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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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from KY into Carter Co. Whether this is reliable or not, I am not well advised, but if it is so, you had as well be careful. From all I can learn the Carter Co., Union men are desperate and might attempt to avenge Carter's arrest on you. I know nothing to this effect, but merely wish to excite you to proper caution and circumspection.
        Whenever I can serve you command me, and if Carter County, should be cursed with an outbreak, bring Sallie and the children down. It would afford us pleasure to have you here.
                                        Yours truly,
                                                John Baxter (signed)

Note: John Baxter was my Father's brother-in-law, both having married sisters, daughters of James Michell Alexander, of Buncombe County, North Carolina. John Baxter was United States District Judge in the District including Tennessee for several years, till his death. Were a very able lawyer, and a very influential Republican Politician. He was a Union man and my Father opposed Secession, but when the Southern State seceded he went with the South. I copy this letter, thinking it would in some degree enlighten those who may hereafter read these letters. F.D. Love,

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        Copy of a certificate given to me by Dr. E.S. Miller now living in Johnson City, Tennessee, and who was my Father's family physician-F.D. Love

                                                                                                                                                Johnson City, Tennessee.
                                                April 11th, 1902
This is to certify that I, Dr. E. S. Miller, (family physician of Robert Love, deceased,) at and before the death of COL. Robert Love, who died at his home in Johnson City, Washington County, Tennessee, Sept. 1st, 1876, heard him say that he wanted Franklin D. Love, his youngest child, to have his watch, the one he wore up to the day of his death; that I repeatedly heard him say the above, even while he lay ill with his last sickness. The said watch being No. 28228, a Swiss movement, made Jules Jaccard, Geneva, Switzerland. This the 11th day of April 1902.
                                        E. S. Miller, Jr., M.D. (Signed)
Note: this is the watch I now wear, and it was the one that my Father, Robert Love, wore prior to his death, and he and Judge John Baxter, his brother-in-law, can Capt John Jaques, First President of the road running through Johnson City, purchased one each, by ordering the same from the Factory in Switzerland. They cost at that time $280.00 each. I got this certificate from Dr. Miller when I was back in Tennessee in the year 1902, because my brother Nathaniel seemed to think that my Father did not desire me to have it expressly, and that I got it through the consent of the family, being the youngest. I trust this certificate will satisfy all who read it. It is bone fide. F.D. Love
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O. W. and N. Division. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
T. R. W. Bureau of Pensions.

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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. , Edited by Dennis N. Partridge, Columbus, Georgia, © 2001.

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