Branching out from St. Clair Vo 7 #1 Nov 1979 pb 24-30 1849-1948 History of Randolph County Ill. pg. 50 -58
History of St. Clair county Ill. pg 260,264,56,126,263,264, pg,371n, 371j, 110,73,265,130,148,182.
1830 Census Ill. Males; 1/20-30, 1/60-70,females 1/60-70 REFN738 A SKETCH OF JOHN AND MOLLY LIVELY Written to H. A. Brown by his sister. Mrs. M. B. Pees John Livelyand his wife, Molly, has seven sons, of whom Joseph was the eldest. He married Mary Anderson. They were parents of several children. Mary, who was called Polly, and Jane, also Peggie and several others. Peggie married a man named Bowerman. Jane married John Campbell. They became the parents of John Cauley, Margaret Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Alexander Carroll, and Nancy Ellen. Nancy Ellen married William Eugene Brown. Mary Ann married Henry Bertman, Brown. You and myself were among their several children. Alexander Carroll married Lena Mary EllenBrown. Margaret Elizabeth married Amos Knap Glen. Among their children are Elizabeth Emily, Mary Jane, Amos Junior and Nancy. John Cauley Campbell married Eliza Bergfeld. This brings us down to your own memory but you wanted not only our lineage, a history of our ancestors. A former letter tells that the Andersons family were Scot, but the Lively's were Irish. What I am now writing you has been handed down as facts or as a bit of history, and was gathered while visiting years ago among some of the descendants of the five Lively brothers who settled in an early day in Washington and Randolph Counties, Illinois. Wesley Lively who lived in Vernon County, Missouri, was a descendant of the same Lively family. John Lively Junior, a son of John Lively Sr. and one brother of the five who settled in Illinois, moved into the wilderness, taking his family with him against the advice of the others. He was killed, and his family were all killed by Indians, except one little girl who had been taken by friends on horseback to visit in Randolph County. Vandailia, Illinois now stands near the place of their death. Jennie, the little survivor of the family was reared by the friends to whom she had been intrusted that luckless day. Nat Hill of Old Palestine, Illinois. She was in the line of ancestry of Emma (Caudle) Brown How sturdy was that Irish stock of our forbears will unfold itself when we realize what long journeys taken and the keen woodsmanship of the g-g-grandfather John and his red headed wife, Molly. We find it difficult to realize the sturdy handyhood, and self reliance required of people in those far off days. I will try to give you a brief sketch of the fighting qualities of Molly Lively as handed down tome. But try as we have, we have been unable to locate the British Camp where the soldiers died by the hundreds of smallpox. If we could find that we would know where our ancestor enlisted in the Revolutionary army. We would also know from where they came to Illinois. Our mother has often said,"Father's people came from the East in the states but mother's came from South Carolina." The Livelys from Georgia, the Campbell from South Carolina and later from Tennessee. One evening in the early days of the Revolutionary War, John Lively came home from a distant village, putting in rifle in the accustomed place on the buck horns above the huge fireplace, then laying his supplies on the table said " Molly, I have enlisted. I will have to start for camp just after candle light and Joe had best go with me." "Go with you, John? Why Joseph is only twelve." But Joe wanted to go and he pleaded with his mother saying, "The Red Coats will get me if only to keep me out of the army." But his mother prevailed and little red-headed Joe stayed with her.
This day I am 71 years of age I have had 51 grandchildren (9 of them are dead) 42 Grandchildren now living. 2 Great grand children. Stephen Wood was born Jan 26 1749 and parted from his friends Nov 6 1749 and began teaching school Nov 13th and was married Dec 19 1771. Began House keeping Jan 6 1772 and on the 27-28-29th days of the same month the Great Snow fell 4 feet deep and the 5th day of May 1774, the Great frost that killed every growth. Keeping Shcool on Bucklodge Montgomery County Maryland, in the year 1776 and 1777 In the year 1779 Nov 11th day we departed from Sineca Montgomery County Maryland and on the 7th December 1779 we arrrived in Rowan County in the Yadkin Forks, Noth Carolina Sept the 23 1797, we started from North Carolina and arrived at Kentuck river, the place of our abode the 7th day of Nov 1797. and after living there 29 years we sold out and left Fayette County on Sept 1826 and moved down and settled in Shelby County Setp 26 1830 we started for Illinois and safely arrived there the 9th day of October 1830
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