Notes for John Scott Love




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Notes for John Scott Love

John Scott Love lived in a large house on the site of what is now the Mecklenburg County Wildlife Club. The house sat on a rise overlooking fields and Paw Creek. A winding drive that began at Moore's Chapel Road, entered the yard from below. James Monroe Love and wife Ruth Ann Hipp raised their family in the home. When the Mecklenburg Wildlife Club purchased the property, the house was torn down and a clubhouse built on its site. A dam was constructed on a branch of Paw Creek and the fields flooded to form a small lake. A new entrance to the property was created, but part of the old roadbed can still be seen. The barns and outbuildings have also been torn down and Ruth Ann's much-loved garden of white flowers paved over, so that nothing remains of the former home of the Love family. Interstate 485 will be constructed very close to the property in the next few years.
In the census, the occupation of John Scott Love was listed as blacksmith. He made a bequest of his blacksmith tools in his will. He must have built wagons also. After his death, a property sale was held as part of his estate settlement. Included in the sale were wheels, tires (that part of the wheel which was made of metal,) and wagon lumber. Also included in the sale was a still and worm. At the February 1831 sessions of the Mecklenburg County Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions, John S. Love was allowed to take out a license to retail "Spiritious Liquors" from his own house for one year. (1) Rather than open his home as a tavern, be probably sold the spirits to neighbors who came by to fill their jugs.
In his will, John Scott Love gave his son, David one half of his land, "the lower end" including a house where David was living. This may have been the house that was located where the Mecklenburg Wildlife Club flooded a branch of Paw Creek to construct a small lake. A small house in this location was rented to tenants for many years. After David's death, Sarah Campbell nee Love remained on the place until after she remarried.
John willed the "upper" part of his land with his "new" house to his son, James M. Love. It is on this upper rise and in this house that James M. Love and his wife, Ruth Ann Hipp would make their home for many years.
John stipulated that the "Mill and Water Power" were to be shared equally by sons David and James Love.
Further, John stipulates that his sister, Sarah D. Love, is to have her maintenance and support from his land. It is this Sarah D. Love, his unmarried sister, who resides in the household of John S. Love in 1850, 1860 and 1870; and again in 1880 with son James M. Love when she is listed as his aunt.
Eunice Cumi Sisk nee Love calls her grandfather "Scott" Love. She was born 35 years after his death, and grew up in his home place. Her father, James Monroe Love, talked about his brothers and sister when Cumi was growing up. (2)
It is possible that John Scott Love and his sister Sarah Love continued to live in the house where they were raised. As previously stated, Sarah is in his household in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 census, and is in the house in 1880 after the death of John Scott Love, when her nephew James Monroe Love is listed as head of household and Sarah is listed as his aunt. Eunice Cumi Sisk nee Love recalled in 2001 that John Scott Love was not the first of the Loves to live on the homeplace that was later sold to the Mecklenburg Wildlife Club, and subsequently lay in the path of Interstate 485.
In the 1860 census, John W. Auten age 11 was enumerated with John Scott Love. He was the grandson of Mary S. Todd nee Love, another sister of John Scott Love. All of the children of William Narcissus Auten and Hannah Syrena Todd went to live in the homes of family and friends after the death of their mother.(3) As John Love was a blacksmith, John Auten was probably learning the trade.
I do not know with certainty the ancestry of John Scott Love. I believe he was the son of David Love and Jean Thompson, who were married on 24 Aug 1802 in Mecklenburg County, NC. The bondsman was Joseph Thompson. This seems the most likely scenario. This may be the same David Love who appears in the census in 1810, 1820 and 1830 in western Mecklenburg County.
John Scott Love named a daughter Jane T. Love. I need to try to determine what the "T" stood for -- perhaps, for Thompson? She may have been named for her grandmother. Also, Joseph and Moses Love used "T" as their middle initials, and it appears probable that they were brothers of John S. Love.

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1840 Census of Mecklenburg Co., NC, p 304
John S. Love
1 male 5-9 (born 1831-1835) (Henry A., born 1833)
1 male 20-29 (born 1811-1820) (possibly Joseph T., brother of John S.,
born in 1820; possibly Moses T. Love, another brother)
1 male 30-39 (born 1801-1810) (John S., born 1803)
1 female under 5 (born 1836-1840) (Jane T., born 1838)
1 female 20-29 (born 1811-1820) (Jane, born 1813)

In 1840, two persons in the household of John S. Love were employed in
manufacturing & trade.

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Grantee Index to Real Estate Conveyances - Mecklenburg County, NC. 02
June 1841, one from John Hartgrove to John S. Love for 11-1/2 acres in
Mecklenburg County, Deed Book 25 p. 457.

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Mecklenburg County, NC Will Book K, p 83
John S. Loves Will
Mecklenburg County, N. C. September 13th Eighteen Hundred + Seventy one.
I John S Love of the County of Mecklenburg + State of North of N.C. [sic]
being of sound mind and memory do make this my last Will and testament to
wit
1st I give and devise to my daughter Jane T. Kistler one Stand of drawers
One bed + furniture + Fifty Dollars in money.
2nd I give to my Son David L. Love one half of the Land on which I now
live the Lower end including the House + [ ] on which he now lives
except the Mill + Water Power which I will to David L. + James M. Love
---equally One half of my Wagon--- (the preceding was struck through) /\
one half of my waggon Equally I will to David L. Love. One set Black
Smith Tools. One Bed + furniture One Buggy and Crop on hand.
Item 3 I will to James M. Love one half my Waggon.
" " I will to my Son James M. Love one half the land on which I now
live the uper and including my new House. One Bed + furniture. Waggon
Tools. One Still + Utensils to be equally divided between James M. +
David L. Love. One Rifle Gun.
Item 4 I will that my Sister Sally D. Love have her maintenance and
Support from all my land.
Item 5 I will that my Executors pay my debts out of the balance of my
property and the debts due me and if there is not enough David L. + James
M. Love is to pay the balance. In testimony of Which I hereunto set my
hand and seal this 13th Sept 1871.
Test Stephan Wilson
Jane L. Williamson
John S. Love {seal}
The foregoing paper Writing purporting to be the Last Will and Testament
of John S. Love decd + being exhibited before me for Probate. And
Stephan Wilson + Jane L. Williamson the Subscribing Witnesses thereto
being duly Sworn depose and say each for themselves that they saw the
said John S. Love said paper writing as his last will and testament. And
that they signed the same as Witnesses at his request and in his presence
and they believe the said John S. Love at the time of Signing to have
been of Sound and disposing mind and memory of full age to Execute a Will
and under no restraint to their knowledge or belief
Sworn to and Subscribed before me the 11th day of April 1872
C. A. Osborne Probate Judge
Stephan Wilson
Jane L. Williamson

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(1) Herman W. Ferguson, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions Volume IV: 1831-1840, (Rocky Mount, NC: Herman W. Ferguson, 2002), Abs. No. 7:410. p. 5.
(2) Eunice Cumi Sisk is the youngest child of James Monroe Love and Ruth Ann Hipp, and was born in 1907. In 2001, she was interviewed in her home by Mrs. Florine Joy nee Love, her niece, and myself, Donna Johnson nee Joy, daughter of Florine Joy. She remembers a great deal about various members of the Love and Hipp families as well as other families of Paw Creek, and has a good recollection what was told to her about those who died before she was able to know them personally. Since she grew up on the Love homeplace on Paw Creek in the Moore's Chapel community, she has an extensive knowledge of the place and those who resided there.
(3) Marie Elliott McClure, "Paw Creek School Neighbors: Part I," Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 20 Number 3 (2002): 18.

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