LINDSEY, Robert Allison, was born at Martins Mills, Wayne County, Tennessee on 15 August 1887, the second son of Jeremiah Elliott LINDSEY and Sarah Elizabeth MacMILLAN. He was educated in the schools of Wayne County, and by 1915 had begun his career as a merchant in Leighton, Alabama.

Mr. LINDSEY was inducted into the US Army on 3 October 1918, at Chicago, Illinois, and was honorably discharged from the Sub-Medical Supply Depot on 9 March 1919, having reached the rank of corporal.

Returning to Leighton to resume his work in retail merchandising, Mr. LINDSEY met and married Edith Hopkins JONES of Leighton. Three children were born to this union: Robert Allison, Jr.; Gaynelle (both deceased) and Barbara Ann LINDSEY RODGERS, surviving, now of Florence, Alabama and Lexington, Kentucky.

In the early 20’s Mr. LINDSEY and his family moved to Texas, the Rio Grande Valley, and the town of Donna, where he and his brother, Hugh LINDSEY, operated a men’s clothing store and a citrus fruit grove. Around 1930, however, ill health from a service-connected condition forced Mr. LINDSEY to give up his business and enter a veteran’s hospital at Legion, Texas, where he remained until his transfer to the veteran’s hospital at Heinz, Illinois where he died February 1940. He is buried at the city cemetery, Sheffield, AL in the Veterans Circle.