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Farming For A Better Future, page 242
(Above) Excerpt of TVA Family Relocation Case Form for Arthur and Sallie Love, 1935 (Tennessee
Valley, Family Removal and Population Readjustment Case Files, 1934-1953 via Ancestry.com)
(Top) Excerpt of 1920 Census Record Showing Arthur and Sallie Love in Hillsboro (Above) Excerpt of 1930 Census Record Showing Arthur and Sallie Love in Hillsboro (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry. com)
businessmen and men of faith. Ms. Green conveyed that the Echols owned business in the town of Moulton and that Ben Echols was also a brick mason and built the Church of Christ in downtown.
Ben A. Echols, his wife Carrie, Price Echols and his daughters, Sallie and Madie, and John D. and Annie Echols are all buried at the cemetery on Rosenwald Street known as Moulton Cemetery and associated with the Freemen Tabernacle Church in southeast Moulton. Other members of the Echols family include the children of Price Echols and the aunts and uncles of Ms. Pearl. Sallie E. Echols Stephenson (1813-1999), daughter of Price Echols, lived between Price and Ben Echols in 1940 with her husband Miller. They rented their farm - probably from her father. Two sons of Price, Frank Haze Echols (1920-2001) and Ben Chasten Echols (1921-2017), enlisted in the Army during World War II. Frank enlisted at Fort McClellan, Alabama and stated his occupation as “architect." Ben C. enlisted at Fort Benning, Georgia and listed his occupation as “semiskilled brick and stone mason and tile setter.”
Ms. Green's mother was Annie L. Love (1913-1993). Annie and Dyke were married in Morgan County in 1932. They were 19 and 21 years old, respectively, and both listed their occupation as “farming." Annie's
parents were Arthur Love (born 1867) and Sallie Burt Love (born 1881). Arthur owned a farm in the Decatur area in 1935 when the TVA included his farm in their study of family relocation. The file describes the location of their home as “turn off county-line road on Joe Wheeler Highway, travel about one mile, turn left at mail-box below church. Arthur's house is first one seen after turning. It is a five-room, well-kept house. The floor, walls, roof, and furnishings all are in unusually good condition for this area." Arthur, himself, is described as “tall and well built, looks ten years younger than he is and unusually healthy for his age."
The history of the family is recorded as “both Arthur and his wife were born in the immediate vicinity. When 18 years old, Arthur got a job with a railroad company, and worked for about 12 years as a fireman for L&N and Southern Railroads. He saved his money and bought the farm on which he now lives. Arthur give his wife credit for his buying the land." In response to the TVA, “Arthur intend[ed] to move the house in which he [was then] living on to the remaining portion of the tract he [then] occupy[ed], and which portions [had] not been bought. He intend[ed] to begin these operations immediately." - (4770)