SECOND GENERATION:

The children of James Albert “Jim” Lovelace and his first wife Sarah J. Nicholson:

Henry Henson Loveless: (JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4,

THOMAS3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). As mentioned above, he was named after his father James‟

stepfather Henry Henson. He was born on 28 May, 1836, in Rabun County, Georgia, and

died on 4 April, 1902—probably in Gordon County, Georgia. He married the former

Josephine Cobb in Pickens County, Georgia, on 24 September, 1857. She was born on 2

September, 1838* [place unknown], and died on 6 September, 1909—also probably in

Gordon County, Georgia. Henry Henson Loveless lies buried in the Salem Baptist

Church Cemetery in Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia—the same cemetery where his

younger sister Annie Adeline “Amy” Lovelace Miles lies buried [q.v.].

Gravestone of Henry

Henson Loveless, at Salem

Baptist Church cemetery,

Calhoun, Georgia.

Lillian Henderson's Military Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865,

in Volume 2, page 1041, has the muster list of Company E, 23rd Regiment Georgia

Volunteer Infantry, Army of Tennessee, C.S.A. From Pickens County, Georgia, this unit

was also known as the "Tate Guards". “H.H. Loveless” was a 4th Corporal of this unit,

having enlisted on 31 August, 1861. This record also lists his birth date. Pension records

(according to Lillian Henderson) show he surrendered with his unit at Greensboro, North

Carolina, on April 26th, 1865.

* Her tombstone, however, says she was born on 12 September, 1839, and that she died

on 16 September, 1909 (see photo, next page).

This 23rd

Infantry Regiment, of which Henry Henson Loveless, his father James and

brother Evan were members, was organized at Big Shanty [now Kennesaw], Georgia, in

September, 1861, and contained men from Bartow, Henderson, Floyd, Pickens, and

Cherokee counties. It moved first to Tennessee, then was sent to Virginia and assigned to

the Department of the Peninsula. In April, 1862, it totalled 370 effectives, and during the

war served under Generals Rains and Colquitt. The 23rd

participated in the campaigns of

the Army of Northern Virginia from Williamsburg to Chancellorsville, where more than

275 men were captured. It was then ordered to Charleston, South Carolina, and later to

Florida. After fighting at Olustee, the unit returned to Virginia, took part in the conflicts

at Drewry‟s Bluff and Cold Harbor, and endured the battles and hardships of the

Petersburg siege. It lost 4 killed and 56 wounded at Gaines‟ Mill and Malvern Hill, had

14 killed and 64 wounded in the Maryland Campaign, and 2 killed, 66 wounded, and 2

missing at Olustee. During 1865 it was active in North Carolina and surrendered, on 26

April, 1865, at Durham Station, with the Army of Tennessee. The field officers of the

23rd

were Colonels Marcus R. Ballenger, W.P. Barclay, Emory F. Best, James H.

Huggins, and Thomas Hutcherson, Lieutenant Colonel John J.A. Sharp, and Major

William J. Boston. [Excerpted from the book, Confederate Georgia Troops.]

Gravestone of Josephine Cobb, wife

of H.H. Loveless, Salem Baptist

Church cemetery, Calhoun, Georgia

(and below).

Loveless plot, Salem Baptist Church

cemetery, Calhoun, Georgia (front

and rear views).

Base of monument of Josephine

Cobb Loveless, wife of H.H.

Loveless. Salem Baptist Church

cemetery, Calhoun, Georgia.

Henry Henson Loveless and his wife Josephine had two sons (only one of which survived

to adulthood, however). (See later)

Index card, at the beginning of the microfilmed service records of Henry Henson

“H.H.” Loveless.

Orders to Corporal H.H. Loveless, dated 26 March, 1863.

Muster Roll cards for Corporal H.H. Loveless.

Note: There was also a “Samuel Loveless” who served in this same unit alongside James

and his sons Henry and Evan, and alongside their cousin Alfred W. This Samuel

Loveless has not yet been identified with any degree of certainty. He may or may not

have been the son of James by that name (born ca.1845). The likelihood is that he was yet

another son of James, but at present we simply have no way to prove this.

Mary Lovelace. (JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3,WILLIAM

2,

UNKNOWN1). She was born ca.1838, probably in Rabun County, Georgia (though one

source says “South Carolina”). According to her descendant "Kath" Rumans, she moved

to Texas in 1882 with her five children and her second husband David Jared Roe. Also

according to “Kath” Rumans, Mary spelled her maiden surname as “Lovelace.” Mary

died at the home of her youngest daughter Jennie Roe Lindenblatt about 1909.

Her first husband had been a man named Thomas Rhodes, whom she very likely married

ca.1856—probably in Pickens County, Georgia. It is probable (says Kath) that he "died

during the Civil War". Thomas Rhodes was born in 1835 in Georgia, and was a son of

Josephus Rhodes and his wife Hannah Roe. This Josephus Rhodes had been born in

South Carolina in 1802 (his parents were born in Virginia), and was alive in Savannah

District, Dawson County, Georgia in 1880. Thomas Rhodes‟ mother Hannah Roe was a

sister to Mary‟s second husband David J. Roe.

On 29 November, 1868, Mary Lovelace Rhodes married her second husband, a widower

named David Jared (or Jarrard) Roe, in Dawson County, Georgia. She and David were

in the 1870 census of Dawson County, Savannah District, as follows: Roe, David, age 52,

farmer; wife Mary, 31, keeping house; Harold Rhodes, 14; Milton Rhodes, 13; James

Rhodes, 9; Sarah Rhodes, 9 months.

Also listed were some of Mary's younger siblings (since their father had died three years

previously): Malinda Loveless [sic], 28; James Loveless [sic], 18; and Amy [sic], 13

[probably the same person who is listed as "Annie" in the 1880 census with her sister

Martha and brother-in-law Thomas Alexander in Cobb County]. All of the above persons

were listed as having been born in Georgia.

In a message dated 13 October, 2002, Kath Rumans wrote: “David Jarrard [Roe] and

Mary went to Mineral Wells Texas in 1882. Their oldest son David Anselem [sic] Roe

married Viola Weakley Cross in Dallas and they had a store in West Dallas. They had ten

children of which my grandmother was the oldest."

David Jared Roe was born 6 September 1818 in Pendleton District, South Carolina, and

died in 1890 in Texas. He was a son of Anselem [sic] Roe (born 1772) and his wife

Mary “Polly” Watson (born 1780). David Jared Roe was also a brother of Anselem [sic]

Coleman Roe, who married in Lumpkin County, Georgia, in 1845, to Ara Ann Talley,

who was born in South Carolina in 1826 as the daughter of Horatio Talley and his wife

Mary Loveless (previously mentioned, above), who is now believed to have been the

eldest sister of our ancestor James Albert “Jim” Lovelace “the Orphan”. As mentioned

above, Mary (Loveless) Tally [sic] and “Jim” Loveless [sic] were neighbors in 1860 in

Pickens County, Georgia.

Rev. Evan Jackson “E.J.” Loveless. (JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5,

JOHN4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 11 October, 1840, in Rabun County,

Georgia, and died on 15 April, 1920, in Arbacoochee District, Cleburne County,

Alabama. He was named, undoubtedly, after his mother's brother and uncle, both of

whom were named "Evan Nicholson."

Rev. Evan Jackson Loveless

(1840-1920), photographed

circa 1918 (?)

