Gove, Moses 1807 – 1899
GOVE, GREEN, CHASE, CRAM, HAY
Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:40
Source: Decorah Republican Jan. 26, 1899 P 2 C 2
MOSES GOVE.
The not unexpected death of Uncle Moses Gove occurred yesterday morning at four o’clock, at, the home of his son J. M. Gove, in this city. Two weeks ago he suffered a slight stroke of paralysis, and from that time he failed gradually until the end came and brought the relief for which he prayed so fervently.
Moses Gove was born in Weare, N. H., Jan. 5th, 1807, and at the time of his death was in his ninety-third year.
He is a direct descendant of an ancient and honored name, known both in England where it originated, and in America. Edward, who was the common ancestor of the Goves in this country, came to America on or before 1647 and settled at Charleston. He was a member in 1683 of the assembly that was dissolved by Gov. Cranfield. The dissolution of the assembly was greatly resented by the people of New Hampshire and Gove headed a movement to overthrow the government, but surrendered without bloodshed. He, as well as those associated with him, was tried for treason, convicted, sentenced to death and his estate confiscated. The others were pardoned but Gove was sent to England where he was confined three years in the Tower of London, after which he was released and his estate restored to him in 1686.
Moses Gove was a son of Levi and Lydia Green Gove, and of the sixth generation of the descendants of Edward Gove. He was married in 1829 to Lydia G. Chase, and in the following year went to Danvers, Mass., engaging in the manufacture of shoes. Some time later he moved to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and engaged in the shoe business. The lumber field of Pennsylvania next engaged his attention and he moved there in 1841, and became a dealer in lumber. Ten years later found him at Lambertville, N. J., engaged in the coal business. At that time he helped start the first public school in that part of the country. In 1856 he came west and located near Hesper in this (Winnesheik) county, where he continued to reside until twenty years ago when he came to Decorah and has since made his home here.
Four children were born to Uncle Moses and his wife, three of whom— Francis W. Gove, of Trenton, N. J., Mrs. Mary S. Chase, of Annieville, Ia., and John M. Gove, of this city, survive. His wife died seventeen yours ago. Of his brothers and sisters four survive— Simon, of Minneapolis, Milton and Mrs. Cram, of Weare, N. H., and Mrs. Hay, of Stoneham, Mass., all of them past seventy-five years of age. He came from a family of great longevity, his parents being ninety and ninety-seven years when they died.
This writer, feels a great sense of inability to capably portray the qualities of one who was the playfellow and schoolmate of Whittier and could count such a man as Daniel Webster as his friend. Possibly it is best to let the life which so many knew so well speak of the departed. In religious faith he was a birthright Quaker, and though a regular attendant at church wherever he might be, never relinquished his membership in the Friends church to join another denomination, even temporarily. He was gently-spoken in his intercourse with others, kind to his fellowman, upright in all things—in fact, all that one may say of the truest of true Christians and the most honorable of honorable men. In his declining days he lived in the hope of seeing his grandchildren settled in life, and as if it were in answer to his prayer, the day after the marriage of his grandson, Chas. R. Gove, he was taken with his last illness.
The funeral service will be held tomorrow afternoon at two o’clock, at the house, Rev. M. Willett officiating, and interment will be made in the Phelps cemetery.
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