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     Edna May Lovejoy, daughter of Rufus Norris Lovejoy and Harriet D. Reid, was born on 8 January 1881 at Maine.^1,2

     Edna died at age 98, on 17 December 1979,² and was buried at Webster Cemetery Cemetery, North Chesterville, Franklin, Maine.²

     Elijah Parish Lovejoy ID: I31501
Name: Elijah Parish (Rev.) Lovejoy
Sex: M
Birth: 9 NOV 1802 in Albion, Kennebec Co., Maine 1 2
Death: 7 NOV 1837 in murdered, Alton, Madison Co., Illinois, martyr to freedom of the press 3 4
Burial: 9 NOV 1837 Alton Cemetery, Alton, Madison, IL
Note:
Elijah Lovejoy was born in Albion, ME was received his early education at district school #1. He later attended China Academy and graduated from Colby College in 1826. He was the principal of the China Academy in 1826. He studied for the ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1834. He went to St. Louis and joined the staff of the St. Louis Observer, 1833-1836. There he began writing frequent articles against slavery; as a result of these articles, he was asked to resign from the St. Louis Observer, but a new owner asked him to stay on as an editor and the paper was moved across the river to Alton, IL in 1836 and renamed the 'Alton Observer.'

There the press was destroyed twice and, finally, the third press was seized by a mob, broken up and dumped into the Mississippi River. The Anti-Slavery Society of Illinois was formed and they bought another press which arrived 6 Nov. 1837. It was as a result of trying to guard this press that Elijah Lovejoy was shot and killed on the eve of 7 Nov. 1837, two days before his 35th birthday. His brother Owen and a few friends buried him in an unmarked grave on top of a bluff overlooking the Mississippi on 9 Nov. 1837. 'A newspaper clipping found in an old scrapbook states that no words were said at the grave except a prayer by the Minister. There were no flowers, honors or eulogies. 'Liberty of Speech' was buried in silence.''

60 years after his death, on 8 Nov. 1897, a $30,000 monument was erected in Alton to Elijah's memory. It is a 90 ft. granite column tooped by a bronze statute of Victory 17 feet high. It is inscribed with several quotations from his writings against slavery, commemorating 'the first armed resistance to the agression of the slave power in America.'

Over the cellar of the old Lovejoy Homestead in Albion, ME a monument has been placing honoring Elijah Lovejoy and Colby College has also erected a monument in his honor, a quartz stone from the homestead's foundation marked with a tablet. In 1959, the college named a new social studies and humanties building for Elijah, called the Lovejoy Building. (From 'Albion on the Narrow Gauge,' Ruth Crosby Wiggin, 1964)

Sources:
'Peter Pattee of Haverhill,' NEHGS 'Register,' Vol 147, pg. 78 & 'Albion on the Narrow Gauge,' Ruth Crosby Wiggin, 1964 & Colby College Alumni Record, pg. 27.
Title: Vital Records of Albion, Kennebec Co., Maine prior to 1892
Author: Elizabeth M. Mosher
Publication: Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1989
Repository:
Note: NEHGS Library
Call Number:
Media: Book
Page: pg. 10
'Albion on the Narrow Gauge,' Ruth Croby Wiggin, 1964 & Colby College Alumni Record, pg. 27.
Title: Descendants of Daniel Alden
Author: Frank Wentworth Alden
Publication: Published by the Author: 1923
Repository:
Note: www.Genealogy Library.com
Call Number: R929.2 A358.3
Media: Book
Page: pg. 73
Letter of Elijah P. Lovejoy to Elizabeth, his mother, dated 10 March 1835, posted online at: [http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lovejoy/leter10t.htm].
     Elijah Parish Lovejoy, son of Rev. Daniel Lovejoy and Elizabeth Gordon Pattee, was born on 8 November 1802.¹

     Elijah, at age 32, son of Rev. Daniel Lovejoy and Elizabeth Gordon Pattee, married Celia Ann French at age 21 on 4 March 1835 at St Charles, Missouri.

     Elijah Parish Lovejoy died on 7 November 1837 at age 34. He was murdered while defending the liberty of the press.²

     Eliza Lovejoy, daughter of Hezekiah Lovejoy and Hannah Atkins, was born on 14 April 1798.¹

     Eliza, daughter of Hezekiah Lovejoy and Hannah Atkins, married Paul Hammon.²

     Eliza Lovejoy died on 16 December 1882 at age 84.¹

     Elizabeth Lovejoy, daughter of Christopher Lovejoy and Sarah Russ, was born circa 1700/1 at Andover, Essex, Massachusetts.¹

     Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Lovejoy and Sarah Russ, married Zebediah Barker at age 27, son of Stephen Barker and Mary Abbot, on 30 December 1717.¹

     Elizabeth Lovejoy, daughter of Rowland Lovejoy and Elizabeth Neale, was born on 21 March 1623/24 at London, England.¹

     Elizabeth, at age 25, daughter of Rowland Lovejoy and Elizabeth Neale, married Ralph Grafton on 6 January 1650 Ralph was described as a 'batchelor' and Elizabeth as 'virgin of Madelenes, Milk streete.¹'

     Elizabeth Lovejoy died at London, England.²