Life History

Notes

• Several redords are found to document facts of Betty's and here husband's life.  In personal correspondence, their granddaughter reported their marriage date.
  
  North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979
  Wm Lovin, Age 21 (b abt 1860)
  Elizabeth Adams, Age 18 (b abt 1863)
  License issue 30 May 1881
  Marriage 12 June 1881 Graham, North Caroiina, United States
  Ceremony by T J Cooper, Minister, in the home of John Adams (father of the bride)
  Witnesses Elizabeth Deaver, Leney Davis
  Recorded Graham County Marriage Book
  North Carolina Archives Microfilm 1903
  
  The North Carolina marriage record has the date reported by their granddaughter.  This matches the number of years married reported on the 1900 census.  But her birth year reported in that census is 1869, as Virginia also reports above, which could not fit.  However, the age reported on her marriage record is 18, which makes birth about 1863, five years earlier than reported on the 1900 census and on her death certificate.  The birth date is likely wrong.  It is not uncommon for later recall by family members reports birth dates later than the actual case.
  
  At any rate, given the facts recorded in North Carolina Marriage records, we should accept that record's report of age, and resulting likely birth year, over the very often incorrect 1900 cnesus, and the fallible recall of her husband almost a century later.  In regard to Bettie's marriag eand related family matters, her granddaughter comments:
  
  "Regarding the marriage age of my grandmother, Bettie Adams Lovin, we've noted that and are not sure of dates since records differ and were not great in some families in the US during those days. Have seen a different date some time ago but just coming back to research genealogy, so for now ok with 12 yrs. My mother made the claims that
  1) she (my mother Juanita Lovin Perkins) was the youngest of 14 children of William and Bettie's children;
  2) that she herself was 16 when she married; and
  3) that my grandmother, Bettie, was part Cherokee but my DNA does not show any Native American heritage, although a grandson has a small amount of Native Indian heritage."
  --  Virginia Baxt, Ancestry Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 3 October 2019
  
  U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
  Awk Lovin
  White Male
  Birth 5 Jan 1880 Graham County, North Carolina
  Father Will Lovin
  Mother Elizabeth Adams
  SSN 408229887
  Nov 1939 Name listed as AWK LOVIN
  
  Tennessee Certificate of Death
  Elizabeth C Lovin
  Age 75 years, 3 months, 22 days
  Birth 29 September 1869 Graham County, Tennessee
  Married Housewife
  Husband William Lovin
  Father John Adams, born Graham County, North Carolina
  Mother Martha Crisp, born Graham County, North Carolina
  Informant William Lovin, Madisonville, Tennessee
  Death 21 January 1945 At home, Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee
  Cause of Death Myocarditis with Cardiac Failure for 6 weeks, due to Terminal Hypertension for many years
  Burial 23 January 1945 Sunset Cemetery, Monroe County, Tennessee, by Bierley Funeral Home, Madisonville, Tennessee
  Filed 25 January 1945
  
  The birth date reported on Betty's death certificate, and thus used on her grave has the year as 1869.  But with the age 18 reported on her marriage record, she would have been born in 1863.  If she had been born in 1869, she would have been only 12 in 1881 when she married.
  
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  Elizabeth C “Betty” Adams Lovin
  Birth 29 Sep 1869 Cherokee County, North Carolina, USA
  Death 21 Jan 1945 (aged 75) Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee, USA
  Burial Sunset Cemetery, Madisonville, Monroe County, Tennessee
  
  Parents:
  John Posey Adams 1846-1930
  Mary Martha Crisp Adams 1848-1901
  
  Spouse William M Lovin 1859-1946
  
  Siblings:
  Margaret Adams Lovin 1869-1887 (m. 1885)
  Mary Arizona Adams Crisp 1875-1948
  Pearley Adams 1879-1946 (m. 1902)
  Victoria Adams Stewart 1882-1927
  William Alexander Adams 1884-1970
  Kora Adams 1886-1887
  
  Half Siblings:
  Ader Adams 1903-1903
  Ed John Adams 1906-1965
  
  Children:
  Awk Lovin 1881-1961
  Joe Lovin 1884-1962
  Ida Lovin Phillips 1888-1955
  Onley Lovin 1898-1928
  Gordon William Lovin 1904-1946
  
  Maintained by Carol Adams Hays, Originally Created by Joy  29 Apr 2010
  --  Find A Grave Memorial 51786471, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51786471/elizabeth-c_-lovin
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Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 2. Tennessee Death Certificates
• 3. North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979
• 4. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
• 5. Ancestry Messaging