Biographical Sketch of J. A. Cover, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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J. A. Cover, dealer in saddles, harness, etc., at Mountain Grove,
Wright Co., Mo., was born in Union County, Ill., in 1862, the son of
Alson and Melissa (Sams) Cover.  Alson Cover was probably a native of
Pennsylvania, and by trade a plasterer, but he also followed farming
and merchandising.  He died in Johnsboro, Illinois, at the age of
forty-nine years, when the subject of this sketch was seven years of
age.  Melissa (Sams) Cover died when her son, J. A. Cover, was four-
teen years of age.  She was of English extraction and the Covers were 
of German origin.  J. A. Cover was one of eight children born to his 
parents.  After the death of his mother he went to Dent County, Mo.,
and then lived with his sister, Mrs. Pendergrass, for two years, 
meanwhile attending school.  He then went to Illinois, and in one and
a half years returned to Missouri, where he served an apprenticeship
to the saddler's trade at Salem, Dent County, Mo., for three years.
He then came to Mountain Grove in 1883, built his present house and
engaged in his present business.  He is a young man of good business
qualifications, and is respected by all.  His average sales equal
about $3,000 per year, and aside from this he is partner in the only
furniture and undertaker's establishment in the town.  This is run
by his brother, S. H. Cover.  J. A. Cover was married in 1885 to Miss
Ada A. Hayes, a native of Ohio, born in 1865.  She was taken to 
Missouri at the age of twelve years, and supplemented her common
school education with a course at a graded school in Dent County, Mo.
She has been a teacher in the public schools of Wright and Texas
Counties, and also worked in the post office at Mountain Grove for
many years.  She and her mother carried on the post office at that
place for sixteen years.  She is a member of the Old School Presbyter-
ian Church.  Mr. Cover is a Democrat in his political views.

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