Cookeville's first mayor, from 1904 until 1907. Jesse Arnold, who died in 1912, was the father of Mrs. Bessie Arnold Cameron and the grandfather of Mrs. John Holladay, Mrs. B. A. Fox, C. A. Cameron, Miss Alberta Cameron and Mrs. W. M. Mann. Courtesy of Alberta Cameron.

Jesse Arnold

b. 4 February 1847, Hilham, TN
d. 6 November 1912, TN
Wife: Lee Ann Brown
Father: Capt. Jesse Arnold
Mother: Letitia Ann Burton (1809-1893)
Buried: Cookeville City Cemetery, Putnam Co., TN
See Cookeville Cemetery Obts