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Jordan Cemetery, 45-1 Summary Report, page 11

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WOMAN CENERAI. INDEX TO MARRIAGE RECORDS. Madison Coumv. Ala - ^ws"?sras^BjsBj“- _____ The first page of the Love marriage record index shows pre-Civil War marriages of the white residents. The only one that was known to live in the area that is now arsenal land was Joel R. Love, who married Harriet McLeod in 1849. George McLeod was a sheriff and Justice of the Peace in early Madison County days, and he owned land around the holdings of Hughy Smith and the Timmons family in the southeastern portions of what became arsenal property. However, Joel Love was not found in the Madison County census records until 1870, after the Civil War and the emancipation of his slaves. The 1850 slave census of the county shows that 16 slaves were owned by Joel R. Love. The 1860 Madison County slave census shows that 31 slaves were owned by Joel R. Love. In 1870, Joel lived in Huntsville, in Ward No. 1, and his household included what may have been a niece. She was listed as Jane Hill, age 29, noted as “idiotic” on the extreme right side of the page, which was truncated to allow for a more readable image here. The household of Joel Love also included a family of Love-surnamed blacks who had probably been his slaves in earlier times. 11 - (1911)    

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