Sketch of the Lindsay Family, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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The original Lindsay famiily of the United States sprang from seven
brothers, who came from England before the Revolution.  Their names
were: William, Samuel, James, John, Robert, Joseph and Alexander.
William married Ellen Thompson, of Ireland, and settled in Pennsyl-
vania.  Their children were: James, Jane, Elizabeth, Samuel, William,
Henry and Joseph.  Henry Lindsay and his brother-in-law, Col. Robert
Patterson, who married Elizabeth Lindsay, were the joint owners of
the land on which the city of Cincinnati now stands.  They built the
first cabin there, and dug a well one hundred and twenty two feet
deep, when they struck a large walnut stump, and being unable to re-
move it, and having become dissatisfied with the location, they 
abandoned it.  They were both in the battle of Tippecanoe.  Henry
Lindsay married Elizabeth Culbertson, and they had one son, William
C., when Mrs. Lindsay died, and he afterward married Margaret Kincaid,
daughter of William Kincaid, of Dublin, Ireland, who had settled in
Greenbriar County, VA.  By his second wife he had: Ellen K., James,
Nancy B., Preston, John K., Henry C. and Margaret J.  William C. 
Lindsay settled in St. Charles County in 1827, and died in 1861.  He
was married twice, first to Mary Hamilton, and after her death he
married the widow Lewis, whose maiden name was Maria Bell.  Ellen K.
died single in Kentucky.  James died in Lincoln County, unmarried.
Nancy married Alexander McConnell, of Indiana.  Preston studied medi-
cine, and married Jane Mahan, of Kentucky.  John K. married Hannah 
Bailey, of Lincoln County, where he now resides.  Henry C. was also a
physician.  He settled in St. Charles County in 1835, and died three 
years after.  Margaret J. married Dr. John Scott, of Howard County,
MO.  William Lindsay, Jr., was married in Pennsylvania to Sarah Thomp-
son, and settled in Pike County, MO., in 1829.	

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