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An Addendum

Of Articles & Photos

Related To Our Love Family History

Collected By

Harold Cunningham

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2Letter from General Thomas Love to his Nephew, James Robert Love, of Haywood County, North Carolina. Henry County, Paris, Tennessee. My Dear Nephew: 10 March 1843 I received your kind letter of the 23rd, Jan. 1843, which gave me much satisfaction to learn that my old and much beloved brother was still in the land of the living, and all friends in that County generally enjoying health.

My family at present is in the enjoyment of reasonable health ever since you left me with the exception, of myself and Albert, who has not altogether recovered his health, but so much so that he attends to all his business. As to myself, I have been sorely afflicted with the Rheumatism pains in my neck for the last sixteen months, but for the last two or three weeks, I think, I have mended considerably, and if it should be the will of the Giver of all Good to continue His kind mercies towards me, and should my neck continue to improve, as it has done for the last two or three weeks, my intention is that, I think, sometime by the month of May, I will be able to ride in a carriage. My intention is at that time, or thereabouts, to set out for my old native country to see all my friends and relatives one more time.

My son, Thomas Bell Love, left here, bag and baggage, for Missouri last October was a year, and settled in Wright County, Missouri, if you wish to write to him, address him thus; towit; Greene County, Walnut Forest Post Office, State of Missouri. There is where I address my letters to him. I have received several letters from him and wife since they moved to that country. They are both highly pleased with their move; lands lie well for farming, and scarcely could be surpassed for furtility by any in the world*****Health, equal to old Buncombe. He says he was scarcely seen a Doctor for the last twelve months, and not one cent has he paid to them. Steam boat navigation will be within fifty miles of where he lives. If I could call back twenty years, I certainly would go to that country******** This letter is quite long already, I will write you shortly again. I have never had any account about my Holland suit, only a word or two dropped by you to me last Spring.

I have written lately to my old friend, Wm. Welch, and likewise Mr. Francis to let me know what the result has been. Tell Andy I want to see him very much, and to do the best he can until I get in, and by all means, not to idle away his time. As respects the cure of the cancer on Stiles' wife's neck, the cure proved effectual, and her nose was very bad. You will take (towit) a smart quantity of the root of Sour Dock, put it into a pot and boil it down until you are sure the whole of the strength is out of it. The root will become quite soft when boiled. Then take them in you hands, mash and squeeze them well, will have the whole of the strength in the water, then throw the roots out, then put the ______ with the water on the fire, and simmer until it becomes about as thick as honey, then agreeable to the quantity of juice, add one third of strong French brandy, mix them well together, then spread it on a rag as a plaster, and put as plaster to the place effected, night and morning, etc.

Please give my best respects in particular to my old brother, likewise to all friends, whilst you will please to accept the same yourself. Yours farewell, Thomas Love (Copy)

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3Letter from General Thomas Love to his brother Robert Love of Haywood County, North Carolina

Henry Co., Paris, Tennessee. Dear Brother: 16th, May 1844 You, no doubt, have understood how I have been afflicted for the last 2 or 3 years with Rheumatic pains in my neck. My suffering has been great since the warm weather set in. I think the pain in my neck has a little abated, but my left knee and right elbow and wrist are in such a situation that I can scarcely walk about yard. I did think in the Winter that after warm weather set in, I would be able to go to Carolina and see you once more in this life, but at this time, my dear brother, it is utterly impossible with me. I received a letter from your grandson, Robert Love, of Carter County, some time in Feb. last, stating that he was authorized by you to receive from the Gambles, the balance of what was coming to you from the estate of our uncle, Joseph Bell, deceased, of August County, Va., which is about, or near, two hundred dollars. I have no doubt but what your grandson's statements was correct, but still I would prefer an order from under your had to show as a voucher by what authority I paid over the money. I have been trying for some several years past to collect the money without making a journey particularly for it, but I never could until sometime last Spring, or Summer, when I met with a young man living in the adjoining county, who informed me that he was going to the lower part of Virginia, and I contracted with him to go by the way of Staunton and collect the money, which he did. He has not paid to over to me as yet, but is to do so in the course of two or three weeks from this time. I consider the money entirely sage. If you still intend your Grandson to have said money, you will write to me immediately on the subject, etc. I received a letter from my Nephew, Jas. B. Love, dated 5th, of April last, who stated your health was good as usual, which I was truly glad to hear. Our friends in this country, so far as I have any knowledge, are enjoying reasonable good health, et., I am, Affectionately and truly your brother until death, Thomas Love (Copy).

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4Copy of letter from John P. Arthur to me. John P. Arthur Asheville, N.C. April 17th, 1903. Attorney at Law.

Franklin D. Love, Esqr., Georgetown, Texas.

Dear Sir: Yours of the 14th, inst., to hand. I spoke to Mrs. Hilliard this morning about writing a sketch of the life of her Grandfather, Robert Love, but she says that she is not in a position to give you as much information as I have already furnished, as she was but nine or ten years old when he died, and she has but a faint recollection of him. I suggest that before you have your account of his life printed, you send it to me here, or to Miss Mary Love Stringfield, at Waynesville for such suggestions, corrections and alterations as they may devise. In this way nothing will be omitted; nothing be included that should not be, and if there are any errors, they should be corrected. At any rate, this is the best means of securing fullness and accuracy. I will make it my business to submit it to all who are in a position to revise it, and return it to you, if you adopt this suggestion. No one seems willing to undertake the task of writing out a full account of his life, for various reasons; but if the first draft or framework is read to them, each would be willing to make any recommendations that may occur to them. And, then, no blame could attach to you for errors or omissions. As what you propose to print is the only enduring monument Robert Love will ever have, in all probability, no pains should be spared to have it as full and as accurate as possible. The Thomas Love mentioned in Wheeler's History (of N.C.) was a brother of Col. Robert Love, and not his son. He was several years younger than Robert Love. He was known as General Thomas Love, and after 1828 removed to Forked Deer, Henry County, Tennessee; was elected to State Senate and became its Speaker or President. He was far more distinguished in this State as a public man and politician than Robert Love. His wife is buried in the Grave Yard of the Methodist Church at Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina, and a handsome tombstone has been erected to her memory. He was a great campaigner, and did his most effective work among the women, taking to the first house on his campaigns a batch of garden or flower seed, telling the mistress that his wife had sent them with the special request for some of her own; taking what she gave, and presenting them to the woman of the next house as a gift from his wife, with the same request for some of hers, and so on around the circuit. He was a man with blue eyes, of a large and commanding personality, and every influential in the legislatures, not only on account of his long service there, but because of this great ability as a diplomatist and manager and leader or men. Col. Allen T. Davidson has told me that he was a "born leader of men". Yours very truly, John P. Arthur, (Signed)

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http://www.dillardfamilyassociation.com/dannuals/da2000/da00all.htm

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51835 Letter from Elizabeth Barnard Love to her sister, Peggy Young in Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina. Thomas Love, the husband of Elizabeth Barnard Love, was a son of General Thomas Love and Martha Dillard Love. Martha Dillard Love was a daughter of Thomas Dillard, Jr. of Pittsylvania County, Virginia who moved to and died in Washington County, North Carolina later Tennessee. This letter gives us a glimpe of how and to what extent our early migrating ancestors kept up with each other (and they did have letters and a post office!), and their pain in leaving and not hearing from loved ones left behind.. Henry County, West Tennessee June 19, 1835 Dear Sister: After an absence of nearly two years I avail myself of the present opportunity of writing you a few lines to let you know I am still in the land of the living though many miles from the land of my youthful pleasure but I think I am placed in a situation far superior to many things I could have promised myself in that country. I have nothing very particular to write there has been so much said already about this country that I think it would ---- to say any more. Our family are all well and all the rest of the friends in this country. Hoping these few lines may find all enjoying the same blessings. Brother John and the doctor are very well pleased with their move to this country. John was married on the 20th of May to Miss Eleander Sisson and I think there is no doubt but she will make him a good wife and an agreeable companion. Mr. Love has purchased land in this country 6 miles from Parris. I feel entirely satisfied and think we are settled for life. I have understood that father and mother intends visiting you this summer. I feel for you my dear Sister for I know there is no person but one who have parted with a dear old father and mother thinking it to be the last time they are ever to see them that can conceive what I felt when I left mine for I had no idea I ever should see them any more in this life but I now have the pleasing prospect of meeting with them again if we should all be spared a few months longer. I wrote to you shortly after our arrival in this country and have been anxiously expecting a letter from you ever since but I have not received the first line from none of my relatives since I left that country only from my two brothers. I think I must complain of you and Sally Dillard for it seems as though you have forgotten that you have a sister by the name of Love. We have never enjoyed better health in our family in our lives than we have since we came to this country. I expect to be confined by 20 of September. We have had a very wet season and the prospects of crops are not so good at this time. We all join in love to you and all your family and all inquiring friends. So no more but remains your affectionate sister. Elizabeth Love"

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6 1841 Letter from Elizabeth Barnard Love (Living in Henry County, West Tennessee) to her sister, Margaret Barnard Young (living in then Burnsville, Yancey County, NC) now, Madison county, NC Elizabeth is the daughter-in-law of General Thomas Love. Date Written: August 1st 1841 ---------------------------------- Dear Sister I once more take my pen in hand to write to you to let you know we are all well at present hoping these lines may find you all enjoying the sa blessing I have no news of importance I must confess I feel some what ashamed of not writing to you before allthough I think I can with justi complain of your not writing to me since I saw you I have had three daughters Dorcas, Dicia and Lettishia they are all fine little girls Lettishia is five months old I expect you have no doubt heard of the death of our little Polly it will be three years this fall since she died it was a severe trial to give her up but oh Sister, if I could have her back for asking for worlds I would not ask it if I had of died at her age how much sin and hardship would I have escaped you will probably be surprised when I tell you we are making preparations to leave Tennessee we are going to move to Missouri between four and five hundred miles from where we now live. Mr. Love has been and looked at the country he likes the appearance of the country much better than he ever did this country the land is very rich and fertile but scarce of timber in places the water is plenty and very good but limestone he is going to settle on the Ozark Mountain he says the range is as good as it ever was in Buncombe He was at William Dillards he has been living in that country four years and is very well pleas says he believes it to be equally as healthy as Buncombe is at this time Mr. Love sold his land here for thirty six hundred dollars he says for half the money he can settle himself much more to his notion in Missouri and be where his children can settle to advantage you may think strange of my being willing to go so far from all my connection but I am very willing to go as I hope it will be to the advantage and satisfaction of my own family but it would far exceed the bounds of a letter to say all I would wish to say I must therefore conclude after begging of you not to forget me when I am allmost a thousand miles from you do write to me as soon as you receive this letter if you should not receive it in time to give me an answer by the middle of October write to Missouri Green County Springfield. Mr. Love joins me in sending our best love and respects to you and Josh in particular give my love to all the children and all inquiring friends I am my Dear Sister Yours most affectionately Elizabeth Love NB: I heard from John and Nancy a few days ago them and their familys was all well John's wife has no child nor no prospect of having any

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7 Printed below is a May 5, 1848 letter from Elizabeth Barnard Love to this same sister (Margaret Banard Young). By 1848 Elizabeth Barnard Love and her husband, Thomas Love, had migrated from Henry County, West Tennessee to Wright County, Missouri. This letter has also been provided by Belinda Bettis of Hayesville, North Carolina. The two letters are helpful in proving the names of the children of Luke Barnard and wife whose name at this time is unknown. Spelling has been left as in the original letter to the extent possible. Paragraphing and punctuation has been supplied for readability. "Wright County, Mo May 5, 1848 Dear Sister I have once more set down to write you A few lines with painful emotions my dear sister. I have to communicate to you than in less than one short year we have been deprived by death of our two oldest children. Robert died last September in Santafee. He turned out volunteer and was elected first lieu in his captains company. They belonged to the 3 regiment of mounted men from this state. He was taken sick about the 3rd of July and was never able to set up another day. He was hauld in a small waggon across the sandy desert between Missouri and New Mexico to the city of Stantafee where his poor body lies far away from his home. Oh, sister you may better conceive than I describe my feelings. While I am writing on the subject the tears allmost blinds me. I can scarcely write legible. We have never learned the particulars of his sickness nor death. Patsey was married two years ago to a Mr. Lea from east Tennessee. She died on the 27 of March past. She left a little daughter five days old. She was perfectly willing to die. She kept her sences to the last. I weaned my baby and am suckling hers. Its a very pretty healthy child. She named it her self. She called it Mary Elizabeth. The rest of our family is all well. I have had 5 children since I saw you 4 daughters and one son, Dorcas, Diannah, Letitia, Thomas and Ellen. My youngest is about 16 months old. Margaret was married a year ago. She has a fine daughter about a month old. She married a Tennsyeean by the name of Burnnett. They live about 15 miles from us. She calls her baby Martha. We have a good country notwithstanding our misfortune. I am entirely satisfied to live here. We have a beautiful farm. Mr. Love raised between 3 and 4 thousand bushels of corn last season, something over 3 hundred bushels wheat and a large crop of oats. I feel so anxious to hear from you all its renders me very unhappy at times but I am compelled to think as little as possible about my own connection as it appears they have allmost all forgotten me. I have not received but two letters from any of my own connection. Since the death of our poor brother John, I own I have been a little neglectful about writing but I have written to that country so often and received no answer that I am more excusable. I do hope you will not fail to write to me as soon as you receive this. Do write all about all your

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8own family and all the connection and friends. If old uncle and aunt McElroy is living do remember me to them. Tell them I hope they have not forgotten me. Tell all our cousins I want them to write to me and let me know all about their families. Now sister do write as soon as you receive this letter and let me know all about your family as I don’t know how many children you have or whether they are all living with you or not. I received a letter from sister Dillard a few weeks since. It give me a great deal of satisfaction indeed. She stated she would have wrote before is she had known what P. O. to direct a letter to. If that is the reason you don’t write I hope you will see from this letter direct to Wright County, Mo. Hazelwood P. O. Mr. Love had placed (?) himself that he could arrange his business so that we would have been able to have went to North Carolina this spring but we have entirely abandoned the idea. I shall write to Father in a short time. It has been almost three years since I received a line from him. I don’t know what can be the cause. I do believe I have an adversary in the family. I may be wrong but I do think I have good reason to believe it but I know that if I have given any cause to be treated the way I have been I was ignorant of it but I submit to may fate as I know this world is but a dream. Mr. Love joins me in love to you and Joshua and all the friends. Elizabeth Love" The envelope is addressed in handwriting to "Joshua Young, Burnsville, Yancy County, North Carolina." The return address on the envelope is marked "Hazelwood, Mo. May 9th" and further marked "fowd from Barnardsville, N. C. June 21st ." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[NI3973] That Peggy Barnard and Sarah Barnard were twin sisters is recorded in the family data of the late Mary Ritchie Dillard, wife of Zach Dillard

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9 The following info is provided by Love descendant, Don Collins. The Thomas Love he refers to is not our General Thomas Love, but they are related. Note the excerpt from the journal of William Calhoun Love, son of Col. Robert Love, and nephew of General Thomas Love, from whom I am descended. It is recorded in the text box. ~Harold Cunningham

The Love family was possibly the largest of the mixed-blood families in the Chickasaw Nation and second only to the Colbert family in service to the Chickasaw Nation.

Thomas Love was my ggggg grandfather. He was a refugee Tory from Virginia who settled among the Chickasaw in 1782. After his father William Love ("English Bill") had been killed, Thomas said that he took off through a briarpatch and made his lifesaving escape.

He led a quiet existance. He was described in July, 1875 as "a person of high esteem". He assisted in marking the Creek-Chickasaw boundary in 1796. Another countryman, John McIntosh, appointed him administrator of his estate in 1803. He was still living in 1818 and apparently died about 1830.

Thomas had two wives; his first wife, was Sally Colbert, half breed Chickasaw, daughter of James Logan Colbert. His second wife was a full-blood Chickasaw woman named Emahota. Following the Chickasaw tradition of the husband becoming a member of the wife's family, he became a member of the house of In-cun-no-mar. Thomas fathered eight sons and five daughters. Descendant Chart -[PDF Format]

Emahota was born in 1791. She sold land in Marshall County, Mississippi on April 8, 1836. She was listed on the 1840 LaFayette County census. She removed to Indian Territory in November, 1844. The 1847 census lists her as half white, head of household, consisting of one male over 18 and 2 females over 16. She died at Burneyville on September 25, 1873.

Sons: Henry, Isaac, Benjamin, Slone, Robert Howard, Samuel, William, and Thomas Daughters: Delilah (married a Mitchell, then John B. Moore), Betsy(married James Allen), Sally (married James T. Gaines), Nancy Mahota (married James M. Boyd), and Lucinda (married Samuel A. Colbert)

By the 1820's, most of the Love family were living in a prosperous farming community located about six miles southwest of the present town of Holly Springs, MS. In 1826, a Presbyterian missionary located a station they called Martyn Station near Henry Love's home which stood at the crossing of two Indian trails near Pigeon Roost Creek. Many of the family's children attended school there.

Thomas died in 1830. Seven of his sons became Chickasaw leaders, particularly during and after the removal to Indian Territory. There is a journal excerpt mentioning Henry and Slone by William Calhoun Love, grandson of Robert Love of Pennsylvania.

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10A Resource for Chickasaw Native American History and Genealogy

Contributed by Don Collins <dcollins@execpc.com>

Robert Love, who married three times and supposedly died in PA about 1741. By third marriage had, among others:

1. Samuel Love who married Dorcas Bell on 3 Sep 1759. They had the following known children:

1. Robert Love, b. 1760 who married Mary Ann Dillard, dau. of Gen. Thomas Dillard and Mary Webb who is believed to have been a daughter of John Webb and his wife who was a Love.

2. James Love, b. 1762, who married Winnesophilia Dillard, another sister. 3. Thomas Love, b. 1766, who married Martha Dillard, Mary's sister. 4. William Love 5. Sarah Love

2. Joseph Love, b. 1728 who married Mary Teas about 1758. Joseph died in Knox Co.,? Tennessee about 1806 and Mary Teas Love died July 1815 in TN

1. Robert Love 2. William Love, b. 1761, killed by Harp Brothers in Kentucky in Aug 1799;

married Esther Calhoun

Last night I was reading the most interesting journal of William Calhoun Love, a son of William Love and Esther Calhoun above. Here is a brief quote from his journal which speaks of your Love ancestor. William C. Love calls him "James", but from looking at your home page, I gather his name was Thomas. I'm wondering if he could be the Thomas above (born 1766) who was a son of Samuel Love and Dorcal Bell. In any case his two sons, Henry and Slone Love, are mention on your page, so it has to be the same family. Here is the excerpt:

"I bought a few horses and took them by land to Mississippi. Traveled through the Indian nation called on two of my relations, half breeds by the name of Love, Henry and Slone, they treated me friendly as other travellers, but did not care to claim kin as the Indians only claim kin by the Mother's side. I learned that a good many years ago a man by the name of James Love* and from what I could learn a cousin to my Father was returning home through the nation and a company of Choctowas came across him, robbed him and took his horse. He wandered on into the Chickisaws was taken sick and lay sometime and when he got well he took a young squaw to wife and remained in the Nation. Henry had married a white woman and his children look as well as common children with the exception of the one who has an Indian Eye. Slone Love had a full blood Indian to wife and looked very Indianfied himself."

* NOTE BY HAROLD CUNNINGHAM: The “James Love” in this excerpt is apparently a reference to the brother of General Thomas Love.

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11General Biography Info on General Thomas Love General Thomas Love, who represented Buncombe County from 1800 to 1808 (the sessions of the Legislature were then annual) afterwards served from Haywood form 1808 to 1828, perhaps, the longest service of any one man in the State continuously. He afterwards moved to Macon District of Tennessee; was elected to the Legislature from that State, and was mad Presiding Officer of the Senate. He was a man of very fine appearance. More that six feet tall, very popular, and a fine electioneer. Many amusing stories are told of him, such as carrying garden seeds in his pockets, and distributing them, always with the assurance that his wife had remembered the voters wife and sent them with her regards. The old gentlemen was fond of a good toddy, but did no resort to the mean subterfuge of electioneering with liquor. On one occasion, however, it is said of him that he signed a pledge of the temperance society which was then very unpopular. So at his first speaking he found there was a clamor raised against him on that account. While he would not notice it publicly, he told his friends that he would be glad to have some hard cider to drink while he was speaking which was procured for him. Some mischievous boys, however, concluded that they would play a trick on him, and began to add to a mug of cider a little corn whiskey. It was soon seen that the effects began to excite the old gentleman. He became animated and eloquent, when kind friends told him that the boys were pouring whiskey into his cider. The Rubicon was passed, and with great force, he said he didn't care if it was all whisky. I have a vivid recollection of the beginning of all his speeches. It was thusly: "Gentlemen and Fellow-Citizens: I have had the honor of representing you in the lower branch of the General Assembly of North Carolina for the last two and thirty years, and I have no doubt. My friends, if I should again be elected, I shall be able to do you abundance of good, etc." Sufficient to say of this man that he made his mark on society, and retained the public confidence until he left the State. The Thomas Love mentioned in Wheeler's History (of N.C.) was a brother of Col. Robert Love, and not his son. He was several years younger than Robert Love. He was known as General Thomas Love, and after 1828 removed to Forked Deer, Henry County, Tennessee; was elected to State Senate and became its Speaker or President. He was far more distinguished in this State as a public man and politician than Robert Love. His wife is buried in the Grave Yard of the Methodist Church at Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina, and a handsome tombstone has been erected to her memory. He was a great campaigner, and did his most effective work among the women, taking to the first house on his campaigns a batch of garden or flower seed, telling the mistress that his wife had sent them with the special request for some of her own; taking what she gave, and presenting them to the woman of the next house as a gift from his wife, with the same request for some of hers, and so on around the circuit. He was a man with blue eyes, of a large and commanding personality, and every influential in the legislatures, not only on account of his long service there, but because of this great ability as a diplomatist and manager and leader or men. Col. Allen T. Davidson has told me that he was a "born leader of men".

