This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Love Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/6038 Message Board Post: Cameron Herald, Thur., 2 July 1903 Murder - Controller R. M. Love was murdered in his offices at Austin Tuesday. W. G. Hill, a discharged clerk, killed him. Hill went to Love’s office and handed him a letter, requesting he read it. As he began to read it, Hill shot him twice with a revolver and he died in an hour and 20-minutes. Hill was mortally wounded by Chief Bookkeeper Stevens. = = = = = Cameron Herald, Thur., 9 July 1903 Death - The Love Affair – State Comptroller R. J. (sic) Love assassinated in his office at the capitol in Austin. [very lengthy article] = = = = = Handbook of Texas On-Line LOVE, ROBERT MARSHALL (1847-1903). Robert Marshall Love, son of James M. and Theresa Evelyn (Braden) Love, was born in Franklin, Texas, on January 11, 1847, eleven years after his parents had arrived as pioneers in Texas. The family moved to Tehuacana, where he attended the common schools. At seventeen he gave up a short-lived teaching career to volunteer in the Confederate Army; he enlisted in Company G, Sixth Texas Cavalry, Ross's Brigade,qv in 1862 and served throughout the war. After the war he returned home and successfully farmed and raised livestock in Tehuacana. On January 12, 1870, in Hickman County, Kentucky, he married Lucy Townes Morgan. They had ten children. Love began his political career as deputy sheriff of Limestone County in 1872. He was sheriff of Limestone County, 1884-90; United States marshal for the Northern District of Texas, 1894-96; and state comptroller, 1901-03. He also was elected president of the Sheriff's Association of Texas from 1886 to 1894. Love and his brother John helped end Reconstructionqv in 1873, when they armed themselves with pistols and stood at the foot and head of the Capitolqv stairs to protect the members of the legislature who had been prohibited to convene by incumbent governor Edmund J. Davis.qv Richard Cokeqv had been elected governor, but Davis contested the election. The Love brothers enabled the Fourteenth Legislature to organize and administer the oath of office to Coke. Rumor states that John Love kicked Davis in the seat of the pants as he exited through the Capitol rotunda door. Love belonged to many organizations, including the Knights of Honor, the Knights of Pythias, and the Knights Templar. He was a leading member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He built a church on his own farm and devoted himself to the construction of many others around the state. In 1903, while serving as state comptroller, he was shot at his desk in the Capitol at Austin by W. G. Hill, a former employee of the department. His last words were, "I have no idea why he shot me. May the Lord bless him and forgive him. I cannot say more." He died several hours later in Austin and was buried at Tehuacana. BIBLIOGRAPHY: A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell, and Coryell Counties (Chicago: Lewis, 1893; rpt., St. Louis: Ingmire, 1984). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Ray A. Walter, A History of Limestone County (Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1959). Lucie Love Whitley