Recently, I have seen several queries and bulletin board postings about the Lindsays who tie into Macon Co., NC. Thus, I want to share something below which MAY help determine the ancestry of some of that family. The key is a record which has been privately held in a family which left NC, moved first and briefly to Georgia, then to Texas, with members ending up in CA. The person who alerted me to this record died just a few years ago, but she contacted me in the 1970s when I briefly used an address in Haywood County and had the same surname as hers. Please realize that I am related to NONE of these individuals and probably would be entirely unable to help with any further research. Miss Evelyn Caylor had no children and outlived her siblings (she was in her 90s), so I do not have any idea who now has possession of the Noah Miller journal. Still, it grieves me that this important private record may be unknown to Lindsay researchers. -------------------------------------------------- Pertinent Item: journal of Noah Miller: " 'Martha Lindsay was an orphaned niece of George F. and Rebecca Caler.' [From Evelyn Caylor's own statement:] "Her [Martha Lindsay Miller's) brother George Lindsay married a sister of Noah's, Olla Ann Miller 9 February 1839." --------------------------------------------------- Discussion: Elder George F. Caylor (cited above) was born 21 October 1796 in Buncombe Co., NC. He married the first time (to Rebecca Mehaffy) on 4 Feb 1821 in Haywood Co., NC. The second marriage was in Texas. He died in Kentuckytown, Texas on 10 June 1881. Elder Caylor was an active Baptist minister, and preached often in the Cowee Baptist church in Macon Co. A photocopy of captioned pictures by Evelyn Caylor shows Cowee Baptist Church and the note "in the front of the minute book is found this note - George F. Caler was first clerk, first ordained deacon, first ordained minister, first pastor called to this church." Elder Caylor was enumerated 1800, 1810, 1820 within his father Jacob Caler's household. In 1830, Geo. F. Caler appears on page 10 of the Macon Co., NC census: 111001-01001 [The male aged 10-15 may be a Lindsey nephew, because he is not otherwise accounted for by the family record of this man.] There is also on the same page a Jacob R. Lindsey, probably a nephew to Elder Caler and named for Jacob Caler]. In 1840 Macon Co., NC, George Caylor is enumerated on page 18: 121101-100201. The family began the westward trek in 1849, and appears in 1850 Gilmer Co., GA on page 769 with head of household "George F. Caler 54 NC Baptist clergy". In 1860, 1870, and 1880, George F. Caylor was enumerated in Grayson County, Texas. Evelyn Caylor typed record states: George F. and Rebecca raised their family in Macon County, North Carolina. He was a Baptist preacher. A close friend, Noah Miller, also a preacher, was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina, moved to Macon Co., N.C. as a child. He mentioned G.F. Caler at times in his journal such as: "Elder George F. Caler taught me in school". "Elder Caler married me and my first wife, Martha Lindsay in January 1835. Martha Lindsay was an orphaned niece of George F. and Rebecca Caler." (Her brother George Lindsay married a sister of Noah's, Olla Ann Miller on 9 November 1839). "I united with the Missionary Baptist Church was immersed into fellowship 24th day of March 1838 by George F. Caler, Administrator". "My wife was immersed 21 April 1838 by Elder G. G. Caler". Both families planned to go to Grayson County, Texas. They did not arrive together. Noah Miller wrote "We left North Carolina 4th day of November 1849. Landed in Texas the 11th day of January 1850". The Caylor family stopped in Georgia. So who was the sibling of Elder Caylor who was the parent of Martha and George Lindsay? Since their surname wasn't Caylor, their mother must have been the connection. By 1835, Martha Lindsay was an orphan, so her mother would not appear on an 1840 or later census. From census data, we know George Lindsay was b. about 1817. Thus, the mother _____ Caler Lindsay was married by 1817 and out of her parental household, since George Lindsay was born in SC and Jacob and Martha Caler were in NC in 1820. Known offspring of Jacob and Martha Caler were Sally [Rowland], George F., Eva [Hickey], Ruth [Hibbards], Rebecca [Bryson], and Robert. Five of these six children were alive in 1850, so we know their ages. On the 1800 and 1810 enumerations of the Jacob Calor family, there is an extra female 1800 Buncombe Co., NC p 175: 10010-41010 Jacob Kaylor. 1810 Buncombe Co., NC p 273: 20001-21201 Jacob Calor. The 1800 census shows the extra female was born 1784-1790, while the 1810 census shows an extra female in the group b. 1784-1794. This extra female, b. 1784-1790, is missing from the 1820 family enumeration and in all likelihood is the Calor female who married the Lindsay. A look at the 1850 census might suggest that there were other Lindsey children, in addition to the George Lindsey and Martha Lindsey Miller, who belong in this family. I will first give the listing for the known George Lindsey, and then give the other two possible brothers. It seems to me that someone interested in this family and searching for the father could look on the 1820 SC census to find a family that would include Martha Lindsay Miller (prob. born 1810-1820), George (b. abt 1817) and perhaps Timothy and Larkin. 1850 Macon County, NC #516 (4 households earlier was George's aunt Rebecca Caler Bryson) Tennessee Valley, 16 Sept 1860: George Lindsey 33 Farmer $300 SC Polly A. 27 Macon Lavina 9 Macon Elizabeth 7 Macon William 5 Macon Jane 2 Macon Timothy 2/12 Macon Another possible son to the ____ Caler Lindsay family is on the 1850 Macon Co. at #552: Timothy Lindsey 34 b. Haywood Bapt. Clergy $250 Elizabeth 40 Buncombe *Martha M. 15 Buncombe Lydia 7 Macon William Quilliams 24 Macon Laborer *note especially the recurrence of the name Martha, perhaps for the elderly Martha ____ Calor, widow of Jacob Caler. Also, note that George Lindsey named a son Timothy. Another possible son is at #594, two households from Robert Cailer: Larkin Lindsey 32 b. SC Laborer $400 Rachel M. 28 Haywood George J. 9 Macon Wm. E. 8 Macon Reuben A. 6 Macon Sarah A. 5 Macon Rebecca 4 Macon Ruth 1 Macon Elijah Raby 24 Burke Farmer $400 An article on Larkin Lindsay (#395 in Macon County Heritage Book, p. 326, by Monica Collier) says Larkin and wife were members of the Cowee Baptist Church, which is where Jacob Caler and Elder George F. Caler worshipped. --------------------------------------------------- Please remember, I am no authority on this family and have no relationship to it at all--just wanted to share the journal data which otherwise might be lost from public view.