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12Copied from an article in the Asheville Daily Citizen of 1898, the same

being excerpts from an article by Foster Sondley in the same issue, headed "Asheville's Centenary" to which reference is hereby made-F.D. Love,

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In speaking of the Court House, he says "On January 23rd, 1807 deeds were made to the Commissioners, Samuel Murry senr., Thomas Foster, Thomas Love, etc., appointed by the General Assembly of the State (North Carolina) to purchase or receive by donation land sufficient for a Public Square in the Town of Asheville in the County of Buncombe and State aforesaid". This Thomas Love and Thomas Foster were members of the Love and Alexander families. Thomas Love was the brother of, Robert Love From the entry of the County Court Records we find in the year 1805 (April) the following order, towit: "Ordered by the Court, Thomas Love, etc., be appointed commissioners for the purpose of procuring a public Square, from the lot, or land holders, in the town of Asheville, most suitable, convenient and interesting to the public, and least injurious to individuals, that the nature of the case will admit of," Robert Love of Haywood County, the father of the large family now there, was a man of remarkable powers; stood high in the estimation of the public, and died at a good old age. He has a Revolutionary history which is very frequently mentioned in "Ramsey's Annas of Tennessee", in his service with John Sevier in their frequent encounters with the Chickamauga Indians. He was an elector for the State on the Jackson Ticket. He acquired great wealth, and died respected, leaving a large fortune to his children. He was a brother of General Thomas Love heretofore mentioned. These two men were certainly far above the average of men, and did much to plant civilization in the County where they lived, and would have been men of mark in any community."

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13 A letter from Mrs. E. L. Connally to me-F.D. Love, #53 Ashby Street, Atlanta, GA NOTE the reference to Ephraim Love, grandfather of General Thomas Love . Dear Mr. Love: May 25th, 1903. I am glad to hear from you again after so long a time. My sister, Miss Sallie E. Brown, and myself are the persons interesting ourselves about the Love ancestry. I suppose the clerk of Augusta County, VA, Mr. Harry Burnett, refers to us, as we have been getting papers from him, as well as from H. Argenbright, a genealogist in Staunton, VA. You are looking for Love & Bell and we for Love & Teas. Miss Mary Love Stringfield has some deeds of the Bells-they are not my line. She had some trouble about the price and a threatened lawsuit. We find it best to get a copy of will or deed for regular clerk's fee-$2 or $3 each. Argenbright, the genealogist, who owns old papers not belonging to the State, is very high in the charges. He has sent us papers in regard to our Teas ancestry. Jos. Love, (brother of Samuel) my g-g-grandfather, married Mary Teas, D. of Jos. and Jane Teas. They resided in Augusta County, VA in 1741; had three children-Charles, William and Mary. Joseph Teas was appointed Commissioner of Roads for Augusta County, VA, May 22nd, 1749. He was also on Committee (in 1741) to build a Meeting House at Tinkling Springs, and contributed to its support until his death, and his wife, Jane, contributed to same after his death. Other items about the Teas children: - Argenbright also says "Joseph Love and Ephraim Love came to Augusta County from PA, in 1745 as shown by the records of Augusta County Court. The indications are that Ephraim was the father of Joseph. There was also Samuel and Robert; the latter served with the Colonial forces of Augusta County. It appears that Ephraim and Joseph Love came to Augusta County together. I could not learn the name of Ephraim's wife - mentioned a number of times as Ephraim's wife. Joseph Love left Augusta County in 1776, moved to Montgomery County, Virginia. In 1754 Ephraim Love took the oath appointed to be taken by act of parliament instead of the oath of allegiance and supremacy, and subscribed the oath of abjuration and also the test, which on his motion is ordered to be certified on his Commission to be Captain of a Company of Foot. Ephraim Love was one of seven captains who tried Capt. Abraham Smith in 1758 for a charge of cowardice. At a court martial of Enquiry held at Augusta Court House the 10th, day of May 1758 by the Officers of the Militia of said County on the conduct and behavior of Capt. Abraham Smith, who was out with part of his Company on South Branch after Sybert's Fort was burned by the enemy, which inquiry was held on complaint of Edward Magary, - President, Co. James Buchanan, Col. David Stewart, Maj. John Smith, and Captains James Lockhart, Israel Christian, Thomas Armstrong, Ephraim Love, M. Syers, Robert Bratton and Robert Hooke. Will of Jos. teas recorded in Will Book 2, p.143. gave Mary 400 acres land-this land conveyed to her husband Jos. Love 16th, Aug. 1762-Book 10, page 395. Joseph and Mary afterwards conveyed name to other parties. Jos. Teas appointed County Surveyor by President of William & Mary College May 22nd, 1749- order Book 3, page 149. It appears from records order Book 4, page 107 Ephriam Love was appointed Capt. of Foot on Mach 20th, 1754. Our effort must be to establish the apparent fact the Ephriam was father of Joseph and Samuel. Please read again carefully my paper, where I had thought from dates that this was so or could be so, and please send me any thing you have about the Love family, besides the names or your own family that were sent in your first letter. You said you had a great deal about the Alabama and Tennessee Loves. I send you all I had and will gladly give you the benefit of any deeds or records that my sister and I may get. We are still at

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14work on it and so is Argenbright. I trust you have some things that I have not. "On 27th Feb., 1749 Ephriam Vance sold 200 acres of land in Augusta County, Virginia to Joseph Love on Goose Creek. Deed witnessed by Frances Beaton, Wm. Dunlap and George Anderson. 5 Shillings the price. On 19th May 1765 John Cloud and his wife, Margaret; Nimen Cloud, and his wife, Mary, for 5 shillings sold to Joseph Love 260 acres of land in Augusta County, VA, in Beverly Manor on a branch of Christian's Creek called Black Run, lines touching John Henderson, Rutledge, and Armstrong and Samuel Love; witnessed by John Poage, John Dally and Gilbert Christian. Aug. 15th, 1772 Jane Teas for 5 shillings sold to Joseph Love 400 acres of land in Augusta County, VA, on the South River of Shannandoah, in a line with Beverly Manor-witnessed by Wm. Dean and Samuel Love. May 22nd, 1765 Samuel Love and his wife, Dorcas Love, for 5 shillings sold to Joseph Love a certain lot of land on Black Run, a branch of Christian's Creek, being a part of 300 acres sold to Samuel Love by Thomas Black in Beverly Manor.-Witnessed by John Daily, Wm. Teas and George Francisco. Augusta County, Virginia. Sincerely, (Mrs. E.L.) Mary B. Connally,

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15 Joseph Bell's Will. (Copy) Joseph Bell was the older brother of Dorcas Bell. Dorcas Bell was the wife of Samuel Love and the mother of General Thomas Love. General Thomas love recieved inheritance from his uncle, as noted in this will: In the name of God. Amen! I, Joseph Bell, of the County of Augusta, and state of Virginia, being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make my last Will and Testament in manner following, towit: I give my soul to Almighty God who gave it, and my body to the Earth, all my just debts and funeral expenses to be paid first, etc. Impremises, I give, demise and bequeath to my Brother, William Bell's two oldest children, James Bell and Elizabeth Bell, two hundred acres of land on both sides of the South River adjoining the line that William once owned; the division line to run nearly North and South crossing the South River to the Patent line, so as to include my two dwelling houses; also one hundred acres of pine land adjoining Alexander Long's line; also each of them a good feather bed and furniture, and to be their heirs and assigns forever. Secondly, I demise to my Nephew, John Gamble's heirs, one hundred acres of land adjoining the above land, the line to run nearly North and South, crossing the South River to the Patent line of Beverly Manor; also, one hundred acres of pine land on the South end of the old tract adjoining Bell line, to them, their heirs and assigns forever.

Thirdly, I demise to my three Nephews, Robert Love, James Love and Thomas Love, and my two grand Nephews, John Gamble and Robert Gamble, now of the Florida's, and grand Nephew, James Coleman Pendleton, all the remainder of my land on both sides of the South River adjoining Alexander's land, including the Green Pond Entry; land in the state of Ohio, or elsewhere that I may have at my deceased, to be equally divided among them six demises, and to be theirs, their heirs or assigns forever. I give to my grand niece, Rebecca Gamble, daughter of John Gamble, deceased, fifty dollars. To Sarah Bell McCamble, also to Sarah McCune and Esther Linn each of them fifty dollars, and Miss Catherine Brown fifty dollars for the attention paid to my sister, Sarah Bell in her last illness. These Legacies to be paid out of my moneys or bonds that I may have in the House, I leave to James R. Love, my grand nephew, my best suit of clothes, two shirts, and my silver shoe buckles. All the remainder of my personal estate of every description, cows, household and kitchen furniture, and farming utensils, shall be sold by my executors, and the money arising from the sale, one-half to go to the heirs of my sister, Nancy Gamble, the other half to the heirs of my sister, Dorcas Love, and to them, their heirs and assigns forever. I allow the Brown families that are tenants on the land to occupy and work the same fields that they now do for the term of two years after my decease, and to pay the same rent in grain and hay that they now do to my executors. Old Mrs. Brown and her three children that now live with her to have the use of my two dwelling houses, orchard and garden, until Bells come in from Tennessee. In case it should happen that none of the heirs incline to come and live on the land, after the two years expire, then my executors may either sell or rent the land as they may think most advisable for the benefit of the heirs, and in case of sale the money to be paid to each claimant, etc. etc.

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16And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint William Gamble, my two grand nephews, and Dr. Robert Gamble, (both Gambles are his nephews-F.D. Love), and my worthy friend, William Davis Sen. Esqr., Executors of this, my last Will and Testament revoking all others. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this nineteenth day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. Test Joseph Bell (Seal) Jacob Vanlear John S. Black, Washington M. Austin, Samuel Black Jr.,

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Miscellaneous References Ref: Unicoi County Tennessee: Colonel Robert Love was a revolutionary soldier, from Virginia, and in his old age drew a pension as such. He was born near Tinkling Spring Meeting House, Augusta County, Virginia, 11 May 1760. His father was Samuel Love, son of Ephraim Love, Captain. Of the Colonial Horse, and his mother was Dorcas Bell, second daughter of James Bell, to whom had been issued a Commission of the Peace in 1745. _______________________________________________________________

Thomas Love, a member of the House of Commons in that State from 1797-1808 (See Wheeler History of N.C. pages 53-54) Haywood County was formed in 1808 from Buncombe County N.C., and named for Judge John Haywood, State Treasurer, 1787-1827. Thomas Love continued in the House of Commons as a representative from Haywood County until 1813, and again from 1814-1815. For four consecutive years 1817-18-19-20. He was succeeded by his nephew, James Robert Love -1821-1830. Thomas Love elected to the Senate 1823-1829. Thomas Love was in the Senate from Haywood County in 1823 to 1828 continuously. That Thomas Love was in the House of Commons from Buncombe County in 1800 to 1808 continuously and from Haywood from 1809 to 1811 continuously, and again from 1814 to 1820 continuously.

History of First Baptist Church, Waynesville, NC.

On December 23, 1808 a bill was passed which created Haywood County from the western part of Buncombe County; this bill was introduced by General Thomas Love (the then Buncombe representative). In 1809 the name of the new county seat was changed to Waynesville, honoring General Anthony Wayne, under whom Robert Love served in the American Revolution. Haywood County and its new county seat grew slowly. The census of 1810 was 2780 families. Waynesville was the only town in the county and was not incorporated until 1871. Before the creation of Haywood County, Baptists in the area had already begun to establish churches. In 1803 the Locust Old Field Baptist Church was organized and served Haywood County and the western part of Buncombe County for eleven years. As population increased and travel became more difficult (especially during the winters), members of Locust Old Field asked for letters of dismissal to form churches near their homes. One of these new churches was the First Baptist Church in Waynesville. The date was August 1, 1823. Twenty-seven persons came together to establish a church in Waynesville. Three persons, all ordained ministers, examined these twenty-seven as to soundness of faith and orthodoxy. Sanction was then given for the constitution of a new church.

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18 History of Western North Carolina - Chapter 1-2 COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED IN 1814. Pursuant to the above provisional articles of agreement North Carolina in 1814 appointed General Thomas Love, General Montfort Stokes and Col. John Patton commissioners to meetother commissioners from South Carolina to run and mark the boundary line between the two States in accordance with the recommendation of the commissioners who had met and agreed, "at McKinney's, on Toxaway river, on the 4th of September, 1813." (Rev. at. 1837, Vol. ii, p. 87). St

History of Western North Carolina - Chapter 8-A CHAPTER VIII. COUNTY HISTORY HAYWOOD COUNTY.(17) "In the legislature of 1808, General Thomas Love, whose home was near where the 'Brown' house now stands back of the McAfee cottage in Waynesville, and who was that year representative from Buncombe county in the General Assembly, introduced a bill having forits purpose to organize a county out of that portion of Buncombe west of its present western and southwestern boundary and extending to the Tennessee line, including all the territory in the present counties of Haywood, Macon, Jackson, Swain, Graham, Clay, and Cherokee. The bill met with favor, was passed, ratified and became a law December 23, 1808. "On Richland creek, about the year 1800, the neucleus of a village had been formed on the beautiful ridge between its limpid waters and those of Raccoon creek. The ride is less than a mile wide and attracted settlers on account of the picturesque mountains on either side and the delightfulness of the climate. At that early time a considerable population was already there. Several men, who were well known in the State and who afterwards became prominent in public affairs, had built homes upon that nature favored spot and were living there. Such men as General Thomas Love, Colonel Robert Love, Colonel William Allen, John Welch, and others of Revolutionary fame were leaders in that community. Without changing his residence General Thomas Love was a member of the State Legislature, with two or three years intermission, from 1797 to 1828, for nine years as a member from Buncombe county and the remainder of the time from Haywood. Most of the time he was in the House of Commons but for six years he was also in the Senate. Colonel Robert Love served three years in the senate from Buncombe county, from 1793 to 1795. William Allen and John Welch were veterans of the Revolution and men of considerable influence in that community. "As already stated that law was ratified on December 23, 1808, but it did not become operative until early in the year 1809. On the fourth Monday in March of that year the justices of the peace in the territory defined by the act erecting the county met at Mount Prospect in the first court of pleas and quarter sessions ever held in the limits of Haywood county. The following justices were present at that meeting: Thomas Love, John Fergus, John Dobson, Robert Phillips, Abraham Eaton, Hugh Davidson, Holliman Battle, John McFarland, Phillip T. Burfoot, William Deaver, Archibald McHenry, and Benjamin Odell.

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19"One of the first things the court thus constituted did was to elect officers for the new county. There were several candidates for the different positions, but after several ballots were taken the following were declared duly elected: Clerk of the court, Robert Love; Sheriff, William Allen; register of deeds, Phillip T. Burfoot; constable of the county, Samuel Hollingsworth; entry taker, Thomas St. Clair; treasurer, Robert Phillips; stray master, Adam Killian; comptroller, Abraham Eaton; coroner, Nathan Thompson; solicitor, Archibald Ruffin; standard keeper, David McFarland. "Thus officered the county of Haywood began its career. The officers entered at once upon their respective duties, and the county became a reality. The first entry in the register's book bears date of March 29th, 1809, signed by Philip T. Burfoot, and the first in the clerk's book is the same date by Robert Love. "Until the court house and jail could be built the county officials met at private residences at Mount Prospect and prisoners were carried to jail in Asheville. Such proceedings were inconvenient and the commissioners appointed by the legislature, therefore, made haste to locate and erect the public buildings. It was expected that they would be ready to make their report to the court of pleas and quarter sessions as to the location of the county seat at the March session. Instead, however, they asked at that session to be indulged until the June term, and that request was granted. "On Monday, June 26, 1809, the court met at the home of John Howell. The old record names the following justices as being present: Thomas Love, Philip Burfoot, Hugh Davidson, John McFarland, Abraham Eaton, John Dobson, William Deaver, Archibald McHenry, and John Fergus. At this meeting the commissioners named in the act of the legislature erecting the county made their report, in which they declared that it was unanimously agreed to locate the public buildings somewhere on the ridge between Richland and Raccoon creeks at or near the point then called Mount Prospect. As the commissioners were clothed with full power to act, it required no vote of the justices, but it is more than probable that the report was cheerfully endorsed by a majority of the justices present. "At this June term of the court, the first for the trial of causes, the following composed the grand jury: John Welch foreman, William Welch, John Fullbright, John Robinson, Edward Sharteer, Isaac Wilkins, Elijah Deaver, David McFarland, William Burns, Joseph Chambers, Thomas St. Clair, John Shook, William Cathey, Jacob Shock, and John St. Clair. The following grand jurors for the next term of the Superior court that was to be held in Asheville in September: Holliman Battle, Hugh Davidson, Abraham Eaton, Thomas Lenoir, William Deaver, John McFarland, John McClure, Felix Walker, Jacob McFarland, Robert Love, Edward Hyatt and Daniel Fleming. This was done because of the fact that no Superior court was held in Haywood for several years after the formation of the county; but all cases that were appealed from the court of pleas and quarter sessions came up by law in the Superior court of Buncombe county at Asheville. For this court Haywood county was bound by law to send to Asheville six grand jurors and as many more as desired. "At the June term inspectors of election, that was to take place in

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20August, were also selected. There were then two voting precincts, and this election was the first ever held in the county. For the precinct of Mount Prospect the following inspectors were appointed: George Cathey, William Deaver, John Fergus, and Hugh Davidson. For the precinct of Soco, Benjamin Parks, Robert Reed, and Robert Turner were appointed. "In the location of the public buildings at Mount Prospect, there was laid the foundation of the present little city of Waynesville. radition says and truthfully, no doubt, that the name was suggested by Colonel Robert Love in honor of General Anthony Wayne, under whom Colonel Love served in the Revolutionary War. The name suited the community and people, and the village soon came to be known by it. In the record of the court of pleas and quarter sessions the name of Waynesville occurs first in 1811. "Some unexpected condition prevented the immediate erection of the public buildings. The plans were all laid in 1809, but sufficient money from taxation as provided for in the act establishing the county had not been secured by the end of that year. It was, therefore, late in the year 1811 before sufficient funds were in hand to begin the erection of the courthouse. During the year 1812 the work began and was completed by the end of the year. Mark Colman is said to have been the first man to dig up a stump in laying the foundation for that building. On December 21, 1812, the first court was held in this first court house."

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21This is an extract from “Western North Carolina, A History From 1730 to 1913” by John Preston Arthur, published in 1914 by the Edward Buncombe Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of Asheville, NC. The book was given to me as a gift by Mr. Archer Blevins of The Overmountain Press, Johnson City, TN. In chapter VII, “Grants and Litigations”. pages 133-134, the following entries should settle the question of how large George Jr. Silver’s land grant was from his Revolutionary War service.

OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE CONTINENTAL LINE. In 1782 (ch. 173), each soldier and officer of the Continental line, then in service and who continued to the end of the war; or who had been disabled in the service and subsequently all who had served two years honorably and had not re-enlisted or had been dropped on reducing the forces, were given lands as follows:

Privates 640 acres each; Non-commissioned officers 1000 acres each; Subalterns 2560 acres each; Captains 3840 acres each; Majors 4800 acres each; Lieut.-Colonels 7200 acres each; Lieut.-Colonel Commanders 7200 each; Colonels 7200 each; Brigadiers 12000 each; Chaplains 7200 each; Surgeons 4800 each; and Surgeons Mates 2560 each. Three commissioners and a guard of 100 men were authorized to lay off these lands without expense to the soldiers.

LAND FOR SOLDIERS OF THE CONTINENTAL LINE. In 1783 (ch. 186), the following land was reserved for the soldiers and officers of the Continental Line for three years: Beginning on the Virginia line where Cumberland river intersects the same; thence south fifty five miles; thence west to the Tennessee river; thence down the Tennessee river to the Virginia line; thence with the Virginia east to the beginning. This was a lordly domain, embracing Nashville and the Duck river country which was largely settled up by people from Buncombe County, including some of the Davidsons and General Thomas Love, who moved there about 1830. For it will be remembered in the act of cession of the Tennessee territory it was expressly provided that in the case the lands laid off for “the officers and soldiers of the Continental Line” shall not “contain a sufficient quantity of lands for cultivation to make good the quota intended by law for each, such officer or soldier who shall fall short of his proportion shall make up the deficiency out of the lands of the ceded territory.” But, while preference was given to soldiers in these lands, they were not restricted to them, but could enter and get grants for any other land that was open for such purposes.

Provided that George Jr. did not purchase additional land, which sold for about 5 to 10 cents per acre, we can assume that his total acreage was 640 acres, quite a sizable farm in that day.

James D. “John” Silver

Dover, DE 19901-5723

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22LOVE'S IN AMERICA

Several Loves appeared early in the history of America. The first mention of a Love was that of John Love in Boston in 1635, and then a Richard Love in Virginia in 1642, although no records exist which tie these Loves to our family history.

