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Note: Lola Neel married Emery Arnold while Emery still worked his father's ranch near Pecos, New Mexico. They met when Emery's father, H. S. Arnold, hired Lola to come to his ranch and teach his daughters. In three months, Emery drove Lola back to her father's ranch in Moriarty at which time he proposed marriage. Lola agreed to "consider his proposal". In 1911, they were married. In the meantime, when Lola was not at the Arnold ranch, Emery rode horseback the seventy miles between the ranches to visit her.
When Harry and Sophia Rebecca Arnold died, Emery and Lola operated the Arnold ranch for two years. The ranch was then sold in the Spring of 1918.
Emery took his part of the inheritance and bought his own farm near Farmington, New Mexico. His was a model farm in the San Juan Valley. He served for many years as the County Agricultural Agent and was well known to all the farmers up and down the San Juan Valley. Although he was not a member of the Latter Day Saints Church, his funeral was held in the Kirtland Church and he was buried in their local cemetery.
Lola told of the move to the Farmington farm as follows: " ... Emery and I moved to Farmington, New Mexico. We left the ranch in a mountain wagon and a team of horses. The children (Neel Stephen and Marjorie) and I stayed overnight in Pecos. He came back the next morning with a Model T Ford. We left the next day for my parents' home in Moriarty. We left there in a few days for Farmington. We took my mother with us. My sister, Nell, and her husband, Charles Hutchinson, were farming a place just southeast of Aztec, New Mexico. Emery and I left the children and Mother and Nell to go look for a home. We finally bought a farm seven miles west of Farmington, which I still own. ..."
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