this email posted to another rootsweb forum -- thought someone might be interested ... (I did not send it!) =========================== >Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:52:20 -0600 >From: 4615@bellsouth.net >Source: DOVER-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [Dover] Re: info.for dover family of al > > >This John D. would have been old enough to serve and die in the Civil War by >the 1860's. I think this John D. is the son of Elijah and Mary Duckett >Dover. I have not found Allen and Mary Dover's son John D. after the 1860 >census. Here's what I have on Allen Dover's family: > >"In 1837, Allen Dover witnessed a deed between Charles Lay and Wm. Green in >Cherokee County, GA; he doesn't appear to be on the census records in 1840 >either individually or in his father's household. He "might" be living with >Jesse Cloud and his family in Cherokee County. > >On February 26, 1845, Allen married Mary Cloud in Cherokee County, Georgia. >(I believe Mary is the daughter of Jesse Cloud who was in Rutherford in 1830 >near Hezekiah Dover.) > >In 1850, Allen Dover is 32, his wife Mary is 28, and they are living in >Murray County near his father and brothers. They have two children: Isaac >L. 6, and Jesse A. 3. Apparently son Jesse did not make it to the next >census. > >In 1860, Allen is 40, and his wife Mary is 35. He is a Carpenter, living at >Reseca, in Gordon County. Isaac L. is 14, and John D. is 3. I cannot >locate either his wife Mary or son John D. on the 1870 census. > >In 1870, Allen is in Montgomery County, Kansas, still working as a >carpenter. He is 50 years old, and I.L. (Isaac Lawson, his son) age 25 is a >barber and is living with him. What brought him to Kansas, where is Mary >and his other son? There is a Mary Dover age 52 in Gordon County with >several children, but she does not appear to match Allen's wife. The census >is too light to read as it appears on Ancestry.com. > >In 1873, son Isaac Dover, age 27, married Sarah Nellenis, age 23 (June 4) in >Cherokee County, Kansas (LDS Film #0851221). > >In 1880, Allen and Mary Dover are indexed as Davis. They are living in the >City of Columbus, Cherokee County, Kansas. Allen is 59 and Mary is 53. >Allen is a wagonmaker. Son Isaac (34) is indexed as Dowe and is living in >the H.I. McGinnis household with a wife "L.A." age 33. He is a miner. >They live in Cherokee County, Kansas in Empire City. > >In 1900, Allen is 80 years old and living at Columbus, Cherokee County, >Kansas, with his son. Allen says he was born December 1819 in Georgia. Nor >surprisingly, he is still working--as a wagonmaker. Isaac has shortened his >name to Ike, and he states he was born March 1846. His wife, Frances, was >born September 1846. One son is with them, and his name is Wesley T. born >June 1894. (Isaac Lawson married Frances Norton). > >Isaac Lawson Dover appears on the Index to Pensioners as Isaac Lawson Dover, >Company F, 10th Tennessee Calvary; Company C, 2d Batt 16th US Inf.; Company >C 25th and Company 1 18th US Infantry; filed from Kansas. (The 10th >Tennessee Calvary is the same unit where David and Lynch Dover, sons of >Michael Dover, served--this is a Union Army unit.) > >Isaac's wife Francis Ann Norton filed a claim for indian funds. Isaac was >still living in 1907 and was 60 years old. Isaac and Frances were living in >Ft. Dodge, KS in 1908; in 1909, they were in Ellsworth, KS." > >If anyone has additional information on Allen and his family, please share. > >Marjorie Dover Stansel > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <louellis@sbcglobal.net> >To: <DOVER-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:21 PM >Subject: [Dover] Re: info.for dover family of al > > >> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. >> >> Classification: Query >> >> Message Board URL: >> >> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pRT.2ACEB/475.1.1 >> >> Message Board Post: >> >> Dennis, Is this the same John Dover that I have as John D. Dover b. 1856 >in GA to Allen & Mary M. Cloud Dover (. 1822 in NC)? who was in the 1860 >Resaca Dist, GA listed as age03 b. in GA? >> >> >> ==== DOVER Mailing List ==== >> Dover resources at Rootsweb >> http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/d/o/DOVER/