When Alexander Elza Covert was born on 24 February 1877, in Beloit, Mitchell, Kansas, United States, his father, John Porter Covert, was 40 and his mother, Mary Jane Beam, was 32. He married Stella Golladay on 21 January 1903, in Beloit, Mitchell, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Lincoln Township, Putnam, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Turkey Creek Township, Mitchell, Kansas, United States for about 30 years. He died on 22 May 1949, in Beloit, Mitchell, Kansas, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Beloit, Mitchell, Kansas, United States.