Alex Lindsay (b. 1832)

LINDSAY, MURRAY

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 6/26/2005 at 22:38:31

Lindsay, Alex, farmer, Section 3; PO Waucoma; born in Scotland in 1832 and come to this country with his father, Alex, in 1851, and settled in McHenry Co., Illinois, where he was an early settler and resided until 1856, when he removed to this county and settled on his present estate of 147 acres, valued at $40 per acre. Was School Director some years and is well known throughout the town and county. He married Margaret Murray in 1862; she was born in Scotland, in 1839; have two children --- L. C. and Frank. Are members of the Congregational Church.

Page 629, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"
Eden Township