THE FOUNT LOVE FAMILY
By Adelyn Stegall Stevenson

Fountain Pitts Love (1846-1919) was the son of Allen Rucker Love, who was a great, great grandson of Samuel Love, who came from Ireland to Augusta County Virginia, at which place he died about 1856. After having served in the Confederate Army, Fountain Pitts Love came to Versailles, Tenth District from Gibson County, Tennessee.

In 1870 Fountain Pitts Love married Mary Portice Ransom, who was the youngest daughter of Athelson Ransom and Eliza Clark. Mary Portice was descended from Peter Ransom, born in England in 1620. After the marriage, they continued to live in the community and in the Ransom homestead. This home is standing today on Highway 99 nearby and north of the Rockvale Consolidated School. At present its is owned and occupied by Vera Looney Burns.

Fountain Pitts and Mary Portice Ransom Love became the parents of six children, for of who reached adulthood:

1 Allen Athelston Love, married Lula Seat in 1911. Their two children were Samuel A Love and Fount R Love, both decease.

2 Jennie Lenore Love married James McGill Robison, a Presbyterian Minister. After their marriage they moved from this community, but one of their six children, David McGill Robison, later returned to teach at the new Rockvale Consolidated School.

3 Frances Adelaide Love, who never married, devoted her life to serving as teacher and secretary in the Concord Methodist Church.

4 Nannie May Love, also a teacher, married Benjamin Duggan Stegall in 1913. They remained in the community and became the parents of four children:
a May Love Stegall married George Gale. She was a home economist for T.V.A.
b Whitney Stegall married Orene Cowan. Their two children are Whitney, Jr, and Amey. Whitney became a successful attorney anc Chancellor of the Eighth District.
c Goodwin Stegall married Eula McEachern. Their children are Dale, Linda, and Janice. Goodwin is in business in Atlanta.
d Adelyn Stegall married James Stevenson, their children are: Alicia Love, Mary Helen, Jana Lynn.