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George M. Loving (abt. 1765 - 1825)

George M. Loving
Born about in Amherst, Amherst, Virginiamap
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Husband of — married 17 Oct 1785 in Amherst, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Died at about age 60 in Nelson, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Biography

1776 Project
George Loving served with 1776 Project Needs Category during the American Revolution.

Birth Location: Colony of Virginia, before 1776.

Nelson Co. was created in 1807 from Amherst Co. and Albemarle Co. Virginia.

  • 2020-12-14 James Loving-140 Formation of Amherst and Nelson Counties.jpg.

"George and Mildred lived and died in Nelson County. Mildred died in 1813 and George died on 23 June 1826. They had ten children:

A221 Rose Berriman, b. 6 Oct 1798, Nelson Co VA, d. 19 Jan 1887 in Talladega Co AL

A222 John T., b. 16 Dec 1788, VA d. unk. m. Rose Talliferro

A223 Beheathland, b. 9 Feb 1790 m. John Johnson

A224 Naomi, b. 5 Oct 1795, m. Sam Denny

A225 Nancy Ann, b. 10 Feb 1798

A226 Polly, b. 13 May 1800 [Mary Eliza "Polly"]

A227 James M., 6 Apr 1802

A228 Mildred T., b. 10 Jun 1804

A229 George Seaton, b. 25 Jan 1808

A22.10 Zachariah, b. 4 Aug 1813. Said to have been murdered."

Marriage

Husband: John Loving
Wife: Naomi Amy Seay
Child: George M Loving
Child: Cynthia Roseanne Loving
Child: Lunsford Lomax Loving
Child: Living Loving
Child: Living Loving
Child: William Loving
Marriage:
Date: 10 FEB 1761
Place: Virginia[1][2]
  • WikiTree profile Loving-68 created through the import of harvey.ged on May 28, 2011 by Debbie Harvey. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Debbie and others.

Name

Name: George M. /Loving/ [3] .

Event

Type: Military
Date: 1781?
Note: served as a Captain in the Revolutionary War[4]

Note: "George M. Loving served in the Revolution and his name may be found in pension lists. Some writers have called him Captain, but it is unlikely that he earned that rank in the Revolutionary War, for he was only 14 when the war broke out."

  • Carl and May Read, The Loving Family in America, (Harp & Thistle, Ltd., Warner Robins, GA, 1981), page 10.

Occupation

Occupation: Tobacco inspector
Date: 27 OCT 1809
Place: Tye Warehouse, Nelson County, Virginia[5]

Marriage

Husband: George M. Loving
Wife: Mildred Beheathland Stevens
Child: Ann (Nancy) Loving
Child: Rose Berriman Loving
Child: Zachariah T. Loving
Child: John T. Loving
Child: Beheathland Loving
Child: Neomy Loving
Child: Polly Loving
Child: James M. Loving
Child: Mildred T. Loving
Child: George Seaton Loving
Marriage:
Date: 17 OCT 1785
Place: Amherst County, Virginia[6]
George Loving fought as a Captain in the Revolutionary War.

Alabama, U.S., Surname Files Expanded

EXCERPT - Alabama, U.S., Surname Files Expanded, 1701-1981, Love - Lowe

Capt. John Loving, Jr. was listed in 1783 in "Heads of Family, Virginia," Vol. 10, Amherst Co, p. 47; and again in 1785 on page 84, with "12 white souls" and 14 black souls" in his charge, and possessed one dwelling and five other buildings.

The eleven children of Capt. John Loving, Jr., and Naomi Seay Loving were:

1. Sarah (Sally) Loving, (18 July 1762; .- ) Mi. William Teas, Revolutionary soldier (Cornet in the Continental line _ _ _

2. George M. Loving, (c1765--c1828) Mi. Mildred Beheathland Stevens. He was a Revolutionary soldier.

3. Elizabeth (Betsy) Loving, (c1766 -- ) Mi. ? (1) BLANK Taliaferro. (2) William Vaughn.

CONTINUED


Notables

George Loving is the 1st cousin, twice removed of Col. Judge Abraham Jefferson Seay, born in Amherst Co. Virginia, who went on to become the 2nd Governor of the Oklahoma Territory, an Oklahoma State Supreme Court Justice. Civil War veteran, etc. Col. Abraham Jefferson Seay's mansion is a historical site, open for visitors.

George M. is the 8th cousin three times removed of Oliver Loving 1812 -1867. Loving County, Texas, Loving, New Mexico, and Loving Bend on the Pecos River are named in Oliver Loving's honor.

Oliver Loving was considered by all to be the “Dean of the Cattle Drive in Texas.” He was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, Okla.

The 1985 novel Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The character Gus McCrae was said to be patterned after Oliver Loving. In the Hollywood movie Lonesome Dove, Gus McCrae is played by Robert Duvall. Wikipedia

George and Col. Thomas Lightfoot Lee are 2nd cousins, 3 times removed. Thomas was Acting Governor of Colony of Virginia, Virginia House of Burgesses, Governor's Councilor, and U.S. Attorney General.

