THIRD GENERATION

7. William Duval Jr. Lovett (1) was born on 5 Jun 1863 in Blount Co., Alabama.(3) He died on 23 Jun 1930 in Oak Grove, Citrus County, Fl, Bay Hill Cemetery. He died on 23 Jun 1930 in Oak Grove, Citrus County, Fl, Bay Hill Cemetery. (3) He was buried on 25 Jun 1930 in Bay Hill, Sumter Co., Fl. (3) William Duvall Lovett, Jr owned about 300 acres of farm land in Bushnell, Fl. He grew onions, and had 50 acres of orange trees. His whole family worked in the fields, they would dig up the onions, dry them, and ship them by wagon to Jacksonville, Fl for 3 cents a pound. Their homestead is now located across the street from the Bay Hill Cemetery, in Bushnell, Fl. It is now an empty grassy green field, as of Jul 96.


OFFICE OF VITAL STATISTICS
CERTIFIED COPY CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

FLORIDA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS

1. PLACE OF DEATH: Citrus County
PRECINCT: Oak Grove DISTRICT: 4-067 STATE FILE NO. 8932
TOWN: Country PRECINCT: 6 REGISTERED NO. 8067

Length of residence in city or town where death occurred: 2 years

2. FULL NAME: William Duval Lovett

3. SEX: Male

4. COLOR or RACE: White 5. Single, Married, Widowed: Widowed

5a. If married, widowed or divorced, HUSBAND or WIFE of: Mattie E. Woodard
(Martha "Mattie" Elizabeth Woodard)

6. DATE OF BIRTH: 6 JUNE 1863

7. AGE - Years: 67 MONTHS: 0 DAYS: 18

8. Trade, profession, kind of work done: Farming

12. BIRTHPLACE: Alabama

13. FATHER - NAME: William Duval Lovett

14. FATHER - BIRTHPLACE: Virginia

15. MOTHER - MAIDEN NAME: Melissa Sears (Melissa Harrison Sears)

16. MOTHER - BIRTHPLACE: Virginia

17. INFORMANT: John Lovett

18. BURIAL, CREMATION PLACE: Bay Hill Cemetery

19. UNDERTAKER: W. H. Miller, ADDRESS: Inverness, Florida

20. FILED: 24 June 1930, S. P. Rogers

#7669077 C. Meade Grigg, State Registrar
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This Indenture made this 28th day of June, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and one (1901), between William D. Lovett and his wife, Mattie E., of the County of Sumter, in the State of Florida, part us of the first part, and S. Y. Woodard of the County of Sumter, in the State of Florida, part Y of the second part, WITNESSETH: That the said part is of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of FIVE DOLLARS, to them in hand paid by the said Y of the second part, the receipt whereof that said part is of the first part do hereby acknowledge to their full satisfaction, has granted, bargained, and sold by these present to hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey to the said part Y of the second part, his, heirs and assigns forever, the following described land situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, in the State of Florida:

The South West 1/4 of South East 1/4 of Section 27 off 20 R 21, The South East 1/4 of South West 1/4 Sec 27, P/N 20 S R 21 East, the South West of North West 1/4, and North West 1/4 of South West 1/4 of Sec 34 of 20 S R 21 and the North East 1/4 of South West 1/4 of Sec 2, the 21 S R 21 East, and the East 1/2 of the South West 1/4 of Sec 4 of 21 S R 21 East.

containing 280 acres, be the same or or less, Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Which the said part is of the first part their heirs, executors and administrators will forever WARRANT and DEFEND, hereby relinquishing all rights of DOWER, COURTESY, SEPARATE ESTATE, HOMESTEAD, and all rights whatsoever in and to the same, unto the said part Y of the second part, his heirs and assignee forever.
WITNESS our hands and seals this the day and year first above witness.

SIGNED, SEALED, AND DELIVERED
IN THE PRESENCE OF: W. D. Lovett
Mattie E. Lovett

B. L. Adams
D. C. Hull

The STATE OF FLORIDA, SUMTER COUNTY.

I, Mattie E. Lovett wife of W. D. Lovett do by these presents made and executed by me, separate and apart from my said husband, and in the presence of D. C. Hull, a Notary Public of the State of Florida, acknowledge and declare that I did make myself a party to and executed the foregoing Deed for the purpose of releasing all rights whatsoever, in and to the lands therein described, and that I executed freely and voluntarily, without any compulsion, constraint, apprehension or fear of or from my said husband, the said W. D. Lovett, or any other person.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 28th day of June one thousand nine hundred and one (1901).

Executed and acknowledged in my presence this the day and year first
above written. Witness my hand and official seal (Notary Seal)

D. C. Hull Mattie E. Lovett
Notary Public
I, W. D. Lovett


William Duval Lovett was called "Willie" by his family and friends. He always had to sleep on a feather bed, and carried the mattress with it whenever he went anywhere to sleep. Willie and his daughter Flossie lived in Tampa in 1930, and his son George Lovett drove there to visit with them. After a few weeks he went to Zephryhills to stay with his oldest son, Sam Lovett, and then on to his daughter Annie's house. While at Annie's house he got up early one morning, and unhitched his horses and he said he wasn't feeling good after breakfast, and they found him dead in his bed later that morning. So, he died in his daughter Annie's house while visiting with her.



[Fitz.ged]

William Duval Lovett, Jr., is married to Martha "Mattie" Elizabeth Woodard Lovett. They married on 2 Nov 1890. They are the parents of my Grandmother, Kate Elizabeth Lovett Fitzgerald.1890).

William "Willie" and Mattie had the following children:

Annie Melissa Lovett, born 9 Oct 1881, and married Lee Miley on 3 Jul 1910, and married George Skinner on 8 Jul 1986.

Samuel Duval Lovett, born 12 Jul 1893, and married Pearl Purdy on 2 Sep 1917.

James William Lovett, born 8 Mar 1895, and married Daisy Connell on 4 Jul 1916.

Kate Elizabeth Lovett, born 6 Feb 1898, and married George Albert Fitzgerald on 8 Feb 1920.

Mary Jane Lovett, born 25 Jan 1900

Robert Lee Lovett, born 29 Aug 1901, and married Madelena "Lena" Cocowitch on 20 Jan 1923

John Thomas Lovett, born 10 Aug 1903

Flossie Elene Lovett, born 7 Apr 1905, and married Willie McMillan on 15 Apr 1923, and second marriage to Paul Nobles on 9 Aug 1934

George Edgar Lovett, born 21 Sep 1907

William "Bill" Lee Lovett. born 8 Jun 1912
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Mattie Woodard Lovett died when her son, William Lee (Bill) was four years old, and his older sister, Kate Lovett Fitzgerald took care of him and his brother George, who was seven years old. Kate and George Fitzgerald raised them just like their own children.

William and Mattie's headstones read:

William D. Lovett, 5 June 1863 - 23 June 1930, At Rest.
Mattie E. Lovett, 11 Sep 1870 - 26 Aug 1916, At Rest

Mattie and William are buried by their daughter, Mary Jane Lovett, who died at the age of 15 of heart failure, at Bay Hill Cemetery.

1900 Sumter County, Florida Census:

William D. Lovett, father, age 36, born Alabama Vol 16, ED 154. Sheet 8, Line 56
Mattie, wife, born 1870, born in Georgia
Annie Melissa, daughter, born Oct 1891
Samuel D., son, born Jul 1893
James W, son, born Mar 1895
Katie E., daughter, born Feb 1898
Mary J., daughter, born Feb 1900, 8 months

He was married to Martha "Mattie" Elizabeth Woodard (daughter of Samual Young Woodard and Susie L. Goff) on 2 Nov 1890 in Hudson, Florida, Pasco County. (3) Martha "Mattie" Elizabeth Woodard (1) was born on 11 Sep 1870 in Bushnell, Sumter County, Fl.(3) She died on 26 Aug 1916 in Bushnell, Sumter County, Fl, Bay Hill Cemetery. She died on 26 Aug 1916 in Bushnell, Sumter County, Fl, Bay Hill Cemetery. (3) She was buried on 28 Aug 1916 in Bay Hill Cem, Sumter County, Fl.(3) Martha "Mattie" E. Woodard Lovett and William Duvall Lovett acquired ownership to the piece of ground that became the Woodard family burial plot. For that reason the cemetery is often called the Lovett Cemetery.

