Ahnentafel #18 William Dove

William M. Dove

Born: Dec. 9, 1838, Casey Co., KY
Died: April 14, 1918, Wayne Co., IL

Buried: Salem / Mateer Cemetery, Wayne Co., IL

Married: 1) Martha Rainwater, Feb. 18, 1856 Pulaski Co., KY 2) Nancy Jane Hunt, Aug. 15, 1869, Brown Co., IN and 3) Alice Mariah (Goss) Jones Sep. 23, 1891, Fairfield, IL

Occupation: farm laborer in Kentucky, sawyer in Minnesota, farmer in Illinois

Military Service: Served in the Company D of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry which was organized at Camp Dick Robinson, near Danville, KY under Colonel Thomas E. Bramlette and mustered into U.S. service on October 8, 1861  by General George H.
Thomas.  The company moved as follows:

• Sep. 18 to Lexington, KY
• Oct. to Camp Dick Robinson for muster
• Oct. 23 to Round Stone Creek, Rockcastle Co., KY
• nd to Crab Orchard, KY
• Nov. 1st to Somerset, KY
• Nov. 13 to A.R. West's in Wayne Co., KY
• nd returned to Camp Wolford, near Somerset, KY
• Nov. 19 to Columbia, KY
• Jan. 1, 1862 William Dove deserted
• Jan. 7, 1862 to Rennick Creek, Cumberland Co, KY

William went back to Pulaski County and moved his family with the Rainwaters to Brown Co., Indiana to be out of harm's way during the war.  Once the family was settled William went to Minnesota and on Feb. 9, 1865 he enlisted in Company K of the 1st Regiment of the Minnesota Heavy Artillery. 

His enlistment statement:

I, William Dove, born in Casey Co. in the state of Kentucky, aged twenty-seven years, and by occupation a sawyer, do hereby acknowledge to have volunteered this ninth day of February, 1865, to serve as a soldier in the army of the United States of America, for the period of one year, unless sooner discharged by proper authority; Do also agree to accept such bounty, pay, rations, and clothing, as are, or may be, solemnly swear, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whomsoever; and that I will observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the Rules and Articles of War.

Sworn & subscribed to at Morristown this 9th day of February, 1865, before David Billes, J.P. signed by William Dove.

 The recruiting officer, John Parker signed an affidavit stating in part that "he was entirely sober when enlisted . . . This soldier has blue eyes, fair hair, light complexion, is five feet six inches high."

William Dove was mustered into Company D of the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery at St. Paul, MN on Feb. 21, 1865.  He was paid a bounty of $33.33 and was due the remainder in the amount of $66.67.  The next day he reported to Ft. Snelling, MN which is now part of St. Paul.  The 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery was assigned to guard Chattanooga, TN.  William's record shows the following:

• Feb. 25 - 28, 1865 present 
• Feb. 25 - April 30 - absent, on guard duty at Stewart's Landing by order Lt. Col. L.L. Baxter since Apri l12, 1865
• April & May 1865 - absent detailed as guard at Stuarts Landing by order of Col. Baxter April 2, 1865
• June 1865 - absent on detached service at Jenning's Landing per S.O. No. 85 by order Lt. Col. Baxter since April 2, 1865
• May & June 1865 - absent - on guard duty at Jenning's Landing by Special Order No. 85 Lt. Col. Baxter since April 12, 1865
• July & Aug. 1865 - present
• Sept. 27, 1865 - mustered out, last paid on April 30, 1865, due payment of $17.29

Bounty paid $33.33, due $33.33

Excerpts from Lt. James Egan's history of the First Regiment of Heavy Artillery:

This regiment commenced its organization in the summer of 1864, and as fast as each company was organized was ordered to Chattanooga, Tenn.  Sherman had begun his march to the sea, Hood was preparing to march northerly, and Chattanooga thus became a strategic point.  General Thomas was in Nashville, overlooking the entire situation, and maintaining a large force of artillery at Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga.

The regiment was composed of twelve companies, each company containing one hundred and forty men, officered by one captain, four lieutenants, and the usual non-commissioned officers.  Great care was used by the governor in selecting such officers, old veteran soldiers being usually selected, sergeants from the veteran First Minnesota and corporals from the Third, Fourth and Fifth being made captains and lieutenants.

