His medal has the same sections as the internet version but in a different order. Maybe it depended on who made the medal.



Internet version.




After their elopement was annuled, each one married somebody else.

Joshua Lovett
(1833-1917)
1860 census - age 27, farmer - Russell Township - Macon - MO
      His is the second family listed, wife Lucinda 26 & 4 children. What were the abbreviations for Joshua
     and his brother John? Jno or Jnr? (James would be Jms, William would be Wm, etc.)

1870 census - age 37, farmer - Russell Township - Macon - MO
      - wife Lucinda 36, 3 more children

1880 census -age 47, farmer - White Township - Macon - MO
      - wife Lucinda 46, 3 more children
1887 Lucinda died.


Meanwhile Martha R. Sharp  (1836-1896) is married with children in TN.
1860 - Ledford Parrot 29, Martha R. 24, Henry 1
1870 - Ledford Parrot 39, Martha R. 34, Henry 11, George 10, Rubin 8
1880 - the internet census index for that year says she and her husband Ledford Parrott were living with
    son Henry but the wrong census page comes up.


*1890 census.
      A fire destroyed most of the records for this year. We might have found Joshua and Martha together. She died before 1897.


    Photos courtesy of Henry Larson - Research and census pages courtesy of Dwyn Larson   dwyn@ancestorpages.com