A Love Family History |
Have you ever experienced the difficulty of putting together a bicycle in time for Christmas using poorly written instructions? Not fitting together as well as it should, much time is spent pondering over the significance of left over parts spread about your feet. The task of putting together the life story of James Love and family is similar in nature. Our James Love was a man of means who moved about or at least had holdings in different places. His children relocated to North Carolina and he himself moved from Virginia to Stokes County NC where he eventually died. From his last will and testament, we capture a glimpse of the closing chapter of James Love’s story. And from that information, we can look back to records in Virginia and other counties in North Carolina where we begin piecing together the family tree. But like many others, this family honored itself in the naming of its offspring. As the children carried forth, the family names grew in number to overwhelm an already confusing story to tell. And relocating to neighborhoods with others of the same name, we are left trying to prove kinship beyond the traditionally accepted beliefs. Acknowledging now that many of the life attributes cannot be positively linked, the following is an ongoing evaluation of records believed pertinent to the Love family history. I welcome any thoughts, additions, or concerns.