June Spencer Love

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1884 Cornelia Phillips Spencer turns her daughter's letters from Europe into a newspaper series While June Spencer toured Europe on a family legacy in 1884, her mother used June's daily letters home as the basis for a series, "Letters from a Young Lady," printed under June's name in the North Carolina Presbyterian. The editor had sent fifty dollars before June sailed, the only pay the series brought. People: Cornelia Phillips Spencer, June Spencer Love Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 219
2. December 23, 1885 James Lee Love marries June Spencer at the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church Mathematics professor James Lee Love married June Spencer, Cornelia Phillips Spencer's daughter, in an afternoon service led by the Rev. Mr. Wilhelm, who then served both the Chapel Hill and Hillsborough Presbyterian churches. The couple went from the church to the train for a wedding trip to her birthplace in Alabama and on their return took rooms at Mrs. Thompson's house in Chapel Hill. People: James Lee Love, George Francis Atkinson, June Spencer Love, Cornelia Phillips Spencer Place: Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill · Also named: Elinor S. PhillipsSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 239
3. by November 1886 June Spencer Love teaches a small class of children at Senlac Before the Loves' own house was ready, June taught a few young children in one of the small study buildings in the yard of Senlac, President Kemp Battle's home. Her best pupil was the boy Henry Winston, whom she taught to read, and her earnings paid for most of a sewing machine. People: June Spencer Love Place: Senlac, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry WinstonSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 263 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 13, 1886, p. 3
4. 1887 James Lee Love builds a house on East Franklin Street for his wife, June Spencer Professor James Lee Love built the one-story house at 410 East Franklin Street in 1887, on the lot of the old president's house that burned the Christmas before, for his wife June, the only daughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer. It is known as the Spencer House after his mother-in-law. People: James Lee Love, Cornelia Phillips Spencer, June Spencer Love Place: 410 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 22, 1887, p. 3 (Chapel Hill column) · Also: NC Digital Collections: Chapel Hill Historic Sites Survey: Final Report
5. March 14, 1908 Cornelia Phillips Spencer is buried in Chapel Hill beside her parents The Loves brought Spencer's body back from Cambridge and buried her in Chapel Hill beside her parents and her brothers. Love writes that it was her first return to the town since she left in 1894. People: Cornelia Phillips Spencer, James Lee Love, June Spencer Love Place: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel HillSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 300 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 19, 1908, p. 3
6. 1909 June Spencer Love sets a stone on Dilsey Craig's grave in the Chapel Hill cemetery When June Spencer Love placed grave markers in the Chapel Hill cemetery for her mother, her grandparents, and her uncle Samuel Phillips and his wife, she also put one on the grave of Dilsey, who had been enslaved in the James Phillips household and stayed on as its cook after freedom. Love writes that both June and her mother had looked after Dilsey in her old age. People: Dilsey Craig, James Phillips, Samuel Field Phillips, June Spencer Love Place: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel Hill · Also named: Samuel PhillipsSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 276