Person:Maria Hollis (1)

Lyman Goodrich Covell was married May 13, 1840 in Monroe- Huron County, Ohio to Maria Elizabeth Hollis October 10, 1840. Mr Covell came to Steuben County Indiana and located on Section l Pleasant Township where he lived for 18 years, during this time he was elected Township Trustee of Pleasant Township, in the fall of 1858 he traded the farm in Pleasant Twp. for 80 acres in Sec. 15 of Scott Twp, Steuben County Ind. Here he was Justice of the peace several terms and performed many marriage ceremonies, held lawsuits etc. My father William Sylvester Covell was born in Pleasant Township, Steuben Co. Indiana, May 16 1850. William S. Covell and his wife Maria Elizabeth Crawford both attended the seminary in Angola, Later it became Tri-State College. They were both school teachers in Scott Township, Steuben Co. Indiana. My father taught six or seven terms and my mother three or four terms before her marriage. William S. Covell never lived in Angola,Ind, only while going to school there. He was elected to the office of Township Trustee two terms or eight years, then was also Justice of the Peace and also married many couples here in this house. My Aunt Elizabeth Jeanette Covell Otis told me that my grandfather Lyman G. walked to Fort Wayne a distance of 50 miles to get his land title and had no money, so stopped at the cabin of a settler on his way home. It was dark then and he asked for shelter. The settler let him sleep on the cabin floor and the next morning the lady made him some corn meal cakes and he came on home. Elizabeth Otis also said that once while Lyman was away two Indians came to the cabin and she was alone with two small children, The Indians let her know they were hungry, so she cut them off nearly a half of a ham gave it to them and went away. Their tepees were on the same 80 acres Lyman owned. in a few days those same Indians came back and gave Lyman and Maria a quarter of a deer they had killed and dressed. The government moved the Indians westward the next year. The above Family History was written by Guy C. Covell.

Died in family farm house.