Person:Evan Love (2)

EVEN JEFFERSON LOVE, b. April 3, 1846, King Twp., son of JAMES and MARY JANE LOVE of King Twp., baptized Dec. 8, 1848, King Twp., Ontario Co., by Rev. W. Young. --Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms, v.2, p.636, transcribed by Ida Reed from LDS microfilm, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjmartin/wesleyan.htm

1851 Ontario, Canada, census, King Twp., York, Div. 1, p.27, lines 36-43: EVAN J. LOVE, M 6, Canada; with JAMES LOVE, M 46, md., b. Canada, the family's religion was Wesl. Meth., occupation, labourer; MARY JANE, F 31, md., States; REBECCA ANN [DAWSON], F 13, States; JANE LOVE, F 10, States; JOAL LOVE, M 8, States; ROBERT J. LOVE, M 4, Canada; LYDIA LOVE, F 1, Canada. http://www.census-sense.com/ogw/search.asp

1860 Fulton Co., IN, census, p.532, Union Twp., Kenana P.O., June 15, 1860, E.N. Banks: EVAN LOVE, 15 M, Canada; with 164/164, JAMES LOVE, 53 M, farmer, $100 personal, Canada; Jane C., 19 F, IN; Joel J., 17 M, IN; Robert, 13 M, Canada; Lidy, 10 F, Canada. Jane, Joel, Evan, Robert attend school.

1866 Feb. 5, Attica, Fountain Co., IN. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "i am a boarding at Covalts and a going to school / expect to work for him next Summer again"

1866 Dec. 7, Sherburnville, Kankakee Co., IL. James Love wrote his daughter Jane: "Zaida is at the Same place that Evin is working. Both at Mr. Tarr's, a Methodist Preachers / I think a Verry respectable quiet place, they live about 5 miles in Indiana, I live in Illinois on the State line, they intend to board there & go to School as School will Start mext Monday. . . . I was today to See Evin & Zada / Evin thinks it is not best to go to house keeping this winter as him & Zada is in good places to go to school. / Evin wants to rent part of the farm he is on next year & send for the other boys to help him. . . . Evin has got quite hearty Since he come here"

1870 census index, Evan has not been located

1870, between May 31 and July 20. James Love wrote his daughter Jane: "The last from Evin was last Feb."

1873 Oct. 20, Lovington, Moultrie Co., IL. Evan wrote his cousin Lillice Jones: "it is so miserable lonesome here I dont know what to do with my self But I think I will try and get off some where after we get the corn out / I am going to try and get down to give you a visit this fall or winter But dont know yet how soon I will get started But I think in about 5 weeks and that will soon Roll around / this has been the lonesomest summer I ever put in and I want to get some where this winter where their is some place to go / the nearest church we have is Lovington and that is 3 miles and if I go I have to go alone so I dont go at all But stay at home like a good little Boy)"

1874 Sept. 23, Lovington, Moultrie Co., IL. Evan W. Newlan wrote his cousin Jane Love: "I do regret that I dident come when Evan [Love] come but I hope the time will come when I can pay you a visit . . . I saw Evan [Love] in town last Saturday and [my] Brother John was with me"

1877 Jan. 5, Lovington, Moultrie Co., IL. Robert Love wrote his brother Joel: "Evin has gon to texes [sic]"

1877 Jan. 23, Lovington, Moultrie Co., IL. Robert Love wrote his brother Joel: "As to Evin got A letter from him / he was at Pilot Point Texis [sic] waiting far the staige / Doant no whair [where] he was going"

1877 April 5, Denton Co., TX. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "When you get to Canada I want you to write me a good long letter / tell them I have not for gotten them or my Boyhood Days / tell Amos Love I have not for gotten our Boyish Sports / If 2,000 miles Doth seperate us I still have a longing for the old home But fate hath [Decreed] Otherwise / As it is I am far from home But shall make this a home for the Present But dont know how long / I am thinking some of getting a hered of cattle on shares & goeing 3 or 4 hundred miles South / If I do I will Be gone 5 years"

