Nixon Covey “Bible”
This data is not from a Bible, but from a book that Nixon
used for this purpose; I list the following info as he entered it in this book
(bought of A B Patrick, 1852, for $1.25)
Nixon Covey was born March the 1st 1791
Nixon Covey and Susan Willoughby was married May the 8th 1828
Minerva Jane "Ellen" Covey was born August the 2 1830
William Leonides Lyceorgus Covey was born December the 15th 1832 And departed
this life July the 28th 1859
James Harden Nixon Covey was born August the 27th 1837 And departed this life
September 23-1847
Susan Ann Elizabeth Mariah Louisa "Josephine" Covey was born January
the 18th 1840
Mary Cockrell Paulina Bohannon Covey was born January the 18th 1842 And died
September 23 1843
Zantippaarin Elizabeth Covey was born April the 13th 1835, And departed this
life July the 16th 1836
"Jeremiah" Weldon South Lewis Morgan Cornett Harrison Covey was born
December the 5th 1844
"Daniel" Benjamin Franklin Covey was born January the 29th 1849 (my
ancestor...all brackets are my adding to signify what these children were
called in adulthood)
Harmon Barnett and Ellen Covey was married september the 18th 1845
Nixon Silvester Greenville Barnett was born October the 9th 1846 and departed
this life September the 2 1865
Alexander B Patrick Barnett was born January the 24 1849
John C Mason Barnett was born November the 28th 1851
Henry Barnett was born July the 30th 1853
William Leonides Licurgas Barnett was born November the 28th 1855
(he now goes to Josephine's children...Josephine married Jeff Walling, 3 March
1859, Montgomery Co, KY)
James Nixon Walling was born December the 9th 1859
Adam Walling was born October the 29th 1861
William C Walling was born January 20th 1864
Samuel B Walling was born July the 19th 1866
Jeremiah Clifton Walling was born August the 2nd 1869
Susan Ellen Walling was born December the 15th 1871
Luiseza (Louisa) Walling was born October the 9th 1874
(In someone else's writing, we find)
Nixon Covey dide June the 20th 1879
Susan Covey dide March the 10th 1881
Nixon Covey dide June the 20 1879
Susan Covey dide March the 10 1881
Death of the Twin babes...March...one died 15 and the other the 17..1881 (I
think this must have been twin children of Josephine & Jeff Walling)