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    1. [Dover] Research Mystery on my Family
    2. Dennis Dover
    3. This doesn't fit into anyone's tree but mine but thought it might be interesting because of all the gyrations the clues went through. I always wondered if the wife of a next door neighbor to my John Dover in 1850 might be a Dover and unknown daughter of John. That was because the same family was living next door to John's known daughter in 1860 in another county who was in John's household in 1850. This is the one where "seeing" the actual Georgia marriage license proved that her surname was in fact missing from the license (good film). Her name was Luraney (spelled different ways). Next came another clue about this same Bennett family ... they had a grandson named Bailey Dover Bennett 1900-1977. The 1860 census showing the two possible Dover sisters living side by side to two Bennetts sure seemed like it meant something but there is NO Bennett genealogy on the internet that includes Lucinda's husband. Luraney's husbands family is pretty well documented. I finally wrote the clue off but did send a message to a Bennett researcher from this family many months ago. Just got a message the other day that he found another cousin whose uncle has an attic full of old records, a Bible and photographs. In those records so far is the handwritten notes written by Joel & Luraney's daughter in 1907 that shows Joel being married to Luraney Dover and Joel's brother Cooper being married to Lucinda Dover. The writer was 6 months old in 1850 ... and living next door to John Dover in that census. Her mother Luraney was born in 1823 and died back in Georgia around the time of the 1870 census. Another part of the miracle is that the old e-mail was finally answered. That doesn't happen often enough but thank goodness it came from someone who cared enough to share. I wouldn't add this except for the DNA results tugging on me. There is a Bailey Dover and Luraney Dover in the 1834 Habersham County, Georgia Poor School records. The implied ages of those two in 1834 match exactly with the 1850 census ages for Bailey Dover and Luraney Dover. Then off into the fog again with new mysteries. Luraney's sister and brother-in-law, if I make that assumption, were living north of Tupelo, Lee County, Mississippi just after 1880. That's in the same notes I just received. One of Cooper & Lucinda's daughters married someone from the same exact area and were living in the same exact location ... which is very close to some other Dover families.

    03/01/2004 10:19:54