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ID: 2507
CATNUM: 2674
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NameFirst: Conover ~Reading B.
NameLast: Conover
NameMiddle: Beaty
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BirthMonth: 5
BirthDay: 13
BirthYear: 1836
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OriginalBirthCity: Jenners Twp.
OriginalBirthState: PA
OriginalBirthCounty: Somerset
OriginalBirthNation: USA
DeathMonth: 6
DeathDay: 8
DeathYear: 1915
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Parents: Reading Beaty and Mary (Stook) Conover
Children: Frank (1863-1918) and Daisy (d. 1890 in Salem OR)
Spouse1Name: Thursa Roszel
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:46:59 PM
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LastModifiedDate: 10/30/2021 5:46:59 PM
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OriginalNotes: 1860 IN Census, Decatur Co., Washington Twp., Greensburgh post office, p. 701, family and dwelling number 502:
Reading B. Conover, age 61, b. PA, Boot & Shoe, RP 0, PP $75, head
Mary, age 58, b. PA, housewife
Mary A., age 22, b. PA, teacher
James B., age 18, b. PA
Reading B., age 24, b. PA, ambrotype, RO $800, PP $50
Thirza W., age 18, b. IN, housewife

Civil War Records (ancestry.com): Reading B. Conover, residence: Marion Co., IN, enlisted 10 July 1863, mustered out 20 July 1863, Co. H., 104th Inf. Reg., Ind., (organized in response to Morgan's Raid)

1866 Redfield and Logan's Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railway Business Guide and Western Gazetteer of Indiana and Ohio (Indianapolis, 1866), p. 183: R. B. Conover, Jr. printer, Greensburg Chronicle, NE Cor. Public Square; Reading B. Conover, City Mayor, Main Cross, South of Public Square.

History of Decatur Co., Lewis A. Harding, ed., 1915: p. 369: Decatur Republican bought by Dr. S. H. Riley, J. B. Mallett, & Redin B. Conover, 1863-65 [probably Conover, Sr.]; p. 326 J. B. Conover, joined Improved Order of Red Men in 1894; p. 457, James B. Conover member of GAR.

Atlas of Rush Co., 1879, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago (1974 reprint, The Bookmark, Knightstown), p. 67: Edward H. M. Berry m. Sept. 24, 1863 in Greensburg to Mary A. Conover, dau. Of Reading B. & Mary (Stook) Conover, natives of PA, where Mrs. Berry b. Apr. 30, 1838, lists their children

History of Rush Co., 1888, Chicago, Brant & Fuller, p. 678: Hon. Edward Henry McDaniel Berry, was mason in Milroy Lodge, members of Presbyterian Church, senator 1860-64

Jan. 28, 1999 phone conversation with Connie Brorson, great-great granddaughter of James B. Conover (Reading's younger brother): She provided birth, death, and marriage dates. Reading Beaty Conover, Sr. lived in Penn, then Ohio, then Greensburg, IN. He was a shoemaker, had owned newspaper. Thursa Roszel b. Laurel, IN Mar. 1841; d. Salem OR Apr. 1, 1907. Reading, Jr. & Thursa married in Laurel. They had 2 children: 1. Frank (b. 1863, d. 1918, m. Lillie Paul; Frank had daughter Aimee Corvallis who lived in Ventore Co., OR. She joined DAR [#157794]; 2. Daisy, d. 1890 Salem OR. Reading, Jr. also had lived in Northfield, Minn. Some of this information from Reading, Sr. Bible, some from DAR records. Reading, Jr. had a sister named Mary Amanda Conover, m. E.H.M. Berry. Her granddaughter still living (about age 90) Alvene Berry Coons, 309 E. 6th St., Rushville, IN 46173 (765) 932-2754. Mrs. Brorson does not have photographs of Reading, Jr.

Oregon State Archives, on-line database: 1895 Marion  County, Oregon Census, vol. 1, p. 254: R. B. Conover, Thursie Conover, Lula Conover [does not give full listing; Salem is in Marion County]

1893 Salem, OR City Directory: Reading Conover listed as publisher [not listed in 1903 or 1913; researched by Marion Co. OR Public Library]

Cemetery Records: Salem Pioneer Cemetery, Salem, Oregon:
CONOVER, Therza      
          Born...:       c 1841 , IN
          Died...:  27 Mar 1907 Salem, OR
          Died of:  Heart failure  
        Buried at:  Marion Co: Salem Pioneer                
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     D/C : Marion Co #3163; f, white, 66yrs, m'd, b.IN, housewife,
           d. 27 Mar 1907 of heart failure & lagrippe

Note: Wharton, Conover & Timothy Faries may be connected or related. An album on ebay (May 2006) included photographs of the Wharton & Faries families (Middletown, OH, Aurora, IN and other places). Faries mother's maiden name was Conover. Conover & Wharton were partners. Both Conover & Faries worked in Greensburg.
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PersonID: 2507
CATNUM: 2674
NameFirst: Conover ~Reading B.
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City: Greensburgh
State: IN
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:50:33 PM
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County: Decatur
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OriginalSource: 1860 IN Census, Reading B. Conover, ambrotypist
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