1877 Sept. 9, Nettie Love wrote her sister-in-law Jane: "We have not heard from Ev[an] Love for a long time / I don't think he likes Texas overly well"

1879 May 4, Denton Co., TX. Evan wrote his cousin Lillice Jones: "I was out west last fall / had a good time / Roughed It for 2 months / seen lots of Red Skins But I got Back with my scalp . . . I think some of goeing west a gain this fall But do not Know yet what I will do / It might Be Possible I would spend the winter In Ills"

1879 Dec. 27, Comanche Co., TX. Evan wrote his cousin Lillice Jones: "I am a little farther west about 150 miles to ward the setting sun / I left Denton Co the 24th of Sept / I was Back their their 21st of Nov to see two men hung / they were Brothers / Both hung at the same time / two more In Jail wanting [waiting] trial for Murder / all different cases"

1880 Comanche Co., TX, census, p.102C, 4th District (E.D. 31), June 2, 1880, Thomas O. Moore: EVIN LOVE, M W 30, cousin,** single, laborer, CANADY USA USA; with 29/29, SILVESTER WILKINSON, M 32, head, farmer, IA USA OH; Pricilla, F 32, wife, keeping house, MO KY USA; Effie, F 5, dau, at home, TX IA MO; Mirtie, F 4, dau, at home, TX IA MO; Lela, F 3, dau, at home, TX IA MO; Walter, M 1, son, at home, TX IA MO; Lina WILKINSON, F 28, sis-in-law, md., keeping house, OH USA USA; Moses, M 36, brother, well boarer, md., IN USA OH; Rufus PAYNE, M 12, st-son, works on farm, TX IL MO; Willie F. PAYNE, M 11, st-son, at home, TX IL MO; Wm. H. SCOTT, M 59, father-in-law, widowed, minester, KY KY KY.

• • Sylvester Wilkinson's mother was Harriet Bell Jones, dau. of Evan W. Jones; Evan Love's mother was Bell's half-sister, Mary Jane; therefore Evan Love and Sylvester Wilkinson were first cousins. This census provided the first key piece of evidence that this Love family is indeed related to our Jones family.

Evan apparently left Texas right after that census was enumerated and was in the Harvey / Reno Co., KS, area by July 2nd.

1880 Nov. 25, Burrton, Harvey Co., KS. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "this leaves me well But Some what fatigued / we just finished up Threshing last night / we commenced the 2nd of July so you see we have had a long siege of hard work . . . I will Send you a Photo as soon as I can I get Some taken / I have not Been to Hutchinson for 2 months and that is the Nearest gallery we have"

1882, July 27-28-29, Pueblo, Pueblo Co., CO. Evan wrote his cousin Lillice Jones, and teases Lillice, her brother Zillman, his own sister Jane, and brother Joel about not being married yet and tells her: "I wrote to Jennie Some time Since you must Be waiting for Some Hump Back fellow as well as your cousin from all aperances or Perhaps you ar not In the market / Which way Is it or is it Either way, / I Shurly would feel Proud to hear of haveing a new cousin / It does seem strange that you and Jennie & Joel & Zillman Should all Stay Single, / Evry letter I get I always look for a marriage annoucement or to hear of Some or all of you Being Spliced / now dont all of you marey at once for It would Be Shure to Shock me So much good news all of a Sudden"

1882 Nov. 12, Denton, Denton Co., TX. Sarah Belle Wilkinson wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I wrote you a letter before Iv [Evan Love] came to this country but I recd no answer so I make the atempt once moer . . . Whear is Iv at & what is he a doing / he was here last April a year a go & I have not heard from him since"

1883 March 30, Burrton, Harvey Co., KS. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "I have Just got up from a spell of Pneumonia / I had a hard time of It / I have Been up now nearly a week But do not gain aney strength / no appietite at all / am In Bed a bout half the time / I am worse to day / am feeling verry Bad . . . Well I am feeling so Bad I will have to close"

