Lindley Presho Genealogy and History Blog

Penny Postcard -(no date ) Happy New Year to all

1913 Postcard with 1 cent stamp Merry Christmas 2016

OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS -           LAWRENCEVILLE,PA  BRIDGE 2010 PHOTO BY DENNIS ABBEY TO GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE WE GO

I know this  is not a complete list but it is what was in the  Lindley Historian's files.   October 2007  when the  Lindley Veteran's monument was dedicated.            Kitty Korean Veterans June 25 th , 1950 , –Jan 31,1955 Y indicates deceased in 2007         Some of those listed are no longer with us.           Last             First   M.I.             Rank           Service                  Dec.   Aldrich                  Earl        R.                             Sgt.                          Army      11/7/193 -         10/25/1996     Allen                       Glenn   “Popeye”             Chief Petty Officer   Navy   Ayres                      Raymond    (Bub)   Ball                         Frank   Brant                      Merlyn   L. (drafted 3/30/1951)     2 nd .Div.38thInf. Regt Army   P.H            11/17/1985          Brietwise               Stewart                                      

There is considerable interest in the  United States elections in  November - 2016 . In 1791, settlers in the Land of Painted Post as it was then called held a election which undoubtedly  was the topic of conversation for quite sometime .. and it's all documented in local histories. The following is copied from the History of Steuben County, New York and Its People  by Near   1911  Vol.1 page 135                               "First Legislative Representative                   On the first Tuesday in April 1791, the first "Town Meeting" in what is now Steuben County was held. It took place at Painted Post, and the organization effected embraced all the settlements in the county organized five years later. In March,1791, the legislature of New York had given to Ontario county the right to elect a member of the assembly .                  Turner in his valuable "History of Phelps and Gorham Purchase " says of this first election in Ontario coun

Copied from Colonial Ancestors and Descendants by Uri Mulford Corning,. 1920      ( Gt.Grandson of Dr and Mrs. Mulford).                                     Dr. Ezekiel Mulford Ezekiel Mulford, (  5th generation) (Ezekiel -Jeremiah -Thomas - William) was born at East Hampton in 1764, married Nancy Lindsley, daughter of Eleazer Lindsley and his wife Mary(Miller); died in Town of Lindley,N.Y. of Pneumonia Typus January 13, 1813; she died the preceding day and they are  both buried in one grave. The disease started in New England in the spring of 1811 and spread from community to community -causing many deaths. Dr. Mulford studied medicine and surgery first as an apprentice and doctor's assistant as was then the  practice, at Sag Harbor and later served in military hospital at Morristown, N. J.  He married Nancy Lindsley and they migrated to Wyoming ,Pa. on the Susquehanna and were among the first settlers of Lindley, in June 1790. Dr. Mulford brought surgical instrume

  Presho . Mrs. Albert Bennington is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Marsh, of Elmira, have been visiting friends in town. O. P. Johnson, of Cammal, Pa., has been visiting his daughter, Mrs. Harrison Miller. Luke Gibson fell and was quite seriously injured while at work in his barn the past week. George M. Pepper is building a cheese factory. It will be run on the co-operative plan. It is expected that the factory will be finished and ready for business by the middle of May. May 6, 1901. Corning Journal  May 8,1901 Fulton site

Copy of 1863 and 1891 School Book Some questions for your children   No calculators allowed!!!!!! How did they do??/ How good was your math??/

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - (+) Calculating Birth Dates from Death Date Information The following is a Plus Edition article, written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.  What day was that ancestor born? It seems like such a simple question, and yet finding the answer can be surprisingly complex, even when you have the numbers in front of you. Exact dates are often found in death certificates and frequently on tombstones. The problem is that these are often written as death dates followed by the person’s age at death. : With so many broken or damaged stones in our old cemeteries, I was interested in the repair job on this stone.  Repairing them is a challenge -so hats off to anyone who preserves the old grave stones. ...

Lt.Colonel Eleazer  Lindsley - Lt. Colonel in Colonel Spencer's Regiment -Rev.War Buried in Lindsley Burying Ground Samuel Lindsley -son of Col.Eleazer and Mary Lindsley (recently discovered documentation - ) 4th N.J Regt. Wounded Battle of Brandywine at 17 years of age.-Rev.War (A Lindsley Descendant and a  DAR Representative are sorting out documentation since there were 2 Samuel Lindsleys from N.J.who served in the Revolution) Was Major in first Steuben County Militia. Buried in Lindley Burying Ground  Dr.Ezekiel Mulford Surgeon 1st N.Y. Regiment -Rev.War Buried in Lindsley Burying Ground Captain John Seelye Orderly Sergeant Col. Bradley's Connecticut Regiment  Rev.War Spy for General Washington Buried Lindsley Burying Ground David Cook Ensign  -New Jersey Buried Five Corners Cemetery  Jasper, New York  Several Descendants buried in Lindley cemeteries   Joshua Mersereau Mersereau-Latoruette Spy Ri

 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