Brief Life History of Everet
When Everet Covert was born on 8 August 1833, in Middlesex, Middlesex, Yates, New York, United States, his father, William Spencer Covert, was 25 and his mother, Mary Cortright, was 24. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860 and Gooseberry, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 21 May 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Holladay Memorial Park, Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Evert Covert, "United States Census, 1900"
- Everet Covert, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
- Evert Covert, "Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877"
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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.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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Evert was the son of William Spencer Covert and Mary Cortright. He served in Smith's Co., Utah Cavalry and in the Utah Territory Militia in during the Civil War.
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