Oliver Smith Covell was born in 1829 in Killingly. He is a son of Oliver, son of Sampson, son of Ebenezer, son of Joseph Covell, who owned and occupied a farm at the north end of Chestnut hill. Mr. Covell owns and occupies the farm where his father lived from 1816 until his death in 1852. This is the same farm where the wife of Ephraim Fisk gave birth to four children about 1780. This quadruple birth is discussed in many families of the town to this day. The house in which these four babes spent the first few years of their lives is now occupied by Mr. Covell. In this same house was born the father of Clinton B. Fisk, whose mother was a second wife of Ephraim Fisk.Mr. Covell was married in 1852 to Mary A. W., daughter of Orrin Reynolds. They have one daughter, Mary L. (Mrs. D. Cutler. Oliver Covell was in the war of 1812. One of his sons was killed at Cold Harbor during the war of the rebellion. He served in the 11th Connecticut volunteers.