Christopher Columbus Lively [642]

  General Notes:

Both Christopher Columbus lively and wife Mary Fisher died in an accident involving a horse-drawn wagon crossing railroad tracks at Pax Junction in Fayette County, West Virginia. A folk song was written to commemorate the accident and it was recorded by Blind Alfred Reed in Victor Records #21533-B. The lyrics:

Listen friends I will tell you a story
It is one that is sad to relate
At a crossing not far from Pax Junction
that Chris Lively and wife met their fate.

CHORUS
Oh the mistake he made at the crossing
when he drove the wagon on the railroad track,
they were killed, engine crushed poor Chris' wagon
Oh how sad to know they never can come back

It is sad when we think how it happened
This sad fate of Chris Lively and wife
They were driving along being happy
never thought they would be robbed of life.

(CHORUS)

They were killed at a place near Pax Junction
They are going to come back never more
T'was an east bound train that killed them
lives were crushed out by train number four.

(CHORUS)
Now good people I hope you take warning
As you journey along through this life
everytime when you see railroad crossing
just remember Chris Lively and wife

(CHORUS)

  Noted events in his life were:

• Location.

• Gravestone Inscription.

• Family: The elderly Christopher and his wife.

Christopher married Mary Elizabeth Fisher [4101] [MRIN: 533] on 14 Jan 1874 in Fayette County, West Virginia. (Mary Elizabeth Fisher [4101] was born on 30 Sep 1854 in Monroe County, Virginia, died on 2 Sep 1927 in Fayette County, West Virginia and was buried in Lively Cemetery, Town Creek, West Virginia.)