Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameJohn Bicknell LOVE 
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1Birth Date22 Mar 1851
Birth PlaceChestnut Ridge, Jackson County, Indiana
Death Date25 Nov 1935 Age: 84
Death PlaceWashington, Jackson County, Indiana
Burial PlaceDudleytown, Jackson County, Indiana
OccupationSchool Teacher
FatherHiram S. LOVE (1817-1899)
MotherEleanor “Nellie” COX (1813-1892)
Notes for John Bicknell LOVE
J.B. LOVE DIES AT HOME NEARBY
Prominent Resident Of This Vicinity Passes Away In Chestnut Ridge Neighborhood
FORMER SCHOOL TEACHER
[1935]
John Bicknell Love, age 84, passed away at his home, six miles south of Seymour, Monday afternoon at 3:45 o’clock, following an illness of five weeks. Death resulted from a complication of ailments due to advanced age.
Mr. Love was born in the Chestnut Ridge vicinity on March 22, 1851, the third son of Hiram S. and Eleanor Cox Love, members of two of Jackson county’s pioneers families. An older brother, James Knox Love, passed away eleven years ago, November 21, at the age of eighty-one.
As a youth, Mr. Love attended school at Tampico, and for about ten years after his graduation taught in various schools in Jackson county, including the old Chestnut Ridge and Cox schools. He also engaged with his father and brother, James, in operating a large fruit and livestock farm.
In 1897, a Church of Christ was organized at Chestnut Ridge and J.B. Love appointed an Elder, which office he held until the congregation disbanded several years ago. He was long a leader in the religious, cultural and social life of the community.
In 1904, Mr. Love moved to Seymour, where he was active in numerous business enterprises for a number of years until his retirement in 1923, to one of the original Love homesteads at Chestnut Ridge, where he resided until his death.
Until his illness five weeks ago, Mr. Love had enjoyed fairly good health despite his age, and engaged in a number of hobbies, including flower and vegetable gardening, extensive reading, and playing the violin. At a reunion of the Love family held at his home on September 4, he was the only living member of the fourth generation present, and took an active part in the affair, relating the family history and entertaining his guests with music.
Mr. Love never married, but assisted materially in the rearing of several orphaned nieces and nephews. He was a man of cheerful and kindly disposition, generous to a fault, and tolerant and charitable in all his contacts with his fellow men.
Two nieces and four nephews survive. They are Miss Mary Love, of Chestnut Ridge and Indianapolis [daughter of William Beaufort Love], Mrs. Clark Simpson [Marie Elenore Love, daughter of James Knox Love], Commiskey; Hiram Love, of Indianapolis [son of William Beaufort Love]; Alvin W. Brown, Winnsboro, Louisiana, Dr. H. Frank Brown of this city, and Dr. Leonard W. Brown, Indianapolis [sons of Serelda Love Brown]. One grand niece and five grand nephews also survive. Many more distant relatives and a host of friends mourn his passing.
Funeral services will be conducted from the Voss Mortuary at 2:00 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, in charge of the Rev. R. S. Wilson. Friends may call at the Mortuary from 7 until 9 o’clock Tuesday evening and until noon Wednesday. Burial is Chestnut Ridge.
On ancestry from sharrod115.
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Prominent Resident Of This Vicinity Passes Away In Chestnut Ridge Neighborhood
FORMER SCHOOL TEACHER
[1935]
John Bicknell Love, age 84, passed away at his home, six miles south of Seymour, Monday afternoon at 3:45 o’clock, following an illness of five weeks. Death resulted from a complication of ailments due to advanced age.
Mr. Love was born in the Chestnut Ridge vicinity on March 22, 1851, the third son of Hiram S. and Eleanor Cox Love, members of two of Jackson county’s pioneers families. An older brother, James Knox Love, passed away eleven years ago, November 21, at the age of eighty-one.
As a youth, Mr. Love attended school at Tampico, and for about ten years after his graduation taught in various schools in Jackson county, including the old Chestnut Ridge and Cox schools. He also engaged with his father and brother, James, in operating a large fruit and livestock farm.
In 1897, a Church of Christ was organized at Chestnut Ridge and J.B. Love appointed an Elder, which office he held until the congregation disbanded several years ago. He was long a leader in the religious, cultural and social life of the community.
In 1904, Mr. Love moved to Seymour, where he was active in numerous business enterprises for a number of years until his retirement in 1923, to one of the original Love homesteads at Chestnut Ridge, where he resided until his death.
Until his illness five weeks ago, Mr. Love had enjoyed fairly good health despite his age, and engaged in a number of hobbies, including flower and vegetable gardening, extensive reading, and playing the violin. At a reunion of the Love family held at his home on September 4, he was the only living member of the fourth generation present, and took an active part in the affair, relating the family history and entertaining his guests with music.
Mr. Love never married, but assisted materially in the rearing of several orphaned nieces and nephews. He was a man of cheerful and kindly disposition, generous to a fault, and tolerant and charitable in all his contacts with his fellow men.
Two nieces and four nephews survive. They are Miss Mary Love, of Chestnut Ridge and Indianapolis [daughter of William Beaufort Love], Mrs. Clark Simpson [Marie Elenore Love, daughter of James Knox Love], Commiskey; Hiram Love, of Indianapolis [son of William Beaufort Love]; Alvin W. Brown, Winnsboro, Louisiana, Dr. H. Frank Brown of this city, and Dr. Leonard W. Brown, Indianapolis [sons of Serelda Love Brown]. One grand niece and five grand nephews also survive. Many more distant relatives and a host of friends mourn his passing.
Funeral services will be conducted from the Voss Mortuary at 2:00 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, in charge of the Rev. R. S. Wilson. Friends may call at the Mortuary from 7 until 9 o’clock Tuesday evening and until noon Wednesday. Burial is Chestnut Ridge.
On ancestry from sharrod115.
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