John LOVE

                   HISTORY: John Love & Elizabeth Ewing
1780-1831

HISTORY:
	The Loves were originally Norman French.  The name being Loup, Loue, etc.; and in the coat-of-arms there are three wolves heads. They came over to England at the time of the Conquest in 1066 with William the Conqueror, gradually moving northward into the Lowlands of Scotland.

	Histories designate the vicinity of Glasgow as the homeland of the Love family in modern times, and also that of the Ewing family.  In religion, the Loves and also the Ewings were Scotch Covenantors.

HISTORY: 	The name Ewing has great antiquity, as well as the family.  The place of origin is around Glasglow Loch Lomond.  People who said what they meant and meant what they said.

HISTORY: 	The meaning of the word Ewing is kind-natured.  Bishop Ewing refers to the family as: That long descended race, that loyal and patient people of deep piety.  Of many of the family it may be said that they are essentially inspirers of men, have magnetic manners, intense earnestness and boundless enthusiasm.

HISTORY: 	In 1605, two Earls of Ulster (North Ireland) who claimed title to that land, were under the law, suspects in plots which James I regarded as seditious.  They escaped to France.  The king declared their lands escheated to the crown.  The Irish people there were ejected and fled to the mountains.  Scotch and English Protestants were induced to accept escheated lands.  Thirty or forty thousand emigrants moved there from Scotland between 1606 and 1618.

HISTORY: 	John Loves ancestors, it is inferred, were among those who moved from Scotland to the north of Ireland, known as Ulster.  Tyrone was the north province in which the Loves made their home from early in the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.  Those Scots were of the best blood.  They did not intermarry with the Irish Catholics.  We find our names upon the registers, marriages, births, and burials in the old Presbyterian churches of Dublin Parish Registers Society. (Helen De Loss Love Scranton)

HISTORY: 	Religious persecution in Scotland was one of the reasons for the removal of Johns ancestors to Ireland.

HISTORY: 	The Ewings chartered a ship and came to the New World from Ireland.  They had their coat of arms emblazoned on the ship, Clan Ewing of Scotland.
Before 1800 they landed at the port of Delaware.

HISTORY: 	The family of Ewing consisted of the father, Samuel Ewing, and the mother, Esther Caldwell Ewing, and their eight children.  The fifth child was Elizabeth, who was married in York, South Carolina, in 1807 to John Love, son of this Love family.

HISTORY: 	Before 1800, or near the turn of that century, the father of John Love, Andrew Love, immigrated to America from Tyrone, Ireland, bringing with him his large family.  They disembarked in the port of Charleston, South Carolina.

HISTORY: 	Emigrant Andrew Love acquired in South Carolina an eight hundred acre plantation and all the goes with it.  According to his will, this property was bequeathed to his children and a nephew.

HISTORY: 	In this will, which was drawn up in 1803 and probated in 1805, he mentions ten children: sons, Mathew, James, Robert, William, Andrew, John, Samuel and daughters, Mary Sarah and Elizabeth; also his sister Marys son, Andrew Donaghy.

HISTORY: 	Later the Love family moved to York District, Bullocks Creek, South Carolina where the Ewing clan had located, and where John Love married Elizabeth Ewing.  Their first child was Andrew Love, born December 2, 1808, in York District, Bullocks Creek, South Carolina.

HISTORY: 	Under the leadership of John Love and wife some of the family moved west and north with true Scottish Clan loyalty.  In the company were Johns four brothers and a sister of his wife, Sally Ewing.

HISTORY: 	They sailed up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, where a second son was born to John and Elizabeth Love in 1816.  He was christened Samuel Ewing Love, in honor of her father.  As a young man he moved to California and passed away in 1844 at Shasta, unmarried.

HISTORY: 	Andrew Loves diary designates Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri, as the town where his parents located when he was eight years of age.  Two years later John Love died at this place, September 4, 1818.  Three months after Johns death, Elizabeth gave birth to twins, John and Mary Ann, born December 17, 1818.  Now this young widow, Elizabeth, had three sons and one daughter, the eldest of whom was Andrew, only ten years of age. Twelve years later, Elizabeth died in Macon County, Illinois, March 1831.  Andrew, who was 23 at the time, assumed responsibility for the care of the twins, John and Mary Ann.