Laurin Thomas Covington

Laurin Thomas Covington

• Father: Charles Frank Covington b. 5 April 1854, d. 21 April 1922
• Mother: Mary Jane Barrentine b. 2 October 1856, d. 27 June 1935

• Laurin Thomas Covington was born on 6 April 1877 in South Carolina.
• 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 Laurin Thomas Covington, James Ernest Covington and Robert Frank Covington. Also in the household was widowed grandmother Nancy Cook (age 75).
• 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 Laurin Thomas Covington, James Ernest 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.
• Robert Frank Covington and Laurin Thomas Covington appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Boardman, Columbus County, North Carolina, enumerated as two of five partners in a drygoods sales business, not far from the household of Frank's future wife Sylvia Brewer and her parents.. Frank and Laurin also are enumerated with their parents in Bennettsville, South Carolina.
• He was a drygoods salesman, according to the 1900 census.
• He married Clare Stokes circa 1901.
• 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 Laurin Thomas Covington, Charlie Stokes Covington, Colin Weatherly Covington, George Moore Covington, Clare Stokes, Kirby Stokes Covington and Laurin Thomas Covington.
• He was employed as a commercial traveler (dry goods), according to the 1910 census.
• Laurin Thomas Covington died on 29 June 1915 at age 38 in Springfield, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, of intestinal tuberculosis. . His death was officially witnessed by Mary Jane Barrentine.
• Clare Stokes became a widow at his death.
• The following appeared on 8 July 1915 in the Southern Christian Advocate: Laurin T. Covington, a cotton buyer, of Springfield, S. C., died after a long illness, June 29th, 1915, in his thirty-eighth year.
       He was of the large family of that name of Marlboro County.
       He married a daughter of Dr. J. L. Stokes of the Upper South Carolina Conference. He was a man who made many friends, who sincerely mourn his end. He was from his youth a member of the Church.

• Last Edited: 6 Oct 2015