TX Bios - Lindsey H. McDorman & Family - Coke County, Texas Submitted by Ellen Counts Tolbert 19 July 2005 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ***************************************************************** LINDSEY HOUSTON McDORMAN MARY ADELINE TEETER OLIVIA LEVISA RODMAN Lindsey Houston McDorman was born 18 August 1851 to William Henry and Susan Elizabeth (McMullen) McDorman in Greene County, Missouri. He was raised in Greene County. Lindsey left around 1869, after the death of his parents. He showed up in Indian Territory (later Vinita, Oklahoma,) working for William Preston Teeter in a sawmill. In March of 1871 Lindsey married Mary Adeline Teeter, daughter of William Preston and Sarah Ann (Rodman) Teeter. Adeline was born 15 May 1856 in Sioux City, Keokuk County, Iowa. Her family lived there until the late 1860’s when they moved to Indian Territory, settling around what was later Vinita, Oklahoma and where William Preston owned a sawmill. Lindsey and Adeline McDorman’s first three children (Charlotte Temple, Hattie V., and John Henry William Preston) were born in Indian Territory. By 1881 they are living in Hamilton and Coryell Counties of Texas. Two of their children were born while they lived there (Weldon Edward in Hamilton County and Walter Edgar in Coryell County). By 1887 they are living in Mills County, where Katherine Arvada was born. Lindsey brought his family to Coke County in 1888, one year before its organization in 1889, and homesteaded 160 acres in the vicinity of the present Lake Spence spillway. The last two children were born after they moved there (Inez Adeline and Daisy Esther). After settling his family on his homestead, Lindsey McDorman hauled freight into Coke County. Later, he would travel back and forth to San Angelo, to work at a cotton gin. Lindsey accumulated more farmland by buying land from other homesteaders. Later, he owned and operated one of the first cotton gins in Robert Lee. During all this time, he also farmed his land in Coke County. On 1907, Mary Adeline passed away. Lindsey remarried the next year to a first cousin of hers. Olivia Levisa Rodman married Lindsey on 4 June 1908 in Tom Green County, where Lindsey meet her train that came in from Oklahoma. Olive was “Grandma McDorman” for most of the Lindsey’s grandchildren . She was the daughter of James Milton and Catherine (Hartzell/Hartle) Rodman. She was born 31 May 1867 in Iowa. James Milton was a brother of Mary Adeline’s mother, Sarah Ann Rodman. Most of the children of Lindsey and Adeline were married in Coke County, Charlotte Temple (1872-1930) married Johnny Abernathy Knight in 1889. Hattie V. (1874-1875) died while they still lived in Indian Territory. John Henry William Preston (1881-1956) married Lucy Mobley in 1904. Pres later married Laura Collett. Weldon Edward (1881-1949) married Elizabeth Childress. Walter Edgar (1884-1950) married Ola Bell Murtishaw. Katherine Arvada (1887-1935) married Roth Havins. Inez Adeline (1890-1962) married James Leroy Taylor. Daisy Esther (1895- 1977) married John Edward McCutchen. After Lindsey retired from farming, he and Olive moved into Robert Lee where they lived on 7th Street. The house was later the home of James Leroy and Inez Adeline (McDorman) Taylor. Roy Taylor extensively remodeled the house over the years and it still stands between Mountain Creek and the Colorado River. Lindsey McDorman died 8 September 1932 amd Olive died 17 October 1938. Lindsey is buried in the Robert Lee Cemetery between the graves of Mary Adeline and Olivia Levisa. Ellen Counts Tolbert Granddaughter of Inez Adeline McDorman