Almon B. Covey is listed in the Michigan Land Office (Kalamazoo Branch) as purchasing (in cash)160 acres, it was issued in May 1839 under the Act or Treaty of 4/24/1820. (Document #16486, Sequence #1, Statutory Reference 3.Stat.566. This document states that he is from Cayuga Co, NY. He is listed on the 1860 pg 900 and 1870 Waverly Twp, Van Buren Co Michigan Census', which states: 1870 Waverly Twp, Van Buren Co, MI Aug 23, 1870, Post Office Lake Mill, pg 6 ALMEN B. COVEY 61, W, M, farmer 4,000 real estate 1535 personal born VT Ruth, 54, F, W, Keeping house, b. NY William A. 19 W M farm laborer b. MI Enos A. 15 WM farm laborer b. MI Alice R. Sliver 12 WF b. MI Martin M. Sliver 10 WM b. MI On 22 March 1874, Almond B. Covey married Orcelia Smith in Van Buren MI (source: Michigan Marriage Records) Is anyone researching this family that can tell me how/when/where the SLIVER children came into this household? Dawn Sliver Bastounes "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings." Psalm 40:2 KJV 1611