Person:David Covington (4)

"A Brief History of My Life" sketch by David Anderson Covington, taken from a Covington Bible: "At 15 years of age, I left my father's, then living at Rockingham, in Richmond county, N.C., and went to Cheraw, S.C., and engaged myself as a clerk in a store for Alex Muirhead, where I remained during the winter 1825 and until the spring of 1826, having conducted myself very much to the satisfaction of my employer. I returned to my father's and went to school to R. J. Hall the most of the balance of the year 1826. I then stayed on my father's plantation and worked on the farm until May 1828, when I left and went into a little store in the upper end of Richmond County, on Little River, with Robert Powell, Esq. In 1831, left Richmond and came to Anson County and put up a store at Chambers. The store business throve between two and three years by myself--then went into partnership with Mr. James Gathings and Joseph white, at what is now called "White's Store", which firm existed about 2 years. Mr. Gathings and myself bought out Mr. White and continued the business under the firm of Gathings and Covington. After that, in 1837, I married my partner's daughter, Susan Gathings. We then went to Cheraw, S.C., and I was a cotton merchant there from the fall of 1837 till the spring of 1839. I then moved back to N.C., and settled on Lane's Creek, and from Lane's Creek to Monroe.

"When I lived on Brown Creek before I was married, I was elected major of the upper Regiment of Tryon militia in Cheraw. I was one of the town Council of the Commissioners in Union. I held the office of chairman of Union county Courts for 10 years in succession."

Signed: D. A. Covington (If I had room I would write a good deal more.)

1. ↑ Covington, David Anderson, Brief History of My Life Autobiography received from Desiree McDonough.
2. ↑ Research of John Wier JohnW AT WierAssociates DOT com.
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S., Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index, 1850-1880. (Provo, Utah, USA [database on-line]: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1999).
4. ↑ Biographical and historical memoirs of Mississippi: embracing an authentic and comprehensive account of the chief events in the history of the state, and a record of the lives of many of the most worthy and illustrious families and individuals. (Chicago [Illinois]: Goodspeed Pub. Co., 1891)
   pg 781.
5.   Research of Desiree McDonough scarletts3 AT sbcglobal dot net.
6.   United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432)
   Monroe, Union Co., NC.
7.   United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
   Union Co., NC.
8.   Burch, W. Bernette. Burch Family and Hollendsworth, Thomas, Meadow, Jackson No.1, Jackson No.2, Blakeney, Timmons etc.