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Descendants of Benjamin Dawson Loveless

Generation No. 2

2. JORDAN DEE² LOVELACE (BENJAMIN DAWSON¹ LOVELESS) was born March 23, 1843 in Barbour County, Alabama, and died June 24, 1917 in Mt. Vernon, Franklin County, Texas. He married REBECCA JANE QUINTON December 01, 1870 in Bullock County, Alabama, daughter of ROBERT QUINTON and MILDRED COOPER. She was born April 07, 1849 in Walker County, Georgia, and died April 08, 1926 in Miller, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.

Notes for JORDAN DEE LOVELACE:
Picture #1 was taken about 1902 at the Jordan Dee Lovelace home, Franklin County, Texas about 10 miles S. of Mt. Vernon. Franklin County was part of Titus County until 1875. They purchased the property in 1868 when they moved here from Barbour County, Alabama by wagon. They purchased several hundred acres, but later sold some to his brother John when he moved here from Alabama. Part of this land is still known as the Lovelace Estate. Later, William Taylor moved here, but they built him a house on Jordan's land without selling him any land. William Taylor later moved to West Texas around the Childress area.

At the time of his death, Jordan Dee was receiving compensation for Injury and bravery while serving in Co. "H", 15th Alabama Infantry. Jenny, then provided the proper documents to the State of Texas on the subject and the State of Texas paid her the same amount for life.

Both Jordan Dee and Jenny are buried in the Providence Cemetery, about three miles south of Mt. Vernon, Franklin County, Texas. The cemetery has about 1,500 graves and in the center a bronze plaque rests on a concrete apron. The plaque is about 5' wide and 4' high and has about 3,000 digits written on it. About 300 of them are honoring Jordan Dee and Jenny, by name, as pioneers in that part of the state.

Jordan Dee was capture twice in the Civil War, first at Antietam and escaped; second at Gettysburg and did not.
LOVELASS, Judge D. Pvt., Co. "H" Wounded, 2nd Manassas; captured, Gettysburg, and never exchanged; Oates ,19,

The 15th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment was organized at Fort Mitchell, Alabama, in August, 1861, with eleven companies recruited from Barbour, Dale, Henry, Macon, Pike, and Russell counties. With over 900 men, the regiment was moved into East Tennessee and then Virginia. It joined the main army near Manassas and was brigaded with the 21st Georgia, 21st North Carolina, and 16th Mississippi Regiments under Maj. General G. B. Crittenden of Kentucky (Brig. General Isaac R. Trimble succeeded Crittenden in December). When the army moved over to Yorktown, the 15th remained on the Shenandoah in Maj. General Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson's Division to participate in the Valley Campaign. It was engaged with slight loss at Front Royal (23 May 1862) and Winchester (25 May), but it lost 9 killed and 33 wounded out of 425 engaged at Cross Keys (8 June).
Moving over to Richmond in Jackson's Rank attack against Union Maj. General George B. McClellan, the 15th entered the first battle of Cold Harbor (27-28 June) with 412 men and lost 34 killed and 110 wounded. The regiment suffered slightly at Malvern Hill on I July. It was engaged at Hazel River (22 August) and at Manassas Junction with a loss of 6 killed and 22 wounded. The 15th Alabama participated in the 2nd Battle of Manassas (30 August), losing 21 killed and 91 wounded out of 440 men engaged. At Chantilly (1 September), the regiment lost 4 killed and 14 wounded and took part in the investment of Harpers Ferry, with trivial loss. At Sharpsburg (17 September), of 300 men engaged, 9 were killed and 75 wounded. Under fire at Fredericksburg on 15 December, the regiment had casualties of one killed and 34 wounded.
The 15th Alabama was placed in the Alabama Brigade under General Evander McIver Law (with the 4th, 44th, 47th and 48th Alabama regiments) on 19 January 1863.
On detached duty at Suffolk until May, the regiment lost 4 killed and 18 wounded. Later that summer, the regiment took part in the assault on Gettysburg (1-3 July) with Hood's Division, and within a few minutes lost 72 killed, 190 wounded, and 81 missing of the 644 men engaged. The 15th suffered lightly at Battle Mountain, and, transferred to the West with Braxton Bragg's army, fought at Chicamauga (19-20 September), where it lost 19 killed and 123 wounded, out of 425 engaged. In the fierce fights at Brown's Ferry (27 October) and Lookout Valley, the regiment lost 15 killed and 40 wounded. At Knoxville (17 November - 4 December), 6 were killed and 21 wounded; at Bean's Station (14 December), losses were slight.
In 1864, the 15th took 450 men into the fight at The Wilderness (5-7 May) and Spottsylvania (8-18 May) where it lost 19 killed and 48 wounded. At Hanover Court House (30 May) and the 2nd Battle of Cold Harbor (1-12 June), the loss was 6 killed and 16 wounded. During the Petersburg defense, the 15th lost a third of its 275 men at Deep Bottom (14-18 August), and at Fussell's Milt the loss was 13 killed and 90 wounded. The 15th took part in the subsequent severe fighting and surrendered 170 men at Appomattox. Of 1633 on the rolls, over 260 fell in battle, 440 died in the service, and 231 were transferred or discharged.
Field and staff officers: Cols. James Cantey (Russell County; promoted); John Fletcher Treutlen (Barbour County; resigned, 28 April 1861); William Calvin Oat (Henry County; wounded, Brown's Ferry); Alexander A. Lowther (Russell County; wounded, Fussell's Mill); Lt. Cols. John Fletcher Treutlen (promoted); Isaac Ball Feagin (Barbour County; wounded, Gettysburg, retired, 7 Doc 1864); Majors John Wilhite Lewis Daniel (Barbour County; resigned, 25 Jan 1862); Alexander A. Lowther (wounded, The Wilderness; promoted); and Adjutants Locke Weems (Russell County; died in service, 16 July 1862); D. B. Waddell (transferred to line)

