Col. James Edmond Saunders' EARLY SETTLERS OF AL (New Orleans, 1899; repr. Baltimore: Geneal. Publ. Co., 1982) contains a reminiscence of Mark Lindsey. Saunders knew Mark Lindsey personally. His book is a collection of articles published for a number of years in the MOULTON ADVERTISER from April 1880 forward. In the original articles, Saunders provided eyewitness accounts of various early settlers of north Alabama whom he remembered personally.
Saunders has this to say about Mark Lindsey: "Mark Lindsey was a tall, spare, old gentleman, who lived on a branch of Flint river when I first knew him. He wore the round-breasted Methodist coat, and had a most excellant [sic] reputation. He was also noted for his industry and good morals. The venerable Mr. McFerrin rode this circuit when quite a youth, and still remembers and speaks of the kindness and hospitality he received from the Lindseys. Mark Lindsey was raised in South Carolina. He went to Kentucky when young, and lived there a long time. In 1827 [sic] he and his son Dennis (who was a second edition of his father, in person and character), came to Lawrence county, and settled in the place I have mentioned" (pp. 122-3). Saunders goes on to talk about the Speake family, noting that Dennis Lindsey's daughter Sarah married J.B. Speake, who represented Lawrence Co. in the AL legislature; Saunders also notes that J.B. and Sarah Lindsey Speake were parents of Henry Clay Speake, Chancellor of the Northern Dist. of AL, and later Judge of the 8th Judicial Dist., and Daniel Webster Speake, also a judge and a member of the AL legislature. (Note that Saunders spells the name "Speak," whereas the family uses the spelling "Speake").
Mark Lindsey and wife Mary Jane Dinsmore were the parents of the following children:
1. Dennis (1794-1836), m. Jane Brooks
2. Nancy (1801-1879) m. William Morris
3. William Burke (1812-aft. 1860), m. Carolina S. Puckett
4. Fielding Wesley (1813-1868), m. Clarissa E. Brooks
5. David Dinsmore (1815-1873), m. Sarah Brooks
Though absolute proof of Mark's parents hasn't yet been found, there are numerous indicators that his father was Dennis Lindsey (b. abt. 1755, d. Jan. 1795), a Revolutionary soldier of Spartanburg Co., South Carolina, who came to South Carolina with his father William Lindsey from Granville Co., North Carolina, around 1765.
Saunders has this to say about Mark Lindsey: "Mark Lindsey was a tall, spare, old gentleman, who lived on a branch of Flint river when I first knew him. He wore the round-breasted Methodist coat, and had a most excellant [sic] reputation. He was also noted for his industry and good morals. The venerable Mr. McFerrin rode this circuit when quite a youth, and still remembers and speaks of the kindness and hospitality he received from the Lindseys. Mark Lindsey was raised in South Carolina. He went to Kentucky when young, and lived there a long time. In 1827 [sic] he and his son Dennis (who was a second edition of his father, in person and character), came to Lawrence county, and settled in the place I have mentioned" (pp. 122-3). Saunders goes on to talk about the Speake family, noting that Dennis Lindsey's daughter Sarah married J.B. Speake, who represented Lawrence Co. in the AL legislature; Saunders also notes that J.B. and Sarah Lindsey Speake were parents of Henry Clay Speake, Chancellor of the Northern Dist. of AL, and later Judge of the 8th Judicial Dist., and Daniel Webster Speake, also a judge and a member of the AL legislature. (Note that Saunders spells the name "Speak," whereas the family uses the spelling "Speake").
Mark Lindsey and wife Mary Jane Dinsmore were the parents of the following children:
1. Dennis (1794-1836), m. Jane Brooks
2. Nancy (1801-1879) m. William Morris
3. William Burke (1812-aft. 1860), m. Carolina S. Puckett
4. Fielding Wesley (1813-1868), m. Clarissa E. Brooks
5. David Dinsmore (1815-1873), m. Sarah Brooks
Though absolute proof of Mark's parents hasn't yet been found, there are numerous indicators that his father was Dennis Lindsey (b. abt. 1755, d. Jan. 1795), a Revolutionary soldier of Spartanburg Co., South Carolina, who came to South Carolina with his father William Lindsey from Granville Co., North Carolina, around 1765.
