Person:Elizabeth Lindsay (19)

Handsome, High-spirited, and the Belle of her County (Franklin)

Elizabeth Lindsay Culbertson Sharp Peebles is listed as widow of Robert Culbertson Mar 1778 where sale bill shows bonds and Congress money valued at 1180 pounds; in 1779 she is listed as widow living in Cumberland Co, PA on tax lists. In 1780 she married Matthew Sharp; in the final account(after 1780) Elizabeth is listed as executrix and named as Elizabeth Sharp of Guilford Twp, Cumberland Co, PA along with Samuel, her oldest son, and Esther, Elizabeth, Jean, and Agnes Culbertson. 1782-1783 the heirs of Robert Culbertson on tax list of Cumberland Co, PA with bonds used to purchase property of heirs in 1783. In 1786 Mathew Sharp died leaving Elizaeth a widow once again.

According to the letters of administration of Mathew Sharp in Franklin Co, PA, Will Book A p93, dated 18 Nov 1786, Elizabeth was named executrix of Mathew Sharp’s estate. If this is true, then the prior claim of Mathew dying in 1796 is not true; this also brings into question the parentage of Mary Sharp, first wife of Martin Luther Hawkins.

In 1789 she purchased property in Westmoreland Co, PA. The Culbertson Genealogy gives an account of her life and marriages plus children. Elizabeth was said to be reigning belle of Franklin Co, PA. In 1790 she is listed on census of Franklin Co, PA with 2m above 16; 1m under 16; 5f; in 1792 her property in Guilford Twp is sold and the family moved to Allegheny Co, PA; in 1794 James Sharp, Elizabeth’s son, moved in with his half-sister, Jane Culbertson Hancock; he is said to have been about 10 at the time; in 1798 Elizabeth is married to Robert Peebles, nephew of Colonel Robert Peebles.

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Elizabeth Lindsey (a.ka. Lindsay or Linsay) (ref) (ref) b. 27 Mar 1745 d. 1778

(She married 2 other men later Matthew Sharp Robert Peoples ) She is buried with husband Robert Peoples in Shippensburg, PA

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   Notes and Queries - Historical and Genealogical Chiefly Relating to Interior Pennsylvania, William Henry Egle, 1970, Annual Volume 1896, Notes and Queries - XXVI, Page 143

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   Culbertson, Lewis R.. Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson families : who came to America before the year 1800, and several families that have come over since then, containing biographical sketches of some of the more prominent members of the various families. Zanesville, Ohio: The Courier Co., Printers and Binders, 1923, p236-238

3.   Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III
   Sidney Byron Liggett
   
   Elizabeth Lindsay Culbertson, wife of Matthew Sharp, descends from the well known Scotch family of Lindsay, which dates back to the days of William the Conqueror. Her father, Lieutenant James Lindsay, was collector of revenue in Cumberland county, in the years 1764-69. (Penn. Archives, vol. ix, p. 788). He was a lieutenant in the Provincial forces of Pennsylvania, in Captain David McAllister's company, First Battalion, in regiment commanded by Colonel James Burd. He was commissioned April 25, 1760, and was in active service that year, (Penn. Archives, ed. 1876, vol. ii, p. 605). His daughter Elizabeth (Mrs. Matthew Sharp) was a remarkably handsome woman, high spirited, and the belle of her county (Franklin). Her first husband, whom she married at the age of sixteen years, was Robert Culbertson, a soldier of the Revolution, by whom she had five children: Esther, married her cousin Andrew, son of Colonel Robert Culbertson; Elizabeth, married her cousin, William Lindsay, and removed to Kentucky; Jane, married John Hancock, an English gentleman; Samuel, married a Miss Monk; Agnes, married James B. Clow. In 1780, when about twenty-five years old, Elizabeth (Lindsay) Culbertson married her second husband, Matthew Sharp, by whom she had three children: Rosana, James, and Mary. In 1798 she married (third) Robert Peebles, nephew of Colonel Robert Peebles, of the Revolutionary army. The issue of the last marriage is not recorded. Of the three children of Matthew and Elizabeth (Lindsay-Culbertson) Sharp, James and Rosana (Mrs. John Liggett) are further referred to; the youngest child, Mary, born 1789, died March, 1859, married Martin Hawkins.