When William Anson Covert was born on 19 May 1837, in Bartholomew, Indiana, United States, his father, John Bates Covert, was 22 and his mother, Hester Ann Warner, was 24. He married Fannie Doherty on 10 November 1863, in San Joaquin, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Mussel Slough Township, Tulare, California, United States in 1880 and Lucerne, Kings, California, United States in 1900. He died on 16 October 1912, in Modesto, Stanislaus, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Modesto, Stanislaus, California, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Calaveras, California, United States
The Fort Tejon earthquake, on January 9, 1857, registered at 7.9, making it one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the United States. Only two people were killed, largely due to the sparse population in the area where the earthquake occurred. As a result of the large scale shaking, the Kern River was turned upstream and fish were stranded miles from Tulare Lake as the waters were rocked so far from its banks.
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 .
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