Coosa County AlArchives Biographies.....Livingston, A. R. February 10 1845 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   A. R. LIVINGSTON, farmer of Kellyton, Ala., is a son of John and Susan
(Rylant) Livingston, the former of whom was a native of Orangeburg district, S.
C., born in 1803. By occupation he was a farmer, and he was a member of the M.
E. church. He was married in Autauga county, Ala., having come to this state
when quite a young man, to a Miss Derden, by whom he had five children. After
his first wife died he married again, and by his second marriage he had thirteen
children. The family about 1840 moved to Coosa county near Kellyton, where the
father died in 1870, and the mother in June, 1888. Most of the children live in
the vicinity of Kellyton at the present time. A. R. Livingston was born February
10, 1845; he enlisted in the Confederate service in 1863 in company D,
Seventeenth Alabama infantry, Gov. Watts' regiment, as a private soldier. His
first active service was in the Atlanta campaign, and he was wounded by a musket
ball in the left arm in a charge at Peach Tree Creek. The arm was amputated next
day, and Mr. Livingston returned home on furlough, where he remained during the
rest of the war, and ever since that time his armless sleeve has told an
eloquent story of honorable service. He was married in 1872, 19th of December,
to Miss Ella Washburn, by whom he has had four children, viz,: Eula, eighteen
years old; Columbus B.; Mary S., and Carrie. He has been a farmer in the beat in
which he now lives all his life. He was justice of the peace for six years in
the seventies. In 1880, he was elected by the democrats tax assessor and was
re-elected twice, and is now retiring from his third term of office. It is
generally conceded that he has been the best tax assessor the county has ever
had. Politically he has always been a straight-out democrat. He is a member of
the M. E. church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 729



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