Records also tell of one Ephraim Love who emigrated from the Ulster area of Ireland about 1740 and after living in Pennsylvania, settled in Orange County (later Augusta County), Virginia. There he was a Captain in the militia (Captain of Foot and Horse), and was prominent in affairs of the community. Some researchers claim he is the father of Samuel6 Love, who begins our Love ancestry, and his brother Joseph. Other researchers claim that is not necessarily so and believe that our Love line may have originated from an even earlier immigrant to the New World.

Although it cannot be said with any certainty that Ephraim was the father of Samuel and his brother, Joseph, it is generally accepted by researchers that Samuel and Joseph were born in America and were of Ulster Scot ancestry.

Samuel Love and Dorcas (Bell) Love on May 22nd, 1766, conveyed to Joseph Love, Samuel's brother, (44 acres, part of) 300 acres on Black Run of Christian's Creek in Augusta County. Joseph already owned land adjoining this. On Feb 6th 1775, Samuel Love and Rachel, his wife, conveyed, by deed, to John Jasper, 265 acres in Augusta County, Joseph being a witness the execution of the deed. Later, and on the same date, appears that Rachel, Samuel's wife, was privily examined before Thomas Douglass, et al, in North Carolina. This was about the time that Samuel was in what is now Hawkins County, Tennessee, then Carter's Valley in North Carolina. Joseph left Augusta County in 1775, and settled in what was afterwards Montgomery County, then Fincastle County, Virginia. After Samuel left Augusta County and located in Fincastle, later Montgomery County, he married this Rachel, whose maiden name is unknown, and by whom it is not recorded or known that he had any children. What became of this Rachel is also unknown. This second marriage will, perhaps, be news to many of his present descendants, although the writer has a very indistinct recollection of having heard something of the kind many years ago. Dorcas (Bell) Love, wife of Samuel, died before he left Augusta County, and William, the youngest child, was taken into the family of the Bells, "South River Bells", and reared. These Bells lived on South Shenandoah, not far from Tinkling Spring Meeting House, and about 10 or 12 miles (east) from Staunton. SOURCE: "Loves of the Valley of Virginia", 1930, by Franklin D. Love.

Both Samuel and Joseph Love were in Montgomery County as late as 1782. That year Samuel died, and his son, Robert, then twenty-two years old, on June 4th 1782, appeared before the County Court of Montgomery County, made bond and qualified as guardian of Samuel's children: James, Thomas, Sarah and Mary, William being with the Bells. Beginning with the early part 1776, at the age of sixteen down to and including 1782, Robert Love, son of Samuel. Was a volunteer soldier in the Revolutionary Was, and, as he states, each time enlisting from Montgomery County, Virginia. In the winter of 1775, and spring of 1776, Samuel and his sons, Robert, James and Thomas, left Montgomery County with the intention of exploring the country southwest, and finding some desirable lands upon which to locate and settle. They settled and planted crops (corn) that Spring at

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23the forks of the Holston, in Carter's Valley, near (Long Island and ) Fort Patrick Henry, in what is now Hawkins (Sullivan) County, Tennessee. They were driven out shortly by the Indians, who raided the settlement, and inflicted injuries to some of the settlers: they later returned and again were driven out by the Indians. This time they returned to their farm in Montgomery County, now Wythe County, and remained, and there Samuel died. On May 8th 1782, Joseph Love, brother of Samuel, with others appeared in open court of Montgomery County, and asked for reimbursement for provisions and equipment furnished himself while on duty in North Carolina to Join Greene (Gen. Nathaniel Greene), which was allowed upon the proof offered the court. On the 15th Nov. 1799, Joseph Love, now of Wythe County, gave a bill of sale to Robert Sayers to a negro man. This is the last record of Joseph Love, brother of Samuel, in Virginia. SOURCE: "Loves of the Valley of Virginia", 1930, by Franklin D. Love.

Samuel Love (ca 1739 Ireland - 1781 Virginia USA): Samuel married Dorcas Bell (ca 1740 Virginia - 1774 Virginia), daughter of James "South River" Bell, in 1759 and shortly after purchased 300 acres on Christian’s Creek, near Tinkling Springs, Virginia. Then, in 1774-5, Samuel and his brother Joseph relocated their families to a plantation in Wythe County, Virginia. It is believed Dorcas died shortly before this relocation.

Later Samuel made two attempts (1775-1777) to relocate his family to Carter’s Valley, Tennessee, but fled both times because of Indian attacks. He returned with his family to his home in Virginia, where he died in 1781.

Samuel and Dorcas had seven children, including Robert and Thomas, both of who were prominent in the early history of Waynesville, North Carolina.

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The Thomas C. Love House Son of Thomas B. Love

Grandson of General Thomas Love

A "massive body of plain folk who were neither rich nor poor," is the way Frank L. Owsley characterized an important segment of southern society in his influential book, Plain Folk of the Old South (1949). These "plain folk" engaged in semi- subsistence open range agriculture with a few of the more adventurous pursuing commercial farming. If some of the plain folk owned slaves, the numbers were never large.

A high level of plain folk achievement in a region where most people accumulated little wealth is found in Webster County (Missouri), in the accomplishments of the Love family. Missouri historian James Denny recounted the Love history when he successfully nominated the fine Col.Thomas C. Love house to the National Register of Historic Places.

Although not stylistically a southern house, the Thomas C. Love house is still the expression of a distinctively southern success story that took shape over three generations. The Love's lifestyle and achievements, while typical of those of the better class of Southern plain folk throughout the upper South, were distinctive within the southwest Missouri region to which they brought their southern folkways. Upon a moderately fertile upland section of the Ozarks highland, the Loves established an outpost of southern culture.

Thomas B. Love, the father of Thomas C., came to the Ozarks from Tennessee in 1842. Middle aged and prosperous, he moved his family to Hazelwood Township, a mile east of Mountain Dale in Webster County. This locale was a major settlement enclave for transplanted Tennesseeans. The Loves located on 600 acres among neighbors who were typically slaveless semi-subsistence farmers with modest [and holdings and valuations. By 1850 few farms in the area had the affluence of the Loves -- 225 improved acres, two dozen each of oxen and horses, four dozen mules, large numbers of other stock, substantial agriculture products -- and some twenty slaves.

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The booming 1850s bolstered the Loves' fortunes. The regional market, Springfield, only thirty five miles away, was visited often. Following Thomas B.'s death in 1852, his widow, Elizabeth, continued to direct the management of the farm. By 1860 the improved acreage had doubled, the farm valuation had tripled to over $9,300, and their livestock was valued at almost $15,000. The Love farm was clearly the largest and most affluent in Hazelwood township and one of the largest in Webster county.

Honor and valor in military service has consistently been admired by southerners. Three generations of Love men actively sought military experience in national conflicts -- the

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25Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. Grandfather General Thomas Love, the father of Thomas B., emigrated from Ireland to North Carolina and became a Colonel in the American Revolution and, later, a general in the Tennessee state militia. The General's eldest son was a colonel in the War of 1812, and a grandson became a lieutenant in the Mexican War. Thomas C. Love and his brother Joseph both joined the Confederacy in defense of their southern homeland.

The defeat of the Confederacy did not stem Thomas C. Love's passion for support of the old southern order. He actively sought monies to improve the Confederate cemetery in Springfield; served as camp commander in his chapter of the United Confederate Veterans; and was elected brigadier-general of the Western Brigade, Missouri Division of Mounted Confederate Veterans.

The Loves' status as veterans improved their opportunities to serve in local and regional political offices in the nineteenth century. The family possessed as a totem a lock of Andrew Jackson's hair, and championed Jacksonian democracy both in Tennessee and in Missouri. General Thomas Love had spent thirty consecutive years in the Tennessee Legislature, including terms as speaker of the house. In the Ozarks, grandson Thomas C. served as Webster County sheriff, circuit clerk and recorder, and, in 1882, was elected state representative. Later, after he moved to Springfield, he received political appointments as deputy collector of internal revenue and as postmaster.

In 1848, when Thomas C. was four years old, his father drafted a will that insured the young son would some day be the master of Love Ridge Farm. Most property was placed under the stewardship of Thomas B.'s wife Elizabeth until Thomas C. could come of age. Following the Civil War, young Thomas C. spent three years in Texas raising cotton, and, while there, married the daughter of another (exiled) southern Missouri family. Elizabeth Love died about 1869, and Thomas C. returned to inherit the Webster County farm and build a new house for his bride. Tradition relates that freed slaves, who stayed with the Loves following the war, provided much of the labor for the expensive new $4,000 house, which was completed in 1869.

Two story brick houses were not common in mid-nineteenth century southwest Missouri. Thomas C. Love chose to build the first consciously stylistic house in Webster County, in a vernacular version of the Italiante style. In the national context, the Love house may not have been in the cultural vanguard, but within its region it was a symbol of innovation and progress.

The house included spare decoration, but has graceful Victorian bracketing, elongated windows with segmental arched heads, interior door and window architraves of built-up half-round moldings, and a straight run main stairs with an octagonal newel post -- all signs of national fashion. Love Ridge House stood in a very real sense as a latter day "big house" in an unlikely place -- Webster County in the rural Ozarks.

By 1870, at age 26, Thomas C. had consolidated his inheritance into a solid diversified farm. His 250 improved acres in a township that averaged thirty acres, and his valuation of $10,000 where the average was less than $900 indicate that the Loves had not suffered crippling losses during the war. During the next decade he added a sizable orchard to his

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Thomas C. served in the legislature in the 1880s and moved his family to Springfield. His five children all became successful in their professions --medicine, veterinary medicine, law, banking, and manufacturing. In 1899 Thomas returned to the farm for a dozen years before moving back to Springfield to live out the rest of his life. In the 1920s Love Ridge Farm passed into another ownership, and became known as the Vollenweider Fruit Farm.

For over seventy years Love Ridge Farm provided another example of that great middling class of southerners, the plain folk, who migrated westward, creating landscapes and founding families upon receding frontiers --frontiers that by the twentieth century were no more.

The Colonel Thomas Love house, Webster County, Missouri, 1869. A fine vernacular house for the time and place, it well expressed the progressive tastes of its owner. It was reputedly the first brick house in the county, and not unlikely the most innovative design: asymmetrical facade and plan, decorative jig-sawn eve brackets, and segmental arches over doors and windows, all somewhat in the fashionable Italianate Style. Yet it was conservative of tradition, too. The gable cornice returns, transom and side lights at the doors, and "carpenter classic" porch columns bespeak connection with the Georgian and Greek Revival Styles, by 1869 old fashioned in the centers of fashion, but still current in the Ozarks.

Lynn Morrow is a public historian who lives in Taney County, and is Consulting Editor for OzarksWatch.

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Jonathan Fairbanks and Clyde Edwin Tuck

Past and Present of Greene County, Missouri

Early and Recent History and Genealogical Records of Many of the Representative Citizens

COL. THOMAS CALVIN LOVE. (Grandson of General Thomas Love) A cheerful and hopeful disposition is a trait of character much to be admired, much to be desired, and one that with most men needs to be cultivated and enlarged. It is absolutely necessary to success in any pursuit in life for man to be hopeful and resourceful. He must not only believe that "all things work together for good," but also have confidence in himself, that he has the ability to bring things to pass. It is easy to be good and cheerful when everything is, running smoothly, when everything seems to be prosperous, when a man is flourishing and spreading himself like a green bay tree. How easy it is then to appear cheerful and happy, but it is often quite another story when the day of adversity comes, the hour of difficulty, failure and disappointed hopes. A man who has endeavored to remain cheerful, optimistic and courageous in both sunshine and storm as he has traversed the winding path of life during his three score and ten years is Thomas. Calvin Love, during his active life a gallant soldier, successful farmer and stock raiser and faithful public servant now living retired in Springfield.

Mr. Love has descended from a fine ancestry of military men and people of the right quality. He was born in what is now Webster county, Missouri, near the town of Seymour, May 17, 1844, and is a son of Thomas Bell and Elizabeth (Barnard) Love. The father was born in Hayward county, North Carolina, on December 27, 1798, and was a son of Gen. Thomas and Martha (Dillard) Love. The mother was born September 27, 1774. Gen. Thomas Love, born November 16, 1776, was a native of Ireland from which country he emigrated to America when a young man and located in North Carolina, and while living there the Revolutionary war began. He unhesitatingly joined in the struggle of the colonists for independence. He was a brave and efficient soldier and for meritorious conduct was promoted until he received a colonel's commission and was given command of a North part of the Carolina regiment. After the war he moved to what is now a part of the state of Tennessee, where he became an officer of the state of Franklin, which was created by an act of the Legislature of the state of North Carolina, and later repealed and made Tennessee. But the governor of the former state refused to obey the ruling of the Legislature of North Carolina, and Gen. Thomas Love, then a general of militia, commanded the troops that captured the obstinate governor of Franklin. General Love served thirty consecutive years in the Legislature of Tennessee. He was speaker of the house during a number of terms. He was during that long period one of the best known and most influential men of Tennessee, and was admired as an army officer a statesman and broad-minded citizen. Perhaps no man did more for the early development of the state in general than he. His long life was spent f or the most part in the service f or others, and he passed away at an advanced age about the year that

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28the subject of this sketch was born. He married a Miss Dillard in Tennessee, and to them nine children were born. His eldest son Robert, born December 31, 1789, was a colonel during the war of 1812 and fought under Gen. Andrew Jackson at the great battle of New Orleans. Thomas B. Love, father of our subject, grew up on the General's plantation in Tennessee and there received such educational advantages as the early-day schools afforded, and he remained in his native state until 1842, when he came to what is now Webster county, Missouri, where he entered six hundred acres of land from the government, which he cleared, improved and on which he established the permanent home of the family, and this land was retained by his children until 1910, when it was sold by our subject. When he was a lad, Thomas B. Love went with a party to assist in provisioning General Jackson's troops on their march back from New Orleans after the close of the war of 1812, and Robert Love, who was a colonel in that army, gave his sword to his younger brother, Thomas B. This highly prized heirloom was stolen from the Love home during the Civil war. Mr. Love did not live to enjoy his new home in the Ozarks long—ten years—dying in 1852. Politically, he was a Democrat and while he was active in party affairs would never accept public office. He owned a lock of General Jackson's hair, which his son, our subject, has sent back to Tennessee, to form a part of the collection of the Historical Society, of that state. Thomas B. Love was an extensive farmer and he owned about twenty-five slaves at the time of his death. He always saw that they had comfortable quarters, were well cared for and was considerate of their every welfare. His wife, Elizabeth Barnard, was born in Buncombe county, North Carolina in the year 1800. To these parents nine children were born. Their oldest son died of measles while on the march to Mexico with the army back in the forties, he having been first lieutenant in a company organized in Springfield, Missouri. The mother was left with a family of small children, which she reared in comfort and respectability. She reached the age of sixty-nine years, dying in 1869.

Thomas C. Love, of this review, grew to manhood on the home farm in Webster county and there received a very meager education in the district schools, but he was preparing to enter college at Columbia, Missouri, when the Civil war began and interfered with his plans. He at once cast his services with the Confederacy, enlisting in July, 1862, in Company F, Third Missouri Cavalry, under General Marmaduke. He was in Arkansas during the early part of the war, and before his enlistment was captured by the Federals and held in jail at Batesville, that state, for five weeks. He proved to be a faithful and brave soldier and saw considerable hard service. On September 10, 1863, while in an engagement near Little Rock, Arkansas, he was shot through the lung and he still carries the bullet in his body. While in the hospital from this wound he was captured by the enemy, but later exchanged and rejoined his command at Camden, that state. He was in engagements at Poison Springs, Jenkins' Ferry, Leg Village, Pine Bluff, all in Arkansas, and the Big Blue in Missouri, and was on the retreat with General Marmaduke when, the latter was captured, but our subject escaped by swimming Mines creek in Kansas, and rejoined his regiment and after a few skirmishes, surrendered with the entire army of the Trans-Mississippi department, at Shreveport, Louisiana, June 8, 1865.

After his discharge from the army Mr. Love went to Texas, where he rented a plantation and devoted his attention to raising cotton for three years, returning to his home in Webster county, Missouri, in 1869, and began farming on the home place, carrying on general farming and stock raising, in fact, traded extensively in live stock, and prospered

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29with advancing years until he became one of the leading farmers of that county. He continued general farming and dealing in live stock until 1892, when he turned his farm into an apple orchard which was fairly successful. He moved to Springfield in 1883 in order to give his children proper educational advantages, but in 1899 moved back to the farm and lived there twelve years, then sold out and returned to Springfield, purchased a good home in which he now lives retired.

Politically, Mr. Love is a Democrat and had been a leader in his party in his earlier years, and he served as representative from Webster county in the state Legislature from 1882 to 1884, in a manner that was highly creditable to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents. Among the notable things which he did while in that office was his assistance in securing the passing of a bill appropriating twelve thousand and five hundred dollars to rebuild the court house and jail at Marshfield, which were destroyed by the cyclone of 1880. From 1885 to 1899 he was deputy collector of internal revenue in Springfield, giving the government satisfaction in every respect. In 1893 he was appointed postmaster at Springfield, and served four years with his usual fidelity to duty, which elicited the hearty commendation of the people and the post office department at Washington.

Mr. Love in his fraternal relations is a member of the Masonic order and the Grange, being for some time quite active in the work of the latter. He is a member of Campbell Camp No. 488, United Confederate Veterans. He is active in the affairs of the same and has been commander of the local camp twice, being the only man ever re-elected to the place, and on September 17, 1914, Mr. Love was elected brigadier-general of the Western Brigade, Missouri Division of Mounted Confederate Veterans.

Mr. Love was married, November 5, 1865, to Sallie J. Rogers, who was born in Texas county, Missouri, November 26, 1846. Her people were refugees to Texas during the Civil war. The death of Mrs. Love occurred May 20, 1912, at Mt. Pleasant, Texas, but was brought to Springfield, where he rests in the beautiful Maple Park cemetery. She was a faithful life companion, devoted to her home and family and was beloved by her many friends for her numerous excellent traits of character.

Seven children, all sons, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Love, five of whom are living at this writing, namely: Dr. Joseph W. Love, a specialist of the eye, ear, nose and throat, of Springfield, was for some time in the medical department of the United States army in the Philippine islands; Dr. Robert B. of Springfield, is one of the leading veterinary physicians of southern Missouri; Thomas B. is a prominent attorney of Dallas, Texas; Ralph M. is a successful banker at Mt. Pleasant, Texas; Edgar P. has built up a large business as a manufacturer in Dallas, Texas.

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30ROBERT B. LOVE, D. V. S. Greene county has never had a more efficient, progressive and popular veterinary physician and surgeon than Dr. Robert B. Love, a man of statewide reputation, who seemed to have a natural aptitude and liking for this calling when a mere boy, and from that time to the present he has left no stone unturned whereby he could advance himself in the same, remaining a close student of everything pertaining to this science, observing, investigating and experimenting. His counsel has been frequently sought by his professional brethren and invariably followed with gratifying results, his advice in any phase of the profession being accepted as unqualified authority. His modernly equipped hospital in Springfield is known to all horsemen in southwest Missouri and he has built up an extensive and lucrative patronage during his long years of residence here. An admirer and expert judge of horses of superior breed he always keeps a number of animals, owning three stallions at this writing which have few peers in the country.

Dr. Love was born in Webster county, Missouri, February 5, 1873. He is a scion of a sterling ancestry, some of the Loves having been distinguished military men in the early wars of the nation and influential citizens of Virginia and Tennessee. He is a son of Thomas C. and Sallie Jane (Rodgers) Love. The father is a retired resident of Springfield, having been a successful farmer in Webster county during the active years of his life, and in that county his birth occurred in 1844, soon after his parents, Thomas B. and Elizabeth (Barnard) Love settled there, having emigrated from Tennessee Thomas B. Love was born in North Carolina and was a son of Gen. Thomas Love, who was a native of Ireland, from which country he emigrated to the United States in old Colonial days and he became a soldier in the Revolutionary war, finally become coroner of a North Carolina regiment. Later he moved into Tennessee and became a general of Militia and a great man there, serving thirty years consecutively in the state legislature. His oldest son, Robert, was a colonel in the War of 1812 and fought under Jackson at New Orleans. The family has always been lovers of liberty and have unhesitatingly taken an active part in the wars in which this country has been involved at various times. Thomas B. Love, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, entered six hundred acres of land upon his arrival in Webster county, and this he cleared and developed and thereon established the permanent home of the family. His son, Thomas C. Love, father of our subject, became owner of the homestead, which he retained up to a few years ago, when he sold it, retiring from active life as a farmer and moving to Springfield, as before indicated. Thomas B. Love owned about two dozen slaves at the time of his death, which occurred in 1852, after a residence of only a decade in the Ozarks. He was a man of humanitarian impulses and was also very considerate in his treatment of his slaves. His family consisted of nine children. The oldest son joined a company for the Mexican war, became a first lieutenant, but died on the march to Mexico. The widow of Thomas B. Love died in 1869. Thomas C. Love, mentioned above, grew to manhood on the home farm in Webster county, and when the Civil war came on he enlisted in the Confederate army, a Missouri cavalry regiment, under General Marmaduke and proved to be a gallant soldier. He still carries a pistol ball received in a battle in Arkansas. He was also in prison on two different occasions for some time. When his brigade was defeated in battle at Mines Creek, Kansas, where General Marmaduke and Cabell and a large number of the men were captured, he made a sensational escape by swimming a dangerous stream, and later joined a reorganized body of the same troops in Texas and served until the close of the war, surrendering at Shreveport, Louisiana, in June, 1865. After the war he devoted three

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31years to the management of a plantation in Texas, raising cotton, then returned to Webster county, Missouri, and carried on general farming and live stock raising until 1892, when he turned his farm into an apple orchard. He first moved to Springfield in 1883 to educate his children, moving back to the farm in 1899, and in 1911 again took up his residence in the Queen City. He was formerly active in the Democratic party and served one term in the state legislature in 1882. In 1893 he was appointed postmaster at Springfield, which office he held four years.

