Judy "Judith" Lively [150]

  General Notes:

Judy Lively is placed here as speculation in the hope that someone with knowledge of Judy Lively can further enlighten us. The information we have is in the following:
Francis Gaines was born in Albemarle County in 1759 (per gravestone inscription, Elbert County, Georgia). Elbert County records confirm that he married Judy Lively and the date of the marriage has been set in 1783-87 ( Some say it was 1792). Francis would have been 24 in 1783. Francis died in 1825 at 66.

There is a suggestion on RootsWeb (Ethics-in-Genealogy-L) that Judy was a descendant of the Mark Lively family. In speculating where Judy Lively came from, it says, " . . . there was a Lively family living in the Buck Island community in Albemarle County, making such a marriage possible."

As you recall, no daughters of Mark were mentioned in his will and he cut out his two oldest sons, one of which was William. True to family tradition, those Livelys not mentioned in the will moved on to other places. Francis Gaines and wife Judy " . . . moved from Virginia to Georgia (1792) by way of an Indian trail which later became U. S. 29." (Salisbury Post (Georgia Newspaper))

Judy married Francis Gaines [4028] [MRIN: 116], son of Heirom Gaines [30848] and Margaret "Peggy" Taliaferro [30849], about 1780 in Albemarle County, Virginia. (Francis Gaines [4028] was born in 1759 in Albemarle County, Virginia and died in 1825 in Elbert County, Georgia.)