Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice Frost Settlement Cemetery, Covington Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania Obituaries Bradford County PA Chemung County NY Tioga County PA

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Joyce's Search Tip - January 2008  Do You Know that you can search just the Obituaries on the site by using the three County Specific Obituary selections in the Partitioned search engine at the bottom of the Current What's New Page? You can narrow your search by including a key word in the cemetery name or a township name in addition to the surname you search. Then select the Find All Words option. You'll also find obituary and other newspaper clippings using Clippings partition. Additional clippings can be found in the Birth, Marriage, and some other partitions.

Reading a series of obituaries from a single cemetery, as they are presented here, is like reading the multi-generational history of a community. These people were the local populace at a particular time. The people buried here knew each other, were neighbors, relatives and school mates. They attended church together and engaged in "trade" or business.  All people are listed in alphabetic order by surname at BIRTH. Women identified by a married alias only and  for whom a birth surname can not be identified, are listed on the last page for the cemetery's obituaries.

SRGP ID Added in parentheses by Joyce M .Tice if included in her Sullivan-Rutland Genealogy Project. If you are researching or descended from any of those so designated, it is requested that you share your research with Joycs's SRGP if you have not already done so. That is the price I ask for making this site available. It is your opportunity to share in the cost of creating this site and reward Joyce just a tad for making this enormous body of resource available to you. It is a way to pay your dues in a small way for use of this site. Please reference the SRGP ID and the page you found this on the site, when you write to me. For women listed under a married alias, I have provided her real name, if I know it.

BUTLER - Mrs. Isabelle Walker [SRGP 13560]
In Covington township, December 23, 1876, Isabelle, relict of the late Lewis Walker, in the 72nd year of her age.  (Tuesday, January 2, 1877, The Wellsboro Agitator, Wellsboro, Tioga Co, Pa.)

CLEVELAND Otis---- (unreadable copy)------ Canoe Camp --- Man---Accident. Canoe Camp, Pa. (Feb. 21) -- A very sad accident occurred about a mile west of this place on Friday afternoon, resulting in the instant death of Cleveland, youngest son of Mrs. Amasa Cleveland. Seven men were working in the woods belonging to A. M. Spencer, felling trees and sawing them up into logs. Otis and Mr. Gardner were engaged in sawing logs and near by two other men were cutting down a tree. When the tree commenced to fall the choppers yelled to Otis and his companion, who ran to one side, but the falling tree changed it's direction and before he could escape Otis was struck on the head by the limb, which crushed his skull and caused immediate death. A large number of relatives and friends attended the funeral on Sunday at the home of the mother of the deceased near where the accident occurred. The remains were interred at Frost Settlement. Otis Cleveland was an upright, honest, industrious young man, highly esteemed by all his acquaintances. He was only sixteen years of age and attended the village school of this place up to the time of his death.

DEWEY - WALLACE DEWEY, aged 73 years, dies at his home in Sullivan Township, of heart disease, last Friday (Feb. 28, 1925). He was a son of the late Edwin Dewey and was one of a family of seven children. His entire life had been spent on the farm where he died. About 35 years ago he married Miss Emma Baity, of Frost Settlement, who survives him. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. Charles Shaw, of Pine City. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at the Baptist church on the State road; burial in the Frost Settlement cemetery. ---- Wellsboro Gazette, 5 Mar. 1925, p.8

HILL - JOHN A. HILL – Sorry, newspaper not known & no date attached to clipping.
WELLSBORO, Pa. – John A. Hill Sr., 81 of Crooked Creek, died Wednesday in soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital. He was born Oct. 24, 1887 in Tioga County, the son of Nathan and Ida Rogers Hill. He was a retired farmer and a member of the Tioga Baptist Church. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Grace Rogers Hill, at home; three daughters, Mrs. Jack Thornton of Elmira, N.Y., Mrs. Wallace (Ruby) Spencer of Westfield, and Mrs. Kenneth (Lois) Wagner of Wellsboro; three sons, James, John Jr. and Hildreth, all of Crooked Creek; a brother, Frank J. Cole of Endicott, N.Y.; a sister, Mrs. Jennie bockus, Big Flats; 15 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the Tussey Funeral Home today 7-9 p.m. Funeral services will be Friday at 2 p.m. at the funeral home, with the Rev. Melvin Negley officiating. Burial will be in Frost Settlement Cemetery, Covington. Submitted by Wilma JOHNS Sakowsky

