| 14. | Thomas J. (Jesse or Jefferson) Lovelady was born on 19 Mar 1806 in Jackson Co, Tennessee (son of Thomas* Lovelady and Jane* Wear); died on 14 Dec 1890 in Dallas, Polk Co, Oregon; was buried in Dallas Cem, Dallas, Polk Co, Oregon. Other Events and Attributes:
- Census: 7 Aug 1820, White Co, Tennessee
- Census: 1830, White Co, Tennessee
- Census: Nov 1840, Pike Co, Missouri
- Other-Begin: 1846, Oregon Trail
- Census: 1850, Polk Co, Oregon
- Census: 1880, Polk Co, Oregon
Notes:
Oregon Biographical and other Index ard Fiel
Lovelady, Thomas J.
born in Jackson Co, TN
settled in turn in the states: Cape Girardeau, Jackson, and
Platte Counties, Missouri, then to Oregon Territory in 1846
started to Oregon early in May 1846 from Independence MO
route: Southern, "Applegate" Route
Arrived 3 Dec 1846
first location: Polk Co, just east of present site of Dallas
Occupation: Hotel operator, county commission
county judge,
justice court judge (JP) in both Missouri and Polk Co.
Remarks: served on the first Territorial County Commission for Polk County
Elected as County Judge, served 1852-1856
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Early Oregonian Search
https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/profile.do?recordNumber=59537
Lovelady, Thomas Jesse
Date of Birth 19 Mar 1806 Place of Birth Jackson Co., TN
Occupation farmer, hotel kpr
Date of Death 15 Dec 1890 Place of Death Polk Co., OR
Alt. Date of Death 14 Dec 1890
Place of Burial Dallas Cemetery, Dallas, Polk Co., OR
Mother Wear, Jane Date of Arrival 1846
Spouse: Bounds, Amanda Mary date: 9 Aug 1827 White Co, TN
Assessment: 1852, 1853, 1854, a855, 1856 Polk Co, OR
Land Grant Provisional 26 Oct 1846 Polk Co, OR Vol 4 Pg 049
Land Grant Provisional 26 Apr 1847 Polk Co, OR Vol 4 Pg 270
Census events: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 Polk Co, Oregon
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Land Patent: 9/7/1838 signed, 80 acres, Jackson Co, (so of Missouri River) Lexington land office
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/asp/patinfo.asp?AccessionNumber=MO0240__.383
He married Amanda Mary Bounds 9 August 1827
1840 Pike Co, Missouri Census:
male - 30-40
female - 30-40
male - under 5
female - under 5
male - 5-10
female - 5-10
male - 10-15
female - 10-15
Served in War of 1812 for Tennessee. Enlisted 12/10/1812 under Col. Thomas Benton, Capt. Benjamin Hewitt.
The Lovelady/Bounds homestead was located on a stream called Falling Water which is now in Putnam Co., TN.
Thomas Jesse (sic) Lovelady married Amanda Mary "Polly" Bounds 8 Aug. 1827 in White Co., TN.
(per Karl: Thomas J. Lovelady (Polly Bounds): his middle name isn't Jesse. Jesse son of the older Moses Lovelady (bc 1803) went to OR, claimed land and later returned to MO. People assumed the Jesse was simply the middle name of TJL.)
Thomas J. Lovelady (Polly Bounds) and Elizabeth Lovelady (John Bird Bounds) came to Oregon via the first wagon train over the Southern Route in 1846. This would be the Applegate Trail.
One can follow Thomas J. Lovelady through the census records. Birth and marriage in TN, children in TN, MO, & Oregon Territory. He and Polly still have descendants living in Oregon.
