WILLIAM THOMAS COVINGTON (21776). Born: during 1817 at Alabama AL

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  GENERATION   One

WILLIAM THOMAS COVINGTON (21776). Born: during 1817 in Alabama AL. Father: not known (0). Mother: not known (0). Mar: 15 Mar

1848 in Lauderdale Co AL to Harrison, Almida F (21777). Died: 17 Aug 1888 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 71. Lauderdale County was not

founded until Feb 1818, a year before Alabama became a state. Before 1819, Alabama was simply known as Alabama Territory. (Last

updated: 19/05/2021 11:06:13)

WILLIAM EDWARD COVINGTON (19025). Born during 1843 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: not known (0)

MARY ANN COVINGTON (21778). Born Feb 1849 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Harrison, Almida F (21777)

SUSAN E COVINGTON (21779). Born during 1852 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Harrison, Almida F (21777)

MARTHA EMILY COVINGTON (21780). Born 12 Feb 1854 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Harrison, Almida F (21777)

THOMAS COVINGTON (21781). Born during 1856 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Harrison, Almida F (21777)

JOHN C COVINGTON (21782). Born 24 Aug 1858 in Cross Roads, Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Harrison, Almida F (21777)

JAMES HARDING COVINGTON (15177). Born 24 Aug 1860 in Alabama AL. Mother: Harrison, Almida F (21777)

JOSHUA DAVID COVINGTON (21783). Born 9 Nov 1863 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Harrison, Almida F (21777)

  GENERATION   Two

WILLIAM EDWARD COVINGTON (19025). Born: during 1843 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Thomas (21776). Mother:

not known (0). Mar: 24 Jan 1864 in Alabama AL to Rice, Martha E (19026). Known as Billy. (Last updated: 19/05/2021 11:06:13)

WILLIAM THOMAS COVINGTON (26625). Born 8 Apr 1867 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Rice, Martha E (19026)

GEORGE EDWARD COVINGTON (17617). Born 17 Jul 1871 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Rice, Martha E (19026)

EMMETT LEE COVINGTON (19028). Born 14 Jul 1878 in Dekalb Co AL. Mother: Rice, Martha E (19026)

MARY LOUISA COVINGTON (19029). Born 27 Feb 1880 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Rice, Martha E (19026)

MARCUS CLEVELAND COVINGTON (19027). Born 2 Mar 1885 in Rogersville, Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Rice, Martha E (19026)

MARY ANN COVINGTON (21778). Born: Feb 1849 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Thomas (21776). Mother: Harrison,

Almida F (21777). Mar: 22 Dec 1869 in Lauderdale Co AL to Thornton, Thomas Jefferson (). Died: 30 Aug 1918 in Lauderdale Co AL

aged 69. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:02:26)

SUSAN E COVINGTON (21779). Born: during 1852 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Thomas (21776). Mother: Harrison,

Almida F (21777). (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:03:56)

MARTHA EMILY COVINGTON (21780). Born: 12 Feb 1854 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Thomas (21776). Mother:

Harrison, Almida F (21777). Mar: during 1874 in Alabama AL to Holder, George W (). Died: 17 Mar 1930 in Brazos Co TX aged 76. (Last

 updated: 31/05/2019 08:04:34)

THOMAS COVINGTON (21781). Born: during 1856 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Thomas (21776). Mother: Harrison,

Almida F (21777). (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:06:04)

JOHN C COVINGTON (21782). Born: 24 Aug 1858 in Cross Roads, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Thomas (21776).

Mother: Harrison, Almida F (21777). Mar: 20 Dec 1883 in Lauderdale Co AL to Herston, Martha Ellen (21796). Died: 3 Jan 1940 in

Hopkins Co TX aged 81. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:06:23)

SUSIE JANE COVINGTON (21797). Born 19 Jan 1887 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Herston, Martha Ellen (21796)

DONEY EARNEST COVINGTON (21798). Born 1 May 1889 in Florence, Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Herston, Martha Ellen (21796)

JAMES GABRIEL COVINGTON (21799). Born 26 Jul 1893 in Arkansas AR. Mother: Herston, Martha Ellen (21796)

 JAMES HARDING COVINGTON (15177). Born: 24 Aug 1860 in Alabama AL. Father: Covington, William Thomas (21776). Mother:

Harrison, Almida F (21777). Mar: about 1878 in Lauderdale Co AL to Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334). 2nd Mar: 24 Dec 1925 in Good

Springs Co AL to Wilson, May (26624). Died: 22 Jun 1929 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 68. Burial: Ingram Cemetery, Lauderdale County,

Alabama AL (Last updated: 19/05/2021 11:26:20)

JOSHUA C COVINGTON (17335). Born 28 Feb 1879 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334)

WILLIAM GIBSON COVINGTON (15178). Born 5 Apr 1880 in Rogersville, Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334)

BERNICE C COVINGTON (5007). Born 2 Mar 1882 in Alabama AL. Mother: Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334)

MARY GWEN COVINGTON (21766). Born Mar 1883 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334)

ALBERT EDWARD COVINGTON (17336). Born 21 Sep 1884 in Alabama AL. Mother: Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334)

EMMA V COVINGTON (17337). Born 12 Aug 1887 in Alabama AL. Mother: Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334)

BURGESS WHITE COVINGTON (17338). Born 2 Sep 1889 in Rogersville, Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334)

MOSES O COVINGTON (21767). Born Jun 1892 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334)

JOSHUA DAVID COVINGTON (21783). Born: 9 Nov 1863 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Thomas (21776). Mother:

Harrison, Almida F (21777). Mar: 18 Mar 1888 in Cherokee Co TX to Wood, Ora Ella (21803). Died: 18 Sep 1951 in Sulphur Springs,

Hopkins Co TX aged 87. (Last updated: 19/05/2021 11:26:20)

JOHN CURTIS COVINGTON (21804). Born 27 Oct 1889 in Alto, Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Wood, Ora Ella (21803)

JENNIE COVINGTON (21805). Born during 1891 in Alto, Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Wood, Ora Ella (21803)

WILLIE BESS COVINGTON (21806). Born 5 Jan 1894 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Wood, Ora Ella (21803)

JOSHUA W COVINGTON (21808). Born 13 Oct 1896 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Wood, Ora Ella (21803)

ELLA MAY COVINGTON (21807). Born 13 Oct 1896 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Wood, Ora Ella (21803)

CHARLIE COVINGTON (21809). Born Jan 1899 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Wood, Ora Ella (21803)

HUBERT MAXWELL COVINGTON (21810). Born 2 Sep 1900 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Wood, Ora Ella (21803)

JACK COVINGTON (21811). Born during 1906 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Wood, Ora Ella (21803)

  GENERATION   Three

JOSHUA C COVINGTON (17335). Born: 28 Feb 1879 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, James Harding (15177). Mother:

Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334). Mar: 2 Dec 1896 in Lauderdale Co AL to Patton, Dora (17342). Died: 24 Aug 1954 in Lauderdale Co

AL aged 75. (Last updated: 10/05/2010 15:46:02)

EARLY LEE COVINGTON (17343). Born 19 Sep 1898 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Patton, Dora (17342)

ARNOLD LEONARD COVINGTON (16259). Born 13 Oct 1900 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Peck, Lucille (17347)

VERLIE OVINGTON COVINGTON (17344). Born 3 May 1905 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Patton, Dora (17342)

IRENE COVINGTON (21791). Born during 1911 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Peck, Lucille (17347)

BUFORD COVINGTON (17345). Born 23 Aug 1913 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Patton, Dora (17342)

WILLIAM GIBSON COVINGTON (15178). Born: 5 Apr 1880 in Rogersville, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, James Harding (15177).

Mother: Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334). Mar: 5 Nov 1911 in Lauderdale Co AL to Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179). Died: 11

Mar 1971 in Alabama AL aged 91. (Last updated: 23/08/2012 08:04:26)

ANNIE MARIE COVINGTON (15180). Born 29 Jul 1912 in Ingram Crossroads, Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179)

EDNA F COVINGTON (21770). Born during 1915 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179)

ALLEN WOODROW COVINGTON (15181). Born 21 Mar 1916 in Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179)

MANSEL JAMES COVINGTON (15182). Born 31 Mar 1918 in Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179)

VIRGINIA COVINGTON (21771). Born during 1920 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179)

NANCY LOUISA COVINGTON (15183). Born 8 Apr 1922 in Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179)

HERSHEL COVINGTON (15184). Born 21 Apr 1923 in Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179)

WILLIAM JORDAN COVINGTON (15185). Born 26 Apr 1924 in Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179)

GEORGE NEWMAN COVINGTON (15186). Born 18 Apr 1926 in Hardin Co TN. Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179)

BERNICE C COVINGTON (5007). Born: 2 Mar 1882 in Alabama AL. Father: Covington, James Harding (15177). Mother: Sanderson,

Nancy Louisa (17334). Mar: 12 Dec 1897 in Lauderdale Co AL to Littrell, Killen Kee (). Died: 23 Feb 1973 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 90.

 (Last updated: 01/04/2001)

MARY GWEN COVINGTON (21766). Born: Mar 1883 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, James Harding (15177). Mother:

Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334). (Last updated: 30/05/2019 23:47:15)

 ALBERT EDWARD COVINGTON (17336). Born: 21 Sep 1884 in Alabama AL. Father: Covington, James Harding (15177). Mother:

Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334). Mar: 17 Dec 1913 in Lauderdale Co AL to Hudson, Ada H (17340). Died: 30 Apr 1983 in Lauderdale

Co AL aged 98. A Reverend. Buried at Rogersville AL (Last updated: 10/05/2010 15:47:46)

JAMES HUDSON COVINGTON (21792). Born 16 Oct 1917 in Rogersville, Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Hudson, Ada H (17340)

ROBERT HORACE COVINGTON (21793). Born 28 Oct 1919 in Rogersville, Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Hudson, Ada H (17340)

HAZEL FERN COVINGTON (17341). Born 2 Oct 1921 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Hudson, Ada H (17340)

EMMA V COVINGTON (17337). Born: 12 Aug 1887 in Alabama AL. Father: Covington, James Harding (15177). Mother: Sanderson,

Nancy Louisa (17334). Mar: 20 Dec 1905 in Lauderdale Co AL to Mahathey, John (). Died: 22 Sep 1957 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 70.