Evan Jackson Loveless, like his father and brothers Henry (and Samuel?) Loveless,

served in Company E, 23rd Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry (the “Tate Guards”

from Pickens County) during the Civil War. Evan Loveless' rank was "private". He first

enlisted, along with his older brother Henry H., on 31 August, 1861. The last on-file roll

call for his unit, of 30 April, 1864, shows him present. Many years later, he would be

listed as a pensioner in the 7 February, 1918 issue of "The Cleburne News" (Alabama).

He is reported to have received eight dollars per month from his pension (it would have

stretched a little more back then). His descendant Crandall Kennedy has told me that

during the war, Evan was wounded at least once, and was either captured or imprisoned

at one point, and came down with Dysentery. This tradition was evidently correctly

transmitted, as the following information suggests:

Chancellorsville found the Twenty-third guarding a wagon train, which

was attacked by elements of Daniel Sickle’s Union corps on May 3rd

(2nd

?)

1863. The wagons were saved, but nearly 200 men [almost half the entire

regiment] were captured. The men were paroled at Ft. Delaware,

Delaware that same month, and exchanged at City Point, Virginia, May

23, 1863.

(From the site http://extlab1.entnem.ufl.edu/olustee/23rd_GA_inf.html )

(Note: this site must be accessed through the proxy server site:

http://www.researchonline.net/gacw/unit69.htm )

Index card

for Evan

Loveless.

Muster Roll cards for Evan Loveless.

Additional Muster Roll cards for Evan Loveless.

Additional Muster Roll cards for Evan Loveless.

Muster Roll cards for Evan Loveless, dated May 12th

through 21st, 1864,

showing that he did indeed contract “Dysenteria”.

Additional service records for Evan Loveless.

Earlier Muster Roll records for Evan Loveless (from 1861).

Muster Roll records from 1862 for Evan Loveless.

Muster Roll records from 1863 for Evan Loveless.

Although there are a few more available service records regarding Evan Loveless (some

of which misspell his name as “Ivan”), I have not included them here, for reasons of

space.

Evan Jackson Loveless married the former Louise Shuford Runyan in Pickens County,

Georgia, on 19 October, 1865, and was in the 1870 census of Cobb County, Georgia,

where his occupation was listed as "railroad hand".

Rev. Evan Jackson Loveless and his wife Louise, ca. 1918 (?)

According to his descendant Mrs. Louise Rooks Young, Evan met his future wife in

Lithia Springs, Georgia, where he had been sent for treatment of his wounds from

fighting in the war. His future wife Louise Runyan was the daughter of the doctor then

treating his wounds (Furman Runyan).

After marrying in Pickens County, and living for a few years in Cobb County (where his

father had died), Evan and his wife moved to Dawson County, Georgia (prior to 1874)—

probably because several of his siblings were already living there (his late father‟s

presumed sister Mahala was also living there). Finally, Evan moved his family to the

Arbacoochee District of Cleburne County, Alabama (prior to 1880), where the family of

Levi Thomas Loveless [1846-1875] already resided. This Levi Thomas Loveless‟

descendants would later claim a “cousin” relationship with Evan‟s descendants, causing

much head-scratching among Lovelace/Loveless researchers in recent years. Evan

Loveless moved to Cleburne County to take part in the so-called “Arbacoochee gold

rush” then taking place there. Evidently not finding much in the way of gold, however,

Evan Loveless soon became an old-fashioned circuit-riding "country preacher" at the

quaintly-named "Hurricane United Methodist Church" (which he himself founded). That

name supposedly derived from a freak „hurricane‟ (probably by that point only a tropical

storm) which swept over the area sometime in the late Nineteenth Century.

Hurricane Methodist Church as it looked in the Nineteenth Century,

when the Rev. Evan Jackson Loveless preached his sermons there.

This is a photograph of it probably taken in the early decades of the Twentieth

Century. It did not seem to have changed much over the years since it was first built.

(below) Hurricane Church today, with its modern buildings and cemetery.

There is a very funny story involving the Rev. Evan Loveless and his son Jim:

At one time Jim had been elected as either an offical, or de facto Sheriff—either outright,

or by virtue of his status as Justice of the Peace (which office he is known to have held).

According to the story, Jim (the son) would lock up the local drunks in the town‟s jail cell

on Saturday nights, and the following Sunday mornings, waking up in a jail cell

(probably with terrible hangovers), they would have their Sunday “sermon” preached to

them by Jim‟s father, the Rev. Evan Loveless (evidently happy to oblige)! I presume the

topic of most of those sermons was probably the evils of intemperance!

When his son Jim was a much younger man (before he had married), the good Reverend

Evan Loveless would take Jim with him on several of his horseback “circuit rides” to

neighboring churches. Jim Loveless (the son) is said to have enjoyed those peaceful

country horseback rides with his father. By all indications, Jim Loveless enjoyed a

particularly close relationship with his father Evan—a relationship apparently not shared

by his brothers to that extent.

Evan Loveless and many of his family members are now buried in that tranquil, rural,

country cemetery at Hurricane Methodist Church. Evan‟s tombstone in the cemetery

there states simply that: “He died as he lived—a Christian.”

Tombstone of the Rev. Evan

Jackson Loveless, in the

cemetery at Hurricane United

Methodist Church, Cleburne

County, Alabama.

His wife Louise Shuford Runyan was born on 4 December 1849, in Rutherford County,

North Carolina, and died in the Arbacoochee District of Cleburne County, on 12 January,

1928. She was a daughter of Furman Runyan and his wife Mary Rippey—both from old

Rutherford County familes who followed the Lovelaces and others into Georgia and

Alabama.

Some members of the family of Rev. Evan Jackson Loveless (ca.1918?)

(Son Jim is on the far right; the identities of the others, alas, were not recorded.)

Following is the obituary of Louise Runyan Loveless:

Burial services for Mrs. Louise Loveless, 78, who died at the home of her

daughter Mrs. Hamp Reynolds, in Anniston last Thursday night, were held

at Hurricane church on Saturday. Mrs. Loveless had been sick about three

months. She lived in the Arbacoochee section of this county for more than

30 years and was the widow of the late E. J. Loveless, a Methodist

Minister. Her husband died in April 1920. "Grandma" as she was lovingly

called by many, had been a church member 68 years and led a true

Christian life. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. W.H. Reynolds of

Anniston, Alabama, Mrs. Sallie Gravely of New York, Mrs. Lena

Stephenson of Atlanta, Georgia, Mrs. Virginia Bolden of Atlanta, Georgia,

[and] Mrs. Lizzie Stanford of Hightower, Alabama. And one brother

survives, John Runyan of Birmingham. Funeral services were held on

Saturday from the Reynolds residence in Anniston, Rev. C. R. Carpenter

officiating.

The children and descendants of Evan Jackson Loveless will be shown later.

(above and right)

graves of Rev.

Evan J. Loveless

and his wife

Louise Shuford

Runyan.

Malinda Lovelace. (JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2,

UNKNOWN1). She was born ca.1842, probably in Rabun County, Georgia. She was in the

household of her father in the 1850 and 1860 censuses, and was residing with her sister

Mary Lovelace Roe in Dawson County, Georgia in 1870 (age 27). Thereafter untraced.

Perhaps she followed her sister Mary‟s family to Texas in 1882.

Samuel L. Lovelace. (JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2,

UNKNOWN1). He was born ca.1845, probably in Rabun County, Georgia. He was in his

father's household in 1850 and 1860. Lillian Henderson‟s aforementioned Military Roster

of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, Volume 2, page 1045, briefly

mentions a Samuel Loveless who may be him: enlisted as a Private in the same unit as his

(presumed) brothers on 20 January, 1863 (two years later than his brothers, however),

and was present for the last recorded roll call of his unit on 30 April, 1864. No further

record of him has yet turned up. He is said to have died in the Civil War; thus he cannot

possibly be the Samuel who was a 16-year-old in the widowed Sarah's household in 1870

Cobb County (That Samuel was her son by her first marriage, Samuel Magbee). (This

particular service record needs to be located.)

