MARTHA LINDSAY (8797). MARTHA (8797) died at an unknown date at an unknown age.

     Children of GEORGE¹¹ LOVE (8796) and MARTHA LINDSAY (8797) all born in Gortivea Townland, Donaghedy Parish, Tyrone, Ireland, were as follows:

                   229.         i.    NANCY¹² LOVE (8724). NANCY (8724) was born 12 June 1832. She married WILLIAM LYONS (8741) at an unknown date. NANCY (8724) died 20 May 1893 in Chinguacousy Twp., Peel, ON, Canada, at age 60. Her body was interred 20 May 1893 in Cheltenham Cem., Peel, ON, Canada.

     WILLIAM LYONS (8741). WILLIAM (8741) was born 1822 in Tyrone County, Ireland. WILLIAM (8741) died 27 February 1902 in Chinguacousy Twp., Peel, ON, Canada, at an unknown age. His body was interred 27 February 1902 in Cheltenham Cem., Peel, ON, Canada.

             + 230.       ii.    ISABELLA LOVE (8798) ISABELLA (8798) was born 1834. She married S. GAMBLE (8799) 1854.

             + 231.      iii.    VICTOR LOVE (8361) VICTOR (8361) was born 1847. He married MARY MOOREHEAD (8362) at an unknown date. VICTOR (8361) died 1 April 1904 at an unknown age. His body was interred 1 April 1904.

             + 232.       iv.    GEORGE LOVE (8801) GEORGE (8801) was born 1848. He married ISABELLA (--?--) (27359) circa 1869. GEORGE (8801) died before 1901 at an unknown age.

             + 233.        v.    LINDSAY LOVE (8725) LINDSAY (8725) was born 1850. He married ELIZABETH BAIRD (8726) 1887. LINDSAY (8725) died 12 January 1894 at an unknown age. His body was interred 12 January 1894.

                   234.       vi.    DAVID LOVE (8407). DAVID (8407) was born 1852. He married ANNIE MARGARET ARMSTRONG (8408) 1873. DAVID (8407) died 1925 at an unknown age.

DAVID LOVE (8407) married ANNIE MARGARET ARMSTRONG IN 1873.

SOURCE of INFORMATION

Ireland Civil Registration Index 1845-1958

LDS film #101252

Volume 17 Page 369

Digital GS number 4179385

Image number 00096.

     ANNIE MARGARET ARMSTRONG (8408). ANNIE (8408) was born 1849. ANNIE (8408) died 1911 at an unknown age.

135. SAMUEL¹¹ LOVE (117210) (SAMUEL¹⁰, HUGH⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹) was born in 1781 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. He married SARAH (--?--) (117211). He died on 8 November 1879 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. He was buried on 10 November 1879 in Scarvagherin Cem., Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

     SAMUEL LOVE (117210) received the flax entitlement. In 1796 the government decided to encourage the growing of flax in Ireland to compete against the English imports. This was called the Flax Seed Entitlement but only approved men received this issue of seed. Samuel Love Sr. was one of the men in Crew Townland who received the seed.

          SAMUEL LOVE and his brother JAMES took over the land

 which in 1771 and 1777 had been shown as SAMUEL LOVE so presumably he was their father. P.R.O.N.I. file D623/D1/23. LDS film # 1885920. Copies of the rental maps showing the exact location and lists detailing the quality of the land are in my files.

      SAMUEL was leasing 34 acres in 1860 in Crew Townland. This is shown in the 1860 survey made of Strabane Manor. PRONI file D623/D2/. LDS film # 1885949. Copy is in my files.

     SAMUEL was leasing 34 acres in 1871 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, County Tyrone. P.R.O.N.I. file D623/D2 ITEM 12. Found in LDS film # 1885949. Photocopy of the lease map is in my file.

      Samuel Love II is shown in the Crew Tithe Applotment book 1823-37 but not necessarily for all these years.

     There may be confusion here. It appears that Samuel Sr. #117,390 has taken over the lease of his father , Hugh, most likely when Hugh died. Then it appears that Samuel Jr, #117,210 has taken over the lease formerly held by his father, Samuel Sr. #117390. However the acreage has changed from 21 acres to 45 acres but the area on the 1860 and 1871 lease appears to be the same. There were offers made earlier to take over the lease on plot 5 from another tenant but it ever went through back then. However it may have been settled subsequently and the addition of this acreage from plot 5 appears to make the total for Samuel Jr. up to 45 instead of just 21 acres.

     Samuel Love died on Saturday November 8, 1879. His funeral card read as follows and HRT has a copy.

            Samuel Love. aged 98 years

           At Crew on Saturday, 8th of November 1879

          His remains will be removed for internment in the Burying-ground of Scarvagherin, on Monday, 10 November, at Eleven o'clock a.m. November 1879

     SOURCE of INFORMATION

HILARY TULLOCH, Dublin, Ireland.

     Samuel Love's wife SARAH (--?--) (117211) was born in 1793. She died on 1 October 1856 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

  She was buried after 1 October 1856 in Scarvagherin Cem., Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

     Children of SAMUEL¹¹ LOVE (117210) and SARAH (--?--) (117211) both born in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland, were as follows:

                   235.         i.    HUGH¹² LOVE (117212) was born in 1820. He died on 14 July 1878 in Crew Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland. He was buried after 14 July 1878 in Scarvagherin Cem., Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone, Ireland.

             + 236.       ii.    SAMUEL LOVE (117214) was born in 1829. He married UNKNOWN (--?--) (117294). He died on 20 April 1911. He was buried after 20 April 1911.

137. WILLIAM¹¹ LOVE (117441) (ROBERT¹⁰, WILLIAM⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹) was born circa 1785 in Listymore Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland. He married MARGARET HAMILTON (117443) circa 1815.

  He died on 11 December 1885.

     WILLIAM LOVE (117441) was shown in the Tithes Applotment 1823-37 Book. If this looks too young for William to be paying tithes, remember that it doesn't neccesarily mean that he was paying tithes in all those years but just at some time during that period.

           William was sharing leased land with his brothers James and Thomas in 1835 in Listymore Townland, Ardstraw Parish, County Tyrone. PRONI file D623/421/388.

       WILLIAM LOVE was a witness to a marriage 30 January (June ?) 1842. Taken from the Register of the Ardstraw Presbyterian Church 1832-1867 (largely illegible) P.R.O.N.I. records MIC 1P/50. Supplied by the Ulster Historical Foundation.

        Griffith’s Valuation 1848-1864 shows WILLIAM LOVE leasing 62 acres 0 rods and 25 perches from the Marquis of Abercorn. Assessment was £27 15 shillings for the land and £1 15 shillings for the house. He evidently had a second house which was unoccupied at the time of the valuation.

       Leasing 64 acres. This is not the same location in Listymore that was shown in 1771 for WILLIAM LOVE or in 1805 for his father ROBERT LOVE. P.R.O.N.I. FILE D623/D2 ITEM 12 found in LDS film # 1885949. Copy of lease map in my files

     WILLIAM LOVE was a seat holder at the Second Castlederg Presbyterian Church in 1788 and 1789.

     SOURCE of INFORMATION

   James Emery, Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland through the research of Hilary Tulloch, Dublin, Ireland.

     William Love's wife MARGARET HAMILTON (117443) was born circa 1796.

     Children of WILLIAM¹¹ LOVE (117441) and MARGARET HAMILTON (117443) were as follows:

             + 237.         i.    SALLY (or SARAH)¹² LOVE (122009) was born in 1820 in County Tyrone, Ireland. She married ISAAC GRAHAM (122010).

  She died on 26 July 1891.

             + 238.       ii.    SAMUEL LOVE SR. (117444) was born in 1821 in Listymore Townland, Ardstraw Parish, Tyrone Co., Ireland.

  He married MARY McCLINTOCK (117445) , daughter of THOMAS McCLINTOCK (117446) and MATILDA BLAIR (117447), on 10 June 1844 in Ardstraw Pres. Church, Ardstraw Village, Tyrone Co., Ireland. He died before 1900.

141. WILLIAM¹¹ LOVE (39795) (WILLIAM¹⁰, JOHN⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). WILLIAM (39795) was born 1793 in Shirley Twp., Huntingdon, PA, USA. He married LUCY STEPHENGER (39796) , daughter of ELIZABETH STEPHENGER (55010), at an unknown date. WILLIAM (39795) died before 1870 in New Albany Twp., Floyd, IN, USA, at an unknown age.

WILLIAM LOVE (39795) was living in 1850, age 57, in the City of New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana. His wife LUCY STEPHENGER, age 46 had been born in England. They had been married about 1827 while they were still in Pennsylvania, and that is where their first daughter SARAH ANN was born in 1828. The next child was SIMPKING, age 22 in 1950 and he had been born in England which poses some questions. His mother LUCY and his grandmother ELIZABETH SIMPKING and Lucy's brother JOHN R. SIMPKING had all been born in England and it is possible that Lucy was in England on a family visit when he was born ??

     WILLIAM was a Coppersmith and moved his family around considerably. The next two children, NOAH 18 and MARY ELIZABETH 16 were born in Kentucky. Then the next two, HOLMES 11 and WILLIAM 6 were born in Indiana. where they were living in 1850.

          In 1860, at age 67, WILLIAM LOVE was living in Washington County, Jackson Township, Indiana. His real estate was valued at $300 and personal goods at $200. His occupation was "tinner". His wife was LUCY STEPHENGER, age 55 She had been born in England. They had 2 children, HARRIET age 18, and WILLIAM, age 16. Shown in the 1860 Washington County, Indiana census Roll 306 Book 1 Page 49.

     WILLIAM LOVE died before 1870 His widow LUCY STEPHENGER, age 65, was living in the 1st Ward, New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana. Her house was assessed at $1,200 and personal goods at $400. Three of her children were still living with her. HOLMES R. 31, HARRIET 28 and WILLIAM 26. Also with them was WILLIAM WOOD, age 10, who was the son of Lucy's daughter, SARAH LOVE WOOD. Taken from the 1870 Indiana Census Floyd County Roll 313 Book 1 Page 265.

     William Love's wife LUCY STEPHENGER (39796) was born 1804 in Carlysle, Cumberland, England.

     Children of WILLIAM¹¹ LOVE (39795) and LUCY STEPHENGER (39796) were as follows:

             + 239.         i.    SIMPKING H.¹² LOVE (55012) SIMPKING (55012) was born 1830 in Carlysle, Cumberland, England. He married CAROLINE ROUCH (55030) 16 November 1858 in Floyd County, IN, USA.

             + 240.       ii.    SARAH ANN LOVE (55011) SARAH (55011) was born 1830 in Kentucky State, USA. She married WILLIAM A. WOOD (55038) 30 November 1851 in Floyd County, IN, USA.

             + 241.      iii.    NOAH LOVE (55013) NOAH (55013) was born 1832 in Kentucky State, USA. He married ELIZA DAVIS (55016) 16 June 1856 in Floyd County, IN, USA.

             + 242.       iv.    MARY ELIZABETH LOVE (55014) MARY (55014) was born 1834 in Kentucky State, USA. She married WILLIAM A. WELLS (55037) 14 August 1853 in Floyd County, IN, USA. MARY (55014) died 29 October 1918 in New Albany Twp., Floyd, IN, USA, at an unknown age.

                   243.         v.    HOLMES R. LOVE (55015). HOLMES (55015) was born July 1839 in Indiana State, USA. HOLMES (55015) died 28 June 1916 in New Albany Twp., Floyd, IN, USA, at age 76.

HOLMES R. LOVE (55015) was living in Ward 1, New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana in 1870, age 31. He was a farmer. His widowed mother LUCY, age 62, was living with him but it showed the property still belonged to her, with real estate valued at $1200 and personal goods at $400 Brother WILLIAM LOVE, age 26, was with them as well as a nephew WILLIAM WOOD age 10. He was the son of Holmes sister SARAH ANN. Shown in 1870 Indiana Census for New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana.

    By 1880 HOLMES LOVE, age 40 had moved to Union Township, Montgomery County, Indiana. His spinster sister HARRIET, age 38, was still living with him. He was a tinsmith. Taken from the 1880 Indiana Census.

     In 1900 HOLMES LOVE, age 60 was living at 1402 Elm Street in New Albany. His sister HARRIET still lived with him but also a niece, MARY E. WOOD, age 42, daughter of their sister SARH ANN LOVE.

     The 1910 census shows them all living at the same place.

      R. Holmes Love died on 28 June 1916 as shown in Book CH-23 Page 96 Indiana Works Progress Administration.

                   244.       vi.    HARRIET ELLA LOVE (39797). HARRIET (39797) was born November 1841 in Indiana State, USA. HARRIET (39797) died before 1920 in New Albany Twp., Floyd, IN, USA, at an unknown age.

HARRIET ELLA LOVE (39797) had moved to Union Township, Montgomery County, Indiana by 1880, when she was 31. Her bachelor brother HOLMES was living with her. Taken from the 1880 Indiana Census.

     In 1900 HARRIETT was living at 1402 Elm Street in New Albany. Her brother HOLMES was still lived with her but also a niece, MARY E. WOOD, age 42, daughter of their sister SARAH ANN LOVE.

     The 1910 census shows them all living at the same place but HOLMES and HARRIETT must have died before 1920 as they are not in that year's census.

                   245.      vii.    WILLIAM LOVE (39798). WILLIAM (39798) was born 1844 in Indiana State, USA.

144. WILLIAM¹¹ LOVE (47) (JAMES¹⁰, JOHN⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). WILLIAM (47) was born 25 February 1799 in Shirley Twp., Huntingdon, PA, USA. He married CHRISTINA McLAUGHLIN (40324) , daughter of JAMES McLAUGHLIN (40326), 8 February 1827. WILLIAM (47) died at an unknown date at sea at an unknown age.

WILLIAM LOVE (47) came to Canada with his parents and resided with them on Lot 67 Concession 1, King Township, York County, Ontario . WILLIAM married CHRISTINA McLAUGHLIN on 8 February 1827 when he was living in West Gwillimbury Township, York County, Ontario. Family stories say WILLIAM went to sea and must have died there as he was never heard from again. His wife gave birth to JAMES after WILLIAM had been lost, about 1828.

            SOURCE of INFORMATION

AMERICAN LOYALISTS Page 207.

     Children of WILLIAM¹¹ LOVE (47) and CHRISTINA McLAUGHLIN (40324) were:

                   246.         i.    JAMES¹² LOVE (8936). JAMES (8936) was born circa 1828 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. JAMES (8936) died at an unknown date at an unknown age.

JAMES LOVE (8936) was the son of WILLIAM LOVE and CRISTINA McLAUGHLIN. Family stories say WILLIAM went to sea and must have died there as he was never heard from again. His wife gave birth to JAMES after WILLIAM had been lost, about 1828.

        JAMES came to Canada for a visit a number of years later, for about two weeks but then returned to the United States. We know nothing further about him.

145. JOHN¹¹ LOVE SR. (48) (JAMES¹⁰, JOHN⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). JOHN (48) was born 24 May 1801 in Shirley Twp., Huntingdon, PA, USA. He married VIOLET HUGHEY (2518) , daughter of JAMES HUGHEY (40320) and ELIZABETH (--?--) (40321), 2 May 1833 in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. JOHN (48) died 26 August 1874 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada, at age 73. His body was interred after 26 August 1874 in Temperanceville Ch. Cem., York, ON, Canada.

     JOHN LOVE SR. (48) who had been born in Shirley Township, Huntingdon County Pennsylvania on 24 May 1801, was only 2 to 3 months old when his parents departed for Canada. Family stories say his mother carried him in her arms as she road horseback while the men walked. This is very likely true as we know they didn't start until August which is verified by the bible they brought with them which is inscribed, "James Love purchased this book in Chambersburg, August 1801, for 9s/6d." We also know they arrived in York County Ontario by November 1801 and it probably took them 4 to 6 weeks to make the long journey through the mountains and woods.

      At the time PERCY LOVE was doing his research in the 1920s, this bible was in the possession of Rev. J. F. Dyer of Aurora. He was the husband of RUTH LOVE, daughter of MATTHEW LOVE and a niece of JOHN LOVE. In trying to trace the bible, I found that Ruth Love Dyer had died in 1924 and her husband, Rev. Dyer in 1925. They did not have any children so what happened to the bible is still a mystery. It was valuable in our search as it verified the dates of birth for JOHN and WILLIAM and it also gave us the rough locality of where JAMES LOVE and MARY UTLEY had started their journey.

    The lot JOHN LOVE purchased was next to his father. John bought Lot 66 Concession 1 King Township, York County from Leonard Wilcox, 100 acres 13 February 1833 Registered 18 March 1833 Instrument # 9592 for £ 200 [$800.] Copy of this deed is in my files. Less than 2 months later, JOHN LOVE married VIOLET HUGHEY on 2 May 1833. She was the daughter of another early pioneer family in the district.

     ONTARIO MARRIAGE REGISTER - JOHN LOVE to VIOLET HUGHEY, both of King. 2 May 1833, King. Rev. Robert Carson. Witnesses Jonathon Beynon and James Love. From the Marriage Registers of Upper Canada / Canada West, Volume 11 Part 1, Home District 1808-1836.The Marriage Register of Rev. Robert Carson, Episcopalian Methodist Minister.

       Then 2 years later JOHN sold one acre to the Trustees of the Methodist Congregation for a Meeting House and Burying Ground. They paid him £5 [$20]. The Deed is dated 12 December 1835 Registered 17 September 1836 Instrument # 13220 and a copy of this deed is in my files. This is the location of the Temperanceville United Church in 1994 which today is on the northeast corner of Bathurst Street and King Sideroad.

     However the wording of this Deed is interesting as the date is 7 years before it became legal for a Methodist minister to perform a marriage. Up to 1842 in Upper Canada, a person had to be married legally by a Church of England [Anglican] minister if they were of the Protestant faith. As this Deed shows they were allowing churches of different faiths to be built. It is a very long Deed but only the preamble is pertinent to the laws concerning churches.

       "To the Register of the County of York in the Home District. A Memorial of an Indenture of Bargain and Sale in the words following. Whereas and is and by Statute of the Province of Upper Canada, set forth in the Ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, entitled and set forth for the relief of the Religious Societies herein named. It is enacted that whereas any Religious congregation or Society of Presbyterians, Lutheran, Calvinist, Methodist Congregationalists, Quaker, Mennonite, Luiken (?) and Moravians shall have an occasion to take a conveyance of land for the site of a Church, Meeting House, Chapel or Burying Ground. It shall and may be lawful for them to appoint Trustees to whom and to their successors to be appointed in such manner as specified in the Deed etc. etc "

    The Wesleyan Methodist Church of British North America appointed the following Trustees, Barnes Beynon, William Ghent (?), James Love, Jonathon Beynon, Jacob Raun, Thomas Beynon and Matthew Love. By this Deed the property was turned over to these Trustees on behalf of the little Methodist Congregation which at the time of this Deed was still meeting in the original log cabin church. This had been known as "Love's Meeting House" or "Love's Appointment"..

      Back in the early 1800s the Clerk of King Township, York County kept some very valuable records from the Minutes of Council Meetings. It is also fortunate that a later Clerk in the 20th century, who was interested in the history of the Township, extracted all the pertinent information about people who lived in King Township in the early 19th century.

     The following shows the extent of JOHN LOVE's involvement in the community.

     1836 minutes Pound Keeper

     1838 minutes Highway Overseer.

     1840 minutes Highway Overseer.

     1840 minutes Pathmaster

     1851 minutes Pathmaster - Beat 10 Lots 4 to 8 Concession 2 Line

         JOHN LOVE was farming in King Township, York County, Ontario in 1871 according to the Ontario Census Reel C9964 Page 11. He and his family were still adhering to the Wesleyan Methodist faith which was the faith of his father and mother. He undoubtedly attended the Temperanceville Church for which he had sold a corner of his land and which had been built from bricks made by his younger brother ROBERT.

         " During the early life of JOHN LOVE he met with an accident with a gun and was blind in one eye. From a communication from one of the older members of the family I have been advised that he was a great sportsman who would get his duck or fish and be in for early breakfast. The same party also stated that he was e very early riser, four o'clock being his hour for rising in the summer time and was a very hard worker. He broke his health down with hard work and eventually overworked when old and died within a few days. It has been told that a few days before his death they were taking in the harvest and the weather was very uncertain. He overworked at this time in pitching hay and in a few days died." This is from the notes made by PERCY LOVE in 1923/5 when he was doing his genealogy of the Loves at Love's Corners.

      The 1871 King Township census shows JOHN, age 70 and it accurately says he was born in the USA. VIOLET, his wife, age 60, JOHN 26, MARY 24, ELIZABETH 22, EDGERTON 19 and WILLIAM DAVID age 17. All in York County 1871 Census King Township A Division 1 Page 11 Reel C9964.

      JOHN and his wife VIOLET HUGHEY were buried in the little pioneer cemetery behind the church. Today it is at the corner of Bathurst Street and King City Sideroad. The Temperanceville United Church as seen today was the third Methodist Church built on this site.

1846, King Twp., York Co., Ontario Provice, Canada.

surname, concession & lot #, township

Love, James 6 12, King £100

Love, James 1 67, King £100

Love, John 1 66, King £100.

From Brown's Toronto City and Home District Directory 1846-7 (Toronto: George Brown, 1846), p.42.

        In a letter DAVID LOVE, JOHN's brother, wrote to his niece JANE DAWSON in Indiana, USA on 3 April 1874, he stated that his brother JOHN LOVE was very feeble. We know now that JOHN died on 26 August 1874, just 4 months later.

                                           WILL of JOHN LOVE

                        Registered 14 April 1869 Instrument # 2685

         Held in Land Record Office in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

     In the name of God, Amen, I John Love of the Township of King in the County of York in Province of Ontario, Farmer, do hereby revoke all former wills, codicils and other testamentary dispositions whatever heretofore made by me and being of sound and disposing mind and memory, Do make and declare this to be my last Will and Testament in manner following that is to say.

           First - I commit my body to the earth to be decently entered by my Executors hereinafter named and my Sprit to God who gave it.

     Second - As to my worldly estate I will and direct that all my just debts, funeral testamentary expenses be paid by my said Executors out of my personal estate.

     Third - I give devise and bequeath unto my beloved wife Violet all my real estate hereinafter described together with all my personal property of which I may die possessed and undisposed of by my Executors for the payment of debts and excepting the goods and chattels hereinafter specified to be granted to my daughters to be by them held, used and enjoyed for and during the term o f their natural life.

     Fourth - I give and devise to my three sons, John, Edgerton, and William David, all my real estate consisting of ninety-nine acres of land being the West half of Lot number sixty-six in the first Concession of the said Township of King, to be held and enjoyed by them in fee after the death of my Wife and in the following proportions. To William David the South West two acres of the said lot Adjoining the Wesleyan Methodist Church property and may be better known and described as follows. Commencing at the South East corner of the said Church property, thence North thirteen rods to a point. Thence East twenty-six rods to a point. Thence south thirteen rods to a point. Thence West along the side line twenty-six rods to the place of beginning. To John the West half of the remaining portion of my said farm and to Edgerton the remaining portion of my said farm and being the East half to be equally divided between the said John and Edgerton by a line run North and South in the middle of the said land. so divided as aforesaid to the said John and Edgerton.

     Fifth - I also give and bequeath to my said sons John and Edgerton to be used and enjoyed between them in equal shares after the death of their said Mother, all the said personal property so as aforesaid bequeathed to to my said wife. For her lifetime.

     Sixth - And I hereby charge all the said West half of the said farm hereby devised to my said son John with the payment by him, his heirs, Executors, Administrators and assigns therewith of the following six legacies. To my daughter Jane, wife of James Carscadden of the township of King, the sum of Two hundred dollars within one year after the decease of my said wife without interest and failing her decease before mine or before the said legacy becomes due and then payable to the heirs of her body. To my daughter Rachel, wife of Mitchell Raney Saigeon of the said Township of King, the sum of Two hundred dollars within two years after the decease of my said wife without interest and failing her decease before mine or before the said legacy becomes due and payable then to the heirs of her body. To my daughter Lydia the sum of Three hundred dollars within three years after the decease of my said wife without interest and failing her decease before mine or before the said legacy becomes due and payable then to the heirs of her body. To my daughter Mary the sum of Three hundred dollars within four years after the decease of my said wife without interest and failing her decease before mine or before the said legacy becomes due and payable then to the heirs of her body. To my daughter Elizabeth the s um of Three hundred dollars within five years of the decease of my said wife without interest and failing her decease before mine or before the said legacy becomes due and payable then to the heirs of her body As to my son William David aforenamed the sum of Four hundred dollars within six years after the decease of my said wife without interest and failing his decease before mine or before the legacy is due and payable then to the heirs of his body

     Seventh - I also further give and bequeath to each of my three unmarried daughters Lydia, Mary and Elizabeth, their bed, bedstead and bedding and also to each six sheep and one cow.

