James Love (1883 - 1942)

Born 20 Oct 1883 in Aberdeen, Monroe, Mississippi, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Rosa Lee (Stevenson) Love — married 19 Dec 1900 in Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States

Descendants

Died 20 Jan 1942 at age 58 in Saint Francis, Cross, Arkansas, United States

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Biography

Jim Love is a part of US Black heritage.

James Love was born on 20 October 1883, in Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi. He was the son of Burrell Love and Annie Watson.

He married Rosa Lee Stevenson on 19 December 1900, in Chickasaw, Mississippi.^[1]They were sharecroppers. They were the parents of at least six sons and six daughters.

In 1910 James and Rosa took their young family and escaped during the night. They left the oppressive atmosphere of Mississippi and traveled to Arkansas.^[2]

Though they started with nothing, within eight years James had saved $900 to buy forty acres of land ($14,000 in today's money). With that land deed he bought his family a fresh start. James owned this land for the rest of his life.^[2]

He lived in Telico Township, St. Francis, Arkansas, United States in 1940.

He died on 20 January 1942, in St. Francis, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 58,^[3] and was buried in Shiloh Cemetery, Colt, St. Francis, Arkansas, United States.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979," database, FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CHBC-TKPZ : 25 February 2020), Jim Love, 19 Dec 1900; citing Marriage, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States, 00306, citing multiple county clerks; Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Henry Lewis Gates, Finding Your Roots, Season 3 Episode 3.https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/watch/extras/in-search-of-freedom-preview-shonda-rhimes
3. ↑ "Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VJRG-8DV : 27 November 2014), Jimmie Love, 20 Jan 1942; derived from "Arkansas, Death Index, 1914-1950," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); a multigenerational derivative citing Division of Vital Records, Arkansas Department of Health, Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950 (Arkansas: Arkansas Genealogical Society).
4. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68J9-GSVY : 10 September 2022), Jimmie, ; Burial, Colt, St. Francis, Arkansas, United States of America, Shiloh Cemetery; citing record ID 228935083, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com

• 1900 Census "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9X2-6MF : accessed 7 January 2023), James Love in household of Burrell Love, Beat 5 Willis Precinct (part of), Monroe, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 83, sheet 25B, family 489, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,821.
• 1910 Census "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPDP-1JQ : accessed 7 January 2023), James Love, Beat 3, Sunflower, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 92, sheet 26A, family 655, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 759; FHL microfilm 1,374,772.
• 1920 Census "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDFF-4BN : 31 January 2021), James Love, 1920.
• 1930 Census United States of America, Bureau of the Census. iFifteenth Census of the United States, 1930/i. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls, https://search.ancestry.com/collections/6224/records/23994849
• 1940 Census "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQ24-QTM : 8 January 2021), Jim Love, Telico Township, St. Francis, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 62-28B, sheet 6A, line 5, family 101, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 171.