This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Heinlen, Gale, Smith, Covey Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TKQ.2ACIB/579 Message Board Post: I am in possession of David Smith Jr's Revolutionary War pension files from NARA. David Smith Jr. fought on the NY 5th Line and was from Fredricksburgh, Dutchess Co, NY. David Smith Jr. is my 4th Great Grandfather. In the file are copies of the Smith Family Bible Pages. David Smith Jr. had a daughter Eunice born 2 Dec 1787 in Fredricksburgh, Dutchess Co, NY. their third child, and in the bible pages there is a entry that says Eunice married Jonathan Covey 17 Dec 1802. She would of been 15 years old at the time. I do not believe she was married previously as there would be yet another bible entry for her marriage in the family bible plus she was a bit young, would you not agree.. I know the Covey family lists a Eunice Gray for the wife of Jonathan Covey. But did she use a fictitious last name when they married? Did she run off and marry? In June 1823 in Delaware Co, Ohio an ad was taken out by David Smith looking for his daughter Eunice who married Jonathan Covey 20 years earlier. Under that ad he asks the publishers to please publish the ad in NY also as a favor to a old soldier. He died in October 1823. The Ad : Woman Lost Information is wanted by the subscriber of the place of residence of his daughter, Eunice Smith, who married a man by the name of Jonathan Covey, in Franklin Township, Dutchess Co. NY and moved from thence into some part of the Holland purchase so called, about 20 years ago, since which I have never heard from her. Any person who will furnish information of her residence and welfare if living, will convey grateful tidings to her aged parents and will impose a lasting obligation upon a soldier of the revolution. David Smith Delaware, Ohio May 26, 1823 In the same block & directly below this ad, it said: Printers generally, in particularly in the state of New York, are desired to give the above one or two insertions, and oblige a poor old soldier. In several WFT files I see Jonathan and Eunice had a son named "Smith Covey", I find that more than coincidental, why would a woman name a male child Smith Covey if she was a Gray and not a Smith? Too many coincidences? Both were born in Fredricksburgh, Dutchess Co, NY, several years apart in age and a son named Smith Covey. A Bible entry of a marriage date and then an ad connecting them? Not to mention a son named Smith Covey. Where did the Gray part of the entry for Eunice come from? I do not know if Eunice had a middle name as none is mentioned in the bible records. Kindly, Pamela Heinlen-Lehto If you respond Please put Pam-Covey in subject line.