Individual Details

William moved from North Carolina to Johnson Co, MO about 1866. He was an officer in the CSA. [I have been unable to find any record of her service.] He married Eliza Green Reaves.

1860 Census. Bundy's Dist, Surry Co, NC, Hh 222
Wm R Lovill, age 47, b. NC as was the entire family, farmer. Eliza, age 41
Henry 22. Sarah E. 19. E. F. 18 [male]. M.C. 16 [male], Mary R. 14, Nancy 12, Rufus 10, Eliza 6, Charley 3.

Personnel of the Convention of 1861, North Carolina
by John Gilchrist McCormick, Chapel Hill, 1900
James Sprout Historical Monographs No. 1
p.93-4
LOVILL, WILLIAM REDFORD
The Assistant Doorkeeper of the Convention was William Redford Lovill who was born in Surry county, April 15, 1813 and is still living in Vernon County, Missouri. William Lovill, whose wife was Sarah Poindexter was his father. [Error - his mother was Sarah Poindexter, but his father was JAMES Lovill] Wm. R. Lovill's paternal grandfather emigrated from Cornwall, England to Surry county about 1760 and served in the Revolutionary war and in the House of Commons two times. Wm. R. Lovill served a number of times as doorkeeper of one or the other houses of the legislature before the war. He was a Whig before the war, and at first was opposed to secession, but after Lincoln called for troops favored secession and armed resistance. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
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1870 Census. Columbus Twp, Johnson Co MO, Hh 19
William R. Lovell, age 59, b. NC as was the entire family, Farmer
Eliza J., age 50.
Micajah 25. Nancy P. 23, Rufus J. 21. Charles 12. Jerimia A. 10. Robert Lee 6.
Dick Lovell, age 14, Black.

1880 Census. Washington, Vernon Co, MO, Hh 129
W. R. Lovill, age 67, physician E. G., 60 [female]
C. P., age 22, son. Jeremiah A. 19, son. R.L. 16, son.
A. E. 14, granddaughter. E. E. 10, granddaughter. E. C. 7, granddaughter.

1900 Census. Henry, Vernon Co, MO, Hh 138
Nancy Howard, b. Feb 1848, age 52, wd, married 32 years, had 3 children, all are living, she and both parents b. NC
James Howard, son, b. Oct 1869, age 30, age 30, b. MO, parents both born NC
William Lovell, father, b. Apr 1813, age 87, wd, born NC as were his parents
Charles B. Lovell, brother, b. Sept 1857, age 42, born NC

Buried Deepwood Cemetery, Nevada, Vernon Co, MO

Here is testimony of a daughter to the Guion Miller Commision, circa 1908.
"Mary R. Marion, was 63, lived in Surry Co. She was related to the Poindexters through her father, his mother being Sally R. Poindexter, daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth Pledge Poindexter. My father died a month ago at age 95 and he told me Betty Pledge Poindexter's father was William Pledge. The wife of William Pledge was Betty Donahoo and her father was Donahoo, a Cherokee Indian Chief who lived in his last home in Yadkin. [We think he did.] My father never got money from the Indians except when he worked as a doctor among the Western Cherokee at Vinita, Indian Territory. He practiced there for about 10 years beginning in 1867. The Cherokee offered tribal rights if he would stay; he moved to Missouri and died there. Sally R. Poindexter was born 6 Apr 1784."
Mary's father was obviously William Radford Lovill, son of Sarah R. Poindexter who married James Lovill. Sarah was a daughter of Thomas & Betty. William R. Lovill was a officer in the CSA. The Poindexter book says he moved from Surry Co to Johnson Co MO about 1866, Mary would have been then about age 20 - apparently she did not go with the family to Missouri. She married first a Freeman, 2nd Lewis M. Marion, about 1908.

Birth	5 Apr 1813	Surry County, North Carolina
Marriage	Abt 1836	Eliza Green Reeves
Death	9 Feb 1908	Nevada, Vernon County, Missouri

Spouse	Eliza Green Reeves (1820 - 1883)
Child	Dr. Henry Poindexter Lovell (1838 - 1926)
Child	Sarah Elizabeth Lovill (1840 - 1921)
Child	Edward Francis "Frank" Lovill (1842 - 1925)
Child	Micajah Reeves Lovell (1843 - 1917)
Child	Mary Rebecca Lovell (1845 - 1941)
Child	Nancy Jane Lovill (1848 - 1905)
Child	Rufus James Lovell (1850 - 1875)
Child	Charles Puryear Lovell (1857 - 1924)
Child	Jeremiah Archie Lovell (1861 - 1917)
Child	Robert Lee Lovell (1863 - 1937)

Father	James Lovill (1780 - )
Mother	Sarah Redford "Sally" Poindexter (1784 - 1862)
Sibling	Living
Sibling	Edward F. "Ned" Lovill (1810 - 1881)
Sibling	Mary Jane Lovill (1827 - 1834)
Sibling	James Alexander Lovill (1829 - 1861)
Sibling	Living
Sibling	Living