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Wes -- Thanks for your very prompt response.
Interesting. The Henry you mention would appear to be exactly the right age to be a match. However, the Julia you mention does not fit. The Julia Covey who married Wesley M. Spear was only 34 years old in 1880, and therefore would have been born in 1845 or 1846. I'm sure that's not a misreading of her age, because she had a young family, including a baby just 8 months old.
Obviously Julia is a common name here, including the next older sibling to the 8 month old. This is the grandmother of the person I'm trying to help get out of Nebraska.
I don't know the age of the Julia (Verdenberg (or was it Vredenberg?)) Covey you mention, but it sounds as though she was much younger than her husband. Any chance that the Julia born in 1833 might have died, and that this same couple might have had another Julia born 12 or 13 years later? Luther cover would have been over 70 by the time of the birth of the Julia I'm looking to place. Unusual, but not impossible.
For what it's worth, I noted that the 1880 census also shows another Henry Covey, age 40, also a native of New York, in Illinois. I wondered whether the same person was counted twice, as sometimes happened, or whether there were two Henry Coveys of the same age loose in the Midwest.
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