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Pages in category "People from Covington, Georgia" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Dinah Watts Pace was born enslaved on January 9, 1853, near Athens, Clarke County, Georgia to Emily and Sterling Watts, as the property of the Alexander family. [1] [2] By the time she was eight years old, Mrs. Alexander headed the household and was running a boarding house with around twelve 12 slaves.
The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2023.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order as set out in WP:NAMESORT.A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
In 1902, this paper merged with its competitor, The Covington Star, to become The Enterprise under the ownership of Charles G. Smith. The Enterprise was sold in 1908 to Lon. L. Flowers, and its name was changed to The Covington News. The newspaper had a number of owners between 1908 and 1931, when it was purchased by Belmont Dennis and his family.
Covington is located in north central Georgia, in the eastern part of Metro Atlanta. Interstate 20 runs to the north of the city, with access from exits 90, 92, and 93. Via I-20, downtown Atlanta is 35 mi (56 km) west, and Augusta is 112 mi (180 km) east.
5424 Covington (1983 TN1), a Main-belt Asteroid; Camp Covington, Guam; Covington Highway, in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia; Covington River, in Virginia; Covington and Ohio Railroad, part of a planned railroad link between eastern Virginia and the Ohio River; Covington & Burling, a prominent law firm