Loving, James and Margaret

The plaque calls James Loving a brother of the trail driver Oliver Loving. The Handbook of Texas says Oliver moved his family to Texas in 1843 with a brother and a brother-in-law and took Peters colony land in three patents across Collin, Dallas and Parker counties. In 1857 he sent his son William up the Shawnee Trail to Illinois with cattle. With Charles Goodnight he drove the herds that named the Goodnight-Loving Trail. Wounded in 1867, he died at Fort Sumner on September 25 and was reburied at Weatherford in 1868.

What the plaque says

Loving, James and Margaret James and Margaret Loving 1811 - 1869) (1820 - 1877) The sixteenth family in Dallas County. Came by covered wagon and flatboat from Kentucky to Texas in 1843 as members of the Peters Colony. Arrived in Dallas County (then unorganized) in 1844. On a 640-acre grant (2 mi. east) from Mercer's Colony, they built log cabin, raised corn, wove cloth, and boiled soil from salt lick to make own salt. Had 8 children. Loving, a brother of pioneer trail drive Oliver Loving, was killed by a horse thief in 1869. (1970)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rockwall County Historical Foundation & Museum — 9.4 mi
  A small museum in Harry Myers Park that keeps the evidence on Rockwall's rock wall, sandstone dikes that geologists call natural and folk tales call built.
• Fair Park — 12 mi
  The State Fair of Texas grounds since 1886, where the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition left one of the country's greatest concentrations of Art Deco exposition buildings.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 12 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 14 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.

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