(Last updated: 10/05/2010 15:49:38)

BURGESS WHITE COVINGTON (17338). Born: 2 Sep 1889 in Rogersville, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, James Harding

(15177). Mother: Sanderson, Nancy Louisa (17334). Mar: 16 May 1919 in Des Moines, Polk Co IA to Stucker, Ethel Grace (17339). Died:

12 Feb 1988 in Cookeville, Putnam Co TN aged 98. (Last updated: 18/10/2022 17:02:37)

WILLIAM BURGESS COVINGTON (21784). Born 21 Mar 1920 in Davidson Co TN. Mother: Stucker, Ethel Grace (17339)

HELEN GRACE COVINGTON (21785). Born 20 Aug 1921 in Davidson Co TN. Mother: Stucker, Ethel Grace (17339)

NANCY LOIS COVINGTON (21786). Born 8 Apr 1925 in Cookeville, Davidson Co TN. Mother: Stucker, Ethel Grace (17339)

JOHN MARK COVINGTON (21788). Born 12 Sep 1928 in Cookeville, Putnam Co TN. Mother: Stucker, Ethel Grace (17339)

EVA LUCILE COVINGTON (21787). Born during 1928 in Cookeville, Putnam Co TN. Mother: Stucker, Ethel Grace (17339)

JAMES ROY COVINGTON (21789). Born 27 Oct 1931 in Davidson Co TN. Mother: Stucker, Ethel Grace (17339)

MOSES O COVINGTON (21767). Born: Jun 1892 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, James Harding (15177). Mother: Sanderson,

Nancy Louisa (17334). (Last updated: 31/05/2019 00:00:45)

WILLIAM THOMAS COVINGTON (26625). Born: 8 Apr 1867 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Edward (19025). Mother:

Rice, Martha E (19026). Died: 4 Aug 1869 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 2. (Last updated: 19/05/2021 11:26:20)

 GEORGE EDWARD COVINGTON (17617). Born: 17 Jul 1871 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Edward (19025). Mother:

Rice, Martha E (19026). Mar: 17 Dec 1897 in Linwood, Cherokee Co TX to McCarty, Olive Irene (17618). Died: 13 Jul 1928 in Alto,

Cherokee Co TX aged 57. Known as Geo. Died of a blood clot following an injury to his toe. Buried at Old Palestine Cemetery, Cherokee

TX (Last updated: 28/11/2021 20:24:23)

WILLEY ELEANOR COVINGTON (19030). Born 24 Dec 1898 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: McCarty, Olive Irene (17618)

DAVID F COVINGTON (17619). Born during 1900 in Linwood, Cherokee Co TX. Mother: McCarty, Olive Irene (17618)

CLARENCE EDWARD COVINGTON (19031). Born 13 Nov 1902 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: McCarty, Olive Irene (17618)

GEORGE WADE COVINGTON (10261). Born 15 Jan 1906 in Linwood, Cherokee Co TX. Mother: McCarty, Olive Irene (17618)

JOHN BERNERD COVINGTON (17620). Born 3 Nov 1908 in Linwood, Cherokee Co TX. Mother: McCarty, Olive Irene (17618)

LEONARD MILLS COVINGTON (10337). Born 1 Mar 1913 in Texas TX. Mother: McCarty, Olive Irene (17618)

EMMETT LEE COVINGTON (19028). Born: 14 Jul 1878 in Dekalb Co AL. Father: Covington, William Edward (19025). Mother: Rice,

Martha E (19026). Mar: 22 Aug 1900 in Kaufman Co TX to Battles, Emma Louisa (26627). Died: 13 Apr 1952 in Athens, Henderson Co

TX aged 73. (Last updated: 03/09/2021 11:59:24)

MABEL LERLINE COVINGTON (26628). Born 9 Feb 1902 in Precinct No. Five, Kaufman Co TX. Mother: Battles, Emma Louisa (26627)

CLARENCE BOWMAN COVINGTON (10219). Born 28 Nov 1904 in Scurry, Kaufman Co TX. Mother: Battles, Emma Louisa (26627)

PATTI RUTH COVINGTON (26629). Born during 1907 in Kaufman Co TX. Mother: Battles, Emma Louisa (26627)

ROBBIE LEE COVINGTON (26630). Born 10 Oct 1910 in Kaufman Co TX. Mother: Battles, Emma Louisa (26627)

OPAL COVINGTON (26631). Born 16 May 1913 in Kaufman Co TX. Mother: Battles, Emma Louisa (26627)

HOLTON WILLIAM COVINGTON (26632). Born 14 Feb 1918 in Alba, Wood Co TX. Mother: Battles, Emma Louisa (26627)

MARY LOUISA COVINGTON (19029). Born: 27 Feb 1880 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Edward (19025). Mother: Rice,

 Martha E (19026). Mar: 13 Sep 1898 in Kaufman, Kaufman Co TX to Stanfield, James Sanford (). Died: 30 Jul 1954 in Kaufman,

Kaufman Co TX aged 74. (Last updated: 19/05/2021 11:36:58)

MARCUS CLEVELAND COVINGTON (19027). Born: 2 Mar 1885 in Rogersville, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Edward

(19025). Mother: Rice, Martha E (19026). Mar: 17 Apr 1910 in Cherokee Co TX to Blakey, George Milburn (26626). Died: 31 Jan 1962 in

Rusk, Cherokee Co TX aged 76. (Last updated: 19/05/2021 11:36:58)

HUBERT THELSTON COVINGTON (10286). Born 19 Jan 1911 in Rusk, Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Blakey, George Milburn (26626)

HAZEL EVELYN COVINGTON (26634). Born 7 Nov 1915 in Rusk, Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Blakey, George Milburn (26626)

 SUSIE JANE COVINGTON (21797). Born: 19 Jan 1887 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, John C (21782). Mother: Herston, Martha

Ellen (21796). Mar: 30 Nov 1906 in Hopkins Co TX to Campbell, Dallas Brown (). Died: 18 Apr 1958 in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins Co TX

aged 71. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:41:25)

DONEY EARNEST COVINGTON (21798). Born: 1 May 1889 in Florence, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, John C (21782). Mother:

Herston, Martha Ellen (21796). Mar: 30 Apr 1910 in Franklin, Robertson Co TX to France, Mabel Madonna (21800). Died: 10 Apr 1962 in

San Antonio, Bexar Co TX aged 72. Peace Officer and Texas Ranger. In 1920 lived in Hopkins Co TX. (Last updated: 11/02/2023

12:21:18)

HAYDEN COOPER COVINGTON (8006). Born 19 Jan 1911 in Nelta. Hopkins Co TX. Mother: France, Mabel Madonna (21800)

WORRIC ALONZO COVINGTON (10437). Born 22 Apr 1913 in Texas TX. Mother: France, Mabel Madonna (21800)

LELIA F COVINGTON (30002). Born 1915- 1916 in Texas TX. Mother: France, Mabel Madonna (21800)

JAMES GABRIEL COVINGTON (21799). Born: 26 Jul 1893 in Arkansas AR. Father: Covington, John C (21782). Mother: Herston, Martha

Ellen (21796). Mar: 29 Mar 1919 in Hopkins Co TX to Posey, Mary Gladys (21801). Died: 9 May 1962 in Temple, Bell Co TX aged 68.

(Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:45:43)

DORIS FAYE COVINGTON (21802). Born 27 Jun 1920 in Brinker, Hopkins Co TX. Mother: Posey, Mary Gladys (21801)

JOHN CURTIS COVINGTON (21804). Born: 27 Oct 1889 in Alto, Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Joshua David (21783). Mother:

Wood, Ora Ella (21803). Mar: 23 Dec 1915 in Mangum, Greer Co OK to Hines, Fay B (21812). Died: 10 Jan 1980 in Clinton, Custer Co

OK aged 90. (Last updated: 02/06/2019 15:59:08)

ELEANOR F COVINGTON (21813). Born 13 Oct 1920 in Retrop, Beckham Co OK. Mother: Hines, Fay B (21812)

JENNIE COVINGTON (21805). Born: during 1891 in Alto, Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Joshua David (21783). Mother: Wood, Ora

Ella (21803). (Last updated: 02/06/2019 16:01:31)

WILLIE BESS COVINGTON (21806). Born: 5 Jan 1894 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Joshua David (21783). Mother: Wood, Ora

Ella (21803). Died: 20 Oct 1896 in Cherokee Co TX aged 2. (Last updated: 02/06/2019 16:01:41)

ELLA MAY COVINGTON (21807). Born: 13 Oct 1896 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Joshua David (21783). Mother: Wood, Ora

Ella (21803). Mar: during 1916 in Hopkins Co TX to Craig, Charles Allen (). Died: 17 Nov 1984 in Clinton, Custer Co OK aged 88. (Last

updated: 02/06/2019 16:03:57)

 JOSHUA W COVINGTON (21808). Born: 13 Oct 1896 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Joshua David (21783). Mother: Wood, Ora

Ella (21803). (Last updated: 02/06/2019 16:05:57)

CHARLIE COVINGTON (21809). Born: Jan 1899 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Joshua David (21783). Mother: Wood, Ora Ella

(21803). (Last updated: 02/06/2019 16:06:49)

HUBERT MAXWELL COVINGTON (21810). Born: 2 Sep 1900 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Joshua David (21783). Mother:

Wood, Ora Ella (21803). Mar: 11 Dec 1922 in Cherokee Co TX to Scott, Annie Missouri (21814). Died: 3 Oct 1989 in Laplace, St. John

the Baptist Parish LA aged 89. (Last updated: 02/06/2019 16:07:25)

JACK COVINGTON (21811). Born: during 1906 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Joshua David (21783). Mother: Wood, Ora Ella

(21803). Died: during 1913 in Hopkins Co TX aged 7. (Last updated: 02/06/2019 16:09:04)

  GENERATION   Four

ANNIE MARIE COVINGTON (15180). Born: 29 Jul 1912 in Ingram Crossroads, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Gibson

(15178). Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179). Died: 29 Aug 1955 in Alabama AL aged 43. (Last updated: 01/03/2009

13:14:41)

EDNA F COVINGTON (21770). Born: during 1915 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Gibson (15178). Mother: Newman,

Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179). (Last updated: 31/05/2019 07:22:34)

ALLEN WOODROW COVINGTON (15181). Born: 21 Mar 1916 in Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Gibson

(15178). Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179). Died: 11 Mar 1973 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 56. TN TRC 5 USA WWII.

Burial: Murphys Chapel Cemetery, Lauderdale County AL (Last updated: 01/03/2009 13:16:14)

MANSEL JAMES COVINGTON (15182). Born: 31 Mar 1918 in Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Gibson

(15178). Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179). Died: during 1969 in U.S.A. aged 51. (Last updated: 01/03/2009 13:18:08)

VIRGINIA COVINGTON (21771). Born: during 1920 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Gibson (15178). Mother: Newman,

Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179). (Last updated: 31/05/2019 07:23:40)

 NANCY LOUISA COVINGTON (15183). Born: 8 Apr 1922 in Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Gibson

(15178). Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179). Died: 8 Apr 1922 in Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale Co AL aged 0. (Last

updated: 01/03/2009 13:19:04)

HERSHEL COVINGTON (15184). Born: 21 Apr 1923 in Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Gibson (15178).

Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179). Died: 21 Apr 1923 in Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale Co AL aged 0. (Last updated:

01/03/2009 13:20:24)

WILLIAM JORDAN COVINGTON (15185). Born: 26 Apr 1924 in Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, William Gibson

(15178). Mother: Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179). Died: 5 Nov 1992 in Alabama AL aged 68. (Last updated: 01/03/2009

13:21:06)

GEORGE NEWMAN COVINGTON (15186). Born: 18 Apr 1926 in Hardin Co TN. Father: Covington, William Gibson (15178). Mother:

Newman, Susan Octavia Evelyn (15179). Mar: about 1945 in Savannah, Hardin Co TN to Brewer, Jackie (21774). 2nd Mar: 13 Mar 1954

in Tishomingo Co MS to Hinton, Lois Geneva (21772). Died: 2 Jan 1990 in U.S.A. aged 63. (Last updated: 01/03/2009 13:23:20)

JEANNIE CORINNE COVINGTON (21775). Born 21 Dec 1946 in Hardin Co TN. Mother: Brewer, Jackie (21774)

PHILIP COVINGTON (21773). Born during 1955 in Wayne Co TN. Mother: Hinton, Lois Geneva (21772)

EARLY LEE COVINGTON (17343). Born: 19 Sep 1898 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, Joshua C (17335). Mother: Patton, Dora

(17342). Mar: about 1920 in Alabama AL to Peck, Lucille (17347). Died: 9 Aug 1952 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 53. (Last updated:

10/05/2010 15:59:11)

ARNOLD LEONARD COVINGTON (16259). Born: 13 Oct 1900 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, Joshua C (17335). Mother: Peck,

 Lucille (17347). Mar: 16 Nov 1926 in Colbert Co AL to Tays, Vernon (21768). Died: 5 Aug 1995 in Colbert Co AL aged 94. US Social

Security Death Index (Last updated: 31/08/2009 15:08:17)

VERLIE OVINGTON COVINGTON (17344). Born: 3 May 1905 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, Joshua C (17335). Mother: Patton,

Dora (17342). Mar: 18 Sep 1923 in Lauderdale Co AL to Putman, Jessie (). Died: 25 Dec 1941 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 36. Had a

daughter Louise Putman born 1924 (Last updated: 10/05/2010 16:03:06)

IRENE COVINGTON (21791). Born: during 1911 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, Joshua C (17335). Mother: Peck, Lucille

(17347). (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:24:00)

 BUFORD COVINGTON (17345). Born: 23 Aug 1913 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, Joshua C (17335). Mother: Patton, Dora

(17342). Mar: about 1935 in Lauderdale Co AL to Peck, Mattie (17346). Died: 3 Sep 1983 in Elgin, Lauderdale Co AL aged 70. Known

as Buck. In 1950 Census shown as living at 4 Cross Roads, Lauderdale Co A employed as a Boiler Maker in Construction. (Last updated:

05/12/2022 14:57:03)

FRED DAVID COVINGTON (29644). Born during 1931 in Lauderdale Co AL. Mother: Peck, Mattie (17346)

JAMES HUDSON COVINGTON (21792). Born: 16 Oct 1917 in Rogersville, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, Albert Edward (17336).

Mother: Hudson, Ada H (17340). Mar: about 1939 in Alabama AL to Howard, Flora (21794). Died: 3 Dec 2008 in Athens, Limestone Co

AL aged 91. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:25:28)

ROBERT HORACE COVINGTON (21793). Born: 28 Oct 1919 in Rogersville, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, Albert Edward

(17336). Mother: Hudson, Ada H (17340). Mar: about 1975 in U.S.A. to Hollingsworth, Ostelene (21795). Died: 13 Jun 1996 in U.S.A. aged

 76. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:27:13)

HAZEL FERN COVINGTON (17341). Born: 2 Oct 1921 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, Albert Edward (17336). Mother: Hudson,

Ada H (17340). Died: 28 Sep 1924 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 2. (Last updated: 10/05/2010 15:55:37)

 WILLIAM BURGESS COVINGTON (21784). Born: 21 Mar 1920 in Davidson Co TN. Father: Covington, Burgess White (17338). Mother:

Stucker, Ethel Grace (17339). Mar: 17 Sep 1944 in Putnam Co TN to Phillips, Mary Dimple (21790). Died: 12 Sep 1989 in Cookeville,

Putnam Co TN aged 69. Press coverage of his death "A route 10 man who was working on his house yesterday was found dead, possibly

from injuries caused when he fell off a ladder.

 

William Burgess Covington, 69, of Route 10 in northeast Putnam County off the Bear Creek Road, was found lying on the ground at his

home yesterday afternoon, according to officials at the Putnam Ambulance Service.

 

Covington's wife reportedly came home and found her husband and call the Ambulance Service at 5:18 p.m. How long Covington had been

dead was not known, a PAS dispatcher said.

 

According to a report filed by Putnam Sheriff's Investigator Bobby Lane, Covington's body was found beside a ladder, which apparently

slipped.

 

"It appears that Mr. Covington tried to hold onto a sheet of paper nailed down, tearing it off of the roof as he fell," the report says.

 

Mrs. Covington was at work that day and had talked to her husband by phone about noon and a neighbor had heard hammering around

1:30 to 2:00 p.m., the report says.

 

Funeral services for Covington will be held Thursday, Sept. 14, at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Hooper & Huddleston Funeral Home with Rev. E.N.

 Bruce and Rev. Andrew Albert officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today. Burial will be in the Phillips

Cemetery.

 

A native of Davidson County, he was the son of the late Burgess W. & Ethel Stucker Covington.

 

His family includes his wife, Mary Phillips Covington of Cookeville; two sons, Charles Covington and Lloyd Covington of Cookeville;

daughters-in-law, Twila Covington and Jo Covington; grandsons, Eli and Kirk Covington, and granddaughters, Hannah and Wendy

Covington; sisters, Helen Copeland of Cookeville, Lois Lacy of Oak Ridge, Lucille Hyder of Livingston; his brother, Dr. John Covington of

Atlanta, and a brother who preceded hin in death James Roy Covington.

 

Active pallbearers will be Rellon Phillips, Charles Crain, Eugene Gilliam, Kenny Gilliam, Jesse Gilliam, Ronnie Hyder, Mark Covington,

David Covington, Jimmy Covington, Gordon Ray Lacy, and Eddy Copeland.

 

Hooper & Huddleston Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements."

 

Correspondence from Cindy Covington in September 2022 gives brief details of his offspring, (awaiting furthwr details before adding to

database), "Children - 1. Charles (M. Twila), they had Kirk and Wendy & 2, Lloyd (M. Jo), they had Eli and Hannah (M. Michael Sliger). who

had Mattie Jo Sliger (her twin brother died in utero, Samuel Sliger) and Jack Sliger. (Last updated: 18/10/2022 17:02:37)

 HELEN GRACE COVINGTON (21785). Born: 20 Aug 1921 in Davidson Co TN. Father: Covington, Burgess White (17338). Mother:

Stucker, Ethel Grace (17339). Mar: about 1956 in Putnam Co TN to Copeland, Howard (). Died: 26 Jul 2011 in Alpine, Overton Co TN

aged 89. Obituary reads "Funeral services for Helen Grace Covington Copeland, 89, of Cookeville, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July

 30, from the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Green Hill Cemetery in Overton

County.

 

The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. on Friday, July 29, and from 9 a.m. until time of services on Saturday at the funeral home.

 

Mrs. Copeland died Tuesday, July 26, 2011, in Heritage Pointe Senior Living.

 

She was born Aug. 20, 1921, in Nashville to the late Burgess and Ethel Grace Stucker Covington.

 

Mrs. Copeland was a member of Cookeville First Presbyterian Church. She was a graduate of Tennessee Tech University, where she

earned her bachelor's degree and earned her master's degree at the University of Tennessee in Home Economics. She was a retired

Home Economics Teacher of Baxter Seminary. She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational

Organization) and Presbyterian Women.

 

Her family includes a daughter and son-in-law, Lisa Parham and James D. Glass of Fairview; two grandsons, Zachariah and Isaiah

Parham; a brother and sister-in-law, John and Glenda Covington of Hiram, Ga.; two sisters, Lois Covington Lacy of Oak Ridge and Lucile

Covington Hyder of Livingston; and a sister-in-law, Mary Dimple Covington.

 

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas H. Copeland; a son, Edward H. Copeland; a daughter,

Lanah Copeland Dyer; and two brothers, William Covington and James Covington." (Last updated: 18/10/2022 17:02:37)

 NANCY LOIS COVINGTON (21786). Born: 8 Apr 1925 in Cookeville, Davidson Co TN. Father: Covington, Burgess White (17338). Mother:

Stucker, Ethel Grace (17339). Mar: during 1948 in Tennessee TN to Lacy, Finnis Gordon (). Died: 11 Jan 2021 in Oak Ridge, Anderson

Co TN aged 95. Obituary reads "Nancy Lois Covington Lacy, of Oak Ridge, passed away peacefully on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021 at the

Courtyards Assisted Living of Oak Ridge.

 

Mrs. Lacy was born in Cookeville, Tenn., on April 8, 1925 to the Rev. B.W. and Ethyl Covington. She attended Berea College in Kentucky,

where she obtained a nursing degree. She soon moved to Oak Ridge, where she worked as a Registered Nurse at Methodist Medical

Center of Oak Ridge for many years.

 

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 51 years, F. Gorden Lacy; sisters Helen Covington

Copeland and Lucile Covington Hyder; brothers James Covington, William Covington, and Dr. John Covington.

 

Mrs. Lacy is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Nancy L. and Winston Russell of Oak Ridge; son and daughter-in-law Gordon R. and

Katie Lacy of Plano, Texas; grandchildren Joseph, Juliana, and Camille Lacy of Plano, Texas, and Doug Russell of Maynardville.

 

Mrs. Lacy spent her final years living at the Courtyards Assisted Living in Oak Ridge, where she was adored by the staff and fellow

residents. She always enjoyed playing bingo, and working crossword and jigsaw puzzles, along with numerous other activities.

 

Mrs. Lacy was active with First Presbyterian Church of Oak Ridge. She attended Charlotte Hensley's exercise classes at the Civic Center

for many years and was always grateful for the assistance of Alice Miller.

 

The family wishes to extend a special thanks for the loving care provided by the entire staff of Courtyards Assisted Living, which was always

 the best care with an exceptional staff; Amedisys Hospice for their excellent compassionate care; her physician Dr. Pamela Bridgeman;

hospice nurse Juliana Schmitt, and Chaplain Scott Payne." (Last updated: 18/10/2022 17:02:37)

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 EVA LUCILE COVINGTON (21787). Born: during 1928 in Cookeville, Putnam Co TN. Father: Covington, Burgess White (17338). Mother:

Stucker, Ethel Grace (17339). Mar: 31 Jul 1946 in Algood, Putnam Co TN to Hyder, Horace (). Died: 18 Mar 2020 in Algood, Putnam Co

TN aged 92. Obituary reads "Eva Lucile Covington Hyder, 93, passed away peacefully and surrounded by family on March 18, 2020.

 

She was born on August 21, 1926 in Cookeville, TN to the Reverend Burgess White Covington and Ethel Grace Stucker Covington.

 

The fourth of six children, she had fond memories of childhood with her family of eight, including time spent living in the manse at Post Oak

Presbyterian Church in Algood, TN, where her father was minister for many years. He officiated her wedding there to Hollis Hyder on July

31, 1946, which sanctified a love that spanned 50 years.

 

Mrs. Hyder attended Berea College School of Nursing and later attended Tennessee Tech majoring in education and English. She was a

school teacher for 30 years - two years at Livingston Elementary and 28 years at Livingston Academy - and a lifelong and faithful servant of

the Lord and her community.

 

Considered a spiritual mother by many, she was active for most of her adult life with the First Methodist Church in Livingston, where she

sang in the choir, taught Sunday school, and led prayer and Bible study groups. She warmly recalled helping to establish the Oak Street

Methodist Church, where she was a pianist, Sunday school teacher and youth group leader. She particularly enjoyed leading young people

to Christ, and hosted after school youth groups in her home in Henson Hills. She was a gifted researcher and writer, authoring the column

"Another Line" in Overton County News and writing a series of books about her life and family history.

 

Mrs. Hyder was preceded in death by her parents, her beloved husband, Hollis Hyder, two brothers, James (Jim) Covington and William

(Billy) Covington, and a sister, Helen Copeland.