     Eighth - And I hereby further declare it to be my will that in the event of the death of either of my said sons in my lifetime or either before or after such deceased son may have come into possession of his particular share or portion of the said farm so as above devised to him without leaving lawful issue that their such share or portion of the said farm belonging to such son as may so die shall go to and be the property of his surviving brother or brothers as the case may be in equal proportions share and share alike in which case (excepting it be the event of my son William David's death) it is my will that my surviving son or sons who may become so possessed of their deceased brothers property shall equally contribute and pay forthwith on their becoming so possessed unto each of their said above named sisters if living and whether married or unmarried the further sum of one hundred dollars,

     Ninth and Lastly - I hereby appoint James Barnes Beynon of the Township of King in the County of York, Farmer, Mitchell Raney Saigeon of the same place, Farmer, and Alexander Fleury of the Village of Aurora in the same County of York, Machinist, Executors of this my Last Will and Testament.

     In witness whereof I John Love have to this my Last Will and Testament written on four pages of paper of which this is the fifth, set my hand and seal by directing the same to be written by James W. Severs for me this Fourteenth day of April in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine.

                                                                              Signed - John Love

     Signed, Sealed, published and Declared by the above named testator as and for his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.

     G .L Stevenson of Aurora, Sadler

     J. Fleury of Aurora, Manufacturer.

     John Love's wife VIOLET HUGHEY (2518) was born 30 April 1814 in Ireland. VIOLET (2518) died 5 June 1884 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada, at age 70. Her body was interred after 5 June 1884 in Temperanceville Ch. Cem., York, ON, Canada.

VIOLET HUGHEY (2518) and her children had to take various actions because of her deceased husband's will. It appears that legally they considered sons EDGERTON, WILLIAM DAVID and JOHN as owning the 100 acres rather than widow VIOLET owning the property until her death. On 31 December 1877, they all took a mortgage on the property, including SARAH the wife of JOHN, for $600 from Francis and John Cosgrove. It was registered on 4 January 1878 Instrument # 2682. The interet was 8% and the principal to be paid off in 3 years. It was discharged on 4 January 1881 Instrument # 3756. All held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

    The widow VIOLET and her grown children were having a very difficult time financially. On 18 February 1879 they had to put a second mortgage on the property. This was given by John Coulter for $550 at 8% interest. By this time EDGERTON had married CATHERINE McKINNON, brother JOHN was married to SARAH and both the wives as well as the widow VIOLET, had to "bar" (waive) their dower rights to the property. Registered 18 February 1879 Instrument # 3130. This was discharged on 27 February 1886 Instrument # 5169. All held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

       How they managed this next one, I can't imagine, but the same individuals on 28 December 1880 took a third mortgage on the property of $1,300 from Samuel Machell Registered 7 January 1881 instrument # 3642. This was discharged on 7 March 1885 Instrument # 4853. All held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

              VIOLET was shown in the 1881 census King Township Division 5 Page 21, VIOLET LOVE, age 66, living with her daughter ELIZABETH LOVE, age 31. Her husband JOHN LOVE had died in 1874.

           VIOLET HUGHEY widow of JOHN LOVE made her Will on 24 April 1884 and died on 5 June 1884. She bequeathed $50 to her son JOHN LOVE to be paid within 5 years after her death. All of the 2 acres of land, the house and all personal goods were bequeathed to her daughter ELIZABETH LOVE, who had never married. This property on Lot 66 Concession 1 King Township, York County, Ontario, was immediately east of the one acre held by the Temperanceville Methodist Church on the corner of what is now Bathurst Street and King Side Road and faced on the latter. It was the same 2 acres left to their son WILLIAM DAVID LOVE in his father's Will. He had sold this property to his mother when he emigrated to Manitoba.

           VIOLET appointed as Executors, William Norman of Whitchurch Township, John Saigeon and William Butler, both of King Township. The Witnesses were Lydia Rayson and Samuel Machell.

           It was registered 28 March 1885 Book 18 # 4881 and is held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

      The widow VIOLET died on 5 June 1884. On 4 September 1884, all the children who still had a claim on the original Will of their father JOHN, Bargained and Sold the whole farm of 97 acres to William Butler for $5,300. It was registered on 9 March 1885 Instrument # 4854 and is held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

     Children of JOHN¹¹ LOVE SR. (48) and VIOLET HUGHEY (2518) all born in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada, were as follows:

                   247.         i.    MARY¹² LOVE (27363). MARY (27363) was born 20 January 1834. MARY (27363) died 25 September 1834 in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age at an unknown age. Her body was interred after 25 September 1834 in Temperanceville Ch. Cem., York, ON, Canada.

             + 248.       ii.    JANE LOVE (8938) JANE (8938) was born 18 October 1835. She married JOHN GLASS (34713) 28 July 1886 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. JANE (8938) died 23 January 1916 at age 80. Her body was interred after 23 January 1916.

             + 249.      iii.    RACHEL LOVE (8939) RACHEL (8939) was born 13 August 1837. She married MICHAEL RENE SAIGEON JR. (34712) , son of MICHAEL RENE SAIGEON SR. (36204) and SARAH B. LUTZ (36205), 27 July 1854 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. RACHEL (8939) died 21 February 1885 at age 47. Her body was interred after 21 February 1885.

                   250.       iv.    LYDIA (LILLY) LOVE (8940). LYDIA (8940) was born 14 June 1839. She married JOSEPH RAYSON (34714) 20 January 1871. LYDIA (8940) died 8 January 1913 in Alliston, Simcoe, ON, Canada, at age 73. Her body was interred after 8 January 1913 in Alliston Cem., Alliston, Simcoe, ON, Canada.

LYDIA (LILLY) LOVE (8940) married JOSEPH RAYSON in King Townshp, York County Ontario on 20 January 1871.

ONTARIO MARRIAGE REGISTRATION Vol 11 pg 274 (York Co) : Joseph RAYSON, 47, widower, merchant, England, Alliston - Tecumseh twp., s/o James & Hannah FOSTER (probably should have been RAYSON), married Lydia LOVE, 31, Ontario, King twp., d/o John V. & Violet, witn: Sarah HODGSON of Tecumseh, 21 Jan 1871 at King.

            ARLA LOVE ROBINSON, Denare Beach, Saskatchewan, has sent me information from the 1881 Canadian Census Household Record. It shows the following.

                        JOSEPH RAYSON England Merchant 58

                     LYDIA RAYSON Ontario Irish 38 (should be 32)

                     MARGARET RAYSON Ontario 16

                     ADDISON J. RAYSON Ontario 13

                     Census Place Alliston, Simcoe South Ontario

          The above 2 children must have been born to Joseph's first wife whose name we don't know and whose death date we don't know. JOSEPH RAYSON and wife LYDIA are shown in 1901 Census for Alliston, Simcoe South at ages 78 and 63.

     LYDIA LOVE and her husband JOSEPH RAYSON are shown in the Ontario Census living in Alliston, Simcoe South, subdistrict B# Page 6. Taken from NA Schedule 1 Microfilm T-6497.

           JOSEPH was a retail merchant in Alliston, Simcoe County, Ontario.

    Lydia Love's husband JOSEPH RAYSON (34714) was born 6 November 1822 in Carlysle, Cumberland, England. He married UNKNOWN (--?--) (40385) at an unknown date. JOSEPH (34714) died June 1913 in Alliston, Simcoe, ON, Canada, at age 90. His body was interred June 1913 in Alliston Cem., Alliston, Simcoe, ON, Canada.

                   251.         v.    LAVINA LOVE (8941). LAVINA (8941) was born 5 April 1841. LAVINA (8941) died 3 June 1860 in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 19. Her body was interred after 3 June 1860 in Temperanceville Ch. Cem., York, ON, Canada.

                   252.       vi.    JAMES LOVE (8942). JAMES (8942) was born 24 February 1843. JAMES (8942) died 10 March 1844 in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 1. His body was interred after 16 March 1844 in Temperanceville Ch. Cem., York, ON, Canada.

             + 253.     vii.    JOHN LOVE JR. (8943) JOHN (8943) was born 5 November 1844. He married SARAH HODGSON (39983) , daughter of THOMAS PIERSON HODGSON (73943) and MARY ANN SARAH MARGARET DRUMOND (73944), 19 March 1872 in Alliston, Simcoe, ON, Canada. JOHN (8943) died April 1909 at age 64. His body was interred 19 April 1909.

                   254.     viii.    MARY LOVE (8944). MARY (8944) was born 16 May 1846. She was baptized 12 January 1847 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. She married JOHN McKINNON (9531) , son of LAUGHLIN McKINNON (35889) and MARGARET CUMMINGS (35886), 6 February 1877 in Aurora, York, ON, Canada. MARY (8944) died at an unknown date in Balmoral, MB, Canada, at an unknown age.

 ONTARIO MARRIAGE REGISTRATION #012607 John McKINNON, 29, born P.E. Island Canada, Markham Twp, farmer, bachelor, s/o Laughlin & Margaret McKINNON, married Mary LOVE, 29, King Twp, same, spinster, d/o John & Violet LOVE, witn; William PAXTON, Elizabeth LOVE, both King, married 6 February 1877, Aurora. by Rev. George Bishop. Microfilm Reel # 26.

      MARY LOVE and her husband JOHN McKINNON, emigrated to Manitoba about the same time in 1880 as her brothers EDGERTON and WILLIAM DAVID LOVE. They are shown in the Canadian Census Household Record as living in Rockwood, Lisgar, Manitoba. Brother WILLIAM DAVID was living with them. This move was before 1 May 1880 because in a letter Mary Elizabeth (Libby) Love, daughter of Robert Love, wrote to her cousin Jane Love In Illinois on 1 May 1880, she says " Will and Mary and her husband. Mr Mckinon went to Manitoba this spring. "

      On 27 June 1888 MARY LOVE and her husband JOHN McKINNON signed a Release in connection with any claim she might have on her deceased father and mother's farm in King Township, York County, Ontario, Lot 66 Concession 1. Registered 18 July 1888 Instrument # 5807 held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

     In 1901, JOHN McKINNON, age 54, and his wife, MARY LOVE, age 55, were living in Selkirk District, Manitoba, Subdistrict Rockwood H6, Page 10. NA Schedule 1 Microfilm T-6435.

           SOURCE of INFORMATION

 MRS. ARLA LOVE ROBINSON, Denare Beach, Saskatchewan, Canada.

     JOHN McKINNON (9531). JOHN (9531) was born 5 June 1847 in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

                   255.       ix.    ELIZABETH (LIZZIE) LOVE (8945). ELIZABETH (8945) was born 19 May 1848. She was baptized 27 August 1848 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. ELIZABETH (8945) died 20 January 1899 in Toronto, York, ON, Canada, at age 50. Her body was interred after 20 January 1899 in Temperanceville Ch. Cem., York, ON, Canada.

     ELIZABETH (LIZZIE) LOVE (8945) on 21 March 1885 EDGERTON LOVE, who was living in Brandon, Manitoba, gave his sister ELIZABETH a mortgage of $275 on the property she had inherited from her mother VIOLET HUGHEY. It was to be paid off $25 at times suitable to Elizabeth but all of it was to be paid by 5 June 1889. This Indenture was #4883 King Township, York County, Ontario and is held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

           Her brother JOHN LOVE had to make a declaration on 25 March 1885 that he had received from ELIZABETH the legacy stipulated in his mother's Will of $50. This is shown in Document # 4882 King Township which is held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

                         1n 2003/4 two very dedicated genealogists for the JONES family in the USA,, Wilene Smith of Kansas and Brenda Boyer of Louisiana, discovered a treasure trove of photos, postcards and letters, from the mid to late 19th century. These had been held by Mr. J. D. Harper of Greenup, Illinois, When he died, his sons David and Daniel took possession and have since generously allowed them to be copied.

               Wilene and Brenda found that JAMES LOVE JR. son of JAMES LOVE SR. and MARY UTLEY, had married MARY JANE JONES (widow Dawson) in Indiana, USA. They were kind enough to share these priceless artifacts with me and they turned out to contain an astonishing amount of family information from those times.

          It appears that JAMES LOVE's daughter JANE was the main instigator of the correspondence with her uncles back in Canada and her relatives in the USA. It seems she was interested in building family genealogy and kept prodding them for more information. It was JANE LOVE, and her cousin LILLICE JONES, who originally preserved all these letters, photos and postcards so we are so lucky to have them now. However nobody, so far, has found JANE's letters that she wrote so profusely to her relatives, which is too bad as it would have been very interesting to see her side of the correspondence.

          The names of these amazing genealogists are below and I owe them many, many thanks for sharing this information.

              WILENE SMITH, Wichita, Kansas, USA who has placed the photos on Internet. They can be accessed at http://hometown.aol.com/chloeqcumber/Jones-Love.html

              BRENDA BOYER, Carencro, Louisiana, USA who did the hard work of transribing the letters and reading the usually difficult handwriting.

      Letters from ELIZABETH (LIZZIE) LOVE to her cousin JANE LOVE in Illinois

     "Temperancevill November 3th / 86

     Dear Cousin Jane

          no Doubt you will be Surprise to get A letter from me I was a little girl when you left here I dont remember you as any of the Family all our Famely is Married but me and Scattered though this World I Stop with Mother untill she died 6 month after her death Rachel died O I wish I could die to often wonder what my life is sparried for I am trouble with the Asthma sometimes I am very bad I never was strong like the rest of the Famely I gave up house keeping when Mother died I went to live with the rest of the farmely but no place was home to me I came back to my own house in Temperancevill I have rented the house and reserved two rooms to my self and I am at home now I am so happy that I cant find words to tell you the people is very kind to me that lives in part of the house I am not to be trusted alone very long I saw the lost letter that you sent I take spell something like you do it is a years since I first taking them sometimes I am for month without one then I will take one a month for two or 3 month I have taking them oftener since Mother died I think because I fretted so much it seem so hard to lose her and Rachel so near together how long are you in one of those spell I am 15 to 20 minuits if I onely knew when I hat them it would not seem so hard I used to to take them in the night this last two years in day light Mother used to say I took them with a Scream I have tried a great Many Docters some say one thing another Doc say something Else I am never was strong that I will be all right when I get to be 45 years old how may years is it since you have taken them what do you think of the Faith cure I think we had better try it a woman around here has tried she was sick for years she says she is cured are you able to work any I do my own work and sew sometimes none of my folks wanted me to go house keeping they all more contented now my health is so much better excuse my Scribbling I am a very poor writer Hopping to hear from you soon write to Temperancvill if we never meet on hearth we may meet where parting is no more good by remember me

Yours Cousin Lizzie Love

to Jane Love"

      "Temperancevill Jan 26th / 87

     Dear Cousin

          I recived you letter sometime ago you must excuse me for not writing sooner I am fealing splendid now and have good health I am trying the Faith cure and I knew that I am healed I feal to day A Stronger Chiristian than I ever did before I haven had none of those spell for 3 months or more I got a little coal at (?)am times and it settle on my Lungs I diden take any medicine I think it was sent to try my Faith some would come in and say to me what good did the Faith cure do for me I told them they would see on time I thought they would have a Doe but I woulden give in to have one but thank God I feal perfectly cured to night Dear Cousin I wish you would try it is about ? month ago since I have try it I had one of those spell A few days before I tryed the cure Mrs Glass has moved back to Temperancevill she think it is lonely without Mother living here it has been a very coal winter and lots of snow I am writng to Aunt Mary Ann Love to day I am going to Aurora to visit (?)sis (?)her I am going to stop a few days I always enjoyed a visit with (?)Morah Love Ruth Dyer lives in the States I dont knew her adress I will tell you the next time I write look over all Mistakes please write soon and remember me ever your

     Cousin Lizzie Love"

          "TemperanceVille May 24 [postmark on envelope 1887]

     Dear Cousin

          I know answer your kind letter which I received some time ago. Sorry to hear of your health being so poorly. My own is splendid. We are having beautiful weather now, the seeding is al done the grain is up. We had quite a rain to day Everything Looks beautiful now. I am living alone now. To day is the twenty fourth of May I had quite a bit of company in. It seemed like old times again Mr and Mrs Glass and family are all well.

The rest of your friends are well The Aurora Circuit is going to be by itself. Temperance Ville and the country is going to be a circuit itself. I dont know if they will build the Parsonage here or not. We will know in June. If they build here I will sell them the land and they will build beside me.

     The tenants I have in my house are poor pay masters I got no pay since New Years they are going to leave this week.

     I want to get a dressmaker in the house with me. I get all the sewing and rugging I can do. I put all my own garden in I am going to have a nice lot of fruit I rent all the land but the garden.

     I have not heard from Manitoba for some time. I have no Photo's when I get some taken I will give you one. I would like to have yours Pray for me that if we never meet here on earth we may meet In a better place.

Write soon Good-bye.

from your Cousin Lizzie Love"

     "Temperance Vill Agust 17th 87

     Dear Cousin Jane

I recived your letter sometime ago I was glad to hear from you my health is splended this summer I was up to Saigaen for 5 weeks he is poorely himself I had hard work to get home again it is so lonely without Rachel the two oldst boys are merried tow of the boys are teaching the oldest girl is very poor health She has two work to hard the youngest girl go to School She is 13 the oldest gal is 18 she had 8 boys 2 girls living Jane and her old man are well her boy has been laid up with the Rheumatisim he is getting around the two girls are well my Broth John is living in turonto he has two boys Lilly lives 40 miles from here she has (?)no children Mary is in manitba she has no children she is well I herd from her a few day ago Edgerton is in the North West he has 4 girls William is their two he is not married Our famely is all Scattered Mirrah Love is going to write to you Aunt Juley is well I was out their to see her this summer she wish to be remmbered to you She pray for your ever day they are all Married but John and Lydia their are on the old farm the rest of them are Scattered around jimmie is in the States george in Markham Henery in aurora William and Robert and Mary is up North Uncle Jonathan famely is Scattered also Elijah lives on the old home Lissie and Mary jane keep house for him Sarah lives in Toronto those 4 is not marrid Isiah has 8 childrean he lives in toronto John lives on Tom Beynon old homestead he has two childrean Mariah lives in California she has a large famely Essey about 20 miles north she has 8 childrean I dont know much about uncle Robert famely Aunt Mary Ann lives Mount forest the are all married but two we have had a very hot and dry summer I had a very good garden plenty of Fruit I Sent you my Fotho some time ago tell me if you got it I had it taken Just after Mother died I am waiting to get yours their is a great deal of Sickness around this summer and Deaths old and young I think I have told you all the news for this time Hopping to hear from soon I wish you was able to come over and see us all write TempranceVille from you Cousin

     Lissie Love

excuse bad writing I am such a poor writer I am ashamed of it."

     "Temperansevill Oct 26th 1887

     Dear Cousin jane

     I have started to write to you several times but never finished I hope I will finish this time Dear Cousin since I wrote last I have had a sore trial to bear my Brother William is dead he was shot the 18 of Dec he suffered no pain he asked for me a few minuits before he died it seem so hard to give him up but the Lord knows best my health is splendid now I had (?)od weak spells but I freet so much I think was the cause of it how is your helth it is coal to day Aunt Mary Ann Love was here when I got word about my Brother heath I dont know what I would have done if she haden been here she came just in time of need She Stop a week with me Henry Saigeon is very low with typhoid feaver Rachels son he was teaching school

I cant think of any more to write this time I want you to pray for me I am very weak just now Aunt Mary Ann wishes to be Remembered to you

     Your affectionat Cos

     Lizzie Love

Please write soon I am very lonely this last month"

     "Hollen. Jan. 22th. 88.

            Dear Cousin

     I recieved your letter some time ago. I have heen to Saigeon's for about two months. They have had typhoid fever here but are better now. I am well. We have lots of sleighing now pretty cold weather. Mrs Glass and family are well I am going to Mt Forest next week to Aunt Mary Ann Love's and from their to Alliston to Lillies for a couple of weeks and then home. I got a letter from Edgerton. he wants me to go our there and take up Wiliam's land. My Brother John and Jane are both against me going. Edgerton thinks I will miss it if I dont go. I am in trouble about what to do. If I do go I made up my mind to stop a while. Old Mrs John Fleury is dead they Just moved to Temperance Ville about a week. They found her dead in bed She had been afflicted fro twenty years and not able to walk. The people around Temperance Ville have got the fever for Toronto. Quiet a few have sold farms and gone ther. Isiah Beynon has moved. The last I heard from Temperance Ville Lizzie Beynon was sick This has been a dull winter to me. Saigeon is very lonesome he frets a great deal he seems to miss Rachel more and more everyday. If ever a mother was missed in a family it was here. His two oldest sons are married. She has ten children living two girls & 8 boys. The youngest 11 past and the oldest girl is 20 past and the youngest 14 past. They are keeping house for their father.

The girls in Aurora were well the last I heard.

I guess I must stop as I have told you all the new. Write soon direct it Temperance Ville your true cousin

     Lizzie Love."

              ELIZABETH LOVE, Spinster, wrote her Will on 22 March 1889 but her actual death wasn't until 20 January 1899. She was living in a house on one and a half acres bequeathed to her by her mother VIOLET HUGHEY. It faced King Side Road on Lot 66 Concession 1 King Township, York County and was immediately east of the Temperanceville Methodist Church.

             She bequeathed all of her real estate and personal goods to her sister LYDIA, married to JOSEPH RAYSON, who were living in Alliston, Ontario. However there was a stipulation that LYDIA would have to pay to another sister MARY, married to JOHN McKINNON, and living in Manitoba, $100 in 4 equal payments to be made within one year after ELIZABETH's death.

             The Executor appointed was Henry James Saigeon of King Township. The Witnesses were John T. Saigeon and Agnes Saigeon. The Will was Registered 20 April 1899 Book 24 King Township, # 8933 and is held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

                   256.         x.    ISABELLA LOVE (8946). ISABELLA (8946) was born 26 December 1849. She was baptized 12 May 1850 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. ISABELLA (8946) died 23 June 1852 in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 2. Her body was interred after 23 June 1852 in Temperanceville Ch. Cem., York, ON, Canada.

             + 257.       xi.    EDGERTON RYERSON LOVE (8947) EDGERTON (8947) was born 26 August 1851. He married CATHERINE RACHEL McKINNON (32113) , daughter of LAUGHLIN McKINNON (35889) and MARGARET CUMMINGS (35886), 1 January 1878 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. EDGERTON (8947) died 4 September 1928 at age 77. His body was interred 6 September 1928.

                   258.      xii.    WILLIAM DAVID LOVE (8948). WILLIAM (8948) was born 7 June 1853. WILLIAM (8948) died 18 September 1887 in Pense, SK, Canada, at age 34. His body was interred after 18 September 1887 in Pense Anglican Cem., Pense, SK, Canada.

     WILLIAM DAVID LOVE (8948) in his father's Will, received 2 acres of Lot 66 Concession 1. In the Will there was legal confusion as to whether he actually owned this land before the death of his mother. However on 12 July 1878 he sold one quarter acre of this to his mother for $50. It was registered 26 July 1878 Instrument # 2884 held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

         Then on 27 December 1880 he sold another 2 acres to his mother for $200. it was registered on 10 February 1881 Instrument # 3681 held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario. The Indenture dated 27 December 1880 shows he was already farming in Lisgar County, Manitoba.

         WILLIAM DAVID LOVE emigrated to Manitoba about the same time as his brother EDGERTON and his sister MARY, (married to JOHN McKINNON). That was in 1880. He is shown in the 1881 Canadian Household Census record as living with MARY and JOHN McKINNON at Rockwood, Lisgar, Manitoba. He is mentioned in a letter Mary Elizabeth (Libby) Love, daughter of Robert Love, wrote to her cousin Jane Love in Illinois on 1 May 1880 . She says 'Will and Mary and her husband. Mr Mckinon went to Manitoba this spring. "

           WILLIAM DAVID LOVE was shot accidentally. The following interesting story was kindly sent to me by Mr. Jack McIntosh of Richmond, B.C. Canada.

                From the Regina Leader of September 20, 1887:

       " Fatal Accidental Shooting Near Pense. Dr. Dodd was summoned to Pense yesterday to hold an inquest on the body of Wm. Love, who was accidentally shot by Mr. Cecil Spring Rice, on Sunday. We have been furnished with the following facts of the affair. A few days ago Mr. Cecil Spring Rice arrived on a visit to his brother, Mr. Geo. Spring Rice. On Sunday morning just before going to church, Cecil Rice noticed an old Winchester rifle in the house of his brother, and anxious to have the mechanism of the weapon shown him, the gun was produced. As usual it was not supposed to have been loaded. After an illustration of the way to use it the gun was laid on the table and it is believed that in the act of laying it down a cartridge which had been in the spring unnoticed, slipped into its place and Mr. Cecil Spring Rice unaware of this, shortly afterwards snapped the trigger as the gun lay on the table, when, to the horror of those present the gun went off, the bullet going through the stomach and coming out of the back of a neighbor named Love, who was standing in front of the muzzle but a few feet away. Medical assistance was summoned, but it was unavailing. Love lingered in great agony until yesterday morning when he died.

