COVERT, Archie Allen

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL

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A. A. Covert, a highly esteemed citizen of the Hopewell neighborhood, died about one o’clock Wednesday morning, aged 33 years. Two years ago last February he was taken with a severe attack of la grippe which affected his lungs and terminated in consumption. He was a man of excel­lent traits of character and in his death the community loses a good and valuable citizen. The funeral took place yesterday at 10 o’clock at the Hopewell church, conducted by Rev. L. P. Marshall. The deceased left a wife, but no children.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, August 12, 1892, page 6

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OBITUARY

To pay a tribute of respect to our loved and lost, is always a painful duty, yet as God in his infinite wisdom, has called and one of our loved ones answered the summons, we would say a few words sacred to the memory of Archie Allen Covert, son of Isaac I. and Margaret Kerlin Covert, who departed this life, on the morning of July 27th, 1892, at his home in the Hopewell neighborhood. Archie, as he was familiarly known, was born July 1st, 1858 and was 34 years of age, at the time of his death.

His mother died while he was yet an infant and several years ago, his father sought a refuge from that dread disease consumption, in the land of palms and flowers, only to find a quiet nook among strangers in the sunny south for his weary body to rest till the resurrection morn. In the year 1885, Archie became a member of the Hopewell Presbyterian church and ever after lived an honest upright Christian life. A tribute paid by his Sunday School teacher was that he always manifested a great desire for the Salvation of others especially for his uncles, with whom he had found a home from his early boyhood days. He lived to see the last one brought into the Masters Kingdom, a few months before his death.

He was married to Anna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Ragsdale, Aug. 14th, 1890. Together they had a very pleasant and happy home, until death entered its portals in the still watch of the night and carried away the young husband and made an aching void in the heart of her who was left. No more is his voice heard in that sacred place we call home, nor will his form be seen in its accustomed place. No foot steps are heard that tell of his presence but all is quiet and still hushed in death. Another life has been lived and has completed its mission, another soul has returned to its maker.

He bore his long illness which was caused by consumption superinduced by the la grippe with marked patience and Christian fortitude every showing that he drank from that fountain of love strength that is filled by God’s hand for his children. Though burdened with humanity to the degree that he sometimes erred yet his daily life gave evidence of his divine acceptance. Though we sigh for a touch of the vanished hand, and mourn for the dear one gone yet we know our loss is his gain. He leaves, beside the dear young wife so tenderly cherished, a step mother and brother and many other relatives and friends, for whom he desired a peaceful sojourn here with barely clouds enough to make a glorious dawning to that life that is to come in the great beyond.

Funeral services at Hopewell, conducted by Rev. L. P. Marshall, of Franklin, July 28th, after which his wasted form was carried out and laid to rest by six young men, cousins of the deceased in the quiet city of the dead at Hopewell, to await the resurrection morn, when the redeemed of the Lord will be gathered to sing the songs of the redeemed throughout the endless ages of eternity.

Written by request of the wife, by JANA OWENS.

Link to Archie Allen Covert’s grave

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry