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Socrates Lovelace is the youngest of three children and was born in Weakley County, Tenn., on the 10th of May, 1848. His parents, James and Mary B. (Gay) Lovelace, were born in Virginia and North Carolina, in 1800 and 1812, respectively. After reaching man’s estate, James Lovelace came to Tennessee, where he taught school for a number of years. He was married in the State of his adoption and settled in Weakley County, where he reared his family. He died April 15, 1860. The mother is yet residing on the old homestead, but is in quite feeble health. Socrates Lovelace was educated in the common schools and has made farming and carpentering his chief business in life and owns 120 acres of land. May 27, 1868, he married Belle Alexander, daughter of Jesse Alexander, who was born and reared in the Palmetto State. He was the father of twenty-one children, by two wives, all but two living to maturity. He was born in 1788, and died in November, 1870. To Mr. and Mrs. Lovelace were born the following family: Cora Ellen, born March 9, 1869; Jesse J., born June 20, 1872 and died January 12, 1873; Claudie Ray, born May 20, 1874, and died May 16,1885; Annie Bell, born March 13, 1879, and died February 9, 1885; Bryant Holland, born January 22, 1882, and died August 12, 1883, and one child who died in infancy. Mrs. Lovelace was born in Henry County, Tenn., October 16, 1844, and she and her husband, are members of the Primitive Baptist Church. Mr. Lovelace is a Democrat and a member of the K. of H. Elias Gay, our subject’s grandfather, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and rendered valuable service to his country.