>Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:07:04 -0600 >To: jbass@digital.net >From: Cindy Barnes <cbarnes@rainbowtel.net> >Source: TALLENT-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [TALLENT-L] Tallant/Lindsey > > >Posted on: Tallent Queries >Reply Here: >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Tallent/10016 > >Surname: Tallent, Tallant, Lindsey >------------------------- > >To All Tallent/Tallants who claim Sarah Lindsey as an Ancestor; > >On genealogical web pages or sights I have seen Sarah Lindsey listed as >the wife of Lott Tallant, Moses Tallant, Richard Tallant, and Aaron Tallent. >On some sights I have seen her listed as Sarah Mary Lindsey or Mary Sarah >Lindsey. > >Now, there is documentation (mostly land deeds) that prove the wives of >Moses, Aaron, and Richard were all named Sarah, but no maiden names were >ever given and as far as I know there was only one Sarah Lindsey that married >a Tallent. > >In trying to trace the origin of the claim that Sarah Lindsey married any >of these Tallants, the first written example of this was in Rev. James >Eblen Tallant's manuscript that was written in 1932, "Tallant Family History." >Rev. J.E. Tallant had just retired from the ministry and moved to Detroit, >Michigan on Oct. 20, 1931. He wrote that Sarah married Lott Tallant and >later, she married Moses. > >Practically the same information that Rev. J.E. Tallant wrote in his 1932 >manuscript appeared in a July 29, 1933 term paper that Ora Truman Tallent >wrote for his College Missouri History Class. > >These two Tallants never corresponded, but their source of information >was traced to a third Tallent researcher, Bettie J. (Johnson) Gilmore, >R.N. Supt. of Nurses at Garfly & Ramsay Hospital, Memphis, TN. In a Apr. >19, 1931 letter to Mrs. Lilly Doyle Dunlap, Ansonville, NC Librarian, Mrs >Gilmore ask for any information that you maybe able to give me (on the >Tallent of Anson County). > >One peace of information that Mrs. Dunlap found was the will of William >Lindsey of Anson County, NC dated 1801, naming among his heirs, a daughter >named Sarah Tallent. >The will did not state Sarah Tallent's husband's name, so Mrs. Dunlap had >no idea which Tallent she married. But, William Lindsey also left a Family >Bible record which was in the possession of Rhea Shults (Mrs. W.H.) Wayland >of Sevier County, TN in 1975. On Dec. 17, 1975, Mrs. Beulah D. Linn who >was the county historian for Sevier, wrote the following article in the >Sevier Bicentennial: > >The Lindsey family Bible is most significant >When we. consider the material possessions with which most of us are blessed >on this earth, perhaps one of the most significant is the family Bible. >The underlined passages, the pencilled words in the margins, the handwritten >notes on the flyleafs, some pages more worm and ragged than others, - all >are mute evidence that our parents had "words to live by." Separating the >Old from the New Testament is the Family Record: marriage of the parents, >births,. marriages of the children, and deaths. >Untold hundreds of people at one time or another have used the family Bible >as proof of birth, marriages or dead. >Realizing the importance of preserving his great-grandfathers Bible, John >Westly Lindsey, took the old Lindsey family Bible to his grand-daughter, >Rhea Shults when she was about fifteen years old in the home of her parents, >Mr. And Mrs. Oscar Shults in Pigeon Fargo. He explained that he wanted >her to have the Bible and hoped that she would take care of it as long >as she live. Rhea Shults, now Mrs. W.H. Wayland, a former Sevier County >teachers, has presented the Bible which her grandfather entrusted to her. >Many years ago someone had made a hand-woven cover for the Bible to protect >the paper cover. >In old English letters on the title page is printed. "Holy Bible Containing >the Old Testament and The New Testament Out Of The Original Tongue And >With the Latin Translation Diligently compared And Revised By His Majesty's >Special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches." >The Bible was printed at the Clarendon Press in Oxford "Cum