Person:Henry Loveing (1)

Dallas County, Texas, 1880 census:^[2]

Loving, Henry 38 yrs Farmer b. Kentucky (parents, b. Kentucky)

      Nancy J. 28 yrs Wife Keeping house b. Texas (parents, b. Tennessee)

      Lillie 9 yrs Dau b. Texas (parents, b. Kentucky/Texas)

      Rose 7 yrs Dau b. Texas (parents, b. Kentucky/Texas)

      Ethel [sic] 4 yrs Dau [sic] b. Texas (parents, b. Kentucky/Texas)

Enumerator's Error: "Ethel" is actually their son, Ethan.

Dallas County, Texas, 1900 census:^[3]

Loving, Henry D. Head 57 yrs (b. Dec 1842) (marr. 32 yrs) b. Kentucky (parents, b. Kentucky) Farmer

      Nancy J. Wife 47 yrs (b. Nov 1852) (4 children, 4 living) b. Texas (parents, b. Tennessee)

      Rosie Dau 26 yrs (b. Jan 1874) (single) b. Texas (parents, b. Kentucky/Tennessee[sic])

      Edna Dau 18 yrs (b. Nov 1881) (single) b. Texas (parents, b. Kentucky/Tennessee[sic'])

Dallas County, Texas, 1910 census:^[4]

Loving, H. Head 67 yrs (marr. 38 yrs) b. Kentucky (parents, b. Kentucky) Farmer (Gen. Farm)

      Nancy J. Wife 57 yrs (4 children, 4 living) b. Texas (parents, b. Tennessee)

Dallas County, Texas, 1920 census:^[5]

Loving, H. D. Head 77 yrs b. Kentucky (parents, b. Kentucky) Farmer (Gen. Farm)

      N. J. Wife 67 yrs b. Texas (parents, b. Texas)

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Find A Grave.

   Henry D. Loving

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Dallas, Texas, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 63, p. 236A, dwelling/family 469/483.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Dallas, Texas, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T623)
   ED 133, p. 22B, dwelling/family 402/405.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Dallas, Texas, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 84, p. 14B, dwelling/family 259/260.
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Dallas, Texas, United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 90, p. 4A, dwelling/family 66/66.
6.   Civil War service records
   [no citation given].

   Henry D. Loving, age 19, enrolled as a Private in Captain Ed. C. Browder’s Company of Darnell’s Regiment of Texas Volunteers on 15 January 1862 at Dallas, Texas. He brought with him his own horse valued at $130 and equipment valued at $30. Darnell’s Regiment of Volunteers was subsequently mustered into service as Company C, Eighteenth Texas Cavalry, on 15 March 1862.
   
   On 11 January 1863, Private Henry D. Loving was captured at Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Arkansas, and sent to Camp Douglas, in Illinois as a Prisoner of War where he remained until 1 April 1863 when he was paroled and returned to City Point, Virginia.
   
   He returned to active duty with his unit and was promoted to Corporal on 1 December 1863, for his bravery. He appears as Corporal Loving on the Muster Rolls of March and April 1864. However, by December of that same year he was again listed as Private Loving.
   
   Private Henry D. Loving was again taken as a Prisoner of War at Pulaski, Tennessee, on 25 Dec 1864, by forces under the command of Major General Thomas. He was transferred several times in the next few months and spent a few days in the U.S.A. General Hospital at Nashville, Tennessee, in February 1865. When released he was transferred to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he remained until March 26 1865. That transfer took him to Point Lookout, Maryland, where he appeared on a roll for sick Prisoners of War and from where he was released on 06 June 1865, two months after General Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox, after taking the Oath of Allegiance to the United States.

7.   Obituary, unnamed Dallas newspaper.

   Pioneer Dies At Rose Hill
   
   Henry Loving, 85 years old, member of the sixteenth family to settle in Dallas County and resident of Rose Hill for almost eighty-five years, died at his home at Rose Hill Saturday after an illness of two weeks. Funeral services were held at the Rose Hill Baptist Church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with the Rev. W. H. Wynne, pastor of the Forest Avenue Baptist church, officiating. Burial was in the Pleasant Mound Cemetery.
   
   "Uncle Henry," as he is known to everyone in the Rose Hill community, was born at Thompkinsville, Kentucky, in December 1842. He came with his parents to Texas when less than a year old. His parents settled where the community of Rose Hill is now located.
   
   His father obtained a patent on a tract there from Sam Houston, and a deed has never been made to the property that Henry Loving inherited from his father. A patent obtained at that time served as the same purpose as a deed does now.
   
   At the outbreak of the Civil War Mr. Loving joined the Confederate forces and served the full four years of the war. He was captured three times by the army of the "States." He was believed to have been the sole survivor of Grandbury's Brigade.
   
   When Loving came to Rose Hill with his parents there were fifteen other families in Dallas county, and were only a few log cabins located close to the Trinity River where the Union Terminal and courthouse now stands. There was not a school in the country and the nearest neighbor to the Loving family was fifteen miles away when they settled at Rose Hill.
   
   In 1869 Laving was married to Miss Nancy Jane Coates, a member of one of the first fifteen Dallas county families. He married in the same house that he died in. The only change in the house was that it had been made larger and a few other improvements added.
   
   Mr. Loving before his death was known as the oldest living settler of Rose Hill. He knew all the Dallas early pioneers including John Neely Bryan, the first white child born in Dallas.
   
   Surviving are his wife, two daughters, Mrs. T. G. Robinson of Irving, and Mrs. J. W. Kirby of Rowlett, a son, Ethan Loving of Rose Hill, a brother, Pete Loving of Rose Hill, and one sister, Mrs. Sam Davis of Dallas.