Brooks-Thomas-Colquitt County GaArchives Biographies.....Livingston, Thomas John 1828 - 1903
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   CAPT. THOMAS JOHN LIVINGSTON. A South Carolinian who for many years was
prominent in the public life of the state of Georgia, the late Capt. T. J.
Livingston was born at Abbeville, South Carolina, on the 25th of February, 1828,
and was a son of Thomas and Margaret (Fraser) Livingston.

   The first of the name to come to America was Robert Livingston, who settled
in New York and lived there the rest of his life. He married Alida Schuyler. He
was known as first lord of Livingston Manor. From him the line of descent is
through the following: His youngest son Gilbert who married Cornelia Beekman was
born in 1690 and died in 1746; was registrar of the colonial court of chancery,
1720; county clerk of Ulster county, 1722; member of the assembly for the manor,
1728-1737, and lieutenant colonel of the provincial militia. Cornelius, son of
Gilbert, married a Taliaferro, and both died in Virginia, Their son Thomas was
twice married, his wives being sisters, Mary and Nancy Childs, of Virginia. He
was a private in Company Eight of Virginia, under Capt. Thomas Tebbs, April,
1777, as shown by record of Revolutionary War by W. T. R. Saffell, page 275.
Thomas, a son of Thomas, married Margaret Fraser, of Abbeville, South Carolina
and they were the parents of the late Captain Livingston. Leaving South
Carolina, they became pioneers of Madison county, Florida. For a number of years
after their settlement the Indians were so troublesome that each community had
its fort or block-house, to which the inhabitants fled on the first alarm.
Thomas Livingston, the father, was a lawyer by profession, but spent most of his
years as a planter, having a large number of slaves. He and his wife spent their
last years on the plantation home near Madison.

   Thomas John Livingston, their son, was eight years old when the family moved
to Florida, in which state he was reared and educated. He began his career as a
farmer and was engaged in that occupation when the war between the states began.
Raising a company for the Confederacy, he was made captain, and as a comrade
wrote after his death, he performed his duty faithfully and with ability in
every position he was placed. At the close of the war he entertained for a few
days at his home Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, who was then trying to elude capture
by his federal pursuers. Captain Livingston and Captain Tucker took this noted
Confederate leader in a boat down the Suwanee river to the coast, whence he
embarked for Cuba.

   After the war Captain Livingston engaged in merchandising at Quitman,
Georgia, for a time, and then retired to his farm in the Grooverville district
of Brooks county. During succeeding years he took a high stand as an influential
and able leader in civic affairs. He was chosen state senator and represented
the counties of Brooks, Thomas and Colquitt. During his youth he united with the
Methodist church, and for a quarter of a century was superintendent of his local
Sunday-school. He was faithful in his religion, making it a practical guide in
his everyday life, was a just and upright man, and a splendid type of the old
southern gentleman. His death occurred at his homestead in Brooks county on the
15th of February, 1903.

   Captain Livingston was twice married. Margaret S. Wyche, who became his first
wife, was born at Madison, Florida, daughter of John Scott and Hannah Lawson
(Maelntyre) Wyche. Her ancestry is interesting. Henry Wyche, founder of the
family in America, was born in England and came to the colonies about 1679,
settling in Surry county, Virginia, and is mentioned as one of the foot soldiers
of Surry county, Virginia. His son George (II) lived in Surry county, and
George's son Peter (III) lived in Brunswick county, Virginia. George (IV), son
of Peter, married a Miss Scott and became a pioneer settler in Richmond county,
Georgia. Batte (V), the next in line, married a Miss Jarrett. John S. (VI), son
of Batte, married Hannah Lawson L. MacIntyre. The latter was a daughter of
Archibald and Hannah (Lawson) MacIntyre, and a lineal descendant of Daniel
MacIntyre, founder of that name in America (see MacIntyre sketch). Captain
Livingston's first wife died at the age of thirty-five, and he later married
Ellen Groover. The children of Captain and Margaret (Wyche) Livingston were:
Margaret Fraser, who became the wife of the late Archibald T. MacIntyre, of
Thomasville (see preceding sketch); Lula Lawson, who married William H. Mitchell
and lives in Thomasville; Irvene Camillas, who married, first, T. J. Howard,
and, second, T. L. Shofner, and lives in Dade City, Florida; Thomas John, who
married Mary McCall and lives in Fitzgerald. The children of Captain
Livingston's second marriage are: Donald Madison; Emily Josephine, wife of
McCall Quarterman, of Lane Park, Florida; LeRoy Rushin; and Helen Lucile, wife
of R. W. Adams, of Boston, Georgia.



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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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