Given name Jehu, nickname Jay was chosen for his memorial.
"JAYHU LINDLEY"
Mr. Jayhu Lindley was born March 11, 1815 in Kentucky, and died March 19, 1906 in Commerce, Texas. He married about 1835 in Missouri. Early records show that his wife's given name was Sallie, maiden name unknown. The 1870 Hunt County, Texas census cites all of the Lindley children born in Missouri.
The Lindley family came first to Hopkins County which adjoins Hunt County on the east. At a later date they settled permanently in Hunt County, locating east of Commerce in a community called Lebanon. The Lindley family, as most all early settlers, engaged in farming and cattle raising. From the early remembrances of another Commerce pioneer, Mrs. Lula Malone Rutland, we have these words, preserved in an old booklet and copied by her good friend, the late Mrs. George B. Hall:
At this time, there were only five or six families living in Commerce. Among those near Commerce were the Lindleys. Uncle Humphy J. Lindley, as he was familiarly known, boasted of owning more cattle and horses on the range than any other person in the county. Uncle Humphy had one of the first top buggies in these parts and always drove a gray horse and boasted of being a good man….. Quite often he said to his friends that it was a pity for such a good man as himself to have to die!"
Mr. Lindley did turn his profits into quite a fortune, and became one of the wealthiest men of his era. He was an independent hard-working citizen, often giving good advise (sic) to others. He was an impatient man in that, all of his work or business transactions had to be attended to promptly.
The names of his parents are unknown, but his brothers Eli and Hugh were well-known early settlers of Hopkins County.
There were eight children in the Lindley family records of Hunt County. At the time of Mr. Lindley's death, he was survived by seven children. It has been noted, in other early records of Mrs. Judge George B. Hall (deceased) that it was perhaps one of the sons of Jayhu Lindley who was the first grave placed at the Lebanon Cemetery east of Commerce. Other children were: Ephraim; Marshall; John; Cordelia (Mrs. J.H. Jernigin); Peggy Ann (Mrs. Jacob Millsap); Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. Asa Jernigin); and Harlan.
Sallie, his wife, survived Jayhu Lindley by five years. She was born on June 25, 1817, and passed away September 1, 1913. Both are buried at Labanon Cemetery.
--from Honorable Mention - Early Families Hunt Country, Texas, Vol. III, pg 81;
posted by Robert 2008.
UPDATE: He married his first cousin Sarah "Sallie" Lindley.
--by Carol (49108445) 4-22-24.
Given name Jehu, nickname Jay was chosen for his memorial.
"JAYHU LINDLEY"
Mr. Jayhu Lindley was born March 11, 1815 in Kentucky, and died March 19, 1906 in Commerce, Texas. He married about 1835 in Missouri. Early records show that his wife's given name was Sallie, maiden name unknown. The 1870 Hunt County, Texas census cites all of the Lindley children born in Missouri.
The Lindley family came first to Hopkins County which adjoins Hunt County on the east. At a later date they settled permanently in Hunt County, locating east of Commerce in a community called Lebanon. The Lindley family, as most all early settlers, engaged in farming and cattle raising. From the early remembrances of another Commerce pioneer, Mrs. Lula Malone Rutland, we have these words, preserved in an old booklet and copied by her good friend, the late Mrs. George B. Hall:
At this time, there were only five or six families living in Commerce. Among those near Commerce were the Lindleys. Uncle Humphy J. Lindley, as he was familiarly known, boasted of owning more cattle and horses on the range than any other person in the county. Uncle Humphy had one of the first top buggies in these parts and always drove a gray horse and boasted of being a good man….. Quite often he said to his friends that it was a pity for such a good man as himself to have to die!"
Mr. Lindley did turn his profits into quite a fortune, and became one of the wealthiest men of his era. He was an independent hard-working citizen, often giving good advise (sic) to others. He was an impatient man in that, all of his work or business transactions had to be attended to promptly.
The names of his parents are unknown, but his brothers Eli and Hugh were well-known early settlers of Hopkins County.
There were eight children in the Lindley family records of Hunt County. At the time of Mr. Lindley's death, he was survived by seven children. It has been noted, in other early records of Mrs. Judge George B. Hall (deceased) that it was perhaps one of the sons of Jayhu Lindley who was the first grave placed at the Lebanon Cemetery east of Commerce. Other children were: Ephraim; Marshall; John; Cordelia (Mrs. J.H. Jernigin); Peggy Ann (Mrs. Jacob Millsap); Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. Asa Jernigin); and Harlan.
Sallie, his wife, survived Jayhu Lindley by five years. She was born on June 25, 1817, and passed away September 1, 1913. Both are buried at Labanon Cemetery.
--from Honorable Mention - Early Families Hunt Country, Texas, Vol. III, pg 81;
posted by Robert 2008.
UPDATE: He married his first cousin Sarah "Sallie" Lindley.
--by Carol (49108445) 4-22-24.
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