Person:Rebecca Arnett (1)

Originally had last name as Jenkins. Can't remeber why....(it is listed as Jenkins in the History of Montgomery County, Kansas book section on Benjamin Murphy

The article below is from "The Republican" newspaper of Marion, Williamson Co, Illinois, dated 22 July 1939: ARNETT --Tennessee history says that in 1798 Nathan Arnett gathered the Free Will Baptists in Robertson County, Tennessee into a church near Turnersville. He was an elderly man and too old to preach when he arrived in Franklin now Williamson County about 1815 and settled on "eight mile prairie". The 1816 census says he had nine persons in his family. He died about 1831 or 32 and his wife Isabel was appointed administratix of his estate. --His daughter, Rebecca S. Arnett (1803-1846) married Richard Tyner, who was first settler of the site of Marion. He lived in a cabin about where the Illinois Central Station now stands and sold his "improvement" to William Benson in 1826. Near this cabin home was a low swamp plot of land the home of ducks and plover: [clover?] Rebecca's daughter Barthena married Col. Horace Lewis Boyer in 1845. Emma Boyer, teacher in Southern Illinois State Teacher's College and many others in Carbondale are descendants of Rebecca. --Jacob Arnett, a minister was in the county in an early day. He and his wife Sarah or Sarah Ann owned land in 1833, which they sold to Roderick Reed in 1836 in Herrin Township. -- Alexander Arnett lived in Herrin Township in 1833. He was road commissioner in Phelps Prairie in 1839.