Apologies ---------- > From: Joseph Covey <jnlcovey@netins.net> > To: Pam Wood Waugh <moodies@magicnet.net> > Subject: Re: Hope COVEY & Eunice YARNES and more > Date: Sunday, July 11, 1999 9:35 PM > > I'm descended from Hope Covey and Eunice Yarnes, and can offer some info on > two of their sons, Daniel and Hiram. > > The lineage of Hiram and his wife, Aurelia Ann Clinton, is laid out well in > "Ancestors and Descendants of Walter Covey, . . . " by Mary Lancaster > Quist. Pages 109 to 116 cover this family up to the published date of > 1971. Dates are at variance in some places with tombstones and other > family sources, but the relationships are solid. > > My ancestor, Daniel, born New York in 1785, died Mahaska County, Iowa in > 1854, was older brother to Hiram. Daniel married Phanella "Fanny" Burgett > in Broome county, New York. They had at least three sons, Daniel Covey, > Hiram Perry Covey, and Elisha Covey, and a daughter, Sarah Juliette Covey. > The family lived in or near the Triangle area of Broome County, and is > accounted in Federal Census' for 1820 through 1840. > > Daniel married Mary Baker in New York, probably Broome County, and > emigrated to Iowa when the future state was opened to white settlement in > 1843, to accompany his uncle, Hiram Covey and his family in claiming land > in western Mahaska County. Daniel and Mary died at some point after 1844, > leaving a daughter, Lydia (born 1841 in New York) and a son John (born 1844 > in Iowa). They died intestate, and his father Daniel and mother Fanny > traveled to Iowa in 1848 to either settle or claim his son's estate. The > minor children were taken back to New York ca. 1856 by their uncle, Guy > Baker, and are found in Broome County Federal census listings for 1860 and, > I believe, for 1870. Fanny Burgett Covey died in 1849, Daniel remarrying a > Sarah Morris in 1853 before dying himself in 1854. > > Hiram Perry Covey, his wife, Helphy Eggleston, and their daughter Charlotte > may have traveled to Iowa with father Daniel, or with sister Sarah J. Covey > and her husband John H. Houghtaling and their three daughters, Susan, > Phanella, and Carphelia. > > There's more if anyone is interested, although I'm not well versed on most > of the family of "Uncle Hiram and Aunt Aurelia", and I am more than happy > to share what I have, subject to the limits of my original research and/or > family oral tradition. My grandmother, Zerelda Ida Burton, married into > both sides of the family, first being wed to Hiram and Aurelia's grandson > George, then upon his death, to Daniel and Phanella's grandson Daniel , so > I do have "vested" interest, through marriage, to both lines. > > Joseph Covey > ---------- > > From: Pam Wood Waugh <moodies@magicnet.net> > > To: COVEY-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Hope COVEY & Eunice YARNES and more > > Date: Sunday, July 11, 1999 6:24 PM > > > > I'm currently working on a YARNES page, since so very many of them > ammried > > into COVEY lines. Believe me, this page is in its infancy stage right > now, > > but I am looking for family info on the descendants of Hope COVEY and > > Eunice YARNES to add to teh page. I imagine that there is someone out > there > > who can save me a lot of time and aggravation. It's not my line, and I > > could go digging, but why start from scratch when a descendant researcher > > can have their info (only a few generations, since these would be COVEYs > > and not YARNES) connected to the name, and researchers would contact > them??? > > > > Anyway -- please check out: > > > > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3500/yarnes.html > > > > and if you do have Hope COVEY descendant info, please let me know. I'd > like > > to get as much on the se lines as possible on the first few > > generations...maybe we'll be able to connect up some of these > looseYARNES, > > as well as COVEYS in the process! > > > > Pam > > ******************************************************** > > Pam Wood Waugh moodies@magicnet.net > > 730 Dunhill Dr or waughp@ocps.k12.fl.us > > Orlando, FL 32825 > > > > Quebec GenWeb Eastern Townships Research site: > > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3500/et.html > > Family Lines: > > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3500 > > Listowner for COVEY-L, SALLS-L, TRYON-L, WAUGH-L and > > QC-ETANGLO-L