Eugene Covey April 1, 1988

Eugene Covey interviewed 1 April 1988.

Eugene Covery says that he lived with his grand father and grand mother for 2 or 3 years and went to Chubbuck School those two or three years. He and his mom then moved to Fremont and soon back to Kent City. Grandpa was a butcher and worked in Fremont and later at Saur’s Store In Kent City.

There was a gooseberry farm on the north end of Kent City' on the west side. The farm was the whole north end where Clover Street is currently. These berries were for W. R. Roach. Gooseberries were used for making pies.

E. J. Soles old farm is still there. The Little house is a rent house.

Eugene Covey worked at Saur’s Store bagging groceries while he was in High School. Some of his fondest memories are of Mrs. A. H. Saur.

Eugene remembers when he was a kid both sides of Callenn Avenue were outlined with logs about 2 high.

The 1907 Atlas states that Section 31 a M.T. Johnson settled on in 1841.

The residence of Mike Gilliam’s was straight west of the Baptist Church kinda where 2 roads meet. The home now has a porch with a little brick on it.

Eugene’s grandmother Dennis was a Hudson. She was one of 12 kids with 3 sets of twins in the family.

English’s lived at the end of Calleen Road. Dorothy English married a Johnson who was about Eugene’s age.

Left to right across the back. 8th Grade. Kent City.

(1.) Gordone Anderson. (2.) Twiss. (3.) Russell Wells. (4.) Floyd Pant. (5.) Orville Rank. (6.) Eugene Covery.

Left to RIght front.

(1.) Margery Rank. (2.) Ella Pike. (3.) Ambery. (4.) Ila Denhof. Married names. Lives in Chester Twp. (5.) Carmel Chapman, lives in Sparta. (6.) Norma Sorheide.

Chubbuck School photo

Names that Eugene Covey was randomly mentioning while looking

Valborg Jensen the teacher

Margaret Veurink

Rosetta Ryan

Morton Callen

Glen Pickard. Walked with a,limp.

Brummell’s

Veurink’s

Harrison’s

Hultgren’s

Pickard.

Front. Left to right:

(1.) (2.) Eugene Covey. (3.) A. Pickard. (4.) (5.) Harold Veurink. He was in the Soldier’s Home. He drowned. (6.) A. Brummell. (7.) Lawrence Wellman.

2nd row front left to right: (1.) Question if a Brummell. (2.) Margaret Veurink. (3.) Dorothy English. (4.) A. Wellman. (5.) Rosetta Ryan. (6.) A. Pickard, one male in back of her father was Pete Pickard who lived across the road and north of the cemetery.

3rd row left to right: (1.) A. Veurink.. (2.) A. Harrison. (3.) Question if a Hultgren. (4.) Morton Callen. (5.) A. Pickard. (6.) A Brummell.

Right to left: Pickard. (2.) A Veurink. (3.) Jensen. (4.) A. Brummell.

The big boy on the left in the back and Morton Callen fought with the teacher. When the little kids ran out the big boy had her by the throat.

Photo #1. Left to right:

(1.) Dorothy English. (2.) Rosetta Ryan. (3.) A Wellman in the white dress. (4.) Hultgren. Hultgren’s always wore stripped overhauls. (5.) Lawrence Wellman. (6.) A Harrison.

Photo #2. Left to right:

(1.) Boys in the back are Hultgren. (2.) Veurink girl. (3.) Wellman girl. (4.) Rosetta Ryan. (5.) Back on the right is a Picard. (6.) Second on the right in front is Eugene Covey.

Photo #3. Left to right:

(1.) Pickard Cousins. (2.) Pickard Cousins. (3.) A Hultgren. (4.) A Harrison.

Right to Left front. (1.) Hultgren. (2.) Unknown. (3.) Lawrence Wellman. (4.) Unknown.

Photo #4. Left to right:

(1.) Unknown. (2.) Hultgren. (3.) Lawrence Wellman. (4.) A Harrison. (5.) A Freeland or a Holmgren. (6.) A Brummell. (7.) A Freeland.

Valley Vista in Lowell is where Ed Dancer lives. Ed is a grandson of the Williams.