Inscription on the headstone reads: Father
Shares headstone with son: John G. Rideout (1846-1909).
David Oliver Rideout, Sr. was born in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio to John Getchell Rideout and Sarah Randall. The Rideout family has a great American heritage, originally settling in Maine. Rideout was the name bestowed on their ancestor for being an outrider for the British king. David married Ann or Samantha Taylor in Ohio. David and his brothers decided to travel to the gold fields of California together. They stopped in the Great Salt Lake City for repairs to their wagon. David was converted to the Mormon faith while they were in Utah. His brothers were so disgusted and upset with him over it, that they left him there. He sent back for his wife and children, but she refused to have anything futher to do with him.

In 1853 he married Ann Blows Gilby, an English immigrant who had lost her husband and all but one of their children to cholera while travelling to Utah. In 1857 David served a proselyting mission for the Church in the Appalachian mountains of Tazewell County, Virginia. He was mobbed several times, and at one time he was tarred and feathered by four armed men for daring to preach the gospel. At the end of this mission he brought back his son, John Getchell Rideout, with his horse and buggy, baptizing John in a river on the return trip to Utah.

David was a friend to the John H. Reid family and it was arranged for him to marry their young daughter, Lucinda Reid, in 1868. He was always interested in mining, and spent as much time as he could spare pursuing this line of work in Utah and in Montana. He discovered a coal mine which he was unable to properly develop, so he sold the rights to this mine.

David O. Rideout was well respected by those who knew him. He is referred to in the diaries of some of his fellow Latter-day Saints as DOR. He held positions of responsibility within the Church organization and remained a faithful member until the end of his life. He was a handsome, strong, and tall man. He had light colored eyes - I believe they were blue - and brown hair. He played the fiddle and was well liked by the young people who knew him. He was buried in the Draper City Cemetery, where next to him rests his son, John Getchell Rideout. Also buried here were his sister-in-law, Mary Emma Reid Terry, his second wife, Ann Blows Gilby Rideout, and he and Ann's son, David Oliver Rideout, Jr. and David O. Jr.'s wife, Mary Ann Terry (the daughter of Mary Emma Reid Terry) and many other relatives. David Oliver Rideout has left his many descendants with a strong heritage and great blessings brought them through his hard work and sacrifice. Wendy M. Van Roekel, June 2010