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From: "Debby" <>
Subject: Re: [PABUTLER-L] Covert, Ralston, Wimer
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 22:47:01 -0400
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This is a recent obituary. Do either of you know the name of
Marie Covert's husband and the names of their children?
I'm doing the Rider line, so I don't much on the Covert line.Thx.
Debby Harris

Eleanor C. Crispin Anderson, 87, of Saxony
Health Center, Saxonburg, died at 7:40 p.m. Sunday at Allegheny-Kiski
Medical Center, Natrona Heights. Born in Butler Dec. 27, 1915, she was the
daughter of Everett and Elizabeth Rider Crispin. She was a homemaker. She
was a former active member of the Calvary Evangelical Presbyterian Church
and had been a Sunday school teacher. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs.
Paul (Ruth) Warman of Zelienople, Mrs. Douglas (Donna) DeWard of Arlington,
Wash., and Mrs. Duane (Gayle) Hoffmeyer of Fairport Harbor, Ohio; and one
sister, Mrs. Marie Covert of Butler. She is also survived by six
grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, six step-grandchildren and four
step-great-grandchildren, along with a number of nieces and nephews. She was
preceded in death by her husband, John William Anderson, who died April 25,
1994; one sister and one brother.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan McMorrine" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 10:28 PM
Subject: RE: [PABUTLER-L] Covert, Ralston, Wimer


> Marsha,
> There is definitely a large family of Coverts in the Butler Co., PA
> area. My ggg grandmother was Cornelia Covert. She married Alexander
> Campbell and my line goes from there. Her father was Garrett Covert with
> wife Ellen Black.
> Her grandfather was Luke Covert and wife Cornelia Van Zandt.
> Alexander and Cornelia had a son named Garrett (my gg grandfather) he
> served in Co. "F" 134th Regiment of Pennva Volunteers and died at the
> battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia.
> I don't find your Morris in any of the descendants of Luke and Cornelia
> Covert that I have...but there are quite a few siblings that I do not
> have any information on.
>
> I have had very good luck with searching people next door to others on
> the census, so if not parents, they are most likely related in some way
> or another.
>
> Here is a little bit of information on Luke Covert:
>
> From: Somerset County Genealogical Quarterly Volume 8
> Luke Covert, born October 18, 1741 in Franklin Twp., Somerset, New
> Jersey; died 1821 in Butler Co., Pennsylvania. He was the son of .
> Bergon (Bragon) Covert and Annetze Selover (Slover). He married
> Cornelia Van Zandt May 12, 1768. She was born May 15, 1746 in New
> Jersey, and died in Butler Co., PA. She was the daughter of Peter Praa
> Van Zandt and Sarah Willense.
>
> FROM THE HISTORY OF BUTLER CO., 1883 Chapter 39, Page 363
> "Among the very first to take up land and make a home within the
> territory now known as Brady Township was Luke Covert, a Holland
> Dutchman, who had been a soldier in the American Army during the
> Revolution. He came from New Jersey to Northumberland County, and
> thence here. His family consisted of eleven children, of whom John
> Covert was the last survivor, and died in 1873, in his ninety second
> year. John Covert married Sarah Bennett, and reared a family of eight
> children.
> The Covert family moved from the East with horses and a wagon, cutting
> roads and making bridges as they came. After settling here, they
> allowed their horses to run in the woods, until sometimes they became so
> wild it was difficult to catch them. Mr. Covert, however, had a method
> which seldom failed. He would creep up to a horse as he was feeding,
> catch him by the tail, wind it around a tree and cling on, until the
> animal could be haltered and rendered manageable. He once kept a horse
> all winter standing near the corner of his log house. He had no stable
> but he covered the beast with warm blankets, fed him well, and in the
> spring the animal was fat in good order.
> Soon after COVERT settled, James CAMPBELL came from the East and located
> where S. FISHER now lives. His son Henry afterward resided there. "
>
> Children of LUKE COVERT and CORNELIA VAN ZANDT are:
> i.GARRETT6 COVERT, b. September 15, 1769.
> ii.SUSANNA (ANNE) COVERT, b. November 27, 1772.
> iii.MAGDALENA COVERT, b. November 29, 1775; d. Abt. 1850, Butler Co.,
> Pa..
> iv.CATHERINE COVERT, b. July 20, 1778; m. JOHN STOUGHTON.
> v.JOHN COVERT, b. August 11, 1781, New Jersey; d. 1873; m. SARAH
> BENNETT.
> vi.BARNET COVERT, b. September 08, 1784.
> vii.JACOB COVERT, SR., b. September 21, 1787, New Jersey; d. September
> 20, 1869, Butler Co., Pennsylvania.
>
> PA 1820, Covert, Luke, Butler Co., Page 149, Slipperyrock Twp.
>
> History of Butler County Pennsylvania - 1883
> Chapter 4 -- Advent of the White Man as a Settler
> (p. 30)
> Brady -- Luke COVERT, James CAMPBELL, Bartol LOFFER, Daniel MCDAVITT,
> James I. HOGE, 1797; John MCCLYMONDS, Edward DOUGLASS, 1798.
>
> The above mentioned James Campbell and John McCLymonds are also in my
> line.
>
> Good luck in your research. Let me know if you figure out if you tie in
> with my bunch of Coverts. I would imagine there is a link somewhere.
> Susan McMorrine
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marsha Ensminger [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 2:42 AM
> To:
> Subject: [PABUTLER-L] Covert, Ralston, Wimer
>
> I've recently found some firm information on my mother's Pennsylvania
> ancestors, and wonder if they show up in any one else's research.
> They're in Muddy Creek Township for the 1850, 1860, and 1880 censuses.
>
> Abigail COVERT was born in "Pottersville", PA (is this a mistake for
> Portersville?) in 1846, one of (at least) six children of Morris COVERT
> and Margaret WIMER. (On the 1850 census, Morris & Margaret COVERT are
> the household after John and Abigail WIMER - would they have been
> Margaret's parents?)
>
> Abigail COVERT married Jeremiah C. RALSTON, a Civil War veteran in the
> late 1860's. I don't have Jeremiah's pension file yet, but hope it
> will have useful info like their marriage date, and maybe even his
> parent's names. Jeremiah and Abigail are in Muddy Creek Twp. for the
> 1880 census, with three children: John R. "Jack", born about 1868;
> Margaret E., born about 1872; and "Maurice F.", more ususally called
> Fred M., born early 1880. In 1889 Jeremiah and Abigail are living in
> Youngstown, Mahoning Co, Ohio. The three children are also in the
> Youngstown area by the time of the 1910 census. Jeremiah died in 1896;
> Abigail died in 1931.
>
> I have sketchy information on "Jack" and "Fred" RALSTON, their spouses,
> and descendants. Margaret was my great-grandmother, so I have more
> info on her family.
>
> If anyone recognizes these people, I'd like to share information.
>
> =====
> Marsha L. Ensminger
> searching for Westerhold/t/z in the US and ?
>
>
>
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