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June Spencer Love
June Spencer Love, born Julia James Spencer in Clinton, Alabama, on June 1, 1859, was the daughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer and grew up in Chapel Hill. Her letters from Europe became her mother's 1884 newspaper series, and on December 23, 1885 she married the mathematics professor James Lee Love; the couple built the Spencer House in 1887. In 1909 she set grave markers in the Chapel Hill cemetery for her family and for Dilsey Craig.
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Life and Orange County connections
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- 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: June Spencer LoveSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 219
- 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: George Francis Atkinson, June Spencer LoveSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 239
- 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: Cornelia Phillips Spencer, June Spencer LoveSearch the index · DigitalNC: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 22, 1887, p. 3 (Chapel Hill column)
- 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 LoveSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 263
- 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: James Lee Love, June Spencer LoveSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 300
- 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, June Spencer LoveSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 276
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- Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Houses, farms, parks and cemeteries · Chapel Hill · 2 events here
- Senlac (Battle house) Houses, farms, parks and cemeteries · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
- University Presbyterian Church Churches and lodges · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
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People named in the same dated entries as June Spencer Love, those sharing the most entries first. Each line links one of the shared entries in the chronology, where its source is cited. A shared entry shows these people in the same event, not how well they knew each other.
- Cornelia Phillips Spencer 3 entries, including Cornelia Phillips Spencer turns her daughter's letters from Europe into a newspaper series (1884)
- James Lee Love 3 entries, including James Lee Love marries June Spencer at the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church (December 23, 1885)
- George Francis Atkinson 1 entry: James Lee Love marries June Spencer at the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church (December 23, 1885)
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- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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