Arnold Zellner
Arnold Zellner was born about 1790 in Bertie County, in the tidewater of North Carolina. His father, George Peter Zellner, was a German soldier of the Revolution who stayed in America, and his mother was Mary Capehart. In his will of 1821 his father named him first among "my five youngest children." His brothers and sisters included Barbary, John William and Andrew Zellner.
As a young man he went to Georgia. In 1811 he married Margaret Holmes, called Peggy, the daughter of Benjamin Holmes, in the Wilkes and Lincoln County country on the Savannah River. Their first son, Francis Edward, was born there on 11 July 1812. The family moved on to Tennessee, where their sons Henry, 1814, and Marion, 1817, and daughters Mary and Margaret Holmes Zellner were born. Peggy died at Pulaski, Giles County, in 1823.
Arnold married three more times. In 1823 he married Lucy Elizabeth Barnett, who bore Martha Ann, Sarah Rebecca, Lettie Jane and Albert Barnett Zellner and died in 1838. That year he married Clarinda Johnson, mother of Edwina, John Andrew and Arnold Jr.; she died in 1842. His last wife was Meeky Reaves.
He spent his last years at Columbia, in Maury County, Tennessee. He died on 20 December 1852 and was buried in the Greenwood Cemetery at Columbia. His worn stone gives his death date and his age, "about 63 years."
His sons scattered. Francis Edward went to Texas, rode with the rangers of the Republic in 1837 and settled in Milam County. Marion became a minister. Arnold Jr., the youngest, born in 1842, served in the Maury Grays, Company H of the First Tennessee Infantry, and the soldier Sam Watkins named him in his memoir of the war as one of three men who volunteered to roll wooden spike barriers over the breastworks under fire.
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