>Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 18:50:39 -0700 >From: Chrystie <chrystie.adm@verizon.net> > >Source: TNSEVIER-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [TN-Sevier] RE: More LINDSEY Info of Sevier, TN > > >Pardon the intrusion, if I have something I'll share it with all if I see >a surname I'm familiar with. >Chrystie > >Here's what I found thus far on the LINDSEY'S of Sevier, TN. Will >continue looking for Jessie's will... >Found at >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.lindsey/342.347.355 >under "Sevierville LINDSEY" > >Extract copy from -Report of Research Committee, Pittman Center, >Sevierville, Tennessee > >The Lindsey Family began with Sir Jonathan Lindsey, who was born in >Scotland and settled near Boston, Mass. in 1796. His children were: >Jesse, Robert, and William. > >Jesse Lindsey fought under General Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. He >settled on an entry of about 1050 acres in Sevier County, Tennessee >around where Evans Chapel, now stands. Jesse Lindsey married Salinah Ivy >(Ivay/Ivey). Jesse Lindsey Salinah Ivy are the Sevier County Lindsey >Patriarch Matriarch. Members of the Lindsey family show-up throughout >Sevier County records as Justice of the Peace, Judge, Census Taker, >Magistrate Reverend back to the very early 1800's. > >Jesse Salinah had ten children: Hannah, William, Lydia, John, Elizabeth, >Sherrod, Patsey, Eli R., Martha, and Joel. >Copy -- Genealogy of the LINDSEY FAMILY. > >The following is quoted from a standard Encyclopedia. (Full information >about the Lindsey family can be obtained by referring to the "Lives of the >Lindseys" by A.W. Crawford Lindsey, Earl of Crawford and Lindsey.) > >The encyclopedia says: "Lindsay; Barons and Earls; a distinguished >family in Scottish peerage, descended from Sir Walter de Lindsay, an >Englishman of Norman descent, who in the reign of David I, acquired >Ericidoun and Luffness in East Lothian. In the twelfth century the >lands of Crawford of Clydesdale came into possession of the family by a >marriage with the royal line of Scotland. His nephew and heir, Sir David >married a sister of King Robert III, and was made by that monarch Earl >of Crawford, while Sir William, David's younger brother, became ancestor >of the Lords Lindsay of the Byers, Haddington, and through a natural son >was also ancestor of a celebrated poet, Sir David Lindsay of the Mount. >In the fifteenth century the Earls of Crawford were among the >wealthiest, proudest and most influential of the Scottish nobility and >took a large part in the civil warfare of that agitated period. David >the fifth Earl, a trusted minister of James III, was made Duke of >Montrose in 1488, a title never before bestowed in Scotland except on >princes. In l644, the tenth Lord Lindsay of the Byers was created Earl >of Lindsay and soon thereafter obtained also by a new creation the >Earldom of Crawford extinct in the older line. John, fourth Earl of >Lindsay and Crawford, born in October 1702, was distinguished General in >the Russian service in the German campaign, l743-45, and the suppression >of the movement of the Pretender in Scotland in 1746." > >The following information about the Lindsay family was furnished by >Judge Isaac N, Lindsay, Sevierville, Tennessee. > >Sir Jonathan Lindsay, born in Scotland and 1796 settled