         Dr. Dodd on arriving at Pense and hearing the facts decided not to hold an inquest."

         A rather different account of the incident appears in a self-published book written by Shorey Johnson Neville, son of Anthony Neville ( great-grandfather of Jack McIntosh who supplied this material), whose memories of the event formed the basis of a somewhat fictionalized dramatic version, with some names disguised. This book was published by Vantage Press, New York in 1968. See pages 36-41.

     Jack McIntosh quoted a couple of paragraphs to illustrate the flavor. It gives an indication that the official account may have softened the event to some extent, if not covered it up:

          " Adrian [i.e. William], with a laugh, handed the piece to the other, who, his better training subverted by his surroundings, nervously drew back the hammer. In the small room the report echoed like a cannon-shot. Adrian fell to the floor. Neville was first to recover from the deafening effects of the explosion, and made a brief examination. "He is dead," he announced, quietly. Still kneeling, he caught the gun as it fell from Cecil's grasp, while the white-faced youth slumped against his shoulder, then dropped beside him with a wild cry to gaze in the face of the other who lay so still. 'I didn't mean to do it! I didn't.' 'No, of course, you didn't. Why, it might have been you. It was pointed your way a minute before.'"

         Some background information about the person who fired the gun:

          In 1886, Cecil Spring Rice (later Sir Cecil Spring Rice), had been the best man at Theodore Roosevelt's wedding in London, England. Later, partly on the strength of his friendship with Mr. Roosevelt, he became the British Ambassador to Washington in the years leading up to World War I. He was also the author of the words to "I vow to thee my country...", Princess Diana's favorite hymn/anthem, sung both at her wedding and her funeral. There is of course a lot of published information available about his life and career, although it would be difficult to find any reference to the shooting incident.

       SOURCE of INFORMATION

MR. JACK McINTOSH, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

                  In a letter dated 26 October 1887, ELIZABETH (LIZZIE) LOVE wrote to her cousin JANE LOVE in Illinois and said

        " Dear Cousin since I wrote last I have had a sore trial to bear my Brother William is dead he was shot the 18 of September he suffered no pain he asked for me a few minutes before he died it seem so hard to give him up but the Lord knows best. Aunt Mary Ann Love was here when I got word about my Brother. I dont know what I would have done if she haden been here she came just in time of need She Stop a week with me."

           SOURCE of INFORMATION

MRS. ARLA LOVE ROBINSON, Denare Beach, Saskatchewan, Canada.

                   259.     xiii.    VIOLET ANN LOVE (8949). VIOLET (8949) was born 18 October 1855. VIOLET (8949) died 12 November 1855 in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada, at an unknown age. Her body was interred after 12 November 1859 in Temperanceville Ch. Cem., York, ON, Canada.

146. LYDIA (LILLY)¹¹ LOVE (49) (JAMES¹⁰, JOHN⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). LYDIA (49) was born 11 January 1804 in Vaughan Twp., York Co., ON, Canada. She married JAMES BARNES BEYNON (2519) , son of JOHN BEYNON (17494) and JANE WHITTEN (17493), 9 July 1829 in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. LYDIA (49) died 24 December 1880 in Lot 3 Con 2 King Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 76. Her body was interred after 24 December 1880 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York, ON, Canada.

     LYDIA (LILLY) LOVE (49) widow of JAMES BARNES BEYNON, at age 67 in 1871, was still operating the farm in York County, King Township, Lot 2 Concession 2. JAMES had died many years earlier, in 1843, so she had been many years without his help. Living on the farm with her, and undoubtedly her main support was her son JAMES age 36. Also with them were daughters JANE 40, LAVINIA 31, ANN 29 and CATHARINE age 26.

       There had only been one son, JAMES BARNES BEYNON JR. who eventually moved out to near Winnipeg, Manitoba. From York County, 1871 census, King Township, A Division 1 Page 17 Reel C9964.

       MARIA LOVE, daughter of MATTHEW, wrote her cousin, JANE LOVE, in Illinois on 17 August 1887 and said " Aunt Lydia family Mary and Jane live in Toronto. "

     Lydia Love's husband JAMES BARNES BEYNON (2519) was born 7 June 1805. JAMES (2519) died 28 December 1843 at age 38. His body was interred after 28 December 1846.

JAMES BARNES BEYNON (2519) received a free Crown Land Grant on 5 June 1838 for 200 acres, comprising Lot 3 Concession 2, King Township, York County, Ontario. That they were granting free land this late is very unusual. The greater number of free Crown Grants were nearer the turn of the century and by 1838 most of the Crown land had to be purchased. He had married LYDIA (LILLY) LOVE in 1829 and it is possible they had already settled on this land as her father's land was just kitty corner across the King City Side Road and this crossroads was then known as Love's Corners.

       On 3 November 1838 he sold 100 acres, the south half, to his brother THOMAS BEYNON for $240. Instrument # 15,711 registered 3 January 1839 and held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

      On the same day 3 November 1838 JAMES BARNES BEYNON sold 40 acres to Charles Grant Sr. for $160. This was the northeast portion of the above lot. This was Instrument # 15,712 registered 3 January 1839 and held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

     Still on the same day of 3 November 1838 he sold 60 acres to James Lawrence for $135. This was the northwest portion of the same lot. Instrument # 19,450 registered 10 March 1842 and held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

      So the mystery is the location of where JAMES BARNES BEYNON and LYDIA LOVE were living between 1829 when they were married and 1843 when he died. During that time they had 8 children born to them and the Beynon historians said the children were born on the "Beynon Farm" on Concession 2, King Township. This strengthens the conclusion they were living on this property before the Crown Land Grant came through.

     Children of LYDIA (LILLY)¹¹ LOVE (49) and JAMES BARNES BEYNON (2519) all born in Lot 3 Con 2 King Twp., York, ON, Canada, were as follows:

   260.               i.MARY¹² BEYNON (8950) MARY (8950) was born 3 June 1830. She married JOHN MILLER RUPERT (8958) , son of ADAM RUPERT (17503) and ANN MILLER (17504), 24 January 1856 in Temperanceville, York, ON, Canada. MARY (8950) died 15 July 1910 at age 80. Her body was interred after 15 July 1910.

                   261.        ii.    JANE BEYNON (8951). JANE (8951) was born 19 November 1831. She married THOMAS PEDLOW (17488) at an unknown date. JANE (8951) died 1921 in Toronto, York, ON, Canada, at age at an unknown age. Her body was interred 1921 in Mt. Pleasant Cem., Toronto, ON, Canada.

     JANE BEYNON (8951) in 1901 at age 69, widow of THOMAS PEDLOW, was livng in Toronto East, Ward 2. Living with her was her sister, LAVINIA, age 62, widow of EDWARD GRICE. Also boarding with her was ANN PRESTON, single age 91 and HENRY RUPERT, age 32 who was a nephew. Taken from the 1901 Ontario Census District Toronto East, Subdistrict Ward 2 B16 Page 1. NA Schedule 1 Microfilm T-6498.

    Jane Beynon's husband THOMAS PEDLOW (17488) died before 1901 in Toronto, York, ON, Canada, at an unknown age. His body was interred before 1901 in Mt. Pleasant Cem., Toronto, ON, Canada.

                   262.       iii.    ELIZABETH BEYNON (8952). ELIZABETH (8952) was born 16 March 1833. ELIZABETH (8952) died 21 March 1843 in Lot 3 Con 2 King Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 10. Her body was interred after 21 March 1843 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York, ON, Canada.

             + 263.       iv.    JAMES BARNES BEYNON (8953) JAMES (8953) was born 22 March 1835. He married REBECCA MANNING (17489) October 1872. JAMES (8953) died after 1901 at an unknown age. His body was interred after 1901.

             + 264.        v.    MARGARET (MAGGIE) BEYNON (8954) MARGARET (8954) was born 22 November 1836. She married WILLIAM H. DYER (17490) circa 1863.

             + 265.       vi.    LAVINIA BEYNON (8955) LAVINIA (8955) was born 6 October 1839. She married EDWARD (EDWIN) GRICE (17491) at an unknown date. LAVINIA (8955) died 1927 at an unknown age. Her body was interred 1927.

                   266.      vii.    ANN BEYNON (8956). ANN (8956) was born 2 December 1841. ANN (8956) died 4 March 1917 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada, at age 75. Her body was interred after 4 March 1917 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York, ON, Canada.

     ANN BEYNON (8956) was a missionary in Africa as shown in a postcard TERESA CARSCADDEN sent to her cousin JANE LOVE in the USA, she said that ANNE BEYNON had gone to Africa as a missionary.

             + 267.    viii.    CATHERINE (KATE) BEYNON (8957) CATHERINE (8957) was born 26 April 1843. She married JOHN CLUBINE WALLACE (17492) , son of STEPHEN WALLACE (19530) and KETURAH McNULTY (19531), 1873. CATHERINE (8957) died 23 April 1925 at age 81.

147. JAMES¹¹ LOVE JR. (50) (JAMES¹⁰, JOHN⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). JAMES (50) was born 24 August 1806 in Lot 67 Con 1, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. He married MARY JANE JONES (widow DAWSON) (2521) , daughter of EVAN W. JONES (39298) and LYDIA (--?--) (42517), 18 February 1841 in Fountain County, IN, USA. JAMES (50) died 5 January 1877 in Lovington, Moultrie Co., IL, USA, at age 70. His body was interred after 5 January 1877 in Keller Cem., Moultrie Co., IL, USA.

     JAMES LOVE JR. (50) went to Indiana prior to 1841 as in that year he married MARY ANN JONES DAWSON, a widow of WILLIAM WASHINGTON DAWSON. The marriage took place in Fountain County, Indiana, on 1 February 1841. We now know that JAMES LOVE JR. probably went to Indiana to visit his uncle DAVID LOVE. DAVID had gone to Indiana 1816/17. We know this from a deed when he sold his 210 acres in King Township to his brother-in-law JESSE KETCHUM. In the deed it refers to "David Love, resident of Lawrence County, Indiana." DAVID is shown in the 1820 census for Lawrence County Roll 14 Book 1 Page 145. By the 1830 census DAVID is farming in Dearborn County, Randolph Township, Indiana Roll 27 Book 1 Page 172. But by 1840, close to the time of arrival of JAMES LOVE JR. DAVID was farming in Fountain County, Logan Township, Indiana Roll 80 Book 1 Page 233.

       As Fountain County was where JAMES JR. was married in 1841, it ties in with the idea that JAMES JR. went to Indiana to visit, or maybe live with, his uncle DAVID in Fountain County.

           1846, JAMES LOVE, labourer, Toronto, York Twp., York Co., Ontario Province, Canada. --Brown's Toronto City and Home District Directory 1846-7 (Toronto: George Brown, 1846), p.43

1846, King Twp., York Co., Ontario Province, Canada.

surname, concession & lot #, township

Love, James 6 12, King £100

Love, James 1 67, King £100

Love, John 1 66, King £100. --Brown's Toronto City and Home District Directory 1846-7 (Toronto: George Brown, 1846), p.42

        JAMES LOVE JR. in 1846, was farming on Lot 12 East Half. Concession 6 in King Township, York County, Ontario, Canada as seen in Brown's Directory of 1846/7. However I have not been able to find deeds where he purchased or sold this land so he was probably just leasing it. I found his brother DAVID owned 70 acres on the west half of Lot 12. Living on the farm in Ontario in 1846 was his wife MARY JANE JONES DAWSON, a daughter JANE C, age 4, born in Fountain County, Indiana, a son JOEL , age 3, born in the same place and a son born in King Township, EVAN JEFFERSON, age about 2 months.

      It appears JAMES JR also lived and farmed for a time in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, as his brother MATTHEW mentions this in a letter to his niece JANE LOVE. 23 June 1873.

         About 1858, after his wife MARY JANE JONES DAWSON LOVE, had died, JAMES moved his family back to Indiana.

       JAMES, age 55, was farming in Union Township, Fulton County, Indiana in 1860. He was evidently only leasing the land as there was no property valuation. His personal goods were valued at $100. His wife MARY JANE JONES DAWSON had died in Canada about 1851 (?). The family had moved back to Indiana by 1858. With JAMES on the farm were his children JANE C. 19, JOEL 17, Evan 15, ROBERT 13 and LYDIA (LILLY) 10. Shown in Fulton County, Indiana 1860 census Roll 260 Book 1 Page 532.

            1n 2003/4 two very dedicated genealogists for the JONES family in the USA,, Wilene Smith of Kansas and Brenda Boyer of Louisiana, discovered a treasure trove of photos, postcards and letters, from the mid to late 19th century. These had been held by Mr. J. D. Harper of Greenup, Illinois, When he died, his sons David and Daniel took possession and have since generously allowed them to be copied.

           Wilene and Brenda found that JAMES LOVE JR. son of JAMES LOVE SR. and MARY UTLEY, had married MARY JANE JONES (widow Dawson) in Indiana, USA. They were kind enough to share these priceless artifacts with me and they turned out to contain an astonishing amount of family information from those times.

      It appears that JAMES LOVE's daughter JANE was the main instigator of the correspondence with her uncles back in Canada and her relatives in the USA. It seems she was interested in building family genealogy and kept prodding them for more information. It was JANE LOVE, and her cousin LILLICE JONES, who originally preserved all these letters, photos and postcards so we are so lucky to have them now. However nobody, so far, has found JANE's letters that she wrote so profusely to her relatives, which is too bad as it would have been very interesting to see her side of the correspondence.

      The names of these amazing genealogists are below and I owe them many, many thanks for sharing this information.

          WILENE SMITH, Wichita, Kansas, USA who has placed the photos on Internet. They can be accessed at http://hometown.aol.com/chloeqcumber/Jones-Love.html

          BRENDA BOYER, Carencro, Louisiana, USA who did the hard work of transribing the letters and reading the usually difficult handwriting. Here are 2 of the letters they found and I am including them in their entirety.

     "Jane C. Dear Daughter Sherburnvill Aug. 11th/ 66

             This day your letter to Zada come here I got your letter you wrote in June Some 17 days after your date I Started the 4 of July to see the boys they was all better I had not time to see beck, as Zada was stayin at Aly Brittons the Neighbors informed me that Zada was not well used so I felt uneasy and hurried back, I took her away She is now staying with Jane Smith a good place. They like her & she likes the place. got a letter today from David Britton Aunt Polly was buried on the 26th July poor man he is left in a lonesome condition. This has been a wet harvest though there has not any quantity of rain for harvest is over grain not all stacked, wheat & oats is uncommon good Corn looks well the health of the people is good prospects of Dodger is fair. I have been working what I could for Richard Love I Strained my visit that I could not work much I pitched wheat yesterday and am verry sore today it is raining all day today. I got a letter a short time ago from beck She wants all her things Sent out to her I wrote to her that her & her man could hitch up their waggon & come after them I have not got a word from Shawnee Since I left there I cant conceive the reason of their entire Silence I cannot Say when I can go to house keeping until I hear from the boys I have no certain Staying place am anxious to Settle as Soon as I can I must close for the present write to the boys & encourage them to do right.

     farewell for the present

     James Love

Write when you can

I have promised to get Zaidas Picture as Soon as She can get a new dress will send it our next to J.C. Love Aug.13th James Love"

   "Jane C, Sherburnville Decr 7/ 66

     Dear Daughter, I received your letter Stating that you was recovering your health, I felt greatly relieved to think that you was getting well again Evin Zaida & Self are all in good health 5 or 6 weeks ago Joel wrote me a short letter Rob was Sick Joel was Starting to Patton to husk corn for Tullis dont know whether he is there or in Bethel, got no word from Beckey for a long time. Zaida is at the Same place that Evin is working. Both at Mr. Tarr's, a Methodist Preachers I think a Verry respectable quiet place, they live about 5 miles in Indiana, I live in Illinois on the State line, they intend to board there & go to School as School will Start mext Monday. As you Spoke about being afraid of the North winds injuring your health it is the pure air that comes off of Lake Michigan that Makes this place So healthy. I Suffered more last winter in Bond County with the cold then I ever did in Canada as there is so many Sudden changes South If I had not got a letter from you Stating that you was better I would of made the trial to go & see you though I was not prepared for Such a journey. hope you will take good care of your health until you are able to come & see us, in this healthy place you would Soon regain your former Viger I was today to See Evin & Zada Evin thinks it is not best to go to house keeping this winter as him & Zada is in good places to go to school. Evin wants to rent part of the farm he is on next year & send for the other boys to help him. Weather is warm & wet, plenty of mud. I hope you will take good Care of your health until you come, I have not had an hours Sickness in the State Zaida is making a strong big girl Evin has got quite hearty Since he come here friends here are well, all trying to get rich. I have got Methodist Preaching in the Campbellite Church every 2 weeks, dont think they can Stand Methodism long, write Soon as I may move my PO. Soon. as ever J. Love"

    1877 Jan. 5, Lovington, Moultrie Co., IL. Robert J. Love wrote his brother Joel: "I want you to come hear as soon you get this / father cant live long at the longest / he is bad / I cant think he can live A weak / Evin has gon to texes [sic] / come as soon you get this / sent for James love to day / R J Love"

1877 Jan. 23, Lovington, Moultrie Co., IL. Robert J. Love wrote his brother Joel: "your letter was recieved the 15th / glad to hear from you / you seam to be ancious [sic] abought father health / he Died January the 5 / Was berried in the Kellar graveyard the 6 / Expence $35 . . . R.J. Love"

Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer.

     MARY JANE JONES (widow DAWSON) (2521). MARY (2521) was born 18 February 1821 in Hamilton County, OH, USA. She married WILLIAM WASHINGTON DAWSON (9532) 15 June 1837 in Fountain County, IN, USA. MARY (2521) died circa 1851 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada, at age at an unknown age. Her body was interred circa 1851 in Temperanceville Ch. Cem., York, ON, Canada.

     Children of JAMES¹¹ LOVE JR. (50) and MARY JANE JONES (widow DAWSON) (2521) were as follows:

                   268.         i.    JANE C. (JENNIE)¹² LOVE (8968). JANE (8968) was born 16 December 1842 in Fountain County, IN, USA. JANE (8968) died 18 March 1893 in Jasper County, IL, USA, at age 50. Her body was interred after 18 March 1893 in Harper Cem., Jasper, IL, USA.

     JANE C. (JENNIE) LOVE (8968) went to Jasper County, Illinois in 1863 to keep house for her uncle, JOEL L. JONES and help with his children LILLICE and ZILLMAN. She evidently had a great deal of sickness according to the letters between she and her uncles and cousins in Canada. She lived there for the balance of her life and was buried in the family cemetery on the farm.

JANE LOVE, 28 F W, house servant, Canada; with 58/51, JOEL L. JONES, 65 M W, farmer, $7500 real, $600 personal, OH; Zilman, 24 M W, IN; Lillice, 16 F W, keeping house, IN. Lillice attends school.

1880 Jasper Co., IL, census, p.275D, Granvill [sic] Twp., June 5, 1880, W.W. Kibler: JANE LOVE, W F 37, cousin, at home, IN Canada IN; with

80/83, Gilman [sic] JONES, W M 34, farming, in OH; Lillice, W F 26, sister, keeping house, in OH.

Jane C. Love departed from this live March 18th 1893. Aged 50 years. Came to Jasper County, Illinois to live September 3, 1863 / J. C. Love was born December 16 1842. in Fountain County Indiana. was oldest Daughter of James & Mary Jane Jones Love. Mary J. Jones was the daugther of Evan W. Jones. From--handwritten note in the family letters and papers of her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy Danny Harper, April 2004

Harper Cemetery, Grandville Twp., Jasper Co., IL: JANE C. LOVE - b. 1842; d. 1893 (current property owner confirms location) (src #28)

        1n 2003/4 two very dedicated genealogists for the JONES family in the USA,, Wilene Smith of Kansas and Brenda Boyer of Louisiana, discovered a treasure trove of photos, postcards and letters, from the mid to late 19th century. These had been held by Mr. J. D. Harper of Greenup, Illinois, When he died, his sons David and Daniel took possession and have since generously allowed them to be copied.

        Wilene and Brenda found that JAMES LOVE JR. son of JAMES LOVE SR. and MARY UTLEY, had married MARY JANE JONES (widow Dawson) in Indiana, USA. They were kind enough to share these priceless artifacts with me and they turned out to contain an astonishing amount of family information from those times.

    It appears that JAMES LOVE's daughter JANE was the main instigator of the correspondence with her uncles back in Canada and her relatives in the USA. It seems she was interested in building family genealogy and kept prodding them for more information. It was JANE LOVE, and her cousin LILLICE JONES, who originally preserved all these letters, photos and postcards so we are so lucky to have them now. However nobody, so far, has found JANE's letters that she wrote so profusely to her relatives, which is too bad as it would have been very interesting to see her side of the correspondence.

    The names of these amazing genealogists are below and I owe them many, many thanks for sharing this information.

        WILENE SMITH, Wichita, Kansas, USA who has placed the photos on Internet. They can be accessed at http://hometown.aol.com/chloeqcumber/Jones-Love.html

         BRENDA BOYER, Carencro, Louisiana, USA who did the hard work

of transcribing the letters and reading the usually difficult handwriting.

               This letter was written in the early 1880s by CLARA MAY BUTCHER to her aunt JANE C. LOVE. Clara would have been in her teens but old enough to have sewn enough quilt blocks for 6 quilts.

               Shannandale ? Co Ind July 19* [no date; Shannondale straddles the Montgomery. Boone County line]

                    "Dear Aunt I thought I would answer your kind letter Which I received July the 17 glad to heare ftom you Sorry that your health is so poor I am Staying with Aunt Sarah agin this Summer to help her do her Milking.

We Milk Six Cans. and have a bout a hundred 200 little chickens Well aunt Jane I Would love to See you so well but we cannot come this Summer. I will have My picture takening four you as soon as I can. Pa was her yesterday it is the first I have seen him since the 29 of May. and have not Seen Eddie Since I came here.I1 Woould love to See him awful Well. Well Aunt Jane Aunt Sarah has got me lots of new dresses Since I have been here. I will Send you a Piese of Some of them I have got two quilt ready to quilt and blocks ready for 4 more. Uncle Eli is Stacking Wheat to day. and it looks like rain. it has been a bad Spring it has raned nearlly all the time. We Wont have any apples to mount to any thingand no Smaul fruit only Wraspberries and Curns. We have put up five gallens of wraspberries and the Same of Curns I dont Know When our School Comnese but I expect a bout the first of September. I am a going to go home and go to School. I believe Itold you in my other letter what Studdies I Studied. We haf to go a bout a mile Aunt Sarah has got a good garden. you had oughtto be here to help us eat beans. We havegot lots of them Ant Sarah has got a good garden but Wheat and Corn dere not look very good on account a so much wet wet weather. Aunt Sarah has just came in from the garden. She has been out huntingn worms of her Cabbages the worms is a bout to eat them up. Eddie wrote unel Joel a letter before I came down here. I expect he has got a letter from by this time I would love to see you and uncle Joel So Well I think he could come and see us. I Will have my picture takeng be fore long and send to you but I want yours so bad and would love to have uncle Joels. Aunt Jane do you Remember that double salt cup you give me I have got it yet and Intend to keep it and I have got that little Shawl you gave me yet. i expect you have fore got a bout them. Well I will haf to quit for this time for I cant think of mutch to wright but if we wert to geather we could thing of lots to talk a bot but I will try and do netter the next time.

So good by Write soon."

Morantown Allen Co. Kansas

Olive Love

November 11 1885

         Dear Aunt Jane, as we resived your letter some time ago, and have neglected to write so I will write a few lines. We are all well but Baby her teeth hurts her. all of us have started to school and like our teacher very well she is young to teach a school she is 19 years old her name is Anna Booth school comensed the 1 of October. Uncle Joe is back in Hutchson. No Aunt Jane we dont raise ground cherrys, here and if you have many seed please send me a few to get a start from I supose Aunt is proud of her big boy she has named it Roy for his first name I dont know his last name. I have six guinas of my own, there is 2 old ones and 4 young ones. I am in the fourth reader, Georgraphy, Arithmetic Grammar and Spelling. Melvin cant see but little out of his left eye. It snowed here the 8 of this month but to day is very pleasent my flowers was a failure this year the boys popcorn crop was poor. Well I dont know any thing to write so

        Good by to

Aunt Jane from

Olive Love.

