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 The Green Bag Volume XXIV

August, 1912

Number 8

The Late Knox Livingston BY W. H. MULLER OF THE DILLON, S. C., BAR COL. KNOX LIVINGSTON, president of the South Carolina Bar Association, who died March 22, 1912, was born in Madison, Fla., on the first day of January, 1850. He was one of a number of children of Daniel G. Livingston, who, in the year 1826 came from Glendurnel, Argyleshire, Scot land, and settled first in Richmond County, North Carolina, from which place he subsequently moved to Marl boro District in South Carolina, where he met and married Rhoda Townsend, a daughter of Samuel Townsend. In 1845 he moved to Madison, a small town in the state of Florida, where he continued to live during the remainder of his life. His son, Knox, attended the public schools in Madison and later entered the University of North Caro lina, at which place he was distinguished for his zeal as a student and devotion to duty. Upon completing his work at the University of North Carolina, he began the study of law under Judge Vann of the Madison bar, and in the year 1869 was admitted by a special act of the legis lature of the state of Florida to prac tice law in that state. A short time after he came to Bennettsville, Marlboro County, was admitted to the South

Carolina bar in 1870, and formed a partnership for the practice of law with J. H. Hudson, subsequently a Circuit Judge of South Carolina, and H. H. Newton, the firm name being Hudson, Livingston & Newton. This associa tion continued for some time, and Ben nettsville became the permanent home of Colonel Livingston. In later years he was in partnership with Col. Edward Mclver of Cheraw, Capt. Harris Covington of Bennetts ville, Capt. W. J. McKerrall of Marion, Judge C. P. Townsend, J. B. Gibson and W. H. Muller, all of whom held him in the highest esteem and respected him as a man of unusual personality and talents. In the year 1871 he was married to Ella Wells, a daughter of Jacob H. Wells of the city of Columbia, and had born to him five children, three of whom lived to maturity. The eldest, Sadie, married William M. Hamer of Dillon, S. C., and died in 1910." The second daughter, Rhoda, married H. J. Haynesworth, a prominent attorney of Greenville, S. C., and is still living, while the third, a son, Vann, lives in Atlanta, Ga. As a lawyer, attorney and advocate, Colonel Livingston had very few if