Person:Jane Love (13)

1851 Ontario, Canada, census, King Twp., York, Div. 1, p.27, lines 36-43: JANE LOVE, F 10, States; 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; JOAL LOVE, M 8, States; EVAN J. LOVE, M 6, Canada; 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: JANE C. LOVE, 19 F, IN; with 164/164, JAMES LOVE, 53 M, farmer, $100 personal, Canada; Joel J., 17 M, IN; Evan, 15 M, Canada; Robert, 13 M, Canada; Lidy, 10 F, Canada. Jane, Joel, Evan, Robert attend school.

1863 Feb. 14, Tighlman to Joel. you spoke about REBECA DAWSON of getting her to keep house for you. not nowing any thing about them I cant say but if you think it would work well and if she is a steady girl and would like the situation I am sure I will not oppose you.

1863 March 15, Independence [Warren Co., IN, next north of Fountain Co.]. Dear Uncle, / I received your welcome letter in due time and was glad to hear from you. We are all well what is left of us. JANE and the boys are gone to Ill. went upwards of a week ago; received a letter from them the forepart of this week. They were all well and well satisfied with their new home. The rest of us intend going in a few weeks, just as soon as the roads are fit for a wagon to travel. FATHER will tell you what part of Ill. we are agoing to. I expect you have heard before this that GRIFFIN JONES has lost his wife [son of Isaiah in Fountain Co., IN]. He wanted one of us girls to go and keep house for him this summer but I believe he has broke up housekeeping and is going to travel in Ill with an agency for the insurance company. You speak of wanting one of us girls. I expect perhaps JANE will go, but your terms do not suit altogether. I would not wish for her to be bound for any length of time as she may be needed at home or she may get married before she is with you six months, you know girls will always marry when an opportunity offers (I am not speaking of myself) but she will not be ready to go for some time yet as I want her to help me fix things up after we move. I must close as it is suppertime. please write soon and let us know how you are getting along. I remain your affectionate niece, / [signed] REBECCA A. DAWSON To Uncle JOEL L. JONES / When you write again give me TIGHLMANs post office address. we have not got a letter from him since Christmas. I suppose the last one did not reach him. / I cannot tell you where GRANDPAP is; all I know he is in the rebel army. / I told you FATHER would tell you where we was agoing but he has not time so I will tell you. we will be 16 miles north west of Middleport [Iroquois Co., IL], 7 miles north of ZILLMAN and 2-1/2 miles south west of Ashkum [Iroquois Co., IL; should be in Ashkum Twp.] right in the prairie. that is all I can tell you about it. I presume when we do get there we will be as far from you as we are now. If you do not answer this letter in the course of a couple or three weeks direct to Ashkum. We heard today the roads is getting good on the prairie. So I expect we will go in about two or three weeks. / [signed] REBECCA A. DAWSON JOEL L. JONES / Hazel Dell, Ill.

                                                              When this you see remember me
                                                              Though many miles apart we be
                                                              Remember me who loves you best
                                                              Remember me from all the rest.
                                                                                          REBECCA ANN

1863 May 4, Cedar Villa, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff wrote her cousin Tighlman Jones: "I received a letter from cousin Jane Love last week / they have moved to Illinois. Her address is Ashkum Illinois. I know she is a [d]ear good girl / I wish little Lillias was here awhile untill we could learn her to sew and knit and do a great many things that your Pa cant learn her. Poor man / what a charge he has but he bears it well. I was in hopes he would move in here and rent a house and shop and I would have kept house for him. Cousin Jane says she will keep house for him this summer if Rebeccas health gets better. I hope it will for your Pa needs a housekeeper badly."

1864 April 17, Hazel Dell, Cumberland Co., IL. Zillman Jones wrote his brother Tighlman: "I have got two letters from Jane since she left / she was very homesick and lonesome and would give her eyes to be back again but that is impractible a[s] Rebecca has left home and Jane will have to keep house for the old man [her father]."

1864 July 8, Darlington, Montgomery Co., IN. Rebecca Dawson wrote her cousin Zillman Jones: "I re[c]d a letter from Jane a few days ago / she is still bad with the rheumatism but getting better"

1864 Sept. 19, Cedar Villa, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff wrote her cousin Tighlman Jones: "I received a letter from Griffin Saturday evening. He wanted us to meet he and Angeline and his little girl in Cincinnati tomorrow evening. Griffin is going to finish off our house for us. I don't know how long they will be here. . . . I am sadly dissappointed. I expected Cousin Jane Love to come with Griffin. I am really disappointed. I do love her so. She seems as near as a sister."

