Lindley Presho Genealogy and History Blog

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