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Gove, John Home

Caption Note: A monument marking the location of this home reads:
The inscription on the east side, toward the street, is as follows:

HERE STOOD
THE HOUSE
BUILT IN 1713
BY JOHN GOVE
BURNED IN
1913 BY AN
INCENDIARY

On the south side the inscription is a list of the owners of the estate from 17 13 to 1920, with the dates of each one's period of ownership, as follows:

JOHN GOVE (SON OF EDWARD)
1713-1737

JONATHAN GOVE
1737-1761

RICHARD GOVE
1761-1832

RICHARD GOVE
1832-1847

JONATHAN GOVE
1847- 1890

SARAH ELMA GOVE
1890- 1897

WILLIAM HENRY GOVE
1897- 1920

The west side is inscribed in Latin and states that this was Edward Gove's homefield from 1665, as follows:

EDVARDI GOVI
ACER
MDCLXV

Mr. Gove was interested in Esperanto, the world language which was produced a score of years ago, and wrote the inscription for the north side of the monument in that language, as follows:

TIU CI MONTRAS
LA HELAJU
HOROJU KIE
DUM DUCENT
JAROJ ESTIS
LA FAJRUJO
DE LA FAMILIO
DE GOVE

In English, this inscription reads as follows: "This marks the sunny hours where for two hundred years was the hearthstone of the Gove family."
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