Mary L. Covington

F, b. January 1844, d. 13 March 1927
     Mary L. Covington was born January 1844 in Kentucky.1,2 She married William Albert Hipp, son of Samuel Leonidas Hipp Sr. and Meeky East, in 1867..3 The census of 1 June 1870 enumerated on 5 August 1870 in the Brocktown post office area of Missouri Township, Pike County, Arkansas, listed Mary L. "Hipp", as a 24-year-old residing with William A. Hipp.1 The census of 1 June 1880 enumerated on 22 June 1880 in Thompson Township, Pike County, Arkansas, listed Masry L. "Hipps", as the 36-year-old wife of Wm. A. Hipps.4
On 10 July 1883 Mary L. Hipp homesteaded 154.98 acres of land in Township 8 South, Range 25 West, Section 1, Pike County, Arkansas,
...the north east fractional quaarter of section one in township eight south of range twenty five west of the fifth principal meridian in Arkansas, containing one hundred and fifty four acres and ninety eight hundreths of an acre.5

The census of 1 June 1900 enumerated on 5 June 1900 in Thompson Township, Pike County, Arkansas, listed the following:
Mary L. Hipps, 56-year-old widowed female head of household, a farmer with 4 children all of whom were still living.2
Kertis A. "Hipps", 27-year-old son, a farm laborer.2
Marvin K. "Hipps", 23-year-old son, a farm laborer.2
She applied for a military pension as the widow of William Albert Hipp on 9 August 1909 in Arkansas; for his service in the Arkansas Infantry from 1861 to 1865.6 The census of 15 April 1910 enumerated on 29 April 1910 in Prairie Township, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, listed Mary Hipp, born in Kentucky, with 4 children all of whom were still living, as the 66-year-old widowed mother-in-law of William Z. Stone.7 Mary L. Hipp died on 13 March 1927 in Hot Spring County, Arkansas.8

Children of Mary L. Covington and William Albert Hipp

Citations

  1. [S227] 1870 U.S. Census, Pike County, Alabama, page 215 line 4 dwelling 37 family 31.
  2. [S189] 1900 U.S. Census, Pike County, Arkansas, ED 92 Sh 02 B line 90 dwelling 32 family 32 page 091 B.
  3. [S214] Samuel Leonidas Hipp Family Bible.
  4. [S306] 1880 U.S. Census, Pike County, Arkansas, ED 123 Sh 30 line 31 dwelling 246 family 246 page 428B.
  5. [S1427] Bureau of Land Management, Homestead Certificate Number 2901.
  6. [S1446] Arkansas CSA, Pension Aps by Frances T. Ingmire, number 9146.
  7. [S3632] 1910 U.S. Census, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, ED 86 Sh 12 A line 35 dwelling 107 family 213 page 173 A.
  8. [S2263] Ancestry.com database, Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950.
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