The command is ordered to Chattanooga to take charge of the heavy guns and forts of that place.  Under the brow of Missionary Ridge, at the base of Lookout Mountain, and with the battlefields of Chickamauga and Atlanta beyond, what inspiring memories to lofty thoughts and patriotism!  Rumor comes from time to time that Hood is about to march to Chattanooga and thence to Knoxville.  The men are placed on half-rations, and the utmost vigilance exerted and anxiety prevails.  There was reason for this anxiety.  General Hood had reorganized the rebel forces of the South and Southwest, and it was a serious question as to what route he would take north.  By attacking and capturing Chattanooga, thence on to Knoxville, he could have joined General Lee and delayed the final result.

The confidence displayed by Generals Thomas and Stedman, in placing the regiment in so responsible a post, was extremely complimentary.  General Thomas Francis Meagher, fresh from the battlefields of Virginia, was given command of the district of Etawah, embracing our post, until the danger was over.  The battle of Nashville has been fought and won; Sherman has reached the Carolinas; Lee has surrendered at Appomattox.  The war practically over, the regiment in the summer and fall of 1865 is finally mustered out.  Captain Harvey Officer of St. Paul was honored by being made acting assistant adjutant general of the district.  Lieutenant Colonel Baxter became our colonel, and was, by order of General Thomas, chief of garrison artillery of Chattanooga from March, 1865, until the regiment left for home.  Others, by reason of their activity and intelligence, were placed in places of trust and peril, and the regiment, with its career and duty well done and sacrifice endured, merits a name high on the monument that the record of Minnesota soldiers deserves.

Census: 
1840 Pulaski Co., KY probably living in the household of Nancy Dove

• 1 male under 5 - probably William he would have been 2 years old
• 2 males 20-29 could be John and David
• 1 female 20-29 could be Jane (Beasley) Dove
• 1 female 40-49 probably Nancy

1850 Pulaski Co., KY living in his grandfather Isham Beasley's home.  The family was listed twice in the census.  In the first entry William's age was 10 and he is listed as 13 in the second entry.

1860 Pulaski Co., KY William is the head of household age 23 with his first wife Martha and their two children.  He was a farm laborer with $50 of real estate.

1870 Four Mile Twp., Wayne Co., IL age 30, a farmer with $520 real estate and $380 personal estate living with his second wife Nancy.  There are four children in the house and William's father John age 55.

1880 Four Mile Twp., Wayne Co., IL age 41 William and Nancy, six children and a son-in-law

1900 Four Mile Twp., Wayne Co., IL, William, 61 with his third wife Alice two of their children, Nancy's son William and Alice's daughter Nettie Jones.

1910 Four Mile Twp., Wayne Co., IL William, 71 and Alice with their son Joseph and Alice's daughter Nettie.

May 31, 1912 William applied for a military pension.  He stated that he was 73, a resident of Bluford, Jefferson Co., IL.  He states that "his several places of residence since leaving the service have been as follows:  In Indiana until 1867, about all the time in Wayne Co., IL.

Another page of the application dated June 24, 1899 states that his address is Six Mile, IL [Keenes] and answered the following:

1. Are you a married man? Yes, wife's name A.M. Goss
2. When, where and by whom were you married? Sept. 23, 1891, Fairfield, IL by John L. Cooper
3. Were you previously married?  If so, please state the name of your former wife, date and place of her death:  Yes, Martha Rainwater, May 8, 1869 Indiana
4. Have you any children living?  If so, please state their names and dates of birth:  Joe Mason Dove April 8, 1894, Gussie Anna Dove Aug. 6, 1898

 After his death Alice (Goss) Jones Dove applied for a widow's pension.  This application includes affadavits regarding the the deaths of Martha (Rainwater) Dove and Nancy (Hunt) Dove.

W.H. Rainwater, aged 68 and Lucinda Heath aged 72 of Keenes, Wayne Co., IL affadavit:  W.H. Rainwater says that he knows that Martha Dove is dead.  That she was at his father's house when she, Martha Dove, died.  He further says he was at burying and saw Martha Dove buried.  

Lucinda Heath says on her oath that she knew Nancy Dove and that she was at home of William Dove when Nancy Dove lay a corpse and saw Nancy Dove after she was dead.