Morantown Allen Co Kans

[below Olive has done her ABC's in upper and lower case script yet all of her letters have been in script.]

        Miss Jane Love

        Advance Ill.

Moran Kansas July 14 1889

            Dear Aunt Jane

We recived your letter a few days ago and was glad to here from you I hope your brused face is better We are all well and hope this will find you well we had a jolly time the fourth. Myrtle is walking every place I recieved those ground cherries all right they look offle nice and are loaded down with cherries and are still blooming what kind are they we had a good garden this year and crops look fine We had an offle flood the 16 of June which flooded nearly every thing I have 4 guneas and 1 hen sitting on 15 eggs which will hatch in bout a week I have 13 pet pigs raising by hand I get one for tending to them. Aunt if you will send me ma's picture that you have when she wore her hair curled we will try and have our pictures taken this fall and send you one I will send you a lock of Babys hair now right soon from Olive p Love

Moran Allen Co Kansas

July 24th 1889

Dear Sister

        We received your letter glad to hear from you yet sorry to hear of you being in such poor health we are tolerable well Baby is quite fretful with her teeth my chickens and ducks are doing fine had a tolerable good garden was most too wet for it the forepart of the season potatoes are good corn looks well our ground cherries are looking fine we cannot raise cabbage here on account of the worms tell E J Love we would like to hear from him and wife I received a letter from Sallie short time ago

Bob and the boys are making hay, hot work too Now Jane I would love to have you come to see us the best kind but dont see how we could help you to come as we are hard up for money even to buy our flour with, I bought flour and groceries with butter and eggs all summer but now I dont make any butter to sell I want to have our pictures taken this fall and I will send you one the children are crazy to see that picture of mine which you have now Jane write soon and I will write more next time would love to see you so much

                                                                                  Nettie

1889 July 6, Joe wrote Jane from Mt. Vernon, IL [where Sallie's parents lived], saying that they "expect to move to Greenup"

1889 Aug. 8, 15, 30, Joe and Sallie wrote Jane from Greenup, IL.

     1890 June 5, Joe wrote Jane from Casey, IL, saying that "Sallie went home the first of the week . . . [for] a good visit . . . I dont know how long Sallie will be gone"

     .

1890 Sept. 16, Joe wrote Jane that E.J.'s (Evan's) wife Hattie is not well (their baby, Leona May, was born that month).

1890 Nov. 5, Joe wrote Jane that E.J.'s wife Hattie died the previous day, and sent his hearse to Greenup to take her from the depot to the cemetery.

1890 Nov. 20, Joe wrote Jane that "we have taken E J. Babe / It has been sick is getting better now / we do not get lonesom during the night"

1891 March 13, Joe wrote Jane that the "Baby is doing nicely / growing and is well most of the time. / . . . / E.J. was here few days ago"

1891 April 27, Joe wrote Jane from Casey, IL, on his letterhead that identifies: J. J. Love / Furniture Dealer / Also, Undertaker / Casey Ill. He wrote: "We send you Leoes Shadow / do you think she has grown any / she is well and a nice baby / . . . / E J was here a week a go

1891 Sept. 22, Joe wrote his cousin Lillice that "Baby not very well / cutting teeth / nicest Baby in Casey."

1892 Jan. 20, E.J. wrote Jane that "Jo has left Casey for good / Broke up [Joel's business had failed] / he does not know what he will do"

1893 March 18, Joe's sister Jane died.

1893 May 22, Joe wrote his cousin Lillice from Mt. Vernon, IL, that "Leo is growing so fast and so far has much better health than she had last summer / we think she is as smart as a whip and is so cute / we would not not take a first National bank for her" He goes on to say that "we dont want to lose track of you / we need all the friends we ever had / we lost all our money but dont want to loose any of our friends" then adds that "we have not had a line from E.J. since in December. / I guess he fell out with us a bout the baby" --from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones, courtesy Danny Harper, April 2004.

                   269.        ii.    JOEL JUNIA (JOE) LOVE (8969) was born on 5 October 1843 in Fountain County, IN, USA.

  He was baptized on 8 December 1848 in King Twp., York, ON, Canada. He married SALLIE E. BLAIR (39304) 9 April 1884 in Jefferson County, IL, USA. JOEL (8969) died 25 March 1910 in Durnell Chapel Cem., Weableau, Hickory Co., MO, USA, at age 66. His body was interred 27 March 1910 in Durnell Chapel Cem., Weableau, Hickory Co., MO, USA.

JOEL JUNIA (JOE) LOVE (8969) and his wife SALLIE BLAIR raised their niece LEONA MAY when her mother HATTIE PARKER died in 1890 just after childbirth.

          1n 2003/4 two very dedicated genealogists for the JONES family in the USA,, Wilene Smith of Kansas and Brenda Boyer of Louisiana, discovered a treasure trove of photos, postcards and letters, from the mid to late 19th century. These had been held by Mr. J. D. Harper of Greenup, Illinois, When he died, his sons David and Daniel took possession and have since generously allowed them to be copied.

         Wilene and Brenda found that JAMES LOVE JR. son of JAMES LOVE SR. and MARY UTLEY, had married MARY JANE JONES (widow Dawson) in Indiana, USA. They were kind enough to share these priceless artifacts with me and they turned out to contain an astonishing amount of family information from those times.

     It appears that JAMES LOVE's daughter JANE was the main instigator of the correspondence with her uncles back in Canada and her relatives in the USA. It seems she was interested in building family genealogy and kept prodding them for more information. It was JANE LOVE, and her cousin LILLICE JONES, who originally preserved all these letters, photos and postcards so we are so lucky to have them now. However nobody, so far, has found JANE's letters that she wrote so profusely to her relatives, which is too bad as it would have been very interesting to see her side of the correspondence.

     The names of these amazing genealogists are below and I owe them many, many thanks for sharing this information.

         WILENE SMITH, Wichita, Kansas, USA who has placed the photos on Internet. They can be accessed at http://hometown.aol.com/chloeqcumber/Jones-Love.html

         BRENDA BOYER, Carencro, Louisiana, USA who did the hard work

of transcribing the letters and reading the usually difficult handwriting.

       This postcard was addressed to Mr. Joel J. Love, Hazel Dell, Illinois

Nov 3rd 1877

        "Brother Joel, at last I find an opportunity to write you ./ we are all well and able to eat a hearty meal / we are at last settled for the winter / we are living with a widow woman board her for the house / she is young without children / we are one mile east of Pleasant Hill / do not think we will rent her farm / she wants 225 dol[lars] / large orchard / we got our winter apples and cider apples from her / made apple butter yesterday / have a jug of cider for you when you come / the widow is a great hand for music / has an organ / bring your accordian with you / Harvey get his pasture corn and hay for work on the place / write soon / Direct to Pleasant Hill, Montgomery Co., Ind

love to all / I will write to Jane as soon as I get time sister Rebecca".

    Rebecca was the half-sister of Joel as she was the daughter of Mary Jane Jones first husband.

              In 1870 JOEL LOVE, age 26, was working on the farm of James M. Tallis in Logan Township, Fountain County, Indiana, USA. Shown in 1870 Fountain County census page 94B.

    Casey Ill. Jan 8. 85

     Dear Sister Jane and Lillice. we are both at Home to night and have been reading Mr Love sayd he would write to you and wanted me to write some I do not like to write when he is Home had rather talk as read. and it makes me lonsome to see him sit here and write. but we both like to get letters and of corse we must write if we expect our friends to write to us. we think of you often and wonder what you are doing and would like to see you often. I have not done any thing this winter. but a little fancy work and the House work the days are so short. Mr Love went to Terre Haute yesterday. he made no sales and came home very blue. we have not heard from any of the Kansas folks for some time. We Recieved Father Loves Picture to day through the Express we supose E. J. sent it though we have had no letter from him. I supose it is like the one you have but in a larger frame. We think it a nice Presant and was glad to get it. we are both Well at Presant Mr Love has been almost sick for a Week with neuralgia but I think he is about well of it now.

I do not know what to write that would Interest you so will Close for this time Hoping you will Ecuse (?)Hoote and mistakes. and let Mr Love finsh this note with best wishes I Will Close Hoping to hear soon

   Your truly. Sallie

Dear Children I thought perhaps Sallie would fill the paper and not leave me much room to write as I am in no moode to write or do any thing its much. I Guess I am "Blue" I cant sell any Poles or lumber or collect any or in fact cant accomplish any thing but perhaps things will not allways remain thus hope not. Levi took dinner with us handed us your letter he was the last man I was looking for. hope you both keep well Get on the train some saturday come up and spend sunday with us see where we live and how we act at home how is Zill doing I dont hear anything from him. I seen uncle solomon he told me of aunt mareys death it was a sad affair was it not about all we do this winter is eat and sleep and grow fat. I weighed some days since 174 and Sallie is as fat as she can be. Gist fat that is all we would like to go to Neworleans so well if we wer able but we are hardly able to stay at home nothing new going on here at all everything has the appearance of sunday except the dress and we wear out our old clothes that is all we have any more. I have written to all the Kansas children we sent each of them Sallies Picture Guess it offended them as they all quit writing since the sending. I was in Terrehaute yesterday could sell no poles and we are having Good old demecratic times let us hear from you come see us some time we will drop in on you some of these times when you are not looking for us dont you think I am improving in my penmanship. be Good children we are Going to eat an aple and go to bed Good night ever Yours Joel

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M. Sanford. J.V. Price J.J. Love Office Sandford, Price & Co.

Dealers in Sash, Doors, Lath, Shingles Blinds and Mouldings, Pine and Poplar Finishing Lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster, Paint Etc.

     Casey, Ill July 1 1885

     Dear Children

  Hope this wil find you both well we are well as usuel Everything quiet here Got a letter from E. J. he was well no word from Bobs or Siss or Jim Loves Guess they have all forggotten us What has be come of Zill and wife They are trying to get up a "4"it here dont know wheither they will succede in making a success or not they hold it in Chancelers Grove 1 mile east of town Jane we have been talking of you coming we both want you to come but think it would be so hard on you to come that day the grounds are so far off we are afraid it would make you sick and you would not get any good out of your visit But we want you both to visit us and we will try and make it pleasant for you, we have been talking of going down but times are to hard with us now we cant spare the money we cant collect or cant sell and our money matters are at a low ebb. We wish we wer able to own a horse and Buggy so we could go and come when we Please

     As ever yours Joel and Sallie

[Letter head]

M. Sanford. J.V. Price J.J. Love Office Sandford, Price & Co. Dealers in

Sash, Doors, Lath, Shingles Blinds and Mouldings, Pine and Poplar Finishing Lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster, Paint Etc.

     Casey, Ill Sept 4 1885

     Dear Sister and Cousin

Your card at hand on yesterday and was glad to hear from you again but am sorrey you are so poorley all the time hope the time may be when you may enjoy good health again And be happey we are reasonabley well. I have not been able to do much since I was over heat and dont expect to be stout again be fore cold weather. Sallie is buisey head over ears canning fruit she is canning a little of everything she can get holt of I suppose Zill walks high since he is Pa Pa I was not any surprised as I learnd long since such was going to be the case I have had no word from any of the folks for a long time We are very buisey now all the time we have been having a big trade and so much collecting to do and so much lumber we have not time to turn round Scearceley We have 7 cars ordered some of them will be in to day and for the next week we will be covered up with Lumber Joe is sick all the time and my self not much account I had thought we would come down on Saturday next but that will be impossible now we will come as soon as we can perhaps the next saturday or sunday we will let you know when we come if we know in time. Casey is doing lots of buisness this fall. Sallie would have written some this time but she is so buisey to day She is better talker than writer

     Hoping this may find you both well and that we may hear from you

     We are yours Truley

     Joel and Sallie

[Letter head]

M. Sanford. J.V. Price J.J. Love

Office Sandford, Price & Co. Dealers in Sash, Doors, Lath, Shingles

Blinds and Mouldings, Pine and Poplar Finishing Lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster, Paint Etc.

     Casey, Ill Oct 18 1885

     Dear Sister, I suppose you think I have treated you mean well I am some mean but I did not ever aim to be mean to you we have wanted to go down for a long time to see you but it seemed as though we could not get started we was going down for two sundays noe sunday it was so dusty and windy we concluded to wait and the next time we was ready it rained and so we have never gon but when we get moved to Greenup and fixed up to live we will come and stay over sunday with you we cant get a house yet and Sallie is staying at home I guess She will be home this coming week some time we are hard at work at Greenup Building sheds and unloading cars we had 7 men last week helping us and if the weather is good we will have 8 this week and think we will get through or nearly so, The out look so far for selling Lumber there is good. I dont know how we will like Greenup but we can stay a while long enough perhaps to make money enough to go in Buisness for one selves as that is what we are working for and then we can finde the Location to suit us and make our home I am not feeling well at all this warm weather I hope it may turn cold and I dont care how soon. I hope you are keeping reasonabley well. E. J. says he never seen you looking better. I hope you will get some one to stay with you this winter for company. "Bill Johson" says it is too lonesome there for him he says you both hated to see him come away but buisness was such he could not stay he looks hard dont he and I should not wonder if he was not as hard as he looks, E. J. Stayed in Greenup over sunday he thinks he will like the Lumber Buisness hope he will. we will come down as soon as we can after we get moved. I Hope this will finde you both well and that we may get to see you before long

     Yours the same Joel

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       Office of Sanford, Price & Co., Lumber Dealers M. Sanford, J. V. Price

J.J. Love, Manager J.J. Love Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, &c.

     Greenup, Ill., Dec 1 1885

     Dear Children

          Do you think we are lost or dead as we have been still so long. we are not Lost or dead but Awful tierd we moved last week and have had so much hard work to do have not got thing fixed yet in livable shape but hope to by spring if the weathir holds good. we dont know how we will like Greenup yet we are living on the minerell well St it is a nice peace to live but Awful Quiet our trade is opening up much better than we expected and we think the out look for next season is good Mr. "Elbert" is not in our way verey much. We want to see you all hope you are keeping reasonable well when we get straightend up and Sallie gets rested up some we are coming down on saturday and spend sunday with you Let us hear from you how is Zills Kid making it through I am anxious to see it I am sorry old (?)Til died I all ways liked him

     We feel ashamed of our selves for staying away so long but it looked like everey time we made arrangments to go down something would ocur to prevent our going and when we concluded to come here we was broke up house Keeping 7 weeks and Sallie was at home. But now we are settled again we will have a chance to go more as E. J. will be with us and he is Learning so he can take care of the trade a day or so at a time. Sallies health is as good as common but she is Troubled some with Rheumatism some in her wrists. we have a Tolerable good house for this winter have a nice house engaged for next summer and in a nice Location. we think we will like Greenup verey well when we get acquainted. as far as we are acquainted now we finde the People more sociable than they are in Casey. But if we doe well we are going to be contented and stay till we know we can do better we think from the proffits from both yards we can get our living any how and jperhaps save something we hope so at least. Well I have sold over $40.00 worth of Lumber since I commenced this as I commenced this fore noon and now it is all most qutting time we have some one in here Bothering and Talking all the time Let us hear from you some of you and remember us as the same Joel and Sallie

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       Office of Sanford, Price & Co., Lumber Dealers M. Sanford, J. V. Price

J.J. Love, Manager J.J. Love Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, &c.

     Greenup, Ill., Mar 19 1886

     Dear Sister Jane

     We have been waiting some time to hear from you and as we have failed to do so. I will drop you a line that you may know we are still a live and doing all the good we can and as little harm as possible. I am enjoying Lots of religion and have been for some weeks I was converted while the Babtists was holding their Meeting here we had a good Meeting I know it was good for me. We are living happiley and our house is a home of prayer. E. J. professed religion and has gon in the church. Times are dull here not much buisness of any kind we expect to get the county seat as soon as we can get a vote on it. I hope we will as everey person is so poor here and Money so scearce we need something to revive buisness and start Money in Circulation how is your health this spring and what are you all doing. It looks like we would never get down to see you our will is good but we are not making anything and have to make expence so light as possible. we are both well Sallie is fat and good looking Let us hear from you as soon as convient and remember us as the same Joel and Sallie

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      Office of Sanford, Price & Co., Lumber Dealers M. Sanford, J. V. Price

J.J. Love, Manager J.J. Love Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, &c.

     Greenup, Ill., Ap 28 1886

     Dear Sister Jane,

We recvd your letter some days ago and was glad to hear from you but sorrey you are not having good health. we feel ashamed of neglecting to go to see you so long but we have made arrangments so often and got disapointed we do not intend making any more promisis but will come just when we can get away and dont know how soon that will be as we have garden made and no fence to keep the chickens out and we are currounded by swarms of chickens and it keeps some one throwing clods nearley all the time. We have never had any garden since we have been married and want to rais some this summer to see how it will seem. We like Greenup much better than when we first came we find so maney Clever people here and they have not the city ways like casey has and not near the style our Buisness is getting better and we think we will have a good trade when the trade season opens up

     Greenup is improving some this spring and we think we will get the county seat when we get a vote on it. I am glad siss married I hope she got a good man and that he will be good to her and lighten her burdens she has had a hard life and I would like to know that she has a good home as I think she will make a good wife for a man that will treat her right I have written to her I think twice in the last year and she has not awnsered my letters. and Nettie has got her blood up at me without any cause what ever wit out it is because they owe me and I asked them for the money, but I wish them all the success possible and will try to live wit out their symphaty. We are well Sallie is fat and healthey and one of the best women on the earth we both belong with the church and are trying to live christain lives. how is Zill and family I never hear from him Sallie sends Love to all and remember us as all ways the same

     Joel and Sallie

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       Office of Sanford, Price & Co., Lumber Dealers M. Sanford, J. V. Price

J.J. Love, Manager J.J. Love Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, &c.

     Greenup, Ill., June 12 1886

     Dear Sister Jane

     Yours at hand was glad to hear from you and that you are keeping tolerable well. But I am surprised that you have the idea that I feel above you. I cant think whoe should have told you any such stuff on what their Idea was, because it is as falts as can be I should of tried to of had you to of seen us be fore this if I thought you wer able to come with out making you sick as everey time nearly we heard from you you spoke of being so poorley I cant see why we would get Bigoted we have nothing to get big over. We are Making No Money are not paying expences in this old town we are poorer than we wer a year ago. we have laid off time and time again to go down and see you but all ways something would prevent us going and this summer we have been complelled to stay at home we are so scearce of Money we hate to spend money for anything and spend just as little of it as we can possibley can get along with But we have to take a team some day soon and go south to put uup some posters and will if possible make that in our rout. out intention is good how ever short we come of filling the mark. I cant leave on saturday as that is the day I have to see and settle with so many men and it looks like we never can spare the money on sunday to pay out 2 or three dollars for a Livery team. Sallie would have written to you but we worked in the garden last night till dark and this morning she did not have time be fore the mail and she had me to do her writing she hardley ever writes to any one not to her mother. I wonder why Zill never writes to us. we think we have not been treated just right. We was to see Zill and Lou they have never come to see us or dont awnser our Letters and Siss came to town and staid all night and onley Just stopt a moment wit us we dont know what the matter is. But as it may we will come and see you all when we can. we are well and this is the deadest town. I should think on the earth we have a nice garden will have peas for dinner to day. and Hoping this this will find you all will and that we may hear from you or see you ere long we are as ever

     Your Bro and Sis Joel and Sallie

     Greenup Dec 24 / 86

Happy Christmas to all We are well as usual hope you all are the same We send as a Chrismas present to Jane a dress and to Lissis a Stocking Bag. We are having a dull time here this winter and wishing you all Happy Chrismas and a prosperous new year

We remain as ever

Your Bro and Siss

     Joel and Salllie

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       Office of Sanford, Price & Co., Lumber Dealers M. Sanford, J. V. Price

J.J. Love, Manager J.J. Love Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, &c.

     Greenup, Ill., Dec 31 1886

Dear Sister

     Jane your Letter at hand and as you requested I will drop you a line while this year still holds out. We are well as ususal except colds we have both got colds and Sallies is all most down. things are verey quiet here and I dont know of any news that I can think of as I expect Lillise has gave them to you. We was sorrey she had not time to call on us for a moment. We cant think why she has formed such a dislike to us But it is as she wills I suppose As she does not hav to call on us if she chooses not to We have not heard from Kansas for a long time my Buisness is verey Slack this winter Greenup is the deadest town I have ever found yet I am going to get out of it as soon as I can E.J. has gon visiting and I am a lone at present look for him home to day

     As it is nearley mail time I will Close wishing you a happy new year

     The same Joel and Sallie

[Letter Head]

      Office of Sanford, Price & Co., Lumber Dealers M. Sanford, J. V. Price

J.J. Love, Manager J.J. Love Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, &c.

     Greenup, Ill., Jan 22 1887

dr Sister and Folks,

       We got home Just at dark, all right, had a muddy drive of it. Sallie dont feel verey well after the drive. And she is uneasey about the Babe, and wanted me to write and have some of you write and let us know how it is the first of the week No hope we will hear of it being much better. We are interested in the little fellows well fare. I have no news to communicate that I think of.

     And Trusting this may finde you all much better

          We remain Berey Truley

          Your Bro and Siss

               Joel and Sallie

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       Office of Sanford, Price & Co., Lumber Dealers M. Sanford, J. V. Price

J.J. Love, Manager J.J. Love Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, &c.

     Greenup, Ill., 3 - 9 - 1887

     Dear Sister Jane. E.J. said Mr Harper was here last week and said you had fell and hurt your selfe but did not give any particulars hope you was not hurt bad and that you are better by now. We are aiming to come down and see you all some time in the next few days if the mud dryes so we can get there We had intended to have you come up and seen us before we left but heard you was sick we are going west want to get away next week are compelled to do something as the move to this old dead Beat of a Starved tumbled down coockerey has nearley Broke me up will come see you be fore we go E.J. is still here dont know what he is going to do. all well but me I am having verey poor health, no Letters from any of our folkes Hope this will finde you all right

     We remain as ever yours Bro and Siss

     Joel and Sallie

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J.J. Love. J.D. McClarey.

     Love & McClarrey. Lumber Dealers. Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, Etc,

     South Hutchinson, Kans, 4 - 8 - 1887

     Dear Sister Jane

According to promis I will write you a word so you may know we got through all safe we have Just got to houskeeping and not Straighted up yet. We pay $10.00 per month for a 4 roomed house we cannot say much about the Country yet as we have not seen much of it. But we like it so far, It is as hot as June here and quite wind up but the most of the time, is as quiet as Ills my Lumber has not come yet and I am getting verey anxious as there is car Loads being hauled from the City new building going up everey where Lumber as well as evereything else is Verey high and we think we will make some money Sallie is going to keep a couple of Boiders. We are both well and well pleased and have no desire yet to go back to Ills to Live. as we think we will do well when we get the buisness started Jimmie McClarey is here he will do buisness with me. we fell quite at home as there are to maney here we know Vint Price and his wife, Omer Price, Billie Bach (?)Ms Hurley from Casey came to day, Joe Nearer from Casey will be here next week and we expect French from Greenup in a short time so you see we are not like we wer among entire Strangers.

When we get to doing Buisness and know more of the Country and People I will try and give you some Idea of Live in the west I suppose you hear from E.J as he is in Casey he told me when I left he was going down right a way to see you We hope you are keeping well as usual this Spring my health is better than it has been for a year Salllie sends regards to all and told me to write enough for her this time.

Let us hear from you and we remain as ever your Bro and Siss Joel and Salllie

[Letter head]

J.J. Love. J.D. McClarey.

     Love & McClarrey. Lumber Dealers.

     Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, Etc,

South Hutchinson, Kans, 5 - 2 1887

     Dear Sister Jane

your kinde and all ways well come Letter of some days ago came to hand and was glad to hear from you. This leaves us all well and hope it may finde you all well. Well we are not doing much buisness yet as we are delayed in getting all our Stock in there is such a rush for Lumber here we can get it onley so fast our onley trouble is we can not get Lumber as fast as it is needed. I expect to go to Fort Scott this week and see if I cant hurrey things up a little as we are loosing money by not having Lumber here and letting the trade go to the city. There is lots of Building being done here, we cant look in any direction with out seeing something going up, we like this countrey full as well as we expected to we are having verey nice weather except some high winds, but we dont have no snow or mud at all. We have been having lots of rain and evereything is looking prosprous and we expect a town of 2000 by next winter. We have the office built but not the sheds yet. We have the garden made right in the sod dont know whether it will do any good or not. we have a new 4 room house, it costs $10.00 per month and everey thing else is high so is Lumber, jPotatoes $1.00 per Bus Butter 25c Beefe 12 1/2c' Eggs 12 1/2c Laid 12 1/2c We have a Couple of Borders at $3.50 per week to help us out some. We expect to see close times till we get started and ge to taking in some money we expect to make it pay when we get opend up I have written to Bob but he has not awnsered me yet. got a Letter from E.J. 2 or 3 weeks ago I hope he will go down to see you am glad the Babe is doing well tell siss to take good care of it. we expect to come back and see all of you in a year or so. so far we like Kansas better than we did Ills and hope we will continue to do so. We have went in the church here hope you will keep well. Let us hear from you your Bro and Siss Joel and Sallie

     Jane give me uncle Sollomons adress and I will write to hime some time

     By By Joel

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J.J. Love. J.D. McClarey.

