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Sarah was Ebzan Love Sr.'s second wife. She is buried next to him in
Oak Hill Cemetery in B'ham, Jefferson Co., AL, in Lot 23 1/2 Block 7.- Sarah E. Darnell Love was the mother of 9 or 10 children, born over a 20-year span from 1867 to 1887. She sometimes used the name Sallie or Sally, a diminutive of Sarah.
On February 13, 1866, Sarah was married to E. Love ("E" stood for Ebzan) in Grainger County, Tennessee. Ebzan was a blacksmith and Sarah was his 2nd wife. A photograph of Sarah's gravestone in Oak Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Alabama, gives her birth date as April 22, 1849 in Morristown, Tennessee, and her death date as November 21, 1895. The stone states that she was the wife of E. Love, Sr., whose grave is next to hers. He died in 1910.
In 1870, the Grainger County, Tennessee census shows Ebzan and Sallie in the same household with the following children of their own:
1. Margaret Love, age 3, born 1867 (documentation: Margaret's death certificate names Ebzan Love and Sallie Darnell as her parents)
2. Milton Love, age 1, born 1868 or 1869
In the 1880 census, Sarah's husband is listed as Sam Love. They are now in Knoxville, Tennessee. Ebzan and Sam were the same person--Ebzan's full name was Samuel Ebzan Love, and he went by both names at various times.
In the Knoxville household in 1880 with the Loves were Sarah's mother, Ruth Darnell, the above two children (Margaret and Milton), and an additional 5 children:.
3. Mary J. Love, age 9, born about 1871
4. Correen A. Love, age 7, born about 1873
5. William W. (Walter) Love, age 6, born about 1874
6. Musiadora Love, age 2, born about 1878
7. Charles D. Love, age 1, born about 1879
There may have been an additional child, Gussie Love. A death record for Gussie gives her birth year as 1872 and names her parents as E. Love and Sarah E. Darnell. However, Gussie does not appear as part of the family on census records--she may have been the same person as the above Mary or Correen.
In the same year, 1880, the census shows Ebzan Love living alone, in Springville, St. Claire County, Alabama. He had left Tennessee and gone to Alabama to look for work, and to be near his son from his first marriage, Ebzan, Jr., who was a railroad engineer there. Ebzan Love stayed in Alabama and was listed in the 1888 and 1890 Birmington, Alabama city directories. Sarah joined Ebzan in Birmingham sometime between late 1880 and 1884, and two more children were born there:
8. Eugene M. Love, born February 1895 in Alabama
9. Clide/Clyde C. Love, born August 1887 in Alabama
Ebzan Love was previously married to Emma Bailey in 1852 in North Carolina and they had had 7 children. Emma died about 1865. Sarah raised these children as well as her own, so there were 15 or 16 children in the family. Sarah died in 1995 at age 46.
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1849 - 1895 (46 years)