Index card for the service records of Samuel Loveless.

Jane Nett “Genetta” Lovelace. (JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3,

WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 30 March, 1846, in Pickens County, South

Carolina, and died on 14 June, 1935, in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia—probably at

902 Berne Street SE, where several of her children were living in 1937 (two years after

her death). She was actually eighty-nine years old when she died, the longest-lived of all

her siblings.

(The IGI lists her as “Jeanette N. Loveless,” and says [mistakenly] that she was born in

1858. The IGI also mistakenly identifies her parents as “James Loveless” and “Sallie

Dixon”. In every other respect, though, this information in the IGI is substantially

correct.)

The 1850 census entry for her father James clearly states that “Jeanetta” [sic] was four

years old that year—thus born in 1846—not 1851, or 1858, as was otherwise sometimes

claimed. In my opinion, this record is probably the most reliable. As a four-year-old, she

would not yet have learned to fib about her age, and her parents would have had no

reason to do so regarding a four-year-old.

Genetta married, circa 1872—probably in Cobb County, Georgia, a man named William

Asbury "Rab" Keheley, from an old Cobb County family. He was born 24 June, 1853,

and his parents were William and Catherine Keheley. Following is his obituary in The

Atlanta Constitution, dated 28 May, 1908:

W.A. KEHELEY

W.A. Kehely, aged 55 years, died at his residence, 8 Home Street,

yesterday morning at 1 o'clock. The funeral services were conducted

yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the chapel of Harry G. Poole. The

internment took place at Fair Oak, Ga.

From the above, we can see that William Asbury Keheley died at 1 am on 27 May, 1908,

at his residence at 8 Home Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. From the haste with

which he was memorialized and buried, I think a death due to a highly contagious disease

is likely. It would be worth the effort to look up his death certificate. Since he died in

Atlanta, and since death certificates began to be kept there from at least 1900, one is

almost certainly on file for him.

The 1880 census of Cobb County listed the following children for Genetta and William

Keheley: Beatrice (born ca.1873), Amy (born ca.1875), and Walter (born ca.1877).

"Jeanette" and her husband William Keheley were alive in 1900 in Fulton County,

Georgia (from the US census). Here she claimed she was born in 1851.

In almost all the census records I have found, and according to Jeanette Peebles [and the

IGI], Genetta Lovelace was born in South Carolina, and this is believable, as it was in

that year, 1846 (on 27 March--only three days before her birth) that her father James

Lovelace had acquired land there from his stepfather Henry Henson (see above).

During a telephone conversation of 14 September, 1986, Jeanette Peebles also informed

me that during the Civil War, James Lovelace and his family "refugeed" (Mrs. Peebles

pronounced the word as "REF-a-geed") to avoid the conflict. Mrs. Peebles said that they

went back to South Carolina for a time.

She also said that her grandmother Genetta Lovelace Keheley "was the best [or finest]

lady" she had ever known, and that she'd had her own personal slave as a small girl--a

slave named "Cindy".

This statement also has the ring of truth to it--recall that James and Sarah Lovelace had

inherited from her father in 1840 a female slave named "Synthia" (as it was spelled in the

original document). So it would appear likely that Mrs. Peebles statements were based in

fact.

During that same telephone conversation, I was assured by Jeanette Peebles that “Jane

Nett Lovelace” was the exact, proper spelling of her grandmother‟s maiden name.

Beverly Magbee Gillis, granddaughter of Genetta Lovelace Keheley‟s youngest sister,

Lillie, informed me recently (1 September, 2006) that as a child, she several times visited

a relative living in Atlanta named “Nett”. Also present on those occasions was another

relative named “Kate”. She (Beverly) was puzzled as to who these two women might

have been. Thankfully, I was able to identify them for her as the above Jane Nett

“Genetta” Lovelace Keheley and her daughter Kate Keheley. Mrs. Gillis remembered

that every time she visited and saw her relative “Nett”, she (Nett) was always very old

and bed-ridden. Since Mrs. Gillis was born ca. 1927, she must have been close to ten

years old to be able to remember visits such as this; therefore, these visits must have

occurred when Jane Nett Lovelace Keheley was very close to death in 1935.

Martha “Mattie” Lovelace Alexander

(1848-1886)

The infant is probably her last surviving child, Stella Martha Alexander (born 1883), since this photo ended

up in the possession of Stella and her heirs. The degree to which Mattie’s granddaughter Martha Kelly (my

own grandmother) resembled her is simply astonishing. (Photo courtesy of Penny Burgess.)

Martha "Mattie" Lovelace. (JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3,

WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 24 June, 1848, probably also in Pickens County,

South Carolina, and died on 5 January 1886, at her home near Marietta, Cobb County,

Georgia, only two months after giving birth to an unnamed son who had died as an infant

the same day he was born (25 October, 1885). Martha died, it has been said, of

Puerperal, or "childbed” fever--i.e, an infection contracted during childbirth. Wikipedia

[q.v.] says that “in past centuries, puerperal fever was the greatest killer of women”, and

that “one sixth of [all] women died of this fever”.

Martha Lovelace was the first wife of Thomas

Tucker "T.T." Alexander. They were married

in Cobb County on 6 February, 1868. He was

born on 7 July,1850, in Clarke County, Georgia,

the youngest son of Smith Alexander and his

wife Nancy Ann Stephens. T.T. Alexander died

on 2 January, 1929, in Marietta, Cobb County,

Georgia, an elderly and somewhat senile man

who liked to go out roaming for walks, and

would sometimes lose his way. Sadly, this

contributed to his death, from being struck by an

automobile—strangely enough, just as would

happen to his youngest son Thomas Durward

Alexander some fifty-four years later in 1983.

Martha “Mattie” Lovelace,

first wife of Thomas T. Alexander,

photographed circa Dec. 1876.

T.T. and “Mattie” Alexander‟s first child, "Willie" (later to go by the name "Bill") was

born in Tennessee, "as reflected by the census ”

“As the family legend goes, on their return trip to Cobb County, while crossing the

Etowah River, they lost everything; [because] the river was at flood [tide].” (per Jack

Alexander)

According to her daughter Lillie May (my great-grandmother), “Mattie” spelled her

maiden surname as "Lovelace"--and I find this very intriguing, as most of her other

immediate relatives seem to have spelled it "Loveless".

“In 1880 they lived in Coxes District 895, which is Milford Church Road and South. He

[Thomas] later purchased a large farm on Austell Road where he built a large house for

his family.” (ibid.)

(left) A rare original

photograph of the

Thomas Tucker

Alexander family

around Christmas,

1876. (Approximately

actual size.) This

date has been arrived

at by estimating the

ages of the children

in this photo, in

comparison with

their known birth

dates. Since this

photo ended up with

the descendants of

Thomas’ brother

David, it was

probably sent with

the Christmas

greetings that year.

Thank God that it

was, and that it was

saved, because it is

the only known photo

of several of the

children. The

children are (l-r),

George, India, Omer,

and William.

(Courtesy of Misty

Darty.)

(Following page: a close-up of the above photograph.)

Close-up of the previous photograph of the Thomas Tucker Alexander family, probably

around Christmastime, 1876. The children were (l-r), baby George T. (who would be

dead within two years of this photo), India Isabel, Omer Rocellous, and William James.

