Person

William Allen Lindsay (Scott County, Kentucky, hotel keeper and tavern keeper)

b. 1827? d. 1896-03-22

Scott County, Kentucky, hotel keeper and tavern keeper. Clark County, Kentucky, native. Son of Charles Lindsay and Melinda Lindsay. Married to Rebecca Scott Lindsay in Clark County, Kentucky, on April 16, 1851. Father of Daniel Scott Lindsay, Nannie Cunningham Lindsay, and Willie Lindsay. Hotel keeper in Scott County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Scott County, Kentucky in 1860. Tavern keeper in Fayette County in 1865.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, County, City/District, p.1005.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slaves Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, Georgetown, District 1, p. 44.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette, Lexington, p.308A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Clark County Marriages, Film 001943687.

KYR-0001-004-1500.

Citation

Lindsay, William Allen. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211606 (November 12, 2026).

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