Cemeteries, silent story tellers lie in our many cemeteries. This story is from the Hurricane Cemetery, located a short distance off S. R. 135 in western part of Crittenden County. It is about Arthur Love, and more about his father, Col. Andrew Love, who has a tragic ending to his life and has not a stone to mark his burial place.
This picture made in Nov. of 2014. The stone had just been recently cleaned by a local boy scout as project for his Eagle Scout badge. It included cleaning and resetting fallen stones.
Arthur Love, born Jan. 15, 1785, died Feb. 19, 1853. He was the son of Andrew and Anne Latimore Love. He was born in South Carolina. His parents were early pioneers of then Livingston County.
Arthur owned a farm in the Hurricane area. In 1842 he one one of the men appointed commissioner to view out and mark the best way for a road from the Hurricane area to Tolu.
Most remembered for being a neighbor and family friend of the Ford family and was in charge of the funeral services for James Ford. He gathered together a crew of slaves and had the grave dug in the Ford family graveyard and was a member of the funeral procession escorting Ford to be buried. When the slaves got scared and tried to run away during a fierce thunderstorm, Mr. Love demanded they come back and reset the casket into the grave.
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Arthur's father was Col. Andrew Love, born Sept. 12, 1747, in Pennsylvania, who migrated on to South Carolina, and then later came to Livingston County in the early 1800's around 1805, as some of his children had previously moved here. The Love's family plantation was located somewhere in the same area as James Ford's near present day Tolu. (also known as the Hurricane area)
Andrew Love was a solider in the Revolutionary War and fought in South Carolina. He served with General Sumter, and rose to the rank of Colonel, and was wounded at the battle of "King's Mountain" He was, in common with the rest of the Americans of Scotch-Irish ancestry, particularly severe on those who remained loyal to the British Crown, and were termed by their neighbors, 'Tories.'
For many years after removing to Kentucky, he was actively engaged in farming, on March 26, 1821, he went out to work on his farm, not returning when he was expected, search was made for him, and he was found in one of his fields, dead. On this day, the day before the trail where he would be a witness for the Plaintiff, in a case against James Ford, he was found in a field on his farm, dead, and bearing marks of violence. Nothing to prove the deed, but some thought he was killed to be kept from testifying again Ford.
He was buried on his farm, about fourteen miles from Marion. (How I wonder where this area was, also for his wife Anna Latimore Love who died May 18, 1814, did they once have sand stones for markers? or they still there covered by years of dirt, have they been moved or destroyed? my mind wonders?)
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Hopefully in the near future, Col. Andrew Love, with nine other local Revolutionary Veterans, will be remembered by a special Memorial Marker that is being worked on to be ready by the year 2026, for American's 250 Anniversary. God be with us through these trying times.
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