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)