Individual Details

Clinton MO - Priscilla Covey, daughter of Joshua and Lydia Covey, was born in Tennessee December 6, 1825, and with her parents moved to Missouri in a wagon drawn by horses, in the year 1831, at the age of six years, long before there were any railroads in the state, thus starting with the state when it was new - ten years of age. She spent all of 91 years of her life in Missouri, except two years in Texas. She united with the Methodist Episcopal church when a girl of 18. She was united in marriage to Wm. Hunt in 1848. There were born to them eleven children - six boys and five girls - four of whom are still living: John Hunt, Davenport, Washington; William Robert Hunt, Ashland, Idaho; E. D. Hunt, Montrose, Mo.; Elizabeth Catherine Raybourn, Tetonia, Idaho, and one step-son, W. H. Hunt, of Montrose, Mo. She also leaves 14 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; 8 great-great-grandchildren, and one brother, Levi Covey, of Kansas City, Mo., who is now 86 years of age, who has watched the growth of Kansas City from its rise from almost nothing to its present greatness. She was left a widow April 2, 1874. The care of the family fell upon her, and subject to hardship and privations of the early pioneers, she managed to bring them up, a family to be proud of, for she endured as seeing Him who was invisible. Perhaps her fondest hopes were more than realized for out of that home came two of the greatest Methodist preachers the St. Louis conference has ever produced - Enoch Johnson Hunt, by his great sermons and fine judgment soar to a very high standing in the councils of the church, and by his gentlemanly manners and sweet singing he finds himself a favorite of many, both old and young. George Jacob Hunt was a man of God Indeed, and possessed one of the greatest minds found in Missouri Methodism. Robert Arthur Hunt, son of E. J. Hunt, is a bright and rising young preacher, now pastor of the first Methodist Episcopal Church, of Dallas, Texas. Grandma Hunt fell asleep in Jesus February 27, 1923, being 97 years, 2 months and 21 days old. Funeral services were held in the White Oak M. E. church, March 2nd, at 2 p.m., after which the body was tenderly laid in the White Oak grave yard to sleep until the call of the resurrection, and the spirit went home to be with Jesus. - G. F. Beard, pastor

Buried White Oak Cemetery, Lucas, Henry Co, MO

Birth	6 Dec 1825	Tennessee
Death	27 Feb 1923	Henry County, Missouri

Father	Joshua Covey (1795 - 1873)
Mother	Lydia ADAMSON (1797 - 1855)
Sibling	Elizabeth Covey (1816 - 1900)
Sibling	Martha Covey (1818 - 1895)
Sibling	Enoch Moore Covey (1819 - 1896)
Sibling	Hester Covey (1821 - 1880)
Sibling	Samuel Edward Covey (1823 - 1868)
Sibling	Nancy Covey (1827 - 1899)
Sibling	Susannah Covey (1830 - 1865)
Sibling	William B. Covey (1832 - 1857)
Sibling	Jacob C. Covey (1835 - 1900)
Sibling	Levi Covey (1837 - 1925)
Sibling	Lucian Covey (1839 - 1841)
Sibling	John Isaac Covey (1842 - 1922)