The Yorkville Enquirer reported on June 5, 1873 – “Several days, two negros were drowned near Love’s Ford on the Broad River while fishing in a batteau. They had caught an ell and one man stomped on it and the bottom causing a leak. One of the mean who died was George Wood. The other person is unknown. A third man survived by clinging to the boat.”
City Directories and History: The historic Love’s Ferry crossing, over the Broad River, is near the old Love family land grants – settlement area and the Irish Cemetery, where James Love I, (xxx – April 1760), is reportedly buried. Family history states, James I was a weaver and came to Pennsylvania, by way of Northern Ireland, on to Chester County, S.C. He was married to Martha (Mattie) Drennan and their son, James Love, II (1740-1807), lived here and married Jane / Janet Lockhart (1772-1803). Note on the plats provided via the Mayhugh Collection, the Lockhart family owned numerous adjacent properties to those of the Love family along the Broad River.
Benjamin Love, whose (father presumably) owned two early land grants – properties, show just inland of the Love’s holdings that bordering the Broad River, married Jean Gaston. She was most likely the daughter of his neighboring landowner, the Revolutionary leader, William Gaston. Note that Mr. Gaston first married Jeanette Love, someone perhaps also distantly kin to Benjamin Love, Jean’s future husband. Thus, Jean Gaston Love was connected directly to the Gaston family who were staunch Patriots in the S.C. upcountry and centered around Fishing Creek Presbyterian Churches (Upper and Lower), and Cedar Shoals, where Justice John Gaston railed against the British.

Heritage Plat Maps by Mayhugh of the Love’s properties along the Broad River. (See enlarged map below as PDF).
It is unclear at this time how the owners of the Love Ferry were kin to the descendants of James Love I and II.
(See family genealogy page as JPG below.)
Additional family connections – links:
http://msgw.org/choctaw/johnkthompson.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11070435/james-harvey-love
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