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    1. [LL] Seaborn's gravesite found!
    2. David Wilson via
    3. My 3G GF Seaborn Loveless has in some respects been a bit of mystery to me. He was born in 1807 (maybe in Kentucky, maybe in South Carolina), bur lived most of his life in Anderson District SC. We knew he died in 1841, presumably in SC, but I could never a record of his burial in the years when I was most actively searching for it. Seaborn is one of the descendants of Old Barton the Horse Thief, whose history is often mentioned in the archives of this List. This evening I put Seaborn's name into some of the usual search engines and to my surprise found a cemetery record for the Ruhamah Methodist Church in Holland Store, SC. That's about 10 miles SW of the town of Anderson on Lake Hartwell very close to the Georgia border (i.e., the Savannah River). The church was founded in 1822 and was apparently the site of regular Methodist Meetings in that corner of South Carolina. This Methodist exposure may explain why Seaborn's son, James Belton Loveless, though ordained as a Baptist minister after the Civil War, eventually split with the Baptists and preached as a Methodist Episcopal minister in a small community in Jackson County AL for most of his life. Anyway, the dates of record for Seaborn Loveless are now 2/16/1807 to 8/22/1841. In a few days he would be 208 years old had his life not been tragically cut short 174 years ago, probably in consequence of the Yellow Fever epidemic that ravaged the South that year. The moral: never stop looking for the information! New data crops up all the time. David WIlson

    02/05/2015 02:27:08