The mother of Dr. Robert B. Love was a daughter of R. W. Rodgers and wife, of Texas county, Missouri. This family is of Scotch-Irish descent and became known in the New World at an early day. The grandfather of Mrs. Love took up his residence in Texas county long before the opening of the Civil war and became an extensive lumberman and well known to the early pioneers of that section. Mrs. Love grew to womanhood in her native locality and received her education in the early schools there. Her death occurred May 20, 1912.

Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Love, namely: Dr. Joseph W., of Springfield; Dr. Robert B., of this sketch; Thomas B., an attorney of Dallas, Texas; Ralph M., a banker, of Mt. Pleasant, Texas; Edgar P., a manufacturer, of Dallas, Texas; two sons died in early life.

Dr. Robert B. Love grew to manhood on the homestead in Webster county and there did his share of the general work when he was a boy. He received his early education in the district schools. He came to Springfield in 1881 and served as money-order clerk at the post office for three and a half years. Prior to that time he spent a term in Drury College, after which he entered the Western Veterinary College at Kansas City, where he made rapid progress and from which institution he was graduated in 1898-1899. He was valedictorian of his class. Returning to Springfield he opened an office and has been engaged in the practice of his profession here ever since, each year showing a further advancement than the preceding. He has maintained the same office all the while, his hospital on Convention Hall avenue is equipped with all up-to-date appliances and apparatus to insure prompt and high-grade service. He has kept fully abreast of the times in his chosen line of endeavor and has long ranked among the leading veterinary physicians and surgeons of the state, and for many years has held the office of deputy state veterinarian of Missouri, having served in this capacity under the past five governors of the state. His long retention is evidence of his ability and satisfaction. In 1899 he took a post-graduate course in the Western Veterinary College. He has had a large practice here from the first, and is often called to various parts of the state on consultation. He was placed in charge of all the territory south of the Frisco lines on the tick-eradication work several years ago.

During the Boer war, Doctor Love was hired by the British government as chief veterinarian in charge of steamship Kelvingrove, which carried a load of mules from New Orleans to Cape Town, South Africa, for the army. He did his work so thoroughly and ably that the English officials complimented him highly, reporting that he had made the best record in transporting animals from New Orleans to South Africa ever made for the British government up to that date. He lost but two mules out of nine hundred and ninety-nine on the entire voyage. While in South Africa Doctor Love was offered a position as

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32chief of veterinary hospital and outfitting army station at Queenstown. After traveling over the southern portion .of the Dark Continent he visited the important cities of England, visiting Paris during the World's Fair in 1900.

Doctor Love was married, July 11, 1894, to Mable M. Williams, who was born in Springfield, December 19, 1873. She is a daughter of John and Julia (Vinton) Williams, a prominent family of this city, the father having been a leading hardware merchant here for many years, but is now living in retirement. A complete sketch of this family appears on another page of this volume to which the reader is respectful referred. Mrs. Love grew to womanhood in this city and received a good education in the local schools. The union of the Doctor and wife has resulted in the birth of three children, namely: Robert W., born July 2, 1896, is attending high school; George McDaniel, born October 18, 1901, is in school; and John Thomas, born March 17, 1905, is also a student.

Politically, Doctor Love is a Democrat, but professional duties have prevented him from taking a very active part in political affairs. Fraternally, he belongs to the Loyal Order of Moose, having passed all the chairs in the local lodge up to dictator. He was brought up in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, the family attending the Christ Episcopal church. For recreation the Doctor formerly devoted considerable time to rod and gun, and is an expert shot, but of late years he has had little time to devote to sportsmanship owing to his extensive practice.

Our subject is an ardent lover of good horses and is an enthusiastic breeder of thoroughbred and saddle horses, and has sold more of them than, perhaps, any other breeder in Missouri. He has often acted as judge at various county fairs within a radius of two hundred miles of Springfield. He is at this writing owner of three of the finest and most valuable stallions in the state, namely: "P. J." 0167, is one of the fastest and best breeding combination stallions, and one that has sired more high-class, level-headed family horses than any other horse in this section, a horse that has shown two-minute speed and possesses unquestionable disposition for which his gets, are also noted. The year book shows that "P. J." was one of the gamest and most successful race horses in his day. He has been shown in almost all the street fairs and show rings in the vicinity of Springfield and has never met defeat. His last appearance was at the Springfield show, October 9, 1909 for combination stallion with five of his gets, competition advertised open to the world. "Peacock Chief" 1585, is the durable saddle stallion that has been advertised without successful contradiction, to show more gaits both under the saddle and in his gets than all the rest of the saddle stallions in Greene county combined. Chief has sired more high-priced saddle colts than any other saddle stallion ever having made a season in Greene county, many of his colts having sold from one thousand to eighteen hundred dollars. "Ilot" 70649 (79746) Percheron stallion, was imported from France for the Charles Holland stock farm, and purchased by Doctor Love in January, 1914, whose pedigree shows him to be one of the richest bred Percheron stallions in the United States, and unquestionably the best stallion for this section ever imported by the Holland stock farm, one of the most noted farms of its kind in the state

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The Love Family (1739 - 1865)

wolf to Love The name Love originated from the word for wolf, which was “Lupsus” in Latin, “Luefs” in French, and became “Lufe” or “Luiff” in old Scottish dialects. In the middle ages the wolf was held in mystical awe, and the name Lupus was a name occasionally given to a warrior to honor his brave deeds. It appears occasionally throughout early history. It was used as a surname in Normandy in the 11th century, and several of that name accompanied William the Conqueror when he invaded England from Normandy in 1066, including a nephew of William’s who was rewarded with an English earldom. After that the name appeared occasionally throughout England, and then Scotland. There is a common thread that seems to tie all together – the coat of arms. Most of those bearing the name Lupus, Lufe, Love, or some similar variation, have had a coat of arms bearing three wolves heads, which would lead one to suspect a common origin for all. A community of Loves had been established in the Glasgow, Scotland area prior to the 1600’s, many of which then emigrated to the Ulster area of Northern Ireland. Loves in America Several Loves appeared early in the history of America. The first mention of a Love was that of John Love in Boston in 1635, and then a Richard Love in Virginia in 1642, although no records exist which tie these Loves to our family history. Records also tell of one Ephraim Love who emigrated from the Ulster area of Ireland about 1740 and after living in Pennsylvania, settled in Orange County (later Augusta County), Virginia. There he was a Captain in the militia (Captain of Foot and Horse), and was prominent in affairs of the community. Some researchers claim he is the father of Samuel6 Love, who begins our Love ancestry, and his brother Joseph. Other researchers claim that is not necessarily so and believe that our Love line may have originated from an even earlier immigrant to the New World. Although it cannot be said with any certainty that Ephraim was the father of Samuel6 and his brother, Joseph, it is generally accepted by researchers that Samuel and Joseph were born in America and were of Ulster Scot ancestry. Samuel5 Love (ca 1739 – 1781): Samuel married Dorcas6 Bell, daughter of James7 “South River” Bell, in 1759 and shortly after purchased 300 acres on Christian’s Creek, near Tinkling Springs, Virginia. Then, in 1774-5, Samuel and his brother Joseph relocated their families to a plantation in Wythe County, Virginia. It is believed Dorcas died shortly before this relocation.

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34Later Samuel made two attempts (1775-1777) to relocate his family to Carter’s Valley, Tennessee, but fled both times because of Indian attacks. He returned with his family to his home in Virginia, where he died in 1781. Samuel and Dorcas had seven children, including Robert5 and Thomas, both of who were prominent in the early history of Waynesville, North Carolina. Robert5 Love (1760 – 1845): Robert was the first child of Samuel6 Love and Dorcas6 Bell, born in Augusta County, Virginia. His mother died when he a was teenager, and after that his father attempted to relocate his family, consisting of seven children, to the frontier of what is now Tennessee. There they experienced Indian attacks, and had to flee to safety. This is when Robert’s military career began. Robert had a long military career, as follows:

1776-1777: at age 16-17, Wagoner in expeditions against the Cherokees in Tennessee, where his family was attempting to settle. 1778: Sergeant stationed at Fort Robertson, Virginia, in expeditions against the Shawnee Indians. 1780: Lieutenant in actions against the Tories, western Virginia and near the Yadkin River, North Carolina. 1781: Lieutenant under General Nathaniel Greene in actions against the British General Cornwallis at Whitsell’s Mill, Haw River, North Carolina. 1782: Lieutenant and Acting Company Officer stationed on the frontier at Fort Robertson, Tennessee. 1788: Colonel in command of North Carolina militia forces in actions against Colonel Sevier and the rebellious State of Franklin. 1788: Colonel in command of a regiment of Washington County men against the Chickamauga Indians.

Late in 1782 Robert moved to the Greasy Cove area in what is now Tennessee. There, in 1783, he married Mary5 Ann Dillard, daughter of Colonel Thomas6 Dillard and Martha6 Webb. He was twenty-three years of age at the time; she was sixteen. The Dillard family was from the same area of Virginia as was the Love family, and it is very possible that the marriage was arranged there by Robert’s father before he died. This was a common practice among prominent families. Shortly before his death in 1784, Col. Thomas Dillard named Robert as the guardian of his younger children. Robert later arranged the marriage of two of his Dillard wards to his own younger brothers. As such, there was quite a melding of the Love and Dillard families. In 1784 Robert was selected to be a representative in the formation of a new State called Franklin and was instrumental in its initial organization efforts. Later, as a member of the North Carolina militia, he was required to lead troops to defeat the rebellious new state.

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35 The Rebellious State of Franklin The State of North Carolina at one time encompassed a large area, extending west of the Blue Ridge Mountains all the way to the Mississippi River. The inhabitants west of the mountains felt they had no support from the State in the form of a court system or a militia, and in fact they did not, and North Carolina even tried at one time to cede these lands back to the U.S. Government so it would not be troubled with them. In 1784 residents of four counties began a movement to establish their own state, to be called Franklin (named in honor of Benjamin Franklin), and to separate from North Carolina. Robert Love was selected as one of the organizational representatives to meet in Jonesborough. A state constitution was adopted and a Governor chosen, the successful Indian fighter, Colonel John Sevier. North Carolina refused to honor the separation and for several years the area found itself ruled by two Governors, with two sets of laws and two taxes. The situation became very testy and the people of Franklin formed their own militia for protection. They even considered seceding from the U.S. and joining with Texas. The North Carolina militia was called out to quell the disturbance. Robert Love was an officer in the militia, and he felt he owed duty to it, even though he was part of the organizational effort to form Franklin, and was sympathetic to its cause. There were battles, but casualties were light on both sides. For his rebellious actions Colonel Sevier was charged with high treason and the State of North Carolina imposed a death by hanging sentence. When the Sevier government collapsed, and Colonel Sevier was about to be captured, he stated that he would surrender only to Colonel Robert Love (despite the fact that Robert Love was not the senior officer in the campaign). He did this knowing that Robert Love was an influential man of much integrity who would act in Sevier’s best interests. And he did. Robert Love was able to save Sevier’s life. After that Sevier raised another small army and this time devoted himself to eliminating Indians from the frontier, to considerable success.

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36 The Great Greasy Cove Horse Race In 1788 Robert Love and Andrew Jackson first crossed paths to near unfortunate consequence. Both were proud young men, to which honor, integrity, pride, and fast horses meant everything. Robert Love was a young man of twenty-eight years. He was a prosperous, politically prominent military man who had recently received much honor when Colonel Sevier surrendered to him to end the war over the rebellious State of Franklin. Andrew Jackson was twenty-one years of age, recently qualified as a lawyer, who had been assigned as Attorney General and Public Prosecutor for the Western District of North Carolina (an area west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which now includes all of Tennessee, and other areas to the Mississippi River). This post had been created largely to placate the inhabitants of the Western District by providing them increased services after their aborted attempt at secession. On his way to Nashville, Andrew Jackson tarried at Jonesborough to take care of some legal work, and there encountered Robert Love. Both men were known to own fine thoroughbred horses – each reputed to be the fastest in the territory. Naturally, pride and youthful competitiveness compelled them to challenge each other to a race. A race date was set and broadly advertised, and people came from miles around to participate in the excitement. The night before much partying and drinking took place. Robert Love found a way to smuggle a bottle of whisky to Jackson’s Negro jockey, while he locked his own in an apple house, away from temptation and distractions, with a guard posted. In the morning, Jackson found that his jockey was in no condition to ride, so Jackson said that he would ride his own horse in the race (although he was not in much better condition than his jockey). A huge crowd was in attendance, there was much betting, and much moonshine consumed. The race was close, but in the end, Robert Love’s horse won. Later, Jackson learned how his jockey got the bottle of whisky. He became incensed and confronted Love and accused him of cheating. Love responded by calling Jackson “a long gangling sorrel topped soap stick” and challenged him to a duel if he did not retract the charge of cheating. Fortunately, wiser and saner minds prevailed. It was apparent that Love was more proficient in the dueling arts than was the youthful Jackson and because of that it would not have been a fair fight. The fight was called off and the two – Robert Love and Andrew Jackson – went on to become lifelong friends.

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37 Robert was Justice of the Peace for Washington County, North Carolina, and also served as a member of the North Carolina Convention of 1788 which ratified the Constitution of the United States. He was elected to represent Washington County in the North Carolina Legislature in November, 1789. When the area in which he lived was separated from North Carolina and became a territory of the United States in 1790, he became a Justice of the Peace of the territory, called the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio. In 1792 he moved east of the Great Smoky mountains to the Mount Prospect area, Buncombe County, North Carolina. There he represented Buncombe/Haywood County, North Carolina, as a member of the Electoral College that selected the President and Vice-President of the United States in the years 1800 (election of Thomas Jefferson) through 1828 (election of Andrew Jackson). He was elected to represent Buncombe County in the North Carolina State Senate for the years 1793, 1794, and 1795. When Haywood County was formed from Buncombe County in 1808, Robert Love suggested the county seat be built on land he owned. His suggestion was approved. He laid out the town, and named it Waynesville, in honor of General Mad Anthony Wayne of Revolutionary War fame. Robert became a qualified land surveyor, which in those days was an honorable and lucrative profession (another surveyor of his time who amassed considerable wealth and fame was George Washington). Through his surveying activities he became aware of land speculation opportunities, and he was also sometimes compensated for his surveying services with the payment of land. From these activities he became one of the wealthiest men in North Carolina. In 1830, he was one of two commissioners responsible for establishing the boundary line between Louisiana, Arkansas, Mexico, and Texas. In 1832 he was appointed by Andrew Jackson as a surveyor for establishing the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, but he declined as he was past his seventy-second birthday and did not feel his health would permit him to undertake the project. Late in his life, in 1839 when he was 79 years of age, Robert was having difficulty receiving the pension due him for his Revolutionary War services. He appealed to his friend, the former President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, to assist him. Andrew Jackson wrote the following letter on Robert’s behalf:

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38Hermitage October 12th, 1839 Dear Sir: Your letter of the 26th ultimo has just been received, its contents being duly noted, I hasten to reply to it. I sincerely regret to find from the contents of your letter the treatment which that worthy man & patriot, Col. Robert Love, has received at the hands of the pension office - that a man who thro life has sustained such an exemplary character, his honesty, & probity should be suspected, in his decline of life, must be truly mortifying to him, as well as to the people of North Carolina who have shown by their repeated acts of confidence in him, their high estimation of his moral worth. As you have requested, it gives me pleasure to state my knowledge of Col. Robert Love. I became acquainted with him in North Carolina. I think in the fall of 1784, and have known him ever since and hazzard nothing in saying that no man in this union has sustained a higher reputation for integrity, than Col. Robert Love, with all men and with all parties. Altho himself a uniform Democratic-Republican, and no man stands diservidly higher, as a man of great moral worth, than Col. Love's has always stood, in the estimation of all who know him - that his integrity should, in his old age, be doubted must be a source of mortification, not only to himself, but to every man in No. Carolina, where he has been so often honored by this confidence, as a public character. I am with great respect yr. mo. obediant servant.

Andrew Jackson

When seventy-four years of age he was kicked in the hip by a horse and so crippled that he had to use a crutch the rest of his life. Before this accident he had ridden a horse or traveled about in a gig, which was a light, two-wheeled one horse carriage designed for speed. After he became crippled, he used a more sedate barouche, which was a four-wheeled carriage with a coachman and drawn by two horses. As a very wealthy and influential man he had worn a powdered wig on formal occasions in his earlier years, and he maintained his old-fashioned attire, except for the wig, after fashions changed, wearing a blue swallow-tail and knee britches with silver knee buckles and silk stockings. His wife, Mary Ann Dillard, died in 1842. Robert died three years later, at age eighty-four. Largely because of his landholdings, his estate was one of the largest ever probated in North Carolina. Shortly before his death or in his will he gave each of ten children at least 500 acres of land, in addition to slaves. Twenty-six of his slaves were auctioned off after his death. Mary4 Ann Love (1805 - 1865): Mary Ann was the eleventh child of Robert5 Love and Mary5 Ann Dillard. In 1820, when she was not yet fifteen years of age, she married twenty-four year old William4 Welch. Two years prior to his marriage to Mary Ann, William had married her older sister, Martha, but Martha died one year later.

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39 ROBERT LOVE. He was born near the Tinkling Spring Meeting house, Augusta county, Va., May 11, 1760. His father was Samuel, on of Epbraim Love, captain of the Colonial Horse; and his mother Dorcas, second daughter of James Bell, to whom had been issued on the formation of Augusta county, October 30, 1745, a "commission of the Peace."[9] Samuel Love and Dorcas Bell were married July 3, 1759. Robert Love was christened by Rev. John Craig, who was pastor of the Tinkling Spring church from 1740 to 1764.[10] It was at this old church that the eloquent James Waddell, afterwards immortalized by Wm. Wirt, was pastor for several years, though he did not become "The Blind Preacher" till after the Revolutionary War and he had removed to Gordonsville, his blindness having been caused by cataract. Robert Love's pension papers show11 that he was on the expedition under Col. Christie in 1776 against the Cherokees; that he was at Fort Henry on Long Island of the Holston in 1777; that he was stationed in 1778 at the head of the Clinch and Sandy rivers (Fort Robertson), and operated against the Shawnees from April to October; that from 1779 to 1780 he was engaged against the Tories on Tom's creek, New River, and Cripple creek, at Moravian Old Town, and at the Shallow ford of the Yadkin, under Col. Wm. Campbell; that in 1781 he was engaged in Guilford county "and the adjoining county" against Cornwallis, and "was in a severe battle with his army at Whitesell mill and the Rudy ford of the Haw river, under Gen. Pickens; that from this place, with Capt. Wm. Doach, he was sent back "from the rendezvous at the Lead Mines to collect and bring more men;" that in 1782 he "was again stationed out on the frontiers of the Clinch, at Fort Robertson...from June to October." He was living in Montgomery, now Wythe county, Va., when he entered the service in 1776, and after the Revolutionary War, his parents being dead, he moved with Wm. Gregory and his family to Washington county, N. C. (now Tennessee), in the fall of 1782. Having moved to Greasy Cove, now Erwin Tenn., he married Mary Ann Dillard, daughter of Col. Thomas Dillard of Pittsylvania county, Va., on the 11th day of September, 1783; and on the 5th of April, 1833, he made application for a pension under the act of Congress of June 7, 1832, attaching his commission signed by Ben. Harrison, governor of Virginia; but, a question having arisen as to the date of this commission Andrew Jackson wrote from The Hermitage on October 12,1837, to the effect that he had known Col. Love since the fall of 1784, and that there "is no man in this Union who has sustained a higher reputation for integrity than Col. Robert Love, with all men and with all parties, although himself a uniform democratic Republican, and that no man stands deservedly higher as a man of great moral worth than Col. Love has always stood in the estimation of all who knew him." Even this endorsement, however, did not serve to secure the pension; but when E. H. McClure of Haywood filed an affidavit to the effect that the date of the commission was 1781 or 1782, official red-tape had no other refuge, and granted the pension. He was a delegate to the Greenville convention of the State of Franklin, December 14, 1784, and voted to adopt the constitution of North Carolina instead of that proposed by Sam Houston.[12] In 1778 he was engaged against the Chickamauga Indians as colonel of a regiment operating near White's fort.[11] He also drew a pension from the State Colonial Records, Vol. xxii, p.74). He and John Blair represented Washington county (formerly the State of Franklin) in the. North Carolina legislature in November, 1889 (Ibid., Vol. xxi, p. 194). Later in the same session John Sevier appeared and was sworn in as an additional representative from the same county (Ibid., pp. 58~85). Love was also a justice of peace for Washington county in October, 1788. (Ibid., Vol. xxii, p. 702); and the journal of the North Carolina State convention for the ratification of the constitution of the United States shows that Robert Love, Landon Carter, John Blair, Wm. Houston and Andrew Green were delegates, and that Robert Love voted for its adoption. (Ibid., Vol. xxii, pp. 36, 39, 47, 48). He moved to Buncombe county, N. C., as early as 1792, and represented that county in 1793, 1794, 1795 14 in the State Senate. According to the affidavit of his brother, Gen. Thos. Love, Robert Love "was an elector for president and vice-president when Thomas Jefferson was elected, and has been successively elected ever since, down to (and including) the election of the present chief magistrate, Andrew Jackson."[15] This affidavit is dated April 6, 1833. In a letter from Robert Love to William Welch, dated at Raleigh, December 4, 1828, he says that all the electors were present on the 3d "and gave their votes in a very dignified manner and before a very large concourse of people," the State House being crowded.[16] Fifteen cannon were fired

