LINDSAY.
Reuben Lindsay came to Albemarle from Westmoreland
about 1776. In that year he purchased from John Clark
seven hundred and fifty acres on the east side of the South
West Mountain, where he made his home. During the ensuing
twenty years he had purchased upwards of two thousand
acres. He was already a magistrate at the close of the Revolutionary
War, frequently sat on the County bench, and was
otherwise often engaged in the duties of that office. He
departed this life in 1831. He was twice married, first to
Sarah, daughter of Dr. Thomas Walker, by whom he had no
children, and secondly to Miss Tidwell. By the last marriage
he had three daughters, Sarah, the wife of James Lindsay,
his nephew, whose home was at the Meadows, a short distance
southwest of Gordonsville, and whose daughter became
the wife of John M. Patton Jr., Elizabeth, the wife of General
William F. Gordon, and Maria, the wife of M. L.
Walker, son of Captain Thomas Walker Jr.
Another nephew bearing his own name, Reuben, lived on
the Rivanna, near the mouth of Limestone. His wife was
Mary Goodman, and his children were Susan, the wife of
John G. Gray, Mary, the wife of Albert G. Watkins, Ann,
the wife of Stephen F. Sampson, James, William and Reuben.
He died in 1837, and his wife in 1841. His son Reuben was
a physician, practised his profession with much success at
Scottsville, and died in 1881.
