Dear Peggy,
Thank you for posting this information about the LINDLEY family. Do you have
any information about the loyalties of THOMAS LINDLEY during the Revolution?
Many thanks,
Kaye Stoneking
In a message dated 9/24/00 12:10:16 PM, Peg957(a)aol.com writes:
<< In a message dated 09/23/2000 4:05:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
JerryKaye(a)aol.com writes:
There were a DAVID SMITH and a THOMAS LINDLEY listed on both the
Lebanon
Church DAR marker and on the roster given by Sara Sullivan Ervin for the
Sullivan Scouts militia group. Given the later marriage between a son of
the
DAVID SMITH family you wrote about and the daughter of THOMAS CAMP and
SUSANNA WAGGONER, I wonder if the DAVID SMITHS could be the same
individual
and if the THOMAS LINDLEY could be a relative of the REBECCA
LINDLEY,
daughter of JAMES LINDLEY, the Tory. Does anyone know? sometimes there
were
split loyalties, even within the same family, but your point is well taken!
My husband is descended from the James Lindley who was hung, so I have a good
bit of information on the Lindley family. James had a son named Thomas, as
well as a daughter Rebecca, who married David Smith. Thomas, who died 1809
in Laurens Co., SC, was married to Elizabeth Ridgeway. They were both
member of the Lebanon church. I don't have proof, but I believe that Thomas
and Rebecca were brother and sister.
James was the son of Thomas Lindley, Sr. and Ruth Hadley, who were Quakers
and emigrated from Ireland because of religious persecution. Although the
parents, as Quakers, did not believe in fighting, there were family members
who fought on both sides.
Peggy Camp Puckett >>