James Counover
(1789-1868)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Sarah Jennings

James Counover 1

  • Born: 6 Nov 1789, , Hunterdon County, NJ 1 2 3
  • Marriage (1): Sarah Jennings
  • Died: 24 Feb 1868, Monroe Twp., Carroll County, OH at age 78 1 3
  • Buried: Sherrodsville: Zion Cemetery, Carroll, OH 1

   Other names for James were James Connover 3 and James Conover.2

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1850 in Monroe Twp., Carroll County, OH. 2 The 1850 census recorded James Conover, 60, living alone with wife Sarah, 55. They were born in New Jersey.

Next door is their son, R. Conover, farmer, 24, living with wife E. and daughter E. J., 2.

Also next door is their daughter, Elizabeth, 27, living with her husband Jacob Justus, 30.

Next door is also Jacob's father, B. Roby, 46, and his wife and family. [His full name not recorded is Benoni Roby]. His son, David, married the Conover's granddaughter, Sarah Elizabeth Justus.


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James married Sarah Jennings. (Sarah Jennings was born on 29 Aug 1794 in , , NJ 4 5 6 and died on 13 Jan 1877 in Monroe Twp., Carroll County, OH 5 6.)

Sources

1 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=86683067.

2 1850 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MXSB-W23 Sarah Conover in household of James Conover, Monroe, Carroll, Ohio, United States; citing dwelling 423, family 424, NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 664.

3 FamilySearch.org, Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F6CB-344 James Connover, 24 Feb 1868.

4 1870 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M6VN-H9J Jacob Justus in household of Jacob Justus, Ohio, United States; citing p. 18, family 136, NARA microfilm publication M593, FHL microfilm 552677.

5 FamilySearch.org, Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F6CB-46F Sarah Conover, 13 Jan 1877.

6 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=86683241.


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