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From: "Becky" <>
Subject: [WASH] Biographical Exerpts No. 3
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 17:21:44 -0400


For Thada.....

Early Ministers of the Washington Presbytery who were deceased by 1889:

The Rev. Stephen Lindsley (Lindley), was a son of Caleb Lindsley, who came from Mendham, New Jersey at a very early date, and settled at Ten Mile in Washington Co., Pa. He studied at Canonsburg Academy and was an original member of the Franklin Literary Society. Licensed in 1801 by the Presbytery of Ohio. Ordained April 1803, and was sent to Marietta, Ohio. In Oct. 1808 he was dismissed with four others to organize the Presbytery of Lancaster. In 1814 he was again pastor in Marietta. He was shortly stricken with palsy and unable to speak and he returned to Ten Mile in 1828. His wife was from one of the Eastern states and after he died she returned to her family. They had no children. He was a cousin of Rev. Jacob Lindley and a grand-uncle of Dr. S. L. Blachley, ruling elder in the church of Upper Ten-Mile.

The Rev. Jacob Lindsley (Lindley), a son of Demas Lindsley, one of the first bench of Elders in Ten Mile Church, was born June 13, 1774; was a pupil in Mr. Dodd's school at Ten-Mile when about ten years old. He attended Canonsburg Academy and was in the Franklin Literary Society. He graduated from Princeton in 1800, licensed by Presbytery of Ohio in 1802, ordained in 1803, and installed as pastor at Waterford, Ohio. Dismissed in 1808 so he could take charge of the Academy at Athens. (Prob. the beginnings of Ohio Univ.) He was in Athens until 1828 when he was received into the Presbytery of Cincinnati for a year as pastor of the Church of Walnut Hills. He was received into the Presbytery of Washington and he was for a short time the stated supply of the Church of the Upper Ten Mile until 1832 when he connected himself with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. His name was dropped from the rolls on June 20, 1832.
Mr. Lindsley was married in 1800 to Miss Hannah Dickey of Washington Co., Pa. Their oldest son, Daniel, went to South Africa as a missionary and for 35 years labored among the Zulus. Two daughters were married to ministers in the CPC - Rev. Robert Donnell and Rev. Leroy Woods. A granddaughter is married to Rev. C. W. Smith, editor of the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate of the ME Church. Dr. Lindsley died Jan. 19, 1857 at the residence of his son, Dr. Lutells Lindsley in Connellsville, Pa.

Deceased Ruling Elders:

Demas Lindsley (Lindley) came from Morris Co., N. J. in a colony of settlers who located on Ten Mile Creek. The fort erected by these first settlers to defend themselves against the Indians took its name, Fort Lindsley, from him. He was one of the three elders present at the first meeting of the Presbytery of Redstone in 1781. It is said in "Balke's Biographical Dictionary" that all the Morris County, N.J. Lindsleys, or Lindleys, the same name modiefied by taste or accident, were descendants of Col. Francis Lindsley who came from England in 1685. Among the descendants were many who became ministers of the gospel. Among these are enumerated the descendants of Demas Lindsley of Ten Mile, along with Rev. Phillip Lindsley, a former professor in New Albany Theological Seminary, and his son Rev. John Berrian Lindsley , who succeeded his father as Chancellor of Nashville University. Demas Lindsley died on January 22, 1818 in the eighty-fifth year of his age, and is buried at UpperT!
en Mile Cemetery.


Rebecca Davis Pauley
Washington, Pa.

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