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DAVIDSON WOODBURN LINDSEY, a prominent farmer of West Pennsboro township, Cumberland county, and a representative member of an old and honored family of this locality, was born in 1855, in that township, son of John Forbes and Rachel Woodburn (Davidson) Lindsey.

We are permitted to use the following record, taken from the family Bible, and correct in every particular:

William Lindsey, grandfather of D. W., died Jan. 23, 1838, aged forty-four years, five months and twenty-four days.

Mary Lindsey, grandmother of D. W., died Oct. 26, 1842, aged fifty-six years, six months and fourteen days.

John Forbes Lindsey was born Sept. 2, 1819, died Feb. 14, 1888, aged sixty-eight years, three months and twelve days.

William Ewing Lindsey was born Feb. 21, 1822, and died Jan. 6, 1859, aged thirty-six years, ten months and fifteen days.

Rachel W. Davidson was born March 6, 1821.

John F. Lindsey and Rachel W. Davidson were married March 16, 1843. Unto them were born eight children, namely: William Alexander, born Feb. 24, 1847; Alta Mary, born Feb. 24, 1847; John Forbes, April 7, 1849; Jane Margaret, Aug. 10, 1853; Davidson Woodburn, Oct. 27, 1855; Edwin James, Sept. 18, 1858; Rachel Rebecca, March 31, 1864; Lacy Alice, Nov. 13, 1865.

William Alexander still survives, and is unmarried.

Robert Shannon McElwain and Alta Mary Lindsey, were married Jan. 21, 1869, and unto them were born four children, namely: Florence Woodburn, born March 22, 1870; Mary Belle, May 14, 1874; William Thomas, Dec. 22, 1877; and Lindsey, April 21, 1880.

John Forbes never married.

J. Zitzer Line and Jane Margaret Lindsey were married Dec. 28, 1876, and unto them were born: Mervin Lindsey, Nov. 9, 1878; George Valentine, Feb. 14, 1883; and Leroy Zitzer, Aug. 22, 1885.

Davidson W. Lindsey and Annie Elizabeth Line were married Sept. 2, 1879, and unto them were born: Raymond Davidson and Estella Agnes June 24, 1880; Rachel Rebecca, Sept. 28, 1881; Lacy Mabel, Oct. 29, 1884; and George Claire, Nov. 20, 1885.

Edwin J. Lindsey and Nancy Hunter were married Dec. 25, 1889, and unto them were born: Elizabeth Winona, May 11, 1891; Alta Ruth, Nov. 23,, 1893; John Hunter, Nov. 13, 1896; and Mervin Edwin, Sept. 19, 1901.

Thomas Carothers and Rebecca R. Lindsey were married Dec. 26, 1889. They had no children.

M. Luther Eppley and Lacy A. Lindsey, were married Dec. 22, 1891, and unto them was born: Mary Winona, June 3, 1893.

Both John Forbes Lindsey and Rebecca R. Carothers are deceased. Florence W. McElwain, daughter of Robert S. and Alta McElwain, died April 10, 1882, but at the date of this record (1903), no other deaths in the family had taken place.

The parents of Rachel W. Lindsey were Alexander and Jane Davidson. Alexander Davidson died Oct. 19, 1865, aged seventy-eight years.

Jane Davidson died Aug. 19, 1879, aged eighty-eight years, eight months and nineteen days.

Our esteemed subject grew up on his father’s farm in West Pennsboro township, and attended the local schools until the age of eighteen years, when he spent one term at the Shippensburg Normal School. After teaching one term, he then spent a term at the Millersville Normal school. Mr. Lindsey then devoted himself to teaching for some years, going to Illinois in 1877. After a year in the West, he returned to Cumberland county and resumed teaching. In 1879 he married and settled down to farming, in 1882 purchasing his father’s farm in West Pennsboro township.

Mr. Lindsey has always taken an intelligent interest in politics but has refused the cares and honors of office. Formerly he was in affiliation with the Republican party, but latterly has been a zealous Prohibitionist. With his family he belongs to the First Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, in which he has been an elder for sixteen years. In every relation of life, Mr. Lindsey has filled the ideal of a good citizen, and he commands the highest measure of esteem from all who know him.