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From: "jarmscoop" <>
Subject: [WVGREENB-L] Fountaine/Fountain Livesay/Renick/Handley
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:47:14 -0800


Thought this might interest you who are researching the William
Fountain Livesay/Mary
Handley lines.

Joyce in Ca.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3231
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/r/m/Joyce-C-Armstrongcooper/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~carvgs/rgs.htm
Main names I am researching, VINCENT, TAYLOR,
BRUNS,LIVESAY,ELLIS,MCCLUNG,JOPLING, COOPER, and
many more, too numerous to post....

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> From: T Ellis <>
> To:
> Subject: [LUFSEY-L] The William Fountaine LIVESAY Family
> Date: Thursday, November 05, 1998 10:27 PM
>
> The William Fountaine LIVESAY Family
> >From The Kansas City Genealogist Volume 27, #1/2, pages
> 60 & 61
>
> William Fountain LIVESAY (1787-1858) married 22 June
> 1809 to Mary "Polly" HANDLEY (1783-1874) and had the
> following children:
>
> 1. Sabina LIVESAY, born 27 Apr 1810, married Robert
> RENICK
>
> 2. Joseph LIVESAY, born 21 Oct 1811, married 1 Jun 1842
> Amanda HANDLEY, who was born 16 Oct 1823. Joseph
> died Nov 1850 and Amanda died 25 Jul 1844. She was his
> second cousin, a daughter of Arch HANDLEY and Bettie
> BARBEE, his first wife. Joseph LIVESAY died of cholera in
> California. Their child was Mary Elizabeth LIVESAY, born 7
> Mar 1843 who married James RENICK. Amanda died when
> she was 16 month old and she was reared by her father's
> sister, Rebecca HANDLEY-LIVESAY. Mary Elizabeth was
> known to her close friends variously as "Bettie," "Betsy" or
> "Bit Bet." She and her half-fist cousin Virginia GILLESPIE
> were devoted to each other throughout their lives. Having
> no children of her own, she reared her first cousin Mary
> Elizabeth LIVESAY, daughter of John LIVESAY who was
> known as "Mary Bettie" or "Little Bet."
>
> 3. Rebecca Handley LIVESAY, born 18 Mar 1814, married
> Strother Stroud RENICK who was born in Barren County,
> Kentucky and moved with his parents to western Missouri
> where he became a wealthy landowner, holding many
> slaves who at the end of the Civil War left his plantation.
> His parent were William RENICK (5 Sep 1782-28 May
> 1880), who was the father of James RENICK (husband of
> Mary Elizabeth LIVESAY) and of Elizabeth Ann RENICK
> (1833-1889), who became the wife of George Washington
> LIVESAY. Most of the LIVESAYs and RENICKs of this
> generation and relationship are buried at the Arnold
> Graveyard in Lafayette County, on the north side of
> Highway 24, between Napoleon and Wellington, Missouri.
>
> In addition to raising "Big Bet," Strode and Becky RENICK
> brought up Joe, Belle and Kate LIGHTNER and assisted
> their brother John LIGHTNER to finance his school
> education. All of these were children of her sister, Mary
> Margaret LIVESAY. During the period covered by the
> infamous Order No. 11 issued 21 Aug 1863, during the
> Civil War, they gave shelter and comfort in a small house
> on their farm to a number of other relatives including Nancy
> Ann Ward, wife of her brother, William Wallace LIVESAY
> and her three small children.
>
> 4. John LIVESAY, born 15 Feb 1816, married? Had four
> children: George, Hugh, Virginia and Mary Elizabeth (known
> also as Mary Bettie and Little Bet. Mary Bettie married Will
> JONES of near Independence. He died before 1940.
>
> 5. Sarah LIVESAY, born 15 Feb 1818, married Doctor
> Ward.
>
> 6. Mary Margaret LIVESAY, born 15 Dec 1821 married
> Hiram LIGHTNER. She died 24 Feb 1850.
>
> 7. William Wallace LIVESAY, born 1 Oct 1824, married
> Nancy Ann Ward who was born 22 Jun 1833. He died
> 17 Sep 1898 and she died in 1878. He was nine years old
> when he moved with his parents from White Sulphur
> Springs, Virginia (now West Virginia) to Missouri. The family
> located on a from two miles south and one mile east of
> Napoleon, a small landing town for boats on the Missouri
> River. The long trip from Virginia was made in a wagon.
> His parents remained on this farm the rest of their lives and
> were buried in the Arnold Cemetery. Bill LIVESAY, as he
> was called, became a "plainsman" and a "49er." At the
> outbreak of the Civil War he was employed by the
> government hauling provisions out west to army posts. He
> made 24 trips across the plains. All of his children were
> born on a 260 acre farm in the northeast corner of Jackson
> County, Missouri where he lived until 1883. The Missouri
> Pacific Depot called LEVASY was located on a plot in the
> northwest corner of their farm which he donated to the
> railroad. Although the station was named for the donor, the
> name was spelled phonetically by the railroaders. He sold
> this farm in 1883 and south one of 149 acres four miles east
> of Independence, the county seat of Jackson County,
> where he died in 1898. Their farm was ten sold.
>
> Nancy WARD's father was David WARD; one of the three
> named to select the county seat when "by an act of the
> General Assembly approved December 15, 1826, Jackson
> County was raised to the status of an independent County."
> At that time the rich prairies were considered useless and so
> following a survey of the county for several weeks, the men
> decided on a thickly wooded hill near the famous public
> springs as being the most near the center of the inhabitable
> part of the county. This site which was to become the
> public square of Independence, was at that time part of the
> old Indian trace from Fort Osage, which later became
> known as the Santa Fe Trail.
>
> Nancy, and most members of her family who have since
> died, were buried in the Salem Cemetery, six miles east of
Independence
> and one mile west of McCune Home, on
> Highway @24.
>
> 8. George Washington LIVESAY, born 8 Aug 1830, married
> Elizabeth Ann RENICK who was born 18 Mar 1833. He
> died 30 Oct 1884 and she on 23 Aug 1889. They lived at
> the homeplace where his father located southeast of
> Napoleon. Her parents were William Henry RENICK,
> brother of Strother RENICK and Sarah Ann EWING
> (1812-1883), daughter of Col. William Young Conn EWING *1788-1853)
(War
> of 1812 and son of Major Urban EWING
> and Polly). Col. W. Y. C. EWING married Ann REID who
> died in 1812 in Kentucky.
>
> (The above genealogy of the LIVESAY family is from records
> in the Jackson County Historical Society Archives.)
>
> I found this at the FHC Wednesday. There was no author
> named. I have a feeling it was possibly written by Mrs.
> Marvin MAXWELL. There was another genalogy given
> titled "My Favorite Ancestor" by her. She is the great grand
> daughter of William Wallace LIVESAY. When we went to
> photocopy it, they copier ran out of toner, and I only have
> one page of it. It was 5 pages long. If I get the balance of
> it next week or this weekend, I will type it up, and mail it to
> the list.
>
> Tina
>
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