Many of the family's letters are reproduced in whole or in part in Glenn W. Sunderland, Five Days to Glory (South Brunswick, NJ: A.S. Barnes, 1970). Joel's son, Tighlman Jones, enlisted in Co. F, 59th IL Infantry Regiment, for a three year term. He was mortally wounded Dec. 15, 1864, just five days before his enlistment was up, and died 10 days later in Cumberland Hospital; he was buried in DeBord Cemetery, Jasper Co., IL, after his father traveled to TN and retrieved his body.

1870 Jasper Co., IL, census, p.273A, Grandville Twp., P.O. Yale, July 11, 1870, Wm. L. Bridges: JANE LOVE, 28 F W, house servant, Canada; with 58/51, JOEL L. JONES, 65 M W, farmer, $7500 real, $600 personal, OH; Zilman, 24 M W, IN; Lillice, 16 F W, keeping house, IN. Lillice attends school.

1874 Aug. 30, Zillman Jones was visiting Robert and Nettie (probably in Moultrie Co., IL, but the letter doesn't say) and about ready to leave; Jane Love and her brother Joel had recently returned home from their visit with them.

1877 Feb. 6, Delaware City, DE. Lizzie Jones Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "was glad to hear . . . that you had got the medicin and that you was willing to give it a fair trial and if it does not help you right a way dont get discouraged but keep it up for I know that it will cure you for it has cured george / he has not had a fit for a year and six months / he does not seeme like the same peson / some people have no faith in patent medicin but I certainly will have to up hold Mr Caultons medicin for it certainly will do what it sais it will for I have seen it tried"

1877 March 25, At Home. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I have thought about you so often and how lonely your life is, no father, no mother but you have Christ for your friend"

1878 Dec. 8, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousins Zillman and Lillice Jones: "I am glad you have moved to the town of Casey and are in business there / I think it is the best thing you could have done. I hope you can arrange matters so that you will not have to take the farm back in the Spring / perhaps you can rent it to someone else. And I do earnestly hope it will be so ordered that you can redeem your property . . . I cant see why you didnt receive my letter I directed to Hazel Dell. I suppose you had moved before I wrote to Jane" And to her cousin Jane Love: "I think you will not be so lonely once you become acquainted and get accustom to your new home. I know you miss uncle, / often you think you will ask him something or tell him things that have happened and when you realize he is gone you feel worse than ever for awhile. I often think of you as one that is doubly orphaned for while uncle lived he was as a father to you but oh what consolation to know we can meet them again never to part more / it i[s] that hope that has kept me up ever since my dear husbands death and oh how many have been added to the land of dear ones since his death. I miss dear uncles letters for I loved to get them / they were always comforting."

1880 Jasper Co., IL, census, p.275D, Granvill [sic] Twp., June 5, 1880, W.W. Kibler: JANE LOVE, W F 37, cousin, at home, IN Canada IN; with 80/83, Gilman [sic] JONES, W M 34, farming, IN OH OH; Lillice, W F 26, sister, keeping house, IN OH OH.

1883 Oct. 30, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "You wished to know of Mrs Finney / she thinks she has improved in health since she began doctoring with the New York doctor / she looks well / I do wish your health was better"

1883 Dec. 20, Moran, Allen Co., KS. Lydia Love wrote her sister Jane: "I thought of you the 15th / how old was you"

1884 Jan. 18, New York City. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "I am sorry I cannot give you all the information you desire. Ma does not know the date of your mothers marriage, but we have the record of her birth. She was born Feb. 19th on Sunday." (February 19th fell on a Monday in 1821, so the date of birth that we have long had for Mary Jane, Feb. 18, 1821, appears to be correct if she was born on a Sunday.)

1884 Feb. 25, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Jane enclosed you will find a pamphlet, / Mrs Johnston a friend of ours visited us a short time ago and she said her son now 23 years old had had Epilepsy ever since he was three years of age have sometimes 3 or 4 fits of a day and always 1 or 2 a day. He has been taking the medicine 8 months and has not had an attack for 5 months, / I spoke of you and she is very anxious to have you try this medicine / Mrs Finney has been taking it and gave me this pamphlet to send to you. If you try it and it does you good be sure and let me know."

1884 Aug. 17, Jasper Co., IL. Zillman Jones md. Louisa Abraham, Jasper Co., IL.

1884 Sept. 21, Burrton, Harvey Co., KS. E.J. wrote his cousin Lillice Jones: "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 . . . how are you getting along Since Zillman left home & what Kind of crops did you have this Season / do you 2 girls Intend Staying alone this winter"

1884 Dec. 28, Iola, Allen Co., KS. Lydia Love wrote her sister Jane: "My Dear little Sister / your Ever welcom [letter] is at hand / was glad to hear from [you] but oh so sory you are so Poorly but what is the use I cant Express on paper what I feel for you my only sister but am glad that you are walkin in the narow Path and Striving to Enter in at the golden Gate but oh the World is so cold and Wickd"

1885 Jan. 27, New York City, 7 Waverly Place. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "I should think you and Lilice would be very lonely with out Zillman. Please offer my congratulations to him, and his wife. . . . Ma was looking through some things the other day and found some scraps, and is a piece of you[r] mothers first wedding dress. I will send you a piece of it."

