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Nancy Ann Hicks

Female 1801 - 1876  (75 years)


 

Lindley-Hicks - Joseph Lindley and Nancy Ann Hicks - Brief bio



Joseph Lindley, son of Simon and Anna (Stanley) Lindley was born 7 January 1793 in Orange County, North Carolina. Early in 1808 he moved with his family to Christian County, Kentucky. He later moved to what is now Bond County, Illinois, then to Madison County, Illinois. 

Joseph married Nancy Ann Hicks on 17 June 1817 in Bond County Illinois and they moved to
bio4:  He married Nancy Ann Hicks on 17 Jun 1817 in Bond County Illinois and they moved to Tennessee.  Ten years later in 1827, they moved to Texas and are listed in Austin’s Register.(1)

John participated in the siege of Bexar in 1835. (2) He fought in the battle of San Jacinto. (3) He was appointed an Indian agent by Mirabeau B Lamar, then President of the Republic of Texas. (4)  About 1846 the Lindley’s moved to Limestone County,  where they settled about four miles north of Mexia. (5) John was buried in Limestone County but later reinterred at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin on Memorial Day, 26 May 1986.

Sources:
1. Texas GLO, Austin Colony Register of Families, Vol 1 pages 7 and 8.
2. Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Republic Claims, PE Reel 225 660-665, LINDLY, Joseph 1835 Seige of Bexar (once located at https://tslarc.tsl.texas.gov/repclaims/225/22500660.pdf).
3. 1871 Pension file no. 1146 TSLA, reel 225 660-665.pdf, Joseph Lindley.
4. 1840 Lindly, Joseph, pay as Alabama Coushata Indian Agent Texas.
5. Texas GLO, Robertson 3rd Class, Abstr 549, File 000219, Grantee B.F. Thompson, Patented by Joseph LINDLEY, 1845.
6. LINDLY, Joseph, death 26 Jan 1874, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Republic Claims, reel 225, 665; (once at https://tslarc.tsl.texas.gov/repclaims/225/22500664.pdf).


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