Astoria Mahood

Notes:

From Denise Corvin:
June 7, 1931
Minister and Wife Die Near Same Hour

Saturday Mr. and Mrs A.S. Peery, Richard Peery and W.M.
Peery, of Bluefield, Va., and Miss Maola Newberry, arrived
at Trade, Tenn., to attend the funeral of the Rev. and Mrs.
Thomas W. Arnold.
Mrs. Arnold, 91, died at eight o'clock Friday morning.
Her husband, 85, who had been ill of pneumonia, was advised
by a son of the death of Mrs. Arnold. The aged minister
called her name and told his son that he was going with her.
That night as the clock struck ten, Mr. Arnold closed his
eyes in the final sleep. Both had been married previosly
and both owned farms in Ashe County, N.C.
Mr. Arnold's first wife was Miss Cora Peery, sister of
Squire A.S. Peery, of Bluefield, Va.
On Sunday a double funeral was held in the church at
Trade, with four ministers in charge. Following the service
at church, two hearses drove away in opposite directions.
One conveying the body of Mr. Arnold in the cemetery where
his first wife is buried, and the other, the body of Mrs.
Arnold, to the burying ground of her first husband.
The local party returned monday and report one of the
most largely attended funerals they had ever witnessed.
Rev. Mr.Arnold was here a few weeks ago at which time
mention of him was made on this page.
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Genealogical Notes: Thomas Ware Arnold, 19 March 1847 - 3 July 1931, was the
son of James R. Arnold and his wife Nancy King. He was born in Knox County,
TN, but lived most of his life in Johnson County, TN, and in Ashe County, NC.
His first wife was Cora Peery, born on 6 May 1847 as Astoria Mahood, the
daughter of Lucinda Jane Mahood. Lucinda Jane Mahood married William Peery in
Tazewell County, Virginia. Astoria assumed the Peery surname, and had the
nickname Cora. Following her death on 24 Mar 1892, Thomas W. Arnold married
the widow Nancy Mattern. This second wife is the one referred to in the above
obituary.

Astoria married Thomas Ware Arnold about 1868. Thomas (son of John R. Arnold and Nancy King) was born on 19 Mar 1847 in Knox County, , , Tennessee; died on 3 Jul 1931 in Trade, , Johnson County, Tennessee; was buried in Green Valley Baptist Church Cemetery, , Avery County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William R. Arnold was born about 1870 in Ashe County, , , North Carolina.
2. John McDaniel Arnold was born on 6 Dec 1872 in Ashe County, , , North Carolina; died on 22 Sep 1931.
3. Samuel Charles Arnold was born on 29 May 1876 in Ashe County, , , North Carolina; died on 12 Dec 1953; was buried in Arnold-Maxwell Cemetery, , Ashe County, North Carolina.
4. Thomas Arnold was born about 1878 in Ashe County, , , North Carolina.