Captains (and the counties from which the companies came)
o Co. "A", Cantey Rifles (Russell County) - Alexander A- Lowther (promoted); Locke Weems (mortally
wounded, Gaines' Mill); Francis Key Shaaf
o Co. "B", Midway Southern Guards (Barbour County) - John Wilhite Lewis Daniel (promoted); Isaac Ball
Feagin (promoted); Richard E. Wright (wounded, 2nd Manassas; retired, 8 Aug 1863); Noah B. Feagin
o Co. "C" (Macon County) -- Peter V. Guerry (KIA, 1st Cold Harbor); James H. Ellison (KIA, Gettysburg);
LeGrand
o Co. "D", Fort Browder Roughs (Barbour County) - Worthington (died in service); Blanton Aabram Hill
(KIA, Fussell's Mill)
o Co. "E" (Dale County) - Esau Brooks (resigned, 8 Feb 1862); William A. Edwards (resigned, 28 Aug 1863); G. A. C. Mathews (wounded, near Richmond; retired); Glover (KIA, Petersburg)
o Co. "F", Brundridge Guards (Pike County) - Benjamin F. Lewis (resigned, 7 Feb 1862); George Y. Malone (wounded, 1st Cold Harbor; retired, 18 March 63); DeKalb Williams.
o Co. "G" (Henry County) - William Calvin Oates (promoted); Henry C. Brainard (KIA, Gettysburg); John C. Oates (mortally wounded, Gettysburg); D. B. Waddell
o Co. "H", Glenville Guards (Barbour and Dale Counties) - William N. Richardson (captured, East
Tennessee)
o Co. "I" (Pike County) -- Benjamin Gardner (resigned, 15 Dec 186 1); Frank Park (KIA, Knoxville); W. H.
Stricklan (wounded, Fussell's Mill)
o Co. "K", Eufaula City Guard (Barbour County) - Henry C. Hart (resigned, 13 Sept 1862); William J.
Bethune (wounded, Gettysburg); John E. Jones
o Co. "L" (Pike County) - Robert H. Hill (KIA, Cross Keys); Lee E. Bryan (wounded, 1st Cold Harbor;
retired, 28 March 1863); James J. Hatcher
Bibliography:
Boyd, Casper. "Casper W. Boyd, Company 1, 15th Alabama infantry, C. S. A- A casualty of the battle of Cross Keys, Virginia. His last letters written home, "Alabama Historical Quarterly, XXIII (1961), 291-299
Cody, Barnett Hardeman. "Letters of Barnett Hardeman Cody and others, 1861-1864," Georgia Historical Quarterly, XXIII (193 9), 265-299, 362-380
Ellison, Joseph M. "War letters (1862)," Georgia Historical Quarterly, XLVIII (1964), 229-238
Houghton, Mitchell Bennett. From the beginning until now. Montgomery, 1914
Houghton, William Robert. Two boys in the Civil War and after. Montgomery: Paragon Press, 1912
William C. Jordan. Some events and incidents during the Civil War. Montgomery: Paragon Press, 1909
Lary, Samuel D. "Sam Lary's 'Scraps from my knapsack,'" in Alabama Historical Quarterly, XVIII (1956), 499-525
McClendon, William Augustus. Recollections of war times, by an old veteran while under Stonewall
Jackson and Lieutenant General James Longstreet. How I got in and how I got out. Montgomery: Paragon Press, 1909
Oates, William C. "Gettysburg, the battle on the right" in Southern Historical Society Papers, VI (1878) 172-182
Oates, William C. The War between the Union and the Confederacy and its lost opportunities, with a history of the 15th Alabama regiment and the forty-eight battles in which it was engaged. New York Neale Pub. Co., 1905 (reprinted, Morningside Press, 1985)
Youngblood, William. "Unwritten history of the Gettysburg campaign," in Southern Historical Society Papers, XXXVIII (1910), 312-318
Muster Rolls
Photographs:
Sergeant Major Robert C. Norris [From Confederate Veteran, XXI:547]

