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Abt 1801 - 1861 (~ 60 years)

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Name	Bird H. Covington [1, 2]
Birth	Abt 1801	Fairfax County, Virginia [2]
Gender	Male
Death	11 Mar 1861	Decatur County, Iowa [3]
Person ID	I1797	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
Last Modified	4 Aug 2011

Family Sarah (wife of Bird H. Covington) [?], b. Abt 1815, Ohio d. Yes, date unknown

Children

1. Samuel Homer Covington, b. Abt Jun 1854, Iowa

d. 11 Oct 1920, Decatur City, Decatur Co, Iowa

(Age ~ 66 years)

Family ID F637 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 20 Nov 2010

Notes

For Bird H Covington's birth place, only the state, Virginia, has been verified. The county of birth, Fairfax, is from the apocryphal LDS Ancestry File of the 70s-90s. The given name "Bird" is so unusual I went about searching for verification that it was so. This was prompted from a WPA list that had his given name as "Biod" which is really farfetched. I found it in an official U.S. document (see name source) then I later found it in the Bureau of Land Management database.
(Research):This is from a UK website http://www.covingtonhistory.co.uk/LatestUpdates.htm
BIRD H COVINGTON. Ref: 17479. Born: during 1801 at Halifax Co VA. Father: not known, Father Ref: 0. Mother: not known, Mother Ref: 0. 25/05/2010 from http://www.covingtonhistory.co.uk/LatestUpdates.htm
BIRD H COVINGTON. Ref: 17479. Born: during 1801 at Halifax Co VA. Father: not known, Father Ref: 0. Mother: not known, Mother Ref: 0 SARAH E. Ref: 17484. Born around 1847 at Edgar Co IL. Mother: Sarah, Ref: 17480 SMITH C. Ref: 17483. Born during 1844 at Edgar Co IL. Mother: Sarah, Ref: 17480 AMANDA. Ref: 17482. Born during 1841 at Edgar Co IL. Mother: Sarah, Ref: 17480 THURSAY A. Ref: 17481. Born during 1838 at Edgar Co IL. Mother: Sarah, Ref: 17480

[S565] Ancestry.com, US Public Records, (Compilation from Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings. ), Proof there is such a given name as "Bird" (Reliability: 3).

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[S531] Bureau of Land Management, BLM GLO records.
[S530] Works Project Administration. Graves Registration Project. Washington, D.C.: n.p., n.d , Iowa Cem, Grave Stone Records of Decatur County, Iowa. "Biod" H. Covington is given name spelling in this index (Reliability: 3).