Col. James Edmond Saunders' EARLY SETTLERS OF AL (New Orleans, 1899; repr. Baltimore: Geneal. Publ. Co., 1982) contains a reminiscence of Mark Lindsey. Saunders knew Mark Lindsey personally. His book is a collection of articles published for a number of years in the MOULTON ADVERTISER from April 1880 forward. In the original articles, Saunders provided eyewitness accounts of various early settlers of north Alabama whom he remembered personally.
Saunders has this to say about Mark Lindsey: "Mark Lindsey was a tall, spare, old gentleman, who lived on a branch of Flint river when I first knew him. He wore the round-breasted Methodist coat, and had a most excellant [sic] reputation. He was also noted for his industry and good morals. The venerable Mr. McFerrin rode this circuit when quite a youth, and still remembers and speaks of the kindness and hospitality he received from the Lindseys. Mark Lindsey was raised in South Carolina. He went to Kentucky when young, and lived there a long time. In 1827 [sic] he and his son Dennis (who was a second edition of his father, in person and character), came to Lawrence county, and settled in the place I have mentioned" (pp. 122-3). Saunders goes on to talk about the Speake family, noting that Dennis Lindsey's daughter Sarah married J.B. Speake, who represented Lawrence Co. in the AL legislature; Saunders also notes that J.B. and Sarah Lindsey Speake were parents of Henry Clay Speake, Chancellor of the Northern Dist. of AL, and later Judge of the 8th Judicial Dist., and Daniel Webster Speake, also a judge and a member of the AL legislature. (Note that Saunders spells the name "Speak," whereas the family uses the spelling "Speake").
Mark Lindsey and wife Mary Jane Dinsmore were the parents of the following children:
1. Dennis (1794-1836), m. Jane Brooks
2. Nancy (1801-1879) m. William Morris
3. William Burke (1812-aft. 1860), m. Carolina S. Puckett
4. Fielding Wesley (1813-1868), m. Clarissa E. Brooks
5. David Dinsmore (1815-1873), m. Sarah Brooks
Though absolute proof of Mark's parents hasn't yet been found, there are numerous indicators that his father was Dennis Lindsey (b. abt. 1755, d. Jan. 1795), a Revolutionary soldier of Spartanburg Co., South Carolina, who came to South Carolina with his father William Lindsey from Granville Co., North Carolina, around 1765.
Saunders has this to say about Mark Lindsey: "Mark Lindsey was a tall, spare, old gentleman, who lived on a branch of Flint river when I first knew him. He wore the round-breasted Methodist coat, and had a most excellant [sic] reputation. He was also noted for his industry and good morals. The venerable Mr. McFerrin rode this circuit when quite a youth, and still remembers and speaks of the kindness and hospitality he received from the Lindseys. Mark Lindsey was raised in South Carolina. He went to Kentucky when young, and lived there a long time. In 1827 [sic] he and his son Dennis (who was a second edition of his father, in person and character), came to Lawrence county, and settled in the place I have mentioned" (pp. 122-3). Saunders goes on to talk about the Speake family, noting that Dennis Lindsey's daughter Sarah married J.B. Speake, who represented Lawrence Co. in the AL legislature; Saunders also notes that J.B. and Sarah Lindsey Speake were parents of Henry Clay Speake, Chancellor of the Northern Dist. of AL, and later Judge of the 8th Judicial Dist., and Daniel Webster Speake, also a judge and a member of the AL legislature. (Note that Saunders spells the name "Speak," whereas the family uses the spelling "Speake").
Mark Lindsey and wife Mary Jane Dinsmore were the parents of the following children:
1. Dennis (1794-1836), m. Jane Brooks
2. Nancy (1801-1879) m. William Morris
3. William Burke (1812-aft. 1860), m. Carolina S. Puckett
4. Fielding Wesley (1813-1868), m. Clarissa E. Brooks
5. David Dinsmore (1815-1873), m. Sarah Brooks
Though absolute proof of Mark's parents hasn't yet been found, there are numerous indicators that his father was Dennis Lindsey (b. abt. 1755, d. Jan. 1795), a Revolutionary soldier of Spartanburg Co., South Carolina, who came to South Carolina with his father William Lindsey from Granville Co., North Carolina, around 1765.
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Sacred to the memory of Mark Lindsey who departed this life April 10, 1847 in the 74th year of his age. Fare from affliction, toil and care/The happy soul is fled./The breathless clay shall slumber here/Among the silent dead.
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