In a message dated 03/20/02 4:33:02 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > James Allen also married Betsy Love, probably your Elizabeth Love. > > Did you know that Betsy Love was responsible for the passage of the Married Women's Property Act in the state of Mississippi in 1839? Mississippi was the first state to recognize that women could own property in their own right. Mississippi Back Roads by Elmo Howell, contains several paragraphs on Betty (Betsy) Love Allen. Betty Love Allen died in 1837 in Toccopola. In 1954 a monument was erected in her honor: BETTY ALLEN Dau. of Thomas Love and Third Wife a Chickasaw Indian Wife of Col. John L. Allen 17??- 1837 Noted for her role in the Establishment of Property Rights of Married women in the Anglo-Saxon World. Mothers Study Club 1954