Person:Joel Love (2)

JOEL JUNIA LOVE, b. Oct. 25, 1843, King Twp. [should read Indiana], 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: JOAL LOVE, M 8, 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; JANE LOVE, F 10, 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: JOEL J. LOVE, 17 M, IN; with 164/164, JAMES LOVE, 53 M, farmer, $100 personal, Canada; Jane C., 19 F, IN; Evan, 15 M, Canada; Robert, 13 M, Canada; Lidy, 10 F, Canada. Jane, Joel, Evan, Robert attend school.

1866 Feb. 5, Attica, Fountain Co., IN. Evan J. Love wrote his sister Jane: "iseen Rob and Joel last Sunday week / they are well or was then / Joel and Mahlon Beadle was up to see Beck about 2 weeks ago / She has had hard Sick Spell but is a getting around again. . . . There has been a proctracted meeting at Behel / it lasted nearly 4 weeks / they got about 40 fourty joiners Joel and rob among them / they got all of the bethel Boys But (?)arariah Sath and John pearson"

1870, between May 31 and July 20. James Love wrote his daughter Jane: "a letter from Joel / he is well, please incourage him to come out here & help Make a home for Zaida [James Love's dau. Lydia] & me" Note written on the back of John Wilkinson's letter to James Love dated May 31, 1870, from Santa Rosa, CA.

1870 Fountain Co., IN, census, p.94B, Logan Twp., P.O. Attica, Aug. 3, 1870, Geo. A. Pynchon: JOEL LOVE, 26 M W, works on farm, IN; with 442/469, James M. TALLIS [sic], 55 M W, farmer, OH; wife Mary, 53 F W, OH; and family.

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

1880 census indexes; J.J. / Joel / Joe / Joseph not located

1881 June 30, Joe wrote J.B. Harper (cousin Lillice's husband) from Edgerton, Johnson Co., KS. Joe's brother, Robert, was also in Edgerton, and Jane's list of addresses puts sister Lydia there, too.

1881 July 8, Joe wrote his cousin Lillice from Edgerton, KS.

1884 March 5, Moran, Allen Co., KS. Lydia wrote her brother Joel: "Joel would rather you would write to Bob your Self / I do not know what he will do / they dident see your letter / you speak of Bob growing you Part of his land / why do you want a Part of his when you can get a 160 for nothing Just as good as his / you will never miss the Watter untill the well runs dry / let me tell you that when you quit Sending him money / they were Living on corn Bread and Water Gravy and some times the children cried for more / corn was 90 cents and hardly aney to be had and Flora and doly [Robert's horses] so Poor they Stagered / you wouldent of Know them an Aug when I come but they said they were in good condition but they are fat now / if aney People Ever Earned a home they [have] / he owes me a bout 60 dolars and if I can wait dont you be too hard"

1884 April 9, J.J. LOVE md. SALLIE E. BLAIR, Jefferson Co., IL, Book 6, p.67, license 64

1884 April 16, Moran, Allen Co., KS. Lydia wrote her sister Jane: "your Ever welcome [letter] was recd but as I got one from Joel the same day telling me that he was going to be maried / I havent had time for my [any] thing but wondering how he acted altho it dident Surprise me aney for he has as good as told me that he would this Spring . . . now Jane I supose you have seen her / I want you to tell me all about her / I hope wee shall like her / also tell me her age . . . write and tell me all about Sallie"

1884 April 27, Burrton, Harvey Co., KS. E.J. wrote his sister Jane: "What has Becom of Jo / I have not heard from him for Some Time / Is he married / he wrote he was to Be married the 9 of Mch / have you seen his woman yet"

1884 May 11, Burrton, Harvey Co., KS. E.J. wrote his cousin Lillice Jones: "I reced a line from Jo last week / he says he is married / have you seen his wife yet / he is urgeing me to mak Ill a visit But it is quite out of the question now for me to leave"

1884 May 23, R.J.'s wife Nettie wrote his sister Jane: "Well I suppose you have saw J J Love and wife / I suppose he is happy as a Lark / I would like to see them"

