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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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PREFACE
The letters, wills, deeds, memoranda, excerpts from papers, genealogical trees, notes, annotations, etc., contained herein, were gathered and places in this for, though uniform it be chronologically and as to matter, for the purpose of assisting me in the anticipated purpose of someday compiling as thorough a history and genealogy of the Love family as this material will warrant. The Index hereto appended, will assist the reader in tracing any fact of interest he wishes to ascertain. All of the within are copies from originals, most of which are now in my possession. Every one is a true copy; and to save time and constant and repeated handling and wearing of the Originals, as well as to facilitate reference, this method of putting them together was considered advisable.
I have for years entertained the hope of someday being able to gratify the ambition of tracing to the utmost date the genealogy and history of my forbears. To this and I have been laboring hours would allow. I have searched the records (personally) of Jonesboro, Washington County, Tennessee; have written (and will continue to do so) numerous letters, as the replies herein will evidence; have read many histories, among which I make special mention as being the most important, viz: "Ramsey's Animals of Tennessee"; "Haywood's History of Tennessee": pamphlets of the "Tennessee Historical Society" of 1896; "Wheeler's History of North Carolina; the records of Haywood County, North Carolina! the records of Augusta County, Virginia; also the "Rear Guard of the Revolution" and "John Savier as a Commonwealth Builder" by James R. Gilmore, who wrote under the nom de plume of "Edmund Kirke". As the above are printed records, I refer any who desire to verify the information herein contained to them.
I attempt nothing by these labors for the critical minds of the disinterested. My object is a selfish one, and does not concern others than those who are allied by affinity or consanguinity to the individuals whose ancestors are mentioned herein.
I do not vaunt to others the virtues and achievements of the ancestors, and when they (the curious) by stealth or otherwise gain admission to these records and ascertain the contents of them, they can confer no greater favor or compliment on me, or mine, than to let their tenor "turn to ashes" in their minds; for these records are sacred to me, though they be rubbish in the eyes of a critical and curious public.
These records do not represent to the unconcerned anything of material value. Their value, while it is merely fictitious, exceeds the paltry consideration of dollars and cents. Therefore, I request that these be preserved; and if you, in whose hands and care they fall, tire of the trouble incident to their preservation, then, send them to the Dorcas Bell Love Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, at Waynesville, North Carolina, or if not to them, then, to any one closely allied by blood to me, and who will undertake their preservation.
My Father's name was Robert Love. He married Sarah Matilda Alexander, of Buncombe County, North Carolina. He was a lawyer, and had quite a large practice and accumulated a competency there from.
His father's name was Thomas Dillard Love, who married Anna Taylor, and lived after his marriage, first at the source of Buffalo Creek then Washington, now Carter
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