David Lindsay - Revolutionary War Soldier

The photo of the historical marker above was posted with permission from Bobby Joe Seales (e-mail: bjseales@bellsouth.net ) of Shelby County, Alabama.

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The following narrative on the life of David Lindsay of Shelby County Alabama was provided by Barbara Craddock Pike Shultz barbdale@flash.net . Barbara has been researching this Lindsey/Lindsay lineage for a number of years and we thank her for sharing her knowledge with the global Lindsay community.

David Lindsey (1750 PA - 1835 AL)

The David Lindsay Chapter of the DAR Montevallo, Alabama DAR was formed in 1927, and named for David Lindsey who was reported to be a Revolutionary Soldier buried at or near Elliottsville, Shelby County, Alabama, USA.

The DAR placed and dedicated a marker on Alabama Day, 1953 at the burial site near Maylene, Alabama approximately 5 miles from Montevallo, (along Shelby Co. Highway 17, south of Helena). The burial site for David Lindsey & Mary Casey also contains the graves of others, marked and unmarked. This gravesite is located on the old homestead of their son, Elijah Lindsey, who is buried there in an unmarked grave.

In 1953, Mrs. A. W. Vaughan, with the help of Mrs. John Oden Luttrell & Miss Maude McClure Kelly, put together an extensive work on the first 3 generations of David Lindsey.

This report came to the conclusion that David Lindsey & Mary Casey most likely were from Pennsylvania, where their first children were born. Then after 1773 and before 1785, they moved to Virginia. David is reported to have served with the 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 6th regiments of the Virginia Continental Lines for three years.

After the war, the family moved to Tennessee, where the rest of their children were born. They then are found in Madison Co., Al; and then Shelby Co., AL, moving most likely with the Elliott and Hail families.

On August 2, 1784, David Lindsey received 100 acres granted in Virginia, for his service in the War for Independence.

David Lindsey is found in Shelby County, Alabama on the 1820 and 1830 census.

It has been reported that David Lindsey (1750-1835) was the son of David Lindsey, b. abt 1695 in Pennsylvania, and Ruth Nyse, b. abt 1697 in Pennsylvania, who married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 25, 1717.

Descendants of David Lindsey

Generation No. 1

1. David² Lindsey was born 1750 in Washington Co., Pennsylvania, and died 1835 in Shelby Co., Alabama. He married Mary Casey. She was born 1750, and died Abt. 1847 in Shelby Co., Alabama.

Children of David Lindsey and Mary Casey are:

i. HULDAH³ LINDSEY, b. Abt. 1771, Pennsylvania; d. Abt. 1812, Madison Co., Alabama; m. RICHARD THOMAS CROWSON, June 14, 1792, Madison Co., Alabama; b. April 17, 1770, North Carolina; d. September 12, 1826, Montevallo, Shelby Co., Alabama.

ii. THOMAS LINDSEY, b. Abt. 1771, Pennsylvania; d. Bef. 1840, Bibb Co., Alabama; m. ELIZABETH UNKNOWN, 1793, Tennessee; d. Bef. 1830.

iii. RACHEL LINDSEY, b. Abt. 1773, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania; d. Aft. 1850, Shelby Co., Alabama; m. WILLIAM MORGAN LOVELADY, 1794, Green Co., Tennessee; b. 1765, Tennessee; d. Bef. December 22, 1846, Shelby Co., Alabama.

iv. JOHN LINDSEY, b. Abt. 1777; d. Bef. November 12, 1844; m. (1) ELIZABETH WEST, September 01, 1797, Greenville, Green Co., Tennessee; b. 1783, Green Co., Tennessee; d. Bet. 1818 - 1820, Alabama; m. (2) MARY (POLLY) SKILMAN, February 02, 1827, Shelby Co., Alabama; b. Abt. 1807, Alabama; m. (3) MALINDA PENDERGRASS, Bet. 1828 - 1831, Alabama; b. 1802, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1870, Louisiana.

v. LYDIA LINDSEY, b. Abt. 1779; m. JOHN CANTERBERRY; b. 1779; d. Bef. 1844.

vi. MARY ELIZABETH LINDSEY, b. Abt. 1781; d. Bef. March 20, 1843; m. JOSEPH HAIL, June 01, 1796; b. Abt. 1780, Tennessee; d. Bef. March 20, 1843, Shelby Co, Alabama.

vii. ELIJAH LINDSEY, b. Abt. 1783; d. Bef. September 21, 1836, Madison Co., Alabama; m. (1) MARY HARRISON, November 29, 1811, Madison Co., Alabama; b. 1790, North Carolina; d. Abt. 1827, Shelby Co., Alabama; m. (2) MARY UNKNOWN, Bef. 1830; b. September 02, 1793, South Carolina; d. August 15, 1870, Mississippi.

viii. DAVID LINDSEY, b. 1785, Virginia; d. March 09, 1855, Talladega Co., Alabama; m. MARTHA SUSAN CROUCH, January 01, 1820, Shelby Co., Alabama; b. Abt. 1787, Virginia; d. December 20, 1861, Talladega Co., Alabama.

ix. MARY ANN LINDSEY, b. 1788, Tennessee; d. Aft. 1860, Alabama; m. PATRICK SMITH, Abt. 1806, Tennessee or Madison Co., Alabama; b. Abt. 1787, Tennessee; d. Aft. 1860, Alabama.

x. JOSEPH LINDSEY, b. 1789, Tennessee; d. 1861; m. VINA LANDSRUM, March 28, 1815, Madison Co., Alabama; b. 1795, Tennessee.

xi. JAMES LINDSEY, b. April 12, 1791, Tennessee; d. February 14, 1846, Hanover, Coosa Co., Alabama; m. MARTHA MOORE; b. Georgia.

xii. REBECCA LINDSEY, b. November 17, 1794, Tennessee; d. 1880, Shelby Co, Alabama; m. DAVID FULTON, July 03, 1816, Madison Co., Alabama; b. August 20, 1795, Virginia; d. 1878, Shelby Co, Alabama.

I have been actively researching the descendants of David Lindsey for about 2 1/2 years. Although he had 6 sons and 6 daughters who lived to maturity and married, to date, I have not made contact with any male descendants who still carry the Lindsey/Lindsay name.

Crowson, Lovelady, Fulton, Harmon, Hale/Hail, Elliott, Bailey, Payne, Smith, and Essman are just a few of the surnames that married into the Lindsey line in the first 2 generations.

Barbara Craddock Pike

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The Y-chromosome DNA haplotype for the Lindsey lineage of David Lindsey (1750-1835) is represented in the Lindsay International DNA Database by a perceived but currently unproven genealogical relationship with DNA participant L0028. See DNA Group 2 results.

Additional research for the biographical sketch of this early Lindsay progenitor is underway and will be posted soon.