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West Hill Cemetery
Sherman, Texas




Lydia Covey
1866 - 1952

J.M. Covey
1861 - 1941

Marvin Covey
14 May 1901 - 30 May 1912
s/o J.M. & L.E. Covey


Otis Covey
30 October 1890 - 7 July 1912
Sherman Democrat
January 20, 1941

Sherman, Texas, January 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 fifty-eight years ago and was a stock dealer and farmer for fifty years, retiring in 1935. 
Mr. Covey was a member of the Travis Street Methodist Church. 
He is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Sallie Wallace of McAlester, Oklahoma; Mrs. Lula O'Dell and Mrs. Clara Bell Zachery, both of Bakersfield, California; and Mrs. Artie Theo Price of El Paso, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. W.L. Goodman of Dallas and Mrs. Leonard Puckett of Rockwall, Texas; seventeen grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

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