1883 April 29, Burrton, Harvey Co., KS. Evan wrote his cousin Lillice Jones: "I have had quite a Serious time this Spring But am getting along verry well now with the Exception of my Lung / It is quite Sore yet But with care I think I will Be able to go to work By Harvest or their a Bouts . . . I would like to Be Back their and help eat Apples this fall If I could But it is a long way their & Transportation Is high / I would like verry much to visit you while I am off Duty but my affairs are Such that I could hardly leave / Its Just this way / I have 6 months work out and their is a chance of my Looseing It unless I am here to watch It and I dont feel able to loose It after looseing so much time & money on account of my late Sickness . . . I have a good home here / am staying with an Old Texas friend formerly from Ills. . . . How the time has flown for If my memory Serves me right It has Been 7 years Since I was at your house / But it Seems as a few days to me for Old times / Times are dear to my Recolecton"

1883 Oct. 12, Burrton, Harvey Co., KS. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "If nothing serious happens we I will come In side of a year / my sick spell last spring and loosing a Summers work hurt my finance[s] considerable so you see I must try & make some little of it Back Befor I go to spending more for It will [cost] me about $75,00 dollars to make the trip"

1883 Oct. 24, Denton, Denton Co., TX. Sarah Belle Wilkinson wrote her cousin Jane Love: "your most welcum letter was rec to day / I was sorry to hear of you having poor health & also sorry to hear of Evan being so poorly"

1884 Feb. 17, Burrton, Harvey Co., KS. Evan wrote his cousin Lillice Jones: "I will Send one of my Photoes Now / I Shall Expect one from you" This may be the first of the 3 photos we have of E.J.; taken by A. McInturff, Hutchinson (in Reno Co., KS, west of Burrton).

1884 March 9, Burrton, Harvey Co., KS. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "I wrote to Jo and Lillise 2 weeks a go / Sent Lillise my Photo / will send you one to / you think I look natural, / It looks as I do now so the girls say . . . I have not felt real Stout Since I had that sick spell a year ago"

1884 April 27, Burrton, Harvey Co., KS. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "Kans is Enjoying a Boom / land Is Eagerly Sought after / quarter Sections are selling from $1,500 to $5,000 Oweing to Improvement & Location / I have Just Bought (160) acres 4 miles from Burrton / 90 acres undre (?)culticatom [cultivation] / good House which (cost $800) / good Stable / Small orchard and so on / I have not the deed yet as it had to go to Ills to Be signed / If the Parties dont go Back on the trade I will have a deed In 10 days or 2 weeks"

1884 May 6, the failure of a stock exchange firm threw the nation into a banking panic and depression, referred to as the Depression of 1884.

1884 May 11, Burrton, Harvey Co., KS. Evan wrote his cousin Lillice Jones: "I am Putting out 65 acres of corn / I have Bought a farm / Jane must come and see me when I get to Batching / their is a good house on It with 5 Rooms and Sellar 4 miles from Town . . . I am trying to get some one in my house to farm the land and me to furnish Team Tools and so on and to Keep my Stock or to attend to It when I am not their / If I can rent that way It will give me a chance to leave / I do not want to go Fast [Far] untill I can Be free from aney Excuse for I want to Stay all Summer when I come / when I do come I want to have time to see all my folks and friends / are you willing to wait untill that time"

1884 May 23, Robert Love's wife Nettie wrote her sister-in-law Jane: "E J is only about 50 miles* from us yet we never hear from him / I wrote to him last when we were in Edgerton / he spoke of receiving it in Joes letter but I suppose he did not want to write to me"

• Robert and Evan were roughly 200 miles apart as there are three counties separating Coffey Co. and Harvey Co., a distance much greater than the 50 miles Nettie wrote.

