Title Info: Covington Cemetery

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Introduction The Covington Cemetery index lists individuals interred at the Coving Cemetery located in Ferry County, Washington prior to circa 1940. Index information may include: name, birth date, birth place, death date, and names of family members. These burials were moved to New Keller Cemetery (also known as San Poil Cemetery). Index data was compiled by Maggie Rail, a member of the Washington State Cemetery Association who has transcribed over 400 cemeteries since 1993.

There are 12 names listed and 30 names not found or identified.

This index is in English.

This index is open for research.

Notes from transcriber Maggie Rail (current as of November 2009):

Cemetery location Lat 47° 56' 39"N, Lon 118° 39' 44"W, T28 R33E Sec 9.

Covington Cemetery is #6 on Ball & Dodd Map. This cemetery is now located underneath the Columbia River. In approximately 1939-40, after the Grand Coulee Dam was built, the waters were raised, thus flooding the cemetery. Before the waters were raised, the Bureau of Reclamation, of the U.S. Department of the Interior, was responsible for relocating the burials. Ball & Dodd was hired to do the removals.

Transcribed from "Columbia River Cemeteries", a record of individuals moved from the banks of the Columbia River to make way for the rising flood waters of Lake Roosevelt, published in the 1976 book, "Stevens County Tombstone Inscriptions" by EWGS, Spokane WA., who acquired this record from the Spokane Garry Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution.
Citation: Preferred Citation: [Identification of item],Covington Cemetery, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, www.digitalarchives.wa.gov, [date accessed].

Source: Index and transcription notes were donated to the Washington Historical Records Project by Maggie Rail, Historical Records Project, August 2009.