James Albert "Jim" Lindsey was the oldest son & 2nd child of Reuben A Lindsey & Sarah E Beasley, both of Cowee TWP, Macon Co., NC. Jim was one of 6 known children of Reuben & Sarah, including his twin sister Mary Etta Lindsey, who married John Rinehart of Meadowfork. His parents had left their homeplace in Macon County to find work, at one time in the early 1870's they had lived on the Cherokee Reservation, where his father Reuben ran the general store. Then Jim's mother Sarah had died suddenly about 1882 at the headwater of Hannah Spring, perhaps from a heat stroke, and his father Reuben was reputed to have told his children that he didn't want them & didn't care whether they stayed or went, so they walked all the way back home to Macon County on foot. Reuben re-married to Elender Sade Shelton - Gillespie in Madison Co three years later on 7 Nov 1885, and Jim & Mary Etta also returned to Madison Co about the same time & seem to have remained there until about 1900 when they came down to the Piedmont area of upper SC to work in the cotton mills.
Jim married Malinda Leanna Cordelia Rinehart on 27 Nov 1887 at Madison Co., NC, according to J Richard Gosnell. Cordelia was the daughter of John Rinehart and his 1st wife Elizabeth Jane Duckett of Meadowfork Creek, Madison Co., NC. Jim was said to be working for John & Jane Rinehart on their farm when he met Cordelia.
Jim and Cordelia had 7 children, all but one of whom lived to adulthood. (Jim also had at least one son by Cordelia's unmarried younger sister Odessa Rinehart, his name was William Hobart Rinehart & he settled in Inman, SC. Another of Dess's sons, Jeter Rinehart, had listed as his father on his death certificate "Jim Rhinehart", which was likely a misspelling of Jim Lindsey as there was no man of that name in the area old enough to be Jeter's father.)
Jim raised tobacco as a cash crop, and their neighbors used to say that the family would go to bed with the chickens (meaning as soon as the sun went down) & then wake the whole valley up before dawn, their singing voices heard through the valley before the sun came up. Jim, like his father Reuben, had a strong, clear, deep baritone voice that carried far, his father Reuben had been known as a "singing schoolteacher" who taught hymns to illiterate parishioners. The family were Baptist.
Like many mountain families of his area, Jim brought his family down to Spartanburg County, SC to work in the flourishing textile mills in the autumn of 1902, they first moved to Clifton Mill #2 until the great flash flood on Lawson Fork Creek of June 1903 wiped out the mill and many of the mill houses in the dead of night, then they moved to Oliver St at Spartan Mill in Spartanburg. Most mill families lost everything they had in the sudden nighttime flood, which rose 25 feet above normal due to a torrential rain upstream, it swept away mill machinery, houses and people.
Maudie, their 2nd daughter, reputedly died on Aug 9 while they were living on Brawley St. at Spartan Mills soon after swallowing some metal "pins" they used in the mill which she had been holding in her teeth while working. Jim brought Maudie's body back to Meadow Fork on the train on the 12th to be buried at Meadow Fork Baptist wearing both the new white dresses Jim had had made for her attendance at the annual Newfound Missionary Baptist Association meeting, an annual event being held in Madison County the same week, it was their 50th anniversary meeting. Maudie was only 16 & was said to have been the apple of her father's eye. Her death deeply saddened the whole family.
Jim & Cordelia were members of the Baptist faith, and attended church meetings often.
On the 1910 census, Jim was living at Inman Mill in Campobello TWP in Spartanburg County, SC.
After Cordelia's death, Jim married a second time on 20 Dec 1930 in Spartanburg, SC to Lou Ledford Rinehart, the longtime widow of Cordelia's older brother Joe Rinehart. Joe had died in 1901 leaving Lou with 5 children to raise on her own, she had brought them to the Spartanburg mills and settled there the rest of her life.
Jim died at home on Saxon Ave on 18 Feb 1937.
-- Most info courtesy of J Richard Gosnell, great-grandson.
--Jeni Rhinehart
Jim married Malinda Leanna Cordelia Rinehart on 27 Nov 1887 at Madison Co., NC, according to J Richard Gosnell. Cordelia was the daughter of John Rinehart and his 1st wife Elizabeth Jane Duckett of Meadowfork Creek, Madison Co., NC. Jim was said to be working for John & Jane Rinehart on their farm when he met Cordelia.
Jim and Cordelia had 7 children, all but one of whom lived to adulthood. (Jim also had at least one son by Cordelia's unmarried younger sister Odessa Rinehart, his name was William Hobart Rinehart & he settled in Inman, SC. Another of Dess's sons, Jeter Rinehart, had listed as his father on his death certificate "Jim Rhinehart", which was likely a misspelling of Jim Lindsey as there was no man of that name in the area old enough to be Jeter's father.)