OFFICE OF VITAL STATISTICS

CERTIFIED COPY

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH OF FLORIDA
BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS CERTIFICATE OF DEATH FILE NO. 6674

Place of Death: County - Sumter Registered No. 5

1. FULL NAME: Mrs. Mattie Lovett

2. SEX: Female

3. COLOR OR RACE: White

4. DATE OF BIRTH: 11 September 1870

5. AGE: 45 years, 11 months, 15 days

8. OCCUPATION: Housewife

9. BIRTH PLACE: (Bushnell, Florida)

10. NAME OF FATHER: Sam Woodard

11. BIRTH PLACE OF FATHER: Georgia

12. MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER: Susie Goff

13. BIRTH PLACE OF MOTHER: Georgia

FILED: 27 August 1916

14. DATE OF DEATH: 26 August 1916

I hereby certify that I attended deceased from 16 August 1916 to 26 August 1916, and that I saw her alive on 26 August 1916, and that death occurred on that date at 1:38 A.M.

19. PLACE OF BURIAL: Bushnell, Florida, Bay Hill Cemetery

No. 8950752 C. Meade Grigg

[Fitz.ged]

1MATTIE ELIZABETH WOODARD LOVETT IS MARRIED TO WILLIAM DUVAL LOVETT.

MATTIE AND WILLIAM ARE THE PARENTS OF KATE ELIZABETH LOVETT FITZGERAL D. William Duval Jr. Lovett and Martha "Mattie" Elizabeth Woodard had the following children:

child+16 i. Annie Melissa (malissie) Lovett.
child+17 ii. Samuel Duval Lovett.
child+18 iii. James "Jim" William Lovett.
child+19 iv. Kate Elizabeth Lovett.
child20 v. Mary Jane Lovett(1) was born on 25 Jan 1900 in Bushnell, Fl, Sumter County. She died in 1916 in Sumter County, Fl., Bay Hill Cemetery. She was buried in Bay Hill, Bushnell, Sumter Co., Fl. Mary Jane Lovett died of a heart attack at the age of 16. No one knew that she had a bad heart, and it was quite a shock when she died, as stated by her older brother, George Lovett, Jul 1996.

Apparently her brother had a high fever and was near death and Mary Jane was caring for him. She went to check on him and she didn't think he was breathing and she leaned closer to see if he was alive or dead and he yelled BOO, and Mary Jane had a heart attack and died from the scare.
child+21 vi. Robert Lee "Bob" Lovett.
child22 vii. John Thomas Lovett(1) was born on 10 Aug 1903 in Bushnell, Sumter County, Fl.(3) He died on 20 May 1904 in Bushnell, Fl, Sumter County, Bay Hill Cemetery. He was buried on 29 May 1904 in Bay Hill Cem, Bushnell, Sumter Co., Fl. (3) He died in Bushnell, Sumter County, Fl. (3) [Fitz.ged]
John Thomas Lovett died as an infant son of William Duval Lovett and Mattie Elizabeth Woodard Lovett.

child+23 viii. Flossie Elene Lovett.
child+24 ix. George Edgar Lovett.
child+25 x. Willie Leo "Bill" Lovett.
child26 xi. Mary Jane Lovett(1) was born on 25 Jan 1900 in Bushnell, Fl, Sumter County.(3) She died on 7 Sep 1915 in Florial Hill, Citrus County, Fl, Bay Hill Cemetery. (3) She was buried in Bay Hill, Bushnell, Sumter Co., Fl.(3) [Fitz.ged]

Mary Jane Lovett was the daughter of William Duval Lovett, Jr., and Mattie Elizabeth Woodard Lovett.

Mary Jane Lovett was caring for one of her sick brothers, and he appeared to be dead, and he shouted out, and Mary Jane killed over. No one knew that she had a weak heart, and the fright scared her to death, as told by her brother, George Edgar Lovett. She was only 15 years old when she died.

Her head stone reads: At Rest, Mary Jane Lovett, 25 Jan 1900 - 7 Sep 1915, and is buried at Bay Hill Cemetery, Wahoo, Florida, Sumter County.

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