 

She is survived by her son, Ronald Hyder of Livingston, granddaughter Rhonda Hyder Moats and husband Justin of Brentwood, great-

grandson, Hollis Moats, sister, Lois Lacy of Oak Ridge, brother, Dr. John Covington and wife Glenda of Hiram, GA, and many dear nieces

and nephews and special friends." (Last updated: 18/10/2022 17:02:37)

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JOHN MARK COVINGTON (21788). Born: 12 Sep 1928 in Cookeville, Putnam Co TN. Father: Covington, Burgess White (17338). Mother:

Stucker, Ethel Grace (17339). Mar: 18 Aug 1956 in Tennessee TN to Veach, Glenda Faye (29519). Died: 20 Mar 2020 in Paulding Co GA

 aged 91. A Doctor. Son of the Reverend Burgess White Covington and Ethel Grace Stucker Covington. He earned a BS degree in

Agricultural Science and Engineering from Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in 1951 and his MD from the University of Tennessee Medical

Center in 1957.

 

While in medical school he met Glenda Faye Veach. They were married August 18, 1956 and moved to Paulding County in December of

1958. He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, James (Jim) Covington and William (Billy) Covington; and two sisters, Helen

Copeland and Lucile Hyder. He is survived by his wife, Glenda Covington; children, John Mark (wife Martha Braly) Covington, Cynthia

(known as Cindy) Covington, Sandra Gaye Covington, James Allen Covington (marr Cindy Barnette - they divoeced but had children, Laura

 Ashley Covington (marr Joseph Robinson) and Taylor Covington (marr Michael Raines - had daughter, Scarlett Raines), Diana Caye

Covington (marr Barry Bickers) and David Andrew Covington (marr Pam King) ; sister, Lois Lacy; and five grandchildren.

 

Inscription on grave reads "A3C USAF, Korea. Doctor of Medicine, Man of God"

 

(info from Cynthia Covington, Sept 2022) (Last updated: 18/10/2022 17:02:37)

  Cynthia.Covington@wellstar.org

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 JAMES ROY COVINGTON (21789). Born: 27 Oct 1931 in Davidson Co TN. Father: Covington, Burgess White (17338). Mother: Stucker,

Ethel Grace (17339). Died: 20 May 1951 in Cookeville, Putnam Co TN aged 19. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:19:15)

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WILLEY ELEANOR COVINGTON (19030). Born: 24 Dec 1898 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, George Edward (17617). Mother:

McCarty, Olive Irene (17618). Mar: 29 Dec 1918 in Cherokee Co TX to Fleming, Albert Lemuel (). 2nd Mar: about 1935 in Texas TX to

Ditto, Harry Martin (). Died: 23 Feb 1967 in Rusk, Cherokee Co TX aged 68. Buried at Old Palestine Cemetery, Cherokee Co TX (Last

updated: 20/05/2021 14:07:30)

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DAVID F COVINGTON (17619). Born: during 1900 in Linwood, Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, George Edward (17617). Mother:

McCarty, Olive Irene (17618). Died: 20 Jul 1972 in Cherokee Co TX aged 72. Buried at Old Palestine Cemetery, Cherokee TX (Last

updated: 27/04/2011 15:46:30)

CLARENCE EDWARD COVINGTON (19031). Born: 13 Nov 1902 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, George Edward (17617).

Mother: McCarty, Olive Irene (17618). Mar: 20 Jan 1923 in Cherokee Co TX to Hendrick, Minnie Myrtle (10612). Died: 21 Oct 1968 in

West Columbia, Brazoria Co TX aged 65. Retired from Texaco in 1967. Died of a massive coronary soon after returning from a hunting trip

 in Cherokee Co TX. Buried at Cedar Lawn Haven of Rest West Columbia, Brazoria County, TX. (Last updated: 27/04/2011 14:22:34)

THELMA B COVINGTON (2888). Born 4 Oct 1926 in Alto, Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Hendrick, Minnie Myrtle (10612)

CORRIE ETHEL COVINGTON (4173). Born 13 Jan 1931 in Alto, Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Hendrick, Minnie Myrtle (10612)

GEORGE WADE COVINGTON (10261). Born: 15 Jan 1906 in Linwood, Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, George Edward (17617).

Mother: McCarty, Olive Irene (17618). Mar: about 1929 in Cherokee Co TX to Nolley, Katie Lillian (10652). Died: 28 Dec 1971 in

Cherokee Co TX aged 64. Buried at Old Palestine Cemetery, Cherokee County TX. (Last updated: 27/04/2011 15:46:30)

GEORGE WADE COVINGTON (10056). Born 27 Aug 1930 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Nolley, Katie Lillian (10652)

MARY NELL COVINGTON (17616). Born 27 Aug 1930 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Nolley, Katie Lillian (10652)

EDITH PAULINE COVINGTON (10054). Born Aug 1932 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Nolley, Katie Lillian (10652)

SARAH OLLIE COVINGTON (10057). Born 6 Jan 1934 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Nolley, Katie Lillian (10652)

GEORGE LEMUEL COVINGTON (10055). Born 20 Mar 1937 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Nolley, Katie Lillian (10652)

JOHN BERNERD COVINGTON (17620). Born: 3 Nov 1908 in Linwood, Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, George Edward (17617).

Mother: McCarty, Olive Irene (17618). Died: 21 Apr 1917 in Cherokee Co TX aged 8. Buried at Old Palestine Cemetery, Cherokee TX

(Last updated: 27/04/2011 15:46:30)

 LEONARD MILLS COVINGTON (10337). Born: 1 Mar 1913 in Texas TX. Father: Covington, George Edward (17617). Mother: McCarty,

Olive Irene (17618). Mar: 10 Jan 1934 in Cherokee Co TX to Harry, Eunice Faye (10607). 2nd Mar: about 1995 in Brazoria Co TX to

Meador, Joan Elizabeth (5515). Died: 28 Jun 2006 in Brazoria Co TX aged 93. Known as Bo. (Last updated: 15/10/2019 14:20:41)

GEORGE MILLS COVINGTON (9977). Born 18 Jul 1935 in Alto, Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Harry, Eunice Faye (10607)

FREDA JUNE COVINGTON (9976). Born 24 Jun 1939 in Cherokee Co TX. Mother: Harry, Eunice Faye (10607)

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HUBERT THELSTON COVINGTON (10286). Born: 19 Jan 1911 in Rusk, Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Marcus Cleveland (19027).

Mother: Blakey, George Milburn (26626). Mar: about 1945 in Dallas, Dallas Co TX to Petty, Martha Dorothy (10663). Died: 19 Sep 1987 in

 Rusk, Cherokee Co TX aged 76. Shown as Hubert Taglston on Marriage data & in other records as Herbert T Covington. (Last updated:

20/05/2021 14:07:30)

ROBERT IVY COVINGTON (10072). Born Jun 1946 in Dallas, Dallas Co TX. Mother: Petty, Martha Dorothy (10663)

HAZEL EVELYN COVINGTON (26634). Born: 7 Nov 1915 in Rusk, Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Marcus Cleveland (19027).

Mother: Blakey, George Milburn (26626). Died: 13 Feb 1996 in Texas TX aged 80. (Last updated: 19/05/2021 15:08:28)

MABEL LERLINE COVINGTON (26628). Born: 9 Feb 1902 in Precinct No. Five, Kaufman Co TX. Father: Covington, Emmett Lee (19028).

 Mother: Battles, Emma Louisa (26627). Mar: 10 Nov 1940 in Kaufman, Kaufman Co TX to Keller, Garnett (). Died: 6 Mar 1984 in

Kaufman, Kaufman Co TX aged 82. (Last updated: 19/05/2021 14:24:05)

CLARENCE BOWMAN COVINGTON (10219). Born: 28 Nov 1904 in Scurry, Kaufman Co TX. Father: Covington, Emmett Lee (19028).

Mother: Battles, Emma Louisa (26627). Mar: about 1932 in Kaufman, Kaufman Co TX to Eubank, Lillian Francis (10579). Died: 25 Apr

1981 in Kaufman, Kaufman Co TX aged 76. (Last updated: 19/05/2021 14:30:45)

CLARENCE BOWMAN COVINGTON (9929). Born 16 Mar 1933 in Kaufman, Kaufman Co TX. Mother: Eubank, Lillian Francis (10579)

PATSY JEAN COVINGTON (9930). Born 4 Jul 1935 in Kaufman, Kaufman Co TX. Mother: Eubank, Lillian Francis (10579)

PATTI RUTH COVINGTON (26629). Born: during 1907 in Kaufman Co TX. Father: Covington, Emmett Lee (19028). Mother: Battles, Emma

 Louisa (26627). (Last updated: 19/05/2021 14:30:45)

ROBBIE LEE COVINGTON (26630). Born: 10 Oct 1910 in Kaufman Co TX. Father: Covington, Emmett Lee (19028). Mother: Battles,

Emma Louisa (26627). Mar: 17 Sep 1933 in Kaufman Co TX to Jones, Ben Raymond (). Died: 27 Mar 1996 in U.S.A. aged 85. (Last

updated: 03/09/2021 11:59:24)

 OPAL COVINGTON (26631). Born: 16 May 1913 in Kaufman Co TX. Father: Covington, Emmett Lee (19028). Mother: Battles, Emma

Louisa (26627). (Last updated: 19/05/2021 14:36:07)

HOLTON WILLIAM COVINGTON (26632). Born: 14 Feb 1918 in Alba, Wood Co TX. Father: Covington, Emmett Lee (19028). Mother:

Battles, Emma Louisa (26627). Mar: about 1940 in Texas TX to Deerman, Marjorie Marie (26633). Died: 11 Dec 1964 in Kaufman,

Kaufman Co TX aged 46. (Last updated: 19/05/2021 14:37:54)

 HAYDEN COOPER COVINGTON (8006). Born: 19 Jan 1911 in Nelta. Hopkins Co TX. Father: Covington, Doney Earnest (21798). Mother:

France, Mabel Madonna (21800). Mar: 22 Sep 1949 in Arlington Co VA to Sennett, Dorothy Mae (5689). Died: 21 Nov 1978 in Pomona,

Los Angeles Co CA aged 67. He was legal counsel for the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society during one of its most difficult periods in

the mid-20th century. Hayden Covington has a record 37 victories in the United States Supreme. He argued numerous cases before the

United States Supreme Court on behalf of Jehovah’s Witnesses in defense of their religious freedoms, winning most of them, and thus

indirectly, advancing the cause of civil liberties on behalf of all American citizens.

 

In 1967, he famously defended then world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in his legal battle against the draft during the Vietnam

War. He sued Ali to recover $247,000 in legal fees.

 

Covington was first exposed to Jehovah's Witnesses through the broadcast sermons of Watch Tower Society President Joseph F.

Rutherford on radio station KTSA in San Antonio.[citation needed] He was attracted to the group's teachings, and defended several of its

members in Texas courts before being formally baptized as a member in 1934.

 

After Rutherford learned of Covington's successes defending Jehovah's Witnesses, he asked Covington to represent the Society for a case

 before the US Supreme Court. He was then invited to join the headquarters staff as general counsel in 1939, succeeding Olin R. Moyle.

