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John Gilbert Love

John Gilbert Love, alcalde (mayor) and  judge, was born about 1789 in Tennessee, the son of Mary (Marshall) and  Joseph Love II. He married Rebecca Exum  on July 18, 1810, in Williamson County, Tennessee. They had nine children.  The Love family moved to Texas in 1825 and settled in the Ayish Bayou  District, near Ironosa Creek about eight miles northwest of what is now San  Augustine.  Love served in many capacities as an early settler. He was elected  alcalde in 1827, served on  a  committee of fifteen to select the town site of San Augustine in 1832, and  was elected primary judge on November 28, 1835, for the Municipality of San Augustine, serving again in 1836 and 1841. He was appointed in 1835 along  with  three commissioners to enlist the militia in San Augustine, and in 1836  he was  in charge of enrollment of volunteers for the revolutionary army.  Love was appointed by Republic of Texas President Sam   Houston as collector of  customs for 1837-38. He was a member of the Redland Masonic Lodge No. 3,  serving as treasurer in 1838, junior warden in 1842, and senior warden in  1845. He became a trustee of Wesleyan Male and Female College in 1844 and was  elected chief justice of San Augustine County in 1847. After the death of his  wife, Rebecca, on July 20, 1843, Love married Mrs. Margaret Hollis Burney on  July 26, 1844. Love died in 1866 (the probate of his estate was filed on  September 24, 1866), and it is assumed he was buried in the Love family  cemetery near his old home site in San Augustine County.


From The Handbook of Texas Online, a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of  Texas at Austin and the Texas State  Historical  Association. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: 
George L. Crockett, Two Centuries in East Texas  (Dallas: Southwest, 1932; facsimile reproduction 1962). 
Daughters of the Republic  of Texas, Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas (Austin,  1963-). 
McXie Whitton Martin, 1850, Citizens of San Augustine County, Texas  (1984). 
Nacogdoches Archives, Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State  University; Barker Texas History Center,
University of Texas at Austin; Texas  State Archives, Austin. 


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