{"id":3245,"date":"2022-01-10T15:37:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:37:21","slug":"lindsley-capt-m-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/lindsley-capt-m-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsley, Capt. M. M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Capt. M. M. Lindsley<\/strong>, the leading merchant of Fulton, Tenn., was born December<br \/>\n11, 1833, in Limestone County, Ala., and is a son of Col. William and Anna M.<br \/>\n(Motle) Lindsley. His father was born in 1798, and was a colonel in the<br \/>\nUnited Army, and a native of Norfolk, Va. He was an officer in the United<br \/>\nStates Army for a number of years, and died in the service in 1838. His<br \/>\nmother was a near relative of the Motles, who made themselves famous during<br \/>\nthe Revolutionary war, in South Carolina. Our subject was only five years old<br \/>\nwhen his father died; he then went to live with an uncle in Boston, Mass., but<br \/>\nin two years went to an aunt in Mississippi, and remained with her until<br \/>\ntwenty years of age; he then went to Nicaragua and joined Gen. Walker&#8217;s army,<br \/>\nand spent a year in the service, and then returned to the United States, and<br \/>\nengaged in civil engineering in Alabama, until the war, when he entered the<br \/>\nConfederate service in Company A, Nineteenth Mississippi Infantry, as second<br \/>\nlieutenant. In the spring of 1862 he made aide-de-camp, and served in this<br \/>\ncapacity on Gen. C. M. Wilcox&#8217;s staff until the surrender, when he returned to<br \/>\nMississippi and engaged in cotton planting in Noxubee County. In 1868 he<br \/>\nmoved to Fulton, Tenn., and took an interest in the firm of A. C. Lea &amp; Co.,<br \/>\nand since the death of Albert Lea, the senior partner, has taken his place,<br \/>\nassuming control of the general business, and holding a controlling interest<br \/>\nin the firm. Mr. Lindsley was married October 12, 1865, to Frances Johnson, a<br \/>\ndaughter of Michael Johnson.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capt. M. M. Lindsley, the leading merchant of Fulton, Tenn., was born December 11, 1833, in Limestone County, Ala., and is a son of Col. William and Anna M. (Motle) Lindsley. His father was born in 1798, and was a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/lindsley-capt-m-m\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-lindsley"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3251,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}