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Descendants of William Ball

Generation No. 17


23. ALICE BERRY17 LOVE (ALICE PARALEE16 SHELBY, ELIZABETH MALONE15 COBB, ELIZABETH (BETSY)14 CAMPBELL, MARTHA PATSY13 GLASCOCK, JOHN MILTON12, GEORGE11, ESTHER10 BALL, RICHARD9, WILLIAM8, WILLIAM7, WILLIAM6, JOHN PARIS5, JOHN PARIS4, WILLIAM3, ROBERT2, WILLIAM1) died in Victoria, TX. She married ROBERT RICH in Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL. He was born in Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL, and died in Victoria, TX.
     
Children of A
LICE LOVE and ROBERT RICH are:
  i.   BARBARA (BOBBIE)18 RICH, b. Victoria, TX.
  ii.   (SCRAPPY) RICH, b. Victoria, TX.


24. SR. LEO SHELBY17 LOVE (ALICE PARALEE16 SHELBY, ELIZABETH MALONE15 COBB, ELIZABETH (BETSY)14 CAMPBELL, MARTHA PATSY13 GLASCOCK, JOHN MILTON12, GEORGE11, ESTHER10 BALL, RICHARD9, WILLIAM8, WILLIAM7, WILLIAM6, JOHN PARIS5, JOHN PARIS4, WILLIAM3, ROBERT2, WILLIAM1) was born December 11, 1890 in Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL, and died December 01, 1955 in Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL. He married MIRIAM ESTELLE BROWN December 24, 1908 in Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Alabama, daughter of GERALD BROWN and ELIZABETH CRENSHAW. She was born August 11, 1891 in Milledgeville, Baldwin Co., Georgia, and died March 15, 1976 in Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Alabama.

Notes for S
R. LEO SHELBY LOVE:
I am not sure where my Grandfather Leo Love was born. I was told in Birmingham, AL. However, the 1920 Census for Jefferson Co., AL gives his birthplace as Tennessee. (Note: as of June 2003, my aunt Carolyn tells me he was no doubt born in Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL)

I and my cousins called my grandfather "Pappy Daddy" until we were older. Then he became Pap. I am told by my aunt Carolyn that he chose to be called "Pappy Daddy" after the comicstrip character Popeye's father "Poopdeck Pappy" because he didn't want to be called grandpa or granddaddy.

He was a man of great character. He worked as a railroad engineer all of his life and could not have had much money, especially raising eight kids. Nevertheless, he and his family would take Christmas gifts to the Orphanage every Christmas, and he would give good donations to Father Flanagan's Home for Boys every year until the day he died. I suppose he, and my grandmother, did this because my grandmother had spent part of her own childhood in an orphanage. After Pap's death my grandmother received a letter of condolence from Father Flanagan's Home.

My grandfather was a small man who had a very large spirit. Now that I know his heritage, I can understand why. He expressed that tremendous Welsh intensity through his own character.
Leo became ill in 1954. I was devastated. I loved him so much and wanted him to be present when I graduated from High School so I prayed night after night for him to live. He lived to witness my graduation from high school in June of 1955. He died 1 December 1955. I still miss him, and have so many wonderful memories about him, after almost fifty years.
(Source: Martha Cross Mordecai, 2001)


More About S
R. LEO SHELBY LOVE:
Burial: Forest Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Ala.

Notes for M
IRIAM ESTELLE BROWN:
Miriam Estelle Brown was born 6 August 1892 in Milledgeville, GA. When she was three years old her father, Gerald, died of Tuberculosis which he had contracted in the Cotton Mill where he worked.
Her mother, Catherine died when she was six years old from the same disease. She and her sister Myrtis were taken in by an aunt to live with her and her husband.

The aunt and uncle were the girl's caretakers until they, themselves, both died in a fire in the bar he owned. I was told by my mother that Estelle was about seven or eight when this occurred. Mother said that the uncle was an alcoholic and would come home drunk and beat the aunt and the children so they would hide in the woods until he was asleep. After the death of the aunt and uncle, both girls were placed in the "Mumford Home for Children" in Milledgeville until they were each adopted. The story is that Myrtis was adopted first and, on the way home with her new parents, tried to tell them she had a sister at the orphanage. When they realized what she was saying, they turned around and went back to adopt Estelle also. By the time they arrived, Estelle had already been adopted by another couple. The two adoptive couples made an agreement to have the sisters visit each other as often as possible. Estelle was raised in Americus, GA.

When Estelle was sixteen my grandfather Leo Love entered her life. They were soon married in abt. 1908. Their first child, May E. Love was born. May lived until she was eighteen months old, at which time she died of colitis in her father's arms. They then had Leona, Gladys and a son whom they named Shelby. Shelby was stillborn. After the death of Shelby, their lives became happier. They had seven surviving children and later adopted another.

We called my grandmother Estelle, "Mama Love", and that she was. She was the most loving and compassionate human being I have known in my life. She was my role model for goodness.

My grandfather, Leo, died December of 1955 after which time she was never as happy for she never got over his death. She contracted a virus from a blood transfusion after having had a heart attack and died a painful death at the age of 84, twenty years after Leo's death.

More About M
IRIAM ESTELLE BROWN:
Burial: Forest Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala.
     
Children of L
EO LOVE and MIRIAM BROWN are:
  i.   MAY E.18 LOVE, b. Abt. November 1909, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL; d. April 15, 1911, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL.
  Notes for MAY E. LOVE:
Record of Death: May E. Love 15 Apr 1911, Jefferson Co., Vol 12 Cert. 368 Role 1.

  More About MAY E. LOVE:
Burial: Oak Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL

25. ii.   LEONA T. LOVE, b. January 08, 1912, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Alabama; d. August 27, 1999, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Ala..
26. iii.   GLADYS ESTELLE LOVE, b. November 30, 1913, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Alabama; d. July 26, 1984, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala..
  iv.   SHELBY LOVE, b. November 08, 1915, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL; d. November 08, 1915, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL.
  Notes for SHELBY LOVE:
Shelby Love was stillborn.
AL Death Record for Jefferson Co., Volume 16 (Possibly Volume 20), Certificate #472 Role 1.

Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, B'ham, AL Lot 23 1/2 Block 7.

  More About SHELBY LOVE:
Burial: Oak Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL

  v.   JR. LEO SHELBY LOVE, b. August 22, 1916, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL; d. August 1976, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL; m. BLUE BELL LNU; b. 1907, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL; d. 1977, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL.
  More About JR. LEO SHELBY LOVE:
Burial: East Jefferson Memorial Gardens, Trussville Rd., Birmingham, AL

  More About BLUE BELL LNU:
Burial: East Jefferson Memorial Gardens, Trussville Rd., Birmingham, AL

27. vi.   MARY ALICE LOVE, b. October 29, 1919, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Alabama; d. December 16, 1993, Pueblo, Colorado.
28. vii.   EDWARD L. (EDDIE) LOVE, b. October 02, 1921, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Ala.; d. 1993, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL.
29. viii.   CAROLYN REID LOVE, b. Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL.
30. ix.   ROBERT GERALD (GERRY) LOVE, b. January 10, 1929, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Ala.; d. 1983, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL.


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