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| Notes for Eliza Harriet LINDLEY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Note paraphrased from Thelma Schoolfield's notebook on the Lindleys: "Eliza always complained. Orla would humor his mother -- Elwood wouldn't. The following story illustrates this point: Orla had gone to Indiana on business and Eliza complained to Elwood, "Oh, Elwood, I have catarrah of the stomach", to which Elwood replied, "Lord Gawd, Mama, if you had catarrah of the stomach you wouldn't live 24 hours." Eliza muttered, "I'll die if Orla doesn't come back and die if Elwood stays." Note from a conversation with Thelma Schoolfield and Juanita McManus, May 2006: "Eliza always wanted to see the ocean. They packed her up and drove her to the coast in a wagon. They lived in Chatham County, so that was a very long trip by wagon. Great-grandmother Eliza was so excited, and stood looking out at the ocean so long that the waves washed the sand out from under her feet and she fell and broke her hip. They put her in a chair in that wagon with a broken hip and drove her all the way back to Elwood's and carried her in on that chair." More about the trip from Thelma's notes in the Lindley notebook: Gid Scott and Mary [Eliza's sister and brother-in-law] had come on a visit from Indiana and they had gone to see they ocean and they returned on a train. Granddaughter Manie Capps went to Eliza's home in Chatham County to care for her until her hip mended. Note paraphrased from Thelma Schoolfield's notebook on the Lindleys: "Harvey Newlin told of the Lindley family: Tradition says Lindley women were very pretty and the men tall. They were proud. Very fond of fruits and had orchards. This information of fruits and orchards was also noted in a 1940's news clipping from the Greensboro News...I am not positive of teh connection, but President Andrew Johnson was supposed to be the grandson of James Lindley (the James Lindley who moved to South Carolina), but this is a common claim from people researching their ancestors." NOTE: Eliza's brother, Aaron, is reported to have cut his own throat. NOTE: A small wash stand which had belonged to Eliza was sold at auction, and Harvey and Nannie Newlin bought it. In 1951-52 they gave the wash stand to Thelma Henderson Schoolfied, gr. grand-daughter of Eliza. Thelma also has a quilt hand-made by Eliza and given to son Elwood. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Comment: See Photo. Comment: See Photos and/or photocopies of notes believed to have been written in Eliza's hand regarding her parents John and Eliza Lindley. Comment: Hmmm. Eliza was obviouslyextraordinarily proud of her pious and exemplary Quaker parents, and yet she was described as stingy, complaining, pipe-smoking (and a marrier of a much younger man)...interesting. [LH] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| CHATHAM COUNTY BOOK A-I, Page 139 THIS INDENTURE made the 9th day of October in the year of our Lord 1848, between John Lindley of the state of North Carolina, Chatham Co., of the first part, WITNESSETH that for and in consideration of the sum of 300 dollars in hand paid by the said Eliza H. Henderson at and before the sealing and delivering of these presents the receipt and payment whereof is hereby acknowledged, I John Lindley, have granted, bargained, sold and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell and confirm unto the first Eliza H. Henderson a tract of land lying and being in the county and state aforesead on the waters of Cane Creek and Lick Branch bounded as follows. Beginning at a hickory James Mebane's corner running south 80 poles to a black jack, thence east 166 poles to a post oak; thence north 104 poles to a post oak Curl's corner; thence west 156 poles to the first station - containing by estimation 104 acres by the same more or less, and I, the first John Lindley, doth bind myself, my heirs and assigns, to warrant and derred [sic] a good and lawful title to the said tract of land clear and free from any first claim right or title under him or any other person, IN WITNESS whereof the said John Lindley hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year above written, signed and sealed in presence of John Lindley (Seal) Test: Owen Lindley Witness: Mrs. A. T. Glenn Aug. Term 1853 The execution of the foregoing deed was duly proven in open court by the oath of Owen Lindley, a subscribing witness thereto and order to be registered. Test: W. P. Taylore, C.C.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments Notes for Isaac R. (Spouse 1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comment: See Photo. Comment: Died of measles compounded by pneumonia. Comment: Mined saltpetre for the Confederacy during the Civil War. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overview provided by Thelma H. Schoolfield (minor editing by L. Henderson Franta): Isaac and Eliza had moved to Ottoway (now Chicago) Illinois in 1846 after their marriage. All three of their children were born there, near Lake Michigan. In 1848, John Lindley, father of Eliza, deeded her 104 acres near Cane Creek on Lick Branch (for $300), although a deed drawn up in Howard County, IN, in 1856 appears to sell the land back to John Lindley for $350. In 1870 for the sum of $400, Eliza, Elwood and Orla bought back the same tract (plus about 86 additional acres) from then-owner Thomas S. and Rachel Perry. The land was called "adjoining" that of Amos Richardson and Owen Lindley. It is said that they moved back to Chatham County to keep Isaac from being drafted into the Civil War. Isaac mined saltpetre for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He died in the spring (May) of 1862 after contracting measles, followed by a measles relapse with compounded with pneumonia. He had been allowed time to go home to put in the crops. (This info provided by Ross Henderson, Graham, NC, grandson of Isaac). As he was recovering from the bout of measles, and he went out on a freshly plowed field to check on the hired help who were planting corn. He stayed out too long and contracted pneumonia, from which he died. He was buried at Brown's Chapel Methodist Church in Chatham County, very near the grave of his father, Hezekiah. Eliza went back to Indiana to settle the estate there (in Howard County). Elwood and Oliver were left with a housekeeper in Chatham County during the period of time necessary for the their mother's trip. After Isaac's death, Eliza remarried, this time to Elijah "Lije" Foushee. They were quite poor following the Civil War. According to informaiton provided by grandson Artemas Hezekiah Henderson, Eliza was very stingy and in her old age, she smoked a pipe. She wove coverlets by hadn and Elijah would slip them to sell for spending money for chewing tobacco, etc. Elijah was much younger than Eliza -- he was only a little older than Eliza's son Elwood. After Eliza's death, the highboy from her estate sale was bought by the Oscar Lindley family who lived close to Liberty in 1940. It was purchased at the sale for $10.00 (ca. 1900). A small wash stand was purchased by the parents of local historian Harvey Newlin, who gave it to Thelma Schoolfield in 1960. The house built by Isaac and Eliza in about 1861 (after their return from Indiana and before Isaac joined the Confederacy) was called "The Painted House". It was the only painted house in the community. The old kitchen and walkway were torn down before 1948 and photographs from that year show the house was in ruins and in unlivable condition. Eliza and Lije Foushee continued to live in the house and it became know as the Old Foushee homeplace. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified 23 Jul 2006 | Created 8 Feb 2007 Laura K. Henderson |
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