Covode Jacob
07 Aug 1810
08 Apr 1877
It is unknown where Jacob Cavode spent most of his life before appearing in Sharpsburg in 1860. There are Cavode families in Westmoreland County, around Fairfield Township, but he has not been positively linked with them yet. Jacob in 1860 was a gentleman, aged 50 with a wife, Minerva and a son Watson, age 4, and a 4 month old son named Herman. The 1870 census lists him as a retired merchant. Another son, Edward had been added to the family. Tax assessments for 1863 to 1866 show him to be considered well off.
He died in Sharpsburg and was interred on April 10, 1877.
(USGenWeb Archives, contributed by Diane Nichols)
(Information made available for submission to F.A.G. by Michael Foster)
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Jacob Covode, Brother of the late John Covode, died at his residence at Sharpsburg on the 8th.
He was president of the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank at that place.
He had been a resident of the place for about twenty Years. For several months past he had been confined to his house from a severe illness brought on by a bad cold.
(From The Indiana Democrat, Indiana, Pa. issue of Thursday, 04-12-1887. p.3. col 1.)
(Obituary information courtesy of Michael S. Caldwell)
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The name Covode is unique to one family and its origin (possibly Dutch) is quite obscure. I am all but certain that this particular Jacob Covode was born in Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, the son of Jacob and Ann (Updergraff) Covode. He was thus the brother of Hon. John Covode, congressman from Pennsylvania, who is buried with other family members in the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery in Fairfield.
Jacob and John Covode's grandfather was Garrett, the first Covode to arrive in America as an indentured servant, who is believed to have worked a part of his indenture for George Washington on the Plantation of Mount Vernon.
(Obituary information courtesy of Lewis Clark)
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07 Aug 1810
08 Apr 1877
It is unknown where Jacob Cavode spent most of his life before appearing in Sharpsburg in 1860. There are Cavode families in Westmoreland County, around Fairfield Township, but he has not been positively linked with them yet. Jacob in 1860 was a gentleman, aged 50 with a wife, Minerva and a son Watson, age 4, and a 4 month old son named Herman. The 1870 census lists him as a retired merchant. Another son, Edward had been added to the family. Tax assessments for 1863 to 1866 show him to be considered well off.
He died in Sharpsburg and was interred on April 10, 1877.
(USGenWeb Archives, contributed by Diane Nichols)
(Information made available for submission to F.A.G. by Michael Foster)
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Jacob Covode, Brother of the late John Covode, died at his residence at Sharpsburg on the 8th.
He was president of the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank at that place.
He had been a resident of the place for about twenty Years. For several months past he had been confined to his house from a severe illness brought on by a bad cold.
(From The Indiana Democrat, Indiana, Pa. issue of Thursday, 04-12-1887. p.3. col 1.)
(Obituary information courtesy of Michael S. Caldwell)
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The name Covode is unique to one family and its origin (possibly Dutch) is quite obscure. I am all but certain that this particular Jacob Covode was born in Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, the son of Jacob and Ann (Updergraff) Covode. He was thus the brother of Hon. John Covode, congressman from Pennsylvania, who is buried with other family members in the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery in Fairfield.
Jacob and John Covode's grandfather was Garrett, the first Covode to arrive in America as an indentured servant, who is believed to have worked a part of his indenture for George Washington on the Plantation of Mount Vernon.
(Obituary information courtesy of Lewis Clark)
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Covode Jacob
07 Aug 1810
08 Apr 1877
It is unknown where Jacob Cavode spent most of his life before appearing in Sharpsburg in 1860. There are Cavode families in Westmoreland County, around Fairfield Township, but he has not been positively linked with them yet. Jacob in 1860 was a gentleman, aged 50 with a wife, Minerva and a son Watson, age 4, and a 4 month old son named Herman. The 1870 census lists him as a retired merchant. Another son, Edward had been added to the family. Tax assessments for 1863 to 1866 show him to be considered well off.
He died in Sharpsburg and was interred on April 10, 1877.
(USGenWeb Archives, contributed by Diane Nichols)
(Information made available for submission to F.A.G. by Michael Foster)
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Jacob Covode, Brother of the late John Covode, died at his residence at Sharpsburg on the 8th.
He was president of the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank at that place.
He had been a resident of the place for about twenty Years. For several months past he had been confined to his house from a severe illness brought on by a bad cold.
(From The Indiana Democrat, Indiana, Pa. issue of Thursday, 04-12-1887. p.3. col 1.)
(Obituary information courtesy of Michael S. Caldwell)
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The name Covode is unique to one family and its origin (possibly Dutch) is quite obscure. I am all but certain that this particular Jacob Covode was born in Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, the son of Jacob and Ann (Updergraff) Covode. He was thus the brother of Hon. John Covode, congressman from Pennsylvania, who is buried with other family members in the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery in Fairfield.
Jacob and John Covode's grandfather was Garrett, the first Covode to arrive in America as an indentured servant, who is believed to have worked a part of his indenture for George Washington on the Plantation of Mount Vernon.
(Obituary information courtesy of Lewis Clark)
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07 Aug 1810
08 Apr 1877
It is unknown where Jacob Cavode spent most of his life before appearing in Sharpsburg in 1860. There are Cavode families in Westmoreland County, around Fairfield Township, but he has not been positively linked with them yet. Jacob in 1860 was a gentleman, aged 50 with a wife, Minerva and a son Watson, age 4, and a 4 month old son named Herman. The 1870 census lists him as a retired merchant. Another son, Edward had been added to the family. Tax assessments for 1863 to 1866 show him to be considered well off.
He died in Sharpsburg and was interred on April 10, 1877.
(USGenWeb Archives, contributed by Diane Nichols)
(Information made available for submission to F.A.G. by Michael Foster)
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Jacob Covode, Brother of the late John Covode, died at his residence at Sharpsburg on the 8th.
He was president of the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank at that place.
He had been a resident of the place for about twenty Years. For several months past he had been confined to his house from a severe illness brought on by a bad cold.
(From The Indiana Democrat, Indiana, Pa. issue of Thursday, 04-12-1887. p.3. col 1.)
(Obituary information courtesy of Michael S. Caldwell)
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The name Covode is unique to one family and its origin (possibly Dutch) is quite obscure. I am all but certain that this particular Jacob Covode was born in Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, the son of Jacob and Ann (Updergraff) Covode. He was thus the brother of Hon. John Covode, congressman from Pennsylvania, who is buried with other family members in the Methodist Episcopal Cemetery in Fairfield.
Jacob and John Covode's grandfather was Garrett, the first Covode to arrive in America as an indentured servant, who is believed to have worked a part of his indenture for George Washington on the Plantation of Mount Vernon.
(Obituary information courtesy of Lewis Clark)
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