Thomas Lively [2577]

  General Notes:

LIVELYVILLE, TEXAS.
Livelyville, on San Pedro Creek just off Farm Road 228 and four miles northeast of Grapeland in northern Houston County, was first settled by Thomas Lively, his family and several others in 1850. Lively provided land for the community cemetery between 1855 and the Civil War. A one room combination church and school was built in the 1870's; the school was discontinued in 1901. During the mid-1930's the community had a church, a cemetery, and a number of houses. Livelyville was included in the Grapeland Independent School District in 1938. After WW II many of its residents moved away, and by the early 1900's only a church, a cemetery, and a few widely scattered houses remained in the area. The Texas Historical Commission placed a state historical marker honoring the community's earliest residents, in the cemetery in 1982. Descendents of Lively and other families continued using the cemetery in the 1980's

Thomas married Betty Bolen [2578] [MRIN: 866] on 16 Feb 1832 in Anderson County, South Carolina. (Betty Bolen [2578] was born in 1811 and died about 1841.)

Thomas next married Emily Dickey [2579] [MRIN: 865] in 1844. (Emily Dickey [2579] died in 1845 in Georgia.)

Thomas next married Jane Dotson [2580] [MRIN: 864], daughter of William Dotson [7903] and Margaret Stewart [7902], in 1847 in Walker County, Georgia. (Jane Dotson [2580] was born on 25 Jul 1822 in Alabama, died on 10 Oct 1922 in Grapeland, Houston County, Texas and was buried in Livelyville Cemetery, Houston County Texas.)