near Boston, >Massachusetts. There survived him three sons: Jesse Lindsay, Robert >Lindsay and William Lindsay. > >Jesse Lindsay made entry for two tracts of land on Soak Creek, now >seventeenth Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, in 1836 and 1838. >Total acreage estimated at 1050. > >Jesse Lindsay married Salina Ivy (Ivay/Ivey). > >Children: >Hannah married Frederick Jackson Shults >William married Pheobe Broyles >Lydia married Isaac Huskey >John married Polly Huskey >Elizabeth married R. Evans >Sherrod married Polly Williams >Betsy married Manning McCarter >Eli R. married Mary C.Cardwell >Martha married A. Preston Shults >Joel married Polly Lindsay (who was a widow) > >(The title of "Sir" would descend to the oldest son of William Lindsay, he >being the oldest son in the family.) William Lindsay's father-in-law lived >near Cosby Academy. > >The children born to William and Phoebe Broyles his wife are: > >Polly Ann married (1) Reuben Williams (2)Bill Jenkins >Rachel married (1)Sanders Baxter (2)Joel Dennis >Isaac V. Lindsay married (1)Beersheba Webb (2)Millie Baxter >John W. Lindsay married Sarah Jane Smith >Elizabeth married James Hembree >William G. married Ann Proffitt >Lucinda married Robert Dennis >Jackson F. married Eliza McMillan >Phoebe J. married Anderson McMillan >Baxter H. married(1) Elizabeth McMillan (2) Meadows > >The children of John W. Lindsay, who lived near Evans' Chapel, are: >Isaac M. married Martha Jane Loveday >Fannie E. married Oscar Shults >William T. married Margaret Huskey >Martha E. married J.F. Jones >Mary L. married Stephen Huskey > >Children of ELI R. LINDSEY and MARY C. CARDWELL are: buried in Corinth >Baptist Cemetery >DAVID ROGER ELI LINDSEY, b. March 19, 1868, Sevier County, Tennessee; d. >May 13, 1953, Loudon, Tennessee. married MARTHA CALDONIA "CALLIE" LEWIS >July 02, 1887 in Sevierville, Tennessee, daughter of COLONEL HAMPTON LEWIS >and CAROLINE ALLISON >FRANCES ELIZABETH "BETTY" LINDSEY, b. September 26, 1864; d. December 16, >1960. >NANCY E. LINDSEY, b. 1862. >JOHN W. LINDSEY, b. 1864. >MARTHA S. J. LINDSEY, b. 1867. >JESSIE LINDSEY, b. 1871. >ROBERT P. LINDSEY, b. 1876. > >Children of David Rodger Eli LINDSEY and MARTHA LEWIS are: >ROSA BELL LINDSEY, b. March 11, 1903, Sevierville, TN; d. March 08, >1969, Loudon, TN. married JOSEPH LUTHER COOK April 15, 1922 in Sevier >County, Sevierville, Tennessee, son of CHARLES COOK and MARGARET C. DIXON >AUGUSTUS A. "GUS" LINDSEY, b. December 01, 1912, Sevierville, Tennessee; >d. October 24, 1951; m. VERNA. >LIZZIE LINDSEY, b. 1909. >Robert P. Lindsey 1898 ­ 1973 married Margie E. 1900 ­ 1983 both buried in >Loundon, Tn Corinth Baptist Cemetery >PERRY A. LINDSEY, b. March 19, 1896; d. December 03, 1973, Sevierville, >Sevier County, Tennessee. Married Frances Owenby > >Perry Lindsey SSN 414-28-8343 >Residence: 37862 Sevierville, TN >Born 19 Mar 1893 >Last Benefit: >Died Nov 1973 >Issued: TN (Before 1951) > >LUTHER LINDSEY, b. 1903; m. ALGIA; b. 1904. > >Children of ROSA LINDSEY and JOSEPH COOK are: >JAMES BUFORD COOK, b. November 26, 1922, Sevierville, TN; d. April 09, >1986, Kansas City, KS. married THELMA LOUISE CARDIN October 03, 1947 in >Madisonville, TN, daughter of JOSEPH CARDIN and ANNIE HENRY >FRED COOk married Jewel Lea Walker >EARL COOK, marreid SUSIE. >ROSA BLANCHE COOK married Neel > >The following