John LIVESLEY
- Extended Description
- Private John LIVESLEY Col 6 New York Cavalry
Born 12 October 1838, died 23 October 1867 in Stoke on Trent.
Credit following extract to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-14669172
Born in Shelton in 1838, John Livesley was the son of a local pottery manufacturer. In January 1864, on a trip to New York, Livesley was enlisted into the 6th Regiment New York Cavalry, fighting on behalf of the Union. Livesley's military career came to a swift end. In August 1864 he was admitted to hospital with gun shot wounds that would result in the amputation of an arm and leg. Having made it home to Stoke-on-Trent, Livesley set himself up as a grocer in Lichfield Street, Hanley, and married Ellen Twigg of Bucknall in 1866. But only four months into his marriage, he passed away in 1867 aged 29 - having possibly never fully recovered from his wartime injuries.
Commemorated on a family headstone at
Hanley Stoke-on-Trent Cemetery, Staffordshire.
