Charleston County ScArchives Obituaries.....Livingston, David P. "Doc" Livingston October 21, 1981
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Buffalo Evening News, Buffalo, NY

119 YEAR-OLD DIES
NIAGARA FALLS N Y (AP)—David P. "Doc" Livingston, 119 died Wednesday of on 
apparent attack. Livingston worked at the Union Carbide plant until the 1940s 
when the company learned he was in his 80's and forced him to retire. After 
that, he became a construction worker and kept working until he was 92. 
The records indicate he was born in Charleston, S.C. on June 10, 1862, in the 
midst of the Civil War. Friends say he smoked unfiltered cigarettes and chewed 
tobacco "And he'd drink anything if it was good." said Inez Caver, his 
landlady who said she had known him for 35 years. He prayed and sang a lot and 
was a member of the New Hope Baptist Church, friends said. Mrs. Caver said 
Livingston came to Niagara Falls in 1937 and worked at the Union Carbide plant 
until the 1940s when the company learned he was in his 80's and forced him to 
retire. After that, she said, he became a construction worker and kept working 
until he was 92.
He had his own apartment until about three years ago when he moved into a room 
above Mrs. Caver's restaurant. She said last year he quit taking walks and 
just sat at the  window watching the neighborhood, tapping on the floor with a 
cane when he wanted a meal. Mrs. Caver said they don't know how he got his 
nickname or much about his younger days except that he used to tell stories 
about being a carnival worker, a sailor and a fire-man on a wood-burning 
locomotive. He has no known relatives, she said. "But we were his family," she 
said. "I really thought of 'Doc' as family because I'd known him so long. Of 
course, everybody knew `Doc."' After funeral services on Friday, burial was to 
be in Riverdale Cemetery.~Buffalo Evening News,  21 Oct 1981.

David P. "Doc" Livingston (B. 10 Jun 1862. D. 21 Oct 1981)

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