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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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This is George W. Baxter, a lawyer and a brother of John Baxter, he did not live so very long after this letter was written. After his death John Baxter married his wife, Kittie. George Baxter had one son, George Alfred Baxter, now Dr. Baxter of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and quite eminent in his profession. Both of these Baxters married sisters. I was mistaken in the name, it is Dr. John Alfred Baxter of Chattanooga. -F.D. Love,
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Johnson's Depot, Feb. 24th 1869.
My dear Husband:
Your letter came this morning, and I guess are this you have received mine, which should have reached you Saturday night. So you see I did no wait for you to write first, but like a dutiful wife, obeyed your command, as I have ever done. Your opinion to the contrary notwithstanding, still after all I have been a poor wife, and Mother, whose errors have ever been of the head and not of the heart; and although I sometimes become distrustful of the world, I think, I know, the honest intentions of my own weak heart; and you know its faith, its trust, its service and its best love has all been yours. What more can you require? Cut off from you and my children, there would be no tie to this earth, and all the pleasure I have emanates from yours and their happiness. I need not tell you this-you know it.
Cousin Nat stayed with us Monday night. He had been to Jonesboro to attend Court, but found the criminal Court in sessions, and the time of Circuit Court changed. He stopped here on his return and filed Mr. O'Brien's Bill for him, and then returned to Bristol. I think his trip has been of benefit to him. I forwarded some letters to him, but he directed me to forward them to you as he frequently does not know how to answer them. Some of them I have opened and found it not necessary to send them; those that require an immediate response I enclose to you. I send one this evening.
Edwin will be along with his bride tomorrow or next day. Perhaps, you may meet with them.
Should you get to Baltimore doesn't forget Miss Annie Pender. Bobbie stands by and insists that I remind you of his drum. As soon as I read your letter he asked me when you were coming home. I must close, it is near train time, and my pen is so bad.
Yours as ever inviolate,
S.M.L. (Sarah M. Love,)
Don't keep my letter but burn this when read.
Note: This is from Mother to Father, and was written to him at Washington, D.C. and addressed in care of N.G. Taylor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The Edwin referred to, be, Edwin Ray of Asheville, N.C. and the "Bobbie" is my brother, Robert E. L. Love; the Nat is, Nathaniel Macon Taylor, who was a partner of Father's in the law.
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Johnson's Depot, April 7th 1869
My Dear Husband:
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