Dallas was settled in the 1840s on the north side of Rickreall Creek and was originally named "Cynthian" or "Cynthiana". A 1947 "Itemizer-Observer" article (quoted in 100 Years in Polk County: A Centennial Background) states: "[T]he town was called Cynthiana after Cynthiana, Ky., so named by Mrs. Thos. Lovelady." The History of Polk County Oregon, 1987, Page 12, states: "To Mrs. Thomas J. Lovelady was given the honor of naming the new settlement and she selected the name after her home town of Cynthiana, Kentucky." (findagrave)
Name:
some researchers indicate the middle initial J is for "Jesse." However, this is a confusion that came from the Jesse Lovelady listed in Oregon. He should be the son of Moses son of James of Smith Co, Tennessee. We do not know the exact relationship between James of Smith Co, Tennessee, and our Thomas Lovelady/Jane Ware. (Karl Kiser)
Census:
Thomas Lovelady
Free White Males - Under 10: 2 Andrew Jackson (1815) William (1811)
Free White Males - 10 thru 15: 2 Jesse (1807) Thomas (1806)
Free White Males - 45 and over: 1 Thomas
Free White Females - Under 10: 2 Margaret (1818) Jemima (1813)
Free White Females - 10 thru 15: 1 Rebecca (1807)
Free White Females - 45 and over: 1 Jane
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 2
Free White Persons - Under 16: 7
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 9
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 9
(Ancestry's scans p 26)
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(Ancestry scans, page 13)
John Bounds (son in law to Thomas)
Name: John Bounds
County: White
State: Tennessee
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Males - 16 thru 25: 1 John
Free White Females - Under 10: 1 Nancy
Free White Females - 16 thru 25: 1 Elizabeth Lovelady Bounds
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - Under 16: 1
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 3
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Census:
Name: John B Bounds
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): White, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 7
Total Slaves: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 8
Name: Jesse Lovelady
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): White, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total Slaves: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 6
Name: Thomas Lovelady
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): White, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
Slaves - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total Slaves: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 4
Name: Jane Lovelady
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): White, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 4
Census:
Thomas J. and Amanda Mary Bounds
(Thomas is James brother; and Amanda Bounds brother is
married to James sister Elizabeth)
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 Andrew (1)
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 Thomas (8)
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1 Preston (12)
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 Thomas (34)
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 Ann (1)
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1 Eliza (3)
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1 Margaret (15)
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 Amanda 29
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 8
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 6
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 8
Other-Begin:
Christians on the Oregon Trail: Churches of Christ
and Christian Churches in Early Oregon,
1842-1882
http://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=heritage_center
Several Christians were in the very first wagon train to take the Applegate Trail, and the leaders of this train were
Christians. This was the train led by brothers-in-law Harrison Linville and Medders Vanderpool. Vanderpool was married to Margaret Linville, a younger sister to Harrison. Among the other Christians in this train were John Bird Bounds and his wife, Elizabeth Lovelady Bounds. Their oldest daughter, Nancy Bounds Linville, was married to Harrison Linville.
Except for one 77-year-old man, the oldest travelers in the
train were Richard and Mary Linville, both in their 70s. They were the parents of Harrison Linville, Margaret Vanderpool and Catherine Crowley.
Thomas and Mary ("Aunt Polly") Lovelady were also in
this train. He was a brother to Elizabeth Bounds. Three other Christian families in this train were Absalom and Mary Ann Faulconer, Robert and Sarah Lancefield, and John Burris and Emily Smith. John Burris Smith was a gospel preacher, and his arrival brought the number of Christian preachers in Oregon to four.
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Some of the wagons in the Linville-Vanderpool train
reached their destination in Polk County in late November,
and others were delayed until late December. The Linvilles
spent their first winter in Polk County at Jesse Applegate's
place on Salt Creek. Harrison Linville soon selected a
donation land claim on the Luckiamute River not far from
where John and David Lewis and their wives had settled the
year before. The Lewis families had taken possession of
rectangular claims of 640 acres for each couple on land formed by the forks of the Luckiamute River. John and Elizabeth settled on the west bank and David and Mary on the east bank. The north-south road that formed the border between the two claims became the main street of Lewisville.
The Loveladys were thrilled to see the Glen Owen Burnett
family again. They had left Missouri together and had
traveled together on the trail for many miles before the
Loveladys and others had decided to detour on the Applegate
Trail. The Loveladys settled temporarily on land adjacent to
the Glen Owen Burnett family, and on occasion the two
Christian families ate dinner together; Burnett reported that "the daily bill of fare" for the two families consisted of "wheat bread without shortening, sometimes meat if a deer had been killed, Irish potatoes roasted in the ashes or boiled in clear water, and boiled wheat with salt, and for a beverage coffee made of parched peas."
However, the Loveladys soon moved to a more desirable
claim two miles east of present-day Dallas along the banks of Rickreall Creek. This made them neighbors to the Fords,
Goffs, and Lyles. The support of the Loveladys greatly
strengthened the little congregation that was meeting on
Sundays in the Jefferson Institute log cabin, and Glen Owen
Burnett kept up a regular appointment of preaching for this
congregation. Thomas Lovelady became active in civic affairs. In fact, the first three judges appointed in Polk County were Thomas Lovelady, Harrison Linville, and David R. Lewis.
The Christians had arrived in Polk County in significant
numbers, and they were making their presence known.
Census:
1850 Polk Co, Oregon
Lovelady Thomas J. 45 1805 Tennessee
Mary 39 1811 Tennessee
Thomas B. 18 1831 Tennessee
Margaret A. 1835 Missouri
Eliza A. 13 1837 Missouri
Ann J. 11 1839 Missouri
Mary F. 1 1849 Oregon
Census:
1880 Polk Co, Oregon
Thos. J. Lovelady 74 1806 widower TN NC VA boarding house keeper
Fannie Lovelady 30 daughter Oregon TN TN
Thomas married Amanda Mary Bounds on 9 Aug 1827 in White Co, Tennessee. Amanda (daughter of Esq. Thomas Bounds and Margaret Armstrong) was born in 1811 in Tennessee; died after 1850 in of, Polk Co, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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