Gerald - Wasn't sure if you subscribed to Rita Ackerman's "Covey Cousins". Rec's the latest issue today and it had a few tidbits about Franklin Co, TN COVEYS: From Marr Records, Franklin Co Jan 1838-Jan 1875: Samuel HINKLE to Esther COVEY 7 Sep 1850 (lic issued 24 Aug 1850) William J. OREAR to Elizabeth COVEY no marr date (lic issued 31 Jan 1852) Edward D. SWANN to Matilda COVEY no date (lic issued 25 Apr 1854) William COVEY to Mary A. SWANN 13 Jan 1857 (lic iss 12 Jan 1857) Jas M. COVEY/McCOVEY to Elizabeth GRIDER 3 Apr 1867 (lic iss 7 Apr 1867)* *looks like these dates got reversed J.T. RICHARDSON to Sophia COVEY 1 Dec 1870 (lic iss 29 Nov 1870) Pam At 04:12 PM 6/9/97 -0400, Gerald Moses wrote: >Janelle > There's a gedcom of a Samuel Covey on file in the CompuServe genealogy forum >library that appears to match yours. It lists descendants of a Samuel Covey and >a Elizabeth "Nap." The family settled in Franklin Co. Tennessee. > I've made a tenuous connection between a John Covey, one of Samuel's >grandsons and a "Sinia" Covey: The 1830 Census for John Covey of Franklin Co. >Tenn. listed two girls in the 10-15 age group. John's brother James migrated to >Arkansas by the time of the 1840 Census. Also, on 23 Aug 1836, an apparent >double wedding occurred in Pulaski Co. AR for Sinia Covey and E.W. Guthrie and >Maria Covey and Joel Sampson. (Sinia would have been 11-12 years old by 1830 >Census. The name Sinia may have been a contraction of Lucinda.) > My interest is the Guthrie line: E.W. Guthrie later migrated to Texas. > The Covey GEDCOM was filed on the Compuserve genealogy forum 7 Mar '94 by >Allen G. Schmidt, 73062,1016@compuserve.com. A GEDCOM of apparently the same >Covey family was filed on the CSI genealogy forum in Jan 1996 by Melinda >Pennington, 76720,312. > However, neither lists any earlier information on Samuel Covey -- date or >location of birth or of death. But the Elizabeth "Nap" and your Elizabeth Knapp >seems a strong connection. > I'd appreciate any information you have on Samuel Covey -- and especially any >information confirming Sinia's relationship to John Covey. Thanks. > --Gerald Moses > > > > > ******************************************************************** Pam Wood Waugh, 730 Dunhill Drive, Orlando, FL 32825 (407)275-8514 ******************************************************************** Email: moodies@magicnet.net(home) or waughp@ocps.k12.fl.us(work) Eastern Townships of Quebec genealogy page: http://www.magicnet.net/~moodies/et2.html My Family Lines: http://www.magicnet.net/~moodies "I think that I shall never see, a finished genealogy"