1884 June 29, Moran, Allen Co., KS. Lydia Love wrote her sister Jane: "you Speak of Evan / I am not mad at all but I want him to write / he has not wrote to me since he went to Colorado but why I can not tell / he has not treated me write"

1884 Sept. 21, Burrton, Harvey Co., KS. Evan wrote his cousin Lillice Jones: "I have Just got home from an Extended Trip In the South west / I was with a Party of 6 / we had lots of fun / we went In wagons & of course camped out / could hear the wolves howl around our camp all times of the night / we were nearly to the Colorado line / were Past the (one) (100)reath meridian west, that is Past the Rain Belt / It is high & dry / no wood or water / I do not like the western & Southern countries / I do not think the Soil is good & water is hard to get from 75 to 150 feet / no Timber at all . . . I want to Start In dec or January If I can & If not will come as Early In the Spring as I can So I can help you & Jennie get In your Spring crop of oats & corn for It must Be verry lonesome and Disagreeable for you 2 girls to Be alone and all the work to look after and Jennie so Poorly / If I could I would like to come this fall and help you fix up for winter . . . If It was not for my team I could come By dec But I dont Know whether I can sell In the winter to aney advantage or not & I dont want to leave It with Some one else to work when I am gone for I think lots of my team / So I will have to wait and See"

1884 Oct. 16, Burrton, Harvey Co., KS. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "Business has Shut down Rapidly / no money at all / the Banks are not makeing aney loans at all / Evry one In dept and no money to Pay with / I dont Know It will terminate / all we can do Is to wait & hope for the Best . . . I am comeing to See you this fall or winter If I can Possible get off / I will not Say when But will come as soon as I can . . . If these hard times continues I am afraid I will come out Behind But If I do I can Start fro the Bottom again and climb up As I have done Before / I dont look for aney change untill after the Election"

"1885 / E.J. Love come January the 22 on Thursday E.J. started for Danville* on Wednesday March the 18th" (handwritten note presumably written by Jane Love)

• Danville, Vermilion Co., IL

1885 Feb. 12, Danville, Vermilion Co., IL. Evan wrote Jane and Lillice saying the trains were all snowbound and he didn't know when he would get back. He also noted that "folks are all well" and "folk all well here." (Who was he referring to?)

1885 April 19, Peoria, Peoria Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "I came to Peoria the 16th / Just I think I will Stay here this season / times are quite lively here / I Expect to go to work In a few days / the folks were all Well In danville when I Left"

1885 Oct. 31, Greenup, Cumberland Co., IL. Evan was working with brother Joel in Joel's new business adventure, "Sanford, Price & Co., Lumber Dealers / M. Sanford, J. V. Price / J.J. Love, Manager"

1885 Dec. 2, Burlington, Coffey Co., KS. Lydia E. Love wrote her sister Jane Love: "what is E J going to do / I hope Joe will make a Success but fear he will always Scratch a Poor mans head "

ca. 1887 Summer. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "I do not like Casey as well as Greenup onley for the Difference In Business. / we have quite a trade here / are busy about all the time . . . the talk now is that casey will have 3 Saloons In the Near future then I want to Leave It as I am Pro hi all over"

1888 March 10, Casey, Clark Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "have not Been well this winter / Close Confinement does not agree with me."

1888 May 14, Greenup, Cumberland Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "bought a mill / will start up soon . . . feeling much better / Comence to feel Like Work"

1888 Nov. 6, Greenup, Cumberland Co., IL. Evan formed a partnership with "R.T. Colliver / E. J. Love / Colliver & Love / Manufacturer's and Dealers in / hard wood lumber, / and railrod [sic] supplies. / Greenup, Ill." Evan wrote his sister Jane: "Politics is and has been quite high / Both of the Old Parties are contending for Power / I think the Pro-hies will cast quite a Large Vote here to day as well as Else where, / it is write and must win in the End . . . Business Verry quiet at Present But think It will open up Better as Soon as the Election is over and worn out Listening to Politics"

1888 Nov. 18, Nettie Love wrote her sister-in-law Jane: "What has become of E.J. Love"

1889 Feb. 2, Greenup, Cumberland Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane on his letterhead: "Will move Mill Soon."

