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          Note : Today is the birthday of Forrest Lee Covin. He was born on January 10,1917 in Longview, Texas. He died on January 17, 1970 in Hurst, TX.
                In between he had a hard but significant life. He is my father, thefather of my sister, Joyce Runyan and my brother, Keith Covin. He isthe Grandfather of my three children, Sarah Kathryn Covin, John DavidCovin and Forrest Keith Covin and their cousin, David Runyan, Joyce andDick Runyan's son. They never knew my father and their Grandfather.
                He would have loved them all. He would have enjoyed each of them asindividuals and given each of them unique but equal amounts of love. Hespent his life trying to attain his father's approval, and the approvalof his wife, my mother, Lerabeth Rice Covin.
                My view of my father continues to emerge as I get older and recognizemore and more of him in me. I did not feel close to him in life, but Ifeel closer to him each day in the Spirit world. I know him today as astrong man on the outside, naive to his own strength of character andwithout the confidence that God made him to be was sufficient to relaxand enjoy life. His heart was large and he was a giving man. Heassisted many young men and women to find ways to go to college. He wasa teacher and a coach at heart and for a while as his profession.
                Athletics was his life as a young man and later in throughout his adultlife. He distinguished himself at Mineola High School in his athleticpusuits. Several years after his death, he was elected to the MineolaHS Athletic Hall of Fame. Joyce has possession of the plaquecommenorating his induction.
                He played football in college. He finished school at North TexasTeachers State College in Denton Texas. Today the school is known asthe University of North Texas. He has both Bachelor of Science andMaster of Science degrees for there. Before attending North Texas, heenrolled at Baylor and played freshman football and then enrolled atTexas Tech to play football. Since he had not maintained passing gradesat Baylor, he had to enroll at Texas Tech under an assumed name. Thiswas a common practice in those days. The next year he enrolled at NorthTexas and played football for three years and earned All Lone StarConference honors as a Junior and as a Senior. His Senior year, he wasnamed Little All-American for his distinguished play.
                His brother, Larry Covin, attended Stephen F. Austin College inNacogdoches and they played against each other on multiple occasions.Their Senior year the game between Stephen F. Austin and North Texas wasplayed in Nacogdoches. Their mother, my grandmother, Jessie Lee Covin,attended that game. During half time the game announcer told the crowdthat there was a woman in the stands that was in love with a player onboth teams and was divided in her allegance. While the band played'Let me Call You Sweetheart", she was escorted from the Stephen F.Austin rooting section to the rooting section for North Texas.
                It is not clear which team won the game.
                Forrest received offers to play professional football from the DetroitLions and the Cleveland Browns. He chose to enter the Navy instead. Hewas trained as a pilot, but never flew in combat. While in the Navy, hemarried my Mother on December 24, 1942 in Ferris, Texas at the FirstPresbyterian Church.
                During their time in the Navy, Forrest and Lerabeth lived in Dallas, SanFrancisco, Ottuma, Iowa and Olalthe, Kansas. Their first child was bornin Dallas on December 27th, 1943 before they moved to SF. They lived inSouth San Francisco and he flew in and out of Alameda Naval Air Stationnear Oakland, CA.
                While stationed at the Naval Air Station Olathe, Kansas, their secondchild, John Forrest Covin, was born. Upon leaving the Navy, they livedin their first home in Ferris, Texas. Forrest was a teacher and headfootball coach at Wilmer-Hutchins High School. During this time,Forrest earned extra money and kept his flying skills up to date as a'crop duster.' He would come home smelling like the insectacide hisplane sprayed on the crops around Ferris.
                After a couple of years at Wilmer-Hutchins. Forrest and family moved to'the Valley' of Texas. He coached at Edcouch-Elsa High School.Lerabeth taught Home Economics in the High School. I have vaguememories of my life in those days.
                His next coaching assignment was near Longview, Texas, the town of hisbirth. He coached football and other sports at Judson Grove High Schooland Lerabeth taught Home Economics in the high school. I remember beingin the locker room with him and his team and noticing the strong smellsof young men (they were large men to me and my heroes) competing forglory. Later, I played for the same school and used the same dressingrooms that he used as a coach. I do not ever remember thinking aboutthe fun of being a player in the same dressing rooms that he coached in.I guess that is a specialness that is recognized and appreciated as onegets older and is fond of memories of his Dad from long ago.
                While living in Judson, Keith was born. Most of my memories of my youthare from this time until we moved to Hurst in 1962. Those were veryhard years for my father. He left coaching to sell insurance and wassuccessful as a salesman, winnig trips for he and my mother to Floridaand Mexico. Many of the furnishings for our home were sales awards as aresult of his success.
                He returned to teach in the late fifties and taught math and coachedgolf at Foster Junior High School in Longview. We attended the FirstPresbyterian Church in Longview after several years at the Pine TreeCumberland Presbyterian Church.
