Geo Ekins (England) (Father)

Ellen Skykes Ekins (England) (Mother)

James Andersen Loveless Sr. (Husband)
Married
23 Oct 1876
Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA


Children(8)
Ellen Matilda Loveless
1878-1957
James Anderson Loveless, Jr.
1880-1964
Una Vilate Loveless
1883-1951
Annie Elizabeth Loveless
1886-1920
Hazel Loveless
1888-1961
George Washington Loveless
1890-1951
John William Loveless
1893-1939
Ray Ekins Loveless
1897-1968



Julia was 76 years old when she passed away.She died from Myocarditis (Heart inflamation) and Chronic Brights Disease (Kidney Disease)

She was a widow at her death. Information from death certificate.

James A Loveless a Short Biography
Contributed By danieljamesbarnett1 · 2013-10-06 21:59:19 GMT+0000 (UTC) · 0 Comments
An Excerpt from, "Portrait, Genealogical and Biographical Record of the State of Utah, Containing Biographies of Many Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present." National Historical Record Co., Chicago, 1902.JAMES A. LOVELESS, a native son of Provo and a life-long citizen of this place, born July 19, 1853. He is the son of Bishop James W. and Matilda (McClellan) Loveless. Bishop Loveless came from an old Ohio family, being born in that State December 23, 1828, and his father, John, a native of Fairfield County, where he was a well-to-do farmer. When the Bishop was but a year old his father moved to Fountain County, Indiana, locating on a farm on the Wabash River, and there he and his family later became converts to the teachings of the Mormon religion and were baptized by Solomon Hancock. John Loveless became a teacher in the branch Church organized in his community, and from that position was promoted to be a Priest. He was ordained an Elder March 28, 1832, and assisted in establishing another branch Church thirty miles from his home, presiding over the two branches for several months, when he was sent back to Ohio on a mission. In 1833 he was made President of the Ohio branch, and led the Saints into Jackson County, Missouri. After the Mormons had been driven out by the mob, Mr. Loveless went to Lafayette County, Missouri, where he remained until 1837, and then moved to Caldwell County, the same State, where the Saints were gathering. In the fall of 1838 they were again attacked by a mob and Mr. Loveless was compelled to sign over all his property to the mob. He went to Adams County, Illinois, where he followed farming for two years and from there to Hancock County. In the spring of 1844 he was sent on another mission to Ohio, starting home on hearing of the trouble brewing in Nauvoo, but did not reach there until after the death of the Prophet. In 1845, while he was again absent from home his place was destroyed by the mob, who set fire to the house and his family were compelled to flee to the woods for safety. He moved his family to Nauvoo and took part in all the trouble that followed in that place. When the Saints left Nauvoo he was one of the Quorum that went to the Temple to invoke the Divine blessing upon the people. April 27, 1846 he went to Council Bluffs, and there witnessed the forming of the famous Mormon Battalion. He later settled on a farm seven miles from Winter Quarters, and remained there until he crossed the plains to Utah in 1851, arriving in Salt Lake Valley September 15111 of that year. He first settled on the Jordan River, then at Provo, and from there went to Payson, where he died.Our subject's father, James W., remained with his father up to the time he arrived in Utah and was twenty-four years of age when he crossed the plains. He located in Provo and made his home in this place the rest of his life, living in the city and having a farm in the Second Ward. He became a prominent man in public life, occupying a seat on the City Council for a number of years, and also filling various other offices. He was a member of the Territorial Militia, in which he held the rank of Major, and took an active part in the Walker and Black Hawk wars; was a member of the Black Hawk War Veterans Association. He was associated with the management of the Second Ward for more than thirty years, fifteen years of which he was Bishop. Mr. Loveless believed firmly in the doctrines and teachings of his Church, especially the doctrine of polygamy, and in accordance with that belief married three women and reared a family of thirty-six children, many of whom are well and favorably known in Utah County. He died in 1888, at the age of sixty years.James A., our subject, was the third child in a family of ten, of whom eight are now living— Mrs. Noel Knight, deceased; Mrs. S. S. Bailey, our subject, Sarah, now Mrs. Jenkins, living in Idaho ; Mrs. James Gray, of Provo ; Mrs. Conover, in Emery County; Mrs. Horace Beebe; Mrs. John W. Farrer, and Joseph W. Until he was twenty-three years of age Mr. Loveless remained at home in the Second Ward, receiving his education from such schools as were then in existence, and finished in what was then the Timpanogos College, now the Brigham Young, and leading much the same life as other farmer boys.In 1876 he settled on his present home on the Provo Bench, where he took up a farm of one hundred and sixty acres of raw land, which he has since improved to a high state of cultivation. He has followed a general farming life, but has paid especial attention to potatoes and strawberries, and his berries have found a very ready market, being of an extra fine flavor and color; he also has a fine orchard of about six hundred trees, and altogether has one of the finest farms in the vicinity of Provo. He has some stock, but has not made any effort to keep many at a time. While he has paid especial attention to his farm, our subject has found time to interest himself in the life of the community in which he has always lived, and is interested in a number of local enterprises, among which is the Provo Commercial and Savings Bank, of which he is a stockholder, and was also at one time interested in the Utah County Savings Bank. Like most of the farmers of Utah he is interested in the question of irrigation, and a member of a number of canal and ditch companies, holding offices in them for several years. He has also proved himself the friend of education and was prominent in securing the Provo Bench School District, being School Trustee for ten years, and doing much to improve the conditions of the free schools.Mr. Loveless was married in 1876 to Miss Julia E. Ekins, daughter of George and Ellen Ekins. Eight children have been born to them—Ellen M., wife of M. E. Krichner; James A., Jr., married; Violate, Annie, Hazel, George W., John W., and Ray.In the Church Mr. Loveless has held the offices of Deacon, Member of the Elders' Quorum, and in 1882 was ordained High Priest and set apart as First Counselor to Bishop Wentz of the Timpanogos Ward ; he also served for a number of years as President of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association. In 1901 he was called on a mission to the Eastern States, laboring in Maryland and the Virginias and returning home after an absence of twenty-five months. In the community where he grew up and has spent his entire life, Mr. Loveless is held in the very highest esteem for his many noble qualities of heart and mind. He has always been straight-forward and honorable in all his transactions, and has by his own industry and perseverance won his present enviable position as a farmer and business man.