1889 Mar. 6, EVAN J. LOVE md. HATTIE PARKER, Cumberland Co., IL, Book 1, p.39. --Ill. Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900, http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/marrsrch.html

1889 April 14, Greenup, Cumberland Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "Hattie is Still with her mother / we will not go House Keeping Before next fall or Winter as I am not in Shape and our work is so far off I am walking 9 miles a day to and from the Mill / would get a horse and Buggy But am not able"

1889 June 4, Joel Love wrote his sister Jane: "I staid with E J and Hattie last Sunday / they are well."

1889 June 7, Hidalgo, Jasper Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "are haveing Lots of trouble with our Mill / Evry thing goes cross ways / do not Know how we will come out yet this fall But hope we will make It all wright . . . will come and See you the first chance we have But I am so Buisy can not Leave Mill and Sunday I am so tired feel Like resting / when we do go have to hire horse & Buggy But will try and come soon . . . have not Been in greenup for a Long time"

1889 July 3, Hidalgo, Jasper Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "we are well as Common onley Hattie has Been quite Poorly / It does not seem to agree with her down here / She is goeing up home to morrow to Stay a while and Drink Mineral Waters and See if it will not help her . . . Prospect for crops are good around here, / Plenty of fruit / Hattie got up Sour Cherries . . . we will come over when Hattie gets Back If I can Leave the work"

1889 Aug. 8, Joel Love wrote his sister Jane: "I seen E.J. / he said he was going down to see you next sunday if he could get a horse."

1889 Aug. 15, Joel Love wrote his sister Jane: "[I] have not seen E.J."

1889 Aug. 28, Hidalgo, Jasper Co., IL. Evan's wife Hattie wrote Jane Love: "We will be down to see you Sunday / Mr Love [Evan] got a horse this morning & if nothing happens between now & that time we will be there"

1889 Nov. 1, Gridley, Coffey Co., KS. Lydia wrote her sister Jane: "I am glad you like Evans Wife / hope she will Prove a Sister to you but I dont beleive Either one of them can fill Netties Place with me / forgive me if I Judge them wrong"

1889 Nov. 21, Hidalgo, Jasper Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "Hattie has Been ailing all fall / we have got Moved at Last / was out of a home for some time / Hattie was In greenup and I was Boarding down here / we onley have one small Room 12 x 14 So you can Imagine how we are Cluttered up / have not Been sawing for some time and mill was out of Repair and had to be sent to Olney for Repairs which will be Expencive to say the Least / have Been trying to get some of our Lumber off But the Roads Keeps So Verry Bad we can not do aney thing . . . haveing some trade But not much Proffit / I have not Made Expences for the Past Three Months / will sell or trade the first good Oppertunity"

1890 Jan. 19, Robert Love's daughter Olive wrote her Aunt Jane: "We received a letter from Uncle Evan a while back / he said they are all well." Olive's brother Geo. M. wrote the same day: "We heard from Evans the other day / he wants to sell his sawmill there and come ether here or to Oklahoma / Pa thinks a sawmill will do very well down there for it is a new country and the timber is tolerable good."

1890 March 5, Joel Love wrote his sister Jane: "E J. has not been up for about two months"

1890 March 12, Hidalgo, Jasper Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "Hattie is and has Been quite Poorley all winter / She had a Verry Sever attack of the Sniffe / was confined to her Bed mosly 2 weeks and has not Been well Since . . . We have had a tough time of it / can not Collect Money Enough to Buy our groceries with / never saw such hard times and am of Opinion that the worst is to come / People will have to Live were [with] in their Means"

1890 March 27, Hidalgo, Jasper Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "Hattie is still under the weather / seems as though she can not Recouperate / She is now Bothered with one of her hips / is so Lame At times she can not walk"

1890 April 17, Hidalgo, Jasper Co., IL. Evan Love wrote his sister Jane: "Hattie has not Been Stout all Spring"

1890 June 5, Joel Love wrote his sister Jane: "I have not seen EJ and Hattie for some time" 1890 July 28, Joel Love wrote his sister Jane: "No word from E J since you wer here"

1890 Aug. 21, Hidalgo, Jasper Co., IL. Evan Love wrote his sister Jane: "Hattie has Been quite Poorly all summer / her Mother wants her to come & Stay with her untill she gets stout again / will send her Just as Soon as I can get Money to Send her on If she is able to go"

1890 Sept. 16, Joel Love wrote his sister Jane: "got letter from E.J. / Hattie he says is not well / they talk of moving the mill"

1890 Sept. 24, E.J.'s lumber mill burned to the ground, a total loss 1890 Sept. 29, E.J. and Hattie's baby, Leona May, was born