Privilegio >in 1786. The style of the letters is so different from modern printing >that one has to remember that what appears to be an "f" Is really an "s." >The pages between the Old and New Testament originally were blank pages >without titles. A Lindsay, in beautiful handwriting, probably with a quill >and black ink, recorded the births of the pioneer Lindsey family. On one >of the pages is the notation. "William Lindsey takes his pin on this Sabbath >day. Serve the Lord and join our hearts with one accord." >I shall record the Bible record first and then record additional information >about the Lindsey family in Sevier County. >Children of William Lindsey and Rachel, his wife >Isaac b. July 13, 1772 >Sary b. May 5. 1778. M. Joshua Tallent. Daughter, Mary born Jan. 15, 1801. >Ruth b. Oct 15, 1780, >Martha b. Jan. 1. 1785, >Jesse b. Feb. 22, 1787, >Nancy b. April 26,1789, >Rachel b. Feb. 17, 1790. > >Jesse Lindsey >Jesse Lindsey married Salina Ivy. Children: >William b. April 4, 1813, >Hannah b. April 16, 1815, >Jesse b. Aug. 22 1816, >Lydia b. Aug. 4, 1817, >Sara Jane b. March 10 1822, >Rachel b. Dec. 4 1824, >John b. Feb. 22, 1827, >Elizabeth b. May 21, 1829, >Sherod b. 1831, >Martha b. April 10, 1833, >Joel b. March 15, 1835, >Eli R. b. Dec. 30, 1838 > >Early Lindsey History >The earliest Lindsey land grant in Sevier County. No. 1018, was issued >to Rachel Lindsey (widow of the first William) and described as follows. >There is granted by the State of Tennessee to Rachel Lindsey a certain >tract or parcel of land containing sixteen acres and eight chains lying >in the County of Sevier in the District South of the French Board and Holston >on the waters of Birds Creek there being due and chargeable on said land >the sum of Sixteen Dollars and ten cents with the interest due thereon, >Beginning at a beech and running with vacant land North forty-five, East >nineteen chains and five-tenths to an Ironwood, South seventy-six East >twelve chains to a Black oak North thirty-five and & half, West twenty-two >chains to a stake South seventy-nine West thirty-four chains and-five-tenths >to a Black oak South forty-four, East thirty-one chains to the beginning. >Surveyed April 23, 1807, "Grant issued May 12, 1810 by Willie Blount, Governor >of Tennessee. >We do not know how long Rachel Lindsey was living on the land before the >survey in 1807. Apparently her husband William had died before 1807. The >North Carolina census of 1790 includes three William Lindseys. An effort >should be made to locate William Lindsey. husband of Rachel, as in all >probability he fought in the Revolution.. >I wish I could place where Rachel Lindsey lived on Bird Creek. The creek >heads in the Glades, flows through Shady Grove, the Caton's Chapel area, >and empties into the Big East Fork of the Little Pigeon at a place called >the Long Ford. > >The last record I have found of Rachel Lindsey is in a list of Sevier County >land grant owners published in the Knoxville Register in 1821. Her name >does not appear as a head of a household in the 1830 census at which time >she would have been about 76 years old. > >I too had the wrong Tallent married to Sarah Lindsey in the book "Richard >Tallant (1768-1832)" and again in the Aaron Tallent book where I list Joshua >married to Sarah Flake. I would like to hear what other researchers think. >And if you would like a copy of this newspaper article on the Lindsey family >Bible, please e-mail me. >Thank you, Cheryl Cunningham and Debbie Woo for supplying me with a copy. >Cynthia Tallent Barnes >cbarnes@rainbowtel.net ___________________________________________________________________ josiebass@zxmail.com 216 Beach Park Lane Cape Canaveral, FL 32920-5003 Home of the *HARRISON* Repository http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/ My Southern Family WWW: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/ LINDSAY & HARRISON Surnames Mail List Rootsweb.com CSA-HISTORY Mail List CSA-History@usgw.org GENCONNECT: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/FamAssoc.html Data Managed by beautiful daughter Becky Bass Bonner and me, Josephine Lindsay Bass