Sarah Chumley

SARAH CHUMLEY was born about 1819 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She died sometime before 1900 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She married John “Jack” Lingar (son of John V Lingar and Mary Polly) on 15 Feb 1838 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He was born about 1815 in Mingo Hollow, Claiborne County, Tennessee. He died in 1899 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. They had 9 children in 17 years. John’s younger brother married Sarah’s sister, Eliza Chumley, in 1843.

John “Jack” Lingar’s father, John V Lingar, came to Claiborne County from Gilford County, North Carolina. John V Lingar served in the War of 1812. He enlisted in North Carolina on September 6, 1814, and he served in the Union Army’s 24th Infantry Regiment under Captain Silas Stephens for 5 years. [1] For his service, he was granted a US War Bounty Land Warrant for 160 acres in Chariton County, Missouri. [2-3]

Six years later on April 18, 1820, John sold this land to Thomas R. McClary of Claiborne County, Tennessee. The deed was filed with the State of Tennessee.[5] John was only 52 when he died, leaving his wife, Mary to care for John “Jack” age 13 and James Harvey age 7. Their oldest child, Sarah was married with children of her own when her father died.

John and his wife Mary (Polly) were believed to have married and had 3 children in Claiborne County, Tennessee. All 3 children were married into our Chumley family line and 2 of them moved with the Chumley families to Missouri, which is why we were interested in the land their father had been granted after the War of 1812. We speculated that the father had passed on the land to his children, but thanks to our Chumley Research Member, Sharon Ford, the deed was discovered that the land was sold after the children had settled in Missouri.

However, John “Jack” Lingar, who married our Sarah Chumley, stayed in Claiborne County, Tennessee. According to census records, Jack was a farmer in Claiborne County from before 1850 until sometime after 1880. The 1860 Census showed that he owned his property, and it was estimated to be worth $1120 at that time. [5] He and Sarah raised a family of nine children and both of them lived long lives. It appears that in later years they took in some of their grandchildren. Robert was noted in the 1870 and 1880 Census as a grandchild living in their home.

John and Sarah’s son John Lee Lingar enlisted in the Civil War on 26 Apr 1865. He served in the 5th Regiment of the Tennessee Cavalry, Company C. [6] Their sons, Rufus and Robert served with Company A, 2nd Tennessee Cavalry during the Civil War on the Union side. This regiment was organized at Cumberland Gap Aug. and Sept. 1862 and was composed of loyal citizens of Knox, Blount, Sevier and surrounding counties, numbering about 1,175 men. served with Gen. Sherman [7]

This family line settled in the areas of Cumberland Gap and Forge Ridge in Claiborne County, Tennessee. There are 2 Lingar Cemeteries in the area. The one is located on Indian Creek in Forge Ridge and the other is located further down the river, where eventually Indian Creek empties into the larger Powell River. The locations indicate where the family farms were located.

Finding the Lingar cemetery was exciting. The Lingar descendants still live on the property where Sarah and Jack started their life together and raised their children. I had the pleasure of speaking with one of them and you could see the pride he had in his Lingar ancestors. He was not sure the land went back to Jack’s parents, but he believed it could be a good possibility. The cemetery was beautifully maintained and with all the research we had done on this family line, we felt a deep connection with them on this peaceful, serene land, and the Indian River winding its way through the property.

The history of the property did go back as far as Jack and Sarah’s son Louis, who married Sarah A. Hamilton. Their headstone was erected by the Lingar family several years after they had passed, but the dates on their stone were some of the oldest in the cemetery, however, there were several unmarked graves that date much further back.

John “Jack” Lingar and Sarah Chumley had the following children:

(1) Rufus Morgan Lingar was born about 1839 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He died on 07 Dec 1869 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He married Mary Jane Greer (daughter of Jesse F. Greer and Sarah L. Surber). She was born in about 1849 in Virginia. She died on 01 May 1916.

