Caldwell-Daviess County MO Archives History .....PHIL COVINGTON OF DAVIESS COUNTY AND CALDWELL COUNTY 
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PHIL COVINGTON OF DAVIESS COUNTY AND CALDWELL COUNTY
	Narrators:  Taylor Allee, 86, and Wm. Hemry, 85

     Phil Covington's history is divided between these two counties as many of 
our early settlers.  As usual, the first part dealt with Daviess co.  He had 
much to do with the founding of Gallatin, the county seat of Daviess.  Later, 
he left Gallatin and came to Hamilton as a merchant, and every one of the 
early narrators mention his little shack-restaurant which stood midway on the 
west side of north Main, site of the present Glick store.
     He entered land with the government the N.W. quarter of sect. 20 twp. 59, 
range 27, which is the ground on which most of the city of Gallatin is built.  
That was 1838.  He himself sold the first lots surveyed, but he did not give 
quit claims to the buyers.  Some time after, he threatened to contest his 
claims to such lots.  Finally 1869, after he had moved to Caldwell county, he 
did give claims to such lots and Gallatin property owners were relieved.  That 
ended his connection with Daviess co. history.
     His coming to Hamilton was in the early 60s.  Taylor Allee came here in 
1865 and Covington was here when he came.  Allee was just out of the army, and 
he well recalls the old shack where you could get candy.  Will Hemry says that 
Phil kept his candy in jars on the shelf, and when a kind of candy ran low, he 
would sell no more of it to his customers, in order to have a better 
selection.  In many ways, he ranked as a peculiar pioneer character.  His 
wife's name was Louisa as given on the Gallatin deeds.  There must have been a 
death in the family while here, for on the plat of the old Rohrbaugh 
graveyard, there is a single grave marked "Covington."  No one seems to know 
what became of the family or when they left Hamilton.  The name is not known 
in the county at present.
     Interviews  1933-4. 


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