This is the only known photograph of George, Omer, and their mother Martha. George

appears to have been about five months old in this photograph, and since he is known

to have been born in July, 1876, a date for this photograph of circa December, 1876,

makes great sense. This photo has been edited to make the features more easily visible,

since the original has begun to fade with age. It was a beautiful family, a family to be

proud of, and it was all the more tragic that both baby George and mother Martha

would both be dead within ten years. In passing, it is worthwhile to point out that

Martha bears a very strong resemblance to her grandniece Nettie Lou Loveless Glass

[q.v.] (Courtesy of Misty Darty, who is in possession of the original.)

I have another rare original photograph (ca. 1900) of the Alexander family standing in

front of this later farm house on Austell Road (see below).

The Thomas Tucker “T.T.” Alexander family, circa 1900, standing in front of the family

home, which once stood on Austell Road, Cobb County, Georgia (but which has since

disappeared). T.T. Alexander appears with his second wife, Athaliah Hooper Alexander

(1860-1929), and older children (from left) Lillie May (born 1881), Greer Montgomery

(born 1878), and—on the far right—Stella Martha (born 1883). The younger children—

all girls—have not yet (alas) been identified. Note the two lazy dogs sleeping on the

front porch, and the old-fashioned breezeway (or hallway) which extended the entire

length of the house, to help keep it cool in the hot summer days before air conditioning.

The only part of this Austell Road farm that now remains (2006) is a new subdivision

along Barrett Parkway, named “Alexander Farms”. It was evidently developed out of

land that Thomas Tucker Alexander‟s younger daughters held until their respective

deaths in the late 1980s. The street that connects it with Barrett Parkway is named

“Alexander Farms Drive”. Sic transit gloria mundi. …

Martha Lovelace Alexander (however the name may have been spelled) lies buried

beside her husband and his second wife, Athaliah Hooper, and near many other

Alexander relatives, in the old Milford Baptist Church Cemetery, near Marietta, Cobb

County, Georgia.

Thomas Tucker “T.T.” Alexander (1850-1929), with his second wife Athaliah Hooper

Alexander, and his middle children, circa 1889. The children are (from left): Lillie May,

Greer Montgomery, and Stella Martha (in her father’s lap). The baby is probably Katie,

who was born in 1889. Thomas Alexander’s first wife (and the mother of the older

children) had been Martha “Mattie” Lovelace (1848-1886).

This is a photo of

a poem written in

1922 by Lillie May

Alexander, about

her father,

Thomas Tucker

Alexander.

Close-up of above photo of Thomas Tucker “T.T.” Alexander (1850-1929), whose first

wife had been Martha “Mattie” Lovelace (1848-1886).

Thomas Tucker Alexander (along with his first wife Martha, and later, his second wife

Athalia) was an early member of Milford Baptist Church, and with his eldest brother

John Harris Alexander and four other men, was charged in 1884 with building a „new‟

sanctuary for the church. By this, we can see that he and his brother must have had

considerable carpentry skills, which skills Thomas would later pass on to at least two of

his sons (Bill and Greer), and at least one grandson (Jack G. Kelly).

Around 1905 to 1910, and despite his evident previous good standing in his church,

Thomas unfortunately managed to get himself “excluded” from Milford Church, by

getting into a fist-fight with one of his neighbors, a man named Johnson. This is

according to Thomas‟ grandson, Bobby Alexander. It seemed Mr. Johnson had at some

point accused Thomas of “coming over onto his property” by farming on part of it, so,

apparently to try to resolve the dispute, Thomas took his youngest son Durward (who was

then but a small boy), and paid a visit to Mr. Johnson‟s house. The disagreement, so far

from getting resolved, actually developed into a fist-fight. We don‟t know who the

aggressor was, who „started‟ the actual fighting, or who was more at fault than the other.

We do know, though, that one of Mr. Johnson‟s adult sons came up after he heard the

commotion, and joined in the fighting against Thomas, which resulted in an unfair

disadvantage against him. I was told that this infuriated Thomas; but there wasn‟t much

he could do about it except withdraw, give up, and go home, or risk getting soundly

thrashed. I was also told that his little boy Durward was very upset that he was too small

to help his Daddy out (when his Daddy needed help).

Also about this same time, according to Durward‟s son Harry (Bobby‟s brother), Thomas

Alexander and his elder brother John Harris Alexander were among the group of men (all

neighbors from the nearby area) who rebuilt the old Concord Covered Bridge (still

standing today, and a National Historic landmark). Harry said that his Dad Durward was

a small boy at the time (and evidently went just about everywhere his Papa went), so this

bridge rebuilding must have happened some time around the year 1910 or so. As

mentioned above, Thomas Alexander is known to have been a carpenter (as were two of

his sons) so his inclusion in a project such as this makes perfect sense. His older brother

John Harris Alexander was a carpenter as well. (They helped build the original Milford

Baptist Church building.)

We also know that Thomas had built both of the two houses in Cobb County he is known

to have lived in. He also built (next-door to his second and final home on Austell Road) a

separate house for his widowed mother Nancy to live in.

James Loveless. (JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2,

UNKNOWN1). He was born ca.1851, probably in Cherokee County, Georgia. He appeared as

a nine-year-old in his father‟s household in Pickens County in 1860.

This James was not the same person shown as an 18-year-old by that name in his step-

mother Sarah Magbee Loveless's household in the 1870 census of Cobb County (page

263); that James (indeed, her son) was in fact her son by her first marriage, James

Magbee. This James Loveless was listed as a 19-year-old in the household of his sister

Mary Lovelace Roe in the 1870 census of Dawson County. (See maps, above, of Dawson

County, etc.)

This James Loveless married to an India C. Mincey. I have not yet found the date of this

marriage. Given that their eldest child was born ca. 1875, they were probably married ca.

1874—and probably in Dawson County. India was born on 5 April, 1857, and died on 6

August, 1898. She lies buried (alone) in the Dawsonville Cemetery in Dawsonville,

Georgia. Her parents were probably John Mincey (5 August 1829—24 September 1912)

and his wife Julia Powell (19 February, 1836—12 January, 1916) who are buried in the

same place. India and James Loveless were the parents of at least four children (see

later).

James was alive with his wife and family in the Yellow Creek section of Dawson County,

Georgia, in 1880. Evidently he did not follow his sister Mary and her family went they

left for Texas in 1882, since his wife India died and was buried in Dawson County in

1898. What happened to James after that is still unknown. Neither the site

Rootsweb.com nor Ancestry.com seem to be aware of this James‟ existence, so evidently

none of his descendants (if indeed any are living) have tried to do much genealogical

research.

Sarah E(lizabeth?). Lovelace. (JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4,

THOMAS3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born ca.1855, probably in Pickens County,

Georgia, and was listed in her father's household in the 1860 census of Pickens County,

as a five-year-old. She has not thus far been located in any part of the 1870 census, so she

is presumed to have died prior to 1870.

According to Judy Stricker‟s information at rootsweb.com, this Sarah‟s middle name was

“Elizabeth”. I have not yet seen any documentation for this claim.

Amy Adline Loveless. (JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2,

UNKNOWN1). She was born on 1 February, 1857, probably in Pickens County, Georgia, and

died at the age of forty, on 14 July, 1897, in Gordon County, Georgia. She appeared as a

twenty-one-year-old ("Annie A. Lovelace") in the household of her sister Martha and

brother-in-law Thomas Tucker Alexander in the 1880 census of Cobb County, Georgia.

