At 08:33 PM 8/25/2001, you wrote: >Does anybody have knowledge of the history or reason for the naming of the >cemetery? Can't find a Lindley buried in it, but my GG grandfather Lindley >lived and died in Bear Creek. > >Thanks, Pat Darby Sanchez Pat, this if from: "Cedar County History & Families" copyright 1998 by the Cedar Co. Historical Society "The first official record that we can find about the Lindley Prairie Church and Cemetery is recorded in Book A page 569 when it was received June 1, 1854, and recorded June 10, 1854, between Garrett Philpott for a tract of land to be deeded to James P. Jackson, Jess H. Mitchell and Robert Walker as trustees for the Methodist Episcopal Church South for the sum of five dollars and thirty cents to have and hold for the use and benefit of the Methodist Episcopal Church South as a place of religious worship, school and burying ground for the dead............" There is more but no mention of a Lindley. Kay