Rufus served in the military in 1861 in Tennessee when he was 22 years old. He enlisted 01 Aug 1862, but a military record we found showed he fell sick 04 Mar 1865. [8]

Rufus had one son (Robert F. Lingar DOB: 6 Sep 1868 DOD: 29 Sep 1938) with Mary Jane Greer in 1868. He died as a young father on December 7, 1869, in his hometown and he was buried in Lingar Family Cemetery where his father and mother were buried. He was only 30 years old. He has a military headstone.

(2) Leander “Lee” Lingar was born on 10 Sep 1842 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He died on 07 Mar 1893 in Claiborne County, Tennessee and is buried in the Lingar Family Cemetery on Indian Creek. He married:
(a) Barbara Hess Fitch about 1862 in Tennessee. She was born about 1847 in Tennessee. She died sometime before 1879.
(b) Mariam Hazelwood sometime before 1878 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She was born in 1847 in Tennessee. She died sometime after 1886, a young mother.

Leander and Barbara had 4 children together. Chumley Researcher Penny Lydic Daughtry not only did records research, but she visited her extended family and interviewed them. The stories she wrote down are wonderful and we appreciate her sharing her information for this publication. The following are from Penny’s research and interviews with family:

1. Mary Ellen Lingar was 20 when Leander died. No further information is known of Mary at the time of this publication.
2. When William Monroe Lingar was born in January 1867 in Claiborne, Tennessee, his father, Leander, was 24 and his mother, Marium, was 22. He had one son and two daughters with Ella Ellison Lingar between 1908 and 1912. He died on August 18, 1913, in his hometown at the age of 46. William also served in the Spanish-American War. [9]
3. Caladonia Augusta “Donie” Lingar was born in February 1870. She married Henry Miller on 29 Nov 1894 in Bell County, Kentucky. She was raised by her grandmother, Sally (Chumley) Lingar.
4. Charles Huston Lingar was also raised by his grandparents, Harve and Elizabeth. He thought of these cousins as his half brothers and sisters: Sarah, Eliza, Lewis, Minnie, Steve and Phoebe. In 1915, Lewis named his son, Charlie, after C.H.
   Charles H Lingar married Minnie Lee Hunter on March 22, 1901, in Flat Lick, Knox County, Kentucky. [10] They were married for 57 years before Charles passed away in 1958. Photos were shared by our Researcher Penny Lydic Daughtry, granddaughter of Charles and Minnie Lingar.

Charles and Minnie had 9 children together. Some memories shared by Charles’s daughter, Esther, written by Penny Lydic Daughtry, Esther’s daughter:
In his early adult life, Charlie Lingar was a farmer. Later, as the mining industry began to grow, he got a job as a carpenter – building company housing in and around Harlan County, Kentucky. He saved enough to buy a grocery store in Combs, Kentucky (not sure about the year, maybe the late teens to early 1920s). When Esther was young (around 8 years old), she would hide under the counters and eat oranges and fruit. Pappy used to say that she was “eating up all of the profits.” When they lived there, she also remembered that they lived near Vernie, Charlie’s half-brother.

Some of her early memories were of his farming during the growing season and then going “away” to find work during the fall and winter. It was difficult during those times when he and his sons in later years would have to travel away from home most often by train to find work. He would pay for his room & board and send the rest of the money home to the family.

She remembered that the towns (areas) where they lived during those years when the children were born, were near rail lines. It was hard traveling in this mountainous area, and the nearest neighbors and towns were often a difficult trip away. Mom remembers that they had attended Cove School. On Memorial Day in 1927 [11], the family lost everything in a flood. They were living in Combs, Kentucky at that time.

With not much more than the clothes on their backs and a determination to make it together, they left Kentucky and moved to Western Pennsylvania. Their first home was in the town of Tunnellton in a section called Coaltown(?). The men of the family worked at the mine. Other places they lived in the late 20s & 30s were Ehrenfeld, Mecco, Harttown, North Apollo, Twin Rocks, and Nanty Glo.

