Avery-Mitchell-Watauga County NcArchives Obituaries.....Love, Thomas Anderson December 22, 1927
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The Avery Advocate May 3, 1928
Thomas Anderson Love
Thomas A. Love was born in Watauga county on the 25th day of January, 1853 and 
died at his home in Newland, N.C. on the 22nd day of December 1927.
He was admitted to the bar at the January term 1881 of the Supreme Court of 
North Carolina.
Upon his admission to the bar, he settled in the town of Bakersville, Mitchell 
county, for the practice of his profession.  He at once acquired a good 
practice and soon became one of the most noted lawyers at the Mitchell County 
Bar and held his position as such until Avery county was formed, the formation 
of which was largely due to his untiring efforts.  He spent largely of his time 
and money in securing the establishment of Avery  county.
	At an early age and before he obtained his license to practice law, he 
was happily married to Miss Lula Florence Dula, of Lenoir, N.C.  From this 
union there were eleven children, six girls and five boys of whom three sons 
and four daughters survive him, all of whom have made enviable names for 
themselves in their chosen professions or vocations.
	Tom Love, as he was familiarly known, was one of the most unassuming of 
men and yet one of the most masterful in the mountains.  He was a fighter in 
the court room and was ever alert in the interest of his clients, fully the 
equal of the very best and the more knotly questions, the cleaner the skies and 
the deeper were his divings.      Rugged  and  study at almost every point 
while in the court room in his legal battles, yet while within his home and 
neighborhood as a citizen and a neighbor, he measured to the full size as 
defined in the lesson of the Good Sameritan as defined by our Blessed Master.
	He was ever ready to aid the poor unfortunate and needy and to put 
aside his worldly interests and to look to the gain beyond the divide.
	In truth, he was a man of most wonderful peculiarities.  No man in this 
state has done more for the benefit of his community with as little for self 
aggrandizement. 
	When stricken, physicians were sent for.  He said “It is of no use, It 
is of no use, I know my race is run”.  He was unafraid and passed peacefully 
and confident.  Of course, the most skillful physicians came, but Tom was 
right, his race had ended.
	“Life is a narrow vale
Between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities;
We strive in vain to look beyond the heights.
We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of out wailing cry!
From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead, 
There comes no word.
But in the night of death, 
Hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustling of a wing.
He is dead, yet liveth!”
		John H. Bingham, 
W.C. Newland.


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