Samuel Livermore (abt. 1778 - 1823)

Ancestors

Husband of Lura (Chase) Fuller — married 16 Apr 1801 in Livermore, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Nov 1823 at about age 45 in Livermore, Oxford, Maine, United States

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Biography

Birth

No record has been found of the birth of Samuel Livermore, According to the 1874 history of Livermore, Maine, and the 1860 Watertown Genealogies, he was born in April 1778, the youngest son of Samuel Livermore and Hannah (Clark) Livermore. The former source gives his birth date as 6 Apr 1778, the latter source has the date as 21 Apr 1778 and names him as the twin brother of Betsey Livermore, who died at the age of 1.^[1][2] His parents' last child was recorded in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1770, and they settled permanently in Livermore in 1779. Their residence in 1778 is unknown, but they may have been living temporarily at Winthrop, Maine (then in Massachusetts).^[3]

Marriage

Samuel Livermore and Lura Chase both of Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts), published their intention to marry at Livermore on 4 Mar 1801 and were married there on 16 Apr 1801.^[4]

Character

From the 1928 history of Livermore:

He was elected in 1813 to the Great and General Court [of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts] and was considered to be a genial, comfortable, easy-going man, not very keen in a trade as was evident by the gradual disappearance of his property.^[5]

Death

Samuel Livermore died on 26 Nov 1823,^[1] and he is buried at the Hillman Ferry Cemetery in Livermore, Maine. His FindAGrave memorial has a photo of a gravestone, but the text on it cannot be read from the photo.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Israel Washburn, Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal of Livermore, in Androscoggin (Formerly in Oxford) County, Maine (Portland, Me., 1874), page 16
2. ↑ Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston: to which is appended the early history of the town (two volumes, second edition, Boston, 1860), page 351
3. ↑ Reginald H. Sturtevant, A History of Livermore, Maine, Second Edition (Trafford Publishing, n.p., 2010), page 76
4. ↑ Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910; "Livermore Vital Records, 1762-1810," unpaginated,FHL Microfilm 11332, Image 289 of 718
5. ↑ Ira Thompson Monroe, History of the Town of Livermore, Androscoggin County Maine; From Its Inception in 1735 and Its Grant of Land in 1772 to Its Organization in 1795 Up to the Present Time 1928 (Lewiston, Me., 1928), page 152
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #61788641