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40"for the number of electoral votes and one for the county of Haywood, and for the zeal she appeared to have had from the number of votes for the Old Hero's Ticket. It was submitted to me to bring forward a motion to proceed to ballot for a president of the United States ...and of course you may be well assured that I cheerfully nominated Andrew Jackson.... I was much gratified to have that honor and respect paid me. From the most authentic accounts..... Adams will not get a vote south of the Potomac or west of the mountains. Wonderful what a majority! For Jackson 178 and Adams only 83, leaving Jackson a majority of 95 votes. So much for a bargain and intrigue."[17] The reason for firing an extra gun for Haywood county was because that county had cast a solid vote for Robert Love as elector for Andrew Jackson, such staunch Whigs as William Mitchell Davidson and Joseph Cathey having induced their fellow Whigs to refrain from voting out of regard for their democratic friend and neighbor, Robert Love. He carried the vote to Washington in a gig that year. He named the town of Waynesville for his friend "Mad" Anthony Wayne, with whom he had served at Long Island during the Revolution. In 1821 he was one of the commissioners who ran the boundary line between North Carolina and Tennessee from Pigeon river south. On the 14th day of July, 1834, he was kicked on the hip by a horse while in Green county, Tenn., and so crippled that he had to use a crutch till his death.[18] The gig, too had to be given up for a barouche, drawn by two horses and driven by a coachman. His cue, his blue swallow-tailed coat, and knee breeches with silver knee-buckles and silk stockings are remembered yet by a few of the older people. He died at Waynesville, July 17, 1845," loved by his friends and feared by his enemies."[19] He was largely instrumental in having Haywood county established, became its first clerk, defeating Felix Walker for the position; and in 1828, he wrote to Wm. Welch (December 4) from Raleigh: "The bill for erecting a new county out of the western part of Burke and northeastern part of Buncombe after severe debate fell in the house of commons, on its second reading by a majority against it of three only. The bill for the division of Haywood county was passed the senate the third and last reading by a majority of seven; and, I suppose, tomorrow it will be taken up in the house of commons and in a few days we will know its fate. I do not like the division line, but delicacy closes my mouth for fear its being construed that interest was my motive." [20] He left an estate which "at one time was one of the largest estates in North Carolina." 21 "He acquired great wealth and died respected, leaving a large fortune to his children." He was the founder of Waynesville. "Besides the sites for the public square, court-house and jail, land for the cemetery and several churches was also the gift of Col. Love." Of him and his brother Thomas, Col. Allen T. Davidson said:[22] "These two men were certainly above the average of men, and did much to plant civilization in the county where they, lived, and would have been men of mark in any community

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41 GENERAL THOMAS LOVE. He was a brother of Robert Love, and was born in A[u]gusta county, Va., November 15, 1765. The date of his death is not accurately known, as he removed to Maury county, Tenn., about 1833.22 Prof. W. C. Allen, in his "Centennial of Haywood County", says (p.55) that he was a soldier of the Revolution, and served under Washington," but this must have been towards the close of that struggle, as he could not have been quite eleven years of age on the 4th of July, 1776.24 At the close of that war, however, "he went to East Tennessee and was in the Sevier-Tipton war when the abortive State of Franklin was attempted." [25] Ramsey's "Annals of Tennessee" (p. 410) records the fact that on one occasion one of Tipton's men had captured two of Sevier's sons, and would have hanged them if Thomas Love had not argued him out of his purpose. He was one of Tipton's follow'ers, but he showed Tipton the unworthiness of such an act. "He came to what is now Haywood county about the year 1790. When Buncombe was formed in 1791 he became active in the affairs of the new county," continues Prof. Allen. In 1797 he was elected to the house of commons from Buncombe, and was re-elected till 1808, when Haywood was formed, largely through his efforts. There is a tradition[26] that in 1796 he had been candidate against Philip Hoodenpile who represented Buncombe in the commons that year, but was defeated. For Hoodenpile could play the violin, and all of Love's wiles were powerless to keep the political Eurydices from following after this fiddling Orpheus. But Love bided his time, and when the campaign of 1797 began he charged Hoodenpile with showing contempt for the common herd by playing the violin before them with his left hand; whereas, when he played before "the quality," as Love declared, Hoodenpile always performed with his right hand. This charge was repeated at all the voting places of the county, which bore such significant names as Upper and Lower Hog Thief, Hardscrabble, Pinch Stomach, etc. Hoodenpile who, of course, could play only with his left hand, protested and denied; but the virus of class-feeling had been aroused, and Hoodenpile went down in defeat, never to rise again, while Love remained in Buncombe. "From the new county of Haywood General Love was one of the first representatives, the other having been Thomas Lenoir. Love was continuously re-elected from Haywood till 1829, with the exception of the year 1816. Who it was that defeated him that year does not appear, though John Stevenson and Wm. Welch were elected to the house and Hodge Raborne to the senate. This Hodge Raborne was a man of influence and standing in Haywood county, he having been elected to the senate not only in 1816, but also from 1817 to 1823, inclusive, and again in 1838; but whether it was he or John Stevenson who defeated Thomas Love, or whether he ran that year or no, cannot now be determined. [27] William Welch was a nephew by marriage of Thomas Love, and it is not likely that he opposed him. Gen. Love moved to Macon county in 1830, where his wife died and is buried in the Methodist church yard of the town of Franklin. He was one of the commissioners for North Carolina who ran the line between this State and South Carolina in 1814.28 "He resided in Macon for several years, and then removed to the Western District of Tennessee; was elected to the legislature from that State, and was made presiding officer of the senate. He was a man of very fine appearance, more than six feet high, very popular, and a fine electioneer. Many amusing stories are told of him, such as carrying garden seeds in his pocket, and distributing them" with his wife's special regards to the voter's wife. 29 His service in the legislature for such an unprecedented length of time was due more to his genial manner and electioneering methods, perhaps, than to his statesmanship; though, unless he secured what the voters most desired he would most probably have been retired from public life. He never was so retired

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Organization of Cherokee Lands, 1820

On February 27, 1819, chiefs of the Cherokee Nation signed a treaty ceding a portion of their remaining eastern lands. The new North Carolina territory stretched from the former treaty line (the old Meigs-Freeman line) to the ridge of the Nantahala Mountains, and from the Georgia & South Carolina borders on the south to the Tennessee line on the north.

The State of North Carolina appointed James Meabin and Jesse Franklin as Commissioners in charge of organizing the large territory. They hired Captain Robert Love of Waynesville to head the survey party.

Chief of the Surveyors

Captain Robert Love of Waynesville is said to have been a hero of the War of 1812. His father, Gen. Thomas Love, was a vigorous frontiersman who served 20 years in the North Carolina legislature.

The Love family played a colorful and controversial role in the settling of the frontier. They also figured prominently in the first N.C. novel, Eoneguski, or the Cherokee Chief, set partly in Macon County.

Work of the Love Survey Party

The work began with the division of the huge area into 18 districts. Each was assigned to one of five or six survey crews for mapping. The districts were further divided into tracts or sections, which were offered to the public through land grants.

Each section offered for sale contained 50 to 300 acres. Each included some good farm land and timber land.

The survey party produced a huge map, one copy of which was posted in the Haywood County courthouse prior to the first land sale. The sale began Sept. 20, 1820 and continued for several weeks. Other sales were held in Franklin in 1822 and 1823.

The survey party chose the site of Franklin, which was destined to become the county seat. The town site occupied 400 acres in sections 24 and 32 of district 16. It was named for Commissioner Jesse Franklin, a prominent statesman who became governor of North Carolina in 1820.

Because of high demand for land, prices were set to bring in a good profit. No land could be sold for less than 50 cents per acre. Grade 1, the best, sold for $4 per acre; grade 2 for $2 and grade 3 for $1. Buyers could pay one-eighth down and the rest in four annual payments, with a discount offered for early payment. Grants were to be issued after the state received the full purchase price.

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The following images tell the story of the Robert Love Survey of 1820. A reproduction of the map

produced during the survey is on permanent display at the Macon County Historical Museum, in Franklin, NC.The Robert Love Survey covered parts of what are today Macon, Jackson, Swain and

Transylvania Counties, in Western North Carolina. The lands covered by the survey were obtained from the Cherokee Indians by the Treaty of 1819.

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2) The Robert Love Survey was a very important event in the history of Macon County. Many current residents of the county live on land that was covered by the survey or have ancestors who first settled in the area at the time of the survey.

3) The survey took place between April and June 1820. The surveyed lands were divided into 18 districts. A total of 656 individual tracts were laid out during the survey, with the tracts ranging in size from 50 to 300 acres. The surveyors rated each tract according to its perceived quality. First quality lands were subsequently sold at auction for a minimum of $4 per acre, second quality lands were sold for a minimum of $3 per acre and third quality lands were sold for a minimum of $2 per acre.

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4) The surveyors kept notes describing each property that they laid out. In these notes, they described the boundaries of each property and in some cases noted the presence of springs, potential mill sites, or other natural features of the property. Distances in the Robert Love Survey were measured in “poles.” One pole equaled 16.5 feet, and 320 poles equaled one mile. The surveyors also recorded the names of any person who was occupying the land. More than 150 settlers had already moved into the region by the time of the survey.

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The Treaty of 1819 allowed those Cherokee heads of households who wished to remain on the ceded lands to take individual 640 acre personal reservations. Fifty-one reservations were laid out. Most of the Cherokee reservees were only able to retain their reservations a short time before they were displaced by encroaching settlers. However, many of the former reservees remained in the area and formed the core of what became the Eastern Band of Cherokee.

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6) The surveyors produced three copies of a map showing the locations of the tracts that were laid out during the survey, but only two of these maps are known to survive. The original maps measured approximately 11 feet long and 8.5 feet high. A copy of a small portion of one of the original maps is shown to the right. All of the original documents associated with the Robert Love Survey are housed in the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh.

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LITTLE ABOUT THE LOVE NAME: WOLF TO LOVE The name Love originated from the word for wolf, which was "Lupsus" in Latin, "Luefs" in French, and became "Lufe" or "Luiff" in old Scottish dialects. In the middle ages the wolf was held in mystical awe, and the name Lupus was a name occasionally given to a warrior to honor his brave deeds. It appears occasionally throughout early history. It was used as a surname in Normandy in the 11th century, and several of that name accompanied William the Conqueror when he invaded England from Normandy in 1066, including a nephew of William's who was rewarded with an English earldom. After that the name appeared occasionally throughout England, and then Scotland. There is a common thread that seems to tie all together - the coat of arms. Most of those bearing the name Lupus, Lufe, Love, or some similar variation, have had a coat of arms bearing three wolves heads, which would lead one to suspect a common origin for all. A community of Loves had been established in the Glasgow, Scotland area prior to the 1600's, many of which then emigrated to the Ulster area of Northern Ireland. LOVE'S IN AMERICA Several Loves appeared early in the history of America. The first mention of a Love was that of John Love in Boston in 1635, and then a Richard Love in Virginia in 1642, although no records exist which tie these Loves to our family history. Records also tell of one Ephraim Love who emigrated from the Ulster area of Ireland about 1740 and after living in Pennsylvania, settled in Orange County (later Augusta County), Virginia. There he was a Captain in the militia (Captain of Foot and Horse), and was prominent in affairs of the community. Some researchers claim he is the father of Samuel Love, who begins our Love ancestry, and his brother Joseph. Other researchers claim that is not necessarily so and believe that our Love line may have originated from an even earlier immigrant to the New World. Although it cannot be said with any certainty that Ephraim was the father of Samuel and his brother, Joseph, it is generally accepted by researchers that Samuel and Joseph were born in America and were of Ulster Scot ancestry. SOURCE: "Family Love"

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Genealogical Connection of Our Cunningham Clan As Descendants of Nigelli Luf

Generation No. 1

1. Nigelli Luf was born 1420 in possibly SCOTLAND, and died 1492 in Paisley, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND. His spouse is unknown at this time. In American his name would be NEIL or NIGEL LOVE. At this time, it seems that we can learn nothing further about Nigelli Luf's parentage. Since these people were mostly common folk, their ancestry is probably lost to history. Also, please remember that most of these dates are approximate and some are unproven. Please do your own researching if there is doubt. Children of Nigelli Luf are: + 2 i. Johanni (John Love) Luf, born 1440 in Paisley, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND; died 1520 in Lochwinnoch Parish, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND. *Our Direct Lineage* 3 ii. Thome (Thomas Love) Luf, born 1442 in Paisley, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND; died Unknown in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. 4 iii. Allane (Allan Love) Luf, born 1448 in Paisley, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND; died Unknown. 5 iv. Simoni (Simon Love) Luf, born 1450 in Paisley, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND; died Unknown in Auchinames, Kilbarchan Parish, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND. 6 v. Patricium (Patrick Love) Luf, born 1452 in Paisley, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND; died Unknown in Overtoun, Kilbarchan Parish, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND. 7 vi. Wilelmo (William Love) Luf, born 1454 in Paisley, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND; died Unknown in Auchinames, Kilbarchan Parish, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND.

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Generation No. 2

2. Johanni Luf (John Love) (Nigelli (Neil or Nigel Love)1) was born 1440 in Paisley, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND, and died 1520 in Lochwinnoch Parish, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND. His spouse is unknown at this time. The name JOHANNI LUF or LUIFF in our language translates to JOHN LOVE. There is no written proof that JOHANNI LUF (1st generation JOHN LOVE) is the father of JOHANNIS LUIFE (2nd generation). In this time frame there are NO church registers for baptisms or marriages. There are NO town council minutes that have survived. There are NO testaments (wills) for the common people. So the following has to be based on "probabilities " and "possibilities" with considerable circumstantial evidence. Every mention of LUF discussed below is found in Court Records, Charters, Rental Rolls of the Monastery of Paisley, Chartulary of Paisley or in the books by 18th and 19th century historians who must have found their information in these same sources. JOHANNI LUF (1st generation) was leasing land in 1460 from the Monastery of Paisley. It was on the outskirts of Paisley in Snawdoun which they called the "outfields". It appears he was the son of NIGELLI LUF who was leasing land at the same time in the same place. The reason for assuming NIGELLI was the father is because they were both still in Paisley in 1488 but by 1500 JOHANNI had gone down to Moniabroch in Lochwinnoch Parish. But there is no further mention of NIGELLI so I am assuming he had died and had been older than JOHANNI. Paisley was granted the status of a Burgh in 1488 and both JOHANNI and NIGELLI are shown as a Burgess. The granting of a Burgh status was extemely important to a town and it is thoroughly explained in the biographical notes for JHONE LUIFE (3 generation) in connection with Glasgow. Children of Johanni (John Love) Luf are: + 8 i. Johannis (John Love) Luiff, born 1492 in Lochwinnoch Parish, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND; died 1564 in Govan, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. *Our Direct Lineage* 9 ii. Walter Luiff, born 1494 in Lochwinnoch Parish, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND; died in Govan, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. 10 iii. Alexander Luiff, born 1496 in Lochwinnoch Parish, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND; died in Govan, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND.

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51Generation No. 3

8. Johannis Luiff (John Love) (Johanni (John Love)2 Luf, Nigelli (Neil or Nigel Love)1) was born 1492 in Lochwinnoch Parish, County Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND, and died 1564 in Govan, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. His spouse is unknown. This JOHANNIS LUIFE is a particularly mysterious supposed ancestor. We only have one specific mention of him. He is shown as being a tenant in Govan in the Barony of Glasgow in 1527. Govan is on the south side of the River Clyde at Glasgow. Of course it long since has been swallowed up by Glasgow and is now shown as one of their suburbs. The population of Glasgow at this time was only about 4500 men, women and children. It appears JOHANNIS LUIFE arrived in Govan from Lochwinnoch Parish and his supposed father was JOHANNI LUF who had been leasing land from the Monastery in several locations in Lochwinnoch Parish since circa 1500. There is one other tiny bit of evidence which connects this JOHANNIS LUIFE to that area. In 1586 in a "Security Paper" it shows that ROBERT LUFE, the younger of Corselet, Kilbarchan Parish, was married to MARGARET LUIFE, daughter of ROBERT LUIFE, of Govan. This ROBERT LUIFE was the son of this JOHANNIS LUIFE of Govan. Children of Johannis Luiff and unknown are: + 11 i. Jhone Luiff, (John Love) "The Elder", born 1540 in Govan, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND; died August 1595 in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. 12 ii. James Luiff, born 1556 in Govan, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND; died in SCOTLAND. + 13 iii. Robert Luiff, born 1550 in Govan, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND; died in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. *Our Direct Lineage*

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52Generation No. 4

13. Robert Luiff (Johannis (John Love)3, Johanni (John Love)2 Luf, Nigelli (Neil or Nigel Love)1) was born 1550 in Govan, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND, and died in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. He married Margaret Luife 1576 in Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND, daughter of Robert Luf. She was born in SCOTLAND, and died in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. NOTE: Margaret was a cousin. Children of Robert Luiff and Margaret Luife are: + 19 i. William Luiff, born 1580 in Govan, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND; died 1645 in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. *Our Direct Lineage* 20 ii. Elizabeth Luiff, born 1581 in Govan, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND; died 1614 in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. She married William Rodger Bet. 1594 - 1614 in SCOTLAND; born Bet. 1530 - 1590 in possibly SCOTLAND; died Unknown in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. 21 iii. John Luiff, born 1582 in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND; died in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. 22 iv. James Luiff, born 1583 in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND; died Abt. 1607 in Threipwood, County Ayrshire, SCOTLAND. He married Barbara Stewart Abt. 1605 in County Ayrshire, SCOTLAND; born 1587 in Threipwood, County Ayrshire, SCOTLAND; died Abt. 1607 in Threipwood, County Ayrshire, SCOTLAND.

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19. William Luiff (Robert (Love)4, Johannis (John Love)3, Johanni (John Love)2 Luf, Nigelli (Neil or Nigel Love)1) was born 1580 in Govan, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND, and died 1645 in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. He married Janet Walker 1600 in Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. She was born 1581 in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND, and died 1656 in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND. We have a firm starting base with proof that WILLIAM LOVE arrived in County Tyrone at the beginning of the "Plantation of Ulster" by King James I. He is shown in the Patent Rolls as receiving his Denization (Citizenship) from King James I on 9 July 1616. Anyone who had been born before 1603 when King James became King of England as well as Scotland, did not receive automatic citizenship in Ireland. Rev. David Stewart in an article in Familia Magazine Volume 11 states WILLIAM LOVE settled in County Tyrone even though the Denization lists do not show an actual place of settlement. Even more helpful are the lists made by Sir William Betham. In his list for 1615 he shows WILLIAM LOVE with 18 other men arriving in County Tyrone. Two of the other men are WILLIAM and JAMES CUNNINGHAM who we know ended up in Donaghedy Parish. Two of the other men on the list are MATTHEW CRAWFORD and JAMES HAMILTON who are shown as servants of JAMES HAMILTON, EARL of ABERCORN. The original reference to the Patent Rolls is in PRONI file T 808/9445. Before he left Scotland WILLIAM LOVE was Deacon of the Skinners Guild in 1605 when he attended a meeting of the Burgh Council. He was representing the Skinners Guild. This is shown in a book by John McUre published in 1736 called "A View Of The City Of Glasgow". This rare book is in my library. JOHN LOVE died in Strabane, County Tyrone on 14 May 1629. In the will Index by Phillimore it states this is the death date and not the date the will was probated. My WILLIAM LOVE was a witness to the will. JOHN LOVE may have been a younger brother of WILLIAM LOVE but I don't think so for the reasons given below. I believe he was a son of WILLIAM LOVE. WILLIAM was the son of JHONE LUIFE the elder, of Glasgow. His mother was MARGARET PUDZEANE. The father died before 1611 and the mother before 1613. These details are shown in the testament filed for MARGARET PUDZEANE in the Commissariat of Glasgow dated 8 May 1613. Also shown in LDS film # 046892. Copy is in my files.

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River Foyle at Donnalong in Donaghedy Parish, County Tyrone,

Ireland. This is where our William Luife landed on his arrival from Scotland in 1615. At that time there was a fort here but no signs of it

remain. County Donegal is across the river.

Children of William Luiff and Janet Walker are: 23 i. William Love, born 1601 in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND; died Unknown. 24 ii. John Love, born 1603 in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND; died May 14, 1629 in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND. 25 iii. Matthew Love, born 1605 in Glasgow, County Lanarkshire, SCOTLAND; died Unknown. + 26 iv. Robert Love, born 1630 in Cooly, County Tyrone, IRELAND; died 1684 in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND.

