Love, James Robert, 1798-1863

<p>James Robert Love</p>
<p>BIRTH 17 Nov 1798</p>
<p>Haywood County, North Carolina, USA</p>
<p>DEATH 22 Nov 1863 (aged 65)</p>
<p>Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA</p>
<p>BURIAL</p>
<p>Green Hill Cemetery</p>
<p>Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA</p>

<p>Children</p>
<p>Maria Melvina Love Stringfield</p>
<p>1842-1909</p>

<p>James Robert Love was a visionary who loved his community and represented WNC for nearly 10 years in the state legislature. His first term began when he was just 21 years old.</p>
<p>When he wasn’t busy representing Haywood County, he was engaged in business with his father, helping to sell portions of the speculation land to early settlers. Love’s homesite, off present day Sulphur Springs Road, later became the White Sulphur Springs Hotel, which was a very popular tourist resort until it burned down in 1885. It was rebuilt out of brick, and operated as a hotel until the 1920s.</p>

Maria Love was the daughter of James Robert Love, Sr. and Maria Williamson Coman. She married William Williams Stringfield.

Folder 8 - James R. Love will: 1862.

<p>Colonel Robert Love (1760-1845) was born in Augusta County, VA. He fought in the Revolutionary War and at the war’s end moved to Washington County, NC (now Washington County, TN). He married Mary Ann Dillard (1767-1842) in 1783. He eventually became very active in politics, serving as a delegate to the convention of the State of Franklin in 1784; state representative from Washington County, in 1789; justice of the peace in the same county, in 1788; a delegate to the North Carolina convention, in 1788, which voted to ratify the U.S. Constitution; as a state representative of Buncombe County, NC, from 1793-1795; and as a presidential elector for several years.</p>

<p>In 1821, Love served as one of the commissioners who established the boundary between North Carolina and Tennessee from the Pigeon River south. He purchased much land in Jackson and Haywood counties, NC. Love and his wife had thirteen children. One of his sons, James Robert, was the father of Maria, William W. Stringfield's wife.</p>