LINDSEY FAMILY STORIES

The Lindsey Family

There were a lot of Lindseys in the Glassy Mountain area. I will name several and describe a few of them.

The Lum (Columbus) Lindsey family that lived West of Vaughn's Gap. He had a son that is buried at Emery/Lindsey Cemetery. He is buried at Tryon , NC which would indicate that he lived there after he left the mountains. There is a Lindsey Gap on the Hog Back Road near the Mitch Place . Possibly named that because it was an entrance to the Lum Lindsey place.

J. Thomas Lindsey, wife Hulda Guthrie Lindsey, grew up near the Club House on Glassy Mountain . After marriage, they lived and reared their family just over Rich Mountain from the Club House. They had eight children: John Flemon, William F., Bennie, Martha (Howard), Carolina (Lindsey) Thomas, Minnie (Emery), Henry and Liddie (Harrison).

Nothing is known of J. Thomas family except, one sister, Martha, the mother of the Plumley family, owned most of Glassy Mountain before the Cliff Development came in and bought the land.

Hulda had four sisters: Annie who lived and had a family at Easley , SC , Janie who married a Tucker and lived at Landrum , SC. They were in the Shoe Shop Business, Liddie who married Hovie Duncan who lived and worked at the Greer Textile Mill in Greer , SC. There was another one named Kindness, not sure where she lived.

There were some Lindsey families near Oak Grove Baptist Church , also on the Highland Road , a Rufus Lindsey ran a store at the corner of Glassy Mountain and Highland roads. Another Lindsey ran a store near the junction of 101 and the Jordan Road , another family lived South of that junction on Highway 101.

There was a Charlie Lindsey, the father-in-law of George Pitman, Junior's father, and also Bud Moon who lived about a mile from Glassy Mountain Baptist Church on the Glassy Mountain Road .

He also was a very respected citizen and lived a long and successful life. He was a farmer and did well at it and reared a large family, and was somewhat better educated than that average citizen of the mountain area.

It is true the world is a better place to live because of the life and influence of this grate family known as the Lindseys.