Person:Dwight Lindsey (1)

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Dwight Cecil Lindsey
b.25 Dec 1904 Coushatta, Red River Psh., Louisiana
d.26 Aug 1942 Coushatta, Red River Psh., Louisiana
Parents and Siblings
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m. 17 Jun 1900
  1. Rochell Lindsey1901 - 1990
  2. Winona Lindsey1903 - 1970
  3. Dwight Cecil Lindsey1904 - 1942
  4. Mamie B. Lindsey1906 - 1969
  5. Lucy Mai Lindsey1908 - 1992
Spouse and Children
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m. 23 Nov 1934
  1. Faye Beth Lindsey1937 - 1942
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Facts and Events
Name Dwight Cecil Lindsey
Gender Male
Birth? 25 Dec 1904 Coushatta, Red River Psh., Louisiana
Marriage 23 Nov 1934 to Dulcie Mae Giddings
Death? 26 Aug 1942 Coushatta, Red River Psh., Louisiana
Burial? Bethel Cem., Red River Psh., Louisiana

Tombstone in Bethel Cem., Red River Psh., LA, says he was b. 1904, d. 1942, and that wife Dulcie M. was b. 1911 and d. 1942. Daughter Faye Beth is buried beside the couple, with stone saying she was b. 1937, d. 1942.

Suffered a head injury while working in the oil fields. Though doctors warned his family that the injury had affected him mentally, and recommended long-term psychiatric hospitalization, stories I have heard say that his mother resisted the diagnosis. On the night of 26 Aug. 1942, DCL found an axe and killed his mother, wife, and daughter, and then took his own life by lying across a train track as a train approached. In a 16 Jan. 2003 letter to me, Ledavon Bamburg, d/o Aaron Bloomer Lindsey, recounts the story.

According to LB, CDL's father Sam got rid of everything dangerous around the house, but somehow Dwight found an axe. When his father came home in the morning from his night job as marshall of Red River Psh., he found his wife Avie dead in the dining room and daughter-in-law Dulcie with her daughter in the bedroom. He then found son Dwight on the railroad track.

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