Overton "Sobe" Love (c. 1823-1906) was a Chickasaw judge in Indian Territory in the nineteenth century. Love was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, the son of Colonel Henry W. Love.[1] Overton was among the Chickasaw forced to move to Indian Territory in the 1840s during Indian removal.[2] In Indian Territory, he was one of the largest landowners in the Chickasaw Nation, farming and raising cattle on 8000acres of Red River bottomland.[3] Love was a judge in the Pickens District of the Chickasaw Nation for many years. As a judge in the Dawes Commission 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.[4]
Love County, Oklahoma was named after Overton Love.[5] He died in November 1906.[4]
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