Reddick Lovin of North Carolina >From Mable S. Lovin of Red Springs, North Carolina, comes this chapter about Reddick Lovin and wife Lucretia (Sanderford?). Reddick may have been born in Virginia. His father may have been Isum (or Isham) Loving of Virginia, who was mentioned in Chapter One. The 1790 census of North Carolina shows in Wayne County two men: Isum Loving (Lovin) and Reddick Lovin, both resident in Newbern District. Isum had in addition to himself two females in his house. Reddick had himself and two males under 16 years plus one female, probably his wife. This identifies Reddick of this chapter as the same one listed in Wayne County, for family records show he had two boys in 1790 -- Bryant, born 1788 and Sandford born in February 1790. Reddick married about 1785 or 1786 Lucretia (Creasy) Sanderford. Her maiden name has been spelled several ways—Sandeford, Sandefor, Sandefur-, etc. It is probable that the name was actually Sandford, for she named her second child that. Just when Reddick died is not known, but he was probably living in 1830 with his son, Sandford that year in Richmond County, NC. The census showed a man over 60 in the home of Sandford. Bryant Lovin also lived in Richmond County in 1830, and the 1810 census of Richmond County showed Reddick to be a resident of that county. He was not a man to be caught up in the fever to move south and west after the War of 1812, but was content to live out his days in North Carolina. A number of his descendants are still to be found there today. William Loving and Susannah Tison William Loving and Susannah Tison were born in North Carolina and their children seem to have migrated to Indiana, where Susannah died in 1851. This compilation has been prepared by Mrs. Ruth Bowers of Union City, Indiana with help from notes by her late grandmother, Ida Jane Loving Howe. Mrs. Bowers freely offers these facts with a frank admission that documentation is lacking. This contribution to the Loving ancestry is none the less valuable for a want of verification, for here are clues to aid the researcher in further work on the Loving puzzle. Parents of this William are not firmly identified, but his father might have been one of two men found in North Carolina in 1790. In Pitt County was Frederick Loving with one son under age 16 and two females in his home. In adjacent Wayne County, NC, was a William Lovin (sic) age over 16, and one male under 16, and two females. The marriage to Susannah Tison was of short duration, for Susannah married a man named Perkins before 1815 and had at least two children by him - Jeremiah in 1815 and Rachel in 1820. The children of William Loving and Susannah Tison were: N1 Allen, b. 13 Sep 1801 N2 + Wright, b. 16 Feb 1805, d. 17 Apr 1852, La Porte IN N3 Silas, b. 15 Jan 1809, d. 3 Jun 1845 It is likely that there were other children not named here. These three were recalled by Mrs. Bowers’ grandmother, Ida Jane Loving Howe, in conversations that took place about fifty years ago. William Loving was born 6 Feb 1778 and died 1 Oct 1872 and it appears that he never married again after Susannah left him. Susannah was born 11 Jun 1778 and died in La Porte, Indiana on 7 Nov 1851. William and his family appeared on the 1800 census for Pitt County, NC and it is clear that they were not long married, for he had only himself and wife, plus a female listed as over “45” who could have been his mother or hers. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009