                Forrest was my little league baseball coach, and was a coach for the ALLStars that made it to the Regional playoffs where they lost to theMonterrey Mexico team that went on to the Little League finals.
                He and my mother did not have a happy marriage in those days. He was afirm disciplanarian and spanking was the only tool he had. It is theonly tool he had experienced. He was unusually hard on my sister whileshe was in high school. He was so very much more strict on her than herfriend's parents were. He knew no other way I suppose, but I willalways admire her for what she endured in those years.
                In 1962, we moved to Hurst, where both he and my mother lived untiltheir respective deaths. He taught math at North Side High School,coached golf and was a baseball umpire and football referee. He hadbeen a football referee during our years in Longview, and I remembergoing to games with him and being in the locker rooms of the teams andsmelling the aromas that I would experience later as a high schoolplayer myself. The sights and smells were the strongest sense that madean impression. The sights of the players in their uniforms set theimages that I would later attempt to emmulate in Jr. High and HighSchool.
                In Hurst, Joyce was gone to college and I had two years of high schoolbefore going to college. Keith was the light of Daddy's life duringthose years. Keith allowed Daddy to moderate just by his personality,tenderness, gentleness and his peace-maker nature. He would moderatedifficulties between Daddy and Mother.
                I saw my father cry on two occasions that I recall vividly. The firstwas when my Grandfather Rice, my mother's father, died in November,1965. The other time was after I got my Navigator Wings as a NavalAviator. He and my mother were at Keith's HS graduation sitting in thefootball stadium waiting for the exercises. I walked up the stairs towhere they were sitting in my Naval Officer's uniform, with my new wingson. When I looked at him, he was crying. I knew at that moment that hewas proud of me. I knew that he never got the approval of his father,but I had his. That was May 1969. He would die the next January.
                But his memory continues in my life. I have learned a lot from him. Hecontinues to guide me and coach me and inspire me and comfort meperiodically. I think of him mostly when I find myself enjoying my ownchildren and when I am around his other grandchild, David Runyan. Davidhas the physique and build of my father even more than I do and morethan either of my sons.
                He would love to banter with SK and they would watch Star Trek andBabylon 5 together. He was an avid reader of comic books when I wasyoung. I could never enjoy them and cannot identify with the nature ofSK's shows. But Forrest Lee Covin would bond deeply and often with hisonly granddaughter.
                He would play checkers and chess with John David, and watch footballincessantly with him. He would learn from John David about theoutdoors, and enjoy JD's dog, Duke. They would cut wood together and hewould let JD drive his jeep or whatever vehicle he would have if he werealive. JD would spend a lot of time with his granddad and they would beconstant companions in my opinion.
                Daddy would not miss a hockey game. He would be amazed at the speed ofhis grandson. He would delight along with his own son as they watchedhis name-sake check players and hardly ever be knocked down himself. Hewould love hockey. They would talk about the similarities of hockey,basketball and football at length and he would be reminded of his ownplaying and coaching days.
                He would be amazed at what computers do. He would simply not be able tostand not learning more and more about them. He would spend hourswatching in amazement as his grandsons played computer games.
                He woud delight in watching David referee football. He would see inDavid the life of his only daughter. He would, through David, loveJoyce. He would spend a lot of time in Joyce's home; talking to Dick;enjoying the style of his only daughter; the way she dresses; the wayshe decorates her home; the way she manages her life, which is exactlylike his own mother. He would love her attention to the smallestdetail, and enjoy eating her treats and surprises and experiencing newthings in life.
                He would spend time in the home of my two sons and their mother. Hemore than anyone else in the entire world would understand why.
                He would spend time with Keith and Regina and kid Regina about relaxing.He would understand Regina. He would love Keith even more for lovingRegina as he does. He would play poker with Keith and Johnny at thecasino. He would win more than either of us would.
                All of these things that I think we would do . . . he does. I wish thatmy children and David could have known my father. Since he is enjoyingthem and us in his current Spirit, I wish that we could enjoy himenjoying them and enjoying us.
                Happy Birthday, Daddy.
                10-January-2001
                Today marks your 85th birthday.
                John Forrest Covin
                Sent as an email to: Joyce, Keith, Sarah Kathryn, John David, Forrestand David on 10-January-2001
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          Note : William Jefferson Clinton, incumbent President of the United States,gave the commencement address. Commencement was attended by Donna S.Covin, John F. Covin, John David Covin, Forrest K. Covin and his friendAmanda Nini.

