This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COVINGTON, WHITE, ARNOLD, ARNOT Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZKB.2ACE/417 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on the COVINGTON family in Montgomery County. The census of 1880 lists 6 COVINGTON families residing in Montgomery County. I believe, but have no definite proof, that these families are all related to Melchizedec COVINGTON, who was born in North Carolina in 1788; married Catharine SUDDITH (Who was born in Fairfax County,Virginia) in 1799 in Christian County, Kentucky. Melchizedec and Catharine had 7 children in Kentucky, and then in 1827, migrated to Callaway County, Missouri. They settled in Nine Mile Prairie township near Williamsburg, and another 6 children were born to them in Missouri. One of the children born in Kentucky, Virginia Fairfax COVINGTON, married Daniel WHITE of Montgomery County, and they farmed in Danville township in Montgomery County. Virginia and Daniel are my gg grandparents. The six COVINGTON families listed in the 1880 census include the following: Charles W. , born in 1837 in North Carolina - Danville township wife Jennetti W. born 1846 in Missouri son Joseph J. born 1880 in Missouri daughter Maggie S. born 1878 in Missouri (C.W. COVINGTON is found in Nine Mile Prairie township, Callaway County, in 1870, birthplace North Carolina, 1837 - could this be a brother of Melchizedec?) John G. (Jack?), born in 1827 in Missouri - Middletown township sister Mary E. born 1823 in Kentucky Henry W., born in 1815 in Kentucky - Montgomery township wife Nancy (ARNOLD), born in 1818 in Kentucky son Thomas P. born 1849 in Missouri daughter Nancy E. born 1858 in Missouri daughter Lillie P. born 1861 in Missouri Noah, born in 1819 in Kentucky - Montgomery City wife M. Ann, born in 1818 in Kentucky Benjamin F. , born in 1823(?) in Missouri - Prairie township wife Bertha (ARNOT), born 1830 in Missouri son Robert M., born 1863 in Missouri son Franklin P., born 1871 in Missouri Robert, born 1842 in Missouri - Upper Loutre township wife Nancey, born 1847 in Missouri If anyone has information on these families, or their descendants, please contact me. I particularly want to know if they are related to my ggg grandfather, Melchizedec COVINGTON. I also am trying to establish whether any of Melchizedec's siblings came to Missouri.