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.
West Hill Cemetery
Elaine
Nall Bay
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