1890 Sept. 30, Casey, Clark Co., IL. Joel Love wrote sister Jane: "I got a ca[rd] from E.J. / he says their mill has burned down to the ground / all is? a large lot of Lumber / it leaves them in bad shape"

1890 Nov. 5, Casey, IL. Joel Love wrote his sister Jane: "We got a dispatch from Dr. Colliver that Hattie died yesterday / she will be buried at greenup today / I send my hearse to greenup to take her from Depot to cemetry"

1890 Nov. 20, Casey, IL. Joel Love wrote his sister Jane" "we have taken E J. Babe / It has been sick / is getting better now / we do not get lonesom during the night . . . nothing new her that I know of except our babe"

1891 March 13, Casey, IL. Joel Love wrote his sister Jane: "Baby is doing nicely / growing and is well most of the time. . . . E.J. was here few days ago" 1891 April 27, Casey, IL. Joel Love wrote his sister Jane: "We send you Leoes Shadow / do you think she has grown any / she is well and a nice baby / . . . / E J was here a week a go"

1891 May 17, Moran, Allen Co., KS. Robert Love's daughter Olive wrote her Aunt Jane: "Ma received a letter from Aunt Sallie some weeks ago With cousin LeAnas picture / I think she is as pretty as a picture dont you? I have to kiss the picture nearly every time I look at it it is so sweet / poor Uncle Evan if Aunt Hattie could only a lived they would have been so happy but now every thing is changed / all he has lift is that sweet little baby. But oh she is so sweet"

1891 Jan. 29, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "We are sorrow to think of your brother Even having such a hard time."

1891 July 3, Moran, Allen Co., KS. Robert Love's daughter Olive wrote her Aunt Jane: "Mell and I wrote to Uncle Evan some time ago but he hasent answerd it yet / I hope he is getting a long all right"

1891 Sept. 22, Casey, Clark Co., IL. Joel Love wrote his cousin Lillice Jones Harper: "Baby not very well / cutting teeth / nicest Baby in Casey."

1891 Oct. 18, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "We trust your brothers little child is getting along nicely and is stout and hearty. We feel sorrow for him / it is so hard to beleft in this world of sorrow alone. Where does he make his home? Is he a farmer?"

1892 Jan. 7, Moran, Allen Co., KS. Olive Love wrote her Aunt Jane: "poor uncle Evan how I wish I could see him. Where is he now / I have lost his address. Can Le-Ana talk any yet / I expect not though / it must be offle lonesome for him / do you think that he will ever come out here to see us."

1892 Oct. 2, Vevay Park, Cumberland Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "a Letter from Jo says 'Leo' is well / am Looking for her Photo in 10 or 12 days / will Bring or send you one . . . am about through with my work here / will Either Sell or Rent the Mill / am tired of the business . . . do not know what I will I will do If I sell mill / It dont seem as though I had much to Live for Since Hattie has gone But will mosy through the Best I can although Its a Bitter Pill / I never Expect to Love Another as I do her My Poor Dear Hattie / I have nothing in view to Live for Onley Poor Little Leo"

1892 Oct. 2, Gridley, Coffey Co., KS. Lydia wrote her sister Jane: "I would like to see E Js Baby."

1893 April 9, Gridley, Coffey Co., KS. Lydia wrote her cousin Lillice: "E J Spent the winter at Bobs / was here one week but dont know where he is now / he hasent wrote"

1893 May 22, Mt. Vernon, Jefferson Co., IL. Joe wrote his cousin Lillice: "Leo is growing so fast and so far has much better health than she had last summer / we think she is as smart as a whip and is so cute / we would not not take a first National bank for her" He goes on to say that "we have not had a line from E.J. since in December. / I guess he fell out with us a bout the baby"

1894 Jan. 10, Moran, Allen Co., KS. Evan wrote his cousin Lillice asking her to send him his trunk explaining that he "need[s] what Bedding I have / am goeing down to Oklahoma to Brek sod and want to start as soon as I can (in 2 or 3 weeks) So as to Be Ready for spring work"

