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Gabriel Loving Sr.
Born 1725 Amelia Co. VA
Died Jun 26, 1790 Wilkes Co. NC

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SPOUSE CHILDREN
Clary Bond

m. 1745
Amelia Co. VA
b. 1727?
Amelia Co. VA
d. Jun 2, 1779
Wilkes Co. NC
Thomas

b. 1746?
Amelia Co. VA
d. Feb 13, 1827
St. Clair Co. AL
Gabriel Jr.

b. after 1746?
Amelia Co. VA
d. Jul 27, 1809
Madisonville, Hopkins Co. KY
John A.

b. 1763?
Amelia Co. VA
d. Aug 13, 1818
Bloomington Twnshp., Monroe Co. IN
William Bailey (twin?)

b. 1765?
Amelia Co. VA
d. Jul 19, 1834
Russellvile, Logan Co. KY
Anna "Anne"

b. Apr 28, 1766
VA
d. 1861?
Hopkins Co. KY
James

b. 1764
?Amelia Co. VA
d. ?1843
?Hawkins Co. TN
Hannah

b. Apr 18, 1767
VA?
d. Sep 17, 1855
White Plains, Hopkins Co. KY
Mary

b. May 26, 1769
VA?
d. Jan 20, 1849
Hopkins Co. KY
Abigail

b. Nov 19, 1774
Yadkin River, Wilkes Co. NC
d. 1866
Franklin Co. AR
Permelia "Milly"

b. 1776?
Wilkes Co. NC
d. 1866
Keller, Tarrant Co. TX
Gabriel married Clara Bond, the daughter of William Bond (1701?-1779) in 1745. About 1774, they moved from VA to the Yadkin valley in Wilkes Co. NC, according to the family of son John who was 9 at the time [Find-a-grave website].
Son Thomas married Polly Stoop in 1771. He married again and moved to GA. His family there is found in the 1800 Oglethorpe Co. Census as a "Lovin" household with a wife, 3 sons and a daughter.
Son Gabriel was a Lieutenant in the Continental Army during the Revolution.
In 1778 a William and a Gabriel Loving entered tracts of land that were on opposite sides of the Yadkin River in Wilkes County NC. The surveys done in October of that year indicated that they had been there for some time, having made improvements on the land.
In a Sep 28, 1779, a survey request indicated that Gabriel was living on 240 acres in Wilkes Co. on the north side of the Yadkin River, adjoining land of John Parkes. This land had been granted to Gabriel Loving "for the sum of Fifty Shillings for every hundred acres" [Read, p. 260].
On Aug 7, 1781, Gabriel's son Gabriel married his cousin Rachel Loving, widow of Daniel Sisk, 1754-1780, who was killed at the Battle of Kings Mountain in Oct 7, 1780. Gabriel Jr. remarried in 1797/8 to Mary "Polly" Sumpter and had more children, possibly a Mahala, born Jul 29, 1799, died in 1880?, who married Arris Alexander.
Daughter Anna married William Davis (1761-1838) on Nov 15, 1780 in Wilkes Co. NC. She filed a Revolutionary War Pension Feb 13, 1843 in Hopkins Co. KY, with his sister, Elizabeth Davis Fox, as one of the witnesses. He was buried in Flat Creek Cemetery located north of Morton's Gap KY [Find-a-grave website].
Daughters Mary and Abigail married brothers John and Ebenezer Bourland. Mary married Baptist Minister Rev. John Bourland in SC in 1783, and Abigail married Ebenezer Bourland about 1790.
Daughter Hannah married James Allen Sr. on May 18, 1790 in Wilkes Co. NC.
In 1786, son William B. married Lucy Inu and they had a son William B. Loving Jr. born about 1797. He married Nancy Crisp (1812-1886) in Burke Co. on May 7, 1827 [wikitree.com website].
Daughter Milly married Thomas Allen (1768-1845), brother of sister Hannah's husband, in Oct 1796 in Wilkes Co. NC.
Abigail Loving Bourland was buried in the Bourland Cemetery in White Oak, Franklin Co. AR. Photo of the grave mmonument [Find-a-grave website].
In 1847, Permelia Loving Allen was a widow when she "headed" a pioneer settlement of the Texas Republic from Moniteau, Missouri. Their settlement was located at what is now the Mount Gilead Cemetery, where she was buried in an unmarked grave. Photo of the historical marker Keller TX. The Peters Colony eventually grew encompass what became Tarrant Co. in 1850 and others now including Fort Worth [Find-a-grave website].
A William Loving, his father-in-law James Taylor White, and his two sons William and Reuben White, along with their brother-in-law John Holloway, were members of a SC militia defeated at Marr's Bluff SC, at the hands of Regulators, on July 25, 1768.
Excerpt from the book The South Carolina Regulators by Richard Maxwell Brown gives a background and summary of the incident.
Sources:
Brown, Richard Maxwell, The South Carolina Regulators, Cambridge, Mass., 1963.
State Census of North Carolina 1784-1787, Wilkes County, Capt. Carrell's District, Jul 3, 1787, p. 178.
Peyton, H.E.H., Some Early Pioneers of Western Kentucky, NC Libr., Newton, NC, 1990, pp. 589-593.
Phifer, Edward Jr., BURKE: The History of a North Carolina County 1777-1926, Morganton, NC, 1977, Appendix D, pp. 400-401.
Read, Carl & May, The Loving Family In America, 1705-1981, Harp & Thistle, Ltd., Warner Robbins GA, 1981, pp. 259-262.
Smithers, "Loving/Lovan Genealogy", Tanglewood Chronicles, Newton Libr., Newton NC.