From the early 1940s through mid-1950s, “Pappy and Mammy” lived on a small farm in Huff, in the southeastern corner of Indiana Co. The house was small with no running water or inside plumbing. But it was spotless and a source of wonderment for the grandchildren who had never seen hand water pumps, woodstoves, outhouses, chickens, cows, or bulls. All of them could probably recall a special memory from those Sunday visits.

More family photos of Charles Lingar’s family and shared with us from his granddaughter, Penny Lydic Daughtry:

After Barbara’s death, Leander married Mariam Hazelwood who was born about 1847. She married Leander “Lee” Lingar in 1878 in Claiborne, Tennessee. They had five children during their marriage. She died in 1886 at the age of 39.

The children of Leander and Mariam Hazlwood Lingar:

1. Franklin Harrison “Harbinson” Lingar might have been adopted by Frazier, Leander’s brother. Barbara Cline, the great-granddaughter of Louis, doesn’t think so, because her grandmother knew and liked Harbinson very well. She had never heard her say that Frazier had adopted him. She thinks he is his natural son. (It depends on the age of the other Harbinson. If they are the same age, then the coincidence is too great. Considering that the children’s parents had died, and they had to go somewhere.) Files show that (Frazier’s) Harbinson died by accident…no additional information known. [12]
2. Robert Mayes “Stone” Lingar died at the home of Rev. Ulysses T. Lingar, his cousin (the son of Louis). Barbara Cline’s grandmother, Pearl Lingar, was very young. It was probably shortly after 1900. “My grandmother always said she was young, and it was said that Stone had TB. Back then, anyone who coughed a lot was believed to have it and I don’t believe he did since it is so extremely contagious and nobody else got it. I gathered that Stone was an adult when he died and assume that he had nowhere else to go.” (She also noted that he might have had asthma, because so many of the Lingars did.) Carol Jones said that Robert Mayes Lingar supposedly has a daughter that lives by Greers Chapel. She plans to follow up on this information from relatives. [13]
3. Benjamin David Lingar (no information)
4. Vernie S. Lingar had been a magistrate in Harlan Co. (Esther’s notes) Dicie’s great-grandaughter, Sandie Gibson, said that Vernie was a Mason. “I have found his membership card with the name of V.S. Lingar. Uncle Vernie never married. Unfortunately, he was an alcoholic and died with liver problems from the alcohol. My oldest (half) brother was born in 1929 and when he was just little, our mother, his dad and he lived in Middlesboro with Uncle Vernie in the back of his garage/filling station. He said that when Uncle Vernie died, they were there to take care of the estate business. He thought that it was about 1933 or so.” [14]
5. Dicie Lingar Kibert was adopted out to the G. W. Kibert family when she was three years old (probably when her mother died). Leander died when she was seven. It is assumed that they made that choice so that she, a very young child, would have a mother. In the early 1900’s, Dicie married someone named Beeler and had a daughter, Hazel. When Hazel was very young, they divorced. He moved to California, remarried, and raised another family. Around 1912, Dicie married Paris Bullard who was also from Claiborne County. They had two children. One of those children is Sandie Gibson’s mother. [15]

(3) Robert Linger was born about 1843 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He died on 10 Jun 1890 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He married Elizabeth Ann “Lizzie” Greer (daughter of Jesse F. Greer and Sarah L. Surber) on 13 Nov 1865 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She was born on 09 Mar 1852 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She died on 01 Mar 1938 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. They had 5 children during their marriage.