The spelling of her surname as "Lovelace" is how it was recorded in the census entry.

She married Isaac Bertha [sic] Miles in Cobb County on 13 January, 1884, in Marietta,

Cobb County, Georgia. (Bill Jones has this date as January 12th

.) Isaac was born in

Cobb County on 22 September, 1851 (Bill Jones says 1850), and died at age 81 in

Chattooga County, Georgia, on 27 March, 1933. He was a son of John Miles and his

wife Elmira Willingham.

As mentioned above, Amy Adline Loveless Miles lies buried near her eldest brother

Henry Henson Loveless in the Salem Baptist Church Cemetery in Calhoun, Gordon

County, Georgia, whereas her husband lies buried in the Bankhead Cemetery in Mentone,

Alabama. They were the parents of three children (see later).

Gravestone of “Amy”Loveless Miles,

Salem Baptist Church cemetery,

Calhoun, Georgia.

The three children of “Amy” Loveless Miles: (l-r), Madgenetta “Madge” Miles, Albert

U. Beular Miles, and Laura Pearl Miles, circa 1895. Albert, sadly, would die at a very

young age. (By the kind permission of Bill Jones, grandson of Laura Pearl Miles, and

his wife Agnes.)

Child of Capt. James Albert “Jim” Lovelace by his second wife, Sarah Jane Scott

Magbee:

Lillie Barton Lovelace. (JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2,

UNKNOWN1). She was born, apparently after her father‟s death, on 4 April, 1868, in Cobb

County, Georgia, and died on 10 December, 1943, in Atlanta, Fulton County,

Georgia. She was obviously named after her paternal uncle and great-grandfather.

(Evidently, her late father had hoped for another son.)

She was in her mother Sarah's household in 1870 as a 5-year-old. She was said by

Jeanette Peebles to have been a half-sister to her grandmother Jane Nett Lovelace

Keheley (this was correct).

Lillie Barton Lovelace married first, on 17 December, 1886, in Marietta, to James Albert

Stanback, who died early and is buried in a cemetery near the Square in Marietta,

Georgia. He was born on 6 August, 1864, and died on 31 July, 1889. They were the

parents of two children (see later). Lillie married second, circa 1892, a man named Paul

Henry Bradbury, who was born on 30 July 1867 in Fort Valley, Peach County, Georgia,

and who died on 19 May, 1922, in Fulton County, Georgia. They were the parents of

seven children (see later), the youngest of whom, Arthur Barton Bradbury, also carried on

the „Barton‟ name in this branch of Lovelace/less descendants. (He died as recently as

1982.)

From at least 1937 to her death in 1943 (according to the old Atlanta City Directories),

the widowed Lillie Lovelace Bradbury resided at 1155 Eggleston Street SW, Atlanta,

Georgia. This, I am told, was the home of her daughter Marie (and her husband Laban

Sidney Magbee, a relative), who would continue to reside at that same address until after

1957.

Lillie‟s surviving granddaughter Beverly Magbee Gillis informed me recently that Lillie

was “a sweet, wonderful person”, and that she was referred to as “Nannie” by her

grandchildren. Mrs. Gillis also said that as a child, during church services at her parents‟

Presbyterian church, she would sometimes ask and receive permission to walk the short

distance up the street to attend services with her grandmother Lillie at Lillie‟s Methodist

church. Mrs. Gillis said that this was always a treat for her—to sit in church next to her

grandmother Lillie, and to make a fuss over her—something which grandmother Lillie

always seemed to enjoy immensely (being made a fuss over by her granddaughter).

Several of Lillie‟s family members are buried at the Hollywood Cemetery, in Atlanta.

Perhaps Lillie lies there also.

__________________________________________________________________

THIRD GENERATION:

The grandchildren of James and Sarah Lovelace:

The children of Henry Henson Loveless and his wife Josephine Cobb:

Christopher Napoleon Loveless. (HENRY HENSON LOVELESS9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE8, SAMUEL7,

BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). He was born on 7 (or 9) July, 1858,

probably in Pickens County, Georgia. He probably died shortly after his birth, as there is

no record of his having survived into adulthood. Note: Christopher‟s middle name was

phonetically spelled “Nappolian” in the original Bible record kept by his parents. I do not

at present know who has custody of this very valuable Bible record. The only record of

its existence I possess is a second- or third-hand photocopy of one relevant page thereof

(see below), which was given to me recently by relatives in Cleburne County, Alabama,

who in turn, had (evidently) received it from Bill and Agnes Jones of Chattanooga,

Tennessee some years back. He (Bill) is a descendant of Annie Adeline Lovelace Miles,

younger sister of Henry Henson Loveless [q.v.].

James E. Loveless. (HENRY HENSON LOVELESS9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 28 February, 1860, in

Pickens County, Georgia. He married [NU] and was the father of two daughters (see

later). His surname was spelled “Lovelace” by at least one researcher. This James

Lovelace had died prior to the 1900 census (as also apparently his wife), since their two

daughters were then residing with their grandparents Henry H. and Josephine Cobb

Loveless.

Copy of the Bible page mentioning the sons of Henry Henson Loveless (per above).

(By the kind permission of Bill and Agnes Jones.)

The children of Mary Lovelace and her first husband Thomas Rhodes:

Harold Rhodes. (MARY LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3,

WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born ca.1856, probably in Dawson County, Georgia. He

married and was the father of at least one child (see later).

Milton Lewis Rhodes. (MARY LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4,

THOMAS3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born ca.1857, probably in Dawson County,

Georgia. Thereafter untraced.

George Lester Rhodes. (MARY LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4,

THOMAS3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in September, 1859, probably in Dawson

County, Georgia. Thereafter untraced.

Dr. James Beauregard “Gardy” Rhodes. (MARY LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 24 November, 1861, in

Dawson County, Georgia. He died in Dawson County, Georgia on 14 April, 1899, and

lies buried in the Old Savannah Cemetery in Dawson County. He married the former

Sarah Louisa “Lou” Harris on 13 December, 1888, in Black‟s Mill, Dawson County,

Georgia. She was born on 20 January, 1868, in Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia,

and died on 24 June, 1955, in Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia. She and Dr. James

Rhodes were the parents of two children (see later).

The following is quoted from a short family history of the Rhodes family entitled

“Descendants of Josephus Rhodes”, sent to me by Kath Rumans Cornelius. I assume it

was researched and written by her:

James Beauregard Rhodes, better known to the family as Gardy, lived with his

family in Barrettsville, Ga. in 1889. They moved to West Dallas, Texas in 1895.

This was the year that [his step-father] David Jarard [Roe] died and [the year]

that [his half-brother] David Anselem [Roe} married. James was a doctor and

must have come to help his family during this time. He was also there when

David A.'s first baby was born and probably helped with that. The baby was

named Rowena Lou, the Lou being after James wife Lou. They lived there for

almost 3 years and then returned to G[e]orgia in 1897.

I would like to be able to find out where Dr. James B. Rhodes went to medical school.

There are two good possibilities: one is the old Atlanta Medical College, which later

became a part of Emory University. Another good possibility is the Medical College of

Georgia, at Augusta. I think the Atlanta school is probably more likely. Obviously,

James was possessed of a good mind (and his selfless step-father David J. Roe of

considerable means), in order for him to become enrolled in a medical school. In

Nineteenth Century American „society‟, such a thing spoke well of any family‟s social

“position”. Dr. Rhodes had another cousin who also went to medical school, Dr. Omer

R. Alexander (born in 1872), son of Dr. Rhodes‟ aunt “Mattie” Lovelace Alexander, of

Cobb County, Georgia. The school Dr. Alexander went to was indeed the old Atlanta

Medical College.

