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James and Margaret Loving were the sixteenth family in Dallas County. They came by covered wagon and flatboat from Kentucky to Texas in 1843 as members of the Peters Colony and arrived in Dallas County, then unorganized, in 1844. On a 640-acre grant two miles east from Mercer's Colony, they built a log cabin, raised corn, wove cloth, and boiled soil from a salt lick to make their own salt. They had 8 children. Loving, a brother of pioneer trail driver Oliver Loving, was killed by a horse thief in 1869.
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