Joseph F. Covert

PRIVATE JOSEPH F. COVERT was the son of Joseph H. and Lydia C. Covert. He was born on June 16, 1887 on North Water Street in Selinsgrove, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The Covert family was still living there when the 1910 Census was taken. The elder Covert worked building steel and iron bridges. Joseph F. Covert was then working as a telegraph operator. The family moved to Camden, New Jersey after the Census enumerated..

Joseph F. Covert's father worked as a shipyard inspector, and his brother James as a shipyard electrician. Joseph Covert, however worked as a clerk at the Victor Talking Machine Company. Off work, Joseph F. Covert was a member of the patriotic fraternal organization, the Improved Order of Red Men, belonging to Ottawa Tribe No. 15.

When he registered for the draft on June 5, 1917 Joseph F. Covert was living at 561 Viola Street in Camden's Eighth Ward. He had already enlisted in the Ambulance Service when he registered. His parents and family were then living at 1146 Whitman Avenue, Camden NJ. 

Joseph Covert was sent to Base Hospital No. 34 in Allentown PA for training in the Ambulance Service. He was sent overseas in September, 1917. 

Private Joseph F. Covert died of pneumonia in France on March 22, 1918. He was survived by his parents, Joseph H. & Lydia C. Covert, and a brother, James, all of  1146  Whitman Avenue in Camden. 

The Coverts were still on Whitman Street 1920. In 1930 Joseph H. Covert was still working as a rigger at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard in Camden, and had bought a home at 420 Vine Street in Camden.