 

When Rutherford died in January 1942, Covington maintained his aggressive litigation policy. Covington was elected vice-president of the

Watch Tower Society, succeeding the newly elected president, Nathan H. Knorr, despite having been a Jehovah's Witness for only five

years. Until 2001, appointment to the board of directors of the Watch Tower Society was almost exclusively limited to those professing to be

 of the "anointed class" who would "rule as Kings" in heaven with Christ, Covington being the only exception. A subsequent policy change

resulted in Covington's resignation from the Vice Presidency and departure from the board in 1945; however, he remained on staff as legal

counsel. In 1950, he wrote the Watch Tower tract, Defending and Legally Establishing the Good News to advise Witnesses of their

constitutional rights in the United States

 

Covington was subsequently recognized as one of the greatest civil liberties attorneys in American history. During his tenure as the head of

the Watch Tower Society's legal department, he presented 111 petitions and appeals to the Supreme Court. He won more than 80% of the

44 cases he brought before the Court, involving issues including compulsory flag-salute statutes, public preaching and door-to-door

literature distribution. He later resigned as head of the Watch Tower Society's legal department, and was eventually disfellowshipped after

clashes with the Society's then-President Nathan Knorr and revelations of a drinking problem. He was reinstated prior to his death in 1978.

 

 

In its chapter on Covington, Great American lawyers: An Encyclopedia relates:

 

Covington reported one meeting in which he and Knorr met with President Harry Truman about a pardon for a Witness who had been

convicted of evading the draft. Covington claimed that Truman cursed and claimed to have no use "for that SOB who didn't want to die for

his country in time of war."

 

That meeting apparently occurred on Friday, September 6, 1946. President Truman eventually did pardon 136 Jehovah's Witnesses who

had been convicted in draft cases. Later, on October 12, 1951, Truman reportedly accepted the offered Jehovah's Witnesses publication

What Has Religion Done for Mankind

 

Interview with Watchtower Attorney Hayden Covington

Note: this summary was typed from a taped interview with Covington completed on Nov. 19, 1978, two days before his death. The

interviewer was Jerry Murray and his wife. Not everything on this site is negative towards Jehovah's Witnesses. In fact, they are fine people

with a heart for the better things in life for the most part. This file is an example of some of the hard and fearless workers that onced graced

the halls of Bethel, in spite of how they were treated thereafter.

 

Bro. Murray: Brother Covington, anybody can listen to you and tell you are from somewhere in the southwest, but exactly where and when did

  you come on the scene?

 

Covington: I was born in January 19, 1911 in East Texas. I was raised on a farm in a place east of Dallas. I worked my way through school

after that. My father was on the Texas Ranger Force and he was transferred to San Antonio, Texas and that's where I went to law school.

 

Bro. Murray: How did you happen come into the truth then?

 

Covington: I came into knowledge of the truth because my father was transferred from San Antonio, Texas down to the valley as a Texas

Ranger. After that transfer I had to have a place to stay, so I stayed with two friends of mine that I went to school with. They asked me to

move in with them and the father who was the head of the family was in bad health and he had all of us come on Sunday and listen to him

talk about world conditions. He interested me and I got very interested in what he had to say because I was myself fed up with the way things

 were going and like all young kids I was dissatisfied with the establishment, and I was very much so at the time and I was flirting with

controversial ideas and he was full of controversy against this system of things. What he preached appealed to me very much and so I listen

to him and he would turn on the radio station KTSA that had the recorded broadcasts of Judge J. F. Rutherford, as he was as called and

known; so he insisted on our listening and I was very pleased with what I heard. [Note Covington did not become a Witness due to his love

for the scriptures or God but out of youthful rebellion].

 

Bro. Murray: Was the fact that Brother Rutherford was a lawyer, did that impress you too? Did that make it more interesting?

 

Covington: Well he presented the thing in a way that was incontrovertible by me. As a lawyer I could see that he knew what he was talking

about 100%. He was very persuasive and I was a ready, willing listener, and I was willing to join up with him in his opposition, for the truth.

 

Bro. Murray: You were ripe for the truth! When did you first meet Brother Rutherford?

 

Covington: In Houston in 1900 and, I forget the year, way before I came to Bethel. I went over to Houston with a group of brothers that knew

they were having a special meeting over there, and Brother Rutherford was there because Brother Isaac lived down in Houston at that time.

He's dead now, Joe Isaac, he was a great friend of the judge, and I heard his name all over Texas.

 

Bro. Murray: Tell me this, when you took the truth, and you began to go to meetings, how did your Daddy react to that?

 

Covington: Well he got to be very hostile against what I was doing when I was going to the Witness meetings because he had great

ambitions for me to be a politician … And I was then working in the county court house, in the county clerks office, and I had a political job.

Whenever they were out campaigning, I was out preaching. So I had a political job and a political office, but I didn't go along with it.

 

Bro. Murray: When were you actually admitted to the bar?

 

Covington: I was admitted to the bar in year of 1933.

 

Bro. Murray: So you practiced law for a little while before you went to Bethel?

 

Covington: Oh yes, I was an active practitioner at the bar in San Antonio after I took the bar examination, and, incidentally, I took the bar

examination a year before I graduated and passed it.

 

Bro. Murray: Then you still had to go the extra year?

 

Covington: I had to go the extra year to get my certificate of graduation.

 

Bro. Murray: Did you set up your own law firm or did you join a law firm there?

 

 Covington: I was working for a big law firm when I was admitted to the bar and I passed it with such high grades that the head of the law firm

"Moffison - Burkeson" came and offered me a job.

 

Sis. Murray: How did you get involved then in defending Witnesses and working Brothers?

 

Covington: That came about after I quit the Morrison firm and went over with R. H. Mercer, who was a defender of damage suits for the

Maryland Casualty Company in San Antonio. And there was some brothers who got arrested down in the valley because of a meeting that

was held down there and I went down and appeared on their behalf and got the case thrown out. And then it was my name reached the

Society and they assigned me to represent the Society in a will contest case up in Curville, Texas, and I handled that for the Society And

then the Brothers got involved in controversy with the San Antonio police and that is when we get into the matter of Brother Heath. We were

having information marches, and the cops were trying to stop us. And it became necessary for me to have a conference with the Mayor of

the City of San Antonio on whether Jehovah's Witnesses have the right to engage in information marches, carrying the sign that religion is a

snare and a racket.

 

Bro. Murray: And that made people mad didn't it?

Sis. Murray: But how did you win that case?

 

Covington: By pleading with the Mayor he saw then that we had the right, I made him, well I didn't make him, the Lord made him, but I was

the one that offered the proposition (Brother Heath was in San Antonio on the occasion of that visit). Brother Heath was the secretary for

Brother Rutherford at the time.

 

Sis. Murray: So when he saw you there he invited you to Bethel?

 

Covington: Well, he invited me not to Bethel, he invited me to attend the Madison Square Garden Convention.

 

Bro. Murray: Is that the one where they had all of the riots?

 

Covington: That's where the Catholic Action tried to break the meeting up in 1939. On the the record Government and Peace and you can

hear the mob action from up the stairs. When the mob started, Brother Heath got down off the speaker's platform because he was in charge

 of all the ushers; and headed up there and when he headed, I headed too. He went up the meandering stairway up into the old Madison

Square Garden, not the one that's there today. I followed him and we went together. They were screaming and mad, this was the same sort

of noise that you hear on that Government and Peace record was yelled into our ears as we was going up there to maintain law and order in

 that religious gathering.

 

Covington: The cops were on the outside and acting "hands off," allowing those Coglanites to go ahead and to break up the meeting, or try

to break it up. We went up and we had canes to maintain order and we tried to push the mobsters out of the way and when we did one

mobster grabbed Brother Heath and hurt him very badly, physically. And that's also written up in the Society publications. They grabbed him

by the private parts as he was going up the stairway and he hit the mobster over the head with a cane in order to break up the crowd that

was coming around us. And when he did that then the cops moved in from the outside (they were in conspiracy working with the mobsters)

and they put Brother Heath under arrest because of his having hit one of the mobsters with the cane. He was in the right, Brother Heath was,

 but the cops didn't think so and they went ahead and did their part helping the mobsters and took Brother Heath into custody.

 

Then I became the chief witness for the defense, meaning Brother Heath, and when the case went to the courts, I was called up from San

Antonio, Texas, to testify. I made two or three trips up on the train, they were two or three day trips. Anyhow, in the end Brother Heath was

tried by three judges, that were black robed representatives of the State of New York to enforce the felony law and they were going to try and

 get him. But the judges ruled, based on the testimony that I gave supporting Brother Heath's self-defense, that he was not guilty. They held

that the testimony was given by a member of the bar whom they believed was more credible than the mobsters that had testified against

him … so Brother Heath was acquitted as a result of Jehovah's provision of having me there to give testimony on his behalf

 

    Sis. Murray: I remember Brother Rutherford on that record saying that they will not break up this meeting and he just went on non stop.

 

Covington: He says "By God's grace the Nazis and the Fascists will not break this meeting up." And that is the way that it was, not broken

up because the brothers maintained law and order.

 

Bro. Murray: It was not broken up because you used those canes … at that time there was already some litigation going on for example, I

think, the Lowell case.

 

Covington: The Lowell Case had gone on up and the judge had authorized the appeal of that and Mr. Moyle, who was at that time at Bethel,

handled that case. I had nothing to do with that case. I didn't come into any of the Society's Supreme Court cases until after the Snyder case

was argued. Brother Rutherford argued the Snyder case, Snyder against Irvington, New Jersey. Brother Rutherford and I were in that case

together. This case was an ordinance against literature distribution case. Now the Flag case was a different case and that came up for a

hearing in 1940; that was adverse to us, the first one, and then later they reversed themselves as a result of our taking that up.

 

Bro. Murray: So that was the point where you went to the Madison Square Garden case?

 

Covington: That's the one where the mobsters tried to break the meeting up in 1939.

 

Bro. Murray: So it must have been shortly after that you were invited to Bethel.

 

Covington: … on account of the fact that I had made a firm defense for Brother Heath and the lawyer for the Society pulled out. He didn't

believe in the self-defense. And he quit. Brother Rutherford was in need somebody so he called on me and I was not aware of what was

going on at the time. But when it did happen, he invited me to come, and I came.

 

Bro. Murray: You were in one field of law, but you almost got into Constitutional Law.

 

Covington: Yes. I was originally in casualty insurance, defense, personal injury, and representing insurance companies in damage suit

cases; then bond forfeiture cases and bond obligation cases. Then, when I went to Bethel I was in a different area altogether. But, still I had

had enough trial experience in appellate argument and court experience that it was easy for me to shift into the position of defending

Jehovah's Witnesses and it was good because I was able to do what I liked which was to defend my client. Also having got a righteous

cause gives you a double barrel.

 

Sis. Murray: That's right, a cause that you really believed in.

 

Covington: I went to Bethel in 1939. Brother Rutherford called me in, but that was after the Madison Square Garden Riot case and that was

because the fact that other lawyer by the name of Moyle quit, and left Brother Rutherford holding the bag. I got an invitation to come by

special delivery from Rutherford, and I went immediately. I had to transfer cases to a dozen or two lawyers in order to make that change.

 

Bro. Murray: You and Brother Rutherford were on a couple of cases together you mentioned. I always think of you as a lawyer and him as a

writer, but was he a pretty good lawyer?

