Joseph Lindley

Joseph Lindley

• Father: Simon Lindley b. 20 January 1769, d. 30 August 1827
• Mother: Anna Stanley b. 3 February 1766, d. 2 January 1849

• Joseph Lindley was born on 7 January 1793 in Orange Ccounty, North Carolina.
• He married Nancy Ann Hicks on 19 June 1817 in Bond County, Illinois.
• Samuel Lindley Sr. purchased from Joseph Lindley 218 acres in the Joseph Lindley Survey for $218, general warranty deed dated December 1845, recorded in Montgomery County, Texas, on 12 February 1851.
• Mary S Shepherd purchased from Joseph Lindley 29.9 acres in the Joseph Lindley Survey for $182, general warranty deed dated October 1847, recorded in Montgomery County, Texas, on 12 February 1851.
• Green Wood purchased from Joseph Lindley 1,416.30 acres in the Joseph Lindley Survey for $1,416, general warranty deed dated 22 June 1849, recorded in Montgomery County, Texas, on 23 June 1849.
• Green Wood purchased from Israel Allphin 26.10 acres in the Joseph Lindley Survey, 640 acres less 164.5 acres reserved for Davis Bays in the John Hostetter Survey, 116 acres in the John Sadler Survey, and 81.90 acres in the Rodney Hostetter Survey, all for $400, general warranty deed dated 7 March 1853, recorded in Montgomery County, Texas, on 29 March 1853.
• Joseph Lindley and Nancy Ann Hicks appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Tahuacana Springs, Limestone County, Texas, and also in the household J. L. Cooke (age 7), and farm laborer James Hoye (1ge 24).. Other members of the household included Joseph Madison Lindley, Jobe Harrison Lindley, Simon Travis Lindley, Ann Proctor Hogg, Joseph W. Lindley, G. M. Lindley, Marcellis McGary, Edward Oliver Hugh McGary and Joseph W. McGary.
• Joseph Lindley died on 20 January 1874 at age 81 in Limestone County, Texas.
• He was interred at Lindley Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas.
• For additional biographical information, see The Texas Handbook Online.

• Last Edited: 9 Feb 2011