When George Oliver Covert was born on 14 February 1854, in Atchison, Missouri, United States, his father, Lucas Covert, was 42 and his mother, Lavina Melvina Bird, was 39. He married Mary Scheinert on 30 January 1883, in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Phillips, Kansas, United States in 1895 and Galena Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1900. He died on 29 June 1916, in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Carterville Cemetery, Mineral Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1855: Pawnee, Nebraska Territory, United States 1867: Pawnee, Nebraska, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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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