George is the 2nd cousin once removed of Confederate Civil War Maj. Gen Lunsford Lindsay Lomax (1835 – 1913). Lomax was the fourth president of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (which became Virginia Tech) and an officer in the United States Army who resigned his commission to join the Confederate Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War. Lomax had maintained a close friendship with his West Point classmate Fitzhugh Lee, and served under him as a brigadier in the Overland Campaign. Lomax was then given command of the Valley District, where he supervised intelligence-gathering operations by Mosby's Rangers.

George is the 1st cousin twice removed of Elizabeth Wormeley, first wife of Revolutionary War Col. Landon Carter, member of the American Philosophical Society and builder of Sabine Hall, a National Historic Landmark. Col. Landon Carter was the son of Robert "King" Carter, Governor of Virginia 1726–1727, and 5th Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Robert "King" Carter was one of the wealthiest men in the colonies. When Robert "King" Carter died on 4 August 1732, he left his family 300,000 acres; 3,000 slaves; and £10,000 in cash.

George is the 4th cousin once removed of [[Randolph-319 | Edmund Jennings Randolph] (1753 - 1812), 2nd United States Secretary of State, 1st United States Attorney General, 7th Governor of Virginia.

George is the 2nd cousin once removed of John Page (1743 - 1808), 13th Governor of Virginia. Page was elected to the First United States Congress and reelected to the Second, Third, and Fourth Congress.

George is the 3th cousin of Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. (1768 - 1828), 21st Governor of Virginia. He married Martha Jefferson, the oldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States.

George is the 5th cousin once removed of Thomas James Churchill (1824 - 1904), 13th Governor of Arkansas.

George is the 8th cousin of General William Floyd, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

George is the 11th cousin twice removed of President George Washington.

George is 11th cousin of Bushrod Washington, nephew of President George Washington. Bushrod was a son of John Augustine Washington (1736–1787), the brother of George Washington. Bushrod served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1798 to 1829.

George is the 18th great grandson of King Henry II of England.

George is the 8th cousin 6 times removed of Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658). Cromwell, an English Commander-in-Chief, led armies of the Parliament of England against King Charles I during the English Civil War, subsequently ruling the British Isles of England, Scotland and Ireland as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death in 1658. He was one of the signatories of King Charles I's death warrant in 1649. Cromwell's corpse was dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded. He was selected as one of the ten greatest Britons of all time in a 2002 BBC poll.

George is the 5th cousin once removed of Fitzhugh Lee (1835 - 1905), 40th Governor of Virginia.

Fitzhugh Lee was the son of Sydney Smith Lee, commandant of the U.S. Naval Academy and Philadelphia Navy Yard, and captain in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Sydney Smith Lee was the older brother of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

George is the 4th cousin once removed of Maj. Gen. Henry (Harry) "Lighthorse Harry" Lee III, the 9th Governor of Virginia, and father of 4th cousin Confederate General Robert E. Lee who surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865 to end the American Civil War.

George is the 4th cousin once removed of [[Randolph-319 | Edmund Jennings Randolph] (1753 - 1812), 2nd United States Secretary of State, 1st United States Attorney General, 7th Governor of Virginia.

George is the 2nd cousin once removed of John Page (1743 - 1808), 13th Governor of Virginia. Page was elected to the First United States Congress and reelected to the Second, Third, and Fourth Congress.

George is the 10th cousin 5 times removed of Robert Brooke (ca. 1760 – 1800), the 10th Governor of Virginia.

George is the 12th cousin once removed of Revolutionary War Captain Benjamin Taliaferro (1750 –1821), born in Amherst Co., Virginia. Note: Taliaferro County, Georgia is named in honor of Captain Benjamin Taliaferro.

George is the 12th cousin 4 times removed of General John Taliaferro Thompson, inventor of the Thompson sub-machine gun. The "Tommy Gun" was the notorious gangster weapon of the Roaring Twenties, of Hollywood movies, and immensely popular in WWII.

George is the 11th cousin of Thomas Nelson Jr, the 4th Governor of Virginia.

George is the 10th cousin of Captain Meriwether Lewis. American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also was the 2nd Governor of Louisiana Territory.

George is the 9th cousin 3 times removed of President John Tyler.

George is the 4th cousin 9 times removed of Joyce Culpeper, the mother of Catherine Howard, Queen of England, the fifth wife and Queen consort of King Henry VIII [Tudor-4]. They had no children.

NOTE: Catherine Howard was the 1st cousin to Anne Boleyn (Queen of England, the second wife of Henry VIII). On 19 May 1536, Anne Boleyn was beheaded at the Tower of London.

George and Queen Anne Boleyn are 1st cousins 8 times removed.

Notable Writers

George is the 10th cousin twice removed of the major English Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Percy's second wife was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Percy drowned in a sudden storm on his boat, the Don Juan named after Lord Byron's poem by that name.

