Elizabeth (Barnard) Love (1802 - 1869)

Born 25 Aug 1802 in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Died 21 Apr 1869 at age 66 in Webster, Missouri, United States

Biography

Elizabeth Barnard was born in 1802 in Buncombe County, North Carolina while Luke Barnard was a resident of that county. She married Thomas Bell Love (1798-1852) whose mother was Martha Dillard (1774-1834 a daughter of Thomas Dillard, Jr. and Martha Webb Dillard) and General Thomas Love. Martha Dillard Love resided in Haywood County, North Carolina.

The older four children in the Thomas B. Love family appear to have been born in Haywood County, North Carolina in a part that would later become Macon County. The Thomas B. Love family left Haywood (Macon) County and settled in McMinn County, Tennessee circa 1830. That is located not far from the North Carolina state line at the Cherokee County, North Carolina line. In 1835 this family relocated to Henry County, Tennessee near Paris that is northwest of present Nashville, Tennessee.

In a letter dated August 1, 1841 to her sister, Peggy Young, Elizabeth Barnard Love advises that she had three daughters, Dorcas, Dicia and Letitia and that her daughter, Polly, had died three years earlier. This letter also states that at this time Thomas Bell Love visited in Missouri with William Dillard, the believed brother of James Dillard who married Sarah Barnard. This letter also states their intentions to leave Tennessee and move to the Ozark Mountains area of Missouri with a postal address of Green County, Springfield, Missouri. About 1842 the Thomas B. Love family homesteaded in a part of Greene and Wright Counties, Missouri that became Webster County on a 600 acre property known as “Love’s Ridge” located near Seymour, Missouri.

The Love farm was one of the largest and most successful in the area, contained considerable livestock and was tended by some twenty five slaves. A 1848 letter from Elizabeth Love to her sister mentions of the production of corn, wheat and oats on this farm. The farm was operated by Elizabeth Barnard Love following the death of her husband in 1852 until her death about 1869. Thomas Bell Love and Elizabeth Barnard Love with four of their children are buried on this farm in a cemetery near the former log and weather board residence in which they resided.

The 1848 will of Thomas Bell Love makes devises to the following children: Thomas C. Love, Margaret Love, Joseph B. Love, Dorcus G. Love , Dicy (Diannah) G. Love, Letitia Love, and Ellen Love. The will mentions Martha Love as then deceased. A son, Robert Love, not named in the will, died while serving in the Mexican War in 1847.

Sources

• "The Elusive Luke Barnard" id.

• "United States Census, 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZR-Y7M : Sat Mar 09 13:01:55 UTC 2024), Entry for Thomas B Love and Elizabeth Love, 1850.
• "United States Census, 1860", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHZ2-KDH : Sun Mar 10 19:08:35 UTC 2024), Entry for Elizabeth Love and Joseph B Love, 1860.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11939451/elizabeth-love: accessed March 18, 2024), memorial page for Elizabeth Barnard Love (25 Aug 1802–21 Apr 1869), Find a Grave Memorial ID 11939451, citing Love Cemetery, Seymour, Webster County, Missouri, USA; Maintained by Audrae Turner Myers (contributor 46573432).