The children of Mary Lovelace and her second husband David Jared Roe:

Sarah Melinda Roe. (MARY LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4,

THOMAS3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in December, 1869, probably in Dawson

County, Georgia. Another source says “October, 1869”. She is called "Rhodes" in the

1870 census, and was listed as being 9 months old. But her mother had married David

Roe on 29 November, 1868. So this was probably a mistake on the part of the census-

taker. Sarah died at an unknown date in Dallas County, Texas. She married a man

named Jesse B. Irwin around 1887. (Kath Rumans has his name spelled as “Jessie”.) He

was born in February, 1853, in White County, Tennessee, and died about 1908 in Dallas

County, Texas. He and Sarah were the parents of five children (see later)

David Anselem [sic] Roe. (MARY LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4,

THOMAS3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 28 January, 1872, in the Savannah District

of Dawson County, Georgia. (However, the 1880 census says he and both his parents

were born in South Carolina.) David Anselem Roe died in Dallas, Texas on 6 October,

1932. His cause of death was “coronary thrombosis”.

David Anselem Roe in

Dallas, Texas, as a

young man of twenty-

three, in 1895. This was

about the time of his

marriage to Viola W.

Cross. Note his strong

resemblance to his other

Loveless relatives!

(Photo courtesy of Kath

Rumans Cornelius.)

David Anselem Roe (right), son of Mary Lovelace Roe, about 1928 in Junction, Texas.

With him are his son David Arthur Roe (center), and son-in-law Luther Rountree.

Again, note his strong resemblance to his Loveless cousins!

David Anselem Roe married Viola Weakley Cross on 17 April, 1895 in Eagle Ford,

Dallas, Texas, and ran two stores—one on Vilbig and Eagle Ford Road in West Dallas,

and the other on Commerce and Beckley in Oak Cliff. He and his family lived behind the

store in West Dallas. Dr. Elton Archer (his grandson) once said that he could remember

his Granddad Roe saying that he had paid a salesman $100 to buy stock for his store

[evidently when he first opened it]. His wife Viola was born on 5 January, 1876 in

Burleson County, Texas, and was probably the same Viola Cross listed in the 1880

census as a daughter of Newton Cross. Viola died—also in Dallas, Texas--on 24 March,

1948. I have a copy of her death certificate, which says that her cause of death was

“coronary occlusion [blockage] and hypertension.” David and Viola Roe “had ten

children, of which my grandmother was the oldest." (per Kath Rumans). (See later.)

Photo of Viola Cross Roe (wife of David A. Roe) inside the store they owned,

on Eagle Ford Road, in West Dallas, Texas.

This picture was probably made in the 1930s.

Viola Cross Roe (wife of David A. Roe), with her sister-in-law Lillian Cross (wife of

Hezekiah Cross), sitting out side the store on Eagle Ford Road, in West Dallas.

The Roe family home was behind this store.

State of Texas death certificate for David Anselem Roe.

State of Texas death certificate for Viola Weakley Cross Roe.

Stella Ann Roe. (MARY LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3,

WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in 1875, in Savannah District, Dawson County,

Georgia. (Clendon Whatley‟s page at rootsweb.com says, along with Kath Rumans, that

she was born in June, 1873.) Stella died at about the age of thirty (or thirty-two) in

December, 1905. She had married to a man named Andrew Johnson “A.J.” Whatley in

1892, in Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, Texas. He was born on 1 August, 1874, in

Fayette County, Georgia, and died on 30 May, 1960 (considerably after his wife had

died), in Gilliland, Knox County, Texas. “A.J.” Whatley is buried in the Truscott

Cemetery, in Knox County, Texas. He and Stella were the parents of six children (see

later).

Jennie Roe. (MARY LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3,

WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in October, 1876, in Savannah District, Dawson

County, Georgia, and died about 1908 in Dallas, Texas. She married a man named Josef

“Joe” Lindenblatt about 1898 in Dallas County, Texas. Joe was born in Germany in

November, 1866. The immigration records say that Joe arrived in the U.S. in 1887;

however, he shows up in the 1880 Dallas County census with his father and brothers. He

and Jennie were the parents of four children (see later).

Josephus “Joe” Roe. (MARY LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4,

THOMAS3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in March 1879, in Savannah District, Dawson

County, Georgia. He married Jennie [LNU] in 1904 in Cement, Dallas County, Texas.

She was born 1883 in Texas. He and Jennie were the parents of three daughters (see

later). He apparently later married a second time to a woman named Mattie. Here is

what Kath Rumans has to say about him and his family:

In the 1900 census Joe was living with his older brother and sister in law in

West Dallas. In the 1910 census he is married with 3 children. Family tradition

says Jennie and the three girls died of TB. In 1920 Joe is in Bexar County,

Texas working [as] a locomotive engineer [and] listed as a boarder in the home

of Henry Murphy. In 1930 he is still in Bexar County married to a lady named

Mattie. According to the ones still living that would have known of Uncle Joe

they all thought he had died about the same time as the rest also of TB.

The children of the Rev. Evan Jackson Loveless and his wife Louise Shuford Runyan:

Samuel Fermuel “Sam” Loveless. (EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 15 October, 1868, in Cobb

County, Georgia. He married his cousin Beatrice Anna Vera “Bea” Keheley, the oldest

daughter of Jane Nett Lovelace and William Asbury "Rab" Keheley (see later), and lived

with his in-laws (the Keheleys) in Atlanta until at least 1900, after which time he moved

back to Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama, where, at some unknown date (no earlier than

1910, and before January, 1928), he was killed in a sawmill accident, according to both

Jeanette Peebles and relatives in Cleburne County. Samuel and Beatrice were back in

Cleburne County in time for the 1910 census there. Samuel and Beatrice Loveless were

the parents of three children (see later). Curiously, in the 1900 census record where

Samuel and Beatrice appear in the household of her parents, his surname was recorded as

“Lovelace”.

Anna L. "Annie" Loveless. (EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in 1869, in Cobb County,

Georgia. She married William H. "Hamp" Reynolds, who was born in 1871 in

Alabama. She was residing in Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama, in 1928 when her

mother died. She and her husband were the parents of four children (see later).

James Albert "Jim" Loveless. (EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 30 January 1872, in Cobb

County, Georgia, and died in the Arbacoochee District of Cleburne County, Alabama, on

19 April, 1927. He was evidently named for his grandfather. He married in Cleburne

County, on 10 November, 1902, the former Ellen C. Price, who was born on 15 June,

1875, and who died on 20 February, 1951. Jim and Ellen were the parents of four

children (see later). He was a Justice of the Peace, and a resident of the Arbacoochee

Community in Cleburne County, Alabama, where he was referred to as a "leader in the ...

community." Jim Loveless and his wife Ellen are buried in the Hurricane United

Methodist Church cemetery, in Cleburne County, Alabama.

James Albert “Jim” Loveless

(1872-1927) This photo was made

about 1918, when he would have

been about 46.

As mentioned above, when Jim was a teenager, he used to enjoy riding with his father on

his father‟s horseback “circuit rides” to preach at neighbouring Methodist churches.

