John B. Lindsey

Birth Date

1837-07-04

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Versailles, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas N. Lindsey and Isabella P. Lindsey. Married Hellen Maria Talbot Lindsey in Franklin County, Kentucky, on January 18, 1859. Attended Kentucky Military Institute. Resident in Franklin County in 1850. Moved to Texas in 1856. Farmer in Versailles in 1860. Enrolled for military duty in Seventh District of Woodford County, Kentucky, on July 1, 1863 (U.S.A). Assisted in organizing Kentucky state militia between May 1864 and October 1864. Assistant paymaster for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in December 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 52A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 451.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Rolls #994027-994058, Franklin County Marriages, p. 98.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Woodford County, KY, July 1863, p. 11, (Accessed via ancestry.com).
H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 126.
"Daniel Weisiger Lindsey" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000873, (accessed August 5, 2019).
KYR-0002-222-0075.
KYR-0002-222-0076.
KYR-0002-222-0086.
KYR-0002-222-0087.
KYR-0002-222-0118.

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