John C Lovitt (1812 - 1884)

Born 2 Apr 1812 in Knox County, Kentucky, United States

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Died 11 Dec 1884 at age 72 in Whitley County, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

John Lovitt was born in Appalachia, in Kentucky.

John Lovitt was the son of Celia (Lovitt) Caddell who had relationships with two men before her marriage to Daniel Caddell.^[1] Y-DNA testing indicates John's father was a Bachman/Baughman.^[2]. See John Baughman (1790-1856) for a potential father. John's brother Canada Lovitt was fathered by a Shipley. John and his brother were raised in the household of their grandfather Edward Lovitt and kept the last name Lovitt.

See the profile of John's mother for information about substantial erroneous family lore.

Three children, other than their own, were raised by John and Sarah Lovitt; namely, Grandson Oliver (enumerated as Alver) in the 1850 Census is listed as Granderson Lovett in the 1870 Census. Nancy C. (Catherine) in 1860 Census is said to have been an orphan whose maiden name was Thomas, and granddaughter Sarah Chambers, age 7 in 1870 Census.

John Lovitt is buried at Briar Creek Cemetery, Whitley County, Kentucky, at Briar Creek Baptist Church. The name on the tombstone is spelled Lovett.

Sources

1. ↑ Canada Lovett is absolutely not Edward Lovit's Son (9 step differences according to DNA testing).
2. ↑ Family Tree DNA kit 720284

• DEED RECORDS OF JOHN LOVITT:

Whitley County, State of Kentucky. Deed Book 1, Page No. 478. Dated April 17, 1834. Wilson Oliver and Ann Oliver, his wife received the sum of one hundred dollars paid by John Lovet. Sold and conveyed unto John Lovet a certain tract of land containing Fifty Acres lying on Snyders Fork of Wolf Creek. Bounded on a corners of James Caswills.....to the Beginning.

Whitley County, State of Kentucky. Deed Book 2, Page No. 206. Dated July 25, 1840. John and Sally Lovett conveyed land to Robert Smith.

A WARRANT from the Whitley County Court, State of Kentucky unto John Lovett a certain tract of land containing one hundred acres by survey, bearing date the 3rd day of March 1851. Lying and being in the County of Whitley on North fork of Wolf Creek bounded Beginning at a double beech a corner of Sampson Davenports 50 Acres survey thence to a hickory on the top of the mountain thence down the Spur of the mountain to the Beginning. (Platting out land of James Archer, Izra Davenport & Ransom Standford.) (Registered 22nd April 1852)

Whitley County Court Order Book, Book No. 2, April 2, 1846. John Lovett app'd surveyor of state road from Cane Creek.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M655-C6Y : 22 December 2020), John Lorentz, Whitley, Kentucky, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZBK-C51 : 18 February 2021), John Lovett, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX4H-BRP : 29 May 2021), John Lovitt, 1870.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC83-WX4 : 14 January 2022), John Lovitt, Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district ED 114, sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Brenda Goins for creating WikiTree profile Lovitt-65 through the import of Martin-Goins.ged on Sep 3, 2013. User ID: B72461CC57444B559B20BEA5EEEB5D42D9FB. Prior to import, this record was last changed 21 JUL 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Brenda and others.