More About JORDAN DEE LOVELACE:
Burial: Providence Cemetery, Franklin County, Texas
Cause of Death: Volvular Insolvency of heart
Military: Bet. July 03, 1861 - June 14, 1865, 15th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment - Co. "H"

Notes for REBECCA JANE QUINTON:
Jenny and her mother, Mary Cooper Quinton, were so much alike that many people thought they were sisters.

From unknown source: Some think this was Carrie Ann's handwriting.

Mrs. Jennie Quinton Lovelace

Born: April 7, 1848 in Georgia, age 77 years and 15 minutes. Died: April 8, 1926, 15 minutes after 12 o'clock.

Moved to Alabama when a small child lived there until she married at the age of 22 years to Mr. Jourdan Lovelace.

Came to Franklin County, Texas in 1871. Lived in Franklin County until husband death 1917 then moved to Oklahoma with daughter, lived with her daughter until death.

Three children were born to them all are still living
C. A. Lovelace of Yeager, Okla.
Mrs. Leona Holder Miller, Okla.
W. D. Lovelace of Mt. Vernon, Texas.

Mrs. Lovelace joined the Missionary Baptist Church at Center Ridge in her early years.

More About REBECCA JANE QUINTON:
Burial: Providence Cemetery, Franklin County, Texas
Cause of Death: Seniter Bronchitis
Church: Missionary Baptist Church

Marriage Notes for JORDAN LOVELACE and REBECCA QUINTON:
Loveless, J. D. Quinton, R. J. Dec. 1, 1870 Bullock County, Alabama

More About JORDAN LOVELACE and REBECCA QUINTON:
Marriage: December 01, 1870, Bullock County, Alabama

Children of JORDAN LOVELACE and REBECCA QUINTON are:

6.	i.	CHARLES ALONZA³ LOVELACE, b. February 18, 1872, Franklin County, Texas; d. December 15, 1940, Yeager, Hughes County, Oklahoma.
	ii.	LEONA LOVELACE, b. 1874; d. Miller, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma; m. LOU HOLDER; d. Miller, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.
7.	iii.	WATSON DEE HOMER LOVELACE, b. June 10, 1876, Mt. Vernon, Franklin County, Texas; d. February 24, 1936, Franklin County, Texas.

3. WILLIAM TAYLOR² LOVELACE (BENJAMIN DAWSON¹ LOVELESS) was born 1848 in Barbour County, Alabama. He married MARGARET. She was born 1848 in Tennessee.

Children of WILLIAM LOVELACE and MARGARET are:

	i.		ALICE³ LOVELACE, b. 1876.
	ii.		ALBERT T. LOVELACE, b. 1879.

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