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Thomas B. Love is one of nine children born to the marriage of Charles and Rhoda (Ham) Love. The father was born in the Old Dominion, and when quite young went to Alabama, where he married Miss Ham, a native of that State. In 1830 they moved from Alabama to Rutherford County, Tenn. The mother died in 1837, and late in the same year Mr. Love married Minerva Oliphant, who lived only a short time. He took for his third wife Mrs. Mary Smith, who had been married twice before. One son was born to them. Mr. Love was a Whig, and died in 1840. Thomas B. Love is of English and Scotch and Irish descent. He is a native of Limestone County, Ala., born November11, 1823, and was educated in the common schools and was reared on a farm. At the early age of seventeen he began doing for himself, and after carpentering and studying medicine for a short time, he settled down to farming. Fannie Bethshares became his wife in 1848. She was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., April 21, 1823, and is the mother of six children. Before the war Mr. Love was a Whig, but has since been a Democrat. He came to Gibson County in 1849 and began merchandising in Humboldt, and, although he met with severe losses by fire and by the war, he now owns 110 acres of good land. He is one of the first citizens of the county, and he and wife and two children are members of the Christian Church.