William Lindsey and Elizabeth Roberts

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Husband William Lindsey ¹

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            AKA: William Lindsay 2 3
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       Marriage: Abt 1798

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• Note: This may be the same person as : William Lindsey.

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Wife Elizabeth Roberts ^{2 3}

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           Died: 27 Jan 1813 - ? Mercer Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Mercer Co, PA

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         Father: Robert M. Roberts (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 4

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Children

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Roberts

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There appears to be confusion between this person and her sister Agnes.

She was the first white woman in the vicinity (Salem twp, Mercer County, PA) within a radius of twenty miles. During the winters of 1797-98, she remained in the wilds of the Shenango, and kept house for her brother Robert, the other members of the family having returned to Ligonier. Through all the perils and vicissitudes of a pioneer life, she displayed a courage and fortitude which would have appeared unusual in one of the sterner sex, and which in a weak woman was simply marvelous. Laurels have encircled less worthy brows, and meaner dust than hers has been embalmed. Often her brother would be gone from their cabin for a whole day, and late into the night, on hunting expeditions, and during the time she would be left alone, away from all civilized society. Fortunately for her, the few Indians who remained were friendly, and she was never molested, but her anxiety during those days, and the long winter evenings, must have been intense. The young man's life was frequently in danger, and had he been killed, her death must have fol­lowed, unless she could have made her way through the snow to Meadville, or the little settlement at Mercer. Realizing this, as no one, but one in similar circumstances could, she used to urge her brother to remain at home, after their supply of provisions had become sufficiently abundant to preclude the possibility of speedy want, but the young man was bent on becoming an accomplished hunter, and had arrived at that stage in the woodman's life, when he hunted from mere habit and for amusement-not from necessity. Thus the whole winter passed. When he was absent until late in the evening, his sister was in the habit of climbing to the roof of the cabin, and by shouting at the top of her voice, guide him on his way home. As soon as he would hear her, he would fire his gun to let her know that he was safe. She passed the remainder of her life in the settlement, where she was as famed for her hospitality and charity as she had been for her bravery during the winter of 1797. She died and was buried in the old grave-yard near the residence of John Stevenson. The old settlers spoke of her with the highest encomiums. She was, in her humble sphere, one of the noblest women that any age or country has produced. [HMC 1877, 64]

1 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 402.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1877), Pg 64.

3 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 578.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 695.