855 he united with the Pleasant Hill Church in Robertson County,
Tennessee, being baptized by G. W.  Featherstone.  By this same church he
was licensed to preach in 1860.  He shortly afterward moved his membership
to Lake Spring Church in Simpson County, Kentucky, and was ordained to the
ministry, in 1861, by Elders O. H. Morrow and J. W. Self.  Soon after his
ordination he became pastor of his home church, Lake Spring, serving it for
two years, and also the Franklin Church for one year.  In May, 1869, he
moved to Owensboro, Kentucky.  During his stay here he served Macedonia
Church for one year.  Meanwhile he moved across the Ohio River into Southern
Indiana serving churches at Grandview, New Hope, Pleasant Valley, and
Pigeon.  In all these churches his labors were greatly blessed.  Under his
ministry at Grandview there were eighty-one additions; at New Hope fifty-
eight; at Pigeon forty-eight; and at Pleasant Valley fifty-five.  In the
year 1873 he commenced the publication of a paper called the Baptist
Missionary and a Sunday school paper called the Echo, in Evansville, Ind.
He soon found that he had undertaken more than his strength would allow,
and accordingly dispensed with the Baptist Missionary.  He continued the
publication of the Echo for a short time, until the office in which it was
published was destroyed by fire.  He had, in the meantime continued to
serve Pleasant Valley Church two Sundays in each month, and was now, in
1874, recalled to New Hope and Pigeon churches.  In the year 1875 he 
resigned his churches in Indiana and again came to Daviess County, Ky., where
he pitched his tent for the last time.  Here he pastored the Bethabara
church for five years, during which time 130 were added to the membership.
He also served the church at (Whitesville about the same length of time,
and those at Sugar Grove, Mt. Carmel, and Zion, for briefer periods.  In
the midst of a career of great usefulness and in the prime of manhood he
was suddenly called home.  He died at the home of a brother, Giles Arnold,
near Pleasant Valley Church in Spencer County, Indiana where he had been
invited to lecture on Church History, on June 11, 1881.  His remains were
buried in the Bethabara Cemetery where an imposing monument marks his last
resting place.  He had preached the Annual Sermon before the Association in
1878.  Being a man of tireless energy, he succeeded in his holy vocation in
an eminent degree.  Brother Arnold was first married to Miss Mary F. Berry
in July, 1861.  Mrs. Dora Arnold Kirk was a child by this first marriage.
After the death of his first wife in 1864, Brother Arnold married her sister,
Miss Ellen Berry, in February, 1866.  One son and one daughter were
born to this union, both of whom are still living - Dr. William H. Arnold,
of Louisville, Ky., and Mrs. Fannie Rager, of Owensboro, Ky.  The second
Mrs. Arnold lived to be ninety-three years of age, dying in March, 1939.

Arnold Featherstone Morrow Self Berry Kirk Rager
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Macon-TN Robertson-TN Simpson-KY Spencer-IN

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