Hi, Carol sent this to me, I am forwarding it to the lists, in case anyone is interested. See below. Joyce in Ca. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3231 http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/r/m/Joyce-C-Armstrongcooper/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~carvgs/rgs.htm Main names I am researching, VINCENT, TAYLOR, BRUNS,LIVESAY,ELLIS,MCCLUNG,JOPLING, COOPER, and many more, too numerous to post.... ----- Original Message ----- From: carol ann berry <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 1999 3:36 PM Subject: [email protected]: livesay > Joyce, > if i already sent this -just delete..same website,i either typed in > Livesay or Caraway..should come up no matter what you use > carol > > > > --------- Begin forwarded message ---------- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: livesay > Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 09:40:16 EDT > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > JESSE J. LIVESAY - was a son of John and Mary (CAMPBELL) LIVESAY, both > natives of > Greenbrier County, and the family record is: John LIVESAY, born August > 25, > 1775, > married Mary CAMPBELL, born May 15, 1777. They were married September 1, > 1795, > and their children were born: Sarah, July 20, 1796, died about 1850; > James, > April 3, 1798, died in Ohio: Thomas, March 20, 1800 died in Ohio; Nancy, > March > 28, 1802; John, May 3, 1804, died in November, 1882; Betsy, August 21, > 1806, > lives > in Ohio; Jesse, subject of this sketch, November 28, 1808, a farmer and > grazier > of Fort Spring District; Campbell, October 17, 1811; died in the West, > July > 1841; > William, April 26, 1814, died in Ohio, March 15, 1850; Joseph, June 2, > 1817, > died > in this county, April 22, 1841, Charles R., March 26, 1820, died in > California. > John, father of these children, died September 3, 1840, and his widow > died > September > 3, 1849. Jesse LIVESAY married, near Lewisburg, Eveline C. TUCKWILLER, > who > was born > near Lewisburg, October 28, 1819, a daughter of David and Sallie (LINSON) > > TUCKWILLER, > both natives of Greenbrier County, and now many years deceased. The > record of > the > children of Jesse J. and Evaline C.(TUCKWILLER) LIVESAY is: Sarah F. > (CARAWAY), > born February 26. 1835, lives on Muddy Creek, this county; Samuel A., > August > 9. > 1837, died October 4, 1879; Mary M., August 13, 1839, died August 1, > 1858; > Eliza > T., September 13, 1841, lives at home; David T., September 24, 1843, > lives in > this > county; Charles W., September 2, 1846, lives at home; Catharine L., March > 18, > 1849, lives in this county; Alfred E. W., June 8, 1851, lives at home; > Elizabeth > M. T., September 20, 1853, lives at Ronceverte; Nonnie C., June 9, 1856, > died > April 30, 1881; Martha H., September 17, 1858, died September 1, 1861; > Annie > R. > M. (ERVIN), June 13, 1861, lives in this county; Jesse E., February 15, > 1863, > lives at home. The family postoffice address is Ronceverte, Greenbrier > County, > West Virginia. > Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical > Encyclopedia. New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. > Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. > Richwood: Comstock, 1974.Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, , > 1998. > ********************************************************************** * > JOHN LIVESAY - was a son of George LIVESAY, who was born of English > parents, > in Rockingham County, Virginia, December 14, 1780, came to this county in > his youth and here married Mary SWITZER, born near Mill Point, Pocahontas > County, August 3, 1786. Their son John was born in Greenbrier County, on > Spring Creek, April 3, 1807, and has always made his home in this county. > George LIVESAY died at Richlands, this county, March 21, 1865, and his > wife > died at Richlands, February 26, 1857. The wife of John LIVESAY is > Margaret, > daughter of Jesse and Margaret (HAPTONSTALL) BRIGHT. She was born near > Frankford, February 22, 1821, her father was born in Carlyle County, > Pennsylvania, November 13, 1779, and her mother in this county, on > Greenbrier River, March 22, 1789. Her father came to this county in his > boyhood, and he died here, March 17, 1857; her mother died November 27, > 1867. The marriage of John and Margaret (BRIGHT) LIVESAY was solemnized > near Frankford, September 3, 1840, and their children were born: Mary > Margaret, September 23, 1841; Elizabeth Virginia, June 20, 1843; Louisa > Ann, July 6, 1845; George Allen, July 6, 1849; Sabina, November 9, > 1852; > Belinda Cornelia, September 17, 1854; Jesse Bright, January 4, 1857; > John > B., January 23, 1858; Helen Eudora, October 4, 1861, died September 9, > 1863; Lillian Eudora, October 4, 