When William Thomas Coverdale was born on 28 May 1875, in Tuscola, Michigan, United States, his father, Thomas Coverdale, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Simpson, was 30. He married Grace M. Ward on 4 August 1898, in Millington, Tuscola, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Cato Township, Montcalm, Michigan, United States in 1910 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1920. He died on 22 November 1927, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Lakeview, Cato Township, Montcalm, Michigan, United States.
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English (Yorkshire and Durham): habitational name from Coverdale in the North Yorkshire, ‘in the valley (Middle English dale) of the Cover river (a Celtic name)’.
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