     Love & McClarrey. Lumber Dealers. Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, Etc,

     South Hutchinson, Kans, 6 - 27 - 1887

dr Sister Jane

     Yours of recent date came to hand and was glad to hear from you. We are having some verey hot weather at present, have been having plenty of rain this far all summer My health is verey poor since the heated term commenced think the watter does not agree with me I have lost 25 lbs in ?t since comming to Kansas. Sallie is well her Sister is Staying with us for a while This is a delightfull climate evening night and morning It gets verey hot through the day but in the evening we have a cool breze it blows all night we sleep under cover and cant get sleep enough. We like the Climate much better than Ills. We have but one church organination here the M.G. they are building a $7000. house got it all moste completed want to dedicate it in aug There is lotts of building going on there is 23 Brick stores going up now and Severel dwelling houses I got a Letter from E J last week he says his health is poor this summer got a card from Bob he did not say anything about the familey who they was doing or what they was doing How is things in Jasper this summer and what are you all doing and how is the Boy getting through the hot weather I would write to Zill but dont suppose it would do any good. how are they getting a long what is Janiar doing this summer when it gets so hot there during the day I think of them trees around the house on the farm there is no timber here except what has been planted The old town has plenty of shade we are going to have a big 4th here It is a buisey world out west here. Hope this will find you as well as usuel

Let us hear from you as often as convient and we are as ever the same

your Bro and Siss Joel and Sallie

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J.J. Love. J.D. McClarey.

     Love & McClarrey. Lumber Dealers. Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, Etc,

     South Hutchinson, Kans, Sept 25 1887

Dear Sister Jane

     We reced your last letter some time since and would of Awnsered be fore this but did not know what to tell you as Jim (my partnor) did not have good health here and would not stay. And I could not run the buisness by my selfe. We had a good oportunity to sell and sold Lotts Stock and all and done verey well. I did not know where to tell you to write or dont know yet. Juim went to northeren Ills to look up a location and if he findes a good opening we will move there and if not I think we will go across the river to the City and go in some buisness that I can run a lone. we like Kas verey well and especially Hutchinson as it is the best buisness town I ever seen. She has built this season 92 Buisness rooms and 752 dwelling houses and I dont know how many miles of street rail road they have Electric light and telepones all over the City we have had an abundance of rain here all summer the pastures are good. our healths are reasonabley good but I weigh a bout 30 lbs lighter than I did in Ills Hope you all keep well there you need not write till you hear from us again when we get Located we will write you we have not heard from any of Bobs for a long time. We will know shortley where we will hang up. I will leav room for Sallie to write a line and remain as ever you Bro Joel Dear Sister Jane. J.J. has left the Room for me to write you a line but he is here bothering me so I cant write. we did not go to sunday school this after noon as Mr Love wanted to write some letters and it is quite winday any way and I am so lazy to go though we live on the same street that the church is on it looks some like rain the Church furanture come last week and out Town can now boast of a very nice church. Mr Love says that we may visit Geo. Bob and Nettie if we go back to Ill. this fall. they wrote to us asking us to come and see them. I hope we can arange so we can go. how is Guy getting along? hope your health is better this fall, with regards to all I will close hoping to hear soon yours truly Sallie

So Hutchinson Nov 11 1887

     Dear Sister Jane

It has been some time since we wrote you but we have been so unsettled untill verey recentley we did not know Just what we would do but now we have concluded to stay here and as far as we know now we shall make Kansas our future home. While I have had some loss in my venture here we think where the loss was made it is a good place to stay and finde it againg. I am opening a coal yard here and will likley add feed to it and if things open up all right in the spring we will stay here and if not will likley move over to the City. but the prospects are now for this town to boom again in the spring they are boring for Oil here and struck the deepest vain of salt that is know of in the world they here went through nearley 400 ft and are still in salt they are making arrangments to mine it and they Claim in 90 days there will be 1000 men at work here we like the climate we have had plenty of rain here all summer and have had but little frost yet. the weather is warm and nice we do not need but verey little fire yet the stock still live on the pasture and are doing fine. we like the people and the longer we stay here the better we like the country and the people I have not had verey good health since we came but think wil be all right when I get climatised. Sallie has had good health and is flesey for her we have not heard from Bobs folks for some time. we live nearley 200 miles west of them How is your health this fall hope you are all well. wish we could come over sunday for dinner but guess we cant tell Lillice to box that boy up and send him out and we will be good to him and these Kansas breeses will make him grow.

What is Zillman doing this fall is he teaching I would write him if I thought he would awnser would like to see Lou and the baby give them our regards we have moved live on main st in the nicest part of the town and close to the church and fortunateley we get the rent verey cheap. Property fuel and everey thing is verey high here Sallie is keeping one boarder this winter she gets $4.00 per week Sallie has been washing to day she sends regards to all. Hope this will finde you all as well as usual Let us hear from you as soon as convient

     And we remain as ever your

     Bro and Siss Joel and sallie

[Letter head]

Office of J. J. Love Dealer in Hard and Soft Coal.

Between Second and Third Ave.

South Hutchinson, Kans. Jan 5 1888

     Dear Sister Jane

yours of some time since came safe and was glad to hear from you. I should have awns sooner but combination of things have kept me buisey and I have written to no one Well what are you all doing this winter but it does not seem much like winter to us here no snow at all we seldom have a cloudy day and most of the time verey pleasant but it can change in a few minutes and give us a regular blizzard and nearley freese us to death for 2 or 3 days and then calm down and get as nice as spring Things are verey quiet here this winter not much doing in any line Sallie is getting fleshey and has good health my health is not good the watter here hurts me. I dont hear from Bobs any more and not often from E.J. We had a quiet christimas here nice and warm. We like Kan verey well especialley the weather some things in the way of buisness is not as favorable as we could widh for but everey country has its draw backs. we would like to take a peep at some of the folkes in old Ills. I suppose Janiar has got home ere this. How are Zills doing and how is the Babes at both places. I cant give you any news as you dont know any one here and so close wishing you all well with a happy and prospors new year write as often as convient

as ever the same Joel and Sallie

[Letter head]

J.J. Love. J.D. McClarey.

     Love & McClarrey. Lumber Dealers. Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, Etc,

     South Hutchinson, Kans, Mar 3(?) 1888

Dear Sister Jane

     your at hand and glad to hear from you again you Accuse me of not thinking any thing of you because I do not write oftner which in not the case as I have a great deal to do and to think about and have written to no one except I was compelled to we have had financial trouble which has employed my time I am trying to get in the Lumbr buisness again and therefore dont know where we will locate but can not do any thing in that line here. will probily locate in Ills some where we will aim to get away by next week want to finde location in the north part of the state as close to chicago as possible. Have had very nice winter here warm as may nearley all through Feb no snow roads dry and smooth all the time "Pa" Blairs folkes live some over a mill out of Mt Vernon and the storm did not reach them. we have no paper here with full acct but will send you a statement from Globe we do not hear any thing from Bobs any more Times are verey close here this winter and buisness quiet. shall write you again ere long and tell you where we are I can not tell you where to write to so do not awns this till you hear from us again. we are well trust this will finde you the same

Regards to all the same Joel

[in the same envelop as above]

[Letter head]

J.J. Love. J.D. McClarey.

     Love & McClarrey. Lumber Dealers. Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, Etc,

     South Hutchinson, Kans, Mar 5 1888

     Dear Sister Jane

In answer to yours of Recait date I will not attempt to excuse my self for not writing often for you know by this time that I am a very poor corrospondant. but am always glad to hear that guy is well would like to see him and Ruth I did not think when we were thire that he would get well

you wanted us to send you some papers with the (?)act of the Mt Vernon E J done in I have had some papers from Home but let my sister have them and this is all we have at Presait. they write me that they cant began to tell us of the suffering and and loss of life and Property they claim thire will be thurty five deaths and a great meany wounded three or four Hundred Houses blown down. and since the storm thare has been rain that has done a great deal of damage to Goods that was still in the Ruins of the Seven dry goods Stores thire were onley two left standing. we were anxious to hear from our folks as you may supose for we did not know but they had all been killed but Revwired a dispach the next day saying they were all well. they will send us the Papers this week with full Paticulars in. I have three or four letters to write and will have to write short ones (?)are will not get through this morning. we had a letter from EJ. last week he was well. sayd he was still single and Happy. give out Regards to Zill and Lue and Ruth with Love to Lillis and family and a shair for your Self I remain as ever you sister Sallie

So. Hutchinson Kan. May 11/ 88

Dear Sister Jane. After so long a Silence I will write a line that you may not think we are dead Well Since writing before I have had lots to contend with. I have been away and just got back yesterday and cant tell what I will do as I am in trouble here about my accounts. I will loos part and am afraid nearley all my attorneys seem to think they can get apart of it and some is gon now So much for Kansas it Sets us out pretty near by bare footed. I shall stay here for a while and see what can be done Sallie is at her mothers. I may travel this Summer. Cant tell what I will do till we see what can be done here but I expect to move our goods out of Kansas we Stopped a couple of days at Bobs Mell and Ollie are nearley grouwn and they have two younger Boys all healthy children and quite good looking Nettie and Bob does not look much older than they did when I last seen them. Bob will loose his farm this summer he thinks of going to Mo or Arkansas he said he would not stay in Kans if they would give him a farm But I have one consolation I am not the onley fool. But I hope I will come out better than the prospects looks at this time I am Staying with Sallies Sister She married here last summer and the Sharks have her man tied up so he can not see his way out. I shall be here till after the 21st of the month my case comes off on that date I may Stay longer and may not if you can write me here by that date I will get it but if it should not get here they will send to me. I may when I get through here go to Chicago I am undecided till I see if I have any thing left I will "try" and not be so long in answring your next but I have to much to do and think about I would like to see you all and the Baby

Hoping this may finde you all well.

     As ever the same Joel

Mt Vernon. Ill May 29 / 88

     Dear Sister Jane

I recvd your Letter while at So. Hutchinson. I came back here last Sunday I think we will get a part of our money some time but dont know how soon we have not concluded yet what we will do. we are here at present at 'Pa Blairs Sallie will stay here till we can collect some or get in to some kind of buisness. we hope for the best and have no idea of giving up but will do the best we can and think we will get a long all right in the course of time Mt Vernon is a good town and does buisness on a Safe basis the crops look well here except wheat and plenty of fruit of al kinds do you ever see E.J. Sallie was with me at Bobs in the spring. I could not stop when I came this time Hoope Zill and Lou will get a long all right and take good care of the Babes how is Lillice and guy when you write direct here and if I am not here Sallie will get it Sallie will write next time She is busey to day getting ready for decoration tomorow. we are well hope you are all the same

we remain the same

     Joel and Sallie

[Letter head]

J.J. Love. J.D. McClarey. Love & McClarrey. Lumber Dealers. Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, Etc,

       July 8 1888 Mt. Vernon Ills

     Dear Sister Jane

I wrote you some time since and have recvd no anwcer from you hope you all keep well this hot weather. It has been excessive hot here. Well I am called back to Kas to look after some of my intrests there I have a Law Suit the 17th & 18th that is next friday and Saturday. we will Start about tuesday or wednesday will leave our goods here at "Pa Blairs" as we dont know when we will come back as I have some buisness that comes on later and will Stay till all is settled one way or the other we will Stay for a while with Mrs Parker.(Sallies Sister) and if I can will go in some buisness there this winter. Jane I would of liked to of come and seen you but I have been idle all summer and my Money on hand would not admit of us going any where we have talked often of how we would like to take a trip down there but that is as far as we went we hope to get Settled some where when we get out Kas affairs Settled and we probily will settle some where in Ills. From reportsof the crops I suppose you are having a good crop this season hope so at least will write you when we get there when you write direct me there

Love to all The same your

Bro and Sis Joel and Sallie

[Letter head]

J.J. Love. J.D. McClarey Love & McClarrey. Lumber Dealers. Lath, Hair, Lime, Cement, Etc,

      July 16 1888 Mt. Vernon Ills

     Dear Sister Jane

Your well come letter was recvd Some time since and my excuse for not awnsering ere thei I have been away most of the time and Sallie is staying out on the farm at home canning Berries we are not Settled any where yet as I have not got my Kans buisness Settled or made any collections and if something is not done verey soon I am going back there and Stay till I get it or loose it We are having plenty of rain and good prospect for corn crps E.J. has been over heat again and is quite poorley this summer we have not heard from any of Bobs this summer my health is better than it has been for severel years. I can not send you the date of the births of the familey Father had the familey bible and I think left it at uncle Bob Millers in Vermillion Co. and the family broke up and dont know whoe took the bible I wish you would tell me uncle Solomons Post Office adress. I am glad your health is improving and hope you may get entirly well. I would like to see all of you Suppose Lillices Boy is getting to be a big Boy. how is Zill & Lou and the Babes I have no idea when we will get to see any of you the Shape we are in now. Hoping this will finde you all well and that we may hear from you sonn. We are the same. Joel and Sallie

[Letter head]

LOVE & PRATHER, Dealers IN Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri Coal.

Bailed Hay and Feed.

South Mo. Pacific Depot, South Main Street.

Hutchinson, Kansas, Sept 30, 1886

     Dear Sister Jane

We have been here some time and Should of written ere this time but was undecided as what we would do and I finde by staying till Spring I will Stand some chance of getting something but it is all "chance" here in the west. I have formed a partnorship and will sell some coal and try to pay expences till spring. Times are verey hard here the hot winds and bugs took the corn crop I never seen times as close in Ills as they are through this countrey this fall out side of Hutchinson the towns are all dead and so is the citys but the Salt finde here saved this place There are 4 plants in operation 5 more all most completed and prospected for about 20 more to go in between now and spring They have finished one Packing house and now they are too commence on another in the next 30 days to cost 1/2 million of dollars. Property is high rents verey high and the prospect is that Hutchinson will make a large city but it wont be from the products of the country but from Eastern capital. we are staying at Mrs Parkers Sallies sister. The weather is warm and dry we have but verey little rain in this countrey and no campain speaches every thing is republican here. I am glad you have good crops in Ills this year and hope you all keep keep well we are as well as usual. we would like to see you all and the "kids".

Let us hear from you when convient When you write direct you letters.

First ave east Wooderd Block No 48. Hutchinson my buisness is in the city and we will stay there this winter dont direct any more letters to So Hutchinson. Hoping you are all well we remain the same your Bro and Siss

     Joel and Sallie

[Letter head]

LOVE & PRATHER, Dealers IN Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri Coal.

Bailed Hay and Feed. South Mo. Pacific Depot, South Main Street.

Hutchinson, Kansas, Nov 30, 1888

Dear Sister Jane

     Yours of some time since came to hand and we are all ways glad to hear from you This leaves us both well. I am having good health this winter Sallie is getting fleashey and has good health The weather is nice have had no rain this fall the roads all ways goo. Times are verey hard here nothing to bring any money. this city is kept up on easteren money we are getting our buisness settled slowly. we have some Judgments and mortgages to settle yet but it is hard work to get any kind of settlement in this country. we own a goon new two story house in So Hutchinson I bid it in at Sherriff sale. the weather is not cold enough to sell much coal yet we are verey hard up this winter as we cant collect what little we have left we have made no arrangments for the future or cant till we see what we have left if anything this is a nice country but a bad place to do buisness. This is a nice little city of about 15000 population and will make a big place some time. The great draw back here it seldom rains and the hot winds take the crops. We seldom hear from Bobs have not heard from Siss since last winter. I wrote her but got no awnser. the last letter we got from E.J. he was doing well. you ask if we belong to church yes we are "methodists" I hope you are keeping well this winter we would like to see you all you do not say what Zills are doing we would like to see the Kids in perticular. what is Janiar doing this winter we are no loss here for church privelidges on any thing else but money Let us hear from you as often as convient We remain your

Bro and Siss Joe and Sallie

[Letter head]

LOVE & PRATHER, Dealers IN Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri Coal.

Bailed Hay and Feed. South Mo. Pacific Depot, South Main Street.

Hutchinson, Kansas, Dec 14, 1888

     Dear Sister Jane

My better half has writen to you and I will try and write you a line I want to write to nettie to for we have not writen to them for some time they were well the last time we heard from them we like living in Hutchinson verey well or staying I should say for we are (?)baching we bought furnature enough for two Rooms and are living (?)bach fashion getting along as best we can we dont know yet wheather we will go to House Keeping in the spring or not. I like Kan. for some things we have nice Roads here all the year around. we had thanksgiving sermon at the Presbyterian church it was a union service. they have a fine new building of stone. it is the largest church in town. we live in a half block of the M.E.Church they put a new Carpet on it last week I went over and helped to sew on it there were about fifty Ladies thire all working at once it took over three hundred yards to cover the floor and will cost about two hundred dollars.

the Teachers are having a Convension or something here this week and they have the use of the church we have not been to any of their meetings yet think we well go to night.

yesterday was my birth day my better half gave me a small table for center of the Room and gave money to get me a dress. I want to make it next week. it is a nova blue bread cloth to be trimed in (?)shama skin. would send you a peice but have not cut it yet.

Well Jane I dont know what to write that would be of intrest to you as thire is no one here that you are acquainted with we know very few here yet but thire seem to be a very nice class of peopole here that we meet at church and I think we will soon set acquainted. hoping you can read my scribling I will close with Love to Lillis and Husband and a kiss for the boy Hope your health is better I am as ever you Sister Sallie

[Letter head]

LOVE & PRATHER, Dealers IN Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri Coal.

Bailed Hay and Feed.South Mo. Pacific Depot, South Main Street.

Hutchinson, Kansas, Dec 22, 1888

Jane and Lillice

     We are not in shape to do much for our friends this christimas but except Aprons with our best wishes. This does not seem much like holiday times. it is as warm as may and every day as bright as silver roads perfectley smooth dry and dusty dont need but little fire at any time we are both well and hoping this may finde you all the same wishing you a happy christimas and a prosperous new year

Remain the same

     Joe and Sallie

[Letter head]

LOVE & PRATHER, Dealers IN Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri Coal.

Bailed Hay and Feed. South Mo. Pacific Depot, South Main Street.

Hutchinson, Kansas, Feb 22, 1889

     Dear Sister Jane

We recvd your card some time since glad to hear from you but sorrey you are having poor health this winter but hope when spring comes you may get better. we are having very good health this winter. the winter has been verey warm and dry untill recentley we are having some cold weather. times are very hard here no money in circulation. we have not concluded what we will do yet we have lost about all our money trying to do business here. we have a good big house of our own and can rent it to good advantage we are with in one minutes walk of the church. we have a good preacher a congration of from 5 to 600 people turn out twice every sunday There is A bout 12 different churches in the city we are never at a loss for some place to go but it is costley to live west especialley in the city A person has no business here with out a good buisness or Barrell of money as there are more hard run people here to the size than any place I ever seen If we sell our property we may go to Ills some place. I am out of business now and want to get at something soon we are glad you had lots of fruit last year. we have nothing of the kinde here only as it is shipt in We would like to see all of you and the "Kids." Sallie is busey sewing she thinks I have told what little we know she sends Love to all and hoping this may finde you all well and that we may hear from you soon.

     We remain you

Bro and Siss Joe and Sallie

[Letter head]

R.T. Colliver E.J.Love. Colliver & Love, Manufacturer's and Dealers in

     Hard Wood Lumber, and Railrod Supplies.

          Greenup, Ill. Ap. 4 1889

Dear Sister Jane

I was ready to go down to see you to night but have been on a trade and learned to day that I want to be at Mt Vernon tomorow and will leave here on night train to night it was impossible for me to stop off last week when I went over the road I had promised to meet a man next day would of went sunday but thought I would go later in the week. as far as I know I may be back in short time then will come see you and make you a good visit will not go west be fore fall

E.J. and wife both well Hattie is a nice little woman and of a nice family. Hope you all keep well. If I had of known I could not go down this week would have gon sunday but hope to be able to see you soon "Chug" the kinds for me. Sallie is at "Mas" and was well last acts

Well good night I will go to the train soon and see Sallie in the morning will write you or see you ere long and Remain

     your Bro Joe

[Letter head]

J.J.Love, Dealer in Office of Bed Room Suits, Parlor Suits, Wardrobs,

Bed Mattress, Springs, &c. Furniture & Undertaker' Goods A Specialty.

               [down right side] West Side Public Square.

Hearse always in Readiness.

               Greenup, Ill., Sept 19 1889

     Dear Sister Jane

I did not get to see Janiar last week to know how you are getting but hope you are still improving and that Lillice and "Guy" are well wish Lillice would put the Kid in a box and express him up here for me to play with in the evenings after supper. Well we are confined down to the store and are getting use to it and like the business we are having some trade all the time but dont expect any thing big yet till we are better advertised and understand our business better I think I shall handle some poles this winter and Sallie will keep store while I tend to the poles. Things are quiet here this week so far this has been the quitest week in greenup since we came but suppose the farmers are all busy seeding and cutting up corn is Janiar sowing any wheat tell him we are mad at him he come and went and never come around all week but we will get over it if he will come and stay for dinner some time if he dont we will go down and eat him out if we ever get a chance to leave here we do think he might of come and took one meal with us Sallie is at woork canning Tomatoes and Making Grape Jell. the last day or too cold for her here at the store. we have not got any stove up yet I have not seen E.J. since we wer down there. No word from Kansas Hope this will find you all doing well

Remain the same Joe and Sallie

 [Letter head]

J.J.Love, Dealer in Office of Bed Room Suits, Parlor Suits, Wardrobs,

Bed Mattress, Springs, &c. Furniture & Undertaker' Goods A Specialty. [down right side] West Side Public Square. Hearse always in Readiness.

          Greenup, Ill., Oct 25 1889

Dear Sister Jane As this is my birthday and I am not doing much I will write you a line. I should of wrote ere this but we have had not flue in the Store and could not put up any stove and it is too cold to sit down to write except in case of compulsion they are building flue to day it is so cold and damp in here I will not attempt to write much we are reasonably well I have gained about 20 lbs since we came to greenup Sallie is fat as beef we have had no trade since the fair or no one else has had any treade we are hardley taking in enough to meet neccessary living expences I am going in with a partey he funishes me some money to buy poles we have not heard from Kansas for a long time E.J. and Hattie was up the other day they are well Mages wife told me guy had been sick hope the little dot is better or well we think lots of him hope you will keep well this winter. the day we was there we lost sale of coffin and that is all we make anything out of Peters has cut furniture down so there is nothing in it we have turned too coffins in the night you see we are tied down nights sundays and all the time when we get the Stove up Sallie will stay at the store and I will Stay at Hoop pole yard we are going to share.

I am cold and it is nearly mail time I will quit for this time Sallie Sends love to all and especialley to guy

     The same your Bro and Siss Joe and Sallie

 [Letter head]

J.J.Love, Dealer in Office of Bed Room Suits, Parlor Suits, Wardrobs,

Bed Mattress, Springs, &c. Furniture & Undertaker' Goods A Specialty. [down right side] West Side Public Square. Hearse always in Readiness.

               Greenup, Ill., Nov 25 1889

Dear Sister Jane

     We recvd your card some days ago glad to hear from you. Mr Harper called to see us at the Store while here last week he said you had been sick again It seems like it is impossible for us to leave town we have not been out of town since we wer to see you. our trade is verey light, but we dont know when we will have a call for a coffin they come when least expected. we are not paying expences now. we are beat down on prices on the furniture so when we do make a sale we onley get about cost out of it. this is the worst place to fight a new man I ever seen we have sold eleven coffins since we commenced E.J. and Hattie has not been up for some time. we do not hear from Bobs any more. I wrote to Siss in the summer but got no awnser we have traded part of our Kansas property off but have not got any money out of the trade yet. Greenup is dead dead nearley everey person is going to casey to trade. I expect we would have done better to of went there in place of comming here. I cant get any hoop poles. there is not much of any thing sold here except a little whiskey for medical purposes

     We are both reasonabley well I have gained a bout 25 lbs and Sallie has never been as flesey if we ever get a chance to come down we will come and see you all but we are verey hard run this winter and cant go any place. Love to see the familey. your Bro and Siss Joe and Sallie

 [Letter head]

J.J.Love, Dealer in Office of Bed Room Suits, Parlor Suits, Wardrobs,

Bed Mattress, Springs, &c. Furniture & Undertaker' Goods A Specialty. [down right side] West Side Public Square. Hearse always in Readiness.