Jim raised tobacco as a cash crop, and their neighbors used to say that the family would go to bed with the chickens (meaning as soon as the sun went down) & then wake the whole valley up before dawn, their singing voices heard through the valley before the sun came up. Jim, like his father Reuben, had a strong, clear, deep baritone voice that carried far, his father Reuben had been known as a "singing schoolteacher" who taught hymns to illiterate parishioners. The family were Baptist.
Like many mountain families of his area, Jim brought his family down to Spartanburg County, SC to work in the flourishing textile mills in the autumn of 1902, they first moved to Clifton Mill #2 until the great flash flood on Lawson Fork Creek of June 1903 wiped out the mill and many of the mill houses in the dead of night, then they moved to Oliver St at Spartan Mill in Spartanburg. Most mill families lost everything they had in the sudden nighttime flood, which rose 25 feet above normal due to a torrential rain upstream, it swept away mill machinery, houses and people.
Maudie, their 2nd daughter, reputedly died on Aug 9 while they were living on Brawley St. at Spartan Mills soon after swallowing some metal "pins" they used in the mill which she had been holding in her teeth while working. Jim brought Maudie's body back to Meadow Fork on the train on the 12th to be buried at Meadow Fork Baptist wearing both the new white dresses Jim had had made for her attendance at the annual Newfound Missionary Baptist Association meeting, an annual event being held in Madison County the same week, it was their 50th anniversary meeting. Maudie was only 16 & was said to have been the apple of her father's eye. Her death deeply saddened the whole family.
Jim & Cordelia were members of the Baptist faith, and attended church meetings often.
On the 1910 census, Jim was living at Inman Mill in Campobello TWP in Spartanburg County, SC.
After Cordelia's death, Jim married a second time on 20 Dec 1930 in Spartanburg, SC to Lou Ledford Rinehart, the longtime widow of Cordelia's older brother Joe Rinehart. Joe had died in 1901 leaving Lou with 5 children to raise on her own, she had brought them to the Spartanburg mills and settled there the rest of her life.
Jim died at home on Saxon Ave on 18 Feb 1937.
-- Most info courtesy of J Richard Gosnell, great-grandson.
--Jeni Rhinehart
James Albert "Jim" Lindsey was the oldest son & 2nd child of Reuben A Lindsey & Sarah E Beasley, both of Cowee TWP, Macon Co., NC. Jim was one of 6 known children of Reuben & Sarah, including his twin sister Mary Etta Lindsey, who married John Rinehart of Meadowfork. His parents had left their homeplace in Macon County to find work, at one time in the early 1870's they had lived on the Cherokee Reservation, where his father Reuben ran the general store. Then Jim's mother Sarah had died suddenly about 1882 at the headwater of Hannah Spring, perhaps from a heat stroke, and his father Reuben was reputed to have told his children that he didn't want them & didn't care whether they stayed or went, so they walked all the way back home to Macon County on foot. Reuben re-married to Elender Sade Shelton - Gillespie in Madison Co three years later on 7 Nov 1885, and Jim & Mary Etta also returned to Madison Co about the same time & seem to have remained there until about 1900 when they came down to the Piedmont area of upper SC to work in the cotton mills.
Jim married Malinda Leanna Cordelia Rinehart on 27 Nov 1887 at Madison Co., NC, according to J Richard Gosnell. Cordelia was the daughter of John Rinehart and his 1st wife Elizabeth Jane Duckett of Meadowfork Creek, Madison Co., NC. Jim was said to be working for John & Jane Rinehart on their farm when he met Cordelia.
Jim and Cordelia had 7 children, all but one of whom lived to adulthood. (Jim also had at least one son by Cordelia's unmarried younger sister Odessa Rinehart, his name was William Hobart Rinehart & he settled in Inman, SC. Another of Dess's sons, Jeter Rinehart, had listed as his father on his death certificate "Jim Rhinehart", which was likely a misspelling of Jim Lindsey as there was no man of that name in the area old enough to be Jeter's father.)
Jim raised tobacco as a cash crop, and their neighbors used to say that the family would go to bed with the chickens (meaning as soon as the sun went down) & then wake the whole valley up before dawn, their singing voices heard through the valley before the sun came up. Jim, like his father Reuben, had a strong, clear, deep baritone voice that carried far, his father Reuben had been known as a "singing schoolteacher" who taught hymns to illiterate parishioners. The family were Baptist.
