Brief Life History of Levi
When Levi Conover was born on 14 January 1808, in Adair, Kentucky, United States, his father, Levi Covenhoven, was 50 and his mother, Jane Gilbreath, was 38. He married Elizabeth Petefish on 8 November 1836, in Morgan, Illinois, United States. He lived in Cass, Cass, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Cass, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. He died on 25 June 1880, in Virginia, Cass, Illinois, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Virginia, Cass, Illinois, United States.
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- Levi Cenover, "United States Census, 1870"
- Levi Counover, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Levi Conover, "Find A Grave Index"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · Kentucky Bend Created
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Dutch Couwenhoven, a habitational name from the farmhouse Couwenhoven in Hoogland, Utrecht.
History: Wolfert Gerritsz. (van Couwenhoven), settled in 1624–25 as one of the first immigrants from Amersfoort to New-Netherland. By the time the descendants of original Dutch settlers on Long Island had reached western PA, the name Couwenhoven had evolved into Conover.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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