Margaret Catherine Baker Love was born 17 November 1844, as one of seven children, to Absalom Baker (1811-1876) and Elizabeth Kennedy Baker (1811-1886). Her father, Absalom Baker, was a steward for the Methodist Episcopal Church and also proprietor of Baker’s Chattahoochee River Ferry in Howell’s District, Cobb County. She attended The Atlanta Female Institute in the 1860s. She married Lt. David Donaldson Kolb Love (1844-1892) of Austell, Georgia, a member of the Army of Virginia. They had seven children including a daughter, Elizabeth Patton Love, who married Elias Alexander Cochran and another daughter, Mabel E. Cochran Love, who married Robert L. Harris. Margaret Catherine Baker Love died 17 December, 1881 and is buried in the Absalom Baker Family Cemetery in Cobb County, Georgia.