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Title	William W. Arnett Reminiscences
Subject	Reminiscing Travel
Description	William W. Arnett's memories of life in 19th century Texas.
Identifier	A142, Volume1
Collection	William W. Arnett Reminiscences
Collection Link	http://library.sfasu.edu/findingaids/?p=collections/controlcard&id=233
Biographical Note	William Washington Arnett was born on January 5, 1823 in Franklin County, Alabama, the son of David and Rhoda Curlee Arnett. The family moved to Mississippi in 1828. In 1837 Arnett's mother died, and he contracted "inflammatory rheumatism" from which he never fully recovered. Arnett lived with a brother in Tennessee for a time and then returned to Mississippi, where he became tax assessor of Leake County in 1843. After receiving a rejection to a marriage proposal in 1845, he went to live with family in Texas. In Texas, Arnett taught school and resided with his older brother in the Tyler County communities of Town Bluff and Wolf Creek. There he married Emiline Varnell and had seven children. During the Mexican War Arnett served as a private in Capt. John A. Veatch's company of Col. Peter H. Bell's regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers. After his wife's death in 1871, Arnett remarried in 1874 to Mary Eudocia Herrington, and had five children. Eventually settling in Brackettville, he was elected treasurer of Kinney County in 1876, and was still holding the office at the time of his death sixteen years later, on December 23, 1892. (Cutrer, Thomas W., "Arnett, William Washington" in The New Handbook of Texas, 1996)
Scope and Content Note	These reminiscences are of people and events encountered during Arnett's early years and travels to and in Texas and his life there until 1848. At the end of the volume are some typescripts of letters written in 1879 and 1880 and genealogical material.
Associated Dates	1840-1849 1870-1879 1880-1889
Type	Diaries & Journals
Format	JPEG
Repository	East Texas Research Center
Repository Link	http://library.sfasu.edu/etrc/
Rights	This item may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. It is available for non-commercial research and education. For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the East Texas Research Center at asketrc@sfasu.edu.

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Title	William W. Arnett Reminiscences - Cover
Repository	East Texas Research Center
Repository Link	http://library.sfasu.edu/etrc/
Rights	This item may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. It is available for non-commercial research and education. For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the East Texas Research Center at asketrc@sfasu.edu.

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