Brief Life History of John Bates
When John Bates Covert was born on 10 May 1815, in Clark, Indiana, United States, his father, John Covert, was 36 and his mother, Rachel Jane Kern, was 39. He married Hester Ann Warner on 1 August 1833, in Jeffersonville, Jeffersonville Township, Clark, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Calaveras, California, United States in 1860 and Mussel Slough Township, Tulare, California, United States in 1880. He died on 24 August 1888, in Tulare, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Linden, San Joaquin, California, United States.
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- John Covert, "United States Census, 1860"
- J B Covert, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- John Bates Covert, "Find A Grave Index"
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1816
Indiana is the 19th state.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English (Surrey, of Norman origin): habitational name from the Norman hamlet of Couvert in Calvados or from some other locality similarly named from Old French (le) covert ‘the secret corner, refuge, or thicket’. Sussex surname forms with the definite article and no preposition are not nicknames from Old French covert ‘secret(ive)’, as has been suggested, but are either references to ‘Le Covert’ as the place of origin or represent the common Norman practice of substituting le for de in surnames. This surname is now extinct in Britain.
Americanized form of an unidentified Dutch or German name, perhaps Kofoed or German Gobert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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