 Samuel H. LivingstonClick on the small picture to see a larger photo |
| Born June 8, 1829, in Alabama (probably Walker Co.)
Died October 11, 1869
Whitesboro Cemetary - 1 |
| Son of Anthony Livingston and Margaret Ann Kinney |
| Married Malissa Catherine Martin on April 29, 1858 (State of Texas - Marriage License - County of Cooke - 1849 - 1879 - by Mrs. Frances Terry Ingmire shows: "4/12/58 Samuel Livingston - Malicie C. Martin)
Malissa was born February 6, 1840, in Tishomingo County, Mississippi |
| Children |
| 1. Rebeka Jane Livingston Born March 27, 1859 Died October 6, 1861 |
| 2. Uel Green Livingston Born January 19 (or 22 ?), 1860 (or 1861 ?) Died October 6, 1861 |
| 3. Lucy Ann Livingston Born October 19, 1863 Died November ?? Buried - Midland, Texas Married _____ Randall |
| 4. Thomas Livingston Born in Scurry County, Texas, September 3, 1866 Died November 22, 1926 |
| 5. Margaret Olive "Ollie" Livingston Born May 31, 1870 Married William "Bill" Wilkins (Malissa was 2 months pregnant with Margaret when Samuel died in 1869) |
 Tom, Ollie and Lucy - probably about 1871-1872 Click on the small picture to see a larger photo |
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Confederate record shows S. H. Livingston, age 35, 4th Sergeant, 11th Texas Cavalry (Texas Confederate Index, Micro Reel # 9) The 1850 census shows Samuel Livingston was living with his family in Hot Springs Co., Arkansas. He was 21 at the time. Deed records show he and his family moved to Cooke County, Texas, in 1852, where they settled on 320 acres on Cross Timber Creek about 15 miles east and southeast of Gainesville, Texas, not far from the Grayson Co. line. (Deed Records, Cooke Co., Texas, Vol. 4, pp. 636-38) Note: Mary Livingston Plumlee had notes regarding Samuel Livingston - "Samuel's first wife was buried on the place settled by his father near Whitesboro in Cooke County. Called "Uncle Sam" by Mary Livingston Plumlee's grandfather. Listed with his brothers and father in their migration from Alabama to Arkansas to Texas. (If anyone has any more information on this, please send to lmoore@hal-pc.org. Thank you!) "Saml. H. Livingston and Mallissa K. Livingston, Wife - $800 - Sold - 160 acres - Pat No 18, Vol. 16 - 12 Sept. 1862 - Cooke Co. on the waters of Cross Timber Creek, a tributary of Trinity River about 12 1/2 degrees East from Gainesville beginning at a stake the northwest corner of Edward Cachran's survey from which . . . 3 Dec. 1862" (Deed Records 1863) Margaret Ann Kinney Livingston (Samuel's mother) died of pneumonia in Cooke County, Texas, on October 18, 1869. She is buried in the Whitesboro Cemetary at Whitesboro, Grayson County, Texas (Cook County Probate Records, Vol. 8). Samuel died on October 11, 1869, in Cooke County, Texas and two of his brothers, Kay and James, also died in October 1869 and were buried in the Whitesboro Cemetary at Whitesboro, Grayson County, Texas. (One brother died on October 18 and one on October 29) - What a terrible month for this family! |
