| Name |
Jacob Benjamin Dovel |
| Birth |
19 Sep 1816, Honeyville/Luray, Page Co., VA |
| Death |
21 Dec 1901, Fairfield Co., OH |
| Burial |
Violet/Dovel Cemetery, Violet Twnp, OH |
| Occupation |
Farmer |
| Religion |
Built U.N. Brethren Church for Pickerington OH |
| Father |
Peter A. Dovel (1777-1870) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth Ann Keyser (1792-1831) |
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| Marriage |
11 Jan 1837, Luray VA or Fairfield Co., OH |
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| Children: |
Elizabeth (1844-1895) |
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Adelaide (1837-1838) |
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Lydia (1840-1865) |
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John (1843-1863) |
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Andrew Jackson (~1848-) |
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Lucinda "Lucy" Theodosia (1848-1913) |
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Florida Ann (~1850-) |
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Olive Virginia (~1852-) |
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Frank B. (1857-1936) |
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| Notes for Jacob Benjamin Dovel |
"Came to Pickerington when his step-mother angered him. Virginia Dovel asked her step-son to bring in the cows and he did for the last time and then walked to OH. He found work for a man named Dovel building fences. But he married the owner's daughter, Elizabeth Dovel."
"Lived to be 86 years old. Had pneumonia, lived 3 days. His wife Elizabeth had a stroke - her third. Lived to be 75. The church Jacob gave to the community was built when he became angry because someone made fun of his wife's hat. Elizabeth gave a silver communion set to the church. Paid $75; considered quite a gift."
ÒThe Dovels had built all the old brick houses around Pickerington...East of the village atop the hill on Route 256 is the Ôhome placeÕ built just a century ago. The bricks were formed from the clay south of the house, burned in a kilm, then carried up the hill and the house built. (Now owned by grandson Charles Dovel, Manistee, Michigan). West of Pickerington, Jacob Dovel built about 1866 a large brick house with cicular stairs winding up to the cupola. This was for daughter Lucinda (now owned by M.R. Hansen). Two daughters were married in a double ceremony to the Bowen brothers around 1875, Jacob fitted them with brick houses and farms on the Refugee Road west of Route 256. Florence received the corner place (Graceland, now owned by granddaughter, Mrs. O.C. Belt). The west farm was given to Virginia (Perry Smith present owner). Frank Dovel received a farm and brick house south of Pickerington on Waterloo Road about 1880. (His daughters Mrs. Rose Eallies and Miss May Dovel live there.) Finally, Jacob Dovel was instrumental in building the U.B. Church on the east edge of Pickerington in 1883 that it is named Dovel Memorial. Other Dovels built four other brick houses on farms about Pickerington; so your safe to bet about Pickerington; Ôif its an old brick, Dovel built itÕ . Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, June 3, 1950
http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/rcps_history/Dovel.html
Dovel School in Page County 12
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