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Eaton County Michigan EATON COUNTY
MEMORIAL REPORT
The church was crowded with
the friends of the deceased and family. The
Rev. Mr. Northrup delivered a biography of
Mr. Covert, which we publish below. The
services were very impressive. With the death
of J. B. Covert, Flint loses one of its most
enterprising and public-spirited citizens,
and one- who will long be missed from our
beautiful city.
Jacob B. Covert was born in Ovid, N. Y., on
the 26th of March, 1807. His father, Tunis
Covert, whose ancestors emigrated from
Holland, was a citizen of New Jersey, and a
firm believer in the doctrines of the Dutch
Reformed Church, in whose faith he reared his
family. Being a poor man, dependent upon his
labor for the support of his family, he
sought a home in western New York, then a
vast wilderness, covered with primeval
forest.
Here his children were born and reared, and
received those impressions which led them to
become pillars in the church, good and useful
members of society. At the age of twenty-two
young Covert was united in marriage with Miss
Catherine Stanett, who bore him several
children, only two of whom survive him, and
are with us to-day. In the spring of 1835 he
emigrated to Michigan, being but twenty-eight
years of age, and commenced his pioneer life.
His beloved wife, after enduring with him the
hardships incident to new
settlements, was called home to heaven. She
was a godly woman, and a great help to her
husband. On the 15th of May, 1854, he was
married to Mrs. Elizabeth A. W. Yerkes, with
whom he has spent almost twenty: nine years
in happy wedlock—and who has cared for him in
his many afflictions. from the loss of his
arm, and numerous bodily infirmities, and who
now mourns his departure.
Michigan 1883
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