This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Covington Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZKB.2ACE/417.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Continued reading: ------------------------------ It is well documented that the Covington family migrated from the Leaksville area in Rockingham County, North Carolina. In the obituary of Mary Sue, scribed by the Reverend Rufus Hunley, he writes that Mary Sue Covington Hopper had "professed faith at the age of 16 years, uniting with the Baptist Church of Leaksville, N. C. Leaksville is in Rockingham County only 2.8 miles south of the Virginia border. A great great great granddaughter of Joseph Covington has recently located their family home in Leaksville. Adjacent is the family graveyard with the headstones of Joseph A., his first wife Elizabeth and Richard Hudnall, his father in law still intact, Interestingly, the area of Leaksville has streets with the name Anderson (the middle names of Richard Covington and his father), Boone, and Henry. In 1968 the city of Eden, N.C. was formed from the towns, Leaksville, Spray and Draper. Rockingham County joins the Virginia Counties Patrick and Henry on the North ------------------ This indicates that the father was John Covington, but no documentation- only the source of information which as been a reasonally reliable source in the past- basically from family letters, bibles, traditon, etc John COVINGTON (C100) (Father C200) BORN: unknown DIED: Nov 17, 1818 MARRIED: Mary___ BURIED: Probably North Carolina or Virginia Joseph Anderson COVINGTON (C200) (Son of C100) BORN: 1785 DIED: May 26,1863 MARRIED: Elizabeth (Maiden name unknown) MARRIED: Elizabeth R. HUDNALL, December 5, 1833 BURIED: In a family cemetery next to his home in Leaksville (Eden), NC. -------------- It is quite likely that the family connection is very close and easily could be brothers, but I suspect any documentation of kinship would be in NC in the form of probate or land records.