Elizabeth Love
Daughter of James Love, Junior

Elizabeth Love married 12 Dec 1788 Henry Shore in Surry County NC.Henry’s father Jacob was bondsman.

May18. I kept the funeral of the wife of Mr. Henry Schor who lives eight miles from Bethania on Jacob Conrad’s place on the river. She had been sick for seven months. The sermon, in the English language, was preached at the home; the internment was five miles from there, toward Bethania, at Schor’s former farm. She was buried near the grave of one of her little sons, (he was three years old). The deceased was a Love, from Virginia; her husband is a brother of our Sr. Lehman.

June 7. The weather is oppressively hot, as it has been for several days, I held the first religious service in the new school house, half a mile from Salomo Sponhauer’s, in the woods, toward David Sponhauer’s, and (so to say) dedicated it. The new school teacher, Mr. Hickman, began school today with nine children. About seventy persons were present for the service, and when I finished, Mr. Evans, a Methodist, rose and emphasized what I had said.

At present there are several epidemic diseases in Bethania, such as colds, and dysentery among the children. Measles has not yet come nearer than Peter Schor’s family, this side of Bethabara. Since smallpox has made its appearance in this state, and is epidemic in Halifax, a number of the members here are discussing the advisability of having their children inoculated with cowpox.