This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LOVE, LAUVE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xcx.2ACIB/532.546.547.718.2 Message Board Post: Hmmm, I never got the notification on your query. I am so sorry. I have no clue as to our James' middle name, but his parents were Thomas Love/Lauve (depending on the decade) and wife Maragret. Thomas is b abt 1793, Margaret about a decade later. Census in 1850 showed Thomas b in MD but not a shred of proof so far (and some of his children showed his birth place as Maine in the 1880 census), Margaret as b. TN. They were in Clark Co., AR by about 1825-27 and all of their known and suspected children were born in that state.