Alice May Arnold, age 4 years old, went missing around May 25, 1911, from the farm her parents worked, about 2 miles east of Ickesburg. Alice followed her siblings, James 12 and Mary 6, when they were taking the cow to pasture about one hundred yards from the farmhouse. They noticed Alice following them and told her to go back to the house. She continued to follow and James tapped her with a stick and she started back to the house. An hour or so later when the kids returned to the house Alice had not returned.
The first day as the message went out there was about 50 searchers looking for Alice. The following day there was anywhere from 150 to 200 searchers looking for Alice. Mr. William Arnold, the child's father sent a request to Harrisburg Police and the newly formed Pennsylvania State Police for help in searching.
State Police sent Sergeant Curtis A. Davies and Trooper Francis E. Markley from the Pottsville Barricks to investigate the disappearance of Alice Arnold. They arrived about two days after she disappeared. Sgt. Davies put out the message of the missing girl statewide. An Indian tracking expert, Sylvester Long, from Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. was sent for and started to track the child on the third day of the search. He stated he would have had better luck if he would have been called immediately and not after the hundreds of searchers trampled the landscape.
Dignitaries from all over the county and Harrisburg arrived to help in the search. Many local leaders helped with the search. The search went on for about 10 days to 2 weeks, but Alice was never found. In 1911, the county in the Ickesburg area was very overgrown with vegetation that was very thick. It made the search very difficult.
After about two weeks the organized search was suspended. Mr. Arnold and a few of his neighbors continued with no results. Slowly the countryside went back to their quiet existence in upper Perry County.
Sgt. Davies and Tpr. Markley over the two weeks investigated the disappearance of Alice. They checked a lumber camp that employed "foreigners" about a mile from the Arnold farm but all the men were accounted for. Another stranger was investigated with little results.
Around July 26th, H.H. Wallet and Robert Zimmerman were picking berries in the mountain when they came upon some remains under a bush. They examined the remains and thought them to be those of Alice Arnold. They immediately went to the farm of Alice's father, William Arnold, who returned to the location where the remains were found and identified them as his daughter's.
Walter Rice, District Attorney, immediately appointed Charles Swartz to investigate the remains of the child. An inquest was held at the location of the remains. After a review of the incident and the examination of the remains of Alice Arnold it was decided that Alice died of exposure. The remains, consisting of hair, a pink dress,and bones produced no evidence of foul play.
Charles Swartz, who is listed in the 1910 census as a school teacher, conducted a coroner's inquest with the jury members being; J.B. Cooper, foreman; J.C. Stewart, E.Q. Reisinger, William Weibley, and A. Wesley Sweger.
After the inquest, the remains of Alice Arnold were taken to the Arnold home. Alice is buried in an unmarked grave at the Eschol Cemetery.
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Eshcol Church Cemetery records lost in fire.
The first day as the message went out there was about 50 searchers looking for Alice. The following day there was anywhere from 150 to 200 searchers looking for Alice. Mr. William Arnold, the child's father sent a request to Harrisburg Police and the newly formed Pennsylvania State Police for help in searching.
State Police sent Sergeant Curtis A. Davies and Trooper Francis E. Markley from the Pottsville Barricks to investigate the disappearance of Alice Arnold. They arrived about two days after she disappeared. Sgt. Davies put out the message of the missing girl statewide. An Indian tracking expert, Sylvester Long, from Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. was sent for and started to track the child on the third day of the search. He stated he would have had better luck if he would have been called immediately and not after the hundreds of searchers trampled the landscape.
Dignitaries from all over the county and Harrisburg arrived to help in the search. Many local leaders helped with the search. The search went on for about 10 days to 2 weeks, but Alice was never found. In 1911, the county in the Ickesburg area was very overgrown with vegetation that was very thick. It made the search very difficult.
After about two weeks the organized search was suspended. Mr. Arnold and a few of his neighbors continued with no results. Slowly the countryside went back to their quiet existence in upper Perry County.
Sgt. Davies and Tpr. Markley over the two weeks investigated the disappearance of Alice. They checked a lumber camp that employed "foreigners" about a mile from the Arnold farm but all the men were accounted for. Another stranger was investigated with little results.
Around July 26th, H.H. Wallet and Robert Zimmerman were picking berries in the mountain when they came upon some remains under a bush. They examined the remains and thought them to be those of Alice Arnold. They immediately went to the farm of Alice's father, William Arnold, who returned to the location where the remains were found and identified them as his daughter's.
Walter Rice, District Attorney, immediately appointed Charles Swartz to investigate the remains of the child. An inquest was held at the location of the remains. After a review of the incident and the examination of the remains of Alice Arnold it was decided that Alice died of exposure. The remains, consisting of hair, a pink dress,and bones produced no evidence of foul play.
Charles Swartz, who is listed in the 1910 census as a school teacher, conducted a coroner's inquest with the jury members being; J.B. Cooper, foreman; J.C. Stewart, E.Q. Reisinger, William Weibley, and A. Wesley Sweger.
After the inquest, the remains of Alice Arnold were taken to the Arnold home. Alice is buried in an unmarked grave at the Eschol Cemetery.
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Eshcol Church Cemetery records lost in fire.
Alice May Arnold, age 4 years old, went missing around May 25, 1911, from the farm her parents worked, about 2 miles east of Ickesburg. Alice followed her siblings, James 12 and Mary 6, when they were taking the cow to pasture about one hundred yards from the farmhouse. They noticed Alice following them and told her to go back to the house. She continued to follow and James tapped her with a stick and she started back to the house. An hour or so later when the kids returned to the house Alice had not returned.
