The son of James & Mary (Wallace) Livingston, in 1860 he was living with his farming family in Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. By 1865, he stood 5' 9" tall and had light hair and gray eyes. The family is in the 1850 and 1860 censuses as "Levingston."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-four and mustered into federal service at Lancaster February 25, 1865, as a private with Co. I, 195th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company January 31, 1866, at Washington DC.
He died from a sixty-foot fall from Big Conestoga Bridge, a plunge that fractured his skull and left "portions of the brains scattered six feet around." Those who discovered his remains reported that he "smelled of liquor" but "was not intoxicated," although they did not specify how they concluded a dead man had been sober. A coroner's jury ruled his death accidental.
His actual date of birth is a question mark, and the one used above is not necessarily correct. The problem is that several Ancestry family trees claim he was born November 10, 1835, which is five years older than every other report. Beside his stated age at enlistment, his obituary lists him as "about fifty years of age," while the 1850 census has him as eight years old and the 1860 census lists him as a twenty-year-old. He is not found in the 1870 census and while the 1880 census lists a man of his name living in his general area, it claims he was single and born in 1845, so it is not certain this is he.
Some of those above mentioned Ancestry.com family trees also claim he first married Barbara Donnelly, ignoring the fact that this alleged union would have required him to father his first child at the age of eight and two more by the time he was eleven. They also show him marrying Mary A. Evans and fathering Mary (b. 08/01/60) and others previous to that, the first of which requires her to have borne her first child at the age of thirteen. Mary successfully applied for a widow's pension, so future research may reveal more details. Until new evidence emerges, reports of his alleged marriages should be taken with a grain of salt.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-four and mustered into federal service at Lancaster February 25, 1865, as a private with Co. I, 195th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company January 31, 1866, at Washington DC.
He died from a sixty-foot fall from Big Conestoga Bridge, a plunge that fractured his skull and left "portions of the brains scattered six feet around." Those who discovered his remains reported that he "smelled of liquor" but "was not intoxicated," although they did not specify how they concluded a dead man had been sober. A coroner's jury ruled his death accidental.
His actual date of birth is a question mark, and the one used above is not necessarily correct. The problem is that several Ancestry family trees claim he was born November 10, 1835, which is five years older than every other report. Beside his stated age at enlistment, his obituary lists him as "about fifty years of age," while the 1850 census has him as eight years old and the 1860 census lists him as a twenty-year-old. He is not found in the 1870 census and while the 1880 census lists a man of his name living in his general area, it claims he was single and born in 1845, so it is not certain this is he.
Some of those above mentioned Ancestry.com family trees also claim he first married Barbara Donnelly, ignoring the fact that this alleged union would have required him to father his first child at the age of eight and two more by the time he was eleven. They also show him marrying Mary A. Evans and fathering Mary (b. 08/01/60) and others previous to that, the first of which requires her to have borne her first child at the age of thirteen. Mary successfully applied for a widow's pension, so future research may reveal more details. Until new evidence emerges, reports of his alleged marriages should be taken with a grain of salt.
The son of James & Mary (Wallace) Livingston, in 1860 he was living with his farming family in Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. By 1865, he stood 5' 9" tall and had light hair and gray eyes. The family is in the 1850 and 1860 censuses as "Levingston."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-four and mustered into federal service at Lancaster February 25, 1865, as a private with Co. I, 195th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company January 31, 1866, at Washington DC.
He died from a sixty-foot fall from Big Conestoga Bridge, a plunge that fractured his skull and left "portions of the brains scattered six feet around." Those who discovered his remains reported that he "smelled of liquor" but "was not intoxicated," although they did not specify how they concluded a dead man had been sober. A coroner's jury ruled his death accidental.
His actual date of birth is a question mark, and the one used above is not necessarily correct. The problem is that several Ancestry family trees claim he was born November 10, 1835, which is five years older than every other report. Beside his stated age at enlistment, his obituary lists him as "about fifty years of age," while the 1850 census has him as eight years old and the 1860 census lists him as a twenty-year-old. He is not found in the 1870 census and while the 1880 census lists a man of his name living in his general area, it claims he was single and born in 1845, so it is not certain this is he.
Some of those above mentioned Ancestry.com family trees also claim he first married Barbara Donnelly, ignoring the fact that this alleged union would have required him to father his first child at the age of eight and two more by the time he was eleven. They also show him marrying Mary A. Evans and fathering Mary (b. 08/01/60) and others previous to that, the first of which requires her to have borne her first child at the age of thirteen. Mary successfully applied for a widow's pension, so future research may reveal more details. Until new evidence emerges, reports of his alleged marriages should be taken with a grain of salt.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-four and mustered into federal service at Lancaster February 25, 1865, as a private with Co. I, 195th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company January 31, 1866, at Washington DC.
He died from a sixty-foot fall from Big Conestoga Bridge, a plunge that fractured his skull and left "portions of the brains scattered six feet around." Those who discovered his remains reported that he "smelled of liquor" but "was not intoxicated," although they did not specify how they concluded a dead man had been sober. A coroner's jury ruled his death accidental.
His actual date of birth is a question mark, and the one used above is not necessarily correct. The problem is that several Ancestry family trees claim he was born November 10, 1835, which is five years older than every other report. Beside his stated age at enlistment, his obituary lists him as "about fifty years of age," while the 1850 census has him as eight years old and the 1860 census lists him as a twenty-year-old. He is not found in the 1870 census and while the 1880 census lists a man of his name living in his general area, it claims he was single and born in 1845, so it is not certain this is he.
Some of those above mentioned Ancestry.com family trees also claim he first married Barbara Donnelly, ignoring the fact that this alleged union would have required him to father his first child at the age of eight and two more by the time he was eleven. They also show him marrying Mary A. Evans and fathering Mary (b. 08/01/60) and others previous to that, the first of which requires her to have borne her first child at the age of thirteen. Mary successfully applied for a widow's pension, so future research may reveal more details. Until new evidence emerges, reports of his alleged marriages should be taken with a grain of salt.
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