Lindsey Robertson

1792 - 1861  (68 years)

• Name	Lindsey Robertson
  Born	13 Oct 1792	Monroe County, Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  Died	29 Jul 1861	Greene County, Missouri, USA
  Buried	Lindsey Chapel Cemetery, Republic, Greene, Missouri, United States
  Person ID	I27664	Tofterå Slettemoen
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2018

  
  

  Father	Thomas J. Robertson,   b. 1763, Amherst, Virginia ,   d. 19 Oct 1834, Monroe County, Tennessee  (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Laine,   b. 1771, Amherst, Virginia ,   d. 2 Mar 1838, Monroe County, Tennessee  (Age 67 years)
  Married	17 Mar 1789	Amherst, Virginia
  Family ID	F7131	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Lindsey and Delilah (Jones) Robertson, and their family, moved from Monroe County, TN, to Greene County, MO, in 1837. They settled southwest of Springfield about one mile east of what would become Republic. Lindsey owned 660 acres in various parcels at the time of his death in 1861. The family home was southwest of the corner of Lynn Avenue and Miller Road. Water was obtained from a spring at the northeast corner of Lynn Avenue and Wood Street. Lindsey Robertson was a Methodist lay minister of the gospel, and would hold services in the Chapel. Many funeral services were conducted here as well. School was also held in the chapel in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The Chapel was still in good repair in the 1940's and 1950's as many porgram's were conducted, and was always open on decoration days. What would become the Lindsey Chapel Cemetery probably had its beginning with the earliest known grave and tombstone for Mary C. Robertson, b. Dec 5, 1845: d. Apr 26, 1846. Mary was the daughter of Thomas Edward and Jane Caroline (Jarrett) Robertson, and a granddaughter of Lindsey and Delilah. She was probably the first death in the ROBERTSON family after their move to Missouri. It was probably Lindsey who selected the high area across from the family home which is now just southeast of the corner of Lynn Avenue and Miller Road. Whether Lindsey and Delilah envisioned growth of their family burial site to a cemetery of over 570 graves will never be known. Polly Hagewood was Lindsey's sister. Another sister was Lucy (1799-1849) the wife of Alexander McCullah.