Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Covey was born on 4 January 1849, in Lawrence Township, Washington, Ohio, United States, her father, William Covey, was 37 and her mother, Nancy Ann Douthitt, was 30. She married William McClellan Sandage on 9 May 1878, in Perry, Indiana, United States. She lived in Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 24 November 1879, at the age of 30, and was buried in Covey Cemetery, Perry, Indiana, United States.
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- Sarah Covey, "United States Census, 1850"
- Sarah Covey, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Sarah Covey, "Find A Grave Index"
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1850
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Name Meaning
Irish: shortened form of MacCovey, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cobhthaigh (see Coffey ).
English: unexplained. Covey is used of ‘pantry’ in the early modern period and covey ‘little chap’ (a diminutive of cove, Middle English cof ‘bold, eager, courageous’; see Cove ) in the early nineteenth century, but there is no evidence to confirm either as the source for the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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