Like many mountain families of his area, Jim brought his family down to Spartanburg County, SC to work in the flourishing textile mills in the autumn of 1902, they first moved to Clifton Mill #2 until the great flash flood on Lawson Fork Creek of June 1903 wiped out the mill and many of the mill houses in the dead of night, then they moved to Oliver St at Spartan Mill in Spartanburg. Most mill families lost everything they had in the sudden nighttime flood, which rose 25 feet above normal due to a torrential rain upstream, it swept away mill machinery, houses and people.
Maudie, their 2nd daughter, reputedly died on Aug 9 while they were living on Brawley St. at Spartan Mills soon after swallowing some metal "pins" they used in the mill which she had been holding in her teeth while working. Jim brought Maudie's body back to Meadow Fork on the train on the 12th to be buried at Meadow Fork Baptist wearing both the new white dresses Jim had had made for her attendance at the annual Newfound Missionary Baptist Association meeting, an annual event being held in Madison County the same week, it was their 50th anniversary meeting. Maudie was only 16 & was said to have been the apple of her father's eye. Her death deeply saddened the whole family.
Jim & Cordelia were members of the Baptist faith, and attended church meetings often.
On the 1910 census, Jim was living at Inman Mill in Campobello TWP in Spartanburg County, SC.
After Cordelia's death, Jim married a second time on 20 Dec 1930 in Spartanburg, SC to Lou Ledford Rinehart, the longtime widow of Cordelia's older brother Joe Rinehart. Joe had died in 1901 leaving Lou with 5 children to raise on her own, she had brought them to the Spartanburg mills and settled there the rest of her life.
Jim died at home on Saxon Ave on 18 Feb 1937.
-- Most info courtesy of J Richard Gosnell, great-grandson.
--Jeni Rhinehart
Jim married Malinda Leanna Cordelia Rinehart on 27 Nov 1887 at Madison Co., NC, according to J Richard Gosnell. Cordelia was the daughter of John Rinehart and his 1st wife Elizabeth Jane Duckett of Meadowfork Creek, Madison Co., NC. Jim was said to be working for John & Jane Rinehart on their farm when he met Cordelia.
Jim and Cordelia had 7 children, all but one of whom lived to adulthood. (Jim also had at least one son by Cordelia's unmarried younger sister Odessa Rinehart, his name was William Hobart Rinehart & he settled in Inman, SC. Another of Dess's sons, Jeter Rinehart, had listed as his father on his death certificate "Jim Rhinehart", which was likely a misspelling of Jim Lindsey as there was no man of that name in the area old enough to be Jeter's father.)
Jim raised tobacco as a cash crop, and their neighbors used to say that the family would go to bed with the chickens (meaning as soon as the sun went down) & then wake the whole valley up before dawn, their singing voices heard through the valley before the sun came up. Jim, like his father Reuben, had a strong, clear, deep baritone voice that carried far, his father Reuben had been known as a "singing schoolteacher" who taught hymns to illiterate parishioners. The family were Baptist.
Like many mountain families of his area, Jim brought his family down to Spartanburg County, SC to work in the flourishing textile mills in the autumn of 1902, they first moved to Clifton Mill #2 until the great flash flood on Lawson Fork Creek of June 1903 wiped out the mill and many of the mill houses in the dead of night, then they moved to Oliver St at Spartan Mill in Spartanburg. Most mill families lost everything they had in the sudden nighttime flood, which rose 25 feet above normal due to a torrential rain upstream, it swept away mill machinery, houses and people.
Maudie, their 2nd daughter, reputedly died on Aug 9 while they were living on Brawley St. at Spartan Mills soon after swallowing some metal "pins" they used in the mill which she had been holding in her teeth while working. Jim brought Maudie's body back to Meadow Fork on the train on the 12th to be buried at Meadow Fork Baptist wearing both the new white dresses Jim had had made for her attendance at the annual Newfound Missionary Baptist Association meeting, an annual event being held in Madison County the same week, it was their 50th anniversary meeting. Maudie was only 16 & was said to have been the apple of her father's eye. Her death deeply saddened the whole family.
Jim & Cordelia were members of the Baptist faith, and attended church meetings often.
On the 1910 census, Jim was living at Inman Mill in Campobello TWP in Spartanburg County, SC.
After Cordelia's death, Jim married a second time on 20 Dec 1930 in Spartanburg, SC to Lou Ledford Rinehart, the longtime widow of Cordelia's older brother Joe Rinehart. Joe had died in 1901 leaving Lou with 5 children to raise on her own, she had brought them to the Spartanburg mills and settled there the rest of her life.
Jim died at home on Saxon Ave on 18 Feb 1937.
-- Most info courtesy of J Richard Gosnell, great-grandson.
--Jeni Rhinehart
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