Elizabeth Love Ripley

Love Ripley (Allen)

Love was born about 1786. She married Eleazar Wheelock Ripley in 1811. She died in 1820 of "the prevailing fever" in Shieldsborough (now Bay Saint Louis), Mississippi.

"She died of yellow fever at Pensacola, September 11, 1820, her husband being then stationed at that place. She left a son and daughter; the son, Henry, volunteered to fight for the independence of Texas, but being taken prisoner, was massacred with Fanning's command, after capture by order of General Santa Anna, and the daughter, who married Colonel Lanson of Louisiana, was a childless widow, during the War of the Rebellion going about doing good among the sick and wounded in Louisiana."