Robert Lingar served in the military on August 1, 1862, in Tennessee when he was 19 years old. Enlisted US Co. A, 2nd Tennessee Cavalry, Rank in: Private. Mustered in 20 Jan 1863. Pension filed for Invalid 13 Jun 187? and pension filed by widow 24 Jul 1890. As mentioned above, Robert and his brother Rufus both served in the same 2nd Tennessee Cavalry. [6, 17-19]

Robert and Lizzie were found in the 1870 [20] and the 1880 [21] U.S. Census living in District 4 of Claiborne County, Tennessee. They were living in the neighborhood of Lizzie’s parents, Jesse and Sarah (Surber) Greer. In 1870, Robert is listed as a farmer with real estate of $350 and personal estate estimated at $450. They have 2 children at this time, Louise age 3 and John J age 1. In 1880, they took in 4 boarders and Robert’s family lives nearby. Robert died 10 years later and is buried in the Lingar Family Cemtery on Indian Creek in Claiborne County, Tennessee. [22]

(4) John Lee Lingar was born on 07 Apr 1843 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He died on 02 Jul 1916 in Gibson Station, Lee County, Virginia. He married:
(a) Melvina Collinsworth on 24 Apr 1870 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She was born on 13 Sep 1852 in Tennessee. She died on 11 Apr 1928 in Claiborne County, Tennessee.
(b) China Sarah Banner about 1886. She was born in Mar 1869 in Claiborne County, Tennessee.
(c) Nancy “Nannie” C. Minton on 09 May 1897 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She was born on 31 Mar 1865 in Virginia. She died on 20 Dec 1950 in Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky.

When John Lee Lingar was born on April 7, 1843, in Claiborne, Tennessee, his father, John, was 28 and his mother, Sarah, was 24. He was married three times and had one son and four daughters. He died on July 2, 1916, in Lee, Virginia, at the age of 73, and was buried in his family’s cemetery on Indian Creek in Claiborne County, Tennessee.

As mentioned above, John served in the Tennessee Cavalry 5th Regiment in 1862 when he was 19 years old. [6] John married his first wife, Melvina Collinsworth, on April 24, 1870, when he was 17 years old. [23] They had 1 son together. William was born around 1870 and in the 1880 U.S. Census we found that John and Melvina had divorced and their son, William, was living with his father. John’s parents and brother’s Lewis and Robert live nearby. [24]

John Lee Lingar married China Sarah Banner around 1886 when he was abour 43 years old and she was 17. They had a daughter together, Minnie Agnes Lingar in March of 1869. No records of China Sarah have been found at the time of this publication.

John’s 3rd wife was Nancy “Nannie” Minton from Lee County, Virginia. They were married on 9 May 1897. [25] John was 54 and Nannie was 32, and they had 3 children together. The marriage license shows her name as Minnie Coffee, possibly a widow, as son’s death certificate indicates Gilbert Coffey as his father’s name. [26]

(5) Lewis “Louis” Lingar was born on 10 May 1844 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He died on 15 Jul 1909 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He married Sarah Ann Hamilton (daughter of Joshua Hamilton and Elzora Dobbs) on 12 Jan 1867 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. Her first husband was John Littrell. She was born on 11 Apr 1839 in Shawanee, Claiborne County, Tennessee. She died on 27 Jun 1911 in Shawanee, Claiborne County, Tennessee. They had seven children in 12 years.

Sarah Ann Hamilton, daughter of Joshua Hamilton & Elzora Dobbs. Wife of Louis Lingar. Mother of Margaret (Maggie) Olivia Lingar Sandifer. She was born on 11 April 1839 in Claiborne County, TN. She died on 19 June 1911 in Claiborne County, TN. [27]

Louis and Sarah’s son James Dudley Lingar married Cornelia Neely Cadle, and they had 8 children together. In 1910, the family is living in the Excelsior Mine Camp in Bell County, Kentucky [28], where Cornelia passed away 08 Sep 1909 at the age of 34, leaving James a widow with children Mildred 13, John 12, White 10, Sinda 8, Edgar 6, and Moss 3. Son Earl age 11 months lives with Cornelia’s parents, John and Lucinda (Ellis) Cadle.