1863; James Walter, January 10, 1868. > Mary M. lives in Hillsborough, Pocahontas County, Sabina in Gallipolis, > Gallia County, Ohio, and the others at home. Mary M. is married to Rev. > David S. SYDENSTRICKER, Sabina is the wife of John S. ROGERS, and Belinda > C. is the wife of Henry WALLACE. John LIVESAY lives near Frankford on a > fine farm of 400 acres, and has been all his life a successful farmer. > He was opposed to the war of the States, and took no part in it. > Frankford, > Greenbrier County, West Virginia is his post office address. > Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical > Encyclopedia. New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. > Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. > Richwood: Comstock, 1974.Transcribed and submitted by Ed Johnson, , 1998. > ********************************************************************** ****** > GEORGE WASHINGTON LIVESAY - born near Frankford, Greenbrier County, > January > 11, 1843, was the son of Joseph and Rachel (BRIGHT) LIVESAY, natives of > this > county. He volunteered for service in the Confederate army, joining > Company > E, 60th Virginia Infantry, June 1, 1961, and he fought in all the battles > in > which that regiment was engaged until the closing year of the war, > receiving discharge in April 1, 1865. In Pocahontas County, West > Virginia, > September 29, 1874, he was united in marriage with Margaret E. BEARD, who > was born on Locust Creek, Pocahontas County, April 15, 1847. Josiah > BEARD, > now deceased, and Rachel (POAGE) BEARD were her parents. Mr. LIVESAY > accepted the issues of the war, and returned home to the pursuits of > agriculture. He is a successful farmer and large stock grower, owning > 1,000 > acres of grazing land, near Falling Spring. The address of George W. > LIVESAY, Falling Spring, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. > Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical > Encyclopedia. New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. > Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. > Richwood: Comstock, 1974.Transcribed and submitted by Ed Johnson, , 1998. > ********************************************************************** ****** > WILLIAM R. LIVESAY - owns a farm in Lewisburg District of 1,500 acres of > Blue > Grass land, well watered and stocked. He is also the owner of LIVESAY > Mill, > on the Lewisburg and Williamsburg pike. His birth was in Falling Spring > District, > this county, January 6, 1817, and all his life has been passed here. He > has > been one year president of the board of supervisors and two years justice > of > the peace. May 5, 1855, in this county he married Ann Elizabeth > PATTERSON, > and they had two sons: George, born May 5, 1857, died January 7, 1858; > William Crawford, born July 12, 1860, lives at home, engaged in farming. > > Ann E., wife of Mr. LIVESAY, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, came > to > Greenbrier County about the age of twelve years, and died on her > husband's > farm July 19, 1862. She was a daughter of John and Jane (CRAWFORD) > PATTERSON, > and her parents, natives of Augusta County, are deceased. Her father > died in > Augusta County, and her mother in Charlottesville, Virginia. September > 8, > 1864, William R. LIVESAY married Elizabeth Groves HERN, who was born in > Augusta > County, Virginia, May 28, 1829. She was a daughter of Joseph and Barbara > > (STRICKLER) HERN, who came to Greenbrier County when she was a girl, and > died in this county, her father on the 7th of July, 1869, and her mother > on the 20th of March, 1873. Joseph HERN was born in Shenandoah County, > Virginia, in 1787, and Barbara, his wife, was born in Rockingham County, > Virginia, October 7, 1797. William R. LIVESAY, who was born near Blue > Sulphur, > this county, December 14, 1780, and in Pocahontas County married Mary > SWITZER, > who was born on Little Levels, Pocahontas County, August 3, 1786. They > resided > in Greenbrier County until death, and both died on the farm now owned by > William R. > George LIVESAY died March 21, 1865, and his wife died February 26, 1857. > > The brothers and sisters of William R. LIVESAY were Thomas, John, > Rebecca, > Andrew, Joseph, Elizabeth, Allen, Melinda Mary, Washington, Lucinda, and > Harvey. William R. LIVESAY's postoffice address is Richlands, Greenbrier > County, West Virginia. > Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical > Encyclopedia. New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. > Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. > Richwood: Comstock, 1974.Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, , > 1998. > ********************************************************************** ****** > --------- End forwarded message ---------- >