               Greenup, Ill., Dec 11 1889

Dear Sister Jane

I have no news to write you but thought I would write a line to let you know we are still alive but not making our living. we are both well and fleashey doing what good we can and as little harm. The town is dead, dead, dead, no business at all there is not a man in town paying expences we are not making 1/2 enough to pay rents I cant see now what the out come will be, if things dont make some change soon a goon maney will be compelled to quit business. we are only Just Staying here not living I have not seen E.J. for a long time I do not hear from Bobs or Siss any more do you what are you all doing this winter hope you all keep well I have traded some of our westeren property for pattent door Strip. I have 13 counties I think we can get some money out of it when I get it Started I have an agt in Casey he is doing verey well. I will soon have 3 or 4 in this county and Jasper

The roads are so bad I cant get any Poles. Tell guy we would like to see him. what is Janiar doing this winter we are expecting a dull chrismas we are getting use to Blue times.

     I have some work to do and will quit for this time

Give our love to all the familey and we remain you Bro and Sis

     Joe and Sallie

[Letter head]

J.J.Love, Dealer in Office of Bed Room Suits, Parlor Suits, Wardrobs,

Bed Mattress, Springs, &c. Furniture & Undertaker' Goods A Specialty. [down right side] West Side Public Square. Hearse always in Readiness.

     Greenup, Ill., Dec 27th 1889

     Dear Sister Jane

I come to the store this afternoon and it is very quiet nothing doing. we did not have much Christmas This year. I hope you all had a plesant time. Mr Mage Harper was in the store and told us he would come by as they went down thire to the farm and we was going to send Guy somthing but it was late when they got started so he told Mr Love and they did not come by. Hattie was up here for Christmas Entertainments went hom yesterday E.J. did not come we feel blue the Town is so very quiet. if we could leave the store wold like to come down and see you all why dont you and Lillace come and see us I supose Guy is growing to be a big Boy. we are going to have a donation Party for our minister new years night

We atended two Christmas Trees and thir is to be another saturday night dont know whurther we will go or not. Well Jane I dont supose I can write any thing of intrest so I will close

     Hoping to hear you are well and wishing you all a Happy and prsostius New year

     I remain as Ever

     your Sister

          Sallie

P.S. we send you some writing Paper Love to all

     S.E.L

[Letter head]

J.J.Love, Dealer in Office of Bed Room Suits, Parlor Suits, Wardrobs,

Bed Mattress, Springs, &c. Furniture & Undertaker' Goods A Specialty. [down right side] West Side Public Square. Hearse always in Readiness.

     Greenup, Ill., Ap 10 1890

Dear Sister Jane

     I will write you a line this morning I have been busy of late and have neglected some of our correspondance. Our business here has been an up hill affair the town died on our hands We expect to move to Casey in a short time. I have bought 1/2 intrest in Marble and granit shop will move our coffins there and Sallie will run the undertaking deportment. we have lost money ever since we have been here we have not heard from Kansas for a long time. Sallie is going to Hidalgo on noon train and will be gon till saturday and if she can get E.J. to make his arrangments to take her to see you she will make you a visit we both remain well. we have sold our furniture stock. and have nothing on hand but the coffins Hope you all keep well. I suppose guy is nearley big enough to help his Pa plow corn this summer I have seen or heard nothing more from Harve Butchers. We feel in hopes the roads will get good now and business will brighten up some E.J. and Hattie was up to see us about two weeks ago.

     Well it will soon be mail time and I will quit for this time

We remain your Bro and Siss

     Joe and Sallie

          By 1900 JOEL was working in Mount Vernon Township, Jefferson County, Illinois, USA in the laundry business. He was 54 and his wife SALLIE, 41. The LEONA shown in the census was the daughter of JOEL's brother EVAN as his wife HATTIE had died in 1890 and they had taken the baby to live with them. Shown in 1900 Jefferson County census page 195A.

    Casey. Ills. July. 4th - 1890

Dear Sister Jane. As this is the 4th and things are quiet here this morning. I will write you a line Casey wil not celebrate to day most of the town will stay at home A few goes to martinsville Casey does not regonise "greenup". I have been Allmost sick during the hot weather the town has been quiet for a week or too as I set here at shop window Load after Load is passing on the road to Martinsville. I have not heard from Kansas for A long time. I heard yesterday that Hattie was sick but guess not bad I got a card from Scott Tullis at Sidell he did not say what he was doing This is such a cool morning I feel 5 years younger. Jane when you get ready to come visit let us know some days a head as I have a good deal of traveling to do and I do not leave Sallie alone over night. And we are liable to be gone 2 or 3 days at a time any time. I have a trip for next week and she has sent word to some greenup friends that she will visit them I do not write this to keep you from making your visit but so Sallie will be at home when you come as we live about 1/2 mile from Depot How is Lou getting hope she is not bad. Tell guy I am looking for that letter from him. Hope you are all keeping cool as you can this hot summer. Let us hear from you And we remain the same

your Bro and Siss Joe and Sallie

Casey. Ill. Aug 15 - 1890

Dear Sister Jane

yours at hand glad to hear from you. In ans to your qustions old Hens 7c chicks 7c Geese $3.00 per Dozen evereything is way down which makes it better on us poor town folks on act of failure of crops our buisness is cut down till we are doing all most nothing. If things keep on getting much worse I will have to go some place where I can get in to some kind of employment Chicago or some other big place our garden has about all dried up we feed our cow twic a day no word from Kansas Sallie has something the matter with her head and is under the weather. Hope we will get rain soon our Cisteren is allmost dry Hope you all will keep well this hot dry weather

Jane I have Sick head ache to day and can not do anything or write either so I will close and go home soon

     Hoping this find you all well. give our Love to guy and the family

     The same your Bro and Siss

          Joe and Sallie

[Letter head]

Office of

J. J. Love Undertaker and Furniture Dealer Specialty: "Low Prices."

Casey, Ill. Dec 17 1890

     Dear Sister Jane

yours of some time since recvd I have had no news to comunicate my excuse for not writing any sooner This leaves us well as usuel the Babe is sick part of the time but is growing and has good Strong lungs and clear voice and we are subject to its commands at any and all hours during the night. Sallie calls her Leo and I adress her as "Pug" she will awnser for one as well as the other This end of town is verey quiet since the death of gooch we are afraid the business will all leave this end and if it does some of us will be allmost ruined. we are seeing close times here this winter Trade is Verey quiet and the expence goes on just the same and more since Baby came but we are living as saving as possible we, have everey thing to buy and pay cash and we are compelled to be saving. E.J. comes up occasionally he is out near Vevay Park, he is worse than ruined financially he has not got any thing he can call his own and in debt badly Jane I wish you would ask Janiar if he knows what Jim Thompson is doing and if he is at home. I want him to work my Pattent for me. I wrote to him (Thompson) and got no awnser. and wrote to Zillman and got no awnser. Ask Janiar if he knows and if he is at home I will come down some time and see him what are you all doing this winter Tell Lillice we would shure gladdley come down and help eat gooce but she will have to take the will for the deed this time for various reasons not because we would not like to. But we must do as we can this time hoping in the future things and matters may be different with us Hoping you may all keep well and happy Remain your Bro and siss Joe and Sallie and "Pug"

[Letter head]

Office of J. J. Love Undertaker and Furniture Dealer Specialty: "Low Prices."

Casey, Ill. Jan 8 1891

  Dear Folkes

     Bucket for Lillice. Hood for Jane. Chair for guy. We could not remember friends with much this year, are Limited. we are Well as usuel. Tell guy would have sent chair with Miur Bottom but am out When Janiar comes up we will "smoke"

     Wishing you all A happy and prospures new year Remain your Bro and Siss

          Joe and Sallie

[postcard]

Casey. Ills. Mch 20 - 1891

Dr Sister

     your letter of some days ago came. E.J. did not say anything about any picture. he has not been here latly will ask him about it when he comes Baby has been having trouble with her head Sallie been having sore eys but both better now. No news or no business everything dead and dull. We have not moved yet hop you all keep well. The same Joe and Sallie

[Letter head]

J. J. Love, Furniture Dealer. Also, Undertaker,

     Casey Ill Ap 8 1891

Dr Sister

     your card of last week came to hand. We have been having trouble with Leo she has been having ear ache so much she was so sick with it for two weeks and suffered so much she is well of it now and we are getting some sleep. I have been nearley down for a week I guess it is cold settled all over me I thought I was taking gripp but hope not we are doing nothing at all no business of any kind going on and I am feeling blue enough if things dont soon open up I dont know what we will or can do When E.J. was here he said he fergot that picture of netties I am glad to see spring some once more this has been such a dull gloomy winter and no trade. We dont hear from any of Kansas folkes has Hope you are all keeping well and may be ever so prosperus this summer I have no news of any kind to write as things are dull since gooches death Casey does not seem like the same town. Is the folkes coming up this spring. Remain

your Bro and Siss Joe and Sallie

[Letter head]

J. J. Love, Furniture Dealer. Also, Undertaker,

     Casey Ill Ap 14 1891

Mr J. B. Harper

Dr Sir

     yours at hand I went to Shimel to see about harrow he says kind of harrow you want is worth $12.50 delivered at depot in Casey his terms are note due Sept 1st at 8 % Let me hear from you and if terms are satisfactory will have it sent down at once

          Yours respct

          J. J. Love

[Letter head]

J. J. Love, Furniture Dealer. Also, Undertaker,

     Casey Ill July 7 1891

Dear Sister Jane and the family

     How are you all doing this dry time. We are about as usuel. the baby is not well is bothered so bad with hives has them all over her and is cross. we need rain Verey bad gardens are all drying up our potatoes can make nothing at all with out rain soon. we have no business in casey to amt to any thing there is no furniture trade at all I am badley dicouraged I never knew Casey so dead as it is this summer it is all most like sunday every day I hope you are all keeping well and are having enough rain to make corn and gardens I seen E. J. Saturday he has not sold the mill yet but is trying to sell I wish he could sell as they are doing no good and not likeley to do so in the condition things are in and he needs to get where he can make some money. we have had no word from Kansas for a long time. Sallie had a good visit home and the baby came back badley spoild Casey had no doings at all the 4th we are all looking for some trade after wheat is thrashed and if we dont get it we are done up Remain the same your Bro and Siss Joe and Sallie

Casey. Ills Sept 17 1891

Dear Sister Jane

your card of some days ago at hand Glad you was all able to be about was afraid guy might get down sick there is so much sickness among children. We are reasonably well Sallies health is not verey good this summer Leo is cross she is cutting teath and causes lots of work and attention she is growing some and is a good looking baby. E.J. was here a little while one day last week he said they was busey saving now. he is still trying to sell. his health is not good and he wants to get in out of the sun. I cant stand to be out in the hot sun at all. our trade is still no good and we are afraid it wont be this fall. as pepole are having to pay for Buggies, wagons, machinery and Co. Cochen hour says it has not been as dull in 20 years I cant tell when we will get down when it gets cooler for the baby if we could get a buggy without going to the Liverey stable we would drive down some sunday. but cant afford to pay $2.00 for a rig now not till we get some trade. I have not heard from any of Kansas folkes this summer. do you hear from them. Hope you are keeping well this hot weather. we would of liked to of come down in peach time but could not we bought some peaches cheap Sallie has 72 qts of fruit canned we have lots of cabbage Potatoe beanet & Co. we heard Lou was sick did she get well Your Bro & Siss

          Joe and Sallie

Casey. Ills. Oct 21 1891

Dear Sister

We have not heard from any of you since Lillice was up we do not know whuther she got home all right or not. Hope you all keep well. We are about as usuel. Leo is cutting teath and is cross and lots of trouble but is growing some our business is dragging along about like it was no trade to signify Casey is very quiet all round and nothing new that we know of E.J. was here to dinner some two weeks ago have not heard from him since he had not sold the mill yet and does not know what he is going to do. I have not heard from any of the Kansas folkes

This a letter for Zillman [top of the back page in blue ink]

for a long time not this summer I dont think suppose they are all right though do you ever hear from them I some times wish that we was in the West again. we could not do any worse as we falling be hind here all the time and the prospects are poor to do any better soon but perhaps after the corn is gathered trade will be better. If we had a buggy of our own we would come down some of these nice sundays but we cant afford to hire any The Baby is getting as cute as she can be. did any of you folkes go to the greenup fair we did not go they had a good fair and we have lots of good friends there. Hope you are all keeping well let us hear from you when convient. your Bro and siss Joe and Sallie

Mt Vernon. Ills. May 5 1892

Dr. Sister Jane. I wrote you about the time I left Danville. I have not heard from you so I write you again. I have been here some over three weeks. Sallis Mother lay at the point of death all winter and things wer so shaped Sallie was compelled to remain at home. And when spring opened they thought she was going in consumption and did not think she could live this summer I could not arrange to do any thing so I quit there and come sown here we are on the farm that is sallie stays at home. I am in town now and go out at night and back in the morning Ma B. seems some better the last few days but she caughfs so hard and is very weak. Sallie will probily remain with her. Leo is quiet A big girl can run all over the house and fall down and make more noise than all the family dont think she grows like she did she dont try to talk much she is a great favorite and badley spoild dont think salt peter would save her. But we think All of her and would not take the best block in Mt Vernon for her when she gets tierd and sleeps she will say pretty baby mamas pretty baby. I dont think we could think any more of her if she had of been born to us Mt Vernon is a good town it has 6,500 population and is growing like a westeren town. it has three Rail Roads and will have two more this summer car shops that work about 700 men and a 7 foot Vain of coal that they talk of opening this summer if a man had any money he could do well here. I have not heard from E.J. for some time last time he wrote he said they had lost A lot of Logs and Lumber by flood it seems like he is as unfortunate as I am. My health is not good this spring Sallie has worked so hard and lost so much sleep all winter that she is feeling bad I am liable to come up there most any time this summer I have some unsettled business I have some money coming to me if I can get it collected and I owe a little when I left they circulated some of the worst lies on me and as soon as we can get things shaped. we are going to see certain parties. I have a Lawyer in greenup and one in Marshall. and perhaps in the end some of them will learn not to talk so much with thier mouths I hope you are all keeping well this spring. what is Janiar doing if he had his Brick here this spring he could sell a kiln in a week how is Lillice and guy. I would like to see you all. Tell Janiar I quit chewing Tobbaco last June have not tasted it since and have carried the peice in my pocket all the time since. wheat looks well in this part of the state. Let us hear from you as often as convient. and we are the same your Bro and Siss Joel and Sallie

Mt Vernon Ills Sept 5 - 92

Dr Sister Jane yours of some time since came to hand and I should of awnsered ere this but I have had a Catahar on my hand and had a bad time of it but it broke and is getting much better now. we are none of us well this summer Sallies health is not good Leo has had himves all her life and this summer they turned to sores. we had to call a Dr for her the Dr says it is a skin diseas and hard to handle she has cost us lots of money but we love her as out own lives and would not think of parting with her to any one or any terms she tries to say everey thing she hears and does so many cute things she grows some and we think good looking she dont look like any one except Leo she is a great papa girl we love her as well as we could our own she is a great favorite with all the family the old folkes keep her spoild Mother Blair says she thinks as much of her as any child she ever raised. Well how are you all doing this hot summer. we would like to drop in and see all of you suppose guy is a great big boy Leo can say guy and aunt Jane have you good crops I hope Janiar will make some money this summer tell lillice we have a neighbor that looks and acts so much like her that sallie calls her Lillice all the time. I am trying to fix to start a 2nd hand stone but I have not money enough to do any thing much this Countrey had a good wheat crop and prospect for a good corn crop and times are fair to good Mt V is growing like a westeren city they are spending a hundred thousand dollars on the streets this summer it seems wonderful what is being done here do you ever hear from Bobs I dont think I have heard from them for over a year E.J. dont write but little to me he acts like he was off at something do you hear from him if I get any chance I would like to come up there this fall and will if I can. Will Mrs Kelley still stay on the farm since Cal died. What is Zill doing do you ever hear from Bill Johnson. Whoe is Janiar going to vote for I suppose uncle Solomon is still living I have not seen him in 7 or 8 years I will close hoping this may find you well and all doing well Let us hear from you when convient and we remain the same your Bro and Siss

     Joe and Sallie

Mt Vernon. Ills Nov 4 - 92

Dear Sister Jane

yours of some time since came to hand. I have been verey busey of late and have Not written to any one. This leaves us reasonably well except colds Jane we had some pictures taken of Leo sent EJ a dozen he did Not say whoe he in tended to give them too if he does Not give you one let us know and we will send you one she is past two year old now and is the cutest of cute talks everey thing repeats everey thing said in her presence she helps mama all the time mostley stays up as long as we do and gets up when we do she is the light and sunshine of our home I am trying to run second hand furniture store Mt Vernon is still growing it has a bout 7000 inhabitance now and is a good town. we are having some rain now the roads are quite bad. Mother Blair is some better again she has been verey bad off we have not heard from any of the Kansas folkes this summer do you E.J. does Not write often and does Not say any thing about what he is doing he acts like he was Mad about some thing I am corresponding with my Lawyer at greenup I may have to go up then and would like to go If I have to go will let you know and I will shure be to see you I suppose guy is a big boy how did Janiar do in the brick business this summer have you got good crops crops wer good here we hope you all are all doing well and keeping well we think Sallie has some better health this fall her health has been poor for the last year I began to get so uneasey about her the Baby has been such a burden and with the sickness of her Mother she came verey near going down but we hope now as the baby is getting older and we do not loos to much sleep and have less worrey we are in hopes we will all feel better How is Lillics health And old gran Pas do you hear any thing from Bobs any More I still remain a red hot and uncompromising Republican and expect to remain so and Am proud of the fact.

Well I will close for this time as I know of nothing that would be of any intrest to you. I hope this may find you all well and doing well and that we may hear from you when convient and remain the same

your Bro and Siss

     Joe and Sallie "and Leo"

I do not chew or smoke and think it is helping me quit chewing nearley 2 years ago quit smoking bout 5 month ago

Mt Vernon. Ills Dec 11. 1892

    Dear Sister Jane yours of some time since came to hand in time and glad to hear from you but was sorrey you had been sick and was feeling bad and sorrey Lillice is Not having good health. she must learn to quit so much hard work and take the world easy there is as much in the end if not in money it will be in health. This leaves us as well as usual Leo has so much better health since the weather got cold she is growing and talkes everey thing and is so cute We love her as well as if she had been born to us she is growing to be quite good looking and smart as a Whip. Mother Blair is having much better health this winter I am in the second hand furniture business I get the goods in st Louis there is so many moving in all the time we sell lots of goods and think the trade will get better this is a good town and getting better. all the trouble with us we have no money work on I am liable to come up there at a most any time this winter as I am having a Law suit but dont know when it will come off A Lawyer in greenup and one in marshall is working it for me. will tell you more when I know more a bout it we are having some winter here mow. and there are so many poor people moved in here Fuel and rents are verey high I dont know what a good many of them will do or can do if it proves to be a hard winter we happend on cheap house rent and have a comfortable house but pay high for store rent. We do not get to tend church much on act of the baby. Where is E.J. the last time he wrote me he said he was going west I have wrote him twice and have got no word from him Do you ever hear from Bobs folkes What is Mr Abraham doing in casey is Zills going to make there home in willow hill. I would like to take a train over that Country for a few days as I feel like that section is my old home I like this Country here verey well there is plenty money in Circulation here if I dont get much of it. I hape Janiar will make a success of his business. We would like to have guy picture we dont want him to out grow our Knoweledge of him Sallie sends regards to all the family. she never did write much. and since we have had the baby she writes a good deal less. Hope this finds you all well and happy

     We remain the same

your Bro and Sis

     Joe and Sallie

Mt Vernon. Ills. Feb 19 - 93

   Dear Sister Jane

   yours of some date since came to hand. I have not felt like writing I am and have been sick I have the gripp and it is making me feel pretty Tough, Sallie is having the Rheumatism in her wrists but other wise well Leo is well this winter and as fat as she can be she talks everey thing walks from home up to the store meets me when I come home she is A big nice girl and we dont think we could keep house with out her she is A great talker talks all time when she is awake she is a great imitation and has good memorey dont think she looks like any one but Leo she is a great papa girl and we would not give her up for the wealth of the state We have not heard from E.J. since earley in the winter we do not know what has be come of him do you hear anything from him. We have had it severley cold here all winter and times are hard and everey thing verey high the city has been Booming and so maney people here with nothing to do and no money. Rents are very high so is fuel but the out look is good for next summer. there was a bout 800 houses built last summer and people say there will be more work done this year than last the Rail Road shops work a bout 700 men here The City is full fo measels Leo has not taken them yet we rather wish she would get them but we dont want to take her in to them we go to church and where we want to go and take chances There are plenty churches here and lots of good people and lots of bad ones The salvation armey is here and there are plenty of matirial for them to work on they onley came few days ago My Law suit is set for April in Marshall If it comes off I will be up then at that time we hope you are all keeping as usuel this winter suppose Zills kids are big girls tell guy not to out grow him self so we will not know him when we get to see him give our love to Lillice how is granpa Who lives on Abrahams place do you hear from Canada or from Bobs will close for the present Hoping you are all well let us hear from you the same your Bro and Siss

     Joe and sallie

[Post Card]

Mt Vernon. Ills Jan 25 - 93

Dear Sister Jane as we have not heard from you for some time hope you all keep reasonably well I wrote you 2 or 3 weeks ago we are all of us under the weather this winter have not heard from E.J. for over two months do not hear from Kansas at all times are dull and hard here the weather has been Extremly cold what are you all doing did you get the little presents Sallie sent you do you hear from E. J. yours Joe and Sallie

Mt Vernon. Ill Mar 23rd/ 93

     Dear Cousin

  Just recieved your letter and was very much Shocked to hear of Janes death. what a strange visitor Death is comes and claims the old and young rich and Poor. I know you miss her so much though she was the eldest you no doubt was a mother to her so for as caring for her and have always been together my mind runs back there to that old Home as I try to see you there and I know that no one will miss her as you do that woud be imposable under the circumstances we woud have liked to been with you there and if we had heard in time perhape Mr Love would have gone any way though we could ill aford a trip of any kind this time of year that takes money. for it takes all he can rake to gather to keep his buisness going.

this is his week for going to st Louis to buy goods. he is going in morning on Early train.

Leo has been sick again she had somthing like lung feaver or it was more like malerial feaver as she did not have feaver every day. She is about well again.

she was sick so much last summer had so many sores on her. we have been giving her medicine for her blood trying to prepare her for the warm weather.

thire has been so many deaths here this spring and the past winter. so many Children have died with measels and some with sore throats Leo has not had measels though the town has been full of them. the Dr told me last summer that she had a scrofuli [scrofula] is tendanay that she would very like die with consumpion if we raised her to woman Hood. but I do not think that. I think she has been sick a great deal but hope she will out grow this bad blood.

she will be two and Half years. old the twenty ninth of this month. she is quite a chatter box and has always seemed large for her age.

we have not heard from E.J. since about the midle of Dec sayd he was going to Colorado would write when he got settled we have not heard.

