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continued from page 11 Craven County in 1850. We know that your William Dove was living in the Brock household that year and therefore would not be in his father’s household. We searched for the households of the Dove family in the 1850 U.S. census and discovered that Jacob and Isaac Dove both had sons named William recorded in that census, so they could not be the father of your William Dove. However, William Dove of Craven County did not have a male in his household in 1850, meaning that the young male recorded in his household
in 1840 was no longer living with him. This could mean that your William Dove belongs to the William Dove of Craven County who was born about 1780, and that he moved in with the Brock family between 1840 and 1850. According to Paul Heinegg, the Dove family owned land by 1775, so you will want to search land, probate and court records in this county to see if you can locate any records for the Dove family that may include relationships of family members. We located a land division in probate records for Craven County for the estate of an Isaac Dove in 1826. According to this record, the parties involved in the land
division were Anthony Brown, Jacob Dove and William Dove. Their relationships are not recorded, but the papers related to Isaac’s estate claim that his heirs were William Dove; Jacob Dove; George Carter and his wife, Susan; Gambo Fenner and his wife, Debby; and Stephen Godett and his wife, Mary. This suggests that William Dove (the possible father of your William Dove), Jacob Dove, Susan Carter, Debby Fenner and Mary Godett were all children of Isaac Dove, and each of them received a partition of his land upon his decease. We also located probate papers for William Dove in Craven County, dated Decem-
ber 1850 (on Ancestry.com; subscription required), which state that William’s wife was Rebecca. This is a match for the William Dove we located in the 1850 census record (the possible father) and suggests that he died around the time that your William Dove appeared in the Brock household. Perhaps the younger William Dove sought out work or training in a trade outside of his household once he reached adulthood, which is how he came to be in the Brock household. To continue this article, please go to www.the root.com and search for Free People of Color in NC.
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73rd Carver Day Celebration Diamond, MO—George Washington Carver National Monument is pleased to announce the park's annual Carver Day celebration to be held on Saturday, July 9, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The public is cordially invited to attend the 73rd Carver Day anniversary to commemorate the life of George Washington Carver and the establishment of the national monument in his honor. The event is free of charge. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service so this year's event will be a very special one! Special speakers this year include Audrey Peterman, author of Our True Nature, Finding a Zest for Life in the National Park System and Legacy of the Land: A Black Couple Discovers Our National Inheritance and Tells Why Every American Should Care and Toby Warren, author of My
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Stopped Hybrid 1974, Bronze Richard Hunt is a sculptor based in Chicago, Illinois. He received a bachelor's degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and almost immediately began exhibiting at art fairs, galleries, and local art centers around Chicago. After a brief stint in the U.S. Army, he resumed his career as a sculptor in earnest. His new work met with nearly instant acclaim, and he became the youngest artist featured in the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle. In Stopped Hybrid we see the figure in mid-transformation, halting its movement in place. Hunt’s use of biomorphic abstract forms, juxtaposed with the rigid angularity of the totem base produces a clear tension between the organic (form) and the industrial (material). This tension is intentional; Hunt has noted that one of the central themes in his work is “the reconciliation of the organic and the industrial. I see my work as forming a kind of bridge between what we experience in nature and what we experience from the urban, industrial, technology-driven society that we live in.”
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Springfield, MO—The Springfield-Greene County Park Board’s annual Movies at Founders Park series begins at
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