FAMILY HISTORY: 1903 COVER Family Reunion in honor of Mrs. Emanuel COVER

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The Daily Tribune - Johnstown, Friday, September 11, 1903 

*180 AT THE COVER REUNION.*

*Notable Family Gathering in Somerset County Settlement.*

*Devotional Exercises Opened the Program, Followed by a General Good Time - 
Occasion in Honor of Mrs. Emanuel Cover, Who Died in 1881, Fourteen Years After 
Her Husband.* [**see notes]


  Glessner, Somerset County, was on Wednesday the scene of a remarkable
family reunion, remarkable both in the numbers and the occasion.  The
children of the late Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Cover, who died in 1881 and in
1867, respectively, gathered at the "old homestead" to celebrate what would
have been the centennial anniversary of their mother's birth had she been
living.  For this filiality 180 persons assembled together and, after
invoking the Divine blessing upon the company, proceeded to honor the memory
of their parents by having a right good social time.

  The exercises opened with a hymn entitled, "Anywhere with Jesus."  The
Rev. J. F. Stabley, of Jennertown, then offered prayer, after which a choir
sang "Home, Sweet Home."  Pastor Stabley then delivered an address of
welcome, after which, William Cover, one of Mrs. Cover's sons, who presided,
made a nice little talk and sang a song.  This closed the formal exercises,
when the social side of the occasion came uppermost.

  Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Cover were survived by eight children - three
daughters and five sons - all of whom were living and all present at the
reunion, except Peter R. Cover, who was detained at his home in Polo, Ill.,
by sickness in the family.  The children present were:  Catherine, wife of
Valentine Bittner, of Johnstown; Lavina, widow of Jesse Griffith, of
Jenners; Mary, wife of Jonas Maurer, of Somerset; Josiah, Emanuel, David,
and William.  The five sons all served in the Civil War, as follows:  Josiah
in Company H, Ninety-third Pennsylvania Volunteers; Emanuel and David, in
Company C, Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers; William, of Company D,
Fifth Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, and Peter R., of the Fifteenth Illinois
Volunteers.

  Those present at the reunion were as follows:

  Children of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Cover, with their children and
grandchildren (great-grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Cover), in  [sic] 
any:  Josiah Cover, with his wife and children, of Glessner:  Jesse Cover; 
Minnie, wife of L. J. Speigle, with her husband and children, Harry, Sylvester, 
James, Naomi, and Elizabeth; R. W. Cover, a policeman at Johnstown; Florence, 
wife of I. D. Replogle, with her husband and children, Mary M., Della, and Cover 
Josiah; J. E. Cover, of Wilkinsburg, with his wife; Park O. of Johnstown; 
Malinda, Martin S., and Harry S., at home; William Cover, of Altoona, a P. R. R. 
engineer, with Mrs. Cover and daughter Lucretia.

  David Cover, of Quemahoning, with his wife and children:  William, a P.
R. R. engineer at Altoona; Morgan, of Johnstown; Louise, wife of Milton
Jones, with her husband and children, Eugene and Louise, of Johnstown,
Elizabeth, wife of Irvin E. Biesecker of Quemahoning; Waltham, at home.

  Emanuel Cover, of Eighth Ward, Johnstown, with his wife and son, Murphy
Cover, of Johnstown, with his wife and son George.

  Lavina, widow of Jesse Griffith, of Jenners, with her children:  Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Griffith and daughter Edith V.; Amanda S., Eva V., Lydia
Grace, Stanley Marshall, and James, all of Jenners.

  Mrs. Jonas Maurer, of Somerset, and Mrs. Valentine Bittner, of
Johnstown, with their families.

  Other relatives and friends:  The Rev. J. F. Stabley, pastor of the
Jennertown Lutheran Church, to which the Cover family belongs, with Mrs.
Stabley; William Stufft, father of Mrs. Josiah Cover, Mrs. A. C. Burrell,
and Mrs. S. E. Giffin, with his wife, of Glessner; Mrs. A. C. Burrell and
sons, Arnold and Frank, jr., of Jenners; Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Giffin and
daughters Ora, Pearl, and Marian, of Walnut Grove; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Swank,
Quemahoning; Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Glessner and grandson, John S. Glessner,
of Glessner; Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Bowman, of Glessner, and grandson, Bowman
Grambling, of Dale Borough; John Shaffer and daughters, Minnie and Carrie,
of Glessner;  Mrs. Harry Bell and son Robert, of Jenners; Mrs. J. P. Ober,
of Stoyestown; Mrs. Samuel Arthur and Mrs. Adam S. Shaffer, Glessner; Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Shaffer and children, Mary, Maude, and Harry, Glessner; Mrs.
Stephen Bowman, Jenners; Mr. and Mrs. Jaob [sic] Spangler, Jenners; Mrs.
Jacob Speigle, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Heckman and son Bryan, R. C. Griffith, Mr.
and Mrs. Abram Trexel and children, Mary Franklin, Knepper, Joseph E., and
Ida Rebecca, all of Glessner; Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Shaffer and children,
Floda S. and Paul H., Quemahoning; Lizzie and Emanuel Walter, Quemahoning;
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walter and daughter Miss Elsie, Quemahoning; Mr. and
Mrs. Noah Lohr, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Horner and son, Curtis Cleveland, all of
Conner; Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Walter, Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Walter and Misses
Marian Ashley and Emma Lindsey, all of Johnstown; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shull
and children, Jesse, Carl, and Elsie, of Stanton's Mill; Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Maurer and children, Mary, Margaret, Paul, and Joseph, Jenners; Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Horner, Mrs. Rufus Shaffer, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Biesecker and
children, Catherine, Florence, Walker, and Wilbert, of Glessner; Mrs. John
L. Sipe, Lavan Bowman and daughters, Elsie and Nannie, Mr. and Mrs. Chester
A. Griffith and children, Grant and Irene, all of Jenners; Mr. and Mrs.
David Berkey and daughters, Minnie and Sadie, Quemahoning; Mr. and Mrs.
William Walter and daughters, Marie and Catherine; Mrs. William Sumy, of
Boswell; Mr and Mrs. D. D. Griffith and children, Jesse and Marie, Jenners;
Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses Bittner and children, Mary and Earl, Pittsburgh; Mr.
and Mrs. John Balzner and son Harold; Barbara Sourbrower, Quemahoning; David
Walter, Johnstown; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smucker and children, Mary and Bruce
Griffith; J. J. Shaffer and Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Shaffer and son Lester, Mr.
and Mrs. James Thomas, all of Quemahoning; Mrs. H. Spangler, Jenners.

  R. E. Blanset, the Johnstown photographer, took several group views of
the party, by special request, those participating desiring to retain
souvenirs of the occasion.

[NOTES: transcriber's note - Mrs. Cover died in 1867, fourteen
years *before* her husband - the headline reversed their dates of death.
Emanuel COVER (1801-1881) and his wife Catherine (Walter) COVER (1802?-1867)].