SECOND GENERATION:

The children of James Albert Jim Lovelace and his first wife Sarah J. Nicholson: Henry Henson Loveless: (JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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, 1902probably 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, 1909also probably in Gordon County, Georgia. Henry Henson Loveless lies buried in the Salem Baptist Church Cemetery in Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgiathe 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 Drewrys 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, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3,WILLIAM2, 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.1856probably 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 Marys 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, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 Sickles 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 fathers 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 Evans 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 Sheriffeither 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 towns 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 Jims 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 Evana 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. Evans tombstone in the cemetery there states simply that: He died as he liveda 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 Rippeyboth 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, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, 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 Marys family to Texas in 1882.

Samuel L. Lovelace. (JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). He was born ca.1845, probably in Rabun County, Georgia. He was in his father's household in 1850 and 1860. Lillian Hendersons 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, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). She was born on 30 March, 1846, in Pickens County, South Carolina, and died on 14 June, 1935, in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgiaprobably 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 yearthus born in 1846not 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 1872probably 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 grandmothers maiden name. Beverly Magbee Gillis, granddaughter of Genetta Lovelace Keheleys 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 Matties granddaughter Martha Kelly (my own grandmother) resembled her is simply astonishing. (Photo courtesy of Penny Burgess.)

Martha "Mattie" Lovelace. (JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 automobilestrangely 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 Alexanders 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), andon the far rightStella Martha (born 1883). The younger children all girlshave 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 Alexanders 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 fathers lap). The baby is probably Katie, who was born in 1889. Thomas Alexanders 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. Johnsons house. The disagreement, so far from getting resolved, actually developed into a fist-fight. We dont 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. Johnsons 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 wasnt 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 Durwards son Harry (Bobbys 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, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). He was born ca.1851, probably in Cherokee County, Georgia. He appeared as a nine-year-old in his fathers household in Pickens County in 1860. This James was not the same person shown as an 18-year-old by that name in his stepmother 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. 1874and 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 182924 September 1912) and his wife Julia Powell (19 February, 183612 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, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 Strickers information at rootsweb.com, this Sarahs middle name was Elizabeth. I have not yet seen any documentation for this claim.

Amy Adline Loveless. (JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, 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 AmyLoveless 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, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). She was born, apparently after her fathers 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. Lillies 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 Lillies Methodist church. Mrs. Gillis said that this was always a treat for herto sit in church next to her grandmother Lillie, and to make a fuss over hersomething which grandmother Lillie always seemed to enjoy immensely (being made a fuss over by her granddaughter). Several of Lillies 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: Christophers 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 LOVELACE8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). He was born ca.1857, probably in Dawson County, Georgia. Thereafter untraced. George Lester Rhodes. (MARY LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). He was born in September, 1859, probably in Dawson County, Georgia. Thereafter untraced. Dr. James Beauregard Gardy Rhodes. (MARY LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 Blacks 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 familys 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 ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 censustaker. 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 ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 twentythree, 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 storesone 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 diedalso 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 ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). She was born in 1875, in Savannah District, Dawson County, Georgia. (Clendon Whatleys 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).

(MARY LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). She was born in October, 1876, in Savannah District, Dawson

Jennie Roe.

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 ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 LOVELACE8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 LOVELACE8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 LOVELACE8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 fathers horseback circuit rides to preach at neighbouring Methodist churches.

The following information is furnished courtesy of Jims 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 Prices 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 LOVELACE8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 LOVELACE8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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.

(EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). She was born in 1879, and married first a

Frances "Lena" Loveless.

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 LOVELACE8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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, 185116 February, 1934) and his second wife Elizabeth Lizzie Scott (18661949). 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 LOVELACE8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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).
(EVAN JACKSON9, JAMES ALBERT LOVELACE8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). She was born in September 1886, in the

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Loveless.

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-inlaw 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 LOVELACE8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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. OKeefe, 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 elsewhereprobably 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 didnt 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 ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 Walterwho 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 LOVELACE9, JAMES ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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 ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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, Hurts 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. Hurts 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 ALBERT8, SAMUEL7, BARTON6, BENJAMIN5, JOHN4, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, UNKNOWN1). 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).