Thomas-Bryan-Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Rosalie Livingston 1843 - March 2 1901 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Charles Blankenship Pylessrp@aol.com January 28, 2004, 5:35 pm Author: Charles Blankenship Rosalie D. (Rosa) Livingston was the daughter of James Henry Livingston and his second wife Emma Louise Hartridge. Her father was from SC and mother from Savannah, Georgia. They married in Augusta, GA in 1834. On the 1850 U. S. Census, the family was living in Madison, Madison Co., Florida. Rosa and her siblings born by 1850 appear in that census enumeration. She was 7 years old at that time. Nine years later, she met and married William Samuel Harn (Jr.) in Duval Co., FL. William was the son of Rebecca Pyles and William Samuel Harn of Alachua Co., FL. His parents were married in the 1830's and had moved to what became Hernando Co., by 1842 to prove and patent his father's 160 acres of land he received known as the Armed Occupation Act (AOA). After patenting the land his parents first relocated to Hillsborough Co. and finally back to Alachua. On the 1850 U. S. Census, William (Jr.) was in his Uncle, James Pyles household in Marion Co., FL. After their 1859 marriage, Rosa and William apparently moved to Ocala, Marion Co. where their two children were born. James Livingston Harn was born there on May 3, 1860 and his sister, Willie Samuel Harn on August 13, 1862. When the Civil War broke out, William enlisted in G. Co., 7th Florida Infantry Regiment (where his surname is shown as Hearn instead of Harn). During the Fall of 1862, his Regiment saw action at Perryville, KY where he was captured. By the end of the year, there was a POW exchange going on from KY to Cairo, IL and Vicksburg, MS. William contracted smallpox enroute and died in early 1863. According to an eye witness report, he was laid out on the banks of the Mississippi River. Rosa Livingston Harn then was widowed with two infant children. Family lore had it that she married a William H. Clay and she is buried by that name. The 1880 U. S. Census shows a family of William H. Clay, in Thomasville, Thomas Co., GA. William H. Clay, age 58 was a hotel keeper with his wife Rosalie D. and a daughter, Alma, age 17 as his only close relatives. Little else is known of their life from 1880, but again family lore and cemetery records shows that Rosalie D. Clay, age 58 died in Palatka, FL and is buried in the "Old City Cemetery" in downtown Jacksonville, Duval Co., FL. A survey of the transcribed and published records of the cemetery reveals 25 Livingstons, including her parents buried in the general section and close by. Her son, James Livingston Harn died in 1945 and is also buried in the same cemetery. Her daughter, according to family lore married a George Metcalf and died in Palatka in 1937. Their child, Roaslou Harn Metcalf, married a Charles Howard Rowtan. She died in Palatka in 1913 and is buried in the Westview Cemetery. According to Livingston researchers, Rosa's father was the son of Robert Livingston and Lucy Garrett. Her first husband, William's father was from Bryan Co., GA and his parent's were William Harn and Amelia Robinson Ratcliff or Radcliff. William's mother's parents were Samuel R. Pyles of Glynn Co., GA and Charlotte Wynn of Savannah, GA. William S. Harn, Sr. and his brother's came to the Alachua area as did Samuel Pyles in 1824, before the County was formed. Additional Comments: Graves in "Old City Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida" compiled by Mary-Louise Howard for the Southern Genealogist's Exchange Society (SGES). Livingston researchers: Joe Slavin III and James Archibald Livingston, Jr. Census records for 1860 and 1880. More on William Samuel Harn & his family + Rebecca Pyles family can be gleaned from Ancient Records of Alachua County, Florida (online)at: http://www.clerk-alachua-fl.org/clerk/searchmenu.html Additionally both families are included in sketches published by the Alachua County Genealogical Society (ACGS) quarterly: 'LATCHUA COUNTRY NEWS. Glynn Co., GA Court House Records, American State Papers and Territorial Florida Records record both Harn & Pyles/Piles lives after the families entered the Territory of Florida in 1824. Early Colonial Georgia Records also has both Harn & Piles records dating to the earliest Colonial days. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb