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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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ourselves, each to each, other in the penal sum of two thousand dollars. In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, the day and date above written.
Attest Alfred W. Taylor(seal)
J.P. Taylor Thomas D. Love (seal)
I, Anna Love, executrix of Thomas D. Love, do hereby release A. W. Taylor from this bond so far as the Moreland or Archer (tract) place, now the Paine place is concerned. He, Taylor, having given his bond to convey the same to Nicholas Paine to satisfy a bond executed by J.P. Taylor, and to comply with an agreement entered into by my husband from A.W. Taylor, my husbands estate to be credited on a claim of six hundred and twenty five dollars due by my husband and self as one of the heirs of Nathaniel Taylor, to J.P. Taylor's estate. Witness my hand and seal this 30th, August 1833.
Anna Love, (seal)
Executrix of Thomas D. Love
Note: The above is copied to show the Taylor relationship to the Loves, and to show that Nathaniel Taylor's father's name was Andrew. There is nothing of record anywhere to show who Andrew Taylor's wife was.-F.D. Love.
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Asheville, (N.C.) Feb. 21st, 1903
F.D. Love, Esqr.,
Georgetown, Texas,
Dear Sir:
Yours of the lith, inst., to hand. I have never acquired enough authentic information as to Robert Love to enable me to write an adequate sketch of his life. Robert D. Gilmer, Attorney General of N.C., and husband of Mrs. Josephine Branner's daughter, Love, was selected by Dorcas Bell Chapter (Daughters of the American Revolution) to deliver the address on his Life last August. If you will write to him at Raleigh, N.C., he may be willing to furnish you a copy. I gave him all the information I had, but whether the best use of all the material at his command, I have no means of knowing, as I did not hear his address. He has some literary ability, but is not much given to research. My sister had a letter from Robert Love to a relative, containing much valuable family history, but this letter and a Testament he owned and read through several hundred times, as noted by him on a fly leaf, she sent to D.B.L. chapter last August. They had been preserved by my Mother since her marriage and his death in 1845.
If you will write to _______________________________. I know nothing about him historically, except what I have read in Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, and Haywood's History of Tennessee. In personal appearance, he was a tall, spare, erect, soldierly looking man, with dark hair and keen black eyes, a rich florid complexion, and very dignified manners. When a young man he wore a que, but towards the end of his life, his hair was unconfined and fell to and upon his shoulders. It was then snow white. He became lame from a kick of a horse or mule while driving a drove to market. I think he received this injury at Newbern, N.C. In consequence of this kick, which dislocated
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