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Access Genealogy Library: Some Data, Letters, and Memoranda Collected by FRANKLIN D. LOVE, Relating to the LOVE FAMILY, by Dennis N. Partridge, Volume I, first series.
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time of their existence; now they form character and purpose, and require counsel and paternal assistance.
Your mother is going to visit you soon, and if I am able, I will also myself .
You must write to me immediately, and let me know and your Mother know how you are. If is not too far, and over the mountains, I would come myself instead of this letter. If you can space James*, send him over to see us, and let him tell us all about yourself and things in Tennessee.
Dear Thomas, teach your children as they grown up to read the Bible regularly; for in it is all that we need to govern our conduct and conscience. It can not, it will not, it does not mislead; it is the only consolation to us, who pass as driftwood through this transitory life.
Let me hear from you. Farewell and may God Bless you,
Ro. Love, (Signed)
Addressed.
Thos. D. Love
Elizabethton,
Carter County. Tennessee.
Note: In November following my Grandfather, Thomas D. Love, died. The James referred to be my Father's brother, and was older than Father. F.D. Love
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Social Grove, July 1st, 1812
Dear Thomas,
The interest a father has in the welfare of his own causes me to write you this letter. There is no way of measuring the interest I have in the happiness and prosperity of my children, and especially those of them who have undertake the responsibilities of married life. I trust now, dear Thomas, you will accept the advice of one who knows something of the many events that await you since you have changed all your relations toward mankind, and even yourself. You are fairly well educated, as well, perhaps, as any of those around you; and possess enough experience and sense to know that life in nothing beyond what we make it. This I have tried to teach you from your youth and I flatter myself that my teachings have not been unheeded.
You have allied yourself with the family of my old esteemed friend and comrade, General Taylor; and Anna, I have known since she was a small girl, and is in all things domestic and womanly, and will make you a good wife, and it is my earnest wish that you make her a good husband. I was sorry that my concerns here kept me from the wedding, as also your Mother.
Dear Thomas, practice economy and industry, and exercise yourself to live simple and plain. Look forward to the future, and provide for it. Busy yourself with the affairs of real life, and if the Almighty blesses your life with issue, you will then have something laid by to raise them and educate them and make them a blessing to you in your old days. Your opportunities now are ample, and your country possessed of unlimited possibilities. Everything is tending westward, and you will, perhaps, see the time when industry will
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