Brief Life History of Reason
When Capt Reason Lovelace Jr was born on 21 March 1810, in Bullitt, Kentucky, United States, his father, Reason Lovelace Sr, was 45 and his mother, Mrs. First Wife Lovelace, was 42. He married Jane Waggoner on 21 August 1834, in Hendricks, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Illinois, United States in 1870. He died on 5 November 1878, in Rochester Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Rochester, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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- Reason Loveless, "United States Census, 1840"
- Reason Lovelace, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Reason Lovelace, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1817
Historical Boundaries 1817: Sullivan, Indiana, United States
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Loveless . The spelling is apparently theresult of folk etymology, which understood the word as a nickname fora dandy fond of lace. The modern sense of this word is, however, notattested until the 16th century and at the time of surname formationit meant only ‘cord’ or ‘shoelace’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Military service
On 9/6/1862 he was commissioned into "G" Co. IL 123rd Infantry as a Captain. He was Mustered Out on 6/28/1865 at Edgefield, TN
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