 

Covington: Oh yes he was! He was a very, very good, he was an eloquent speaker and he maintained dignity and he got very high respect

from members of the court that listened to him arguing the Gobitis Case.

 

Bro. Murray: You got started in 1940. What were some of the first major cases that you were involved in? I know a little bit about some of the

cases but what were some of the first ones? The "Flag Salute Case?" came along in 1940,

 

Covington: The first Flag Salute case I worked along with Brother Rutherford, but I had nothing to do in the argument in that case. Brother

Rutherford argued that one, but he did a good job. The reason that it was lost was not because of Brother Rutherford, but because of the

 times we were in. The war was going on and the heat was on us from every angle

 

Bro. Murray: Then for a while the cases just piled up.

 

Covington: Oh my, yes! They were coming at us fast and furious. It was an eighteen hour day for me to cope with it, but I was young and

dedicated and devouring of any opposition that we had. I kept on going all the time. I was happy to do it.

 

Bro. Murray: Some of these things here that I'm not too familiar with; you can tell me about some of them. For example I know about the

Harlan, Kentucky case, but what can you tell me about this Connersville, Indiana case?

 

Covington: Well that was a mob situation that occurred while we were trying that seditious conspiracy case in Connersville, a hot bed of

American Legion action and they ruled the whole town. In the Connersville case I used Brother Franz as my witness and then the jury was put

 on and it was necessary for me to get to out the case and I finished the argument of the case at Connersville and I tried to get a

postponement of the case in Maine but they wouldn't put it off. As result I had to race from Indianapolis to Cincinnati to catch the plane to

Boston and that saved my life because that night they had conspired to kill me. I went to catch the airplane in Cincinnati out of Connersville,

and then Brother Victor Schmidt, who was with me as co-council, he is now dead, he stayed, And he and his wife, Sister Schmidt, were

mobbed by the crowed and as they mobbed them that night, in the darkness, after the case was over, they were screaming and yelling that

they were going to kill me that night.

 

The Lord delivered me at the right time and I would have been killed that night. I wanted to stay there for the verdict. The verdict was adverse

 and I took an appeal. I had to go back in to take the appeal afterwards and the same group of conspirators were there and I got in an out in

a hurry. We made the appeal effective and got the case reversed on appeal, but that was after a tremendous effort was put forth and a lot of

blood, sweat, and tears was involved. It was a part of the conspiracy to wipe us out in Connersville but by Jehovah's undeserved kindness

they didn't. The good testimony was given but some sisters were convicted of conspiracy and were given jail terms I got them out of jail on

bail and we appealed the case to the Supreme Court of Indiana. It was reversed and they were acquitted by the court on appeal (the

decision came down on Pearl Harbor Day).

 

Bro. Murray: I noticed that you got a note here about Oscar Pillars, a Brother that was in Texas.

 

Covington: Yes, he was a Brother that was down in East Texas to show the intense prejudice in that area. They literally mobbed him and

hung him up on a telephone pole and the rope was cut by the steel bars on the telephone pole the angle bars, that was the thing that saved

his life

 

Bro. Murray: That later went to court, and the persons that were guilty of trying to hang him to kill him fled the state. Now of course this Harlan

 County, Kentucky, Sister Murray and I served over there near Harlan County and we heard some interesting stories about Harlan, Kentucky.

 

 

Covington: And Somerset too, Somerset and Harlan were both involved.

 

Bro. Murray: Now what was their objection to the Witnesses in Harlan?

 

Covington: Well the same as here. That was where the prosecutor said that if he got me back down into Harlan he was going to boil me in

oil. They had a conspiracy charge against the Brothers, seditious conspiracy charge I then filed an injunction against the prosecution of that

case in Federal court in London Federal Court And I got a injunction against the State of Kentucky and it's standing yet today, knocking that

sedition law out as unconstitutional and the federal judges that heard the case gave us a vindication. It was highly controversial and hotly

contested case.

 

The thing that was interesting was that the prosecutor said he was basing his charge on the grounds that this literature was conspiratory and

 seditious. Then that chief federal court judge said "Mr. District Attorney its now 11 o'clock and court will adjourn and you be back tomorrow

     with the proof." So court was adjourned and when he came back the next day of course he had no proof. All he had were all those books

and that's when he was making that statement to the other guys in the room that he if gets Covington back down to Harlan he's going to boil

him in oil.

 

Bro. Murray: I understand that some of the Brothers roomed next to his room that night.

 

Covington: Yes they were, because we had taken up all the hotels, and all the officers of the law had to bunk up.

 

Bro. Murray: Is that where they spent the whole night researching the literature?

 

Covington: Yes, and that's where the Sheriff and the Marshals said to old Daniel Boone Smith to turn out the light we need some sleep. Oh

that was funny.

 

Bro. Murray: Yes, that's real funny now to tell about it, but it was pretty tough at the time.

 

Covington: Yes, our life was at stake. When you are batting with your back to the wall, but Jehovah gave us vindication, but it was a tough

time.

 

Bro. Murray: You're not kidding!, You know, there are a couple of cases that you don't have down here, but that I know about personally. For

example, did you fight the case about Jones versus O'Blancon?

 

Covington: Yes that was the case that was taken up to the Supreme Court involving the validity of the license tax law. And that came up from

Alabama. We lost at first, and that was a companion case of Jones against Opelika, and Jobin against Arizona, and another person against

 the state of Arkansas. Those three cases were put together and the Supreme Court heard them and they decided them adversely to us at

first. Then on rehearing they set aside their opinion but that didn't come automatically.

 

We had to argue with our backs to the wall and that's when Justice Murphy filed his dissenting opinion on the case; he complained about the

 Jehovah's Witnesses having been being persecuted by mob violence and all other sorts of conspiracies that public officials had used to

stop their work. That's when Murphy gave his dissenting opinion in favor of Jehovah's Witnesses and then after that the other cases were

taken in from Pennsylvania and that meant that the case would have to be reopened because that was a very serious question that the court

hadn't grabbed a hold of and it was good too that they brought the other cases in because otherwise the case would have to stand and

wouldn't be reheard.

 

Bro. Murray: As I understand license tax cases, a municipality would say to sell your literature in our town you've got to have a license.

 

Covington: Yes, if you wanted to come in to sell your literature here you've got to have a license.

 

Bro. Murray: But when you went in to get a license they wouldn't sell you one because you didn't qualify.

 

Covington: You didn't qualify. And that way we got prosecuted on account of not having the license, but we believed that the license was

ungodly anyhow. We never would have got the license anyway, and we were defending the case because they were making an imposition

upon our constitutional rights and contrary to our conscience. Justice Murphy filed a dissent in that case. Murphy got a good name among us

 because he was always dissenting in cases in our favor. They wrote an article about him in the Law Review, some guys did, to the effect

that if Justice Murphy is ever sainted, it will be by the Jehovah's Witnesses, not the Catholic Church. He was a notorious Catholic.

 

Bro. Murray: It's odd that he would be so strong for justice when he had that background.

 

Covington: He was very much in favor of what we were doing. And he knew that the life of the country depended on it the success.

 

 Bro. Murray: But not all the Justices were that way. For example Justice Frankfurter,

 

Covington: Oh! He was very adverse! He was so hostile yet he was a Jew. He was against us in the flag case and against us in the license

tax cases.

 

Bro. Murray: I read some of his opinions and it's amazing that he, coming from a persecuted minority, the Jewish minority, that he was so

tough on the Witnesses.

 

Covington: Oh boy, you said it. He was really vicious too. He tried to justify himself, but he was a hypocrite really, and my feelings about the

matter is he was an enemy.

 

Bro. Murray: Let me go back to this other point. In the Flaxwood Case, the first one, we got an adverse opinion in 1940, and on Flag Day in

1943 it was reversed.

 

Covington: And the reason it was reversed was because I brought an injunction case in the United States District Court in the District of

West Virginia, to restrain the enforcement of the state flag salute regulation that required compulsory saluting of the flag by children in the

schools. I challenged that as unconstitutional and that gave me the opportunity to force the court into the position of deciding the matter

again. I brought a injunction suit against the enforcement of the regulation and it gave me the right to empanel what they call a three Judge

LANE C COVINGTON (12447). Born 16 Jul 1962 in New York Co NY. Mother: Sennett, Dorothy Mae (5689)

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WORRIC ALONZO COVINGTON (10437). Born: 22 Apr 1913 in Texas TX. Father: Covington, Doney Earnest (21798). Mother: France,

Mabel Madonna (21800). Mar: about 1939 in Harris Co TX to Theune, Imogene Olive (10706). Died: 16 Nov 1959 in Los Angeles, Los

Angeles Co CA aged 46. (Last updated: 30/07/2001 20:42:44)

THEUNE ALONZO COVINGTON (10145). Born 18 Mar 1940 in Harris Co TX. Mother: Theune, Imogene Olive (10706)

WORRIC ALONZO COVINGTON (10146). Born 24 Mar 1942 in Bexar Co TX. Mother: Theune, Imogene Olive (10706)

LELIA F COVINGTON (30002). Born: 1915- 1916 in Texas TX. Father: Covington, Doney Earnest (21798). Mother: France, Mabel

Madonna (21800). (Last updated: 11/02/2023 12:22:17)

DORIS FAYE COVINGTON (21802). Born: 27 Jun 1920 in Brinker, Hopkins Co TX. Father: Covington, James Gabriel (21799). Mother:

Posey, Mary Gladys (21801). (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:55:40)

ELEANOR F COVINGTON (21813). Born: 13 Oct 1920 in Retrop, Beckham Co OK. Father: Covington, John Curtis (21804). Mother:

Hines, Fay B (21812). Died: 1 Sep 2009 in Clinton, Custer Co OK aged 88. (Last updated: 02/06/2019 16:13:31)

  GENERATION   Five

LANE C COVINGTON (12447). Born: 16 Jul 1962 in New York Co NY. Father: Covington, Hayden Cooper (8006). Mother: Sennett, Dorothy

 Mae (5689). Died: 3 Jan 1988 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co OH aged 25. (Last updated: 08/07/2012 14:07:03)

CLARENCE BOWMAN COVINGTON (9929). Born: 16 Mar 1933 in Kaufman, Kaufman Co TX. Father: Covington, Clarence Bowman

(10219). Mother: Eubank, Lillian Francis (10579). Died: 29 Apr 1999 in Texas TX aged 66. (Last updated: 30/07/2001 20:42:43)

PATSY JEAN COVINGTON (9930). Born: 4 Jul 1935 in Kaufman, Kaufman Co TX. Father: Covington, Clarence Bowman (10219). Mother:

Eubank, Lillian Francis (10579). Died: 12 May 2003 in Dallas, Dallas Co TX aged 67. Known as Pat. (Last updated: 19/05/2021

GEORGE WADE COVINGTON (10056). Born: 27 Aug 1930 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, George Wade (10261). Mother:

Nolley, Katie Lillian (10652). (Last updated: 30/07/2001 20:42:43)

MARY NELL COVINGTON (17616). Born: 27 Aug 1930 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, George Wade (10261). Mother: Nolley,

Katie Lillian (10652). Died: 30 Nov 1932 in Cherokee Co TX aged 2. Buried at Old Palestine Cemetery, Cherokee TX (Last updated:

09/06/2010 07:55:57)

EDITH PAULINE COVINGTON (10054). Born: Aug 1932 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, George Wade (10261). Mother: Nolley,

