Ancestry of
Eliza Covey

(c1803–1890)

Eliza Covey

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Covey 
  • Mother:
  • Eunice Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 10 Apr 1803 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Cayuga County, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Mar 1890 
  • Death Location:
  • Elkhart, Elkhart Co., Indiana 
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  • Notes: 

  • The parentage for Eliza is somewhat circumstantial based on her maiden name and where she lived and was married. There were three Covey brothers who settled in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Edward, William, and Jonathan.

    Edward was almost certainly not Eliza's father. He is mentioned in The Biographical Record of McLean County, Illinois (publ. 1899, p. 275). The Walter Covey Ancestry published in 1971 states that he had 10 children, all of which are named and do not include Eliza.

    William Covey does not appear to be Eliza's father. The 1820 Federal Census only gives him two daughters under the age of 10 which are all too young to be Eliza.

    Jonathan Covey is almost certainly Eliza's father. The 1810 Federal Census states that he has two daughters under the age of 10. Eliza would have been aged about 7 at the time.

    More evidence is needed to support her parentage.

• Marriages for Eliza Covey

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  • Spouse:
  • Sereign Cleveland
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Apr 1819
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cuyahoga County, Ohio

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  • Spouse:
  • Hiram Hilton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Jan 1840
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cass County, Michigan

• Sources for Eliza Covey

  • ¹ Elkhart Daily Review (Elkhart, Indiana), 21 MAR 1890, p. 3. Obituary for Eliza Hilton.
  • ² Federal Census, MI, Cass County, 1850, Porter, Image 9 of 31.
  • ³ Federal Census, MI, Cass County, 1860, Porter, p. 242, Image 45 of 47.
  • ⁴ Michigan, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1822-1940, Marriage record for Hiram Hilton and Eliza Cleavland.
  • ⁵ Michigan, U.S., Death Records, 1867-1952, Death certificate for Lydia A Rinehart, gives Eliza's 2nd married name as maiden name.
  • ⁶ Michigan, U.S., Death Records, 1867-1952, Death certificate for daughter Arilla Cleavland Harmon.
  • ⁷ Michigan, U.S., Death Records, 1897-1929, Death record for son Hiram Hilton.
  • ⁸ Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Marriage record for Serrign Cleavland and Eliza Covey.
  • ⁹ Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 673-674, gives Eliza's birth year as 1802.