Overton "Sobe" Love (1823-1906) was a

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judge in

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in the nineteenth century. Love was born in

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, the son of Colonel Henry W. Love.Walker, Rickey Butch
''Chickasaw Chief George Colbert: His Family and His Country''. Available on Google Books.
p. 59. Overton was among the Chickasaw forced to move to Indian Territory in the 1840s during

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. Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame: Overton "Sobe" Love.
Retrieved September 13, 2013. In Indian Territory, he was one of the largest landowners in the Chickasaw Nation, farming and raising cattle on of Red River bottomland.
Retrieved September 13, 2013. Love was a judge in the Pickens District of the

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for many years. As a judge in the

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era, Love worked to add tribal members to the Chickasaw Roll of Citizenship. Love also served as a Chickasaw representative to Congress and was named Treaty Commissioner on behalf of the Chickasaw Nation.

Love County, Oklahoma Love County is a county on the southern border of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,423. Its county seat is Marietta. The county was created at statehood in 1907 and named for Overton Love, a prominent Chi ...

was named after Overton Love. He died in November 1906.

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