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26. Robert Love(William (Love)5 Luiff, Robert (Love)4, Johannis (John Love)3, Johanni (John Love)2 Luf, Nigelli (Neil or Nigel Love)1) was born 1630 in Cooly, County Tyrone, IRELAND, and died 1684 in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND. He met Agnes Matthews Abt. 1650 in never married -- IRELAND. She was born 1631 in Cooly, County Tyrone, IRELAND, and probably died in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND. ROBERT LOVE was a merchant in Strabane in 1655. It is not known whether this meant having a shop on Main or Market Streets. There were only about 500 people in Strabane at that time which would include men, women and children. In my files are photographs of both these streets as they appear in 1999 when my daughter Carole and I visited Strabane. Also a map of Strabane from 1909 and it indicates the areas where his shop was probably located. ROBERT LOVE had a son baptized in Derry Cathedral on 24 December 1655. He named the son ROBERT but the baby was illegitimate and the mother was shown as AGNES MATHEWS. This ROBERT baptized in 1655 could be the same ROBERT LOVE who appeared in the Administrative Papers in 1684 when his wife CATHERINE GRANGER applied to represent their 5 minor children when ROBERT died. The fact the children were all minors would tie in with the father dying so young. However there is no proof to this connection. Children of Robert Love and Agnes Matthews are: + 27 i. Robert Love, born December 1655 in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND; died August 03, 1722 in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND. *Our Direct Lineage* 28 ii. Alexander Love, born 1663 in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND. + 29 iii. John Love, born 1670 in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND; died December 10, 1724 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Colony (now USA).

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27. Robert Love (Robert6, William (Love)5 Luiff, Robert (Love)4, Johannis (John Love)3, Johanni (John Love)2 Luf, Nigelli (Neil or Nigel Love)1) was born December 1655 in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND, and died August 03, 1722 in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND. He married Catherine Granger Abt. 1680 in Coolmaghery Townland, County Tyrone, IRELAND. She was born Abt. 1655 in IRELAND, and died in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND. Children of Robert Love and Catherine Granger are: + 30 i. Robert Love, born 1683 in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND; died 1758 in Ballyfoliard Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND. + 31 ii. Matthew Love, born 1695 in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND; died in possibly IRELAND. + 32 iii. Ephraim Love, born 1695 in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND; died 1798 in Rockingham County, Virginia USA. *Our Direct Lineage*

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32. Ephraim Love (Robert7, Robert6, William (Love)5 Luiff, Robert (Love)4, Johannis (John Love)3, Johanni (John Love)2 Luf, Nigelli (Neil or Nigel Love)1) was born 1695 in Strabane, County Tyrone, IRELAND, and died 1798 in Rockingham County, Virginia USA. He married Mary Donovan April 07, 1720 in Dublin, County Dublin, IRELAND; daughter of Pierce Donovan and Jane unknown. She was born March 19, 1699 in Dublin, County Dublin, IRELAND, and died Bet. 1738 - 1799 in County Antrim, IRELAND or Virginia USA. Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, June 1990, vol vii, p. 252; "Ephriam Love came from Lancaster County, PA to Augusta County prior to 1750 and settled at the head of Muddy Creek in the present county of Rockingham about 8 miles NW of Harrisonburg. During the French and Indian War he commanded a company of Augusta county militia and on Sept. 2 1760, Daniel Calhoun and Major Calhoun were members of his company." AUGUSTA MEN IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR Beginning in 1753 war raged along the frontier of VA, for more than 10 years. War in its most horrible form, for it was war waged with a savage people of the most cruel nature, encouraged and aided by one of the most civilized nations of Europe. This was the French and Indian War; the traditions of whose ambuscades, butcheries and scalpings are yet repeated by the descendents of those Scotch-Irish pioneers of Augusta, which at that time extended from the Great Lakes on the north of Tennessee on the south and the Mississippi on the west. It is seen that the present state of West Virginia was therefore a part of that county. A large part of West Virginia was peopled by growth westward of the Augusta settlements, and so it may be of interest to West Virginians to learn something of their warrior ancestors. The battles, if they may be called such, and the isolated murders of this war with its other horrors have been so well written up by Hon. Jos. A. Waddell in his Annuals of Augusta County, that I shall not attempt to touch upon that part of the war. Some one probably asks, what then is left to tell. It may be answered, the names of those who had part in the war. In this day of patriotic societies, such as Sons of Colonial Wars, sons of the Revolution, etc. and ancestor hunting, a list of soldiers of those early days is welcomed warmly by a great many people who have not the opportunity themselves of searching original records or rare old books for the military record of some ancestor.

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59 In Richmond is a great mass of certificates of soldiers who proved their services in the French and Indian War, and received grants of land from Virginia inn payment thereof. Volume Seven of Huming's Statutes at Large of Virginia, which has been out of print since 1820, from the so called Preston Register, a part of the Draper historical collection belonging to the Wisconsin Historical Society. This list was printed in the VA Historical Magazine in 1894, and in the Annals of Augusta Co in 1902. The Loves are included in the list.

In Sept 1758, the House of Burgesses appropriated L20,000 to settle the arrears in the pay of militia, that had been engaged in the French and Indian War previous to that date, together with the accounts due for furnishing provisions, etch to the troops, and for work on the forts. Of this amount the Augusta people received L3,866-3s-5d or nearly three times the sum received by any other county. ==== LIST OF MILITIAMEN FROM THE JC SANDERS PAPERS (the entire list is at the Augusta Men website link above, this is only an exerpt) CAPTAINS: LOVE, Ephraim ** Our Direct Linage** (there are others listed) ==== Rolston 79 -- "Settlers by The Long Grey Trail, pg 209: In 1760, George III came to the throne of England. This year the Processioners again Made their rounds in Augusta. In the Cook's Creek neighborhood the officers appointed were John Hopkins, and David Ralston, of Capt. Ephraim Love's company, and the lines viewed were those of--Francis Green, Jeremiah Harrison, Daniel Love, Daniel Callkin, Robert Cravens, Thomas Harrison, Ephraim Love, Widow Johnson, Alex. Herring, Edward Shanklin, Widow Logan, William Login, John Cravens, Widow McDonel (McDonald), Joseph Cravens, William Hopkins, John Hopkins, Thomas Shanklin, Alex. Miller, Matthew Black, Thomas Campbell, Daniel Harrison, Daniel Harrison, Jr., Samuel Harrison. Robert Harrison, Pat Quin (Quinn), Wm. Snoding, John Fowler, David Nelson, Samuel Bridges, John McGill, Christopher Thompson, Archibald Hopkins, John Wright, and Thomas Gordon. (Augusta Parish Vestry Book, p. 295.)

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60 Love 1 -- "A History of Rockingham County", pp 52 & 53: In a list of soldiers to whom pay was due from the Colony of Virginia for service during The French & Indian War (September, 1758) is found the name of Capt. Ephraim Love. In a footnote: "Capt. Love probably lived near the site of Singer's Glen. On July 29, 1748, Jacob Dye and Mary his wife sold to Ephraim Love, late of Lancaster County, PA., 377 acres of land "on ye head Draughts of Muddy Creek under the North Mountain," adjoining Daniel Harrison. Witnesses, William Carroll, William White, and Peter Scholl. Children of Ephraim Love and Mary Donovan are: 41 i. Mary Love, born 1725 in Craigatempan, County Antrim, IRELAND; died Unknown. 42 ii. Janet Love, born 1727 in Craigatempan, County Antrim, IRELAND; died Unknown in Rockingham County, Virginia USA. She married Archibald Hopkins Abt. 1743 in Rockingham County, Virginia USA; died May 08, 1799 in Rockingham County, Virginia USA. 43 iii. Joseph Love, born November 10, 1728 in Craigatempan, County Antrim, IRELAND; died November 10, 1804 in Knox County, Tennessee USA. He married Mary Teas 1760 in Augusta County, Virginia USA; born October 1734 in Pennsylvania USA; died July 07, 1815 in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee USA. 44 iv. Daniel Love, born 1729 in Craigatempan, County Antrim, IRELAND; died in USA. He married Jane "Jean" Adams March 20, 1764 in Augusta County, Virginia USA; born 1740 in Orange County, Virginia USA; died in USA. 45 v. David Love, born 1730 in Craigatempan, County Antrim, IRELAND; died Unknown. + 46 vi. Samuel Love, born 1738 in Craigatempan, County Antrim, IRELAND; died 1781 in Montgomery (now Wythe) County, Virginia USA. *Our Direct Lineage*

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46. Samuel Love (Ephraim8, Robert7, Robert6, William (Love)5 Luiff, Robert (Love)4, Johannis (John Love)3, Johanni (John Love)2 Luf, Nigelli (Neil or Nigel Love)1) was born 1738 in Craigatempan, County Antrim, IRELAND, and died 1781 in Montgomery (now Wythe) County, Virginia USA. He married Dorcas Bell July 03, 1759 in Augusta County, VA. She was born Abt. 1740 in Augusta County, Virginia USA, and died 1774 in Fishersville, Augusta County, Virginia USA. Samuel LOVE and Dorcas BELL were both members of the Tinkling Spring Presbyterian Church in Virginia. Montgomery County, VA is now Wythe County, VA. "Samuel Love and Dorcas Bell Love on May 22nd, 1766, conveyed to Joseph Love, Samuel's brother, (44 acres, part of) 300 acres on Black Run of Christian's Creek in Augusta County. Joseph already owned land adjoining this. On Feb 6th 1775, Samuel Love and Rachel, his wife, conveyed, by deed, to John Jasper, 265 acres in Augusta County, Joseph being a witness the execution of the deed. Later, and on the same date, appears that Rachel, Samuel's wife, was privily examined before Thomas Douglass, et al, in North Carolina. This was about the time that Samuel was in what is now Hawkins County, Tennessee, then Carter's Valley in North Carolina. Joseph left Augusta County in 1775, and settled in what was afterwards Montgomery County, then Fincastle County, Virginia. After Samuel left Augusta County and located in Fincastle, later Montgomery County, he married this Rachel, whose maiden name is unknown, and by whom it is not recorded or known that he had any children. What became of this Rachel is also unknown. This second marriage will, perhaps, be news to many of his present descendants, although the writer has a very indistinct recollection of having heard something of the kind many years ago. Dorcas (Bell) Love, wife of Samuel, died before he left Augusta County, and William, the youngest child, was taken into the family of the Bells, "South River Bells", and reared. These Bells lived on South Shenandoah, not far from Tinkling Spring Meeting House, and about 10 or 12 miles (east) from Staunton." [from "Loves of the Valley of Virginia", 1930, by Franklin D. Love.] Both Samuel and Joseph Love were in Montgomery County as late as 1782. That year Samuel died, and his son, Robert, then twenty-two years old, on June 4th 1782, appeared before the County Court of Montgomery County, made bond and qualified as guardian of Samuel's

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62children: James, Thomas, Sarah and Mary, William being with the Bells. Beginning with the early part 1776, at the age of sixteen down to and including 1782, Robert Love, son of Samuel. Was a volunteer soldier in the Revolutionary Was, and, as he states, each time enlisting from Montgomery County, Virginia. In the winter of 1775, and spring of 1776, Samuel and his sons, Robert, James and Thomas, left Montgomery County with the intention of exploring the country southwest, and finding some desirable lands upon which to locate and settle. They settled and planted crops (corn) that Spring at the forks of the Holston, in Carter's Valley, near (Long Island and ) Fort Patrick Henry, in what is now Hawkins (Sullivan) County, Tennessee. They were driven out shortly by the Indians, who raided the settlement, and inflicted injuries to some of the settlers: they later returned and again were driven out by the Indians. This time they returned to their farm in Montgomery County, now Wythe County, and remained, and there Samuel died. On May 8th 1782, Joseph Love, brother of Samuel, with others appeared in open court of Montgomery County, and asked for reimbursement for provisions and equipment furnished himself while on duty in North Carolina to Join Greene (Gen. Nathaniel Greene), which was allowed upon the proof offered the court. On the 15th Nov. 1799, Joseph Love, now of Wythe County, gave a bill of sale to Robert Sayers to a negro man. This is the last record of Joseph Love, brother of Samuel, in Virginia. [from "Loves of the Valley of Virginia", 1930, by Franklin D. Love.] === Samuel Love (ca 1739 - 1781): Samuel married Dorcas Bell, daughter of James "South River" Bell, in 1759 and shortly after purchased 300 acres on Christian's Creek, near Tinkling Springs, Virginia. Then, in 1774-5, Samuel and his brother Joseph relocated their families to a plantation in Wythe County, Virginia. It is believed Dorcas died shortly before this relocation. Later Samuel made two attempts (1775-1777) to relocate his family to Carter's Valley, Tennessee, but fled both times because of Indian attacks. He returned with his family to his home in Virginia, where he died in 1781. Samuel and Dorcas had seven children, including Robert and Thomas, both of who were prominent in the early history of Waynesville, North Carolina. SOURCE: Family Love

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63Children of Samuel Love and Dorcas Bell are: + 62 i. Robert "R.S." Love, born May 11, 1760 in Augusta County, Virginia; died July 17, 1845 in Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina. 63 ii. James Love, born March 10, 1762 in Augusta County, VA; died 1844 in Maury County, TN. He married Winnesophia Dillard June 1793 in Washington County, NC (now called Erwin, Unicoi County, TN); born January 22, 1763 in Culpeper County, VA; died in TN (probably). + 64 iii. Thomas Love, born November 15, 1765 in Augusta County, Virginia; died 1844 in Macon County, Tennessee. *Our Direct Lineage* + 65 iv. Dorcas "Polly" Love, born Abt. 1773 in Augusta County, Virginia; died September 23, 1853 in Jackson (fka Haywood / Macon) County, North Carolina.

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64. General Thomas Love (Samuel9, Ephraim8, Robert7, Robert6, William (Love)5 Luiff, Robert (Love)4, Johannis (John Love)3, Johanni (John Love)2 Luf, Nigelli (Neil or Nigel Love)1) was born November 15, 1765 in Augusta County, Virginia, and died 1844 in Macon County, Tennessee. He married Martha Patsy Dillard January 12, 1788 in Washington County, North Carolina (now called Erwin, Unicoi County, TN), daughter of Col. Thomas Dillard and Martha Webb. She was born September 27, 1774 in Virginia, and died 1832 in Macon County, Tennessee. **Our Direct Lineage** Child of Thomas Love and Martha Dillard is: + 79 i. Sarah Love, born December 19, 1800 in Washington County, North Carolina (now called Erwin, Unicoi County, TN); died September 20, 1851 in Trezevant, Carroll County, Tennessee. **Our Direct Lineage**

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Sarah Love (Thomas10, Samuel9, Ephraim8, Robert7, Robert6, William (Love)5 Luiff, Robert (Love)4, Johannis (John Love)3, Johanni (John Love)2 Luf, Nigelli (Neil or Nigel Love)1 was born December 19, 1800 in Washington County, North Carolina (now called Erwin, Unicoi County, TN); died September 20, 1851 in Trezevant, Carroll County, Tennessee. About. 1819, in probably NC, Sarah married David Coleman (born January 25, 1798 in Cabarrus (formerly Mecklenburg) County, North Carolina; died January 23, 1870 in Trezevant, Carroll County, Tennessee. He was the son of Mark Coleman and Nancy Welch.) **Our Direct Lineage** The Children of Sarah Love and David Coleman are: Children of David Coleman and Sarah Love are: 34.i. Martha Louisa Coleman, born February 29, 1820 in Cabarrus County, NC; died February 15, 1880 in Carroll County, TN. She married James Monroe McKenzie March 05, 1842 probably in Tennessee; born February 14, 1818 in Carroll County, TN; died October 09, 1873 in Carroll County, TN. Both are buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, McKenzie, Carroll County, TN. 35 ii. Thomas W. Coleman, born Abt. 1822 in Cabarrus County, NC; died 1898 in Carroll County, TN. He married Louisiana A. Thomas January 19, 1846 in Carroll County, TN; born 1829 in Carroll County, TN; died 1909 in Carroll County, TN. Both are buried in Coleman Cemetery, Carroll County, TN. **Our Direct Lineage** 36 iii. Robert L. Coleman, born Abt. 1824 in Cabarrus County, NC; died Abt. 1894 in Unknown. He married Harriet E. Norman December 05, 1851 in NC; born November 14, 1834 in NC; died 1894 in Unknown. 37 iv. William Albert Coleman, born February 05, 1825 in Cabarrus County, NC; died January 17, 1910 in Carroll County, TN. He married Margaret Rebecca Norman January 13, 1847 probably in NC; born July 31, 1828 in NC; died February 28, 1907 in Carroll County, TN. Both are buried in the Coleman Cemetery, Carroll County, Tennessee. 38 v. John S. Coleman, born February 08, 1826 in Cabarrus County, NC; died July 15, 1861 in Carroll County, TN. Burial: Coleman Cemetery, Carroll County, Tennessee. 39 vi. Samuel C. Coleman, born January 09, 1829 in Cabarrus County, NC; died October 08, 1905 in Carroll County, TN. He married Sarah Elizabeth Hughes January 25, 1860 in TN; born December 11, 1832 in TN; died October 09, 1877 in Carroll County, TN. Both are buried: Coleman Cemetery, Carroll County, Tennessee. 40 vii. Mary A. "Polly" Coleman, born Abt. 1831 in Cabarrus County, NC. She married (1) George William F. Boswell, M.D. Abt. 1848 probably in NC or TN; born Abt. 1821 in Caswell County, NC; died June 1849 in Carroll County, TN. She married (2) Joel P. King, M.D. Aft. 1849 probably in TN; born Abt. 1828. Both probably died in Carroll County, TN. 41 viii. Amanda D. Coleman, born March 15, 1834 in Cabarrus County, NC; died August 30, 1848 in Cabarrus County, NC. 42 ix. Adiliza Coleman, (female) born July 14, 1838 in Cabarrus County, NC; died April 03, 1861 in Carroll County, TN. Burial: Coleman Cemetery, Carroll County, Tennessee. 43 x. Green Jackson Coleman, born November 04, 1839 in Cabarrus County, NC; died December 26, 1917 in Carroll County, TN. He married Catherine "Kate" Younger November 16, 1865 probably in TN; born November 14, 1846 in TN; died March 29, 1914 in Carroll County, TN. Both are buried in Union Adademy Cemetery, Carroll County, TN.

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Thomas W. Coleman, born Abt. 1822 in Cabarrus County, NC; died 1898 in Carroll County, TN. He married Louisiana A. Thomas January 19, 1846 in Carroll County, TN; born 1829 in Carroll County, TN; died 1909 in Carroll County, TN. Both are buried in Coleman Cemetery, Carroll County, TN. **Our Direct Lineage**

Children of Thomas Coleman and Louisiana Thomas: SantaFe Bell Coleman (born 1846 / died 1920) married James G. Sayles – 1st, then to Samuel Sayles – 2nd (born 1853/died March 16, 1906). We are descended through SantaFe + Samuel Sayles.

Generation No. 13

SantaFe Bell Coleman (born 1846 / died 1920) married James G. Sayles – 1st, then to Samuel Sayles – 2nd (born 1853/died March 16, 1906). We are descended through SantaFe + Samuel Sayles. **Our Direct Lineage** Children of SantaFe (Coleman) Sayles and Samuel A. Sayles: Ollie Euen Sayles (born December 28, 1887 –Weakley Co. TN. / died March 28, 1967) married on to William Chester Cunningham (born August 4, 1877 / died November 16, 1933). Buried Union Academy Cemetery, Carroll County, TN.

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Generation No. 14 Ollie Euen Sayles (born December 28, 1887 –Weakley Co. TN. / died March 28, 1967) married on to William Chester Cunningham (born August 4, 1877 / died November 16, 1933). Buried Union Academy Cemetery, Carroll County, TN. **Our Direct Lineage** Children Of William Chester Cunningham + Ollie Euen Sayles:

1. Audie Cunningham (Born November 11, 1911 – carrollCounty, TN. / died August, 1913)

2. Essie Bell Cunningham (born December 27, 1913 – Carroll Co., TN / died March 10, 1980. married to Andy Woodard. Buried in Camden City Cemetery, Camden, TN.

3. Willa Janett Cunningham (born January 24, 1917 – Carroll Co., TN / died___________)/. Married Elmer Crocker, Jr. (born October 3, 1934)

4. Robert Lee Cunningham (born December 7, 1919 – Carroll Co., TN. / died ). Married to Louise Sessions (born _____ / died May 8, 1980)

5. Elizabeth Daphne Cunningham (born May 3, 1922 – Carroll Co., TN. / died October 17, 1944). Married to James Clifford Grissom (born May 17, 1919 / died _________)

6. William Hudkins Cunningham (born June 27, 1927 – Carroll Co., TN) Married on July 22, 1951 to Dorothy Jean McNeal (born Dec. 16, 1933 – Jefferson County, GA. / died July 15, 1986 – Augusta, GA. Buried at Hillcrest Cemetery, Augusta, GA.)

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William Hudkins Cunningham (born June 27, 1927 – Carroll Co., TN) Married on July 22, 1951 to Dorothy Jean McNeal (born Dec. 16, 1933 – Jefferson County, GA. / died July 15, 1986 – Augusta, GA. Buried at Hillcrest Cemetery, Augusta, GA.)

