Welcome to the Lindley Presho Genealogical and Historical Society Blog.
Our mission researching and preserving our history and genealogy.
Retired Lindley Town Historian - Catherine "Kitty" Pierce.
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VAN DUYNE, Elbert Bickley (Bick), July 2, 1923 - March 6, 2013. Survived by wife, Betty Phillips; one daughter, two sons, one stepdaughter and one stepson. Memorial Services will be at 3:00 p.m., Saturday, March 9, 2013 at Canyon del Oro Baptist Church, 9200 N. Oracle Rd. Memorial gifts in his name to Casa de la Luz or charity of your choice. Arrangements by ANGEL VALLEY FUNERAL HOME.
For Sale in 2014 The last blog posting shows the postcard of a Northside High School. A former Lindley resident was curious as to the date. Using the Internet , he found a copy of the postcard dated 1905. After a discussion about the age of the Northside High School that has been in recent Corning Leader news articles, he located a September 14,1927 article on the Fulton Archival Newspaper website that said the new high school had opened . Corresponding with him about the date and other information regarding the school had piqued my curiosity . Knowing that so many Lindley residents had attended a Corning Northside High School or had a connection with it, I decided to research the history of the schools. As Town Lindley Historian , I had provided Ian Mackenzie with information about the Lindley one room schools when he was writing his book -" Th
Lt.Col. Eleazer Lindsley and Lindsley Coat of Arms (Composite photo made for the Steuben County Hall of Fame) Lindley no longer has a school in the town and this is my way of letting the residents learn about the town where they live . The following will be excerpts from various histories about the history of the Town of Lindley. Each historian or person writing the following information has made his own interpretation of the facts . Kitty Lt. Colonel Eleazer Lindsley was born December 7th, 1737 in Morristown, New Jersey -the son of Jonathon Lindsley. He died in Lindley, N.Y. June 1,1794. He served as a Lt .Colonel. in Colonel Oliver Spencer's Regiment of New Jersey Continental Troops. He was ,also, a Second Major in the Morris County ,Militia . He married Mary Miller of Morristown N.J. He served in the New Jersey Assembly in 1780; was a Justice of Peace in 1783 and moved to Steuben County, New York in 1790. From Men of Morris County, New Jersey Who Ser
20 October 2012 – Bath NY Delivered by Timothy F. Taylor, at his great x 4 grandfather’s, Brigadier General John Taylor, memorial service. Impact of research – formation of team, re-establishment of ties to lost branches of the family. One of the first documents that the team discovered was a note in the Bath Historian’s office detailing some of the History of General John Taylor and his family. In that note it states that John Taylor started as a private in the Militia. Although we have not found any of his Militia Records prior to 1775, we have found that on October 28 th of 1775 he was promoted to 2 nd Major of the 4 th Hunterdon Regiment of the New Jersey Militia. Revolutionary War Pension Applications detail some of his unit’s accomplishments, one of which tells of a detail from Major John Taylor’s command that was sent to patrol the Delaware River in December of 1776. That detail was under the command of Lt. Daniel Bray and they collected boats and too
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