OBIT: James M. COVER, 1940, Jenners Crossroads, Somerset County, PA

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JAMES M. COVER

Sudden Passing of Deputy Cover
Veteran Authority on Court House Records Died at Age of 82

  James M. Cover, 82, passed away in the Somerset Community Hospital Tuesday 
evening, May 21, following a brief illness.  He was admitted to the hospital May 
18, following a heart attack.  He had been suffering from a heart ailment for a 
number of years.
  Born at Davidsville, January 12, 1858, a son of Silas J. and Sophia Cover, Mr. 
Cover in early manhood removed to Jenner Cross Roads where he purchased the 
merchantile establishment of the late Edmund Kiernan.  It was there he met and 
married Miss Rebecca Gallagher, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gallagher, 
prominent residents of that community.
  He was elected and served a term as Register and Recorder of Somerset County 
and then accepted the position as cashier of a bank at Rockwood, where he and 
his family resided for a number of years, later returning to Somerset.
  Mr. Cover also filled the position of a state bank examiner and was chief 
clerk at Cumberland, Maryland, to the late John C. Brydon, coal administrator 
during the World War.
  An expert accountant, Mr. Cover was perhaps the most outstanding authority on 
the court house records and often was called upon to assist in various 
capacities.  Since the first of January he had been Deputy Recorder of Deeds in 
the office of Recorder Eugene C. Hostetler.
  Always prominent in Masonic activities, Mr. Cover was the second oldest Past 
Master of the Somerset lodge, and also a member of the higher orders of that 
fraternity, and of Trinity Lutheran Church.
  His wife passed away ten years ago and he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. 
Eugene Cook, of Rochester, New York, and Mrs. W. Curtis Truxal of Somerset, and 
one granddaughter, Mrs. J. M. Schuthman, also of Rochester.
  Funeral services were held at the Hauger Funeral Home, Thursday afternoon.

Meyersdale Republican, May 30, 1940