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The following new message has been posted on Forum at ;. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#2009) Re: John Cunningham + Rachel (Rogers) Hayes ; AUTHOR: jean cunningham DATE: Saturday, 15 July 2006, at 1:03 a.m. Reply To: (#1491) John Cunningham + Rachel (Rogers) Hayes Author: Harold Cunningh Date: Saturday, 1 October 2005, at 10:12 a.m. I think the Thomas Cunningham and Matilda Hayes you are referring to are my GGG grandparents. I have hand written notes given by emma cunningham Rice (1901)when she was 75 yrs old. She says that Jesse Cunningham (parents were John Thomas Cunningham and Mary LOwe)1868-1933 married Ellen Mayo. Two of their children married a Rogers. Claude cunningham married Hollie Rogers, Maggie cunningham married John rogers. She says that Hollie and John Rogers were cousins. Also Lila Cunningham 1898-1979 married a Jim Rogers. Lila Cunningham is my Grandpa Arcie's sister. I dont know about the John B Cunningham. From the research I have done on my Cunningham relatives from McMinnville and Viola Tn, John B is not of this clan. There are so many of them and the name John is very common in all of the generations so I know how hard it is to get it all nailed down. My G grandpa John Thomas born 1848 and married to Julia Vicars and Mary Lowe is hard to find listed as John Thomas or even JT in the right location. I am in Mn so the search is even tougher. If you have any info on Thomas, Elisha and Jesse I would be interested in where you are finding it. Thanks, Jean *************************************************************************** This is an automatically-generated notice. If you'd like to be removed from the mailing list, please visit Forum at ;, or send your

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An Addendum Of Articles & Photos Related To Our Love Family History

Collected By Harold Cunningham

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2 Letter 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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3 Letter 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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4 Copy 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) -----------------o-------------------o-------------------o--------------------o---------------o------http://www.dillardfamilyassociation.com/dannuals/da2000/da00all.htm

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5 1835 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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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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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 7

8 own 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 dont 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 dont 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 dont 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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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. 9

10A Resource for Chickasaw Native American History and Genealogy Contributed by Don Collins

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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11 General 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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12 Copied 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, --------o-----------o--------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 childrenCharles, 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, 1749order 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 13

14 work 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. 15

16 And 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 ReferencesRef: 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 18141815. 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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18History 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. Stat. 1837, Vol. ii, p. 87).

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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"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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21 This 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. Silvers 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 19 June 1997

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22 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 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 22

23 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. 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 Christians 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 Carters 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. [16] 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 24

25 Revolutionary 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 25

26 crop and livestock operation. By the 1890s he had turned his entire farm into an apple orchard. 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 TuckPast 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 27

28 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 longten yearsdying 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 28

29 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.

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30 ROBERT 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 30

31 years 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 ninetynine on the entire voyage. While in South Africa Doctor Love was offered a position as 31

32 chief 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 origin