Janett Russell LIVINGSTON

• General Notes
  • named after maternal grandmother
    
    b. UT, f/m b. Scotland/Scotland
    m. SLC, UT to Orson A. DESPAIN 1870
    removed SLC, UT to Granite, UT > 1870
    removed to Fountain Green, Sanpete Cty, UT 1879
    
    Family Data Collection - Individual Records
    Name: Janet Russell Livingston
    Spouse: Janet Russell Livingston
    Parents: James Campbell Livingston , Agnes   Widdison 
    Birth Place: Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, UT
    Birth Date: 21 March 1855
    Marriage Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT
    Marriage Date: December 1871
    Death Place: Fountain Green, Sanpete, UT
    Death Date: 21 February 1937
    (Comment:  no sourcing indicated.)
    
    source:  Family Data Collection - Individual Records, ancestry.com
    
    from bio of son Charles DESPAIN:
    Charles L. Despain, identified with farming interests near Birch Creek, at Fountain Green, was born in Salt Lake City, November 8, 1874, his parents being Orson A. and Janett (Livingston) Despain. The father came to Utah in 1861, settling in Salt Lake City, where in 1870 he was married. He established his home in Granite ward and worked for a number of years in the church quarry at Wasatch, getting out granite for the temple. In 1879 he removed to Fountain Green and is now living a quiet and largely retired life. He filled a mission to Australla in 1910, spending two years as traveling elder, and following his missionary work was made a high priest. The mother was a daughter of James C. Livingston, who came from Scotland to Utah in 1853 and was one of the bodyguard of President Young. He was a most capacle managed of men and directed the labors of a large force in railroad building in Utah. He also had charge of the quarry in getting stone for the temple until it was completed in 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Orson A. Despain were the parents of the following named: Nettie, Agnes, Zoella, Lefern, Orson, James, Ira, Harold, Leland and Charles L. 
    
    source:  Utah Since Statehood: Historical and Biographical. Volume III., ancestry.com
    
    1900 US Census (Jun 13), residing in District 123, Fountain Green, Sanpete, UT, dw/fam 124/181, head of h/hold is James C. LIVINGSTON (indexed as LEVINGSTON), white, male, b. Dec 1833, age 66, m. 46 yrs (est m yr 1854), b. Scotland, f/m b. Scot/Scot, immig 1853, in U.S. fof 47 yrs, citizenship "Na," occup quarryman, able to read/write/speak Eng, owns home unmortgaged, home = farm, living with wife Agnes, white, female, b. Dec 1831, age 68, m. 46 yrs, 0/0 children surviving [sic], b. Scotland, f/m b. Scot/Scot, immig 1853, in U.S. fof 47 yrs, able to read/write/speak Eng; next door at 125/182 is James LIVINGSTON (indexed as James J. LEVINGSTON), b. Feb 1857, m. 25 yrs (est m yr 1875), b. UT, f/m b. Scot/Scot, occup farmer, wife Phebe, b. Dec 1856 UT, f/m b. PA/unknown, son Arthur b. Dec 1882 UT at school, son Claud b. Oct 1886 UT at school, son Ray b. Apr 1887 UT at school, dtr Ivy b. Feb 1892 UT at school, Mable b. Mar 1898 UT.  Also in FG, Sanpete, UT at 182/189 is (sister) Janett DESPAIN UT Mar 1855, at 184/191 (3rd wife) Annie LIVINGSTON UT Feb 1854.  56 LIVINGSTONs in all in Sanpete Cty in 1900.
    
    Image source: Year: 1900; Census Place: Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah; Roll: T623 1686; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 123.
    
    1870 US Census (20 Jun), residing on (no house no. indicated), Garden Street, in Twentieth Ward, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, dwelling 21 in order of visitation, family 21 in order of visitation, head of h/hold is James LIVINGSTON, age 34 (b est 1836), male, white, day laborer, val of real/pers estate 2000/500, b. Scotland, f/m "of foreign birth," living with Hannah 31 (est b yr 1839) female white "keeping house," b. England, f/m "of foreign birth," [cf this Hannah with neighbor's wife in 1860], Thomas 7 (b est 1863) at school b. UT, Agnes 5 (b est 1865) at home b. UT, William 2/12 b. May 1870 UT, Agnes 38 (b est 1832) "no occupation" b. Scotland, Jennette 15 (b est 1855) at school, b. UT, James 11 (b est 1859) at school, b. UT, George 8 (b est 1862), at school, b. UT, Robert 5 (b est 1865), at home, b. UT, Charles 3 (b est 1867), at home, b. UT.  Immed nbrs are day laborer John/Jennette GIBSON 30/30 Scot/Scot and day laborer John/Souse MC CULLY 33/29 Scot/Scot.  No other LIVINGSTON h/holds on page.  Only other LIVINGSTON enumerant b Scotland in Salt Lake County is Charles b est 1835 in Ward 11 (living w/Jane age 28 b England).
    
    source:
    Roll: M593_1611, Page: 716, Image: 777
    
    1860 US Census (, residing in Great Salt Lake City Ward 20, Great Salt Lake, UT, dw/fam 1523/24, head of h/hold is James C. LIVINGSTON (indexed as LEVINGSTON), age 26 (b est 1834), "conv laborer," b "Scot," [record resumes top of next page], Agnes 29 F Scot, Janet 5 F UT, James 2 M UT, Archibald 1week M UT.  Immed nbrs at 1522/23 are clerk W. C./Hannah DUNBAR 37/28 Eng/Scot and 8 young children, two youngest b. 5 months apart.  Dwelling 1524 unoccupied.  Note also Chas LIVINGSTON b est 1835 in North Bend, Sanpete, UT, day laborer in h/hold of Alexr/Jeannette GIBSON 33/29 Scot/Scot; and James/Christine LIVINGSTON (indexed as LEVINGSTON) b est 1789/1833 in Great Salt Lake City Ward 11, Great Salt Lake, UT.  No other LIVINGSTON (soundex) in UT in 1860.
    
    Image Source: Year: 1860; Census Place: Great Salt Lake City Ward 20, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory; Roll: M653_1313; Page: 293; Image: 299.