Mary Jane Barrentine

Mary Jane Barrentine

• Mary Jane Barrentine was born on 2 October 1856 in Marlboro County, South Carolina.
• She was known as Janie.
• She married Charles Frank Covington, son of Robert Covington, 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).
• She was Seamstress, 1900 census in June 1900.
• 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.
• 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.
• She officially witnessed the death of Laurin Thomas Covington on 29 June 1915 in Springfield, Orangeburg County, South Carolina; of intestinal tuberculosis.
• 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.
• Mary Jane Barrentine became a widow at the 21 April 1922 death of her husband Charles Frank Covington.
• 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.
• Mary Jane Barrentine died on 27 June 1935 at age 78 in South Carolina.
• She was interred at Hebron Cemetery, Clio, Marlboro County, South Carolina.
• 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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