The first day as the message went out there was about 50 searchers looking for Alice. The following day there was anywhere from 150 to 200 searchers looking for Alice. Mr. William Arnold, the child's father sent a request to Harrisburg Police and the newly formed Pennsylvania State Police for help in searching.
State Police sent Sergeant Curtis A. Davies and Trooper Francis E. Markley from the Pottsville Barricks to investigate the disappearance of Alice Arnold. They arrived about two days after she disappeared. Sgt. Davies put out the message of the missing girl statewide. An Indian tracking expert, Sylvester Long, from Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. was sent for and started to track the child on the third day of the search. He stated he would have had better luck if he would have been called immediately and not after the hundreds of searchers trampled the landscape.
Dignitaries from all over the county and Harrisburg arrived to help in the search. Many local leaders helped with the search. The search went on for about 10 days to 2 weeks, but Alice was never found. In 1911, the county in the Ickesburg area was very overgrown with vegetation that was very thick. It made the search very difficult.
After about two weeks the organized search was suspended. Mr. Arnold and a few of his neighbors continued with no results. Slowly the countryside went back to their quiet existence in upper Perry County.
Sgt. Davies and Tpr. Markley over the two weeks investigated the disappearance of Alice. They checked a lumber camp that employed "foreigners" about a mile from the Arnold farm but all the men were accounted for. Another stranger was investigated with little results.
Around July 26th, H.H. Wallet and Robert Zimmerman were picking berries in the mountain when they came upon some remains under a bush. They examined the remains and thought them to be those of Alice Arnold. They immediately went to the farm of Alice's father, William Arnold, who returned to the location where the remains were found and identified them as his daughter's.
Walter Rice, District Attorney, immediately appointed Charles Swartz to investigate the remains of the child. An inquest was held at the location of the remains. After a review of the incident and the examination of the remains of Alice Arnold it was decided that Alice died of exposure. The remains, consisting of hair, a pink dress,and bones produced no evidence of foul play.
Charles Swartz, who is listed in the 1910 census as a school teacher, conducted a coroner's inquest with the jury members being; J.B. Cooper, foreman; J.C. Stewart, E.Q. Reisinger, William Weibley, and A. Wesley Sweger.
After the inquest, the remains of Alice Arnold were taken to the Arnold home. Alice is buried in an unmarked grave at the Eschol Cemetery.
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Eshcol Church Cemetery records lost in fire.
The first day as the message went out there was about 50 searchers looking for Alice. The following day there was anywhere from 150 to 200 searchers looking for Alice. Mr. William Arnold, the child's father sent a request to Harrisburg Police and the newly formed Pennsylvania State Police for help in searching.
State Police sent Sergeant Curtis A. Davies and Trooper Francis E. Markley from the Pottsville Barricks to investigate the disappearance of Alice Arnold. They arrived about two days after she disappeared. Sgt. Davies put out the message of the missing girl statewide. An Indian tracking expert, Sylvester Long, from Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. was sent for and started to track the child on the third day of the search. He stated he would have had better luck if he would have been called immediately and not after the hundreds of searchers trampled the landscape.
Dignitaries from all over the county and Harrisburg arrived to help in the search. Many local leaders helped with the search. The search went on for about 10 days to 2 weeks, but Alice was never found. In 1911, the county in the Ickesburg area was very overgrown with vegetation that was very thick. It made the search very difficult.
After about two weeks the organized search was suspended. Mr. Arnold and a few of his neighbors continued with no results. Slowly the countryside went back to their quiet existence in upper Perry County.
Sgt. Davies and Tpr. Markley over the two weeks investigated the disappearance of Alice. They checked a lumber camp that employed "foreigners" about a mile from the Arnold farm but all the men were accounted for. Another stranger was investigated with little results.
Around July 26th, H.H. Wallet and Robert Zimmerman were picking berries in the mountain when they came upon some remains under a bush. They examined the remains and thought them to be those of Alice Arnold. They immediately went to the farm of Alice's father, William Arnold, who returned to the location where the remains were found and identified them as his daughter's.
Walter Rice, District Attorney, immediately appointed Charles Swartz to investigate the remains of the child. An inquest was held at the location of the remains. After a review of the incident and the examination of the remains of Alice Arnold it was decided that Alice died of exposure. The remains, consisting of hair, a pink dress,and bones produced no evidence of foul play.
Charles Swartz, who is listed in the 1910 census as a school teacher, conducted a coroner's inquest with the jury members being; J.B. Cooper, foreman; J.C. Stewart, E.Q. Reisinger, William Weibley, and A. Wesley Sweger.
After the inquest, the remains of Alice Arnold were taken to the Arnold home. Alice is buried in an unmarked grave at the Eschol Cemetery.
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Eshcol Church Cemetery records lost in fire.
Family Members
Siblings
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Clarence Van Arnold
1899 – unknown
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James William Arnold
1900–1958
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Carrie Ellen Arnold Bingaman
1903–1969
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Mary A Arnold Shaffer
1905–1970
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Olive Viola Arnold Fry
1908–1980
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Harry Franklin Arnold
1909–1926
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John Edward Arnold Sr
1912–1971
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Annabelle Arnold Campbell
1915–1986
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Leroy Arnold
1915–1985
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Esther J. Arnold Riffle
1917–2002
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