Children of William Hudkins Cunningham and Dorothy Jean McNeal:

1.Thomas Harold Cunningham (b. Mar.22, 1954 in Augusta, Richmond Co., Ga / d. ) - Married on Dec. 21, 1975 to Dixie Jean Newgard (b. Oct. 30, 1954) 2. Ellen Lee Cunningham (b. Sept. 13, 1956 in Augusta, Richmond Co., Ga. / d.) - Married May 21,1978 to Bruce Allen Bergherm, Jr. (b. 6-2-1956 / d.)

Generation No. 16 1.Thomas Harold Cunningham (b. Mar.22, 1954 in Augusta, Richmond Co., Ga / d. ) - Married on Dec. 21, 1975 to Dixie Jean Newgard (b. Oct. 30, 1954) Children of Harold Cunningham and Jeannie Newgard:

1. Stacey Brooke Cunningham (b. Sept. 22, 1981 – Augusta, GA.)

2. Amy Noelle Cunningham (b. Dec. 1, 1983 – Augusta, GA.) 2. Ellen Lee Cunningham (b. Sept. 13, 1956 in Augusta, Richmond Co., Ga. / d.) - Married May 21,1978 to Bruce Allen Bergherm, Jr. (b. 6-2-1956 / d.)

Children of Ellen Cunningham and Bruce Bergherm: 1. Bruce Allen Bergherm III (b. May 10, 1980) Married to Jennifer Herndon. 2. William Garrett Bergherm (b. May 5, 1993)

Generation No. 17

Stacey Brooke Cunningham (b. Sept. 22, 1981 – Augusta, GA.) Amy Noelle Cunningham (b. Dec. 1, 1983 – Augusta, GA.) Bruce Allen Bergherm III (b. May 10, 1980) William Garrett Bergherm (b. May 5, 1993)

General Thomas Love Burial Place

Old Spring Hill Cemetery (or Blake Cemetery) Henry County, TN

As determined by expedition of William & Harold Cunningham On June 16, 2oo2

Blake Cemetery or

Old Springhill Cemetery

Hwy. 69 to Mayfield Stewart Rd.

Lake

Springhill Creek Rd

Bird’s Creek Rd.

Hwy. 69 to Paris

Airport

# 3649

# 3470

Clark’s Trailer Lake

Whitlock Rd.

Springhill Creek

Bridge

Thomas Love, who represented Buncombe County from 1800 to 1808 (the sessions of the Legislature were then annual) afterwards served from Haywood form 1808 to 1828, perhaps, the longest service of any one man in the State continuously. He afterwards moved to Macon District of Tennessee; was elected to the Legislature from that State, and was mad Presiding Officer of the Senate. He was a man of very fine appearance. More that six feet tall, very popular, and a fine electioneer. Many amusing stories are told of him, such as carrying garden seeds in his pockets, and distributing them, always with the assurance that his wife had remembered the voters wife and sent them with her regards. The old gentlemen was fond of a good toddy, but did no resort to the mean subterfuge of electioneering with liquor. On one occasion, however, it is said of him that he signed a pledge of the temperance society which was then very unpopular. So at his first speaking he found there was a clamor raised against him on that account. While he would not notice it publicly, he told his friends that he would be glad to have some hard cider to drink while he was speaking which was procured for him. Some mischievous boys, however, concluded that they would play a trick on him, and began to add to a mug of cider a little corn whiskey. It was soon seen that the effects began to excite the old gentleman. He became animated and eloquent, when kind friends told him that the boys were pouring whiskey into his cider. The Rubicon was passed, and with great force, he said he didn't care if it was all whisky. I have a vivid recollection of the beginning of all his speeches. It was thusly: "Gentlemen and Fellow-Citizens: I have had the honor of representing you in the lower branch of the General Assembly of North Carolina for the last two and thirty years, and I have no doubt. My friends, if I should again be elected, I shall be able to do you abundance of good, etc." Sufficient to say of this man that he made his mark on society, and retained the public confidence until he left the State. Robert Love of Haywood County, the father of the large family now there, was a man of remarkable powers; stood high in the estimation of the public, and died at a good old age. He has a Revolutionary history which is very frequently mentioned in "Ramsey's Annas of Tennessee", in his service with John Sevier in their frequent encounters with the Chickamauga Indians. He was an elector for the State on the Jackson Ticket. He acquired great wealth, and died respected, leaving a large fortune to his children. He was a brother of General Thomas Love heretofore mentioned. These two men were certainly far above the average of men, and did much to plant civilization in the County where they lived, and would have been men of mark in any community."

The Will of Thomas Dillard -----------o------------

In the Name of God, Amen! I, Thomas Dillard, of the County of Washington, in the State of North Carolina, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament: First, I lend to my wife during her natural life, or widowhood, the whole of my Negroes, except those given by legacy, but in case of her marriage, that the help of said Negroes descend and be divided amongst my children here named: to Ben Dillard, Wennesoppea, Mary Ann, Thomas, Stacy, Martha, Amy, John and Rebecca, and the other part with all the stock and movable at my said wife's death to be divided equally amongst the aforesaid children. Second, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Elizabeth Anthony, Negro Inda, with her increase. I let her have at the same time and do devise, that is all I do intend for her to have of my estate. Third, I give and bequeath to my son, Benja. Dillard, Negro Piler and Joe, with the Virginia Bond Warrant for one thousand acres of land what I have already delivered to my said son with the Negroes aforesaid, and do declare that to be all that I do intend for him to have of my estate and lands. Fourth, I give to my daughter, Wennesoppea, a Negro called Cloe and one called Spence. Fifth, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Mary Ann Love, Negro Hannah, and Bob-the son of Negro Rose. Sixth, I give and bequeath to my son, Thomas, Negro Bess and Wesley. Seventh, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Stacy, Negro Lucy and Bimon. Eighth, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Martha, Negro James and Kate. Ninth, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Amy, Negro Suck Inda. Tenth, I give and bequeath to my son, John, Negroes Isham and Lamer. Eleventh, I give and bequeath to my daughter, Rebecca, Negroes Rachel and January. Twelfth, I give and bequeath to my sons, Thomas and John, all the land I have a right to, to be equally divided between them, the said Thomas and John, to them, their heirs or assigns, but nevertheless my executors are, and are hereby empowered, to sell and convey said lands to any person who shall be willing to buy the same, and the same to convey by deed in fee simple to the purchaser, in case they shall adjudge it advantageous to my said sons during their minority, and the money coming there from to be laid out in lands in any part of America they shall adjudge best for the benefit of the said Thomas and John Dillard, their heirs or assigns. And further, my desire is, that my younger children with their legacy be kept supported and maintained and my children schooled by and from the labor of the Negroes and the land left with my wife until they arrive to full age or marry. And my further desire is, that each of my said children hereafter named, when they arrive at full age, or marry, be furnished by my executor with a horse, saddle, bridle, feather bed and furniture, the whole to be worth twenty pounds current money of Virginia, or in case of failure to be paid, and have so much more than those that have been so furnished out of the division of the part left with my wife at her death, towit; Wennesoppea, Mary Ann, Thomas, John, Stacy, Martha, Amy, and Rebecca Dillard legatees. And I do further constitute and appoint my wife, Martha Dillard and Robert Love, my son-in-law, my only and sole executors of this my last will and testament, and do hereby disallow and revoke and disannul all and every other former will and testament by me in any ways before this time made, and I do satisfy and confirm this and no other totee. My last will and testament. In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal, this 13th, day of May 1784. Thos. Dillard (Seal)

Signed and published and, delivered in the presence of- Edmund Sams, John Sams, John Webb, A schedule to the within will --------o------ annexed: That Robert Love, one of my The foregoing will was proven Executors, is appointed as guardian of my in Court by the oaths of John children during their minority, and also, Webb and John Sams, two of the manager of that part of the estate left with subscribing witnesses thereto. my wife. My Executors are empowered to SESSIOBS 178- and ordered sell any part of my estate left with my just recorded. Court Records, debts-legacies excepted. Given under my Jonesboro, Washington County, hand the 23rd, day of Sept. 1784. East Tennessee. Test. Thos. Dillard (Seal) F.D. Love John Webb COPY OF WILL John Sams.

Jonathan Fairbanks and Clyde Edwin Tuck

Past and Present of Greene County, Missouri Early and Recent History and Genealogical Records

of Many of the Representative Citizens

COL. THOMAS CALVIN LOVE. (Grandson of General Thomas Love) A cheerful and hopeful disposition is a trait of character much to be admired, much to be desired, and one that with most men needs to be cultivated and enlarged. It is absolutely necessary to success in any pursuit in life for man to be hopeful and resourceful. He must not only believe that "all things work together for good," but also have confidence in himself, that he has the ability to bring things to pass. It is easy to be good and cheerful when everything is, running smoothly, when everything seems to be prosperous, when a man is flourishing and spreading himself like a green bay tree. How easy it is then to appear cheerful and happy, but it is often quite another story when the day of adversity comes, the hour of difficulty, failure and disappointed hopes. A man who has endeavored to remain cheerful, optimistic and courageous in both sunshine and storm as he has traversed the winding path of life during his three score and ten years is Thomas. Calvin Love, during his active life a gallant soldier, successful farmer and stock raiser and faithful public servant now living retired in Springfield.

Mr. Love has descended from a fine ancestry of military men and people of the right quality. He was born in what is now Webster county, Missouri, near the town of Seymour, May 17, 1844, and is a son of Thomas Bell and Elizabeth (Barnard) Love. The father was born in Hayward county, North Carolina, on December 27, 1798, and was a son of Gen. Thomas and Martha (Dillard) Love. The mother was born September 27, 1774. Gen. Thomas Love, born November 16, 1776, was a native of Ireland from which country he emigrated to America when a young man and located in North Carolina, and while living there the Revolutionary war began. He unhesitatingly joined in the struggle of the colonists for independence. He was a brave and efficient soldier and for meritorious conduct was promoted until he received a colonel's commission and was given command of a North part of the Carolina regiment. After the war he moved to what is now a part of the state of Tennessee, where he became an officer of the state of Franklin, which was created by an act of the Legislature of the state of North Carolina, and later repealed and made Tennessee. But the governor of the former state refused to obey the ruling of the Legislature of North Carolina, and Gen. Thomas Love, then a general of militia, commanded the troops that captured the obstinate governor of Franklin. General Love served thirty consecutive years in the Legislature of Tennessee. He was speaker of the house during a number of terms. He was during that long period one of the best known and most influential men of Tennessee, and was admired as an army officer a statesman and broad-minded citizen. Perhaps no man did more for the early development of the state in general than he. His long life was spent f or the most part in the service f or others, and he passed away at an advanced age about the year that the subject of this sketch was born. He married a Miss Dillard in Tennessee, and to them nine children were born. His eldest son Robert, born December 31, 1789, was a colonel during the war of 1812 and fought under Gen. Andrew Jackson at the great battle of New Orleans. Thomas B. Love, father of our subject, grew up on the General's plantation in Tennessee and there received such educational advantages as the early-day schools afforded, and he

remained in his native state until 1842, when he came to what is now Webster county, Missouri, where he entered six hundred acres of land from the government, which he cleared, improved and on which he established the permanent home of the family, and this land was retained by his children until 1910, when it was sold by our subject. When he was a lad, Thomas B. Love went with a party to assist in provisioning General Jackson's troops on their march back from New Orleans after the close of the war of 1812, and Robert Love, who was a colonel in that army, gave his sword to his younger brother, Thomas B. This highly prized heirloom was stolen from the Love home during the Civil war. Mr. Love did not live to enjoy his new home in the Ozarks long—ten years—dying in 1852. Politically, he was a Democrat and while he was active in party affairs would never accept public office. He owned a lock of General Jackson's hair, which his son, our subject, has sent back to Tennessee, to form a part of the collection of the Historical Society, of that state. Thomas B. Love was an extensive farmer and he owned about twenty-five slaves at the time of his death. He always saw that they had comfortable quarters, were well cared for and was considerate of their every welfare. His wife, Elizabeth Barnard, was born in Buncombe county, North Carolina in the year 1800. To these parents nine children were born. Their oldest son died of measles while on the march to Mexico with the army back in the forties, he having been first lieutenant in a company organized in Springfield, Missouri. The mother was left with a family of small children, which she reared in comfort and respectability. She reached the age of sixty-nine years, dying in 1869.

Thomas C. Love, of this review, grew to manhood on the home farm in Webster county and there received a very meager education in the district schools, but he was preparing to enter college at Columbia, Missouri, when the Civil war began and interfered with his plans. He at once cast his services with the Confederacy, enlisting in July, 1862, in Company F, Third Missouri Cavalry, under General Marmaduke. He was in Arkansas during the early part of the war, and before his enlistment was captured by the Federals and held in jail at Batesville, that state, for five weeks. He proved to be a faithful and brave soldier and saw considerable hard service. On September 10, 1863, while in an engagement near Little Rock, Arkansas, he was shot through the lung and he still carries the bullet in his body. While in the hospital from this wound he was captured by the enemy, but later exchanged and rejoined his command at Camden, that state. He was in engagements at Poison Springs, Jenkins' Ferry, Leg Village, Pine Bluff, all in Arkansas, and the Big Blue in Missouri, and was on the retreat with General Marmaduke when, the latter was captured, but our subject escaped by swimming Mines creek in Kansas, and rejoined his regiment and after a few skirmishes, surrendered with the entire army of the Trans-Mississippi department, at Shreveport, Louisiana, June 8, 1865.

After his discharge from the army Mr. Love went to Texas, where he rented a plantation and devoted his attention to raising cotton for three years, returning to his home in Webster county, Missouri, in 1869, and began farming on the home place, carrying on general farming and stock raising, in fact, traded extensively in live stock, and prospered with advancing years until he became one of the leading farmers of that county. He continued general farming and dealing in live stock until 1892, when he turned his farm into an apple orchard which was fairly successful. He moved to Springfield in 1883 in order to give his children proper educational advantages, but in 1899 moved back to the farm and lived there twelve years, then sold out and returned to Springfield, purchased a good home in which he now lives retired.

Politically, Mr. Love is a Democrat and had been a leader in his party in his earlier years, and he served as representative from Webster county in the state Legislature from 1882 to 1884, in a manner that was highly creditable to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents. Among the notable things which

he did while in that office was his assistance in securing the passing of a bill appropriating twelve thousand and five hundred dollars to rebuild the court house and jail at Marshfield, which were destroyed by the cyclone of 1880. From 1885 to 1899 he was deputy collector of internal revenue in Springfield, giving the government satisfaction in every respect. In 1893 he was appointed postmaster at Springfield, and served four years with his usual fidelity to duty, which elicited the hearty commendation of the people and the post office department at Washington.

Mr. Love in his fraternal relations is a member of the Masonic order and the Grange, being for some time quite active in the work of the latter. He is a member of Campbell Camp No. 488, United Confederate Veterans. He is active in the affairs of the same and has been commander of the local camp twice, being the only man ever re-elected to the place, and on September 17, 1914, Mr. Love was elected brigadier-general of the Western Brigade, Missouri Division of Mounted Confederate Veterans.

Mr. Love was married, November 5, 1865, to Sallie J. Rogers, who was born in Texas county, Missouri, November 26, 1846. Her people were refugees to Texas during the Civil war. The death of Mrs. Love occurred May 20, 1912, at Mt. Pleasant, Texas, but was brought to Springfield, where he rests in the beautiful Maple Park cemetery. She was a faithful life companion, devoted to her home and family and was beloved by her many friends for her numerous excellent traits of character.

Seven children, all sons, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Love, five of whom are living at this writing, namely: Dr. Joseph W. Love, a specialist of the eye, ear, nose and throat, of Springfield, was for some time in the medical department of the United States army in the Philippine islands; Dr. Robert B. of Springfield, is one of the leading veterinary physicians of southern Missouri; Thomas B. is a prominent attorney of Dallas, Texas; Ralph M. is a successful banker at Mt. Pleasant, Texas; Edgar P. has built up a large business as a manufacturer in Dallas, Texas.

1. Martin Nall. He married Mary Aldin.

Child of Martin Nall and Mary Aldin is:

+ 2 i. Winnifred Nall was born 1705 in Essex County, VA.

Descendant Register, Generation No. 2

2. Winnifred Nall (Martin Nall1) was born 1705 in Essex County, VA. She married Thomas Dillard , Sr. 1728, son of Edward Dillard and Martha. He was born 1695 in King and Queen County, VA, and died 1774 in Pittsylvania County, VA.

Children of Winnifred Nall and Thomas Dillard , Sr. are:

+ 3 i. Thomas Dillard , Jr. was born 1730 in Essex County, VA, and died 1784 in Erwin, TN. 4 ii. James Dillard.

Descendant Register, Generation No. 3

3. Thomas Dillard , Jr. (Winnifred Nall2, Martin Nall1) was born 1730 in Essex County, VA, and

died 1784 in Erwin, TN. He married Martha Webb, daughter of Merry Webb and Elizabeth Martin. She was born 1734 in Va, and died 1796 in TN.

Children of Thomas Dillard , Jr. and Martha Webb are:

5 i. John Dillard , Sr. was born 12 JUL 1765 in Culpepper, VA, and died 5 JUN 1842 in Rabun County, GA. He married Ruth Vaughn.

+ 6 ii. Martha Patsy Dillard was born in Pittsylvania County, VA, and died ABT 1832 in Macon County, NC.

7 iii. Ben Dillard. 8 iv. Ann Dillard. 9 v. Rebecca Dillard. 10 vi. Elizabeth Dillard. 11 vii. Winnie Sophia Dillard. She married James Love JUN 1793, son of Samuel Love and

Dorcas Bell. He was born 10 MAR 1762 in Augusta County, VA, and died 1844 in Maury County, TN.

+ 12 viii. Mary Ann Dillard was born 21 SEP 1767 in Augusta County, VA, and died 25 MAR 1842 in Haywood County, NC.

+ 13 ix. Thomas Dillard III was born ABT 1769 in Pittsylvania County, VA, and died 1 APR 1827 in Haywood County, NC.

14 x. Stacy Dillard was born ABT 1775, and died ABT 1813. She married Gabriel Elkins. He was born ABT 1760 in Pittsylvania County, VA, and died 1846.

Descendant Register, Generation No. 4

6. Martha Patsy Dillard (Thomas Dillard , Jr.3, Winnifred Nall2, Martin Nall1) was born in Pittsylvania County, VA, and died ABT 1832 in Macon County, NC. She married Thomas Love 12 JAN 1788 in Washington County, TN, son of Samuel Love and Dorcas Bell. He was born 11 NOV 1766 in Augusta County, VA, and died 1844 in TN. He was buried in Henry County, TN.

Children of Martha Patsy Dillard and Thomas Love are:

15 i. Robert Bell Love was born 31 DEC 1789. 16 ii. James B. Love was born 26 APR 1792. 17 iii. Dorcas Clorine Love was born 26 OCT 1794. 18 iv. John Dillard Love was born 7 NOV 1796. 19 v. Thomas Bell Love was born 27 DEC 1798. 20 vi. Sarah Bell Love was born 19 DEC 1800. 21 vii. Mary Love was born 30 NOV 1802. 22 viii. Samuel C. Love was born 29 JUN 1807. 23 ix. Martha Dillard Love was born 11 MAR 1810 in NC, and died 20 MAR 1845 in Henry

County, TN. She married George W Prather 29 SEP 1829 in Macon County, NC. 24 x. Albert Gallentin Love was born 19 DEC 1814.

12. Mary Ann Dillard (Thomas Dillard , Jr.3, Winnifred Nall2, Martin Nall1) was born 21 SEP 1767 in Augusta County, VA, and died 25 MAR 1842 in Haywood County, NC. She married Robert Love 11 SEP 1783 in Washington County, TN, son of Samuel Love and Dorcas Bell. He was born 11 MAY 1760 in Augusta County, VA, and died 17 JUL 1845 in Waynesville, NC. He was buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesville, NC.

Children of Mary Ann Dillard and Robert Love are:

25 i. Samuel Love. He married Mary S. Young. She was born 1793, and died 1829 in Macon County, NC.

26 ii. Anna Love. 27 iii. Martha Love. 28 iv. Thomas Dillard Love was born 3 NOV 1789 in Washington County, NC (now

Unicoi,TN), and died 24 JUL 1872 in Franklin, NC. He married Margaret Young 20 NOV 1822 in Washington County, NC. She was born 15 APR 1799 in TN, and died 19 JUL 1869 in Franklin, NC.

29 v. James Robert Love was born 1789, and died 1863. 30 vi. John Bell Love was born 1791. 31 vii. William Calhoun Love was born 1794. 32 viii. Winifred Sophia Love was born 1796. 33 ix. Dorcas Bell Love was born 1797. 34 x. Sarah Bell Love was born 1802. 35 xi. Mary Ann Love was born 1805. 36 xii. Rebecca Love was born 1807.

13. Thomas Dillard III (Thomas Dillard , Jr.3, Winnifred Nall2, Martin Nall1) was born ABT 1769 in Pittsylvania County, VA, and died 1 APR 1827 in Haywood County, NC. He married Dorcas Polly Love 1790 in Washington County, TN, daughter of Joseph Love , Sr. and Mary Teas. She

was born 1773 in Augusta County, VA, and died 20 SEP 1853 in Jackson County, NC.

