Lindsey Robert Colyer b. 27 Apr 1821 d. 14 Jan 1901 : Curtis / Colyer family of Somerset Kentucky

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Nickname	Linzy
Birth	27 Apr 1821 [2, 3, 5]
Gender	Male
Died	14 Jan 1901 [2, 3, 4, 6]
Buried	Soule's Chapel Cemetery, Somerset Pulaski County Ky
Person ID	I1171	John Colyer family of Somerset Ky
Last Modified	22 Feb 2015

Father	John Colyer, b. 20 Aug 1781, Henry County, VA , d. 18 Aug 1851, Ruth, Ky (reported somewhere from Typhoid fever)
Mother	Lydia Memes Purvis, b. 26 May 1798, North Carolina , d. 25 Dec 1874, Pulaski county, KY
Married	6 Jan 1818
Family ID	F051	Group Sheet

Family Nancy Jane Richardson, b. 1829, d. 1871

Married 30 Jul 1844 Pulaski Co., Kentucky [1, 2, 3]

Children

	1. Lucy Colyer
	2. Robert Colyer, b. 8 Apr 1863, Somerset KY , d. 29 Dec 1940, Somerset, KY
	3. Belle Colyer, b. BET. 1844 - 1865
>	4. Lydia Margaret Colyer, b. 1846, d. 1870
>	5. Elizabeth Colyer, b. 1847
	6. Pauline Jane Colyer, b. 1850
	7. Mary Belle Colyer, b. 1853
	8. Sophia Colyer, b. 1854
>	9. John Perry Colyer, b. 1857, d. 1936
	10. Virginia (Jennie) Colyer, b. 15 May 1860, d. 28 Oct 1941
	11. Nancy Ellen Colyer, b. 1859, d. 18 Sep 1861, Pulaski County Ky
	12. Samuel A. Colyer, b. 1865, d. 29 Mar 1874, Pulaski County Ky
	13. Alice Colyer, b. 1870
>	14. Lucinda Colyer, b. 1868
	15. Margaret Colyer, b. BET. 1844 - 1865
>	16. Lucinda Colyer, b. 1852
	17. Lucy Colyer, b. BET. 1844 - 1865
	18. Jennie Colyer, b. BET. 1844 - 1865
	19. Alice Colyer, b. BET. 1844 - 1865

Family ID F048 Group Sheet

Documents		1835 Kentucky Land Grant law: deligated to county courts This act appears to be a land free-for-all act, as it does not require settlement on land, but rather a payment for previously unappropriated land to County Court. The money had to be used by County for roads.
		1840's Land Grant to Lindsey Colyer 500 acres Land Grant under the Kentucky 1835 land grant Act by county in the Jugornot region of Pulaski County
		1886 Ruth Ky Warren Store ledger WARNING large 60 meg file: requires high speed: This ledger of the general store at what is now known as Ruth Ky was found in ceiling of old log home renovation 2012. The log house built by John Langdon in 1814, purchased by John Colyer 1842, then purchased by Andrew Warren 1865. Andrew's son, Mathew(born 1859), evidently ran store across the road from the house. The store later became in 1888 the first post office in the community at current day hwy 192 at Pitman Creek in Somerset Ky. The first post office in 1888 known as Juno....later became Ruth Ky. Many area family names in ledger: Colyer, Warren, Richardson, Meece, Botkin, Allen, Sword.
		1874 Pulaski County Kentucky Property tax records Various Colyer; Shows John G (Granade) Colyer next to Meece whom he his wife bought property from and Cyrenius Waite Colyer.
		1874 Pulaski County Kentucky Property tax Lindsey Colyer Not sure if this is Lindsey Randall or Lindsey Robert Colyer
		1875 Pulaski County Kentucky property tax Colyers shows James "Alexander" Colyer with property next to James Allen and Andrew Warren (the old John Colyer property per deed on this website) and Lindsey Colyer (evidently Lindsey Robert Colyer since next to in law Richardson)
		1874 Pulaski County Death records Shows Sawl Colyer 9 years old son of Lindsey Robert Colyer and also shows William Colyer 3 years old son of Charles Richard Colyer
		1861 Pulaski County Ky deaths Shows Nancy E Colyer death child: tomb stone shows 2 years old, but his death record shows 4 years old. Also Shows death of 1 year old Black Slave child
		1853 deed St. Clair Colyer to Lindsey Colyer St. Clair transfers his interest in father's estate, John Colyer, to brother Lindsey Colyer. This is the Lindsey Colyer who was major financier of Soule's Chapel church building.
		1869 Kentucky Court Appeals case land dispute Involves Cyrenius Waite, Lindsey Colyer, Samuel Black. Note the economic devastation on land values during Civil War in Pulaski County. Land purchased for $1 per acre in 1857, sold at 20 cents an acre at auction in 1869. This appears to be property inherited from John Colyer, the father of Lindsey Colyer and Samuel Black's wife, Harriett (based on 1/17th undivided interests) At some point Cyrenius Waite has come to lay claim to the sold 1/17th interests. See 1865 deed under John Colyer, where heirs all sell their 1/17th interest in farm at Pitman Creek to Andrew Warren. Colyer family friend, Cyrenius Waite, appears to have again intervened in Colyer land as he did for Bluford Colyer...see deeds under Bluford Colyer. See 1851 tax records under John Colyer b.1781 where shows land on cumberland river and deed from Purvis in 1851 for 50 acres Buck Creek.
		1851 Masonic lodge minutes Linzy Colyer, St. Clair Colyer, Cyrenius Colyer, Epharim Meece
		Ruth KY: research notes from author Renner on book Kentucky Place Names Stella Colyer, Ruth Botkin, Ruth Ashurst, Eugene Allen, Henry Warren, A.M. Salyer, Pearl Allen, RS Keeney, JC Mounce, L.R. Colyer
		1860 census Lydia Colyer with son Lindsey R Colyer, presumably on Cherry Grove Rd
		Soule's Chapel Methodist Church newspaper clippings 1900s

Notes

On of the principal financiers of the building of Soule's Chapel 1857 in Somerset Ky. per Commonwealth Journal, Somerset Newspaper article cited elsewhere under John Colyer Sr.
1860 Slave Schedule
NARA Film M653, Roll 405

Lindsey Colyer
35 F (B)
16 M (B)
15 M (B)
03 F (B)
02 M (B) named Cy according to 1861 death record this website

[S05088] Collierj.ftw--Tim Jeffries, Cincinnati OH, Tim Jeffries, Cincinnatti OH.
Date of Import: Aug 6, 1998
[S14494] Alice Colyer Gala.
Date of Import: Sep 19, 1998
[S27813] ColyerV2.FTW.
Date of Import: Sep 30, 1998
[S20212] Wesley Colyer [wcolyer@cinci.rr.com].
[S01711] Kate Smith Collier file # 4 - Walter W. Smith Collection.
[S01737] Richard Curtis files.