Levi LINDLEY

  General Notes:

This Notice regarding the estate of Levi Lindley, who died on February 4, 1801, in Washington County, Pennsylvania appeared in the Washington County newspaper Herald of Liberty on July 20, 1801. In accordance with law, the Notice was published on more than one occasion.

From DeeAnna Allum Granston



BOOK: COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families, Volumes I, J. H. Beers & Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1893, page 508, excerpt only:


Within a bio of HARVEY LINDLEY we learn about Washington County, Pennsylvania pioneer brothers Levi, Demas and Caleb Lindley, as follows:


He [Harvey] comes of an old New Jersey family, from which State his grandfather, Levi Lindley, came to this county (in the year 1788), making the journey on horseback, finally arriving in Morris township, bringing his family later and settling where the village of Lindley's Mills now is. Here, in the woods, he erected his log cabin, and underwent many hardships and vicissitudes of which the present generation know but little. About the same time his two brothers Demas and Caleb, came to this country, each of whom sent a son back to Princeton College, where they graduated and both became Presbyterian ministers.

The three brothers were truly the pioneer settlers, and gave character as energetic, Christian men to the community in which they lived. They were the first to build a fort for protection against Indian invasions. Lindley's Fort, as it was known, was built on the farm of Demas Lindley, now owned by Isaac Connett, and was located just west of the present brick dwelling. They were, also, the prime movers in organizing and establishing Upper and Lower Ten Mile Presbyterian Churches. Demas erected and ran the first gristmill in Morris township. He kept the first postoffice in the township; and it was the only office at that early date between Washington and Waynesburg. The mail was carried once a week on horseback. One by one the giant trees yielded to the pioneer's axe, and ere long the wild animals were driven back by the march of civilization. In most respects the country was comparatively safe, save when marauding bands of Indians made depredatory raids on the humble homes of the white man.



BOOK: BURIALS IN THE UPPER TEN MILE CHURCH CEMETERY located in the village of Prosperity, Morris Township, Washington County, PA, by Greg R. Dunn, compiled 1995, published by Closson Press, Apollo, PA, page 3:

(The surname is spelled "Lindly")

"In memory of Levi Lindly, senior, who was born the 27th of April AD 1731 and departed this life the 4th of February 1801 in the 70th year of his age "behold me here as you pass by, as you are now, so was I, the day of trial will shortly be, prepare for death to follow me"