Bios: THOMAS S. LINDSEY : Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    THOMAS S. LINDSEY,
    
    [p. 545] deceased. This gentleman, who is familiar to the older generations
  of Lawrence County, as one of the county's most progressive and prosperous
  agriculturists of the early day, was born in Mercer Co., Pa., in 1806, and
  died in 1866, being survived by his wife and a number of children and
  grandchildren.
    
    George Lindsey, the father of Thomas, was an Irishman by birth and by
  parentage; he came to Pennsylvania from the "ould sod" about 1770, and
  settled in Mercer County, where he purchased a farm in the vicinity of
  Wilmington, and was engaged in cultivating its virgin soil the remainder of
  his life, reaping and garnering splendid crops by reason of his skill in
  gardening and agricultural work. He married Nancy Sampson, who bore him nine
  children: John; James; Robert; Elizabeth; George; Thomas; Jane; Nancy; and
  Boyd. They were upon coming to this country what were known as Seceders in
  religious belief, but later in life united with the United Presbyterian
  Church.
    
    Thomas S. Lindsey received his education in Neshannock township, and
  followed the footsteps of his father in adopting the vocation of a farmer as
  a means of support. He was a man who loved to see the most made of things,
  and his industry and exceptionally good judgment, which placed him among the
  first citizens of the toanship, were the subject of remark for long years
  after his death. He was at first a Whig, and then in 1856 became a
  Republican, as that party seemed destined then to succeed its parent.
    
    In 1831, he married Sarah Bay, daughter of William V. Bay, a native of
  Neshannock township, and to them were born nine children: Lily Ann, who
  married McGiffin Fisher of Neshannock township, and has four childrenÑMelda
  J., Lawrence, William, and Sarah E.; William, deceased, who married Mary A.
  Bay of Neshannock township, and has three childrenÑFrederick L., Thomas L.,
  and Edna F.; Lawrence, deceased; George, deceased; Margaret, deceased;
  Lizzie, deceased; John, deceased; Nancy Florenda, deceased; and an infant
  that died unnamed. Mrs. Lindsey, who was born Oct. 16, 1811, and is therefore
  well-advanced toward the nonogenarian mark, is active and bright, and does not
  seem to be as old as she really is by twenty years. The family are United
  Presbyterians, of which society Mrs. Lindsey has been a member for sixty-five
  years, quite a wonderful record, and one that she may well be proud of, for it
  is not met with every day.