When Mary Ann Covington was born on 31 March 1815, in Mill Green, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Berrill Covington, was 20 and her mother, Elizabeth Hodges, was 21. She married James Sheffield on 24 January 1836, in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 5 October 1908, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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English: habitational name from a place in Huntingdonshire named Covington, from an Old English personal name Cofa + Old English -ing- denoting association + tūn ‘settlement’.
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Life History of Mary Ann Covington Stratton West Mary Ann Covington was born the 21st of March 1815 at Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, the third child of Berrill Covington and Elizabeth Hodges. …
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