When Squire Britton Covey was born on 29 January 1861, in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States, his father, Joshua Hobbs Covey, was 27 and his mother, Lucy Ellen Keeling, was 21. He married Nancy Margot Pruitt on 13 March 1878, in Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Austin, Travis, Texas, United States in 1900 and Justice Precinct 1, Harris, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 10 January 1930, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Menard Family Cemetery, Seabrook, Harris, Texas, United States.
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"On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: ""The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."""
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Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
Irish: shortened form of MacCovey, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cobhthaigh (see Coffey ).
English: unexplained. Covey is used of ‘pantry’ in the early modern period and covey ‘little chap’ (a diminutive of cove, Middle English cof ‘bold, eager, courageous’; see Cove ) in the early nineteenth century, but there is no evidence to confirm either as the source for the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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