Full Name: James Menees Lindsay
Other surnames:
Lindsey
Birth date: December 31, 1835
Death date: May 3, 1919
Terms of Service
House,
9th
(1)
Legislature
11/4/1861 - 1/14/1862
(1)
J.W. Hale, sworn 2/9/1863, succeeded J.M. Lindsey.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
Biographical Notes and Resources
Resolutions and Journal entries
35th Legislature, Communications from Members of 9th Legislature, 2/7 and 2/8/1917, p. 496: S.J.P. McDowell (served as member of 9th Legislature, 1st session in 1861-1862, then resigned and entered Confederate military service) and W.P. McLean ("I believe Judge Lindsay, at Gainesville, and I are the only surviving members of the 9th Legislature and I well remember that we were the youngest members of that body. We both resigned at the close of the first session and went into the Confederate army . . .").
House Journal .
J.M. Lindsey, Gainesville, Cooke County. Members and Officers of the House of Representatives of the Ninth Legislature, Regular Session.
House Journal .
Other Resources
Confederate States Army, Private, Company A, Fitzhugh's Regiment, Walker's Division. Judge James M. Lindsay, p. 1138.
A History of Texas and Texans 1914.
Biographical sketch, Judge James M. Lindsay, Volume I, pp. 236-237. Born in Wilson County, Tennessee; son of Rev. Louis and Jane R. (McFarland) Lindsay; 22 years old in 1857 upon moving to Texas; "His first noteworthy service was as a member of the eighth [sic] assembly of the Texas legislature in 1861, at which time he was the youngest member of the body . . . "
A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas 1906.
James M. Lindsay, birth date 12/31/1835, death date 5/3/1919 in Gainesville, banker, son of Lewis Lindsay and Jane McFarland.
FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
James Menees Lindsay (1835-1919), burial in Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas. Includes photo and historical marker.
Find a Grave .
Obituary, "J.M. Lindsay Dead: Venerable Texas Financier Was Railway Director and School Promoter," 5/3/1919, p. 1.
San Antonio Light .