Children of Thomas Dillard III and Dorcas Polly Love are:

37 i. Sophia Dillard was born 1795. 38 ii. Thomas Dillard. 39 iii. John L. Dillard was born 1794. 40 iv. David Love Dillard was born 21 JUN 1815.

Husband John Dillard Born: BET 1577 AND 1620 - Marr: BET 1601 AND 1658 - Died: BET 1601 AND 1701 - Father: Mother: Other Spouses: Wife Born: - Died: - Father: Mother: Other Spouses:

Children 1. George Dillard Born: ABT 1624 - England Marr: 1650 - Mary Daniel D ied: 1704 - VA

_________________________ Husband George Dillard Born: ABT 1624 - England Marr: ABT 1650 - VA Died: 1704 - VA Father: John Dillard Mother: Other Spouses:

Wife Mary Daniel Born: 1630 - England Died: BET 1671 AND 1737 - VA Father: Mother: Other Spouses:

Children 1. James Stephen Dillard Born: 1658 - Wiltshire, England Marr: 1690 - Mary Louisa Page Died: 1714 - Williamsburg, VA

2. Edward Dillard Born: 1668 - Marr: - Martha Died: -

3. Nicholas Dillard , Sr.

Born: AFT 1658 - Marr: - Mary Died: -

4. William Dillard , Sr. Born: AFT 1658 - Marr: - Margaret Died: -

5. John Dillard Born: AFT 1658 - Died: -

6. Sally Dillard Born: AFT 1658 - Died: -

7. Mary Dillard Born: AFT 1658 - Died: -

8. George Dillard , Jr.

Born: - Died: -

______________________________ Husband Edward Dillard Born: 1668 - Marr: - Died: - Father: George Dillard Mother: Mary Daniel Other Spouses: Wife Martha Born: 1650 - Died: - Father: Mother: Other Spouses:

Children 1. Lucy Dillard Born: AFT 1676 - Died: -

2. Elizabeth Dillard Born: AFT 1676 - Died: -

3. Martha Dillard Born: AFT 1676 -

Died: -

4. John Dillard Born: AFT 1676 - Died: -

5. Mary Dillard Born: AFT 1676 - Died: -

6. Frances Dillard Born: AFT 1676 - Died: -

7. Thomas Dillard , Sr. Born: 1695 - King and Queen County, VA Marr: 1728 - Winnifred Nall Died: 1774 - Pittsylvania County, VA

Husband N8264 Thomas Dillard Born: 1695 - King and Queen County, VA Marr: 1728 - Died: 1774 - Pittsylvania County, VA Father: Edward Dillard Mother: Martha Other Spouses:

Wife Winnifred Nall Born: 1705 - Essex County, VA Died: - Father: Martin Nall Mother: Mary Aldin Other Spouses:

Children 1. Thomas Dillard Born: 1730 - Essex County, VA Marr: - Martha Webb Died: 1784 - Erwin, TN

2. James Dillard Born: - Died: -

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Husband Thomas Dillard Born: 1730 - Essex County, VA Marr: - Died: 1784 - Erwin, TN Father: Thomas Dillard Mother: Winnifred Nall Other Spouses:

Wife Martha Webb Born: 1734 - Va Died: 1796 - TN Father: Merry Webb Mother: Elizabeth Martin Other Spouses:

Children 1. John Dillard Born: 12 JUL 1765 - Culpepper, VA Marr: - Ruth Vaughn Died: 5 JUN 1842 - Rabun County, GA

2. Martha Patsy Dillard N8271 Born: - Pittsylvania County, VA Marr: 1788 - Thomas Love, Gen. Died: ABT 1832 - Macon County, NC

3. Ben Dillard Born: - Died: -

4. Ann Dillard Born: - Died: -

5. Rebecca Dillard Born: - Died: -

6. Elizabeth Dillard Born: - Died: -

7. Winnie Sophia Dillard Born: -

Marr: 1793 - James Love Died: -

8. Mary Ann Dillard Born: 21 SEP 1767 - Augusta County, VA Marr: 1783 - Robert Love, Col. Died: 25 MAR 1842 - Haywood County, NC

9. Thomas Dillard Born: ABT 1769 - Pittsylvania County, VA Marr: 1790 - Dorcas Polly Love Died: 1 APR 1827 - Haywood County, NC

10. Stacy Dillard Born: ABT 1775 - Marr: - Gabriel Elkins Died: ABT 1813 -

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Wife Ruth Vaughn Born: - Died: - Father: Mother: Other Spouses:

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Wife Mary Aldin Born: - Died: - Father: Mother: Other Spouses:

Children 1. Winnifred Nall Born: 1705 - Essex County, VA Marr: 1728 - Thomas Dillard Died: -

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Husband N8272 Thomas Love, Gen. Born: 11 NOV 1766 - Augusta County, VA Marr: 12 JAN 1788 - Washington County, TN Died: 1844 - TN Father: Samuel Love Mother: Dorcas Bell Other Spouses:

Wife N8271 Martha Patsy Dillard Born: - Pittsylvania County, VA Died: ABT 1832 - Macon County, NC Father: Thomas Dillard Mother: Martha Webb Other Spouses:

Children 1. Robert Bell Love Born: 31 DEC 1789 -

Died: -

2. James B. Love Born: 26 APR 1792 - Died: -

3. Dorcas Clorine Love Born: 26 OCT 1794 - Died: -

4. John Dillard Love Born: 7 NOV 1796 - Died: -

5. Thomas Bell Love Born: 27 DEC 1798 - Died: -

6. Sarah Bell Love Born: 19 DEC 1800 - Died: -

7. Mary Love Born: 30 NOV 1802 - Died: -

8. Samuel C. Love Born: 29 JUN 1807 - Died: -

9. Martha Dillard Love Born: 11 MAR 1810 - Died: -

10. Albert Gallentin Love Born: 19 DEC 1814 - Died: -

Our Dillard Family 1st: Dillards + Loves 2nd: Loves + Colemans 3rd: Colemans + Sayles 4th: Sayles + Cnnninghams

d'Illard from France or England Much controversy exists as to the origin of family Dillard. Some think the roots of the family are French, from the ancient family d'Illard, and specifically, from Carbonne d'Illard, a companion of William the Conqueror in the Norman invasion of England in 1066. Others reject the Carbonne d’Illard connection and instead believe that family Dillard originated as French Huguenots who migrated to England, perhaps after the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 when many Huguenots fled to England, or perhaps during other French religious wars in the 1620's. Still others believe the Dillard line first originated in the Wiltshire area of southern England, and that Dillard is likely an alliteration of an English name such as Tilliard or Tilyard or some other similar name. Prior to the 1600's most people could not read nor write and hence, did not know how their names were spelled. Those who did write did so phonetically, with little regard to formal spelling rules such as we follow today. Name alliterations were common in those days. The more serious genealogists claim that evidence suggests the first documented Dillard came from England and that no evidence, other than family lore passed down through the generations, exists of a French connection, and because of that it must be rejected. Although, there is scanty evidence of Dillards in England also. Our Dillard Ancestors in America George9 Dillard (ca 1630 - ca 1704): George landed at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony after a voyage from England in 1650, or shortly before, likely as a young, illiterate indentured servant (as were most immigrants of that period). 1650 was, indeed, very early in the colonization of the North American continent, and as such, George would be considered one of the original settlers. After his indentured servitude obligation was fulfilled, George prospered. In 1665 he received a headright land grant of 250 acres in New Kent County, Virginia (later King and Queen County), adjacent to land he already owned, located “upon branches of Tassitiomp Swamp”. Later land records refer to a “Geo. Dillard Plantation on the N. side of Mattapony River”. Because of his servitude obligation and the necessity to establish himself in the Colonies, it is probable George married and began raising a family late in life. It is speculated he married about 1666 although no data exist on his marriage or his wife.

Despite the hardships, George succeeded and prospered. One genealogist sums up his life as follows: “In [Colonial] Virginia, a land where many more than half the new people died, George Dillard was a survivor. Where there were four men to every woman, George had a wife. During a severe depression from 1660 until near the end of the century, George Dillard became a land owner, something achieved by a small percentage of those who came as indentured servants and had to work four, five, or seven years … to pay their transportation expense. We do not know the hardships George endured during those years when he had no personal freedom, when he had to do as his master directed, when he could not marry.” Little is known of George because in colonial America few records were kept and many of those that were kept were destroyed or burned. Nor is anything known about his wife or female children. He had five known sons, all of whom married and established families in the Virginia colony. Edward8 Dillard (ca 1672 - ): Edward was born about 1672 in New Kent County (later King and Queen County), Virginia. He married, but no information is available on his wife. They had four boys and an unknown number of girls. He was listed as the owner of 150 acres of land in King and Queen Co., Virginia in 1704. Sometime after that he may have relocated to Orange Co. (later Culpeper Co.) where there are records of an Edward Dillard purchasing 190 acres of land in 1737. Thomas7 Dillard, Sr. (ca 1704 - ): Thomas was born about 1704 in King and Queen County, Virginia as the first son of Edward Dillard. In 1734 Orange County (now Culpeper County), Virginia was opened and land put on the market. The Virginia General Assembly offered incentives for the settlement of the land. This was a good offer for a young man newly married, wishing to establish himself in life. In early 1735 both Thomas and his brother George purchased land there. Thomas purchased 550 acres on the Great Fork of the Rappahannock River, down Muddy Run, for £2.s15 (about $7.15). Other family members followed them there in later years. In subsequent years Thomas was involved in other land transactions, some for over a thousand acres – in 1749 he sold 1,100 acres. Prior to 1752 Thomas again migrated, this time to newly created Halifax County (later Pittsylvania Co.) where he purchased 400 acres. He was followed there by his two adult sons, James and Thomas6, Jr. In 1752 Thomas, along with others, took an oath: “The Teste: I do declare that I do believe that there is not any Transubstantiation in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper in the Elements of Bread and Wine at or after the Consecration thereof by any person whatsoever.” All county and church officials were required to subscribe to The Teste to conform to the doctrine of the Church of England. Also required were oaths of loyalty to His Majesty’s person and Government. He was Lay Reader at Little Fork in St. Mark’s Parish (Church of England), and was Lay Reader, Vestryman, and Church Warden in Antrim Parish. He was also a Justice of the Peace in Halifax and Pittsylvania Counties and an officer of the militia.

These data and other records show that Thomas was a prominent and prosperous landowner, active in community affairs as well as church matters; and from 1752 to 1755, during the French and Indian War, he was a Captain of the militia. He married Winnifred7 Nall in 1729 and with her had several known sons. He executed his will while living in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and died there in 1774. In the will he distributed a number of different land parcels and over fourteen slaves between his children. Thomas6 Dillard, Jr. (ca 1732 - 1784): Thomas was born probably about 1732 in King and Queen Co., Virginia, and while still a small boy moved with his parents to Culpeper Co., Virginia. Then, in 1752, while a young adult, he followed his father to the newly opened territory of Halifax County (later Pittsylvania Co.), Virginia. Thomas married Martha6 Webb and together they had ten children. Thomas became a prominent man in his community -- Sheriff of Halifax County and Justice of the Peace, Vestryman, and militia officer in Halifax and Pittsylvania County, and Church Warden in Camden Parish in Pittsylvania County. He commanded the Pittsylvania County Militia during the Revolutionary War. He was a Captain in the Revolutionary War and a Colonel in the Militia. During his war activities he traveled to Kentucky and other wilderness areas to the west. He liked this country and in 1782/3 he moved his family to Greasy Cove, Washington County, North Carolina (later this area became Unicoi County, Tennessee) where he settled and died in 1784. In his will, Thomas left several parcels of land to his children, including one thousand acres to his oldest son Benjamin. Each of the children received Negro slaves as an inheritance. Daughter Mary Ann’s husband, Robert5 Love, along with Thomas’ wife were the executors of the will.

Martha5 Patsy Dillard (1774 - 1834): Mary Ann was the seventh child of Thomas6 and Martha6. She married Thomas Love. Their daughter, Sarah Love, married David Coleman.

Martha is buried at Franklin Methodist Church Cemetery, Macon Co., NC. (Directions: This cemetery is near the corner of Harrison Avenue and West Main Street in downtown Franklin, behind the First United Methodist Church.)

Martha’s tombstone says:

Sacred to the memory of Martha Love consort of Gen. Thomas Love whowas born the 27th day of Sept. 1771 [broken here; so faded and worn that it's almost impossible to read]

GENERAL THOMAS LOVE. He was a brother of Robert Love, and was born in A[u]gusta county, Va., November 15, 1765. The date of his death is not accurately known, as he removed to Maury county, Tenn., about 1833.22 Prof. W. C. Allen, in his "Centennial of Haywood County", says (p.55) that he was a soldier of the Revolution, and served under Washington," but this must have been towards the close of that struggle, as he could not have been quite eleven years of age on the 4th of July, 1776.24 At the close of that war, however, "he went to East Tennessee and was in the Sevier-Tipton war when the abortive State of Franklin was attempted." [25] Ramsey's "Annals of Tennessee" (p. 410) records the fact that on one occasion one of Tipton's men had captured two of Sevier's sons, and would have hanged them if Thomas Love had not argued him out of his purpose. He was one of Tipton's follow'ers, but he showed Tipton the unworthiness of such an act. "He came to what is now Haywood county about the year 1790. When Buncombe was formed in 1791 he became active in the affairs of the new county," continues Prof. Allen. In 1797 he was elected to the house of commons from Buncombe, and was re-elected till 1808, when Haywood was formed, largely through his efforts. There is a tradition[26] that in 1796 he had been candidate against Philip Hoodenpile who represented Buncombe in the commons that year, but was defeated. For Hoodenpile could play the violin, and all of Love's wiles were powerless to keep the political Eurydices from following after this fiddling Orpheus. But Love bided his time, and when the campaign of 1797 began he charged Hoodenpile with showing contempt for the common herd by playing the violin before them with his left hand; whereas, when he played before "the quality," as Love declared, Hoodenpile always performed with his right hand. This charge was repeated at all the voting places of the county, which bore such significant names as Upper and Lower Hog Thief, Hardscrabble, Pinch Stomach, etc. Hoodenpile who, of course, could play only with his left hand, protested and denied; but the virus of class-feeling had been aroused, and Hoodenpile went down in defeat, never to rise again, while Love remained in Buncombe. "From the new county of Haywood General Love was one of the first representatives, the other having been Thomas Lenoir. Love was continuously re-elected from Haywood till 1829, with the exception of the year 1816. Who it was that defeated him that year does not appear, though John Stevenson and Wm. Welch were elected to the house and Hodge Raborne to the senate. This Hodge Raborne was a man of influence and standing in Haywood county, he having been elected to the senate not only in 1816, but also from 1817 to 1823, inclusive, and again in 1838; but whether it was he or John Stevenson who defeated Thomas Love, or whether he ran that year or no, cannot now be determined. [27] William Welch was a nephew by

marriage of Thomas Love, and it is not likely that he opposed him. Gen. Love moved to Macon county in 1830, where his wife died and is buried in the Methodist church yard of the town of Franklin. He was one of the commissioners for North Carolina who ran the line between this State and South Carolina in 1814.28 "He resided in Macon for several years, and then removed to the Western District of Tennessee; was elected to the legislature from that State, and was made presiding officer of the senate. He was a man of very fine appearance, more than six feet high, very popular, and a fine electioneer. Many amusing stories are told of him, such as carrying garden seeds in his pocket, and distributing them" with his wife's special regards to the voter's wife. 29 His service in the legislature for such an unprecedented length of time was due more to his genial manner and electioneering methods, perhaps, than to his statesmanship; though, unless he secured what the voters most desired he would most probably have been retired from public life. He never was so retired.

Daddy,

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Martha Louise Coleman married James McKenzie, for whom McKenzie, TN. was named! Martha was the daughter of great-great-great –great grandpa David Coleman (and Sarah Love). So.....your great, great aunt Martha was the wife of the founder of McKenzie, TN. See info below. ~Harold

James Monroe McKenzie, born February 14, 1818 in Tennessee; died October 09, 1878 in Carroll Co., TN. He married 3. Martha Louisa Coleman March 05, 1842 in Carroll County, TN.

3Martha Louisa Coleman, born February 29, 1820 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina; died February 15, 1880 in Carroll Co., TN. She was the daughter of 6. David Coleman and 7. Sarah Love.

Notes for James Monroe McKenzie:

In the original setteling of what is now McKenzie, there were two familys here that were "rivals". Each named the part of this towns area that they lived in a different name. One part of McKenzie was named Marrieta and the other part Dundas. It was still like this during the Civil War even though the community had much more to worry about at that time than the "rivalry' between the Sneads and the Gilberts. At that time there was a rather big family of McKenzie's that lived here. When the two rail roads crossed here in 1867, the land for one of the rail roads was GIVEN to the R.R. by James Monroe McKenzie with the stipulation that his son George McKenzie, Sr. would be given the position of station agent. When the first timetables came out they bore the name of "McKenzie, TN" and George Mckenzie, Sr. became the first station agent for the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railroad. The name has stuck ever since. The year was 1869.

Excerpt from "War Leaflets" by Annie Cole Hawkins.

Some of the children of James Monroe McKenzie are included below:

It is pleasant to recall and think of the days of laughter and song when school hours closed. The girls and boys mounting the horses while some whirled off in buggies and carriage. Others walking in groups to the near boarding houses. Each and all happy or miserable as the cases might be in the thought and plans of tomorrow.

The horse back riders were happiest of all and quite a number had to start out on our road among whom were Reuben Burdet, Lue and Billie Dinwiddie, Bernard Gordon. Jack Swain, Armstead Gordon, Wash Ridley, Brutus Gaines, Bettie and John Harris, John Pate, Tom Barker, Mollie Baker, Sallie McKenzie, and four brothers, John, Albert, George and Malcolm.

Professor E. H. Randle, was the principal and the rules of school were that the boys and girls would not ride together or run the horses.

More About James Monroe McKenzie:

Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery, McKenzie, Carroll County, TN

More About Martha Louisa Coleman:

Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery, McKenzie, Carroll County, TN

Children of James McKenzie and Martha Coleman are:

4 of the children of Samuel Love

marrried 4 of the children of Thomas Dillard, Jr.

1. James Love married Winnespophia Dillard 2. Colonel Robert Love married Mary Ann Dillard 3. Dorcas “Polly” Love married Thomas Dillard 4. General Thomas Love married Martha Patsy Dillard

Through whom we descended.

CUNNINGHAM Stacey & Amy Cunningham Thomas Harold Cunningham William Hudkins Cunningham William Chester Cunningham Joseph (or Joel) Jerome Conway Cunningham John B Cunningham

GIBBS Stacey & Amy Cunningham Thomas Harold Cunningham William Hudkins Cunningham William Chester Cunningham Joseph (or Joel) Jerome Conway Cunningham + Sarah Jennette Gibbs James D. Gibbs + Martha Ann McElwee Oliver Gibbs William Gibbs

McElwee Stacey & Amy Cunningham Thomas Harold Cunningham William Hudkins Cunningham William Chester Cunningham Joseph (or Joel) Jerome Conway Cunningham + Sarah Jennette Gibbs James D. Gibbs + Martha Ann McElwee William McElwee (Sgt. – Rev. War) + Martha Ann Hitchcock

Sayles/Biggs Stacey & Amy Cunningham Thomas Harold Cunningham William Hudkins Cunningham Stacey & Amy Cunningham Thomas Harold Cunningham William Hudkins Cunningham William Chester Cunningham + Ollie Euin Sayles Samuel Sayles + SantaFe Belle Coleman John S. Sayles + Elizabeth Biggs Freeman O. Biggs

Coleman Stacey & Amy Cunningham Thomas Harold Cunningham William Hudkins Cunningham Stacey & Amy Cunningham Thomas Harold Cunningham William Hudkins Cunningham William Chester Cunningham + Ollie Euin Sayles Samuel Sayles + SantaFe Belle Coleman Thomas W. Coleman + Louisana Thomas David Cole + Sarah Love Mark Coleman (immigrant) + Margaret

Love Stacey & Amy Cunningham Thomas Harold Cunningham William Hudkins Cunningham William Chester Cunningham + Ollie Euin Sayles Samuel Sayles + SantaFe Belle Coleman Thomas W. Coleman + Louisana Thomas David Cole + Sarah Love General Thomas Love + Martha Dillard Samuel Love (Rev. War) + Dorcas Bell Robert Ephraim Love (Scotland) + Elizabeth Robert Love + Christian Hackett Robert Love + Catherine Grange William Luiff (Love) + Janet Walk(er?) Robert Luiff (Love) + Barbara

Dillard Stacey & Amy Cunningham Thomas Harold Cunningham William Hudkins Cunningham William Chester Cunningham + Ollie Euin Sayles Samuel Sayles + SantaFe Belle Coleman Thomas W. Coleman + Louisana Thomas David Cole + Sarah Love General Thomas Love + Martha Dillard Thomas Dillard, Jr. (Rev. War) + Martha Webb

ROGERS Stacey & Amy Cunningham Thomas Harold Cunningham William Hudkins Cunningham William Chester Cunningham Joseph (or Joel) Jerome Conway Cunningham Stacey & Amy Cunningham Thomas Harold Cunningham William Hudkins Cunningham William Chester Cunningham Joseph (or Joel) Jerome Conway Cunningham John B Cunningham John B Cunningham + Rachel Rogers John Rogers + Phobe Dodson