Estate Of Jonathan Coverdale

Michigan, Probate Records, Lapeer Estate files 1852-1855...:

File 102 [Image 93]

Jonathan Coverdale, deceased

Date of Death: 3rd November Last [1850 or 1851]

Place of Death: California

Sally Coverdale in Elba was mentioned.

Jonathan Coverdale left a widow and six minor children.

Sally Coverdale, widow

1. David S. Coverdale*
2. Jonathan B. Coverdale
3. Thomas G. Coverdale
4. Levi M. Coverdale
5. J. [Thaddeus] Coverdale
6. Mary J. Coverdale

Above listed were the minor children of Jonathan Coverdale

An excerpt from California Biographies at Rootsweb (also here):

*JUDGE DAVID S. COVERDALE. Few more consistent, practical, or well balanced careers have contributed to the pioneer and later development of Delano than that of Judge David S. Coverdale, veteran of the Civil war, and well known as a justice of the peace, notary, health officer, president of the board of trade, promoter of waterways, and extensive real estate operator. From a long line of English ancestors Judge Coverdale inherits those substantial and conservative traits which have been of inestimable value in his work in a growing community. His father, Jonathan Coverdale, spent the first fifteen years of his life in England, and then came with his parents to Lower Canada, where he lived until attaining his majority. In Canada he married Sallie Brisbon, a native of Lower Canada, and of Irish-German descent, with whom he removed to a farm in Lapeer county, Mich. He found the country a stranger to the improvements of man, and set about with characteristic energy to clear his land, and establish a general farming and stock-raising enterprise. Six children were born into his family, of whom David S. was the eldest. He was born March 16, 1835, in Detroit, Mich., his mother being there temporarily. In 1850 Jonathan Coverdale crossed the plains in an ox-train for California, by way of Council Bluffs, Salt Lake City and the Platte river, and in Sacramento, Cal., engaged in teaming and the building of levees. His dream of western success was not destined for fulfillment, for a year after arriving on the coast he was taken ill and died, at the age of about forty-five years. Subsequently his wife married again, and died in Michigan at the age of fifty-five. 

Jonathan Coverdale was mentioned in a news item here.

Census 1860

The Township Of Burlington, Lapeer, Michigan

HOUSEHOLD

James Gark M 60 New York

Sally Gark F 51 Canada East

Justus Gark M 20 Canada West

Thomas Coverdale M 19 Michigan

Levi Coverdale M 17 Michigan

Thaddeus J Coverdale M 14 Michigan

Mary J Coverdale F 13 Michigan