Bessie Love - Wikipedia
Juanita Horton, better known as Bessie Love (September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986), was an American-British actress who achieved prominence playing innocent, young girls and wholesome leading ladies in silent and early sound films. [7]
Betsy Love – The First Married American Woman to Gain Rights …
Betsy (AKA Betty) Love Allen’s story is joyfully significant but also painfully disconcerting. The ruling of a Mississippi State Supreme Court case in 1837, in favor of a Chickasaw woman Betsy Love, sounds like it should be a cause for celebration, and it is, partly.
43 Beautiful Vintage Photographs of Bessie Love in the 1920s
Nov 5, 2016 · Bessie Love (1898-1986) was an American actress, born Juanita Horton in Midland, Texas. She attended school in Midland until she was in the eighth grade, when her father moved his family to Arizona, New Mexico, and then to Hollywood.
Bessie Love - IMDb
Bessie Love. Actress: The Broadway Melody. Bessie Love was born in Texas. Her cowboy father moved the family to Hollywood, where he became a chiropractor. As the family needed money, Bessie's mother sent her to Biograph Studios, hoping she would become an actress.
The Mississippi Married Women’s Property Act Of 1839
In January, 1837, the Mississippi Supreme Court handed down a decision written by Judge William L. Sharkey, who ruled in favor of the Indian woman, Betsy Love Allen, who was allowed to retain control of the property left her by her father.
Betsy Love and the Mississippi Married Women's Property Act …
Betsy Love married the White man James Allen (mistakenly referred to in some historical documents and histories as John Allen), a native of North Carolina in a Chickasaw ceremony in 1797 or 1798. She was his second wife, and the mother of eleven children.
Betsy Love and the Mississippi Married Women's Property Act …
Why was Betsy Love’s husband, James Allen, sued in 1831? How did Mississippi and American law support the actions of the county sheriff when he seized Toney, the enslaved person, to settle the debts of James Allen?
Bessie Love, 87, an Actress From Silent-Film to TV Eras
Apr 28, 1986 · The American-born actress Bessie Love, whose career stretched from silent movies to television, died Saturday night at Mount Vernon Hospital, her daughter said today. She was 87 years old.
Betsy Love Allen - Wikipedia
Betsy Love Allen (after 1782 – July 1837) was a Chickasaw merchant and planter who ran a trading post on the Natchez Trace and maintained a large cattle plantation. Born into a wealthy and influential family, she owned property in her own right under Chickasaw law.
Married Women's Property Rights - MPB
Feb 13, 2017 · Mississippi was the first state to give married women rights to their own property. And it’s all because of a Chickasaw woman named Elizabeth “Betsy” Love. Born in the 1780’s in what is now north Mississippi --but was then the Chickasaw Nation-- Betsy married a …