ENOCH MOORE COVEY and his wife, Maranda O. Hunt, moved their family from Henry County, Missouri and settled in Millwood, Collin County, Texas before 1860.  Maranda O. Hunt Covey is believed to be buried in Millwood Cemetery, Millwood, Collin County, Texas. She died during the birth of her son, Albion Alvey Covey.  Enoch Moore Covey is buried in Rockwall City Cemetery in Rockwall, Rockwall County, Texas. 

Children of Enoch Moore Covey & Maranda O. Hunt are:

• Albion Alvey Covey: b. Millwood, Collin County, Texas; m. Louisa Amanda Lanham; d. September 27, 1936
• John Marshall Covey: b. June 11, 1861 Millwood, Collin County, Texas; d. January 18, 1941 Sherman, Grayson County, Texas

ALVION ALVEY COVEY, son of Enoch Moore Covey and Maranda O. Hunt, married Louisa Amanda Lanham. He died September 27, 1936.
Three of nine children of Alvion Alvey Covey & Amanda Lanham are:

• Thomas Forest Covey -  eldest son
• Coy C. Covey - fourth son - m. Nina Mae Faull
• Rena Lou Covey - 7th child - m. Clyde A. Morgan, a widower, at the age of 50, b. Restland Memorial Cemetery, El Paso, Texas

JOHNSON MARSHALL COVEY, son of Enoch Moore Covey and Maranda O. Hunt, was born June 11, 1861 in Millwood, Collin County, Texas. He died in Sherman on January 18, 1941.  Johnson married Lydia Elizabeth Covey, daughter of Jacob C. Covey and Sarah Middleton Melton. My great-grandmother and great-grandfather were married on a ferry in the middle of the Red River (probably on the old historic Colbert's ferry) where, I read that so many marriages were performed that the folks in Denison called the river the "Sea of Matrimony!" During World War I, he owned and operated the Collinsville Hotel in Collinsville, Texas.

Sherman Democrat
January 20, 1941

Sherman, Texas, Jan 20 1941 - Funeral services for Johnson Marshall Covey, 79, were held here.  Rev. R. E. Potter of Kemp officiated, assisted by Rev. Claude Johnston.  Burial was in West Hill Cemetery.  Mr. Covey was born June 11, 1861 in Millwood, Collin County, Texas, a son of Enoch and Maranda Hunt Covey.  He was married August 9, 1881 on a ferryboat in the middle of the Red River to Miss Lydia E. Covey, who survives him.  He came to Sherman from Collin County 58 years ago and was a stock dealer and farmer for 50 years, retiring in 1935. 
Mr. Covey was a member of the Travis Street Methodist Church.  He is survived by 4 daughters, Mrs. Sallie Wallace of McAlester, Oklahoma; Mrs. Lula O'Dell of Bakersfield, California; Mrs. Clara Bell Zachery of Bakersfield; and Mrs. Artie Theo Price of El Paso, Texas' 2 sisters, Mrs. W. L. Goodman of Dallas and Mrs. Leonard Puckett of Rockwall, Texas; 17 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

Lydia Elizabeth Covey was born March 21, 1866 in Montrose, Henry County, Missouri and died on November 26, 1952 in Bakersfield, California. She is buried beside her husband in the West Hill Cemetery, Sherman, Grayson County, Texas.

Children of Johnson Marshall Covey & Lydia Elizabeth Covey are:

• Melinda Lou 'Lula' Covey
• Sallie Weevil Covey
• Enoch Jacob Covey
• Ella Mae Covey
• Otis Marshall Covey
• Ida Maude Covey - died in infancy
• Artie Theodora 'Theo' Covey
• Clara Belle Covey
• Jewell Marvin Covey

ENOCH JACOB COVEY, son of Johnson Marshall Covey and grandson of Enoch Moore Covey and Maranda O. Hunt, and Jacob C. Covey and Sarah Middleton Melton.   Both of his grandfathers were Texas Confederate soldiers, serving with the Partisan Rangers and both have pension records on file in the Texas State Archives.  His death certificate lists his occupation as a stock dealer (livestock).  Enoch married Carrie Belle O'Mary in early 1909 in Sherman, Texas.

Carrie Belle O'Mary, daughter of Owen O. O'Mary and Nancy Adeline Reynolds, was born January 27, 1889 in Rogers, Tennessee.  Her family moved by train from Rogers, Tennessee to Whitesboro, Texas in mid-March 1889. Her siblings were Luther, Arthur, Ethel, Tessie, Charlie, Earl and Edgar. Belle moved to El Paso, Texas in approximately 1930. She died June 5, 1981 and is buried next to a son in Restland Memorial Cemetery.   Her marker shows the birth date as 1899 which is inaccurate. She never remarried after her husband's death.

Roy Covey, son of Enoch Jacob Covey and Carrie Belle O'Mary, died October 16, 1916 shortly after his first birthday.  He is buried beside his father in West Hill Cemetery, Sherman, Texas.  Neither Enoch or Roy have a headstone.  They are buried in a plot bound by concrete that has the name 'Covey' on a step up to the grave sites.


COY N. COVEY, son of Alvion Alvey Covey & Amanda Lanham, was father to:

• Richard Alvin Covey
• Coy Theon Covey

James 'Jim' Cole Hestand was the son of Anthony M. Hestand and Frances Gumm.  Jim died August 27, 1939 in Dallas, Texas.  He married Idella 'Ida'  L. Covey, daughter of Jacob C. Covey and Sarah Middleton Melton and sister of Lydia Elizabeth Covey, on January 10, 1886.   Ida was born July 2, 1863 in Henry County, Missouri, daughter of Jacob C. Covey and Sarah Middleton Melton.  Ida died on August 1, 1951 in Dallas, Texas. Jim and Ida owned the Alfalfa Stock Farm in Howe, Texas where they raised registered short horn Milch Durhams, hogs and cattle and also farmed.  They lived in Dallas for a while, but maintained homes and rentals in Sherman.