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Elsie
Jerusha Covell was the youngest child and only daughter of William
S. and Maria E. Covell, was born at the Old Covell homestead in
Scott Township on March 29, 1893. She grew to young woman-hood there
and received her early education in the public schools of Scott
Township, attending what was then known as the Gifford school. After
graduating from the common school grades, she attended Tri State
College at Angola, Indiana, preparing herself to be a teacher. For
over twenty years she was one of Steuben County’s successful school
teachers. Teaching at Scott Center, Metz, Flint, at the Star School
and for several years in the Angola City School.
She attended
Columbia University in New York City on two different occasions. On
June 18, 1935 she was united in marriage at Auburn, Indiana, with
Cass Budnik of Detroit Michigan and they left by automobile the same
day for Redlands, California. Redlands was their home for about one
year when they moved to Parkerk Arizona, where they lived a short
time and then they moved across the Colorado River to Parker Dam,
California where they lived for another year. They then moved to
Tucumcari, New Mexico, where they lived until about April 1939, when
they moved to Everett, Pennsylvania where her husband was employed
by the Pennsylvania Highway Commission as a civil engineer. |
