Person:Clarence Lindsey (1)

CEL's date of birth is in his father's family bible--see Henry Carlton Lindsey, THE MARK LINDSEY HERITAGE (Brownwood, TX; 1982), p. 66. This is also my source for his spouse's date and place of birth, and the couple's marriage date. H.C. Lindsey lists three children of CEL, John R., Malvin Bruce, and Thomas Gene, and has information about the descendants of each (pp. 89-913).

Note that CEL's tombstone gives his date of birth as 25 Aug. 1892. Social security death index shows CEL being b. 28 Aug. 1892 and dying 23 June 1989 at Arcadia, LA (SS # 439-07-0657). The date of death matches the date on his tombstone.

1920 census, Natchitoches Psh., LA, 2nd Ward, Chestnut post office, p. 8B (ED 39, 141/141, 23 Jan.). CEL is 26, a farmer, b. LA, parents b. LA. Wife Leola is 18, b. LA, parents b. LA.

I can recall Uncle "Doc," as the family called him (he was named for a Coushatta doctor, Dr. Clarence Edgerton). He was a watermelon farmer north of Coushatta, and we often visited him. Like many of the Lindseys, he was slender and fair-complexioned, with a net of red veins across his cheeks. He had very blue eyes, and was a genial man. Towards the end of his life, his niece Lucy Mai Adams told me that Uncle Doc was suffering from throat cancer (he did smoke), and that he had had to have a device installed in his throat, through which he spoke. When people could not understand what he was saying, he became angry.