Thomas Noble and Isabella P Lindsey
Information comes from the Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century
Published by J M Armstrong & Company 1878
LINDSEY, HON THOMAS N, Lawyer, was born in 22 Dec 1807 in Campbell County, Kentucky. His father was an Irishman by birth and his mother came of a family of Nobles long resident of Virginia. He received but little education, part of which was obtained in one session at Augusta College, at Augusta, Kentucky, under the presidency of Martin Ruter. He studied law with Richard Southgate at Newport, Kentucky, and entered upon the practice of his profession in that place in 1832; and in 1835 removed to Frankfort, where he has since resided.
He was engaged in hotel-keeping and in various other pursuits there, for several years, but finally abandoning these, resumed the practice of the law, in which he has been reasonably successful. He held the office of Commonwealth Attorney for the district in which he lived from 1845 to 1848; represented Franklin County in the Legislature, being first elected in 1843; was elected to the State Senate in 1850; was re-elected in 1855; was a member from Franklin County of the Convention of 1849, which framed the present Constitution of the State; in 1868 was elected President of the Farmers' Bank of Kentucky at Frankfort and held the position till the Spring of 1876, never, however, entirely abandoning the practice of his profession.
He had a great deal to do with starting the navigation of the Kentucky river, and in keeping up the old railroad from Lexington to Frankfort, one of the first roads built in the United States. He is now the oldest lawyer, but one at the Frankfort bar; a bar noted at different periods for its able men. Until the breaking out of the civil war, he was a member of the Whig party; but has since been identified with the Democracy.
He has written a great deal for the public press, and before the opening of the hostilities between the sections, he censured the conduct of both conflicting parties. Many of his articles were published in the Democratic papers, gaining a wide-spread circulation, and finally bringing him to the notice of the military authorities, during the great excitement in Kentucky attending the first years of the war, and they silenced him; since which time he has taken no very active part in political matters.
He was distinguished in his professional career for his devotion to the cause of his clients and the straight-forward integrity of his practice, and was, throughout his active business life, characterized for his safe financial and executive ability. He accumulated considerable property, and after making a liberal provision for his children, would be enabled to pass the remainder of his days in quiet retirement; but being yet possessed of much of the vigor of youth, he prefers to keep the harness on, and hopes to be yet of much service to his fellow-men.
Mr. Lindsey was married 21 Aug 1834 in Frankfort to Isabella Price Weisiger, youngest daughter of Daniel and Lucy Weisiger. From this marriage he has reared several children. He was again married to Mrs. Louisa Applegate, daughter of Major Robert Benham, one of the well-known early inhabitants for Frankfort, and is now a widower.
NOTE: This information comes from the 1850 census and marriage records of Frankfort, Franklin, Kentucky,
Children of Thomas Noble Lindsey and Isabella Price Weisiger
1. Daniel Lindsey-born 1835 in Frankfort;
d-1917 in Frankfort
2. John B Lindsey-born 1837 in Frankfort; d-1922 in Frankfort; m-Helen M Talbot 18 Jan 1860
3. Maria L Lindsey-born 1839 in Frankfort; d-1920 in Lebanon Ky; m-__ Thomas
4. Lucy Lindsey-born 1842 in Frankfort
5. Thomas Lindsey-born 1844 in Frankfort; d-1919 in Louisville Ky. m-Stella
Lavina Rawson
6. Mary Belle Lindsey-born 1847 in Frankfort; d-1938 in Greenwood Ky. m-H D
Fitch
7. Joseph Lindsey b-Frankfort; d-1930 in Louisville Ky. m-Maria Watson
Isabella Price Lindsey died of consumption 22 May 1852. Thomas Noble Lindsey married Louise B Benham 13 Mar 1853. Thomas' will was probated 3 Dec 1877.