Charles Jenkins Lively (1896 - 1986)

Born 8 Nov 1896 in Stephenville, Erath, Texas, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Nellie Katheryn (Batt) Lively — married 1 Jul 1920 in Chandler, OK

Descendants

Died 9 Dec 1986 at age 90 in Fort Gibson, Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States

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Biography

Charles was born on November 8th, 1895 in Stephenville, Erath, Texas, United States to Richard Edward Lively and Luvera Jane "Lou" (Jones) Lively^[1][2]

Charles was the only child of Richard Edward Lively and Luvera Jane "Lou" (Jones) Lively, but he had several half brothers and sisters from his father's previous marriages in Arkansas.

Charles registered for the World War I draft on June 5, 1917. According to a story he once told me, his draft card came up, but he was late and missed the train that was supposed to take him to basic training, so he just went back home. No one ever came looking for him.^[3]

Marriage

Charles married Nellie Katheryn (Batt) Lively on July 1st, 1920 in Chandler OK. They moved around a great deal, but always ended up back in Oklahoma.

They had 9 children^[4]

• William "Bill" Lively
• Allie (Lively) Dunback
• Edward Augustus Lively
• Charlie Lively
• Nellie Mae (Lively) Carmen
• JC Lively
• Dolly Lou (Lively) New
• Kenneth Lively
• JD Lively

When I was growing up, every year we would travel back to Fort Gibson, Oklahoma for the family reunion that they held in July, to correspond with their wedding anniversary.

Charley loved Nellie. When they were in the nursing home in Fort Gibson together, he asked my mother and her sister to bring in some whiskey to give Nellie as he believed it would help cure her Alzheimer's. He passed away on December 9th 1986 in a hospital in Muskogee Oklahoma, just across the hall from the room where his wife died just 11 days earlier. When we told him that she had passed, he almost seemed to give up.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2C-36JC : 13 December 2015), Charley J Lively, 1986; Burial, Fort Gibson, Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States of America, Citizens Cemetery; citing record ID 64524239, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMGJ-5DT : accessed 18 November 2019), Charles Lively in household of Richard Lively, North & South Choctaw Townships, Lincoln, Oklahoma Territory, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 124, sheet 14B, family 269, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,339.
3. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZDN-8BF : 24 August 2019), Chas J Lively, 1917-1918.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBKY-WMQ : 27 July 2019), C J Lively, Gatesville Township, Wagoner, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 73-10, sheet 4A, line 26, family 63, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3338.
5. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JYPY-Q3R : 20 May 2014), Charley Lively, Dec 1986; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

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