St. Louis. Mo. June 4, 1944 Giles L. Dover 230 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. Dear Cousin Giles: So glad you called me up while you were here and was sorry to have missed seeing you. I'm sending you a few notes of our immediate family, and a few references where you can find more records of same. Hope you can have someone look into the Washington Records because the answer to all of our questions is in those schedules of 1810. Please show this letter to your English Dover Cousin and ask him to please write to me and give me the names of all the Dovers he knows, and who was the Dover that he heard of who came to America because there were many Dovers. Tell him that the 1935 number of the "Genealogical Quarterly" published by Fudge & Co. Ltd., 94 York Road, South East London, England, contains an account of all the English Dovers and the price is $1.50 in American money, and if he can get a copy for me I will be glad to pay him for same and that I would like to know the names of the Rev. Thomas Stevens parents, and the family name of his wife, Juda - they lived in Great Missingdon Bucks, England 1775, and came to Louisville, Ky. In 1800. He was my Grandfather and a Baptist Minister and was sent to America as a Missionary to the Indians and was the 3rd Pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Jackson, Mo., 1st permanent Baptist Church West of the Mississippi River. "Cavaliers and Pioneers" Abstracts of Land Patents and Grants of Virginia from 1623 to 1800 (5 volumes) by Niel Marian Nugent, is a very important reference if you can find it. Inquire of the Washington Library and Philadelphia Penn. Please let me know what your son finds out and answer soon. Sincerely, Yours Cousin, Elmer Dover John Dover, my Grandfather, was born on December 4, 1789, perhaps in Western New Jersey or Ohio; his brothers were Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Hiram, Daniel and one sister, Sarah Dover, who married a Hill. Jacob Dover was a seaman and sailed a ship to the Barbadoes. Daniel Dover lived in Ohio and is buried near Zanesville. Abraham Dover married Sarah, and lived in a few blocks of his brother John Dover in Louisville, Ky. In 1820, Isaac Dover in New Orleans died there during the Yellow Fever plague and his son, Isaac Dover, mover to New Jersey and died there. John Dover was an M.D., but did not practice because his wife was afraid to be left alone because of the Indians. He was a potter by trade and ran a pottery in Louisville from about 1815 to 1826, when he moved to Washington, Ind., and from there to St. Genevieve, Mo. In 1840, and from there to a farm on Old Ditch Creek near Ingal's Ford in 1844 Big River in Jeff. Co. Mo. where he died of pneumonia caused by being thrown from a horse about October 14, 1857, buried in Bethlehem, Mo. John Dover was married to Miss Jemima Stevens, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Stevens at the home of her sister Susan Stevens Lee, wife of Wm. P. Lee at Louisville, Ky. On December 9, 1817 by Rev. David Chapman Banks. She was born in Great Missington, Bucks, England in 1791 and came to Louisville when nine years old. Her sister, Lydia Stevens, born in England, was married at the home of here sister Susan Lee on the evening of December 24, 1812 to Edwin Brewster, the artist, who was born in Deerfield, W. New Jersey, Cumberland Co., August 28, 1793. She was born April 27, 1792. The Brewsters became acquainted with the Dovers at Deerfield, New Jersey and the Dovers of that generation made their fortune by selling cranberries from the White Marsh and several Dovers married into the White family and there were several Dover men living at Deerfield - one of which must have been our Great-Great-Grandfather. If you could go to Washington and look at the Census schedules of Cumberland Co., New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Carolina and New York of the 1810 census, you would have no trouble finding our Grand parents names, as all of the children's names are given in the schedules. Mary Stevens, youngest daughter of Rev. Thomas Stevens and Juda Stevens, born in England, was married to Gen. O.O. Howard and had a daughter Laura B. Howard, who married Ensing Otis, a Diplomat, and they obit in Spain. My Grandfather, John Dover, was raised in the Abraham Lodge No. 9, A.F. & A.M. in Louisville, Ky. In 1819. John and Jemima (Stevens) Dover had Oscar, born Louisville, June 1, 1820, who married Amanda Dover, born November 10, 1823 married Alexander Ziegler. John Dover moved with his family to Washington, Ind. In about 1825 and his son Jerome bonaparte Dover was born there November 21, 1826, who married Margaret Lucus. Died: At the residence of Captain Alexander Ziegler at Pevely, Mo. on Tuesday the 13th inst. Of consumption, Napoleon Bonapart Dover aged 43 years. California and Mont. Papers please copy. "God Calleth his chosen Ones". The date of this notice is not given but it must have been 1870 because he went to California in the 1849 Gold Rush and when his younger brother Leroy went to California in the sixties, he found his brother sick out West and nursed him until he was able to travel and lent him the money to come home and he visited my father, Bonaparte Dover in 1870. He never married and died soon afterward. Aleviana Dover, born Wash. Co. Ind. In 1829 was married near Ware, Jeff. Co., to Henry Kertz. Bonaparte Dover, son of John and Jemima (Stevens) Dover was born in Wash. Co., Ind. October 11, 1831 and came to St. Genevieve, Mo. in 1840 and was a Steam Boat Clerk until about 1850 when he came to Jeff. Co., Mo. He was married to Nancy Jane Lollar at her home at Grubville, Mo by the Rev. "Billy" McKay on Their children were, John Albert, obit Mont. Mary Belle (Dover) Stegmann, widow of Charles A. Stegmann, Minnie Alexiana Dover, who never married, Leroy Bonaparte Dover married Madge Curtis and Elmer Dover who married Clara D. Richardson, no children. Leroy Dover, son of John was born in Wash. Co., Ind. January 10, 1838 married Margaretta Frances Manion October 29, 1874. Obit January 3, 1913. His wife, Frances (Manion) Dover obit August 19, 1936. Angeline Dover, youngest daughter of John Dover married Eldredge Boli and had on son, Elec Boli, and she died in December 1857 and was buried by her oun request under a large cedar tree on a hill on the old road between Vineland and Blackwell. Her husband went to Mont. And later sent for his son Elec, who was being raised by his Uncle Leroy and Elec Boli was drowned in the Yellow Stone River in about 1872 while helping his father drive some cattle across the river. Source: Charles Dover Ancell