JAMES C. LOVE.
Near Loves Mills, Washington county, June 1, 1824, the subject of
this sketch was born, and his home has always been in the county, his
occupation farming. He is a son of Leonidas Love, who came to this
county from Wythe county, the son of William Love of that county,
formerly a resident of Eastern Virginia. The mother of James C., Freelove
Cole, is a daughter of James Cole, of Smyth county, whose father,
also named James Cole, was one of the first white children born in that
county.
In Rye. Valley, February 10, 1846, James C. Love married Cedelia
James, who was born in Rye Valley, Smyth county, in 1826. Her parents
were both born and raised in the Valley, and honored residents there
through life, John James and Nancy, daughter of John Smith. Mr. and
Mrs. Love have four children living: Perlina, John J., Josephine V. and
Mollie, and have buried six. America, Nannie, William, two babes died
unnamed, and Susan C.
In May, 1862, Mr. Love was detailed by the Confederate authorities
in the manufacture of nitre at Loves Mills. He was enrolled in the
Reserve troops through the years of the war, and took part in both
battles at Saltville. He was at Christiansburg at the time of the surrender,
and there discharged. He had one brother and one brother-in-law
in the Reserve troops, both in battles at Saltville, and one brother-in-law
in the field, killed in the second year of the war; another brother,
J. R. Love, was in the 48th Virginia regiment, served from the organization
of the regiment to close of war, was slightly wounded (which still
affects him), was captured in 1864, and held a prisoner until close of
the war; another brother, Oscar, lives now in Tennessee, another
brother, William, went into service from Arkansas, and has not been
heard from since.