Mr Love sayd tell you he would write you soon as he had no time now is prepairing for his trip to the City. I was real anxious to Enclose you some money to help defray the funrel Expences but he sayd we could not this time perhaps by the time he writes he can send you some. Our Rents are sixteen dollars per month. and that has to come.

well I will close for this time with best wishes for you and yours

     I am Truly you friend

          Sallie

Mt Vernon. Ills. Sept 7 - 93

    Dear Cousin and Family It has been a long time since we have heard from you. Hope you are all Keeping well this hot dry summer We are well Sallies health is good and I think she looks fine Leos health is much better than last summer she is growing so fast and the greatest talker for a child of her age I ever heard. and we cant tell you how we love her We are still in 2nd hand furniture business and Considering the times I guess we are doing well enough. we are paying our rents and are having all we can eat I go to St Louis for goods every 2 or 3 weeks my trade is building up we are handling a better class of goods and hope to get able to settle our back indebtness After while. Sallie is gong to St Louis with me next trip she has a Bro in East St Louis we could not go to Chicago and so want to take in the Expositon at St Louis

Mt Vernon is sinking a coal shaft. While times are verey hard here it is claimed we have the best town in this end of the state The Banks are still solid and doing business But one merchant Broke. the car shop are still working 5 or 600 men and they are spending $90000 in street work If we can pull threw the crieas we think we will finaly come out all right. Sallies folkes are coming to town to live Minnie was married three weeks ago. the old folkes are visiting in the west when they come home they will move to town the Boys are all doing well and making mony they bought a nice home for the old couple george the youngest is principal of the school here he will stay at home We have never heard a word from E.J. since he left Ills. What are you all doing and how are you getting a long How ar Zills doing did they go to chicago Tell me of the changs taking place how is Granpa we want guys picture is uncle solomon still living we would like to see you all and hope to some time again so many coming in and bothering me will close this time. Hoping this finds you all well and happy Let us hear from you and we remain the same your Cous Joe and Sallie

Mt Vernon. Ills Jan 20 1894

   Dear Cousin Lillice and Family

   We recvd your ever wellcome letter came to hand Not verey long since and was glad to hear from you. with all the changs that have occured. I all ways look back at the old place with a home feeling This leaves us all as well as usual. we are having good health here. my health has not been as good in many years. I weigh 175 lbs and work hard 6 days in the week Sallie is fleshey and well Leo is having good health now and is growing so fast, and I wont tell you here how we love her she is the sun shine of our home we are having it Verey warm and the roads good all winter But times are hard. Business dull (none) and money scearce (all most none). Well we are in a nice fix as a govermont are we not and no immediate prospect of any change soon unless it be for worse. I feel ashamed to think I have to be called a son of Ills. And to have to live under Democrittic rule. but I guess it is all right the people had not sence to let well enough alone and they got the change the howled for. I dont know how much you feel the pressure living on the farm where your expences are not so high. But we know how we feel it here with the cost of living as high as when business was good Mt Vernons a costley place to live But we are hoping for better times in the by and by Jefferson Co has allways been a nest of Moss back democrats but to day they are hard to find it makes a man mad to accuse him of voting a dimocrat ticket there is more poloticks talked now than during the campaighn Lillice times are so close with us now it is impossible to spare any money to apply on Janes grave stone. We are doing little on no business and are in close place financialley. But when business opens up and as soon as we possibley can we will do what we can towards helping pay out on it and in regard to style or desighon I know so little about the business will leave the matter with your better Judgment. I would request you not to buy of Sam Ferguson at Casey if you can buy of any one else he is a dirty dog.

Sallies Parents will celebrate there golden wedding Feb 1st They expect all the family to be at home (as it is their first golden wedding)

Hope you are all Keeping well this winter. we would like to see you all and hope we can some day when our ship gets in Tell Janiar this is one of the best brick towns in the countrey, the coal shaft is now 400 ft down you spoke of sending guys picture but did not send it did you forget it. Let us hear from you when convient and we remain the same yours Joe and Sallie

Mt Vernon. Ills. Nov 27 - 95

   Dr. Cousin Lillice and Family

    I have written twice since we last heard from you what is the Matter hope none of you is down sick I dont think we have heard from you since earley in the summer. This leaves us as well as usuel and Leo is a great big nice girl we think the nicest in the county we would not take a million for her when we have her pictures taken will send you one we love her as our own lives. We would like to see you all how are you doing and what has become of Zills folkes suppose his girls is great big. would like to see guy and all the Kids What is Janiar doing how is old granPa is uncle solomon still living I am getting quite fleshy weigh 178 lbs Sallie is fleshey and looks well. we like it here much less this is a good town but all business is quiet this fall. They are sinking the coal shaft and we expect better times to come Lillice let us hear from you on receipt of this. We have never heard a word from E.J. since he left A bout A year ago. Trusting this may find you all well we remain the same you cousins Joe and Sallie.

Mt Vernon. Ills. May 10 - 99

    Dear Cousin Lillice & Family

    We cant count back and find the time when we last heard from you what has become of you and yours Hope you are all well and keeping on top during the democratice "change" and let me say right here that "dimocrates" are verey scearce here everey thing here as far has gon Republican a thing that never happened here be fore. We are all having good health I have not felt so well in many years I weigh 175 lbs. Sallie is well and looks well. Leo is 9 such a big nice girl she has a verey bad temper but we hope she will out grow it and we Love her as our own lives times are Awful dull trade all most a thing of the past and for a city of this size Mt V is verey quiet But we like it here and expect to make our home here as this is gods countrey. Fruit crop is all most a failure this summer there will be lots of strawberies wheat looks well Saloons voted out of Mt V. Coal shaft will soon be rady for operation we are having a new R.R. built through here which gives us 5 Roads What is Zills doing is granpa still living what is Janiar doing how is guy and Lillice Tell us what you know and how things are generally Let us hear from you. The same yours

     Joe and Sallie.

     SALLIE E. BLAIR (39304) was born November 1858 in Illinois State, USA.

             + 270.      iii.    EVAN JEFFERSON (E.J.) LOVE (8970) EVAN (8970) was born 3 April 1846 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. He married HATTIE PARKER (39305) 6 March 1889 in Cumberland County, IL, USA.

             + 271.       iv.    ROBERT JASPER (BOB) LOVE (8971) ROBERT (8971) was born 23 February 1848 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. He married ANNETTA (NETTIE) PORTER (39307) 27 February 1873 in Moultrie County, IL, USA. ROBERT (8971) died 10 April 1910 in Osage Twp., Allen, KS, USA, at age 62. His body was interred after 10 April 1910 in Moran Cem., Allen, KS, USA.

             + 272.        v.    LYDIA E. (LIDDIE) LOVE (8973) LYDIA (8973) was born 24 May 1851 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. She married ISAAC (IKE) MASSEY (39314) 10 March 1886 in Burlington, Coffey Co., KS, USA. LYDIA (8973) died 24 February 1926 in Burlington, Coffey Co., KS, USA, at age 74. Her body was interred 25 February 1926 in Graceland Cem., Burlington, Coffey Co., KS, USA.

148. DAVID¹¹ LOVE (51) (JAMES¹⁰, JOHN⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). DAVID (51) was born 5 February 1810 in Lot 67 Con 1, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. He married JULIA ANN HOLLINGSHEAD (2522) , daughter of GEORGE ANTHONY HOLLINGSHEAD SR. (40094) and SARAH (--?--) (40095), 18 November 1833 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. DAVID (51) died 5 December 1881 in Lot 12 Con 6 King Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 71. His body was interred after 5 December 1881 in King City Cem., York, ON, Canada.

     DAVID LOVE (51) married JULIA ANN HOLLINGSHEAD in 1833.

ONTARIO MARRIAGE REGISTRATION - DAVID LOVE to JULIA ANN HOLLINGSHEAD, both of King, 18 November 1833, King. Rev. Robert Carson. Witnesses Jonathon Beynon and James Love. From the Marriage Registers of Upper Canada / Canada West, Volume 11 Part 1, Home District 1808-1836.The Marriage Register of Rev. Robert Carson, Episcopalian Methodist Minister.

           DAVID LOVE purchased (the term was "Bargain and Sale") 100 acres from the Canada Company for $250 on 29 January 1842. It was registered on 9 February 1842 Instrument # 19,318. It was the west half of Lot 12 Concession 6 in King Township, York County, Ontario. The Canada Company had acquired land in this area from the Crown. The Deed mentions a mill pond and a spring on the property.

       On 17 January 1843 DAVID sold 30 acres of the above land to the Executors for Robert Ross for $120. Instrument # 20,802. Then on 14 February 1846 he sold another 3 acres to the same people for $18. There was some of switch of land here as on the same date DAVID purchased 3 acres in the corner of Lot 11 Concession 6 which would be right next to his own property. There must have been some reason he wanted this particular land. Maybe the spring feeding the pond was on this property and he wanted to keep control of it. This was registered 26 March 1846 Instrument # 26,521.

    Then much later on 24 July1875 DAVID purchased the 3 acres back for $100 so it clearly shows the surge in property prices over this time period. It was registered 13 October 1875 Instrument # 2030.

      Back in the early 1800s the Clerk of King Township, York County kept some very valuable records from the Minutes of Council Meetings. It is also fortunate that a later Clerk in the 20th century, who was interested in the history of the Township, extracted all the pertinent information about people who lived in King Township in the early 19th century.

     DAVID LOVE is shown twice in the minutes of the Council.

     1851 By-Law 33 Path Master - Beat 49 Lots 10 to 14 Concession 7

     1854 By-Law 114 Path Master - Beat 49

         DAVID LOVE was still farming in King Township, York County, Ontario according to the Ontario Census of 1871 King A Division 2 Pages 6/7 Reel C9964. He and JULIA ANN are both 61 years old. The census shows a MARGARET ANN LOVE, age 11 and DAVID LOVE, age 7 living with them. These are the children of WILLIAM LOVE and CATHERINE SIMPSON. WILLIAM was the 37 year old son of DAVID LOVE and JULIA ANN HOLLINGSHEAD. He had married CATHERINE SIMPSON in 1858. We know now from a letter DAVID wrote to his niece JANE LOVE, that CATHERINE had died but we have no definite date. DAVID wistfully states that his son WILLIAM "has wandered off and he knows not where".

        In the King Township 1881 census District 3 Page 36 Reel C13,249. it shows the above children still living with their grandparents. But there is another daughter of William and Catherine Simpson, CHRISTINA VICTORIA, with them as well.

        DAVID and his wife JULIA ANN HOLLINGSHEAD were Wesleyan Methodists and very probably were members of the Temperanceville Methodist Church located at the northeast corner of Concession 1 (now called Bathurst Street) and King Sideroad.

             1n 2003/4 two very dedicated genealogists for the JONES family in the USA,, Wilene Smith of Kansas and Brenda Boyer of Louisiana, discovered a treasure trove of photos, postcards and letters, from the mid to late 19th century. These had been held by Mr. J. D. Harper of Greenup, Illinois, When he died, his sons David and Daniel took possession and have since generously allowed them to be copied.

           Wilene and Brenda found that JAMES LOVE JR. son of JAMES LOVE SR. and MARY UTLEY, had married MARY JANE JONES (widow Dawson) in Indiana, USA. They were kind enough to share these priceless artifacts with me and they turned out to contain an astonishing amount of family information from those times.

      It appears that JAMES LOVE's daughter JANE was the main instigator of the correspondence with her uncles back in Canada and her relatives in the USA. It seems she was interested in building family genealogy and kept prodding them for more information. It was JANE LOVE, and her cousin LILLICE JONES, who originally preserved all these letters, photos and postcards so we are so lucky to have them now. However nobody, so far, has found JANE's letters that she wrote so profusely to her relatives, which is too bad as it would have been very interesting to see her side of the correspondence.

      The names of these amazing genealogists are below and I owe them many, many thanks for sharing this information.

          WILENE SMITH, Wichita, Kansas, USA who has placed the photos on Internet. They can be accessed at http://hometown.aol.com/chloeqcumber/Jones-Love.html

          BRENDA BOYER, Carencro, Louisiana, USA who did the hard work

of transcribing the letters and reading the usually difficult handwriting.

      There was a photo of DAVID and 3 long letters DAVID had written to his niece JANE LOVE. They are so detailed and interesting that I am going to show them here in their entirety. They are post marked Laskay, Dominion of Canada. This was the closest post office to DAVID's farm on the 6th Concession , King Township, York County, Ontario, This post office would have been about a mile from his farm.

 "April 3rd 74 Laskay

     Dear Niece I take my pen to infomg you we are as well as usual thanks to a kind Providence we received you kind letter of March 22 very glad to hear from you and See your picture I had forgoten your looks alltogether. Lydia knew you at wonce the weather is cold yet it has been a very mild winter just Snow enough to make good Sleighing and no more all gone Sometime no plowing yet times are lively good crops last year good prices Money plenty wages high girls are getting as high as 8 $ per month men from 18 to 20 for 6 or 7 months your money is over here your silver is from 8 per cent to 10 below (?)pan it is so plenty it is nuiscence we want to get rid of it you speak Isaih Beynon he was Married 3 week since to Mary Jane Foliott Jonathon Beynon has been very Sick well now the rest all single and at home Uncle John Love is very feble the rest all well James Beynon is well (or wde) one child Aunt Lillie and Ann lives alone in old house Viney and Kate are Married and gone Jane is in toronto living My William has wandred of I dont know where James is in state of Nebraska Jackson P. O. george lives with Johnnie Love in Markam Victoria Square his address John Robert Henry and Lydia at home Henry is Teaching a publick school boards at home Mary is living about ½ mile from here has four children 2 boys 2 girls Oh Jane if you onely could see Aunt Julia look at your picture how nice your hair was combed nothing like the Baboons around here Just like a girl with sence and chriseanity three years seems a long time to wait for you to come cannot you come sooner it cost much to come and trust to providence to get back the cool bracing winds of cananda would make you as smart as cricket when you get this you will think I have little to do in writing so much and and making so many mistakes and blunders well I have a good deal of time on hand and fill two or three sheets with stuff please write Soon and if you want any information tell me what and will give you any satisfaction I can Remember my post office is Laskay not King city. we will look for you Soon

                                               Dominion of Canada Province of Ontario

                                                                                         your Uncle D. Love"

"March 26th _77 Laskay

          Oh Dear Jane I received your kind letter containing the Sad news of your Fathers Death in due time after Some delay I take my pen to inform you we are as well as usual my old complaint astma troubles me much I have not been in bed for 2 years or more Aunt Julia is working hard and going to meeting through thick and thin I have lost track of William his wife is Dead his three children are here James in Nebraska, u,s,a george is working around very steady Saving Money John at home working hard very steady Robert is Married living on Mannitolin Island Marys husband is Dead left her with five children on Mannitolin Island Henry Teaching shool boarding at home 5 years in the Same place Lydia is at home not Married now for cold cannada the ground froze up tight the 15th of November good sleighing 1st December and on till the first of February mild most of the snow went off March stormy plenty of snow now to Toronto raining to day melting fast so you see cannada is cold yet there has been a great many died around here last fall and winter no particular Disease. Mostly old people the crops last summer very poor hot weather and rust the cause considerable of wheat never thrashed times very hard money hard to get prices good wheat 152 cts oats 50 peas 80 barley 60 potatoes 70 hay 815 per ton we are tired of Snow and cold are longing for spring to come when I dont know

     Jane, Oh how glad we would be to see you in this frozen region and give you a good Sleighride over hill and dale(?) I think it would put life in you the thermometer standind at 20 below zero Farenhait if it is easy put in I have nothing to complain of I can Sell 150 bushels of wheat $120 worth of pork 100 bus barley plenty left for man and beast potatoes generly poor mine good never better hay very good I think I will Stop Scribbing you will have Enough to do to cipher this out I expect to see you Soon then we can Talk it all over no more at. Farewell till you come

                                                           Ever Your Uncle David Love"

The next letter you write to Cannada please direct right I wonder it came at all you forgot to put the Dominion of Cannada on your letter

                                         Dominion of cannada Province of Ontario Laskay P.O

"Laskay January 22 1878

     Dear Jane I take my pen to let you know we are as well as usual thanks to a kind providence last summer was warm and wet Some late grain growed in the fields wheat a very heavy crop other grain average crop prices good fall wheat $12 oats 36 peas 70 barley 68 butter 22 pork 5 /o 6 eggs 20 cts wintter has forgotten us alltogether no snow yet worth speaking of people plowings the first of january the fields are now green roads muddy weather warm some rain I think you cannot call it cold Canada any more the bushes leaveing out the first of January My health is poor I have not been in bed this two years past I am wearring down can hardly write my hand trembles my thoughts wanders as you can see by this letter my Familie are somewhat scatred William I have lost all all trask of him James was Married last summer in Nebraska Jackson P.O george is single working around John works at home single very steady works hard Robert lives on the Manitoulin Island in the georgian bay Lake Huron Mary lives there also Henry is Teaching School lives at home the 6th year now commensed in the same place henrys salary $400 Lydia lives at home Single as far as I know they are all hard working and steady Mary has hard work to get along alone with five children I do for her all I can she likes the place well she wont come back. Robert would would not change places with the queen of England I have given you a full history as far as I know James Carscaden is Dead and Jane a widow with three children Egerton Love is Marrid to Catherine McKinnon and working the old place Mary Love was Married last fall to John McKinnon liveng in Markam I have havey draws upon me Mary costs me about two hundred $ a year I have kept Williams 3 children on till now the two oldest girles now grown up the boy is weakly but usefull I manage to keep out of debt with good stock of horses cattle and sheep hogs geese ducks hens one Peacock one pigeon two Cannaris with plenty to give them to eat January 23 cold this morning like old ground white with snow may winter will come yet the Island where Robert and Mary lives 140 miles long 40 wide so you see it not a small place there is not a day during summer but steamboats calls in sight of their house the are not of the world I can leave at 7 AM be there next evening cost $7 now Jane you said you was coming to cannada I have not seen you yet are you coming next spring now Jane I think I have written a long foolish letter you will think write one more and quit however you must forgive me for my noncense and conceit the mercury stands now 2 degrees above zero Farenhait air cool and bracing there is general good health around here there has been 7 and 8 days together dark and foggy without sun moon or stars this winter something strange in canada I will not scrible any more aat presant Now Jane think you will satisfied and tired too when you get through this Epistle So Farewell for the presant write soon

                                                                         Ever Your Uncle David Love"

           We can see from the above letters that DAVID suffered from VERY severe asthma attacks for several years before his death. In fact he states they were so bad he "had not beem able to go to bed for the last two years." His younger brother ROBERT also suffered from the same severe asthma as did ELIZABETH (LIZZIE) LOVE, daughter of their brother JOHN LOVE.

    In a letter written on 1 May 1880, by MARY ELIZABETH (LIBBY) LOVE, daughter of ROBERT LOVE, to her cousin JANE LOVE in Illinois she says "well I left home for King the 12th of March came to Uncle David Loves. Uncle Ds are all well and quite smart Uncle said he would like to write to you but his hand shakes so he cannot write. " In the same letter she states "Uncle David says Grand ma Loves name was Mary Utley you asked Ma and she did not know. " This is only the second document I have ever seen which proves James Love's wife's name was MARY UTLEY and not MARY MITCHELL as stated in the Percy Love files and many other records.

               DAVID died on 5 December 1881 and his Will stipulated that his son JOHN was to have the use of the property until his death, but with many stipulations as to legacies of JOHN's brothers and sisters. The property was transferred to JOHN in Instrument #4134.

                                                 WILL of DAVID LOVE

                         Registered 8 July 1882 Book 17 Instrument # 4134

           Held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

           In the name of God, Amen, this is the last Will and Testament of me David Love of the Township of King, Farmer, being of now sound mind, memory and understanding do make, publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament hereby revoke all former Wills heretofore by me made.

     I give and devise to my son John the farm on which I now reside being the Westerly seventy acres of Lot number twelve in the sixth Concession of the said Township of King. Also the Northwest corner of lot number eleven in the said Concession, containing three acres (the same more or less) together with all the stock, produce, farming implements and all other chattels and personal property of whatsoever kind or nature which I may be seized of, possessed or entitled to subject to the payment of my debts and the following bequests and annuity to my wife which I make a charge upon the aforesaid real estate which requests I will and direct to be paid by my said son John as follows (Viz) I give and bequeath to my sons James, George and Robert the sum of two hundred dollars each and to my daughter Lydia the sum of one hundred dollars said bequests to be paid within six years next ensuing the date of the death of my wife Julia Ann in equal proportions annually to the amount bequeathed to each of my said sons and daughter as aforesaid.

     I give to my wife Julia Ann the clear year by sum of forty dollars to be paid annually in half yearly payments of twenty dollars each and to be provided with Bed, Board and Attendance during the term of her natural life. And in the event of my said wife choosing to remove and leave the residence wherein I now reside, in that case instead of the provisions to her as aforesaid she shall be paid by the Executors to this my Will the sum of one hundred and forty dollars annually and in lieu of all Dower.

     In the event of my said wife surviving my son John my will is then in that case that my son George shall inherit the property hereby devised to him and upon my son George fulfilling the obligations which is hereby enjoined upon my son John, as aforesaid.

     With respect to my sons William and Henry and my daughter Mary Jane Ireland, they have received their portions during my lifetime.

     In the event of the death of either one or more of my sons James, George or Robert or my daughter Lydia without lawful issue my Will is that his, her or their share or shares shall be divided equally amongst those of my mentioned sons or daughter then surviving.

     And I nominate and appoint my wife Julia Ann and my sons John and George to be the Executors and Executrix of this my Will.

     In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at the Township of King the thirtieth day of January A.D. 1877

                                                                        Signed - David Love Seal.

Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared by the said Testator David Love as for his last Will and Testimony in the presence of us who at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses hereto.

Joseph Wood

Alfred Carley.

     David Love's wife JULIA ANN HOLLINGSHEAD (2522) was born 14 April 1810 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. JULIA (2522) died 16 August 1888 in E. Gwillimbury Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 78. Her body was interred after 16 August 1888 in King City Cem., York, ON, Canada.

JULIA ANN HOLLINGSHEAD (2522) was the youngest of eight children of GEORGE ANTHONY HOLLINGSHEAD SR. He had been born in Chester Township Burlington County, New Jersey, USA. His family had evidently preferred to be United Empire Loyalists after the Revolutionary War, but instead of coming to Ontario, they emigrated to Nova Scotia. That was a preferred spot for people from the eastern seaboard of the USA as they could make the trip much easier by ship up the coast.

     Her father was married in Nova Scotia and although we know her mother's name was SARAH, we don't know her family name. They remained in Nova Scotia until about 1800 when they arrived in Ontario and settled in East Gwillimbury Township, York County.

     Children of DAVID¹¹ LOVE (51) and JULIA ANN HOLLINGSHEAD (2522) all born in Lot 12 Con 6 King Twp., York, ON, Canada, were as follows:

             + 273.         i.    WILLIAM¹² LOVE (8974) WILLIAM (8974) was born 3 November 1834. He married CATHERINE SIMPSON (39806) , daughter of JAMES SIMPSON (39807) and MARGARET (--?--) (39808), 2 April 1858 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. WILLIAM (8974) died 26 May 1907 at age 72. He was buried after 26 May 1907.

                   274.        ii.    SARAH LOVE (40112). SARAH (40112) was born 30 July 1836. SARAH (40112) died 9 January 1845 in Lot 12 Con 6 King Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 8.

             + 275.      iii.    JAMES LOVE (8975) JAMES (8975) was born 30 June 1839. He married CORA B. SNYDER (42529) , daughter of GEORGE WASHINGTON SNYDER (42898) and MARY ELLEN HISER (42899), circa July 1877 in Illinois State, USA. JAMES (8975) died 2 February 1896 at age 56.

                    276.       iv.    GEORGE LOVE (8976). GEORGE (8976) was born 13 February 1840. He married SARAH MARIA BROWN (40310) , daughter of GEORGE BROWN (40688) and ELIZA (--?--) (40689), 26 February 1879 in Markham Twp., York, ON, Canada; Methodist. GEORGE (8976) died 25 January 1928 in Markham Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 87.

           GEORGE LOVE (8976) was mentioned in his father's Will, (David Love), and was to receive $200. However his brother JOHN had received the use of the farm during his lifetime with various stipulations as to inheritable rights of the brothers and sisters upon his death. JOHN LOVE died without a Will in 1915 and this caused confusion in selling the property and giving clear title. All the children of DAVID LOVE had to be contacted to obtain waivers of their rights to part of the estate. This proved to be a complicated process as they had scattered over Ontario as well as the USA.

        When the Administrator of JOHN LOVE's will was trying to locate the possible legal claimants, he advised that GEORGE LOVE, John's brother was living in Cashel, Markham Township, York County, Ontario. I can't find him in the 1881 York County Atlas.

    ONTARIO MARRIAGE REGISTRATION - # 013160 GEORGE LOVE, 34, bachelor, farmer Whitchurch Township, s/o David and Juliana Love, to SARAH MARIA BROWN, 30, spinster, Markham, d/o George and Eliza Brown, on 26 February 1879, by license in Markham, by Rev. James W McCallum. Witnesses John Love and Ellen Brown. Microfilm Reel # 32

        In the 1881 Census GEORGE, 39, was farming in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario. His wife SARAH MARIA BROWN was 31 and they are both shown as Wesleyan Methodists. From Ontario 1881 Census Whitchursh Township, Reel C13,249.

      In the 1901 census he is shown as living in Markham Township, York County East, Sub District B6. His occupation was "farm labourer" which means he was working for someone else and didn't own any land. He was 61 years old and his wife SARAH MARIA BROWN was 51.

             SOURCE of INFORMATION

       WILL of DAVID LOVE Registered in King Township, York County, Ontario, 8 July 1882 Book 17 #4134. Held by York County Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

       INDENTURE dated 10 March 1917 # 16,685 Held by the Ontario Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.

    George Love's wife SARAH MARIA BROWN (40310) was born 13 April 1849 in Markham Twp., York, ON, Canada. She died on 5 October 1936 in Markham Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 87.

             + 277.        v.    JOHN LOVE (8776) JOHN (8776) was born 26 May 1842. He married ANN (--?--) (40331) circa 1863. JOHN (8776) died 30 November 1915 at age 73. His body was interred after 30 November 1915.

