Individual Details
Levi Covenhoven
(10 Oct 1757 - 18 Jan 1837)
Levi was the fourth of five sons born to Dominicus Covenhoven and Mary Updike. He served in the 3rd Regiment, Middlesex Co., NJ Militia and Capt. Robert Nixon's Light Horse Troop during the American Revolution. He was engaged in the battles of Trenton and Princeton, as well as many other skirmishes. His father and his three older brothers, John, William, and Garrett also served.
He and his brother Garrett moved from NJ to the countryside near Lexington, KY c. 1790. They then relocated to Adair County, then a part of Green, c. 1795. They were the first Conovers in Adair County.
He was first married to Catherine Dey and had nine children: Martin Dominicus, Mary Ann, Hannah, Nancy, Dominicus "Minn", David, Eliza, Katherine, and Sarah. He was second married to Jane Gilbreath and had five children: Peter, James, Matilda, Levi, and Andrew Jackson.
Buried Levi Conover Cemetery, Columbia, Adair, KY
Events
Birth | 10 Oct 1757 | Middlesex County, New Jersey | |||
Marriage | Ca 1776 | New Jersey - Catherine Dye | |||
Marriage | 5 Aug 1801 | Green County, Kentucky - Jeanne Gilbrath | |||
Death | 18 Jan 1837 | Adair County, Kentucky | |||
Alt name | Levi Connover |
Families
Spouse | Catherine Dye ( - 1801) |
Child | Hanna Connover (1782 - 1821) |
Spouse | Jeanne Gilbrath ( - ) |
Father | Dominicus Covenhoven (1724 - 1778) |
Mother | Mary Updike (1732 - 1835) |