LYNN D. WATKINS (SRGP 79380)
 Lynn D. Watkins, age 44, of RD 1, Covington, died Friday, July 20, 1973.  Funeral services were held Sunday at 1:30 pm at the Kuhl Funeral Home, Mansfield with the Rev. Kermit Clickner officiating.  Interment, Frost Settlement Cemetery. He is survived by parents, Dennis and Hazel Watkins of Palamento, Florida and Covington; sister Mrs. Bettie Stevenson of RD 1, Mansfield; brother Ralph O. Watkins of RD 1, Covington. Mr. Watkins was an employee at the Corning Plant of the Corning Glass Works.  He was born April 27, 1929.

ORLANDO W. WATKINS (SRGP 03492)
 Orlando W. Watkins, aged 68 years, died Wednesday evening at his home at Covington.  He is survived by his widow, Emma, and the following children: Edson F., of Covington; Lyle O., of Nichols; Mrs. Vera Gillette, of Elmira; Dennis E., at home.  The funeral was held Saturday.  Rev. H.L. Maltman, pastor of Christ church, officiating; interment in the Frost Settlement cemetery.  (The Agitator: Wellsboro, PA, Wednesday, November 21, 1928)

ARTHUR L. WILCOX
COVINGTON--Arthur L. Wilcox, 24, of Columbia, Tenn., a former local resident, died Sunday, Sept. 14, 1986, in Maury County Hospital, Columbia, where he was admitted following a one-car crash earlier yesterday in Maury County, Tennessee. Born in Yuma, Ariz., Feb. 6, 1962, he was a son of Alfred W. and Maxine Peffer Wilcox. He was a member of Covington Church of Christ. Mr. Wilcox was a graduate of North Penn High School, Blossburg, and the Pennsylvania State University.  At the time of his death, he was a graduate student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He received numerous awards for scholastic and athletic achievements while in high school, where he also was awarded the Presidential Physical Fitness Award five consecutive years. Mr. Wilcox was a member of the Penn State Alumni Assn. and the Pennsylvania Mechanical Engineers Assn. In 1984, he was named to the Tau Beta Pi Society, a national engineering honor society. Mr. Wilcox had worked for General Electric Corp. in Cleveland, Ohio, Plainfield, Conn., Columbia, Tenn., and San Hermana, Puerto Rico. Mr. Wilcox was engaged to be married to Miss Carla Pigg, of Columbia, Tenn. Surviving, besides his parents, of Covington, are two brothers, George, of Bloomsburg, and Samie, at home; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Dolly Peffer, of Wellsboro, and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mabel Wilcox, also of Covington. The funeral will be at 3:30 pm Thursday at Scureman's, 130 South Main Street, Mansfield.  Burial will be in Frost Settlement Cemetery, Covington Twp., Tioga County. The Rev. Ira Hindman, his pastor, will officiate. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm Wednesday

Mrs. Mary WILKINS Baity, (SRGP 03490) 75, OF Covington RD, Thursday, Mar. 11, 1948. Survived by sons, Jessie and Edson of Covington; daughters, Mrs. Anna Smith of Mainesburg; Mrs. Mildred York of Covington; brother, George Wilkins of Mansfield, 12 grandchildren, one great grandchild, several nieces and nephews. Body is at the Shaw Funeral Home, Mansfield, and Saturday afternoon will be removed to family home, where funeral will be held Sunday, 2 p. m. Rev. David Griffiths. Frost Settlement Cemetery.
 
 

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