Children by Martha Rainwater:
Maureen b. 1857 KY, living in 1870, age 13
Miles b. 4/1860 KY d. after 1940, md. Mary --?-- ca. 1888

• Carrie b. 7/1888 md. Samuel Shook 2/3/1913
• Effie b. 1/1897, living 1940, never married, committed to Anna State Hospital ca. 1938
• unnamed child b. before 1910, d. before 1910
• unnamed child b. before 1910, d. before 1910
• unnamed child b. before 1910, d. before 1910

Mary Emma b. 3/25/1863 IN, d. 10/24/1939 Tulsa, OK md. Franklin Pierce Withrow 11/23/1879

• William Newton b. 6/29/1881 IL, d. 9/12/1957 KS md. Doracy Bailey Ogden 12/24/1905
• Miles Grandison b. ca. 1883 AR, d. 12/2/1956 md. Ada Elizabeth Edmonds 9/18/1910
• Elmer Pierce b. 5/26/1886 IL, d. 6/4/1975 MO md. 1) Alice Lillian Martindale 8/19/1911, 2) Nellie Jones ca. 1958
• DeEtta Frances b. 9/25/1888 MO, d. 1/12/1975 md. 1) Bill Smallwood, 12/4/1910, 2) Bert Damon 3/27/1923 3) Bill Smallwood (again) 2/2/1950
• Everett b. ca. 1891 TX, d. 1/12/1967 CA md. 1) Ola Franks 3/1911, 2) Olive Duphel 1/2/1942
• Martha Magdalene b. 2/5/1893 OK, d. 11/9/1977, OK md. Dock Barney Rogers 5/8/1914, 2) ? McPeters
• Grace b. 10/30/1897 OK, d. 1/23/1973 OK md. 1) Ezra Gawthrop 6/6/1932; 2) William Jefflen 11/29/1941
• Tillman b. 8/23/1899 OK, d. 8/13/1988 CA md. Susie Hale 8/15/1922

Emily b. 1865 MN, living in 1880 age 15

Children by Nancy Jane Hunt:
Martha Ellen b. 1871 IL, md. William Walter Hill 12/29/1894
Ollie C. b. 1873 IL md. W.L. West, 1888
Louisa Miranda b. 7/8/1878 IL
John b. 9/1879, living 1880, 9 months old
William Willis b. 4/1881 IL, d. 1964 IL, md. Delia Lane 6/1/1904

• Evelyn b. 1908 IL md. C.J. Gilbert 9/20/1924
• Mable A. b. 1913 IL, d. 1914
• Thelma b. 1916 IL, md. Walter Martin ca. 1930

Nettie Mae.* b. 3/1885 IL md. William Evins, 9/6/1903

Children by Alice Mariah (Goss) Jones:
Joseph Mason b. 4/18/1894 IL, d. 2/24/1955 IL md. Clara Bell Wood 1/24/1914

• Kenneth Harold b. 11/7/1914, d. 3/20/1975 md. Doris (Payne) Shaw
• Robert Dove b. 1952, d. 2002
• Keith William b. 6/10/1918, d. 12/7/2002 md. Bernice Harper 1940
• Billie Ray b. 1941, d. 1941
• Sharon b. 1942, d. 2021
• Kermit b. 12/2/1923, d. 12/19/1993

Gussie Ann b. 8/6/1898, living 1900
Ellen?

Children of Alice Goss & Isaac Jones:
Nettie/Anettie R.M.* b. 7/11/1890 , d. 7/1970 md. Floyd Wollitz 5/30/1918

• Ruby b. 1919 md. --?-- Beasley
• Joe b. 1921
• Opal b. 1923 md. --?-- Gannon
• Earl b. 1925

Children of Alice Goss & either Isaac Jones or William Dove:

unknown b. before 1910, d. before 1910
unknown b. before 1910, d. before 1910
unknown b. before 1910, d. before 1910
unknown b. before 1910, d. before 1910

In the 1910 census Alice is listed as being the mother of 8 children and 4 are living.

The children for whom I have no death information may have died young and may be buried in Bruce Cemetery or Salem / Mateer Cemetery.  There are very few tombstones left in Bruce Cemetery so there is no way to know.

*I may have the two Nettie's confused as they are confusing.  They each used the Dove surname when they married and I may have the marriages twisted.  I'd like to hear from anyone with definite information regarding the two Netties.

Revised 4/24/2023