1738 John Egideus Kober, son of Dietrich Kober, was born 18 December 1738 and was baptized 24 December 1734 at a Lutheran church in Conewago, Pennsylvania. Egidius Hoffman was a sponsor. [1]
1778 Gideon Coover was taxed £6.6.8 for 43 acres, 2 horses and 3 cattle in Allen Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Brother George Coover was taxed the same. [2]
1780 Gideon Coover was taxed for 151 acres, 2 horses and 1 cattle in Allen Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Brother George Coover was taxed the similarly. [3]
1781 Gideon Coover was taxed for 2 horses and 2 cattle in Allen Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [4]
1782 Gideon Coover was taxed for 55 acres, 3 horses and 2 cattle in Allen Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Brother George Coover was taxed for 106 acres. [5]
1790 Gideon Cover [Coover] lived in Eastern Cumberland County, Pennsylvania [6]
1793 Gideon Coover, farmer, was listed on the septennial census for Allen Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [7]
1798 Gideon Coover was taxed in Allen Twp, Cumberland County for a one story wood house with 6 windows and 63 lights (panes of glass) on 100 acres of land. [8] [9]
1800 Gideon Coover, farmer, was listed on the Pennsylvania septennial census for Allen Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [10]
1810 The will of Gideon Coover, yeoman of Allen Twp, Cumberland County was dated August 6, 1803 and probated May 3, 1810. The will named Wife Freany; Daughter, Salome, wife of Martin Brenizer; Sons George, Samuel, Adam, David and Jacob; and Daughter Catherine. Exs: Sons George Coover and Adam Coover. Wit: James Whitehill, Adam Long. [11]
1811 Sons George and Adam Coover were named as executors of the estate of Gideon Coover, late of Allen Twp. [12]
1811 On at the Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, George Coover and Adam Coover presented their account of the estate. [13]
"Gideon Cover was a grandson of the ancestor. The early years of his life were spent at Germantown, and from that place he subsequently removed to Cumberland County, where his son, Adam Cover, was born May 28, 1781. Adam Cover married on Dec. 11, 1807, Mary Magdalen Beeshoar, born in Lebanon County, Pa., March 14, 1789, of German and English descent, and soon afterwards settled in the southern part of the state at Harrisburg. He purchased the Breniser House, which later was burned, upon which Mr. Cover turned to other pursuits and for a time carried on a butcher business. In 1810 he moved in the vicinity of Johnstown, and into Johnstown in 1813, and purchased from Christian Good a tract of land on the hill just outside of the town, which locality to the present day has been known as Cover Hill. In acquiring this land a purchase money mortgage was given to Mr. Good, and that instrument, dated May 14, 1814, satisfied and discharged of record, is now a treasured relic in possession of the family. He dealt extensively in real estate and took a prominent part in the development and building up of the munici?pality. He died Nov. 17, 1856, and his wife died Sept. 23, 1867. They were the parents of 12 children, as follows: Alexander, Sarah, Caroline, Samuel, William, Amos, Mary, Daniel, Jacob, Elizabeth, Lucinda, and one child died in infancy. Alexander Cover was the father of Benjamin Franklin Cover, the father of the subject of this sketch. Alexander Cover was born June 6, 1809; married Sarah Horner, daughter of Christian Horner..." [14]
1866 Many of the descendants of John Gideon and Frances Coover were named in a court case following the death of their son Samuel Coover. [15] The descendants named were:
0) Samuel Coover of Fayette County, Ohio, died intestate.
1) Jacob Coover, brother of Samuel.
2) Catherine Coover, spouse of Jacob Eichelberger and sister of Samuel.
3) Children of Gideon Coover, deceased. The relationship of Gideon to Samuel was not specified.
4) Children of George Coover, deceased brother of Samuel.
5) Children of Adam Coover, deceased. Adam brother of Samuel.
6) Children of Sarah Coover, deceased spouse of Brenizer and sister of Samuel. Sarah's children were named as Samuel and Joseph A. BRENIZER sons of Sarah BRENIZER, dec'd. sister of Samuel COOVER, dec'd., Sarah MITCHELL, Ann M. Marshall MARTIN, Emma E. FRAIN, John. L. and Warren J. BRENIZER are children of John Coover BRENIZER, dec'd son of said Sarah, dec'd. Sarah MITCHELL is wife of John. and of Harrisburg, Pa. , Emma E. FRAIN wife of Ira are of Dauphin Co. , Pa. Samuel BRENIZER of Harrisburg, Pa., Joseph A. BRENIZER is of Dauphin Co., Pa., John F. BRENIZER is of Washington, D. C. , and Warren T. BRENIZER is of Northumberland Co., Pa.
7) Children of David Coover, deceased brother of Samuel.
[1] John Casper Stoever, Rev. F. J. F. Schantz, trans., Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever. Baptismal and Marriage 1730-1799, 18, [InternetArchive], [RootsWeb], [Stoever_Biosketch].
[2] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 20 (Cumberland Taxables) (1897), 13, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[3] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 20 (Cumberland Taxables) (1897), 258, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[4] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 20 (Cumberland Taxables) (1897), 398, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[5] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 20 (Cumberland Taxables) (1897), 543, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[6] United States Federal Census, 1790, middle column, line 18, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[7] Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863, 1793, Allen Twp, Cumberland County, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[8] Pennsylvania, U.S. Direct Tax Lists, 1798, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[9] Pennsylvania, U.S. Direct Tax Lists, 1798, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[10] Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863, Allen Twp, Cumberland County, entry 45, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[11] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Cumberland, Will H-39, [FamilySearchImage].
[12] Newspaper, Carlisle Gazette, (Carlisle, Pennsylvania), 3 May, 1811.
[13] Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Orphans Court Docket, 5-166, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[14] John E. Gable, History of Cambria County (Topeka [Kan.]: Historical Pub. Co., 1926), 349, [GoogleBooks].
[15] Maude Post Rankin, George A. Robinson, Chancery and Common Pleas Court Records, Fayette County, Ohio, 1828-1878 (Indiana County, Pennsylvania: Heffelfinger's Office Services, 1957), 105-106.