Jamesport MO Sept 7 - 95 [Daviess Co., MO]

       Dear Cousin
           Lillice

Well Cousin It has Been a long time Since I have heard from you so now I will make up for Lost time I have Boeen so unsettled since I left Ills and Lost that I have not felt like writing to aney One I have Been in Poor health most all this season But am feeling more like my self since we are haveig it more cooler I am 8 lbs Lighter than than Ever Before have Been Keeping Batch all Season and It does not agree with me I farmed In Kans last Season and was in the drouth consequently a Poor crop and this year in WO agood crop But no Paying Market and an Exorbant Rent times are Verry dull here & have Been heard from "Jo" Last April Leo was well, have written him But twice Since Leaveing Ills A Letter from Bobs Recenetly Ollie was married Last Month I Saw Siss the first winter I was here she has 2 fine Kids She is quite grey She did not know me how are you all getting along how is guy tell him I would to see him I often think of your happy home in my Lonely wanderings And of my Once happy home I am not Satisfied any Place Since Leaving Ills and thinking Strongly of comeing Back to Ills where I can see "Leo" Once in a while Its now nearly 4 years Since I Saw her and She will Be 5 years Old the 29th of this month I am Still Single and Likely to Remain So, do you Ever hear from "Jo"s I do not know how they are getting along as he does not tell me aney thing concering his affairs I hope you folks are getting along all right I Expect to Leave here By the 15th of Oct as I Have contracted my crop at that time I may go Over to Bobs and stay a time or I may go to central Part of this State and Engage in Poultry Busniess I Bought a while here this fall untill my Pastures wife died and he quit & I had to quit also an act of (?)funas we may find Some Other & Better Location and work it this winter If not think I will go East, Ills or Ind.

   Well as I have not news to write I will Close for the Present Hopeing to hear from you Soon and to hear that you are all well 

My Regards to Jeniar and guy, and a good Share to "Lillise" Your Cousin As Ever

   E. J. Love

[This is the last surviving letter from E.J.]

1900 census index; Evan has not been located

1910 Hickory* Co., MO, census, p.300B, District 72, Weaubleau Twp., May 4, 1910, Fred Morton: 163/171, E. J. LOVE, head, M W 65, widowed [sic], Canada PA OH, farmer, works on own account; lives alone; no others in household.

1920 St. Clair* Co., MO, census, p.174B, Collins Twp., Collins Village, Jan. __, 1920, Samuel E. Mott: 121/121, EVAN J. LOVE, head, owns farm free of mortgage, M W 74, widowed, Canada PA OH, no occupation; lives alone; no others in household.

• St. Clair Co. is next west of Hickory Co. in southwest central Missouri.

[sent to] E.J. Love Collins Mosouri. Box 195 [St. Clair Co., MO]

    Advance Ill
    August 19 - 1920

EJ Love

    My Dear Cousin

If your are still there & are not able to write have some one to write for you would like to hear from you. We are well as usual now. have been sick along time. The weather is hot & has been very dry. but is damp now the corn is trying to make up lost time. are building anew Silo now. of Clay tile burned hard & salt glased. 12 x 30 ft cant run a dairy & make any thing or dry feed. I hope you are well & doing well.

    Write very soon and let us know all about it. Huraw for Harding. you must pull for the G.O.P every thing seem tame and quiet but will warm up in time yet.

If EJL has passed on. I hope some friend of his will tell me When and where he died. and where they laid him. write soon your truly Address

    Mrs Lillice J Harper
         Advance
              Illinois

Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Love's, posted by Donna McCoy <dodamccoy@@hotmail.com>, 22 Nov 2000. My great grandfather was Robert Jasper Love b2/23/1848 near Toronto, Canada. His parents were James and Rebecca Jones Dawson.* They had 3 sons Joseph Joel, Evan or Ivan Jefferson and Robert Jasper. Looking for information on his parents and brothers.

• This would be Mary Jane Jones Dawson Love; Rebecca Dawson was Mary Jane's dau. by her first marriage to William Washington Dawson.

Three photographs of Evan J. Love at http://hometown.aol.com/chloeqcumber/Jones-Love.html