As some of you know, I have a little blog of profiles and tidbits on my family history. The group here was very helpful on the children of my great-grandfather, John W Arendall. When I was researching his parents, Pleasant M Arendall and Martha Ash, I came to realize that there is no information on his siblings, aside from one early census mention and some "died young" listings on gravestones. I came to the conclusion that John was the only one to have children. This past week, in the stats page of the admin area of the blog, I noticed that someone had visited my profile of John and clicked the link to his Findagrave memorial. I make it a habit to click through on these myself, to make sure they still work. Well! Someone has added a photo of John's obituary from 1922 that says he's survived by a sister, Jessie Turner! I found her info, married to Earley V Turner in 1880. Sadly, according to the 1900 census, they had 6 children, 0 (zero) living. I guess that means I was correct that John's children were the only surviving Arendall descendants from Pleasant and Martha. Thought I'd share. Be sure and check back on those sources, including the "user contributed" ones!
