Son of Hezekiah & Eliza Fisher

Contributed by Beverly Dunn
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY, OHIO 1883, pg. 536, Franklin Twp.: Phillip Lindsey was born in Pennsylvania February 13, 1782; came to this township with his brother John, and lived with him until he was married. He married Drucilla Lucas, and settled on the farm where Charles Elschlager now lives. His house burning down, he moved into the house where he and his brother John first settled until he could rebuild. He lived for many years on West Fork, and then moved to the James Prickett farm, above Arnheim, where he died May 22, 1866, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. There were born to Phillip and Drucilla Lindsey, Jesse, Delilah, Elizabeth, Preston, Thomas, Elijah and Drucilla. Jesse, born August 6, 1805, married Amelia Prickett in 1827, daughter of John Prickett, and bought forty-five acres of land where J. L. Carberry now lives. He cleared part of it, and, after some years, sold, and bought on West Fork, on the Arnheim & New Hope road, where he lived until his death, June 22, 1871. His widow is still living. Delilah married Valentine D. Carberry; her father gave them the farm on the Georgetown & Sardinia road, where F. W. Hanselman lives; he exchanged with Josiah Carberry for the farm on Sycamore Run, where they lived for many years, when he and Thomas Lindsey exchanged farms, they moving to where G. B. Carberry now lives, where he died. She afterward married Henry Dunn, and lived near Brownstown until her death. Elizabeth married Simon Kratzer, and they lived on her father's farm for some years, when they moved to the farm now owned by the writer, purchasing it from George Bohrer; after the death of her husband, she married Lemuel Rachford, and sold the interest in the farm, and bought property above Arnheim, where she died October 16, 1878. Preston died when about seventeen years of age. Thomas was born November 23, 1813; married Mary Pindell; lived two or three years on his father's place, and then moved to the Carberry farm, on Sycamore Run, where he lived for about twenty years; he then moved to Arnheim, where he lived for nine years; from there he moved to the James Prickett farm, where he is still living. Elijah married Susan Pindell, daughter of Jacob Pindell; lived a few years on the home farm, when he bought the Uriah Springer farm, where he lived until his death.