In a message dated 3/6/15 11:13:06 AM, [email protected] writes: > >   The obituary of Curtis Smith published March 5, 2015 in the Gaston > Gazette mentions that he served during WWII in the US Navy Pacific Fleet as a > torpedoman aboard the USS Lovelace. The ship was named after after aviator > Donald Alexander Lovelace (1906-1943) > > Donald Alexander Lovelace was the son of Jere Lovelace and Sallie Lillian White. That family had real tragedy with their kids. They had three daughters who died as infants or toddlers and Donald died in WWII. They had one other son just older than Donald, but I don't have any information on him. Hopefully his mother didn't have to experience his death also. Otherwise she outlived at least four of her children, not dying until 1955. The father had died in 1937. This family was from the Virginia line. It goes like this: Donald Alexander son of Jere Lovelace son of James Smith Lovelace and Martha Ann Barksdale. James was the son of William Oldham Lovelace and Ann "Nancy" Williams Womack. William the son of Thomas Lovelace and Tabitha Oldham. Thomas the son of Charles and Bridgett McLaughlin. Charles's father is not known, but there was a Roger Lovelace of the right age in Old Rappahannock Co VA who has potential as his father. Lou Ann