 

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          Note : Tombstone Reads: J W Covin
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                Texas CAV C S A
                December 27, 1908

 

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          Note : 20 SEP 1860 in Harrison Co., Texas
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          Note : According to Alvin D. Covin, Sr. in his booklet, 'The Covin Family inAmerica':
                Page 5: ... came to America with Lafayette as a sailor (officer) aboardLafayette's ship The Victoire, which arrived in eorgetown, SouthCarolina, on June 13, 1777. Aboard were 10 officers and Baron DeKalb, aGerman. Lafayette sent his ship to Charleston t opick up a cargo ofindigo for the return trip to Bordeaux, France. The ship wrecked in astorm leaving Charleston harbor and while half of the officers weredrowned, Lazare Covain was saved and made his way to New Bordeaux, SouthCarolina where he enlisted in the French Militia. He fought in theRevolutionary war until he was woundedat the Battle of Cowpens, January7, 1781. Shortly after this he was discharged and went back to NewBordeaux.
                Prior to his death, Lazare Couvain changed his name several timesbecause the record keepers' spelling reflected the common manner ofpronouncing it. Records exist for Couvain, then Couven, then Couvinand finally Covin. Some of these spellings still exist today.

 

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          Note : He left Hogansville, Georgia in April 1853 and traveled overland, hispossessions, family and slaves using six Conestoga wagns to make thetrip. His wife, a large woman, contracted pneumonia after her wagon wasdoused in the Red River at Shreveport when a ferryboat sank. She diedand is buried at Greenwood Louisiana, six mile from the Texas border.
                He reached Harrison County, Texas in September 1853, and settled at asmall community calaled Smyrna. His days as a widower short-lived, forwe find thathe became a father again in 1854, the child being namedLeah, who died while an infant.
                Another child was born the next year and her name was Josephine.

 

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          Note : Derived from Alvin D. Covin's booklet 'The Covin Family in America."

 

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          Note : Derived from Alvin D. Covin, Sr.'s booklet "The Covin Family inAmerica."

 

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          Note : According to Alvin D. Covin, Sr.'s booklet 'The Covin Family in Americ'page 7:
                William, the oldest boy, became involved in an election fight at Oney'sMill in the fall of 1854, and killed a man named Richard Starr, whoseson, Aaron Starr, was a condidate for Constable. Aaron Starr wasstabbed by William Covin's friend and pal, Heny Harrison Wall, and livedfor 24 days before he died.
                Richard Starr was the first man killed in the Smyrna community.
                William ran away to the Indian Territory. When the CIvil War broke out,he slipped back to his father's long enough to tell him to go to JohnsonCounty, Texas, and buy a certain farm, and when the war was over hewould join his father there. He said he was not going with the regularConfederate Army, but as a guerrilla. He came very near beingapprehended but got away and from that day until the present time,nothing has ever been heard, of, from or about him. It is presumed hewas killed in the war.

 

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          Note : According to Alvin D. Covin, Sr.'s booklet 'The Covin Family In America'page 7:
                Joseph enlisted in Texas outfits and fought throughout the war. He wasnot wounded like his brother, John, but returned from the wars with awunderlust and nubering his days in East Texas, he left by covered wagonfor Oklahoma where he died in 1891.

 

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          Note : According to Alvin D. Covin, Sr.'s booklet 'The Covin Family in America'page 7:
                John was wounded at the battle of Mansfield. As the wound was in hisankle it bothered him considerably until he had theleg amputated atabout the turn of the Century. He hated Yankees intensely and accusedthem ofshooting him with a poisoned bullet.