information was furnished mainly by Rev. J. P. Lindsay: >John Lindsay, fourth child of Jesse Lindsay, married Polly Huskey, >daughter of W.M. Huskey. This is the W.M. Huskey who was the father of >seventeen children. He lived in Sugarlands. > >Children of John and Polly Lindsay: >Salina Lindsey married (1) Preston Whaley and lived in Greenbrier (2) >Tiliman Houck, lived East Fork (One of Salina's children remained here, >Mrs. B.B. Montgomery, Dudley Creek.) > >Dolly Lindsey married Frederick Huskey, Emerts Cove > >Children: >John married Polly Owenby >Mary married Cage Rector and left this county >Callie married Andrew Rayfield, moved to Anderson County >Minnie married Thomas Whaley moved ro Bradley County >James married unknown Rayfield >Alonzo married Unknown Cardwell >Ashley married Minnie Parton >One other son married unknown Price > >John Lindsey married (1) Rhoda Shults (2) Mary Farar Moved to Texas >Jesse Lindsey married (1) Laura Rector (2) Ida Sizemore moved to >Jefferson County >Brownlow married Belle Farar moved to Texas >James Preston married (1) Callie Mullen (2) Isabelle Ramsey > >Children: >Fredrick M. married Caldonia Mullins moved to Jefferson County >Dolly married (1) James McCarter (2) Andrew Jenkins moved to Cocke County >Lina married (1) Bert Sizemore (2) Joel Ramsey >Mattie married Perry Whaley lives at Sevierville >Lonie married Andrew Webb lives in Blount County >Bartlett married Ida Green lives on the 13th District Sevier County >Analee married (1) Isaac Whaley (2) Dave Stinnet lives at Smoky Academy >Westley unmarried > >Jefferson County Tennessee Bible records (A bound Typescript U. T. Library) >Pages 260/6l REV. James Preston Lindsey, of SEVIER County, Tennessee. >Bible, now 1937, in possession of James Wesley Lindsay, Dandridge, >Tennessee R.F.D. #3 > >MARRIAGES: >James Preston Lindsay and Ruth California Mullens, were married, Apri1 22, >1880. >John McCarter and Mary E. Mullens, were married July 3, >James McCarter and Dortha Bell Lindsay were married, Oct. 30, 1895. >Isaac Whaley and Anolee Lindsey, were married Apri1 9, 1910. >Fredrick. M. Lindsey and M. G. Mullens, were married Nov. 6, 1904. >Andrew Webb and Lona Lindsey were married, Dec. 24, 1924 >James Wesley Lindsey and Lottie Mae McCarter were married Dec. 4, 1935. > >DEATHS: >Callie Lindsey, Died, Sept. 27, 1921. >Ella McCarter Died, Nov. 24, 1905. >William S. Lindsey, Died, Jan. 16, 1906. > >BIRTHS: >James Preston Lindsey, was Born, July 1863. >Callie Lindsey, was Born, July 5, 1856. >Henry Bartley Lindsey, was Born, Feb. 6, 1892 >James Wesley Lindsey, was Born, Feb. 26, 1894. >Ruth Analee Lindsey, was Born, April 13, 1896. >Laura Leona Lindsey, was Born, April 18, 1900 >Little Bruce Lindsey was Born Sept. 17, 1902 and Died, Dec 15, 1902. same >year. >Mary Monora Ella Mullens was Born, Jan 24, l874 >Dorothy Bell Lindsey, was Born, Feb 7, 1881 >Lina E1izabeth Lindsey, was Born, Feb 12, 1883 >Frederic M. Lindsey, was Born, April 29, 1885. >William S. Lindsey was Born, March 5, 1887 >Martha S. Lindsey was Born March 17, 1889 >Matilda Lindsey was Born, Feb 19, 1891 and died same yr. >Bruce Lindsey was Born, September 1902 and died, the same year. > >Jesse listed on 1850 Census at age 67 with Tiney age 53, son Sherrl >(Sherrod) age 19, Martha age17, Joel age 16 and Eli age 15 >Jesse listed on 1860 census at age 73 > >Chrystie