This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Covey, Taylor, Orth Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TKQ.2ACIB/569 Message Board Post: Daniel L. and Mary H. Covey with their children, Solomon D. (Solly), William and Sarah, came to Forman, Sargent Co., ND, from Six Lakes, MI. in the middle 1880's. George W., was born in Forman in 1889. Daniel filed on a claim a mile west and a mile north of Forman. The land is now farmed by Danny and David Jacobson. They also filed a tree claim a mile and one-half north of Forman where they built their first house. At the housewarming they made candy by dropping tablespoons of maple syrup onto the snow. They had bought the maple syrup from Michigan. Son, George, remembered that his father left home at 4 a.m. with a wagon load of grain to go to a small settlement a few miles to the northwest where there was a water powered mill. He would return late at night with a load of flour (stone ground) shorts and bran, having paid the miller in kind. George also remembered trips to a river near Lisbon to pick plums, the only fruit available at the time. Solomon married Elizabeth Orth ! (Walt Orth's aunt). They lived in a small house which was east across the street from the Congregational Church. Their two daughters, Josephine and Edith, are remembered by some of Forman's senior citizens. "Solly" operated a dray line and hauling service. The family moved to Canada about 1900. Son, William, left Forman in 1908 for Wyoming. Sarah married "Joe" Taylor who ran a barber shop where the present theater is until they moved to Nebraska. George, the last son, left Forman in 1906 to attend college and eventually became a physician practicing in Lincoln, Neb. Daniel and Mary Covey, the procreators, also moved to Lincoln, where they are buried.