Joseph Ira Lovell and wife Lydia Orpha Gillmer Lovell are both buried in Sumner Cemetary, Sumner, Michigan. Son William and wife Ellen Bell Lovell and their children are also buried there. Only child who lived to be an adult was Winnie Anna Lovell and married Peter Samuel Story buried next to their youngest daughter and husband Thelma Orpha Story Russell and my grandmother and Rollin Russell my grandfather.

I found information other than what the family remembered from Clark Historical Library online a biography of Joseph Ira Lovell, from the 1884 book of Gratiot Co., Michigan. I also used Family search.com, Ancestry com, Familytreemaker.com, Rootsweb.com. I own the 1994 Sumner Cemetary book, and the older version of it. Census sheets from ancestry.com on line.I also used US GenWeb.com for Gratiot Co., MI, Trumbull Co., Oh. I also put family trees online at Familytreemaker and people contact me with more information. I have death notices from Ohio and Gratiot Co., MI. Joseph Lovell was in the Civil War two times and found information about him in Old books at Ithaca Library when I visited. It is a set of books Michigan in the Civil War they have the whole set. You can't photocopy have to write down the information. A book on the Gillmer family included some Lovell information also.

Submitted by: Sandy
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