The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-22

tomb which bore above its dismal door
the name of James B. Livingston.
The plot in which the young man for
whom the church-bell had Just done toll
ing had been buried was back of all these
tombs and monuments of his ancestors.
Within the little iron fence that encir-
cied it were evidences that death had be-
gun its rayages among the third genera
ton. When the marble slab is erected
above the body which has Just been
buried stranger may read with
in this plot the names of four children Of
Morgan Lewis Livingston, who are buried
beside their father. They are "MaAning
Livingston, lieutenant in the Third U.
S. Artillery, who was killed at the battle
of Gettysburg, July I'd, 1858, in TWEEN
tieth year of his age" Amnesty Lvings-
ton, who died in 1870, aged thirty-one;
Gertrude Elizabeth a daughter, who
died last year, and Matarin Livingston,
just buried.
The tombstone erected above the grave
of their father tells at once which branch
of the family they were of. 1t says: "In
memory of Morgan Lewis Livingston,
eldest son of Maturin Livingston. Died
1869, aged seventy years." So the young
New Yorker who has just died was the
son of Morgan Lewis Livingston, the
grandson OF Maturin Livingston, the
great-grandson of General and Governor
Morgan Lewis, who signed the Declara-
ton of Independence. But the wife of
General Morgan Lewis, his great-grand-
mother, was Gertrude Livingston, who
was daughter of Judge Robert R. Liv-
ingston. The neutrality-suspicious. of
young Maturin Livingston ON his moth
er's side was therefore Judge Robert r.
Livingston, who married Margaret Beck
man. His great-great-great grandfather
was Robert Livingston, of Clermont, and
Robert Livingston, of Clermont, was the
son of Robert Livingston, the Scotch
Holland emigrant. -.a
Robert Livingston, of Clermont, was
not, however, the first son of the emigrant
from Holland, and therefore the Living
ston manor, of which Robert was the
first lord, has not descended in that
branch of the family to which Mr.. Ma
turin Livingston belonged. This manor,
which is nearly opposite the Catskill
Mountains, was inherited by Philip Liv-
ingston (the eldest son of Robert, the
emigrant) in 1928. For three lives tie
immense property was kept tc;iretiner On
the death of Robert the son Of Philip,
the estate VS. rs, however, divided. Subse-
qaepr..ly Alice Livingston married Alex
ander Croft, and in the seventh genera
tion the Crofts are the present owners of
the manor-house.
In conclusion it is interesting to leaof
the names and fate of the children
Judge Robert r. Livingston, whose father
was the founder of this branch to which
the young Mr.. Livingston belonged. The
bare record shows that though not of the
line in progeniture its members have for
the most part been distinguished. Their
mother, as before stated, was the beauti-
full Margaret Beekman, and they were:
Janet, born in 1743, who married Gen.
Richard Montgomery; Robert R., born
in l746; who became First Chancellor Of
New York; Margaret Tillotson, born in
174S; Henry B., born in 1850, who be-
came Colonel during the Revolution;
Catherine, born in 1852, who married the
eminent Methodist preacher, the Rev.
Freeborn Garretson, Of Maryland; John
R., born in 1865; Gertrude, born III 1857,
who became the wife of Governor Nor
gan Lewis; Joana, born in 1859, who
married Peter R. Livingston; Aida, born
in 1761, who married United States SEN
ator, General John Armstrong, and Ed
ward, Secretary Of State, under President
Jackson.