1884 June 29, Moran, Allen Co., KS. Lydia Love wrote her sister Jane: "have you been to see Joel yet / she has not wrote to me at all / she wrote a few lines to Nettie / vey trim and Precise / do you like her / I geuss wee Joked Joel a little to much to suit her but so be it / she is Joes Wife and I will try to Like her for Joes sake / I wrote to him yesterday"

1884 July 29, Iola, Allen Co., KS. Lydia Love wrote her sister Jane: "I hope Sallie had a good visit with [her] ma / Joel does not write as often as the Joe of old / I feel as if I had Lost him and fear I have"

1884 Sept. 9, Iola, Allen Co., KS. Lydia Love wrote her sister Jane: "I got a Long letter from Joel / also one from Sallie / I Like her a little Better / I will try hard to Love her / Perhaps I will in time"

1884 Dec. 28, Iola, Allen Co., KS. Lydia Love wrote her sister Jane: "I got a letter from Joel with Sallies Picture / I think her rather Prittie and younger than I suposed / I am so glad Joel is happy / what more do wee need in this world / there are so maney married People now days that are not Happy"

1885 June 7, Burlington, Coffey Co., KS. Lydia Love wrote her sister Jane: "I got a letter from Joel / I am glad that he is so well Satisfied with his wife / how old is She and was She Ever maried"

1885 Oct. 31, Greenup, Cumberland Co., IL. E.J. was working with brother Joel in Joel's new business venture, "Sanford, Price & Co., Lumber Dealers / M. Sanford, J. V. Price / J.J. Love, Manager . . . Jo has not moved yet / Dwelling houses are verry scarce / Sallie is with her Mother"

1885 Nov. 8, Burlington, Coffey Co., KS. Lydia wrote her sister Jane hinting that she may have had a falling out with Joel as she told Jane: "I have but one Brother any more and that is Bob"

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

1885 Dec. 12, Joe's sister-in-law Nettie wrote their sister Jane: "Joe writes to us as though he thought he had an angel for a wife / I hope he may never have reasons to think different / as to their children I suppose they practice what Joe used to preach that 'poor folks had no business to have children' / he made that remark when I was in the family way for Claud and I still remember it against Joe so much so that I wish them the good luck to have twins first and then triplets."

1886 Aug. 18, Joe wrote his cousin Lillice from Garden City, Finney Co., KS.

1887 March 2, Evan wrote his sister Jane: "I Expect Jo will Move Back to casey / I dont think he will Like the West"

1887 July 21, Joe and Sallie wrote his sister Jane from South Hutchinson, Reno Co., KS.

ca. 1887 Summer. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "I have heard once from Jo Since he Left / do not Know aney thing about them . . . have you heard from Jo or Sallie [since] they went west"

1888 March, Moran, Allen Co., KS. Olive Love wrote her Aunt Jane, July 15, 1888: "Uncle Joe and Aunt Sallie were out here in March / they were goeing back to Illinois to her fathers" Olive's mother Nettie wrote Jane Nov. 18th: "Joe & Sallie was to see us last March / I like Sallie the best kind"

1888 July 22, Joe's sister Lydia wrote their sister Jane and asked: "are Joe and Sally still with her folks [in Illinois]" [Did Joe and Sallie return to Illinois then go back to Kansas? Or was Lydia forgetting that they were still in Kansas?]

1889 Jan. 16, Joe and Sallie wrote his sister Jane from Hutchinson, Reno Co., KS.

1889 April 14, Greenup, Cumberland Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "Jo was goeing down to See you Before we Left But got word from down below Concerning a trade for a farm for His Kansas stuff But think he will Be Back the Spring"

1889 June 4, Joe wrote Jane from Greenup, IL.

1889 June 7, Hidalgo, Jasper Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "I do not no what Jo is goeing to do / talks of goeing to Colorado / have not Been in greenup for a Long time"

1889 July 3, Hidalgo, Jasper Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "have not heard from Jo for Some time / do not Know where he is or what he is goeing to do"

1889 July 6, Joe wrote Jane from Mt. Vernon, IL [where Sallie's parents lived], saying that they "expect to move to greenup" 1889 Aug. 8, 15, 30, Joe and Sallie wrote Jane from Greenup, IL.

