1938 Obituary of Captain B. D. Lindsey, Native of Union Parish Louisiana
Submitted by:       Shawn Martin
Date of Submission: 12/2008

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1938 Obituary of Captain B. D. Lindsey, Native of Union Parish Louisiana

From Dallas, Texas "Morning News", issue of 3 June 1938
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                        Early Ranger, No Sissy, Dies At San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas, May 2 — Capt. B. D. Lindsey, who as a Texas ranger was part of 
the law west of the Pecos, died at his home Monday.  He will be buried here Tuesday.

   Lindsey, former Bexar County Sheriff, trail driver, United States customs officer 
at Eagle Pass and Lieutenant of cavalry in the Spanish-American War, served in the 
rangers under Capt. Dan Roberts, part of his service was in the trans-Pecos area 
where Justice of the Peace Roy Bean held court.  Lindsey had praise for Bean’s 
judicial procedure.  He also was credited with pacification of Hamilton County 
feudists in the eighties.  He thought modern officers depended too much on guns 
and authority and were weak as conciliators of trouble makers.

   Born in Union Parish, Louisiana, Lindsey came to Texas as a boy in 1873, living 
first at Waco.  In later years he was connected here with a farm loan association 
and the Federal Land Bank of Houston.

   On last Jan. 21, four generations of the family attended his eight-second birthday 
celebration.  Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mary Ellen Mitchell Lindsey; two 
daughters, Mrs. C. B. Meeks, San Antonio, and Mrs. E. R. Youngblood, Austin; two 
sons, H. M. Lindsey, Fort Worth, and Ben S. Lindsey, Houston.



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