This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Love, Stalker, Runyan, Allbee Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xcx.2ACIB/1922 Message Board Post: Hello, I am researching the name LOVE. I have only been able to get back to 1804, when my great-great grandfather, CLINTON LOVE, was born in New York on July 4th. I do not know who his parents were. I do know that Clinton married Mary Elizabeth Stocker and they had the following children: LUCRETIA LOVE (born 1827/died 1850) married Nathan Codner CLARISSA LOVE (born 1828/died n/a) married Gilbert Tuttle JOHN LOVE (born 1831/died 1864 in Civil War) married Polly Porter RACHEL JANE LOVE (born 1833/died1876) married James Erckenbrack JEREMIAH LOVE (born 1835/died 1920) married Phoebe Alvira Runyan GEORGE WASHINGTON LOVE (born 1837/died1914) married Fidelia King/Carolyn Rathbun ALIDA LOVE (born 1839/died 1929) married Edwin Runyan/Joseph Allbee MARY LYDIA LOVE (born 1844/died n/a) married Orvil Dickson/David Quackenbush HENRY CLINTON LOVE (born 1848/died 1933) married Susan Palmer ALBERT LOVE (born 1850/died 1939) married Abby Scovil/Effie Travis In the 1840's the family migrated from New York and settled for a while in Wisconsin where Clinton died in 1874, and is buried in Ridge Cemetery, Clinton, Vernon, Wisconsin. Mary moved on with her son JEREMIAH LOVE (my great-grandfather), to Brown County, Kansas, where she died in 1889 and is buried in Sabetha, Nemaha, Kansas. From there, JEREMIAH LOVE took his sons, GEORGE and FRANK LOVE to make the land run in Oklahoma known as the "Cherokee Strip" in 1893. JEREMIAH, GEORGE and FRANK LOVE all settled on farmland near Blackwell and Braman, Oklahoma, in Kay County. Some of the Loves lived/settled in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Oklahoma and Kansas and most likely a few never left New York. No telling where they have scattered by now! After some recent research by a few cousins and myself, we have found that Mary’s maiden name was most likely spelled Stalker. We believe her family was from the Albany, New York, area where her father John Stalker (Mother’s name was Clarisa Bradt) was found in the 1810 and 1820 census. If you recognize any of these names, we are probably from the same LOVE line. I would appreciate any information you may have on this family. Thanks! Linda Mae Te (LOVE) [email protected]