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From: "Annette Crafton Corbell" <>
Subject: [PATTERSON-L] MARY PATTERSON
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:18:44 -0500

Does anyone have any information on Mary Patterson born June 17, 1804 died January 1881 in Ohio and married Daniel Dover on July 11, 1822?

The following is an excerpt from an article from the Belmont County, Ohio History 1988 which was submitted regarding Daniel and Mary and their children.

Would love to hear from anyone at all that can tell me anything about Mary or her family.

Annette Crafton Corbell



Excerpt from Article from the Belmont County Ohio History 1988:

Daniel Dover was born in 1802. He married Mary Patterson (b. June 17, 1804) on July 11, 1822. They raised a family of ten children in southern Muskingum County Ohio. Daniel, a farmer, then sold his land, which yielded both coal and oil, and moved to Taylorsville (Philo). The couple resided on Market Street until their deaths in January 1881. Their children sold the remaining lots of the many which Daniel had purchased, and only Abraham stayed on. He was buried in Duncan Falls Cemetery near his parents and a sister, Ida, who had died at age eleven. Abraham was 74 in 1908 when he went to Zanesville on the riverboat, Valley Gem, to visit his daughter, Hattie Knox. After a pleasant evening, he became ill and died of heart failure about 10 P.M.

Daniel's other children were: Hannibal, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Lemuel G., Theodore W., Caroline, Daniel W., and John Wesley. Theodore followed the example of his grandfather, Philip, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania; his uncles who went to Kentucky; and his father, who moved to Muskingum County in search of profit from the land; by moving to Marshall County, Kansas.

After the deaths of Daniel and Mary, Lemuel, his wife, Catharine B. Jackson, and six children went to Kansas. It is not known how long the family remained in the west. One of the daughters, Elizabeth Jane, is grandmother to the writer of this story. She told of the harshness of life on the prairie, the sandstorms, and ruined crops, which caused the family to long for the green hills of Ohio. Lizzie taught school in Kansas and had a suitor who was anxious to marry. She rejected his proposal and returned to Zanesville with her family, where she worked in the pottery.

One Sunday, Lizzie and a friend took a picnic lunch and went with other young people on an excursion to Marietta on the Valley Gem. On the trip she became interested in a young man. The girlfriend was happy to introduce her brother, Charles Francis Kirby. The couple married in1894 and had six children. Their children and grandchildren are some of the many descendants of Philip Dover living in Muskingum County today.

submitted by Bonnie Kirby Cain of Zanesville, Ohio.

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