 

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          Note : According to Alvin D. Covin, Sr.'s booklet: 'The Covin Family inAmerica' page 8:
                James was only fifteen when he enlisted in the Confederate Army. Theywould not send him to the fighting fronts, but used him as a dispatchrider between Marshall and Shreveport. He lived until 1932 and wasintensely alive with stories and anecdotes of the frontier days, the wardays and the rough days of the 1870-1880s in that part of Texas.

 

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          Note : According to Alvin D. Covin, Sr.'s booklet 'The Covin Family in America'page 8:
                Caroline married a man named Wilson, a contractor who built manycourthouses and other building throughout East Texas, some of whichstill stand. He also contracted to erect a large building at SamHouston State Teachers College, Huntsville. It is said that he wentbroke, as he badly miscalculated the number of brick it would take. Henot had to build the building, but had to manufacture his own brick.

 

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          Note : According to Alvin D. Covin, Sr.'s booklet 'The Covin Family in America'page 8:
                Floride married a Copeland.

 

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          Note : According to Alvin D. Covin, Sr.'s booklet 'The Covin Family in America'page 8:
                She married an Oliver.

 

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          Note : According to Alvin D. Covin, Sr.'s booklet 'The Covin Family in America'page 8:
                She married a Taylor.

 

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          Note : According to Alvin D. Covin, Sr.'s booklet 'The Covin Family in America'page 5:
                Anna married a man by the name of Larramore.

 

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          Note : According to Alvin D. Covin, Sr.'s booklet 'The Covin Family in America'page 5:
                Suaanna Covin married James Thompson, in 1811

 

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          Note : According to Alvin D. Covin, Sr.'s booklet 'The Covin Family in America'page 6:
                Marieanne Covin, we think, but have no actual proof, married a Roger, adescendant of the original French family named Roger that came to NewBordeaux.
                It is thought that Peter B. Roger, a commander in the War of 1812 andfor whom Marieanne's brothers, John Peter Covin and Lazarus Covin, II,fought.

 

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          Note : According to Alvin D. Covin, Sr.'s booklet 'The Covin Family in America'page 6:
                Louis Covin Married Mary Ann Hutchinson, or Hutcheson, in 1820

 

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                2ND CLASS SEAMAN JOHN S. RICE, son of Mrs. R. I. Rice, of Ferris, Texas.Entered the service May, 1918. Trained at Great Lakes Naval TrainingStation. Assigned to Naval Aviation. Overseas June, 1918. Served inoverseas service until after the signing of the armistice, whendischarge was granted.
                Source Information:
                Russo, Lori. Men of Ellis County, Texas, Who Served in WWI. (page 153(45 A)) Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999.

 

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          Note : PVT. AMZI W. RICE, son of Mrs. R.I. Rice, of Ferris, Texas. Entered theservice February, 1918. and was attached to Supply Company, 360thInfantry, 90th Division. Trained at Camp Travis. To France June,1918.Still in service at time of compilation of data.
                Source Information:
                Russo, Lori. Men of Ellis County, Texas, Who Served in WWI. (page 63(page 13)) Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999.

 

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          Note : PVT. Q. WEATHERFORD, son of C. A. Weatherford, of Ferris, Texas. Enteredthe service September 16, 1918, in Students Army Training Corps, ofTrinity University, at Waxahachie, Texas. Discharged shortly followingthe signing of the armistice with the Central Powers.
                Source Information:
                Russo, Lori. Men of Ellis County, Texas, Who Served in WWI. (page 63(page 13)) Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999.

 

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          Note : SERGT. ROBERT TROY WILSON, son of J. H. and Lizzie M. Wilson, of Ferris.Entered the service June 28, 1918, and attached to 44th Infantry,training at Camp Travis. Signing of th armistice prevented overseasduty. Still in service at time of compilation of this history.
                Source Information:
                Russo, Lori. Men of Ellis County, Texas, Who Served in WWI. (page 63(page 13)) Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999.

 

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          Note : Educator in Arlington Texas

 

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          Note : Lived in Lubbock

 

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          Note : Lived in Lubbock

 

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          Note : Lived in Canton

 

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          Note : May live in Athens or Henderson, TX

 

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          Note : From England

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