Livermore Family

LIVERMORE SHERMAN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/20/2010 at 22:17:43

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Livermore Family
By Mamie (Stanly) Cooper

John Livermore left Ipswich, England, and came to Watertown, Massachusetts in 1634 at the age of 28. He was married in England to Grace Sherman. John moved to New Haven, being one of the original settlers. Grace was an obstetrician. She died January 14, 1690, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, at the age of 75. John (2) was born in 1638 at Wethersfield, Connecticut, and died February 9, 1719, in Weston, aged 80. He married Hannah and they had nine children, John, Hannah, Sarah, Joseph, Daniel (3), James Martha, and Mary.

Daniel (3) was born June 8, 1678, and died March 16, 1727, in Weston. He married Mehitable Norcross, born February 4, 1691, in Watertown. Daniel was an ensign in the Militia. He was the original proprietor of the town of Leicester. In 1719 he received a ‘special grant’ of 400 acres on which he built a house. It was No. 29 lying at the foot of Livermore Hill. They had ten children, Daniel (4), Joseph (his twin), Jonas, Mehitable, Isaac, Hannah, Abraham, and Nathan.

Daniel (4) was born January 16, 1708, in Weston. He married, in 1732, Mary Southgate, born in England in 1712. They had six children, Daniel, Mary, Haynes, Sarah, Anne, and Abraham (5). Abraham was born August 13, 1749, in Weston, and died March 11, 1826, in German, Chenango County, New York. He married April 19, 1712, in Weston. Hephzibeth Williams, who was born January 6, 1754, and died January 28, 1850, in Paris Hill, New York.

Abraham lived for many years in Pelham and was a town officer there in 1778. In the winter of 1775-76 he was a private in the militia. Records of Pelham show that he carried provisions to the army in Cambridge. In 1777 after the war he lost his property by the depression of the Continental Currency, and in 1795 he left Pelham and with his wife and nine children emigrated to New York.

Leaving the family at Parish Hill, in the spring of 1796, with an axe, he made his way through the forest by means of marked trees to German. There he took Lot 92 containing 153 A. and 36 Perches. He received a deed dated January 13, 1816, the cost being $383. He was one of the first settlers there. His land was afterwards called Livermore corners. From their isolated position in the wilderness, remote from any settlement, the family suffered great privation and hardships. He kept the first inn in German. Their children were, Rebecca, Abraham (6), Mary, Hepsibeth, Daniel, Abel, Sally and Cyrus.

Abraham (6) was born July 21, 1776, in Pelham and died December 9, 1846, in German. He married Betsy Comstock, April 17, 1803, in Pelham. She was born August 25, 1783, and died March 27, 1871, in Dubuque, Iowa. Abraham had a farm on the south side of his father’s, settling there in about 1796. Their children were, Mary, Caroline, Abigail, Oliver, Betsy, Charles Comstock (7), Hepsy, Adeline, George and Benjamin.

Charles (7) was born December 27, 1815, and died August 31, 1878, at Oto, Iowa. He married Caroline Storing, born in Chenango County, New York, and died in 1863. Their children were, Albert, twins (died in infancy), William B, George Franklin, Dell (8), and Leroy. After his wife died, Charles moved to eastern Iowa, then later to Woodbury County.

My Grandmother, Dell (8), was born August 6, 1858, and died December 11, 1831, at Oto. She was married at Cherokee to Achilles Mead. Their children were: Seba, my mother, born July 4, 1879, died August 1, 1957; Elva, born September 24, 1881, married James Hafley; Chester, born 1886, died young; Jessie, born August 21, 1889, died May 27, 1951, married Lewis Green (Jessie was telephone operator for many years at Oto); and Ray, born 1893, died April 3, 1930. My Grandparents farmed all of their lives around the Oto community.
Seba, my mother, married Joseph married Joseph Stanly on November 2, 1912, at Sioux City. Dad was born September 29, 1877, at Ida Grove, and died February 14, 1956. Their son, George, was born August 14, 1914, at Sioux City. He contracted polio at an early age, which left him handicapped. I, Mamie, was born July 31, 1916, at Oto and married Lewis Cooper, November 24, 1941, at Forsythe, Missouri. My sister, Marguerite, was born March 17, 1919, at Hornick.