Katie Lillian (10652). (Last updated: 30/07/2001 20:42:43)

SARAH OLLIE COVINGTON (10057). Born: 6 Jan 1934 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, George Wade (10261). Mother: Nolley,

Katie Lillian (10652). Mar: about 1956 in Texas TX to Liles, Will Tom (). Died: May 2016 in Texas TX aged 82. (Last updated: 15/10/2019

 14:20:41)

GEORGE LEMUEL COVINGTON (10055). Born: 20 Mar 1937 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, George Wade (10261). Mother:

Nolley, Katie Lillian (10652). (Last updated: 30/07/2001 20:42:43)

ROBERT IVY COVINGTON (10072). Born: Jun 1946 in Dallas, Dallas Co TX. Father: Covington, Hubert Thelston (10286). Mother: Petty,

Martha Dorothy (10663). (Last updated: 30/07/2001 20:42:43)

 GEORGE MILLS COVINGTON (9977). Born: 18 Jul 1935 in Alto, Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Leonard Mills (10337). Mother:

Harry, Eunice Faye (10607). Mar: about 1958 in Texas TX to Meador, Joan Elizabeth (26635). Educated at Sam Houston State University

1959. Snr Vice President (Group Ins), Great Southern Life/Philadelphia American Life Ins, P.O.Box 2465, Houston. Lives at 9715 Truscon,

Houston. (Last updated: 20/05/2021 14:10:44)

FREDA JUNE COVINGTON (9976). Born: 24 Jun 1939 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Leonard Mills (10337). Mother: Harry,

Eunice Faye (10607). (Last updated: 30/07/2001 20:42:43)

THEUNE ALONZO COVINGTON (10145). Born: 18 Mar 1940 in Harris Co TX. Father: Covington, Worric Alonzo (10437). Mother: Theune,

Imogene Olive (10706). Died: 17 Oct 1982 in Harris Co TX aged 42. (Last updated: 30/07/2001 20:42:44)

WORRIC ALONZO COVINGTON (10146). Born: 24 Mar 1942 in Bexar Co TX. Father: Covington, Worric Alonzo (10437). Mother: Theune,

Imogene Olive (10706). (Last updated: 30/07/2001 20:42:44)

JEANNIE CORINNE COVINGTON (21775). Born: 21 Dec 1946 in Hardin Co TN. Father: Covington, George Newman (15186). Mother:

Brewer, Jackie (21774). Died: Sep 1988 in U.S.A. aged 41. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 07:38:48)

PHILIP COVINGTON (21773). Born: during 1955 in Wayne Co TN. Father: Covington, George Newman (15186). Mother: Hinton, Lois

Geneva (21772). Died: 13 Nov 2013 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 58. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 07:32:26)

 FRED DAVID COVINGTON (29644). Born: during 1931 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Covington, Buford (17345). Mother: Peck, Mattie

(17346). Mar: during 1955 in Lauderdale Co AL to Lemay, Virginia Ruth (29645). Died: during 2016 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 85.

Obituary reads "Fred David “Pudgy” Covington, 85, died Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016. Elkins East in charge of Arrangements. Burial will be at

Peck Cemetery in Killen.

 

He was the son of the late Buck and Mattie Covington. Dubbed “Pudgy” at a young age due to his physique, he was the husband of Virginia

Ruth Covington, 82. Married for 61 years, his devoted wife always lovingly referred to him by his commonly-used nickname. Pudgy and Ruth

 built a life in Killen, and they lived together at Green Oaks Inn in Florence until his death.

 

Born Aug. 25, 1931, Pudgy grew up in Lauderdale County, earning a reputation as a rough, tough and, most of all, talented football player

for the Lauderdale County tigers. He remained loyal to the team throughout his life, and he took every opportunity to watch the tigers

compete under the Friday night lights. Though he was known as an aggressive football player, off the field, Pudgy was known for his

kindness.

 

Pudgy enlisted in the Army during the Korean War. In 1957, he went on to become a park ranger at Oak Mountain State Park, where he

worked for five years before taking a position at Monte Sano State Park in 1962. During the time they lived on Monte Sano Mountain,

Pudgy and Ruth, who also worked for the park, had four children.

 

In 1975, Pudgy was named superintendent of Joe Wheeler State Park and moved to live on the grounds. Acting as the “boss” of a number

of park rangers, Pudgy was often difficult to distinguish from his employees. Fiercely independent and unwaveringly loyal, Pudgy often

completed the same tasks he’d delegated to the other rangers. Those who worked for him remember him as fair, considerate and always

hardworking.

 

After he retired in 1997, Pudgy and Ruth moved to Killen. Pudgy was a family man through and through, and he enjoyed spending his free

time with his children and grandchildren. He was a Christian, and he attended Brookhill Church of Christ.

 

Pudgy is survived by his wife, Ruth, and his four children." (Last updated: 05/12/2022 14:43:14)

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THELMA B COVINGTON (2888). Born: 4 Oct 1926 in Alto, Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Clarence Edward (19031). Mother:

Hendrick, Minnie Myrtle (10612). Mar: about 1948 in Texas TX to Marshall, Maurice F (). Died: 9 Apr 2002 in Brazoria Co TX aged 75.

(Last updated: 15/10/2019 14:20:41)

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CORRIE ETHEL COVINGTON (4173). Born: 13 Jan 1931 in Alto, Cherokee Co TX. Father: Covington, Clarence Edward (19031). Mother:

Hendrick, Minnie Myrtle (10612). Mar: about 1953 in Texas TX to Adams, Dan Philip (). Died: 24 Dec 1985 in Texas TX aged 54. Known

as Corrie. (Last updated: 20/05/2021 14:07:30)

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  GENERATION   Spouses, etc

Almida F COVINGTON (21777). Born: during 1831 in Tennessee TN. Father: Harrison (0). Mother: not known (0). Mar: 15 Mar 1848 in

Lauderdale Co AL to Covington, William Thomas (21776). (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:01:22)

 Martha E COVINGTON (19026). Born: Oct 1850 in Alabama AL. Father: Rice (0). Mother: not known (0). Mar: 24 Jan 1864 in Lauderdale

Co AL to Covington, William Edward (19025). (Last updated: 19/05/2021 11:26:20)

Nancy Louisa COVINGTON (17334). Born: 22 Jun 1853 in Alabama AL. Father: Sanderson, William P (0). Mother: Elizabeth (0). Mar:

about 1878 in Lauderdale Co AL to Covington, James Harding (15177). Died: 17 Feb 1915 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 61. (Last updated:

 10/05/2010 15:43:20)

Martha Ellen COVINGTON (21796). Born: 24 Oct 1858 in Alabama AL. Father: Herston, William C (0). Mother: Baggett, Catherine (0).

Mar: 20 Dec 1883 in Lauderdale Co AL to Covington, John C (21782). Died: 17 Nov 1939 in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins Co TX aged 81.

(Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:37:00)

May COVINGTON (26624). Born: about 1865 in U.S.A.. Father: Wilson (0). Mother: not known (0). Mar: 24 Dec 1925 in Good Springs Co

AL to Covington, James Harding (15177). (Last updated: 19/05/2021 11:06:13)

Ora Ella COVINGTON (21803). Born: 12 Nov 1872 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Wood, John William (0). Mother: Boyd, Elizabeth (0). Mar:

18 Mar 1888 in Cherokee Co TX to Covington, Joshua David (21783). Died: during 1909 in Marietta, Love Co OK aged 36. (Last

updated: 02/06/2019 15:56:19)

Olive Irene COVINGTON (17618). Born: 21 Feb 1877 in Winn Parish LA. Father: McCarty, William Wade (0). Mother: Sowers, Olive

Clementine (0). Mar: 17 Dec 1897 in Linwood, Cherokee Co TX to Covington, George Edward (17617). Died: 4 May 1934 in Linwood,

Cherokee Co TX aged 57. Known as Ollie Irene. Buried at Old Palestine Cemetery, Cherokee TX (Last updated: 27/04/2011 15:46:30)

Dora COVINGTON (17342). Born: 17 May 1881 in U.S.A.. Father: Patton (0). Mother: not known (0). Mar: 2 Dec 1896 in Lauderdale Co

AL to Covington, Joshua C (17335). Died: 26 Jan 1943 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 61. (Last updated: 10/05/2010 15:57:23)

Emma Louisa COVINGTON (26627). Born: 11 Sep 1883 in Dekalb Co AL. Father: Battles, John E (0). Mother: Stanfield, Martha J (0).

Mar: 22 Aug 1900 in Kaufman Co TX to Covington, Emmett Lee (19028). Died: 28 Nov 1965 in Kaufman, Kaufman Co TX aged 82. (Last

updated: 19/05/2021 11:39:06)

Ada H COVINGTON (17340). Born: 24 Dec 1887 in Alabama AL. Father: Hudson, John Henry (0). Mother: Foster, Olivia C (0). Mar: 17

Dec 1913 in Lauderdale Co AL to Covington, Albert Edward (17336). Died: 5 Mar 1963 in Florence, Lauderdale Co AL aged 75. (Last

updated: 10/05/2010 15:53:53)

 Susan Octavia Evelyn COVINGTON (15179). Born: 18 Mar 1888 in Haleyville, Winston Co AL. Father: Newman, Patrick Henry (0). Mother:

Hadder, Octavia (0). Mar: 5 Nov 1911 in Lauderdale Co AL to Covington, William Gibson (15178). Died: 24 Jan 1929 in Alabama AL

aged 40. (Last updated: 01/03/2009 13:12:52)

Ethel Grace COVINGTON (17339). Born: 28 Jul 1889 in Des Moines, Polk Co IA. Father: Stucker, George W (0). Mother: Gannaway.

Lavena G (0). Mar: about 1911 in Alabama AL to Covington, Burgess White (17338). Died: 22 Jul 1983 in Tennessee TN aged 93. (Last

updated: 10/05/2010 15:52:19)

George Milburn COVINGTON (26626). Born: during 1892 in U.S.A.. Father: Blakey (0). Mother: not known (0). Mar: 17 Oct 1910 in

Cherokee Co TX to Covington, Marcus Cleveland (19027). Died: during 1922 in Cherokee Co TX aged 30. (Last updated: 19/05/2021

11:36:58)

Fay B COVINGTON (21812). Born: 3 Oct 1894 in Springtown, Parker Co TX. Father: Hines, Joshua J (0). Mother: Gilliand, Anne (0). Mar:

23 Dec 1915 in Mangum, Greer Co OK to Covington, John Curtis (21804). Died: 4 Dec 1980 in Clinton, Custer Co OK aged 86. (Last

updated: 02/06/2019 16:10:57)

Mabel Madonna COVINGTON (21800). Born: 19 Sep 1894 in Hopkins Co TX. Father: France, Lewis Givens (0). Mother: Smith, Florence L

 (0). Mar: 30 Apr 1910 in Franklin, Robertson Co TX to Covington, Doney Earnest (21798). Died: 3 May 1946 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles

 Co CA aged 51. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:47:35)

Annie Missouri COVINGTON (21814). Born: 9 May 1896 in Madison Co AR. Father: Scott, Charles Henry (0). Mother: Sisemore, Nancy

Abigail (0). Mar: 11 Dec 1922 in Cherokee Co TX to Covington, Hubert Maxwell (21810). Died: 21 Dec 1975 in Cherokee Co TX aged 79.

