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Very little is known about the lives of John and Elizabeth Sproul Love other than the information gleaned from census records and a couple of family trees on Ancestry.Com™ The 1860 United States census shows John living with brothers William, Samuel, and Richard, and sister Ellen in New York City, and lists his occupation as "clerk." Elizabeth was living with her family in New York at that time, Joseph and Jeanette Sproul, both Scottish immigrants.

Three children were born to John and Elizabeth while living in New York; Samuel Charles Love born in January 1866, Jessie Love born in 1867, and John Love, Jr., born in March 1869. The 1870 US census shows Elizabeth and the 3 children living with her mother in Brooklyn, New York while John was living in the home of his older brother, James Hamilton Love, and his family in Albia, Iowa and working as a clerk in a store.

From the 1885 Iowa State Census, this record shows John Love Anderson and his children William, Sadie, Florence and Mollie; also shown are Elizabeth Love Anderson and her children, Jessie, John Jr. and Bell (Isabelle); 1-year old Mabel was the first child of John and Elizabeth Anderson. Their second child, George Richard, was born in 1888. Elizabeth's first-born, Samuel Charles, shows up on the 1885 Iowa State Census at 19 years of age living with John Richard and Lucinda Melissa Lambertson Love on the James Hamilton Love farm in Bluff Creek Twp.

Samuel Charles Love
born January 1866 in New York, New York; married Iva Belle Myrick (b. 1874 in Warren Co., Iowa) on September 23, 1890 in Warren County, Iowa.
Charles and Iva Belle Love's son, Homer Eli Love was born April 17, 1893 in Hamilton, IA
1900: living in Liberty Twp., Marion County, Iowa where Charles worked as a telegraph operator;
1920: living in Linn Twp., Warren County, Iowa; Charles employed as a railroad agent;
1929: Iva Belle Love died in Warren County, Iowa;
1939: Samuel Charles Love died in Warren County, Iowa;

Homer Eli Love
born April 17, 1893 in Hamilton, Iowa; married Pearl Z. Broadman (born 1897 in Iowa) in 1914.
Homer and Pearl Love were the parents of 2 children, Eleanor L. Love, born in 1915, and Charles E. Love born in 1919, both in Iowa.
1920: Homer and Pearl were living on a farm in Union County, Iowa.
1930: Homer was widowed by this time, living in Polk County, Iowa and working in an "automobile works."
Homer died in West Des Moines, Iowa in April 1986.

Jessie Love
born October 27, 1867 in New York, New York; married William Andrew Anderson (her step-brother and son of John L. Anderson) in 1886. The couple had 4 children, Thomas Love Anderson (1897-1930), Samuel John Anderson (1890-1918), William Merle Anderson (1893-1952) and Ruth Elizabeth Anderson (1904-1929).
1900: William worked as a "marble dealer" in Albia, Iowa; the family was living just a few doors away from Jessie's aunt, Anne Dunleavy and her daughter, Fannie M.)
1920: William owned and operated a hardware store in Albia, Iowa.
1930: the US Census show the couple living at 522 South Main St. in Albia, Iowa; William is listed as a farmer while Jessie is a homemaker.
1933: Jessie Love Anderson died May 5, 1933 in Albia, Iowa after a stroke.
1934: William Andrew Anderson married Henrietta Young (Jesse's 1st cousin).
1943: William Andrew Anderson died June 24, 1943 in Albia, Iowa.

John Love, Jr.
born in March 1869 in New York, New York; married Mabel Gow (born in Ohio December 29, 1870) in Albia, Iowa on February 22, 1892 and died August 27, 1914 in Wheeling, West Virginia; John and Mabel Love were the parents of 5 children:
Gladys Leone Love born December 14, 1893 in Iowa
Harold Gow Love born June 2, 1895 in Valley Junction, IA died October 21, 1939 in
Goleta, California
Melila Elizabeth Love born February 12, 1897 in Ohio (named after Mabel's mother),
died July 23, 1968 in Pomona, California
Thomas Ralph Love born June 8, 1899 in Iowa died December 24, 1980 in San
Bernardino, California
Samuel George Love born 1903 in West Virginia
1900: John, Mabel and their children were living near John's older brother, Charles, in rural Marion County, Iowa and John worked as a "restaurant keeper."
1910: Mabel and her 5 children were living with her mother in Wheeling, W.Va.; Mabel's marital status was "married" although John, Jr. was not listed with them.
1920: still in Wheeling, Mabel listed her marital status as "widowed" and was working as a bookkeeper in a bakery; living with her were: daughter Melila E. Love, a public school teacher, and son, Thomas Ralph Love, who worked as a clerk for the railroad.
1930: Mabel and family moved to Pomona, CA in 1920, just after the census in W. Va
Mabel Gow Love died September 29, 1946 in Los Angeles, California.

