Covert Family - The Heritage Cemetery of Saint Peter - Cobourg, ON
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N 43° 58.402 W 078° 10.928
17T E 726024 N 4872775
This broken column sits on hop of a large concrete base with four marble markers on each side of the upper section, and four smaller marble memorials along each side of the base.
Waymark Code: WMRTPP
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 08/03/2016
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The Memorial is dedicated to the Covert Family. John Covert (1768-1843) was born in Sussex, England and moved directly to Upper Canada in 1820, settling in Hamilton Township next to the bustling village of Cobourg. Covert senior gained notoriety as a magistrate and businessman, becoming by the early 1830s, the Colonel of the First Regiment of the Northumberland Militia. Volume 7 of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1938, states that ‘His conservative politics, especially his efforts to embarrass reform-minded men in the regiment, led to a court martial and his subsequent dismissal from command.’ John Covert then settled in New Lodge Farm east of Cobourg in a grand, regency style cottage. This property remains intact to this day, although it was sold out of the Covert-Massie family in 1998 to the Jehovah’s Witness Eastern Conference.
Headstone/Monument Text:
Sacred to the memory of John Covert of Sussex England Departed this life Sept 6th AD 1843 aged 76 years.
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