You are so right....This message is definitely worth forwarding to the list -- a great deal of info (of which I hope to add to the YARNES page within a day or two). Pam - ------------------------------------- >From: "Joseph Covey" <jnlcovey@netins.net> >To: "Pam Wood Waugh" <moodies@magicnet.net> >Subject: Re: Hope COVEY & Eunice YARNES and more >Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 21:35:34 -0500 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1162 > >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 ******************************************************** 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