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    1. [DOVER-L] Trudy's Family
    2. OK, obviously you know about WFT entry. :-) Only other thing I have to offer is a letter from another researcher on this line that Dennis shared with me a couple of years ago: Dear Dennis, Thank you for writing. The Elmer Dover you mentioned in your letter was my first cousin three times removed...... My GGG Grandfather was John Dover. I have not been able to identify his father, but think he lived in PA. John had five brothers Abaraham, Issac, Jacob, Hiram, Daniel and one sister Sarah. I have always assumed they were from PA but John's place of birth is given as VA in an article in Goodspeeds History of Jefferson Co. John married a Jemima Stevens and they had eight children. For some strange reason they named most of the boys after Napoleon Bonaparte. John and Jemima are buried near Ware, MO. My GG grandfather was Jerome Bonaparte Dover. He married Margaret Lucas and they had four children. One of whom, John Eldridge Dover, married Addie Cessna Russell. Their son Charles Dover was my grandfather. One of his daughters Mary Kathleen married Harold Ancell and they are my parents. My full name is Charles Dover Ancell. My G grandfather John was a station agent with the Missouri Pacific RR and moved to Sikeston, MO (about 50 miles East of Poplar Bluff) in the early 1900's. All of his children were raised in Sikeston. His father Jerome lived in Jefferson Co Missouri as did his father...... John Dover was born on Dec 4, 1789 perhaps in Western NJ or Ohio. His family moved to VA while John was a boy. John served as Sergeant in Captain Benjamin Jeffery's Company of Infantry, 1 Battalion, 1 Regiment, VA Militia from Sept 22, 1812 to April 1, 1813. John ran a pottery in Louisville, KY from about 1815 to 1826. He married Jemima Stevens, who was a dau of Rev Thomas Stevens, on Dec 9, 1817, at the home of her sister Susan Stevens Lee by Rev. David Chapman Banks. Jemima was born in Eng on Feb 2, 1791, and came to Louisville, KY when she was nine years old. John was a Medical Doctor but did not practice because Jemima was afraid to be left alone due to the Indian activity in the area around Louisville, KY. In 1826, they moved to Washington, Indiana. In 1840, they moved to St. Genevieve, Missouri and engaged in the pottery business. In 1844, they purchased a farm in Jefferson Co, Missouri in the Old Ditch Creek area near Ingal's Ford in the Big River Township. John was a Judge of the County Court and a prominent surveyor. John died of pneumonia after being (thrown) from a horse on Oct 14, 1857. He is buried by the Bethlehem Church in Jefferson Co, MO which is located on Highway Y, just Northwest of Ware, MO. Jemima died on October 4, 1874, and is buried beside John at the Bethlehem Church. Children: 1.Oscar Dover md. Elizabeth Alen 2,Amanda Dover md. Alexander Ziegler 3. Napoleon Bonaparte Dover 4. Jerome Bonaparte Dover md Margaret Kendall Lucas 5.Alexiana Dover md Henry Kert 6.Bonaparte Dover md Nancy S Lollar 7. Angeline Dover md Eldridge Boley 8.LeRoy Dover md Margaret Francis Manion Their is more detailed data on dates and places in this John line. As far as siblings of your Daniel, only thing I see different is that he gives Abraham Dover md Rebecca Lytle and says that Isaac Dover d. in New Orleans, LA. There's a little more if you haven't already seen this, let me know. Source:Charles Ancell dated 13 Feb 1997

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