Jackson County OhArchives Obituaries.....Dove, Lt. Col. David  January 12, 1868
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The Jackson standard. (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888: January 30, 1868, Image 3
Lt. Col. David Dove, son of Coleman and Elizabeth Dove, was born Nov. 21, 1838, and
after a long and painful illness, died at his residence in Jackson County, Ohio,
January 12, 1868, aged twenty-nine years, one month, and twenty-one days.

At an early age he gave evidence of a strong desire to qualify himself for the
business and responsibilities of life, and by industry and perseverance, under the
most trying circumstances, the powers of his well-balanced mind became developed,
and having obtained a liberal English education, when quite young, was employed for
some time in teaching school, in which capacity he gave great satisfaction to all
concerned.

As a man of honor and nobleness of purpose, there was but one voice in the
neighborhood in which he was born and raised, and spent the most of his life, the
whole community awarding to him, as by common consent, a high, manly, and noble
purpose in life.

When the war broke out in 1861, Col. Dove was among the first to respond to the call
of his country, entering the army as a private soldier, determined to discharge the
duties of a loyal citizen of the United States, in the hour of danger, and throwing
his life into the terrible breach, went forth in all the manliness of a true
soldier, to the faithful discharge of dut y.

Soon after he entered the army, the company to which he belonged, seeing his moral
worth, elected him Captain of their company, and as such, he soon after received a
commission from the Governor of West Va., to serve for three years, unless sooner
discharged; in which capacity he served his country faithfully until severely
wounded, in May, 1863.

In the discharge of duty, as an officer, there were none more prompt; and for his
coolness and courage in the hour of danger, he was promoted Lt. Col. of the Second
Va. Cavalry, (that being the Regiment to which he belonged), to date from the time
he was wounded, and in which capacity he remained until honorably discharged. From
the time of his return to his home from the army until his death, he was a subject
of continued and painful suffering, until his constitution gave way, and death
marked him as a victim. But his sufferings were all borne by him with great patience
and fortitude, still carrying with him the same cleverness of intellect, and fixed
principle of right to the very day of his death.

At various times, before he was confined to his room, in conversation on the subject
of Christianity, he talked freely and with much interest, professing to be a strong
believer in the Providence of God andthe Christian Religion.

Soon after he was confined to his room, he became greatly concerned as to his
personal acceptance with God, and a preparation for death, and was much engaged in
anxious inquiry and fervent prayer, but talked calmly, and with great confidence as
to his future.

About four weeks before his death, while in conversation on the probability of his
approaching destiny, he talked with much feeling and anxiety-spoke of his business
as having all been fixed, and his greatest desire was to be ready if death should
soon come.

A few days before his death, he was visited at his own request by Rev. I. B.
Bradrick, and others, at which time he gave satisfactory evidence that his peace was
made with God.

Much of the time for the last two or three hours before his death was spent by him
in arranging for his funeral services, selecting the minister to preach his funeral
sermon, and his place of burial; also making a request that his little child, who
had died a year or two since, should be taken up and buried near him. After this was
all done, he gave full evidence that he was ready to die, and on Sunday morning,
about nine o'clock A.M., Col. Dove finished his earthly pilgrimage, and died in
peace, leaving a wife and one child, and aged father and mother, and many friends to
mourn their loss.

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