The following information is furnished courtesy of Jim‟s granddaughter Louise Rooks

Young:

When Jim turned sixteen, he wanted to earn some money, but was too young to

work in the gold mine at the edge of town. Nearby was a cotton gin, so Jim went

there and was given a job, feeding cotton into a picker, which picked seed from

the cotton. Being young and inexperienced, Jim [one day] got his right hand

caught in the picker. By the time the people at the mill heard his screams of

pain, and got the machine turned off, Jim had lost his right hand and part of his

arm. He [had] fainted from the pain [and perhaps also from loss of blood].

When he [finally] awoke, he was at home, in his own bed, with his mother and

father by his side. It was at this point that Jim discovered his loss.

Jim and Ellen Loveless, with their two surviving children, about 1912.

When Jim recovered, he got a job at the General Store/Post Office (on

weekdays), ands [another] job on Sundays, as a guard at the Arbacoochee gold

mine, [then] owned by Clear Creek Mining Company.

During this time, Ellen Price’s father, who owned a large farm southeast of

Arbacoochee (and also a small gold mine), took his family to an open house at

the Clear Creek Mining Company. [Jim just happened to be working there that

day,] and it was here that Jim and Ellen met. From this meeting they started

courting, and were married on November 10th

, 1902.

My grateful thanks to Mrs. Louise Rooks Young for graciously supplying this

information about her grandparents (and for identifying the people in the photo below).

Ellen Price Loveless (left) presiding as matriarch over a gathering of Loveless family

members at a reunion in either September or October, 1941. Some of the other persons

present on that occasion include: Virginia Loveless Bolden (second from left), with her

husband Samuel Bolden standing next to her; Elizabeth “Bizz” Loveless Stanford

(seated at left of table); Louise Rooks Young, with her husband John Young (standing,

fifth and sixth respectively from the left); Charlie Rooks and his wife Izzie Loveless

Rooks (standing at the far right); Robert Bolden (son of Virginia and Samuel) and his

wife Elizabeth (standing, to the left of Charlie Rooks); Albert Loveless and his wife

Beulah Wall Loveless (standing in the center rear, partially blocked from view by some

of the girls behind the table). The two young girls standing directly behind the middle

of the table are (l-r): Imogene Loveless (daughter of Albert and Beulah), and Mildred

Rooks (daughter of Charlie and Izzie). The small boys have not been identified, nor

has the remaining adult woman toward the left of the table.

Ever Asbury Loveless. (EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5,

JOHN4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in July 1874, in Dawson County,

Georgia, and died before 1928. He married Arrilla Izora Gober in 1897 in Howell,

Marion County, Alabama. She was born in October 1878 in Dawsonville, Dawson

County, Georgia, a daughter of Hockenhull Gober and his wife Marcena Bearden. Arrilla

Izora (Gober) Loveless died on 31 May, 1953.

Curtis Payton Loveless. (EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5,

JOHN4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in 1876, in Dawson County, Georgia,

and died before 1928. Thereafter untraced. It is remotely possible that he may, in fact,

be identical to Cortez Pate Loveless (born 1880)—note the similarity of the names.

Frances "Lena" Loveless. (EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in 1879, and married first a

Mr. Simpson (date and place unknown). There was one son from that marriage (see

later). She married second a Jim Stephenson. She was residing in Atlanta, Georgia, in

1928 when her mother died. The old Atlanta City Directories, in the issues of 1937 to

1941, do indeed list a “Mrs. Frances Stephenson,” but without other identifying data, we

cannot be certain that this is one and the same person as the Frances who was daughter of

Evan Jackson Loveless. The Frances Stephenson in the Atlanta City Directories was a

bookkeeper and the widow of a Roy W. Stephenson, residing variously at 657 Boulevard

NE, 420 Boulevard NE, Apt.1, and 443 Ponce de Leon Avenue NE, Apt.C-4. Lena

Loveless Stephenson is known to have had at least two children (see later)—one by each

husband.

Cortez Pate "Cort" Loveless. (EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 12 October, 1880, in the

Arbacoochee District of Cleburne County, Alabama, and died in the same place on 28

October, 1918. He is not to be confused with his brother Curtis Payton Loveless, despite

the similarity of their names.

Cortez Pate “Cort” Loveless (1880-1918)

“Cort” Loveless married the former Cora Idell Teague on Sunday, 21 September, 1908,

in Cleburne County, Alabama. She was born on 19 March, 1887, and died in Cleburne

County on 12 April, 1961. She was a daughter of Solomon M. “Sol” Teague (10

October, 1851—16 February, 1934) and his second wife Elizabeth “Lizzie” Scott (1866-

1949). Cora Teague Loveless, her husband and her father, are all buried in the cemetery

of Hurricane United Methodist Church, Cleburne County, Alabama.

“Cort” Loveless (r) whilst a soldier in the Spanish-American War

(1898-1901) (Photo courtesy of Crandall Kennedy.)

Cort Loveless, again in his Spanish-American War uniform, with an American flag,

circa 1898.

"Cort" Loveless (as shown in the photos) was a soldier in the Spanish-American War. He

is said to have died from a rattlesnake bite. According to the story handed down in the

family, he went out early one Sunday morning to pick berries for a pie, happened upon

the rattlesnake, and was bitten. His tombstone contains the poignant phrase: “We trust in

God to meet thee again.” He was thirty-eight years old.

His descendants will be listed later.

[Previous page] Photograph of the widow and children of Cortez Pate “Cort” Loveless,

circa 1928 (based on the apparent ages of the children in the photo): In the

foreground, center, is Cora Teague Loveless (approximate age here of forty-one years);

behind are (clockwise, from l-r): James Euell Loveless (approximate age here of eleven

years), Elbert Lee Loveless (here approximately age sixteen), Evie Pearl Loveless (here

approximately age nineteen), William Grady Loveless (here approximately age

seventeen), and Lena Irene Loveless (here approximately age fourteen).

(left) the widowed Cora Teague

Loveless, in old age.

The widowed Cora Teague Loveless.

Sarah R. "Sallie" Loveless. (EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in January 1881, in the

Arbacoochee District, Cleburne County, Alabama. She married a Oscar Gavin and was

living in New York in 1928, when her mother died. She and her husband are known to

have had at least one child (see later).

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Loveless. (EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in September 1886, in the

Arbacoochee District, Cleburne County, Alabama. She also went by the nickname

“Bizz”. She married Elijah D. Mansell Stanford and was living in Hightower, Alabama,

in 1928, when her mother died. Elijah was born in 1885 in Alabama, and was killed by a

lightning strike at an unknown date. Lizzie (“Bizz”) Loveless Stanford was photographed

at a family reunion in the Autumn of 1941. It is not at present known how long after that

she lived. She and her husband are known to have had at least one child (see later).

(left) Elizabeth Loveless Stanford,

at a reunion in 1941.

[next page:] (l-r) Cora Teague Loveless (widow of “Cort” Loveless) with her sister-in-

law Virginia “Jennie” Loveless Bolden, at a Loveless Family Reunion (circa the

1940s?) at the old Hightower School building (which has since burned down).

Virginia "Jennie" Loveless. (EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 9 September 1889, in the

Arbacoochee District, Cleburne County, Alabama. She married Master Sergeant Samuel

L. Bolden, U.S. Army at an unknown date and place. He was born on 12 February, 1891,

and died on 24 April, 1944. Jennie, his wife, died on 6 February, 1964. They are both

buried in the Fort McClellan Military Cemetery in Fort McClellan, Alabama.

“Jennie” Loveless Bolden, a schoolteacher by profession, was residing at Camp Bragg,

North Carolina in September, 1920, when she was mentioned in a brief news snipet in the

local newspaper, “The Cleburne News”, Cleburne County, Alabama. She was residing in

Atlanta, Georgia in 1928, the year her mother died.

