This is another of those postings in which I’m sharing new information about someone regarding whom I posted information in the past. This new material has to do with Samuel Asbury Lindsey (1826-1865), a son of Dennis Lindsey and Jane Brooks of Lawrence County, Alabama. As the posting I’ve just linked states, on 12 October 1848 in Lawrence County, Samuel married Mary Jane Hunter, daughter of John T. Hunter and Louvisa Bentley.
Or, Subtitled: “All My Life, My First and Chief Desire Was not Money but Knowledge, Learning, and Wisdom“
When I ended my previous posting providing information about the life of Samuel Asbury Lindsey (1825/6 – 1865), son of Dennis Lindsey and Jane Brooks, I told you I’d write a subsequent one about Samuel’s children. Before I begin that account, however, I’d like to mention something I intended to say in the posting I have just linked, and forgot to include. This is about Samuel’s name.
Or, Subtitled: “I Will Take Her in My Arms Back to Texas and Make a Fortune for Her”
Several sources provide information about Samuel’s date of birth. Those sources, unfortunately, conflict with each other. When he enrolled for service in the Mexican-American War on 6 March 1847 at Huntsville, Alabama, in Company H of the 13th Infantry, he gave his age as 23. This information is recorded in the U.S. Army Register of Enlistments, which also notes that he was a farmer born in Lawrence County, Alabama, was 6’1”, had light hair, gray eyes, and a fair complexion.[1]
Begats and Bequeathals 