
Or, Subtitled: “A Determined, Self-Composed, Fearless Man Unaffected by the Dangers and Challenges of Life on the Border”
As the 15 November 1907 remembrance of Dennis Edward Lindsey Sr. and his wife Sarah Jane Barnes by W.L. Clayton discussed in the previous posting states, Dennis and Jennie Barnes Lindsey had only one child, a son Dennis Edward, who appears to have been a junior.[1] Clayton notes that when his mother died in November 1907, her son Dennis was living “somewhere in the West.” He also states that Jennie had raised the two daughters of her second husband William B. Fulton, who was a widower when she married him in 1869. The 1870 federal census lists William and Jennie Fulton with her son Edward in their household, along with William Fulton’s daughters Margaret and Jimmie.[2] The two Fulton daughters are found in the household of William and Jennie again in 1880,[3] with Jennie’s son Dennis Edward Lindsey no longer enumerated there, since he had apparently left for Texas at this point, as his Texas Ranger Sketches biography discussed in the last posting indicates.[4]
It appears that we are related. jennie Lindsey Newton was my grandmother and I knew many listed individuals .
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Thanks so much for your message. You’re right, we’re cousins through the Lindsey family. I spot you in my family tree. If I’m not mistaken, your grandmother was Jennie Lindsey Newton, a daughter of Dennis Edward Lindsey and Juanita Concepcion Jiminez. I think our common ancestor is Dennis Lindsey (1794-1836). I descend from Dennis’s son Mark Jefferson Lindsey, and you descend from Dennis’s son Dennis Edward Lindsey, father of the Dennis Edward who married Conchita Jiminez. I’m yet another Dennis: the name passed to me from my father and grandfather, both named Benjamin Dennis Lindsey. My grandfather was named for his uncle Benjamin Dennis Lindsey, who was a Texas Ranger along with your Dennis Edward Lindsey. Glad to be in touch!
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