1889 Nov. 21, Hidalgo, Jasper Co., IL. Evan wrote his sister Jane: "was at Joes Some 2 weeks since / they was as common"

1890 March 5, Joe and Sallie continued to write Jane from Greenup, IL.

1890 April 17, Hidalgo, Jasper Co., IL. Evan Love wrote his sister Jane: "I think Jo is goeing in the undertakeing Business In Casey"

1890 June 5, Joe wrote Jane from Casey, IL, saying that "Sallie went home the first of the week . . . [for] a good visit . . . I dont know how long Sallie will be gone" 1890 July 28, Sept. 30, Joe and Sallie continued to write Jane from Casey, IL.

1890 Sept. 16, Casey, Clark Co., IL. Joe Love wrote sister Jane: "I have been having trouble with my partner and I went out of the marble business a week ago -- we still are handling the undertaking and having some trade / got letter from E.J. / Hattie he says is not well [their baby, Leona May, was born that month]"

1890 Nov. 5, Joe wrote Jane that E.J.'s wife Hattie died the previous day, and he sent his hearse to Greenup to take her from the depot to the cemetery. 1890 Nov. 20, Joe wrote Jane: "we have taken E J. Babe / It has been sick is getting better now / we do not get lonesom during the night"

1891 March 13, Joe wrote Jane that the "Baby is doing nicely / growing and is well most of the time. / . . . / E.J. was here few days ago" 1891 April 27, Joe wrote Jane from Casey, IL, on his letterhead that identifies: J. J. Love / Furniture Dealer / Also, Undertaker / Casey Ill. He wrote: "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 Sept. 22, Joe wrote his cousin Lillice: "Baby not very well / cutting teeth / nicest Baby in Casey."

1892 Jan. 7, Moran, Allen Co., KS. Olive Love wrote her Aunt Jane: "Do you see aunt and uncle Joe any more"

1892 Jan. 20, E.J. wrote Jane: "Jo has left casey for good / Broke up [Joel's business failed] / he does not know what he will do"

1893 March 18, Joe's sister Jane died. 1893 May 22, Joe wrote his cousin Lillice from Mt. Vernon, IL: "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 dont want to lose track of you / we need all the friends we ever had / we lost all our money but dont want to loose any of our friends" then adds that "we have not had a line from E.J. since in December. / I guess he fell out with us a bout the baby" 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

1900 Jefferson Co., IL, census, p.195A, Mt. Vernon Twp., City of Mt. Vernon, June 18, 1900, John L. Cunea: 1722 Main, 370/395, JOEL J. LOVE, head, W M, Oct 1844, 54, md. 16 yrs., IN Canada IN, laundry business; Sallie, wife, W F, Nov 1858, 41, mother of 1 child, 1 living, IL MO TN; Leona, dau, W F, Sept 1890, 9, IL IN IL.

1905 KS State Census, p.46, Iola, Allen Co., KS, information as of March 1, 1905: lines 7-9, family 3/3, J. J. Love, rents home, 57 M W, b. in IN, came to KS from IL, occupation, furnitureman; S. E., 46 F W, b. in IL, came to KS from IL, housewife; Leona, 14 F W, b. in IL, came to KS from IL, student.

ca. 1909, Sallie (and presumably Joel) lived in Iola, Allen Co., KS (Joel's brother Robert also lived in Allen Co., and their sister Lydia lived in nearby Coffey Co.).

1910 March 25, Joel J. Love, furniture merchant, married, b. in Indiana, son of Jas. Love, b. in PA, and Mary E. Jones, b. in Indiana, died in Weaubleau Twp., Hickory Co., MO (E.J. Love, Weaubleau, MO, informant); buried March 27th in Durnell Chapel Cemetery,* Everett Durnell, undertaker. --Missouri certificate of death #5195, http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/

• Durnell Chapel Cemetery is located in T36,R23,S20 southeast of Weaubleau at the intersection of Highway 0 and County Road 290, by the church. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mohickor/hick-cem.htm

1910 census; Sallie Love has not been located.

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 Joel J. Love and two photographs of Sallie Blair Love at http://hometown.aol.com/chloeqcumber/Jones-Love.html