Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-21

e. Lively, OF this city, died to-day after
a long and painful illness, due to his
age and a complication of ailments.
William Edward Lively was the son
of Charles and elizabeth Lively, and
was born March 6, 1880, in Williams
burg, Virginia. AT the age of six
months he was left motherless, and to
the care of a faithful colored servant
until three years old, when his father
again married, and his stepmother as
sumed control of him. Being an only
boy, he ives generally permitted his own
way, and was sent to the best OF
schools. Wnen eighteen years old his
father, who was a sailor all his life,
offered him a schooner of 100 tons bur-
den If ne would take the command. De-
Ginning this proposition his father next
rendered 250 acres of land and to stock
the same with negroes, animals and
farming utensils, in addition to the 200
acre farm already owned and inherited
by him from his mother. This was also
rejected. Ambitious to carve out his
own fortune, and without the knowl-
edge OF his father, he accepted the Dep
uty S%ergeantcy of Williamsburg city.
While thus employed he took an aca-
demic curse DIT William and Mary's
College. His life from 1851 to 1854 was
spent mostly in travelling, teaching and
clerking. In 1854 he began the study of
law. In 1856, through a disagreement
with Prof. Minor of the Law depart
ment of William and Mary's College,
IN which the instructor was accused of
Partially, Mr.. Lively refused to pre-
sent himself for graduation. In 1857
he formed a law partnership with the
late Caleb Borgess., of Clarksburg, and
made his first appearance at the Bar in
CHENILLE, Gilmer county, about the 18th
OF March OF that year.. In 1859 he NOV
ed TO Weston, and practiced until the
opening OF the war in 1861. In that
year the County Court of Gilmer made
an appropriation of So 900 Ito arm and
equip soldiers for the defence of the
State against Northern INVASION and
M. Lively was appointed to negotiate
the bonds n eXpend the money. He
went to Richmond and in an interview
with General Wise it was agreed to
commission him as Lieutenant Colonel
OF a regiment and appoint Judge VIM.
l.. Jackson as Colonel, provided Mr..
Lively would return to Lewis county,
recruit a regiment and report at
Hawks Nest, in Greenbrier county.
This was undertaken, n he was cap
tured in Weston by troops under COM
m1nd of Col. e. b. Tyler, and from
weston was sent a prisoner to Grafton
put in confinement. During the
confinement the Confederate guer-
rIlias shot two Union men in Lewis
county, and it was seriously contem-
plated by the military authorities to
retaliate and put to death Mr.. Lively
and }. I. Jackson, a prisoner confined
with him. In this time of trouble Col
onel Lander, Of Kentucky. went to
Washington and procured a parole for
him. During his imprisonment Gen
erals Rosecrans, Kelly and Fremont
commanded that department, and to-
ward them he felt grateful for hui
name and gentle treatment, each of
whom paroled him and gave him pass
TO travel any where within their COM
mand. While enjoying this freedom he
went to Wheeling to have some dental
work done, and only tool one dinner
at the Mcclure House when he was ar
rested and ordered into the Atheneum,
the old war prison in this city. Through
the leniency of Major Darr, Provost
Marshal, he was intercepted and per-
mitted to take meals at the Monroe
House, sleep at Dr.. WinchelIs and play
clerk in the Provost Marshal's office.
This continued three days, when he
was ordered by General Rosecrans to
report at Clarkshurg. His career as
freeman lasted about three months,
when he was re-arrested and served as
prisoner in Forts Delaware. Warren,
Point Lookout and Fortress Monroe. at
which latter place he gained the conf
dence of General John A. Dix, COM
mandant, and was chosen by him as
agent to purchase supplies for the cit
liens of Williamsburg and vicinity.
About the 10th of May, 1863, General
Wise with $500 men made a raid to
Williamsburg, and among others cap
tured Mr.. Lively and sent him to
Richmond, when he was soo released
from parole and entered the Confed-
crate service as a private. He Joined
the Tenth Regiment of Cavalry, Com
pany /, until after the battle of Spott-
%sylvania, c. H., where he gave out and
was sent to Richmond into the Treas
ury Department, serving there until
Richmond fell. Thence he returned
home to see it a ruin and wreck of
despair and abandonment. He return
ed to Weston to be confronted with the
test oaths and prescription laws that
We're incident to the times.
June 3, 1869, he welded Emily North
Shaw, daughter of VIM. M. Shaw. of
Concordia Parish, Louisiana. and niece
of Hon. Simeon North. President of
Hamilton College, New York. He was
been prominent in every State, first
Congressional. and his own Senatorial
and county conventions, from 1868 to
the present. In 1872 he was elected
Prosecuting Attorney for Gilmer coun-
ty. and served four years. In 1876 he
was appointed Director OF the Hospital
for the insane. In 1875 he removed
from Chenille to Weston. In 1884 he
was a Delegate to the Chicago Conven-
ton from the First Congressional Dis
trict and voted first for Randall and
next for cleveland. He was elected as
Delegate to the House of Delegates of
1889, and was one of the leaders in
that body. Modest and unassuming.
but forcible and impressive, he COM
manded respect irrespective Of party.
Such was the confidence of his party
they made him first In their selection