Hi Bob, We have an Allen Love b. abt 1800 probably in SC came to AL in abt 1815 and had land in ST.Clair Co. AL in the 1820's. He left AL shortly thereafter, legend says TX. This sounds suspiciously like your Allen but we think his parents were Samuel Love who married Elizabeth Nations 1789 in Mecklenburg Co. NC. I see two Allens on the 1830 AL census. Is yours the one in Lowndes Co. ? Ted