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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page 134
JAMES LOVE
Born 1923
Interviews July 2005
Edna Love Sanders and her father, James Love.
The Family of James Love
James Love was interviewed in the company of his daughter, Edna Sanders Love, who is pictured with him above. Edna grew up close to her elders and family friends and has depth in her knowledge of the Mullins Flat community and the lifeways of the past. Her mother, James Love's wife, was Velma Ragland, daughter of Ernest Ragland, a sharecropper/renter in Mullins Flat.
James Love is the son of Moses Love and Beulah Smith Love. Beulah was born in about 1880, and Moses was born in Madison in about the same year. He moved to Russellville, Alabama in Franklin County and then to Arkansas where he stayed a few years and earned some money. When he returned to Madison County, he transported his belongings and cattle with him in a couple of train cars. Moses Love died in about 1950. His son said he was about 71 or 72 when he died. Moses Love owned Parcel C-131.
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