Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Love was born in February 1841, in Maury, Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas Kendrick Love, was 24 and his mother, Virginia Jane Love, was 24. He lived in Hickman, Tennessee, United States in 1850. He died in September 1860, at the age of 19, and was buried in Tennessee, United States.
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Sources (3)
- Samuel Love in household of T K Love, "United States Census, 1860"
- Love Letters by Jolee Love
- Samuel Love in household of Thomas Love, "United States Census, 1850"
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Siblings (14)
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World Events (2)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
Name Meaning
English: from a Middle English personal name derived from the Old English female name Lufu ‘love’, or the masculine equivalent Lufa. Compare Leaf 2.
English and Scottish: nickname from Anglo-Norman French love ‘she-wolf’ or simply ‘wolf’, the word love being a back-formation from the diminutive forms lovel and lovet ‘little wolf’. See also Low 3, from Anglo-Norman French lou, the more usual form of the word.
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhionghuin (see McKinnon ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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