Covington Cemetery, Falls County, Texas
Last March when Sweetpea and I were on our way home from the Bosque County Chuckwagon Cookoff, we decided to stop off at the Covington Cemetery in Reagan, Falls County, Texas. This is just a couple of miles off Highway 6 but you have to know where you are going because unfortunately it is not marked by any highway signs like many other cemeteries are.
When I first started my genealogical research, my father simply replied, “You won’t find much on my family.” Well, I love a challenge and when I found this cemetery, my father was very pleased. When I started, my dad did not even know his grandfather’s name and now he actually had a gravesite to visit.
Here is the family plot containing five generations of my dad’s family.
We’ve made several trips to visit Covington over the last ten or fifteen years. We even buried my Uncle Doug Jesse here. But unfortunately it is a small rural cemetery and there is not much left of the immediate family in the community. So this is what Sweetpea and I found in March.
Of course I informed Dad of what we found but I don’t think it sunk in until he visited last weekend with his weedeater. He called me Sunday evening.
Apparently the gentleman who has been overseeing the upkeep of the cemetery has run into some problems. We have yet to determine why this has happened but it looks like we will be forced to take over the maintenance. This sort of thing should be handled by a cemetery association but I’m sure if there was an interest in that it would already exist.
I’ve already talked to GetAlong about rigging something up so I can load the riding lawn mower onto my truck. But we are going to have to get something larger in there first to take care of the high grass. I’m concerned that hiring someone else to do it might endanger the markers that are already weak. My dad wants to be buried here, near is brother, and has talked about moving his father’s body here as well. So we’ve got our work cut out for us.
Suggestions are appreciated. I’ll keep you posted on our progress.
Hi,
Larkin Anderson Covington is my great-grandfather and I have visited the cemetery a few times over the years and after my wife visited for the first time in 2003 we have thought about acquiring plots there. I live in Scotland so it is some distance but would like to know if there is an association to take care of the upkeep. I know that while my mother was living she periodically sent money to someone in Marlin who did do this. Please keep meinformed of the situation. I would like to help in any way that I can.
Rev Stephen Taylor