Isabelle Love
born in February 1872 in Iowa; married Edward Caleb Jolliffe (born 1/9/1877 in Marion Co., Iowa) on April 27, 1898 in Albia, Iowa. Isabelle and Edward were the parents of one daughter, Blanche Thelma Jolliffe, born November 13, 1901 in Albia, Iowa.
1910: The Jolliffes were living in Sioux Falls, South Dakota where Edward worked as a furniture salesman.
1920: The family had moved to Los Angeles, California, Edward was still selling furniture and Blanche was a saleslady in a bakery.
1930: The Jolliffes were still in Los Angeles, Edward continued to be involved in furniture sales, while Blanche worked as a clerk in a drug store.
1933: Isabelle died September 1, 1933 in Los Angeles, California.
1940: Edward is 62 and listed as a widower, working in furniture sales. Blanche Jolliffe is 39 and working in the Billing Dept. of a hardware store.
1944: Blanche Jolliffe marries Ray S. King on August 21st.
1945: Blanche Thelma Jolliffe King died May 22nd.
1964: Edward Caleb Jolliffe died November 12, 1964.

Coincidences Abound
1. John Love Anderson's mother, Nancy Love Anderson, was the daughter of John Love, born in 1774 in County Tyrone, province of Ulster, Ireland. Ulster also includes County Donegal, just to the west of Tyrone, where the Samuel and Nancy Anne Chestnut Love family lived. Nancy Love Anderson's grandfather was George Love born in 1748 in County Tyrone as well. George Love emigrated to the U.S., and died April 23, 1824 in Athens, Harrison County, Ohio.
2. John Love Anderson's first wife, Isabelle Henderson, was the maternal granddaughter of John Nichol and Martha Love; Martha Love arrived in the U.S. in 1789 from Ireland.
3. John Love, Jr. the 3rd child of John Love and Elizabeth Sproul Love married Mabel Gow in 1893; Mabel was the daughter of Melila J. Anderson, John Love Anderson's sister.
4. Jessie Love, the 2nd child of John Love and Elizabeth Sproul Love, married her step-brother, William Andrew Anderson, the son of John Love Anderson and Isabelle Henderson Anderson.
5. After Jessie Love Anderson died in about 1930, her widowed husband, William Andrew Anderson, married Henrietta Young, the daughter of Margaret Love Young, the sister of Jessie Love Anderson's father, John Love.

Elizabeth Sproul was born March 24, 1844 in New York City. Her father died when she was quite young. Her mother was a pious Scotch lady, and trained her children in the "nurture and admonition of the Lord." So, in early girlhood, Elizabeth gave her heart to the Saviour and united with the Episcopal Church. She developed into a beautiful young woman and when, at the age of twenty, she married John Love, there was not a handsomer couple in the state.

They moved to Albia in 1871, and the death of her husband in 1878 left her a widow with four children.

March 17, 1882, just 18 years after her marriage to John Love, she married John Love Anderson and moved to his beautiful farm home near Avery. Two children blessed this union. As Mr. Anderson was a prominent official in the United Presbyterian Church, his wife united with that denomination and continued a faithful member.

In February 1893, Mr. Anderson died very suddenly, and his wife returned to Albia.

A few years ago she had a stroke of paralysis from which she never entirely recovered, but she bore her suffering with Christian fortitude.

Her last illness was of short duration as she was confined in bed scarcely a week. A competent nurse was procured and everything that love could suggest was done, but as day was dawning March 5, 1901, this "Child of a King" was called to the "Morning Land."

She was a cultured, gentle woman, and had a sunny disposition, thus winning many friends.

Her six children, Samuel, Charles and John Love, of Hamilton; Mrs. W.A. Anderson, Mrs. E. Joliff; Mabel and George Anderson; 9 grandchildren; a sister in Canada; and numerous friends mourn her departure.

The funeral services were held in the U.P. Church March 7th, and conducted by Rev. J.B. Jackson, who preached from the text "For, to me to live in Christ, to die is Gain." In a beautiful casket with lovely floral emblems the remains were carried to the grave.

"Free from all Care, Work being Done
Suffering Past, Victory Won
Now to dwell at home with the Blest,
Forever More, Eternally at rest."

Mrs. W.A. Anderson has returned from Wheeling, W. Va., where she was called to the death bed of her brother, John Love, who was born in New York, but had spent his boyhood and school days in Albia.

He learned telegraphy and held responsible positions in different states. For some time he had been in failing health and about five years ago tried Columbia's climate. He was better for a while but a year ago was seized with what some of the doctors pronounced heart asthma. Hoping for relief he went to California, but not obtaining relief he returned to Wheeling.

The physicians gave him no hope but he made a brave fight for life for the sake of his wife, formerly Miss Mabel Gow, a niece of the late John L. Anderson, and at one time a teacher in Monroe County; and his two daughters and three sons.

When nearing the end of life's journey, he said to his sister, "I am ready to go, and I think God is ready for me. It will not be long for the cords are almost broken." Arousing from sleep he exclaimed, "Oh, how beautiful!" "What?" they asked. "The pearly gates," he replied, "I wish I could see them again."

At 8:15 a.m. Thursday, August 28, having so long traveled in "the pinching gateway of pain," his spirit fled after he had looked around and said, "God bless you all." The funeral was held the following Saturday and the body gently laid to rest in Hillside Cemetery to await the resurrection.