The Atlanta City Directories, of 1937 and succeeding years, list her as “Mrs. Virginia

Bolden (widow [of] I.C.), teacher [at] Daniel C. O‟Keefe, Jr. High School,” and her

residence as “1112 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, Georgia”. She continued to reside there

and to teach school until after 1945. By 1947, still teaching school, she had moved to

811 Penn Avenue NE. No record of her is found in the Atlanta area after 1948. She had

apparently moved elsewhere—probably to Birmingham, where she is known to have

lived in her later years.. The first year in which she was described as a “widow” was

1943, and this is strange, as her husband didn‟t die until a year later.

In the above photo of Jennie and Cora Teague Loveless, taken at the old Hightower

School in Cleburne County during a family reunion, she (Jennie) appears to be at least in

her sixties.

Jennie and her

husband Samuel

Bolden had two

children (see later).

Virginia “Jennie”

Loveless Bolden

(center), with her

husband Sam. At

left is Ellen Price

Loveless, widow of

her brother Jim.

Below is her sister

Elizabeth Loveless

Stanford.

The children of Jane Nett Lovelace and William Asbury "Rab" Keheley:

Beatrice Anna Vera "Bea" Keheley. (JANE NETT LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 15 January, 1873, in

Smyrna, Cobb County, Georgia. She is reported to have died on 18 November, 1951 [no

location given].

She married first, on 15 September, 1890, in Fulton County, Georgia, a Mr. W.C.

McHale. She married second, her cousin Samuel Fermuel Loveless from Cleburne

County, Alabama, eldest son of Evan Jackson Loveless [q.v.].

It is not known when she married Samuel, but it had to have been prior to 1898, as their

oldest daughter Nettie was born that year, and Beatrice and Samuel are shown as husband

and wife in the household of her parents in the 1900 census of Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia.

She and Samuel were the parents of three children (see later). After her second husband's

death, "Bea" Keheley Loveless moved back to Atlanta with her children (according to

Jeannete Peebles).

Amy Keheley. (JANE NETT LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3,

WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born in 1875 in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia. She is possibly

the person listed in the old Atlanta City Directories by the name “Amy Keheley”, but

without other identifying data to verify the match, we cannot know for certain.

Walter DeWitt Keheley. (JANE NETT LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5,

JOHN4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born in February, 1877 in Atlanta, Fulton,

Georgia. Following is an article about him from The Atlanta Constitution, 10 January,

1902:

SAYS HE DESERTED HER.

Mrs. H. G. Keheley yesterday brought suit for divorce against her

husband, Walter D. Keheley, in the superior court. According to the

papers in the case they were married July 2, 1899, and, so she alleges,

he left her in November of the following year. She charges that he failed

to provide for her, although he was capable of earning a good salary.

Mrs Keheley is represented by Attorney J. F. Daniel.

The above-mentioned Atlanta City Directories provide some additional biographical data

concerning him. Beginning in 1937 (the earliest year directory the Georgia Archives

possesses), we find that Walter—who would have been sixty years old that year--was a

woodworker, and was residing at 902 Berne Street SE, Atlanta. Also residing with him at

that address were his brother Hurt, and two women who may have been his sisters: Sarah

Catherine “Kate” Keheley, and Dorothy Helen Keheley. In 1938, Walter was listed as a

“shop worker” with the King Plow Company, and was residing at 441 Kelly Street SE.

In the years after 1939, Walter failed to be listed in the Atlanta City Directories. It is not

yet known when or where he died. His wife, who divorced him after he abandoned her in

November, 1901, was the former Hersie G. Robinson. She later remarried and had

additional children by her second husband.

Kate “Katie” Keheley. (JANE NETT LOVELACE

9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4,

THOMAS3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 21 June, 1880, in Atlanta, Fulton,

Georgia. She is probably the same as the person named “Sarah Catherine „Kate‟

Keheley” who was residing periodically with brothers Walter and Hurt Keheley

throughout the 1930s. I have seen no other reference to her after 1940.

Bob Margaret "Bobbie" Keheley. (JANE NETT LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6,

BENJAMIN5, JOHN

4, THOMAS

3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). She was born on 23 June, 1883, in Atlanta,

Fulton, Georgia. I have not yet been able to find her death date. She married a man

named Claude Leslie Newton, who was born on 26 January, 1877. The above-mentioned

Atlanta City Directories provide some detail about Claude Leslie Newton: from 1937 to

1953, he was listed as a “pattern-maker” with the Higgins Foundry and Machine Works

Company of Atlanta, and was shown as residing at 399 Tenth Street NW until at least

1962. Claude Leslie Newton died in January, 1964, in Georgia (probably Atlanta). He

and his wife, the former “Bobbie” Keheley, were the parents of two children (see later).

Hurt Eugene Keheley. (JANE NETT LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4,

THOMAS3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 21 February,1886, in Atlanta, Fulton,

Georgia. The same Atlanta City Directories also tell much about him: In 1937, he and

wife Mary were residing with his brother Walter et al. at 902 Berne Street SE. Hurt, like

his brother Walter, was also a wood-worker. In 1938, Hurt and a new wife, Clara V.

[LNU], were residing at 441 Kelly Street SE, in company with Walter and Kate. Hurt

was employed as a machine operator that year. In 1939, Hurt and Clara resided at 516

Glenwood Avenue SE, and he was employed as a machinist . In 1941, he and Clara had

moved back to Berne Street, where they lived at 899 Berne Street SE. In that year, Hurt‟s

occupation was listed as “mechanic”. In 1942 and 1943, Hurt and Clara continued to

reside at 899 Berne Street SE, and his occupation was given as “clerk”. By 1945, Hurt

had moved to 503 North Highland Avenue NE, where he lived for the next two years. In

1948, Hurt and Clara had moved again, this time to 194 Hunnicutt Street NW, Apartment

169. Hurt was again employed as a wood-worker. In 1950, at the age of sixty-four, Hurt

began his final career with the same King Plow Company of Atlanta that had employed

his brother Walter in 1938. By 1951, Hurt was a ”finisher” with King Plow, and he and

Clara were still residing at 194 Hunnicutt Street. In 1953, Hurt was a “production

worker” with King Plow, and had relocated to 210 Hunnicutt Street, Apartment 130. By

1956 (at the age of seventy), he had become a foreman with King Plow. By that time, he

had remarried, and had a new wife. Clara had either died or been divorced. Hurt‟s new

wife was a Ruth L. [LNU]. He and his new wife Ruth were residing at 2706 Belle Isle

Circle NE, in the DeKalb County section of Atlanta. Hurt continued in the prestigious

position of foreman for King Plow until 1959, when, at the age of seventy-three (and no

doubt due to his age), his position was reduced to that of “assistant foreman”. By 1958,

his address had been re-numbered, from the former 2706, to the new number of 1656. In

1961, the last year in which he appears in the city directories, Hurt was still employed as

an assistant foreman with King Plow. He was then seventy-five years old. As there is no

further record of him, he must have died shortly after 1961. His last wife Ruth appears at

his side until 1960. The children of Hurt Eugene Keheley will be listed below.

Charles W. Keheley. (JANE NETT LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT

8, SAMUEL

7, BARTON

6, BENJAMIN

5, JOHN

4,

THOMAS3, WILLIAM

2, UNKNOWN

1). He was born on 5 September, 1889, in Atlanta, Fulton,

Georgia. None of the old Atlanta City Directories appear to list him, so I assume he

moved away from Atlanta at a young age (if he survived into adulthood at all).