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Black plaque № 23615

Orange, TX, United States

Samuel H. Levingston. A native of northern Ireland, Samuel H. Levingston was born in 1832, the son of George and Margaret Levingston. At the age of fourteen he left Ireland with his brothers, David and John, and his sister, Margaret. They settled in Apalachicola, Florida, where Samuel Levingston wor

ked as a ship carpenter. There in 1852 he married Asenatha Moore. Shortly before the Civil War began, the Levingstons moved to the area near what is now the city of Orange and established a shipyard o

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