             + 278.       vi.    ROBERT LOVE (8977) ROBERT (8977) was born 22 May 1844. He married SARAH BOYS (28820) , daughter of ISAAC BOYS (28822) and JANE EGGLESTON (28823), 23 June 1874 in Bradford, ON, Canada. ROBERT (8977) died 7 February 1915 at age 70.

             + 279.     vii.    MARY JANE LOVE (8978) MARY (8978) was born 4 January 1848. She married ALFRED IRELAND (39809) , son of JAMES IRELAND (39810) and ELIZABETH (--?--) (39811), 24 October 1865 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. MARY (8978) died 25 December 1916 at age 68. She was buried after 25 December 1916.

                   280.     viii.    HENRY LOVE (8979). HENRY (8979) was born 5 August 1849. He was baptized on 6 May 1850 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. He married ANNIE REYNOLDS (39939) , daughter of THOMAS REYNOLDS (122152) and CHRISTINA POINTER (122153), 25 December 1883. HENRY (8979) died 7 June 1890 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada, at age 40. His body was interred after 7 June 1890 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York, ON, Canada.

     HENRY LOVE (8979) 's father, DAVID LOVE, wrote to his niece JANE LOVE in Illinois, USA on 3 April 1874, he stated that "Henry is teaching public school and boarding at home." in another letter dated 26 March 1877 he stated "Henry is teaching school, boarding at home, 5 years in the same place." Again in another letter dated 22 January 1878, "Henry is teaching school, living at home, the 6th year now commenced in the same place. Henry's salary $410. (Note - that would be for a year)

        In the 1881 census King Division 3 Page 36 Reel C13,249, HENRY, age 32, is shown as still living on the farm with his parents and some of his brothers and sisters. His occupation is School Teacher. He was married 2 years later to ANNE REYNOLDS.

                 HENRY LOVE was mentioned in his father's Will, (David Love), as having received his inheritance during his lifetime. However his brother JOHN had received the use of the farm during his lifetime with various stipulations as to inheritable rights of the brothers and sisters upon his death. JOHN LOVE died without a Will in 1915 and this caused confusion in selling the property and giving clear title. All the children of DAVID LOVE had to be contacted to obtain waivers of their rights to part of the estate. This proved to be a complicated process as they had scattered over Ontario as well as the USA.

     In the case of HENRY he had already died by 1915 without leaving children so he wasn't involved in this settlement.

      SOURCE of INFORMATION

       WILL of DAVID LOVE Registered in King Township, York County, Ontario, 8 July 1882 Book 17 #4134. Held by York County Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

       INDENTURE dated 10 March 1917 # 16,685 Held by the Ontario Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.

   In 1901 at age 43 ANNIE REYNOLDS LOVE, widow of HENRY LOVE was living with her two sisters in the Town of Aurora, King Township, York County, Ontario. The sisters were ELIZABETH GRIMSHAW, age 54 and MARY REYNOLDS, age 52. Shown in Ontario 1901 Census North York, Aurora, Sub District A3

     Until I find a marriage registration for ANNIE, I can't be sure her family name was REYNOLDS. The surname for her two sisters could possibly be their married names just like ANNIE is shown as LOVE.

    Henry Love's wife ANNIE REYNOLDS (39939) was born 17 October 1857. ANNIE (39939) died 24 February 1902 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada, at age 44. Her body was interred after 24 February 1902 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York, ON, Canada.

                   281.       ix.    LYDIA ELIZABETH LOVE (8980). LYDIA (8980) was born 5 April 1852. LYDIA (8980) died 20 August 1938 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada, at age 86. Her body was interred after 20 August 1938 in King City Cem., York, ON, Canada.

     LYDIA ELIZABETH LOVE (8980) who never married, was mentioned in her father's Will, DAVID LOVE, and was to receive $100. However her brother JOHN had received the use of the farm during his lifetime with various stipulations as to inheritable rights of the brothers and sisters upon his death. JOHN LOVE died without a Will in 1915 and this caused confusion in selling the property and giving clear title. All the children of DAVID LOVE had to be contacted to obtain waivers of their rights to part of the estate. This proved to be a complicated process as they had scattered over Ontario as well as the USA.

       LYDIA ELIZABETH LOVE in 1901 County, Ontario, was living on the family farm on Lot 12 Concession 6. It was then called King Sub District H5. She was 49 years old and living with her brother JOHN LOVE, age 59. Ontario 1901 Census.

      SOURCE of INFORMATION

       WILL of DAVID LOVE Registered in King Township, York County, Ontario, 8 July 1882 Book 17 #4134. Held by York County Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

       INDENTURE dated 10 March 1917 # 16,685 Held by the Ontario Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.

149. MATTHEW¹¹ LOVE (52) (JAMES¹⁰, JOHN⁹, WILLIAM⁸, JOHN⁷, ROBERT⁶, WILLIAM⁵, JHONE⁴ LUIFE, JOHANNUS³, JOHANNUS² LUF, NIGELLUS¹). MATTHEW (52) was born 9 July 1812 in Lot 67 Con 1, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. He married ELIZABETH (ELIZA) BEYNON (17496) , daughter of JOHN BEYNON (17494) and JANE WHITTEN (17493), 18 May 1835 in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada. MATTHEW (52) died 17 August 1885 in Lot 17 Con 1 Whitchurch Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 73. His body was interred after 17 August 1885 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York, ON, Canada.

     MATTHEW LOVE (52) was the son of JAMES LOVE and MARY UTLEY.

ONTARIO MARRIAGE REGISTER - MATTHEW LOVE to ELIZABETH BEYNON, both of King. 18 May 1835, King. Rev. Robert Carson. Witnesses Jonathon Beynon and James Love. From the Marriage Registers of Upper Canada / Canada West, Volume 11 Part 1, Home District 1808-1836.The Marriage Register of Rev. Robert Carson, Episcopalian Methodist Minister.

     Back in the early 1800s the Clerk of King Township, York County kept some very valuable records from the Minutes of Council Meetings. It is also fortunate that a later Clerk in the 20th century, who was interested in the history of the Township, extracted all the pertinent information about people who lived in King Township in the early 19th century. In the council Minutes for 1856 it shows Matthew Love as Highway Overseer, Beat 10, Lots 4 to 8 Concession 2 Line.

       MATTHEW LOVE purchased on 26 February 1870, 100 acres on Concession 3 part of Lots 16 and 17 South Half in Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada. This was a Bargain and Sale from the Executors of Seth Ashton He paid $1,500 Instrument # 393 Registered 28 February 1870 Whitchurch Township, York County and held by the Land Registry Office in Newmarket, Ontario.

        But on the same day he and his wife ELIZABETH BEYNON, recieved a mortgage of $1,200 from the Executors of Seth Ashton. Instrument # 394 Registered 28 February 1870 Whitchurch Township, York County and held by the Land Registry Office at Newmarket, Ontario.

      As well as farming MATTHEW was a Lumber Merchant and a Miller. He worked in the grist mill operated by Jared Lloyd on Lot 15 Concession 3 Whitchurch Township, York County, Today in 2004 this would be at the corner of Leslie Street and Vandorf Sideroad.

      The 1871 Census shows MATTHEW, age 59, ELIZABETH, his wife, age 54 and their children, RUTH 33, MIRIAM 27, ENOCH 18 and MOSES 26. This shows how the census can lead you astray with approximate birth dates, as actually Miriam and Moses, along with AARON who is not shown here, were triplets. From York County census, Whitchurch Township Sub District 1B Reel C9965

     In 1881 MATTHEW LOVE, 68, is shown as a Flour Dealer and the family was living in Aurora, York County, Ontario. His wife ELIZABETH BEYNON, 75, is still with him as well as 2 of their daughters, MARIA 45 and MIRIAM 36. York County 1881 Census District 137 Sub District D Page 31 DAC microfilm reel # C13,249.

            1n 2003/4 two very dedicated genealogists for the JONES family in the USA,, Wilene Smith of Kansas and Brenda Boyer of Louisiana, discovered a treasure trove of photos, postcards and letters, from the mid to late 19th century. These had been held by Mr. J. D. Harper of Greenup, Illinois, When he died, his sons David and Daniel took possession and have since generously allowed them to be copied.

         Wilene and Brenda found that JAMES LOVE JR. son of JAMES LOVE SR. and MARY UTLEY, had married MARY JANE JONES (widow Dawson) in Indiana, USA. They were kind enough to share these priceless artifacts with me and they turned out to contain an astonishing amount of family information from those times.

    It appears that JAMES LOVE's daughter JANE was the main instigator of the correspondence with her uncles back in Canada and her relatives in the USA. It seems she was interested in building family genealogy and kept prodding them for more information. It was JANE LOVE, and her cousin LILLICE JONES, who originally preserved all these letters, photos and postcards so we are so lucky to have them now. However nobody, so far, has found JANE's letters that she wrote so profusely to her relatives, which is too bad as it would have been very interesting to see her side of the correspondence.

     The names of these amazing genealogists are below and I owe them many, many thanks for sharing this information.

       WILENE SMITH, Wichita, Kansas, USA who has placed the photos on Internet. They can be accessed at http://hometown.aol.com/chloeqcumber/Jones-Love.html

        BRENDA BOYER, Carencro, Louisiana, USA who did the hard work

of transcribing the letters and reading the usually difficult handwriting.

     "Whiterose June 23 1873

Dear Niece

     I recieved yours of the 6 may was very glad to hear from you but sorry to heer of your poor health would be very glad to have you come and Stop with us until you recover your Health we are well as usual we live in Whitchurch we have bought the farm where you lived when you lived in Whitchurch and the Sawmill Marie Aaron Moses Miriam and Enoch live at home Ruth married the rev J F Dyer and is Living at Beaver falls Pensylvania U S Emma Married to J Sampson has 2 sons is living at Newmark Alfred is Teaching school at Glenville J B Beynon is married to Becca Manning Jane Love is married to James Cascaddins and 6 girls and one son and has 3 more of her own lilly Love has married M Raisin and 2 Patrick John Love married a stranger none of Uncle Jonathans are married but Isaiah he married Matie Ferguson she died at the Birth of her first Daughter Robert Loves address is Bosworth Ontario he was Down Last winter and Stopped near a month had Liyddia with him she is lame from at white (?)Levelling has not walked with out a Crotch for 3 years his family are Scatterd Joseph is the only help he has he was near A week with us Amos is married and has 2 or 3 (?)Sats is not a very good boy I suppose you like the States better then Canada but if you had a year in this healthy Clime I think you would change your mind we have had a very Dry time but it rains Lovely just now our Country is Prosperous and Loyal Millions on Millions of fertile Land is opening up of the finest Land and Climate that is to be farm timber and prarie in the Great west and Settling fast So you See Br Jonathan has not all the Praries to himself we have 5 or 6 Sort of Methodists but the Wesleyans are the Largest body the (?)primitive and Episcopals are gaining ground faster then they for ther Chance I am very glad you have a good hope trough Grace of A better Country we are all church members 3 wesleyans and the rest Episcopals I must Stop we would be Happy to have you come and make your home with us all Join in Love to you Uncle M

Thank you for your Photograph we have none to Send at present we may have at Some future day

Whiterose Ontario D C is our Address"

"Jane 4th 1878 [envelope postmarked received Mar 31]

          Dear Niece I Saw your letter to Jonathan Beynons & Sincerily Sympathise with you in your long Affliction & woud be most Happy to have you Come over & Stop with us I think you would find a true welcome with each of your relations try & Brace up keep good Cheer & Above all look to Heaven where true help Comes from I am So glad you are on your road to Heaven It matters but little where our Bodies Lie if we reach Heaven at last Hold fast to the end and you will recive the Crown time may be better with you after Harvest Crops look well here & if you come try & have Elzaida come with you

Hoping to hear from you Soon I remain Sincerely your Uncle Mathew Love

Aurora February 28 1882 [envelope postmarked Aug. 4, 1883]

           Dear Nice & friends We recieved your very Welcome letter the 9th Sorry to hear of your Ill Health we can assure you we would be very glad to See you But you would find Many vacant Chairs I do not know when you received the last word from here there has been Great Mortality in our parts All our Family is gone but myself Aunt Lilly Died A year ago last Christmas eve Aunt Mary last June David the 5th last December Uncle Jonathan is quite feeble & seems lonesome Since Mary Died Essy maried Norman Doan has one girl Lives on Philips Place Eliza & M Jane are at Home Single Isaiah Married twice first J Fergusons Daughter one girl 2nd T Folliott Daughter five or six Boys & girls live on T Scott old Place Aunt Violet & Lizzie live on our old Place built A new House & own (?)12 a acres John lives in Markhan has 2 children Egerton has 3 rennie Jaigeon Sold out Moved to Queens bush Last Winter Oldest son Married to F Folliotts Daughter Jane lives on the cascadden farm a Widdow Lilly Married Raisin lives North no family Mary married went to Mountolia no family Will there too single Egerton going in Aprile the farm rented Aunt Julie live in the old Home John owns it Liddia is at Home single one of William Boys & one girl live with them Mary lost her family & Husband first lives with Robert on Monitoulin Island he lost all but his wife James went to the Western States & Marrid George Married Miss Brown lives in Whitchurch No family Henry Teaches Scool Near Aurora Single our Maria Miriam & Aaron are Single live at Home Part of the time Emma Lives in King has 2 Boys one taller then I am Ruth is in Pensylania No family her address Louisville PA usa Alfred lives in aurora has 2 Daughters Enoch lives here too has one Daughter we have a lot & good House in Aurora Sell flour & Brew James B Beynon Sold the old farm before his Mother Died & away some fifty Miles west has 4 children Mary lives in Aurora & 4 of her children at Home & one Marrie one with a chilren Jane has A House & lot in Toronto & her & Anne intend Housekeeping in the Spring Maggie at St Catharines ? or 5 yougsters Lavinia lives in King has 4 girls Kate in Whitchurch 4 Boys John New love is in Callifornia still Sarah Beynon live in Toronto single John Gamble Died last Summer aunt Margoret is Blind the Bush you used to Play in is mostly grainfieds Uncle Robert Died three years ago last Summer I think Aunt Maryane is living with Lambert Amos twice Married Joseph Maried & Anson I Do not know what they are Doing non of them are about here You would not know the old Places they So Changed bush gone Swamps Ploughed New Building orchards to New Inhabitans A Flewry in Markhan Plage Robert & Peter & Joe Dead I forgot to Say John live in Thomas Beynon House Lizzie keeps House for him he farms the Place the old Love Farm has been Sold twice & is for Sale again Nobody live on it Now I am Seventy in July Mother will be Seventyfive Next BirthDay Neither of us have Many Grey Hairs My Beard is Grey I have not Shaved for 20 years or More & Never intend to if I can fill this sheet I think you will not Complain for News We are trying to Make Sure work for the better country hoping you are Doing the Same in order that we may hear A grand reunion at last the on thing worth living for is to do good & Die well farewell Dear Jane if yo can come come you will be Welcome yous M Love

[note on top of letter]

All our Family are Methodist Ruth marred a Preacher is very comfortable they were [ink gone] & stayed a long time no Doubt you would get a good letter if you would Write to her addess Mrs J F Dyer Louisville P A U S A our address is Aurora Canada A join in Love to you Write often as you can your Uncle M Love"

            This postcard was addressed to Miss Jane C Love, Avance P.O. Jasper Co Illinois. U.S.A [postmarked] Advance Aug 4 1882 Jasper Co. Illinois.

         "Dear Niece Aurora August 2nd 1882, yours of 25 to Hand, glad to hear

from you. Sorry to hear of your Affliction. I hope you will be better, we are

well as usual, your Aunt does not get very good health, she is about the house, the rest are all well as common, ANN CASCADDEN died 24 June 1 JOHN BEYNONs youngest boy got his leg Broke last week, our harvest is fairly begun, wheat good other grain fair, you speak of our cold winters, we can keep house plants in our house all winter fire or no fire in the rooms where they are, we had only 2 or 3 cold Days last winter & not more then 3 or 4 inches of snow on the ground at once & that not more then 3 or 4 days, you would find many changes since you left here but I think every one would [be] glad to see you & give you a good Hearty welcome, RUTH is in your Country, her address is Connelsville Pensylvania, if you come you will find us the first west of the Station northren (R R) Aurora, June & July has been warm May Cold. Please write often as you can, tell us of uncles JONSEs family.

                                                                                                        M LOVE"

   This postcard was addressed to Miss Jane C. Love, Advance P.O. Jasper Co ILL. U.S.A. [postmarked] AURORA MR 26 85 ONT

             "Dear Niece, Aurora March 26 1885 recieved a letter from JOEL, he says you are not very well, we are well as usual, we enjoy living in Aurora, the Salvation Army holds meeting every night, 4 times on Sunday the year round, we enjoy them very much, they are doing more good than all others put together, I will try to send you my picture & mothers as soon as I can get them, we are still looking for you, JOELL talks of coming, perhaps you will come then This is the first soft Day we have had, winter very cold till now, I presume you are still saved & on the way to Heaven, I hope to meet you there.

                                                                                      your Uncle M LOVE"

   NOTE: Matthew Love died August 20,1885, age 73, just 5 months after he wrote this postcard.

                  The JANE C. LOVE he was writing to was the eldest daughter of his brother JAMES LOVE JR. who had moved to the USA. The JOEL referred to was one of her brothers.

    Matthew Love's wife ELIZABETH (ELIZA) BEYNON (17496) was born 16 January 1808 in Ireland. ELIZABETH (17496) died 31 May 1883 in Lot 17 Con 1 Whitchurch Twp., York, ON, Canada, at age 75. Her body was interred after 31 May 1883 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York, ON, Canada.

     Children of MATTHEW¹¹ LOVE (52) and ELIZABETH (ELIZA) BEYNON (17496) all born in Love's Corners, King Twp., York, ON, Canada, were as follows:

                   282.         i.    MARIA¹² LOVE (8981). MARIA (8981) was born 20 February 1836. MARIA (8981) died 2 April 1916 in Aurora, York, ON, Canada, at age 80. Her body was interred after 2 April 1916 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York, ON, Canada.

     MARIA LOVE (8981) wrote the following letter to her cousin JANE LOVE in Illinois. Jane was the daughter of James Love Jr. who had gone to Indiana before 1841 and had married there.

" Aurora

   Aug 17th 87

   Dear Cousin it is with pleasure i take my pen to let you know we are alive yet Aaron Miriana and me live together here in Aurora Ruth is in yougtown ohio Emma lives about 3 miles out in the couuntry she has two boy one 22 the other 18 years so you see she has no baby Alfred has two little girls one 8 the other 5 1 boy 2 years he lives in Aurora is book keeper in a large foundry Enoch has two girls one 7 the other 4 Enoch lives close to us i suppose you wonder how large Aurora is it has about 2.300 inhabitants thore seven large brick stores going up at a cost of 70.000 we have street lamps watering carts i suppose you would like to hear about Aunt Lydia family Mary and jane live in Toronto James lives in (?)Srutville he has 6 children Maggie is in It Catherine she has 4 children the lost of her son about 4 week ago 19 years of age Ann is single Lavinia llives in Aurora she is widow has 4 littel girls Kate is at White Rose she has 5 boys no girl Mary is a widow she has 6 children and 6 grand children it is two years ago today since our dear Father died it seems such a long time we would like to see you to you think you will ever come to see us we have lots of room in our house i must stop scribbling now Dear Jane do write soon a let us know how you are i remain you Cousin Maria Love"

      In 1901 MARIA LOVE, age 65, was living in Aurora, Ontario, with her brother AARON, age 57, and his twin sister MIRIAM, age 57. This is one case that defied the odds of both twins surviving childhood. Shown in Ontario Census 1901, York North, Aurora, Subdistrict A1 Page 1. NA Schedule 1 Microfilm T-6507.

                   283.        ii.    RUTH LOVE (8982). RUTH (8982) was born 14 June 1838. She married JOHN FLETCHER DYER (REV.) (8983) 12 November 1872 in Aurora, York, ON, Canada. RUTH (8982) died 26 September 1924 in Aurora, York, ON, Canada, at age 86. Her body was interred after 26 September 1924 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York, ON, Canada.

     RUTH LOVE (8982) age 41, in 1880 was living with her husband. REV. JOHN FLETCHER DYER, age 38, in Elizabeth, Allegheny, Pa. USA. In a letter 1 November 1876 from her uncle, ROBERT LOVE, to another niece, JANE LOVE, in Illinois, he stated he thought she was at Amity. Pa. but he hadn't heard from her for a year. In a letter dated 28 February 1882, her father MATTHEW LOVE, said her address was Louisville, Pa. USA.

         The following is a letter RUTH LOVE DYER wrote her cousin JANE LOVE, in Illinois which clearly reveals the reason she and her husband never had any children.

     "Castle Shannon, Pa

     March 1st 1883

Dear Cousin Jane

     Yours came to hand promptly. I have been slow in answering, for various reasons, but never for want of something to write. I was visiting in Ohio, when I wrote you, since then we moved into the house we now occupy. Perhaps I wrote you how long I had been an invalid; over nine years, suffered an untold amount, was treated by nine physicians, only grew worse, finally was pronounced incurable, I spent much of that time in bed and when able to sit up could not work walking hurt me at every step done very little of it. Asked the Lord to treat me but had not faith to believe He would until the 6th of last March He plainly showed me that it was His will to treat me, for extreme weakness ( I called sinking spells) I took strong stimulents in order to rally. I thought my life depended upon this, but the Lord told me I must quit all remedies if I accepted Him as my Physician I obeyed the divine command and quit all medicines then and forever when the weakness came I reminded nay He knew but I just asked Him to take it away, He did every time soon they were gone entirely, and my heart felt well, but the old chronic trouble was still there only checked as my faith could take hold sick in bed every few weeks up to the 14th of Nov. when I was healed in answer to the united prayer of faith by Dr. Cullis of Boston and several others. dear Cousin it was glorious thus to believe and thus to recieve healing of soul and body, from such a Physician, I never get tired filling it, All through my affliction, I was slow to learn the lessons it was designed to teach I realise that I still have much to learn it is a privilege to be in the school of Christ, I am so well that I do not lay down through the day, never feel the need, had not sit up a whole day for years before I was healed, this new found strength I have consecrated all to the Lord, do not wish or desire to use it for selfish, or worldly, purposees, I go to Church every Sabbath twice, quarter mile distance. If you are diseased remember "The prayer of faith shall save the sick ?" "Who healeth all thy diseases" "What things sows ye desire when ye pray believe that ye recieve them and ye shall have them" My desires are all after God, I want to do his will in all things, that I may bring glory to His dear name If there is anything that you would like to know further about my healing, just ask, and I shall be pleased to answer I do praise Him for such condecension. He is so interested in me that I believe He permits or shall I say wakens me, in the still hours of the night to show me where I wont astray, and to teach me more of His will, Oh! these night lessons are grand just in harmony with the written word, Please write my prayer is that this letter will do you good your cous Ruth S. Dyer

Mr Dyer is quite well. We have had rather a cold winter but pleasant. I heard from home last week all well as usual they have plenty snow, we have none. Our Uncle and Aunts are passing away. Are you enjoying perfect love this is your privilege and mine, may your prayer be loved fill and keep yours as ever Ruth"

        It is not known at this time, how long they stayed in the USA. However we know they finally returned to King Township between 1900 and 1910. Rev. John Fletcher Dyer was a Methodist minister in Aurora or Richmond Hill. In 1923, PERCY LOVE, who wrote the early genealogy notes given to my father and others, stated the original family bible brought ot Canada in 1801 by JAMES LOVE SR. and MARY UTLEY, was in the possession of RUTH and her husband. However it has never been located and as they had no children, it was never determined who received the bible at their death.

     In 1900 they were still living in the USA at 371 Jefferson Street, Kittanning, Armstrong Co. Pa. He was a Methodist minister. Shown in the 1900 Pennsylvania Census, Enumeration District 19, Supervisor District 16 Sheet 3.

      Ruth Love's husband JOHN FLETCHER DYER (REV.) (8983) was born 12 May 1842 in New York City, New York Co., NY, USA. JOHN (8983) died 26 September 1924 in Aurora, York, ON, Canada, at age 82. His body was interred after 26 September 1924 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York, ON, Canada.

             + 284.      iii.    EMMA LOVE (8984) EMMA (8984) was born 28 February 1841. She married JOHN SAMPSON (9536) , son of THOMAS SAMPSON (39812) and CHARLOTTE (--?--) (39813), 15 December 1864 in Queensville, York, ON, Canada. EMMA (8984) died 23 February 1923 at age 81.

                            285.iv.   MOSES LOVE (8985). MOSES (8985) was born 19 February 1844. He was baptized 12 April 1844 in King Township, York Co., ON, Canada. MOSES (8985) died 26 January 1879 in Whiterose, York, ON, Canada, at age 34. His body was interred after 26 January 1879 in Aurora Cem., King Twp., York,