Freestone County, Texas
Biographies


Biography of David Hall Love 
      (12 Jan 1818-21 Apr 1866, buried Fairfield Cemetery)

  Judge David Hall Love was born 12 January 1816 in Williamson Co., TN.  Joseph 
M. and Martha (Wilson) Love were David's parents.  David grew up in Tennessee.  
David came to Texas in 1835 with his family who first settled in what is now San 
Augustine County.
  David Hall Love was a member of Captain William Kimbro's "San Augustine" 
Company at San Jacinto and was issued Donation Certificate No. 483 for 640 acres of 
land for having participated in the battle. In Service Record No. 4382 it is certified 
that he served in the army from March 15 to June 15, 1836. It is stated that he 
enlisted in Captain William Scurlock's Company July 4 and was on furlough until 
October 4, 1836, when his term of enlistment expired. He was issued Headright 
Certificate for one-third of a league of land February 1, 1838 by the San Augustine 
County Board and in the certificate it is stated that he came to Texas in 1835. 
Andrew, Gilbert and William M. Love, brothers of David H. served at times in the 
Army of Texas. William M. fought Indians in the fall of 1838 at Spring Hill in what is 
now Navarro County and was a lieutenant in Captain Eli Chandler's. Company of 
Minute Men. They had a fight with Indians April 21, 1841, on Pecan Creek, a 
tributary of the Trinity.  
  David first married Tennessee Ann Randall on 1 Jan 1842 in Wilson Co., TN, 
according to the marriage license. Tennessee was born on 24 Dec 1823 in Madison 
Co., TN. and died 20 Feb 1847 at Tehuacana, Limestone Co., TX at the age of 24. 
   David is in the 1850 census in Limestone County as a school teacher with his 
second wife, Mary Frances (Dunn) Love.  Mary Dunn was born 24 January 1820 in 
Northern Ireland and died 26 November 1856 at Fairfield, Freestone Co., TX at 
the age of 36.  Mary Dunn and David Love married 8 November 1848 in Robertson Co., 
Texas. 
  Overall, David is considered by some as the founder of Fairfield since he donated
the hundred acres on June 20, 1851 to the town of Fairfield. Many of the town lots 
for Fairfield were split from his parcel of land.  David was very important in 
the county and town government, even serving as a judge for a while.
  David Love was a member of the Masonic Lodge. 
  David Love was part of the jail committee in the November term of 1856 of the
Commmissioner's Court for the second jail.  D. H. Love and J. G. Wallace won the 
jail contract for $5,992.  
  David's third marriage was to Mary Ann Hartzell on 14 July 1859 in Navarro Co., 
TX. Mary Hartzell was born 22 January 1831 in Stark Co., OH. and died on 20 
November 1899 in Wortham, TX. She is buried at Dresden Cemetery in Navarro Co., 
TX. She was the daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Burgert) Hartzell.
  At a convention held on the San Jacinto battlefield April 21, 1860, General Sam 
Houston was endorsed for president of the United States as "the people's candidate." 
Isaac L. Hill, a San Jacinto veteran, was elected president of the convention and 
among the vice presidents chosen were the following who had served under General 
Houston at San Jacinto : David H. Love, Samuel Paschall, Ellis Benson, Andrew 
Montgomery, William S. Taylor and William Dunbar.
  David was in the 1860 F.C. census for Fairfield with Mary Hartzell. 
  1862 must have been a tough year for David.  By his first marriage Mr. Love had 
one child, Andrew Campbell Love, who never married. Andrew died February 13, 1862, 
while a soldier in the Confederate Army.  Later that year, two young children, 
Evie (10 mths old) and Robert (2 yrs old), die in the month of October.
  In 1864 to 1865, David established a soldier home at Fairfield.
  David has one child with Tennessee (Andrew), six children with Mary Dunn, and 
three child with Mary Hartzell (Evie, Robert, and Joseph Hartzell).
  David dies on 21 Apr 1866 in Fairfield, Freestone Co., TX. at the age of only 
48.  David was buried at Fairfield Cemetery in Fairfield, TX.