 (Last updated: 02/06/2019 16:15:26)

Mary Gladys COVINGTON (21801). Born: 28 Jul 1903 in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins Co TX. Father: Posey, Thomas Becton (0). Mother:

Charlton, Elizabeth (0). Mar: 29 Mar 1919 in Hopkins Co TX to Covington, James Gabriel (21799). Died: 23 Jul 1994 in Sulphur Springs,

Hopkins Co TX aged 90. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:48:43)

Lucille COVINGTON (17347). Born: 21 Jul 1905 in Alabama AL. Father: Peck, John Samuel (0). Mother: Tidwell, Oma (0). Mar: about

1927 in Lauderdale Co AL to Covington, Early Lee (17343). Died: 8 Apr 1986 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 80. (Last updated: 10/05/2010

16:08:56)

Minnie Myrtle COVINGTON (10612). Born: 1904- 1905 in Louisiana LA. Father: Hendrex (0). Mother: not known (0). Mar: about 1924 in

Texas TX to Covington, Clarence Edward (19031). Died: during 2001 in Brazoria Co TX aged 96. Known as Myrtle. (Last updated:

15/10/2019 14:20:41)

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 Vernon COVINGTON (21768). Born: 25 Nov 1906 in Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Tays, Birtus Jackson (0). Mother: Williams, Zerah Gretchen

 (0). Mar: 16 Nov 1926 in Colbert Co AL to Covington, Arnold Leonard (16259). Died: 13 Nov 1999 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 92. (Last

updated: 31/05/2019 00:38:18)

Katie Lillian COVINGTON (10652). Born: 1 Jan 1908 in Texas TX. Father: Nolley (0). Mother: not known (0). Mar: about 1929 in Cherokee

Co TX to Covington, George Wade (10261). Died: 16 Apr 1998 in Cherokee Co TX aged 90. (Last updated: 30/07/2001 20:42:44)

Lillian Francis COVINGTON (10579). Born: 5 Aug 1912 in Scurry Co TX. Father: Eubank, Horace E (0). Mother: Sims, Lillie May (0). Mar:

about 1932 in Kaufman, Kaufman Co TX to Covington, Clarence Bowman (10219). Died: 15 Nov 1975 in Dallas, Dallas Co TX aged 63.

(Last updated: 19/05/2021 15:07:23)

Mattie COVINGTON (17346). Born: 15 Apr 1913 in Alabama AL. Father: Peck, John Samuel (0). Mother: Tidwell, Oma (0). Mar: about

1935 in Lauderdale Co AL to Covington, Buford (17345). Died: 17 Aug 1973 in Lauderdale Co AL aged 60. (Last updated: 10/05/2010

16:06:07)

Eunice Faye COVINGTON (10607). Born: 30 Jul 1915 in Cherokee Co TX. Father: Harry, George Morris (0). Mother: Cook, Ellen Jane (0).

 Mar: 10 Jan 1934 in Cherokee Co TX to Covington, Leonard Mills (10337). Died: 23 Jul 1991 in West Columbia, Brazoria Co TX aged 75.

 (Last updated: 30/07/2001 20:42:44)

Imogene Olive COVINGTON (10706). Born: about 1917 in U.S.A.. Father: Theune (0). Mother: not known (0). Mar: about 1939 in Harris Co

TX to Covington, Worric Alonzo (10437). (Last updated: 30/07/2001 20:42:44)

Flora COVINGTON (21794). Born: 23 Jul 1919 in Alabama AL. Father: Howard (0). Mother: not known (0). Mar: about 1939 in Alabama AL

 to Covington, James Hudson (21792). Died: 24 Mar 1976 in Alabama AL aged 56. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:30:26)

Dorothy Mae COVINGTON (5689). Born: 22 Dec 1922 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co OH. Father: Sennett, Otho Earl (0). Mother: Cook, Estelle

M (0). Mar: 22 Sep 1949 in Arlington Co VA to Covington, Hayden Cooper (8006). Died: 14 Mar 2015 in Sycamore, Wyandot Co OH aged

 92. (Last updated: 01/04/2001)

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Lois Geneva COVINGTON (21772). Born: 4 Jan 1922 in Wayne Co TN. Father: Hinton, James Coleman (0). Mother: Bevis, Susan Ellen

(0). Mar: 13 Mar 1954 in Tishomingo Co MS to Covington, George Newman (15186). Died: 21 Aug 2007 in Waynesboro, Wayne Co TN

aged 85. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 07:24:42)

 Marjorie Marie COVINGTON (26633). Born: 6 Oct 1922 in Palestine, Anderson Co TX. Father: Deerman, Columbus Washington (0).

Mother: Fellman, Ossie Burton (0). Mar: about 1940 in Texas TX to Covington, Holton William (26632). Died: 24 Jun 1995 in Waco,

McLennan Co TX aged 72. (Last updated: 19/05/2021 14:40:51)

Martha Dorothy COVINGTON (10663). Born: about 1923 in U.S.A.. Father: Petty (0). Mother: not known (0). Mar: about 1945 in Dallas,

Dallas Co TX to Covington, Hubert Thelston (10286). (Last updated: 30/07/2001 20:42:44)

Mary Dimple COVINGTON (21790). Born: 17 Sep 1924 in Putnam Co TN. Father: Phillips, Charlie Lansden (0). Mother: Wilmoth, Nancy

Sulie (0). Mar: 17 Sep 1944 in Putnam Co TN to Covington, William Burgess (21784). Died: 6 Apr 2013 in Cookeville, Putnam Co TN

aged 88. Obituary reads "She was a lifelong member of Post Oak Presbyterian Church. She served in various capacities in the church

such as Sunday School teacher, organist and pianist for more than 50 years. She also served as treasurer of the Post Oak Presbyterian

Women's Society.

 

Mrs. Covington was also a former member of the Sacred Melody Quartet.

 

Mrs. Covington was a former associate at Red Kap in Cookeville, and was retired from Wilmoth Insurance Agency.

 

She is fondly remembered for hosting Sunday lunches for family and friends. Her homemade sourdough bread and dill pickles were enjoyed

 by many. She enjoyed gardening and harvesting blueberries.

 

Her family includes two sons and daughtersin-law, Charles and Twila Covington and Lloyd and Jo Covington, all of Cookeville; a brother,

Elmo Phillips of Cookeville; four grandchildren, Eli Covington, Hannah Covington Sliger and husband Michael, Wendy McQuiston and

special friend Sherwin Piedad and Kirk Covington and wife Angela; three sisters-in-law, Lottie Phillips, Lucille Hyder and Lois Lacy; and a

brother-in-law, Dr. John Covington and wife Glenda.

 

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William B. Covington; two brothers, Roscoe and Casto Phillips; and

a sister, Clio Gilliam.

 

Pallbearers will be Rellon Phillips, Eli Covington, Kirk Covington, Michael Sliger and Jesse Gilliam.

 

Honorary pallbearers will be nephews and great nephews," (Last updated: 23/11/2022 12:15:04)

Ostelene COVINGTON (21795). Born: 4 Mar 1924 in Alabama AL. Father: Hollingsworth, William (0). Mother: Grisham, Mary Earline (0).

Mar: 1 Nov 1943 in Etowah Co AL to Comer, Jesse Polk (). 2nd Mar: about 1975 in U.S.A. to Covington, Robert Horace (21793). Died: 11

Nov 2002 in Rogersville, Lauderdale Co AL aged 78. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 08:33:20)

Jackie COVINGTON (21774). Born: about 1926 in Hardin Co TN. Father: Brewer (0). Mother: not known (0). Mar: about 1945 in Savannah,

 Hardin Co TN to Covington, George Newman (15186). Died: during 1993 in U.S.A. aged 67. (Last updated: 31/05/2019 07:36:06)

 Glenda Faye COVINGTON (29519). Born: about 1928 in Arkansas AR. Father: Veach (0). Mother: not known (0). Mar: 18 Aug 1956 in

Tennessee TN to Covington, John Mark (21788). (Last updated: 18/10/2022 17:02:37)

Virginia Ruth COVINGTON (29645). Born: 31 Mar 1934 in Florence, Lauderdale Co AL. Father: Lemay, Johnnie Wilburn (0). Mother: Hill,

Esther (0). Mar: during 1955 in Lauderdale Co AL to Covington, Fred David (29644). Died: 29 Jul 2020 in Killen, Lauderdale Co AL aged

86. Known as Ruth. Obituary reads "Virginia Ruth LeMay Covington, 86, of Killen passed away on July 29, 2020.

 

A visitation will be held on August 1, 2020 at Elkins East Chapel from 10:00 to 11:00 A.M. with service to follow at 11:00 A.M. Due to the

circumstances and health concerns it is requested that only members of the family and church attend. The service will be officiated by Paul

Sheehan of Brookhill Church of Christ. A private family graveside will be held after the service at Peck Cemetery in Killen, Alabama.

 

Virginia Ruth LeMay Covington was born March 31, 1934 in Florence, Alabama to Wilburn and Esther LeMay. She graduated from Rogers

High School. Ruth married Fred David “Pudgy” Covington on June 22, 1955. Ruth and Pudgy were married for 61 years. The couple both

worked for the Alabama State Parks for 30+ years, retiring from Joe Wheeler State Park. Ruth was a faithful Christian; and a devout

member at Brookhill Church of Christ.

 

Ruth was preceded in death by her parents, Wilburn and Esther LeMay; her loving husband, Fred David “Pudgy” Covington; and brother,

Leon LeMay.

 

Ruth is survived by her children, Carol Covington, Connie Covington Mask, Sharon (Johnny) Covington Tidwell, David (Tina) Covington;

brother, Oscar (Mary Ruth) LeMay; sister, Patricia (Mike) LeMay Clements; grandchildren, Brett (Michelle) Mask, Hannah Mask (Bobby

Bozeman), Matthew (Rachael) Tidwell, Erin Tidwell, Emma Covington, Maggie Covington, Brody Covington; great-grandchildren, Rowan

and Briggs Mask. Pallbearers include Lang Hughes, Patrick Hughes, Darrell Lester, Brett Mask, Matthew Tidwell, and Brody Covington.

 

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Green Oaks Inn of Florence, Alabama or El Reposo Nursing Facility in Greenhill, Alabama in

Ruth’s name.

 

The family would like to extend gratitude and special thanks to the staff at Green Oaks Inn and El Resposo Nursing Facility for their

overwhelming support and help throughout the life of Ruth Covington. (Times Daily Obits, 07/31/2020, Florence, Lauderdale AL)." (Last

updated: 05/12/2022 14:57:03)

Joan Elizabeth COVINGTON (5515). Born: 19 Aug 1937 in West Columbia, Brazoria Co TX. Father: Meador (0). Mother: not known (0).

Mar: about 1995 in Brazoria Co TX to Covington, Leonard Mills (10337). Died: 7 May 2012 in Houston, Harris Co TX aged 74. (Last

updated: 28/11/2021 20:18:16)

Joan Elizabeth COVINGTON (26635). Born: 19 Aug 1937 in West Columbia, Brazoria Co TX. Father: Meador (0). Mother: not known (0).

Mar: about 1958 in Texas TX to Covington, George Mills (9977). Died: 7 May 2012 in Texas TX aged 74. Known as Beth. (Last updated:

20/05/2021 14:07:30)