Love (Allen) Ripley (1786 - 1820)

Born 8 Jul 1786 in Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Eleazer Wheelock Ripley — married 30 Jul 1811 in Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

Died 11 Sep 1820 at age 34 in Bay Saint Louis, Hancock, Mississippi, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Love was born about 1786.^[1] She married Eleazar Wheelock Ripley in 1811.^[2][3] She died in 1820 of "the prevaling fever" in Shieldsborough (now Bay Saint Louis), Mississippi.^[4]

"She died of yellow fever at Pensacola, September 11, 1820, her husband being then stationed at that place. She left a son and daughter; the son, Henry, volunteered to fight for the independence of Texas, but being taken prisoner, was massacred with Fanning's command, after capture by order of Gen. Santa Anna, and the daughter, who married Col. Lanson of Louisiana, was a childless widow, during the war of the Rebellion going about doing good among the sick and wounded in Louisiana."^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC3D-RVC : 4 December 2014), Love , ; citing , 59; FHL microfilm 234,543. Christening: 6 Aug 1786, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
2. ↑ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-97H9 : 13 July 2016), Eleasar Wheelock Ripley and Love Allen, 30 Jul 1811; citing Marriage, Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 234,543.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-97H9 : 13 July 2016), Eleasar Wheelock Ripley and Love Allen, 30 Jul 1811; citing Marriage, Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 234,543. [Intention to marry: Love Allen, d/o deceased Rev Thomas Allen and Eleasar Wheelock Ripley, Esq of Portland.]
4. ↑ Mortuary Notice Date: Wednesday, October 25, 1820 Paper: Sun (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) Volume: XXI Issue: 1049 Page: 3 [Text: "Died near New Orleans, on the 11th Sep of the prevailing fever, Mrs. Love Allen Ripley, the amiable consort of Gen. Ripley, late of the U.S. Army, and youngest daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Allen, of this town, aged 34."]
5. ↑ Collections of the Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society (1894), pg. 61

See also:

• Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge. [ The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strongof Northampton, Mass, Volume 2]. (Massachusetts: 1871), p. 967, 972.
• Collections of the Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society (1894), pg. 61