1885 April 12, New York City. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "Has your brother gone, or is he with you yet? / It would be nice if your brother could stay with you all the time. It must be very hard for you and Lilace to have every thing to see to, out doors, especialy, in Winter."

1885 Dec. 2, Burlington, Coffey Co., KS. Lydia E. Love wrote her sister Jane Love: "how I wish Jane felt as good as I do / how the time flies / your Birthday will soon be hear / are you 43 / almost old Enough to Mary"

ca. 1885 Dec. 28, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "How have you and Lillice been getting along this winter / have you any one to do your feeding for you / Oh how often we speak of you and wonder how you are and what you are doing."

1886 Aug. 30, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I have written to the Dr giving the account of your disease that you wrote me / He makes Epilepsy his study.* Mrs Finney has been doctoring with him since last spring and she was some four months without any, then she had two / they were brought on by excitement and he charged her particularly about becoming excited but she couldnt well help becoming excited then / that was in July and she has not had any since. Mrs Finney falls. She has no warning / suffers very much with her head. I gave the Dr your address. Casey, Clark Co Illinois and told him to write to you immediately and also to write to me as I wanted to know what he thought of your case / I do hope he can relieve if not cure you / If you can only have a rest of four or five months like Mrs Finney it will be quite an item. I told him you would willingly answer all his questions. His address is Dr Jacob Sortor / Oxford Butler Co Ohio. I have never seen him only heard of him through Mr Finneys. You had better write to him too as soon as you receive this for fear something might happen that he did not get my letter."

• As neurology emerged as a new discipline in the 19th century, distinct from psychiatry, the concept of epilepsy as a brain disorder became more widely accepted, especially in Europe and North America. Bromide was introduced in 1857 as the world's first effective antiepileptic drug and became widely used in Europe and North America during the second half of the century. The foundation of our modern understanding of the derangement of function seen in epilepsy (pathophysiology) was also laid in the 19th century with the proposal of a London neurologist in 1873 that seizures were the result of sudden brief electro-chemical discharges of energy in the brain, the character of the seizures depending on the location and function of the seat of the discharges. <http://www.epilepsy.ca/eng/content/sheet.html>

1889 Sept. 8, Joel had written brother Robert's family that Jane had fallen, breaking her arm. Jane's nephew Geo. M. Love wrote her Sept. 8th: "Uncle said you fell and broke your arm. I hope you will soon get well . . . I hope you will soon get well and up around again" His sister Olive wrote: "Uncle Joe wote to us abut you breaking your arm / I hope you are better"

1889 Dec. 29, R.J.'s daughter, Olive Love, wrote her Aunt Jane: "I hope you received your present all right / I sent it Saturday"

1890 Jan. 19, R.J.'s daughter Olive again wrote her Aunt Jane: "it was I who worked the apron / hope you will like it." Olive's brother Geo. M. wrote Jane the same day: "The flower and apron Olove sent, she worked it and I drew the rose with some colored pensils that I had."

1890 Feb. 3, Moran, Allen Co., KS. R.J.'s son George M. wrote his Aunt Jane: "The apron and card that you received Olive worked the apron and I drew the card or picture / we sent one to aunt Liyda but have not heard from her since / do not know whether she likes it or not."

1891 Jan. 29, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "You said you had roasted goose for dinner Christmas. . . . Grandma says for you to get some clay out of an old chimmey and make a police [poltice] of it and put on your ankle. mix it with any thing so it will stick to gather."

"Jane C. Love departed from this live March 18th 1893. Aged 50 years. Came to Jasper County, Illinois to live September 3, 1863 / J.C. Love was born December 16 1842. in Fountain County Indiana. was oldest Daughter of James & Mary Jane Jones Love. Mary J. Jones was the daugther of Evan W. Jones." 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

Harper Cemetery, Grandville Twp., Jasper Co., IL: JANE C. LOVE - b. 1842; d. 1893 (current property owner confirms location) (src #28)

1. ↑ HARPER Family Cemetery, Jasper Co., IL
   from a survey completed May 30, 1969, by Warren Breedlove; 7 markers found.

   Row 1 includes JANE C. LOVE ~ 1842 - 1893