George is the 12th cousin once removed of James Fenimore Cooper.

George is the 11th cousin once removed of Oliver Goldsmith.

George is the 12th cousin 4 times removed of Henry David Thoreau. His most famous work "Walden", was based on Thoreau's experience while living in a cabin Thoreau built near Walden Pond, on property that belonged to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

George is the 11th cousin once removed of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Note: Thoreau's cabin was built on property owned by Emerson.

George is the 12th cousin 5 times removed of Phil Everly and Don Everly, the "Everly Brothers."

George is the 10th cousin 4 times removed of Jonathan Swift.

George is the 10th cousin 3 times removed of Louisa May Alcott.

George is the 11th cousin once removed of Jane Austen.

George is the 9th cousin 5 times removed of Bill Monroe. Primary Instrument: Mandolin, Guitar.

George is the 11th cousin 7 times removed of Ernest Hemingway. In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

George is the 8th cousin 4 times removed of C. S. Lewis. He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy. Lewis and fellow novelist J. R. R. Tolkien were close friends.

George is the 12th cousin 3 times removed of William Makepeace Thackeray.

Thackeray was an English novelist. His daughter Harriet Marian, married Sir Leslie Stephen. Sir Leslie Stephen was the father of Virginia Woolf.

George is the 9th cousin 4 times removed of Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.

George is the 10th cousin twice removed of Francis Scott Key, best known for writing the lyrics for the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner".

George is the 9th cousin William Cowper.

Sources

  1. Source: #S00189 Page: Birth year: 1739; Birth city: Culpeper Co; Birth state: VA. Data: Text: Birth date: 4 October 1739Birth place: Culpeper Co, VADeath date: 10 May 1804Death place: Marriage date: 1769Marriage place: Note: N00826
  2. Source: #S00179 Page: Nat'l #: 449856 Data: Text: The Said Lunsford Loving was the child of SearchJohn Loving born on 4 - Oct - 1739 at Amherst Co VA died at Amherst Co VA on 10 - May - 1804 and his ( 1st ) wifeNaomi Seay born on - - 1741 at _______________died at _______________ on - - 1806 married on 10 - Feb - 1761 Note: N05064
  3. Print Rosey B. Loving in the Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940 Name: Rosey B. Loving Gender: Female Marriage Date: 15 Nov 1800 Marriage Place: Amherst County, Virginia Father: Geo. Loving Spouse: Abraham Sea Or Seay FHL Film Number: 30273 Reference ID: 146
  4. Source: #S84 Page: 11/3/95
  5. Source: #S85 Page: p. 78
  6. Source: #S13 Page: p. 48
  • Source: S128 Title: The Loving Family in America 1705-1981 Abbreviation: Loving Family Author: Read, Carl and Mary Publication: Harp & Thistle, Warner Robins, GA, 1981
  • Source: S13 Title: Marriage Bonds of Amherst County, 1763-1800 Abbreviation: Sweeny, Amherst Marriages Author: Sweeny, William Montgomery Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1980
  • Source: S84 Title: Stevens family, Recipient: Stewart, Mary, Author E-mail: 74441.2367 compuserve.com Abbreviation: McAlexander, Stevens Author: McAlexander, Tom
  • Source: S85 Title: Lynchburg, Virginia and Nelson County, Virginia Wills, Deeds and Marriages 1807-1831 Abbreviation: Lynchburg & Nelson Author: Davis, Bailey Fulton Publication: Southern Historical Press, Inc., Easley, SC, 1985
  • 2020-10-23 Robert Beheathand - Jamestown Descendants.jpg.

Acknowledgements

  • WikiTree profile Loving-111 created through the import of MOORMAN FAMILY.GED on May 31, 2011 by Mary Elizabeth Stewart.
  • Loving-388 was created by Ron V through the import of RonV.ged on Jan 2, 2014




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Looked for service records. Not seen on muster or pay rolls.

One entry George E Loving (next in list his father Captain John) in Alphabetical Register of Virginians in the Revolution https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48423/images/RegisterVARev-003702-485?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=338706

posted by Beryl Meehan
Note: "George M. Loving served in the Revolution and his name may be found in pension lists. Some writers have called him Captain, but it is unlikely that he earned that rank in the Revolutionary War, for he was only 14 when the war broke out."

Carl and May Read, The Loving Family in America, (Harp & Thistle, Ltd., Warner Robins, GA, 1981), page 10.

posted by Richard (Jordan) J
2020-10-23

I'm going to disconnect Mary (Loving) Parsley [Loving-792] as a child of George M [Loving-68] and Mildred Beheathland [Stevens-1201].

Mary (Loving) Parsley [Loving-792] is not one of the 10 children listed for George M [Loving-68] and Mildred Beheathland [Stevens-1201] in

Source: S128 Title: The Loving Family in America 1705-1981 Abbreviation: Loving Family Author: Read, Carl and Mary Publication: Harp & Thistle, Warner Robins, GA, 1981.

Best! Richard J

posted by Richard (Jordan) J

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