Charles Frank Covington

Charles Frank Covington

• Father: Robert Covington

• Charles Frank Covington was born on 5 April 1854 in Marlboro County, South Carolina.
• He married Mary Jane Barrentine in 1875.
• Charles Frank Covington and Mary Jane Barrentine appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Hebron, Marlboro County, South Carolina. Other members of the household included James Ernest Covington, Laurin Thomas Covington and Robert Frank Covington. Also in the household was widowed grandmother Nancy Cook (age 75).
• He was a farmer, according to the 1880 census.
• Charles Frank Covington and Mary Jane Barrentine appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Bennettsville, Marlboro County, South Carolina. Other members of the household included James Ernest Covington, Laurin Thomas Covington, Robert Frank Covington, Susie Covington, William Jordan Covington, Mary Jean Covington, Charlie Stokes Covington, Colin Weatherly Covington and George Moore Covington. Sons Laurin and Frank also are enumerated in Boardman, North Carolina, as partners in a drygoods business.
• He was a butcher, according to the 1900 census.
• Charles Frank Covington and Mary Jane Barrentine appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Hebron Township, Marlboro County, South Carolina. Other members of the household included Charlie Stokes Covington, Colin Weatherly Covington, George Moore Covington, Laurin Thomas Covington, Clare Stokes, Kirby Stokes Covington and Laurin Thomas Covington.
• He was a butcher at the city market, according to the 1910 census.
• Charles Frank Covington and Mary Jane Barrentine appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Bennettsville, Marlboro County, South Carolina, at 204 Parsonage Street.
• He was proprietor of a butcher shop, according to the 1920 census.
• Charles Frank Covington died on 21 April 1922 at age 68 in Bennettsville, South Carolina, . His death was officially witnessed by James Ernest Covington.
• Mary Jane Barrentine became a widow at his death.
• He was interred at Hebron Cemetery, Clio, Marlboro County, South Carolina.
• The following appeared on 13 July 1922 in the Southern Christian Advocate: Brother Charles Frank Covington was born April 5th, 1854 and died in Bennettsville a few days after his sixty-eighth birthday, April 21, 1922. He had known for some time that his health was not perfect but it was only a few days before the end that he was forced to give up his business, to which he had for so many years been so faithful.
       At the age of nineteen he united with the church. Even in the brief period of my ministry here before his departure I became accustomed to seeing him in his seat in the congregation. Others who have been here before me know of his fidelity to his church.
       In 1875 he was married to Miss Mary Jane Barentine. To them were given seven sons and three daughters. One son and one daughter have gone on before. The widow and her six sons and two daughters have a large circle of friends and relatives who sympathize deeply with them in their great loss.
       May the God of all grace sustain every one of them.
       -- Walter I. Herbert.
• The following appeared on 2 January 1936 in the Southern Christian Advocate: Late in the evening of June 26th, 1935, the spirit of Sister Covington slipped off to be with those she had loved and from whom she had been separated for a while, and to be forever with the One she loved and served for years here in this vale of tears. This was for her a "great release" for, for months she had been a helpless invalid at the home of her son, Charles S. Covington, here in Bamberg. Her bedside was a Bethel and to wait there for a few minutes was a benediction and a blessing--the home here and all those who saw her during her illness are better men and women because of this contact. [:CR;]      Mrs. Covington was formerly Mary Jane Barrentine, daughter of Sue Cook and James T. Barrentine, granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Coolk and Loretta Sparks Pearce of Marlboro. She was married [sic] October 2, 1856, to Charles Frank Covington. To this union there were born the following children: Fannie, Laurin and William preceded her into eternity, Frank of Evergreen, N. C., Mrs. W. S. Brewer (Jean) of Bolton, N. C., Colin of Minneapolis, Minn., Cahs. S. of Bamberg, George M. of Norway, S. C., (Susie) Mrs. Watson and Ernest of Bennettsville, S. C. [:CR;]      Funeral services were conducted at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Susie Watson in Bennettsville by the writer. Her tired worn body was laid to rest in the churchyard at Old Hebron there to await the coming of her Lord and ours. We shall miss her but each child knows where to find her--even unto the last she was passionately interested in her children. She was an "old time mother." [:CR;]      -- Julius E. Clark.

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