John was born in 1794 in Rockingham, Virginia. He probably moved to western Pennsylvania as a boy of 14 or 15. He married a woman by the name of Rachel, who may have been the orphaned child that Lewis Whetzel saved but that is unconfirmed. He passed away about 1865 in Indiana.
Sources
THE DOVE FAMILY OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA; By Lewis H. Yankey
US Federal Censuses
Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John: