William Richard Love Obituary
William Richard Love, Born 10 April
1839, South Carolina, died 14 January 1921, Partridge, Reno
County, Kansas, is buried at Partridge Cemetery, Center
Township, Reno County, Kansas
Copied from: "A Biographical History of Central
Kansas" (page 363) Volume 1.
Published by The 'Lewis Publishing Co., New York and Chicago - 1902
WILLIAM RICHARD LOVE
William R. Love is one of the respected
farmers of Reno County, where he has made his home for many years, being
closely associated with its welfare. He is a thorough, practical
agriculturist and man of business, and has been the architect of his own
fortunes. His fidelity to duty is one of his marked characteristics, and in
times of war and peace alike he has every been true to his honest
convictions.
Mr. Love is a native of South Carolina, his
birth having occurred on the 10th day of April, 1839. His grandfather,
Richard Love, was a well known planter of that commonwealth, where he owned
many slaves, and there he spent his entire life. He reared six sons and two
daughters, all of whom became worthy citizens and were an honor to the good
old family name. James H. Love, the father of our subject, was born in.
South Carolina, April 29, 1803, in his native state, in 1828 was united in
marriage to Sarah Bowen, who was born there in 1806, a daughter of Joseph
Bowen. In the fall of 1842, when our subject was three and a half years of
age, they removed to Mississippi, where they became the owners of five
hundred acres of land on which they raised principally cotton and corn and
they also owned from fifteen to twenty slaves. They reared six of their nine
children, four daughters and two sons; and the brother of our subject.
Joseph E. Love, is now a prominent farmer of Mississippi, where he owns
about seven hundred acres of land and is extensively engaged in farming and
stock raising. The mother departed this life in 1863, and her husband
survived her until May 8, 1885, when he, too passed away, dying in
Mississippi.
William Richard Love, whose name introduces
their review, has ever followed the tilling of the soil as a life
occupation, and after attaining to man's estate, he was engaged in farming
with his father for seven years. He then lest the parental roof, and for a
time worked on his own place of four hundred acres. During the Civil War,
both he and his brother entered the service of their beloved Southland, and
both were wounded in battle. At the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, our
subject was wounded and captured after which he spent three and one-half
months in a hospital at Nashville, going thence to Louisville, Kentucky,
next to Camp Chase, Ohio and finally to Point Lookout, Maryland, having been
in the hospital most of the time. After the close of hostilities, he
returned to his home in Mississippi where he remained until May, 1884, when
he came to Kansas, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land near
Partridge, Kansas the purchase price being twelve hundred and eighty
dollars. From time to time he has added to his original purchase until he
now owns three quarter sections, a half section of which is under a high
state of cultivation, and the remainder is devoted to pasturage. He keeps on
hand about fifty head of graded cattle, many being full-blooded shorthorns,
and also has from twelve to thirteen mules. Corn and wheat are the principal
crops, eighty acres of his land being planted with the latter and one
hundred and ten acres with the former cereal. He indeed possesses the
enterprising spirit of the west, and the high position which he now occupies
in the business world has been reached by his unfaltering industry, his
close attention to business and his wise judgment.
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From "Partridge Pioneers
History of Early Partridge" compiled by Annabel White, 1968
WILLIAM RICHARD LOVE: Mr. Love was born in Mississippi in 1839 and was married on the 4th of September, 1872 to Miss Perneasy Robinson. He bought land near Partridge in May 1884 and moved there; where he added to his holdings until he was owner of three quarter sections. Mr. And Mrs. Love were parents of 13 children and exhibited the true pioneer spirit. They were members of the Congregational Church and had a wide circle of friends.
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