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#15 Name: Elizabeth COVINGTON
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Birth: Mar 16, 1862 - Liberty, MS
Death: Jun 22, 1939 - Simmonville/Progress,
MS
Burial: Tylertown, MS
Occupation: Homemaker
Father: John Martin COVINGTON,
Mother: Mary Jane WASHBURN
Children: Sidney Farrar Simmons (1882-1955),
(C) Willie
Eugene Simmons (1883-1965),
(C) Eunice Elinor (Eloise) Simmons
(1884-1961),
(C) Charles Leonard Simmons (1886-1950),
(C) Annie
Alice Simmons (1888-1895),
(C) Nellie Mae Simmons (1891 - ____),
(C) James Lewis Simmons (1893-1943),
(C) Bessie
Belle Simmons (1895-1979),
(C) Edna Simmons (1897 - ____),
(C) Richard
Oliver Simmons (1898 - ____),
(C) Flora Simmons (1900-1947),
(C) Jewell
Simmons (1907 - ____).
Note: Click on names above for Bio's. Also see their
photo pages.
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#15a Name: John Martin COVINGTON
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Birth: abt 1818 - , NC
Death: Oct 9, 1864 - Liberty Amite Cnty, MS
Occupation:
Grocer & Druggest/Chemist
Father: Unknown COVINGTON
Mother: Unknown
Spouse: Mary Jane WASHBURN
Married: 1856 - Amite Cnty, MS
Note: He was Mary's 2nd husband. John moved with his family to Warren Cnty, KY
when he was about 9-10 years old. He was living in Liberty
Amite Co Ms in 1850
(was part of 1850 Amite Cnty census).
He was the guardian of his brother Robert's
minor child Jane
Covington. He owned and operated a Drug Store and Grocery
Store in Liberty, MS.
Spouse:1
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#15b
Name: Mary Jane WASHBURN
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Birth: Mar 17, 1826 - Putney, VT
Died: Apr 21, 1901 - Shreveport, LA
Father: Asa WASHBURN,
Mother: Eunice WELLINGTON.
Spouse 1: Huge MAGEE,
Spouse
2: John Martin COVINGTON,
Spouse 3: William GORDON
Children: John J. Covington (____ - abt 1907), * Engineer on the MS
Pacific Railroad. He
was killed in a train wreck while on his
run from Alexandria to New Orleans.
(C) Charles Covington (____
- ____), * He died of some kind of throat trouble in
Marshall, TX.
(C) Emma Covington (____ - ____), * Res.
in Shreveport, LA.
(C) Martha "Mattie"Covington (____ - ____),
* She died on what was known as
the "JimTate Place" near
Simmonsville, MS.
(C) Elizabeth Covington (1862 - 1939).
Note: Click on the names above for Bio's. Also see Elizabeth's photo page.
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#15c Name: Unknown COVINGTON
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Birth:
Death:
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#15d
Name: Unknown
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Birth:
Death:
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#15e
Name: Asa WASHBURN, Jr
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Birth: Dec 3, 1791
Birth: Dec 31, 1791
Birth: 1792
Death: Feb 28, 1872
Buried:
Evergreen Cemeteryin Winchester, NH
Father: Asa WASHBURN,
Mother: Sally (Sarah) UPHAM.
Spouse 1: Eunice WELLINGTON,
Married: Nov 28, 1782
Spouse 2: Ruth HARKNESS,
Married: Sept 11, 1855
Note: According to the roster of War of 1812-14 (pg 439) by Herbert T. Johnson,
Adj
general of VT gives the following information: "Asa Washburn,
Corporal, Putney,
served in Capt. Parson's Co., Col Jonathan
William's Regt. Detached Militia in U.S.
Service 2 months
and 13 days, 1812. Pension certificate No 9922. Pension
certificate
of widow, Ruth, No 16989." Asa and Eunice lived in Putney until about
1853 when he married agian and went to Winchester, N.H. to live.
Note: This family belonged to the Congregational Church of Putney, VT and all the
children were baptized there. What became of many of them is still unknown.
Eunice
came south with her daughters Mary Jane and Hannah Emeline in 1854
to visit the Shirk's. She died while on this visit.