In 9 Jan 1920, Louis is living in Tejay, Bell County, Kentucky in the Southern Mining Company camp as a motor man with his children Sindy 18, Edgar 16, and Moss is 13. [30] Southern Mining Company was one of the principal coal companies that operated in Bell County, Kentucky. [31] The Tejay camp operated from 1914-1955, 200 employees. [32] Many of our family worked in coal mines. Other ways of making a living for your family would be farming and lumbering.

By 1930 James 61 has moved to Hastings, Colorado with Sindy 29, Moss 23, & Earl 22. James & sons are coal miners. Son Edgar and family live nearby. [33] James died 21 Jul 1933 in Hastings at the age of 63. He was brought home and buried in Greer’s Chapel Cemetery in Harrogate, Tennessee where many of his family are also buried. [34]

James and Cornelia’s daughter Mildred married Egbert G Patton on March 23, 1914, in Kentucky. They had five children during their marriage. She died on October 4, 1969, in Battle Creek, Michigan, at the age of 72, and was buried in Marshall, Michigan. Mildred and Egbert started their life together in Fork Ridge. Egbert was a coal miner and Mildred’s brother William White lived with them; also a coal miner.

Egbert was the son of James Tennessee and Rebecca (Keck) Patton and was born in Sharps Chapel in Union County, Tennessee. Some time between 1920 and 1930 Egbert and Mildred moved to Harlan, Kentucky where Egbert worked in the Coal Mines as a Weighman. At this time, they have 3 children: Elmo 9, Sylvia 7 and Harold 5. [35]

Louis and Sarah’s son Reverend Ulysses “UT” Theodore Lingar was born on 16 Jan 1874. He Married Elizabeth “Lizzie” Deck on 22 Mar 1896 in Claiborne County, Tennessee They had 3 children during their marriage. UT died on 9 Jun 1958 in Bell County, Kentucky at the age of 84 and was buried at Greer Chapel Cemetery in Claiborne County, Tennessee.

UT was the pastor of Greers Chapel Baptist Church for 40 years. Reverend Lingar was a circuit preacher and would often serve a few churches at the same time. His great-granddaughter, Cathy Hill Chumley, has the suitcase he used when he went baptizing. He would carry a dry change of clothes with him and put his wet ones in the suitcase to carry back home. You can still see the water stains in the suitcase made from his wet clothes. [36]

Reverend Lingar was ordained as a minister in 1904. He was pastor of Chadwell Station, Walnut Hill, Greers Chapel and East Cumberland Avenue in Middlesboro, Kentucky. He served his churches as pastor longer than any other minister in the Southern Baptist Convention. According to Charles McMurray, Reverend Lingar joined the Shawanee Masonic Lodge in 1901 and served as worshipful master several times.

UT and Lizzie had a farm located on the property once owned by Louis and Sarah. It is a beautiful location on Indian Creek and still owed by some of the Lingar family. I was able to get some photos of UT’s and Lizzie’s home before it was torn down.

6. Marshall Lingar was born in 1848 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. Marshall died young and is not listed with family on the 1870 census, he would have been 22 years old if he lived in 1870. His birth information was taken from the 1850 Claiborne County Tennessee Census. No other information has been found on him.
7. James Harvey Lingar was born in Jul 1851 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He died on 24 Dec 1900 in Knox County, Kentucky. He married Elizabeth “Lizzie” Lester (daughter of Henry Lester and Mary Ann Cadle) [37] on 12 Mar 1871 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She was born on 09 Feb 1844 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She died on 02 Sep 1930 in Himyar, Knox County, Kentucky. Harv and Lizzie had seven children together in 16 years.
   
   The following information is in part from Researcher Penny Lydic Daughtry and records sources: By 1880, they had three children and were still living in Claiborne County. [38] Harv was a laborer and Elizabeth was a homemaker. Sometime after that, they moved near Pineville, Kentucky at Four Mile. When Charles Huston (Leander’s son) was an infant and his mother was ill (or when she died), Elizabeth nursed him at the same time she was nursing one of her own (probably Sarah). After his mother died, he was raised by Harv and Elizabeth. (Source: Lewis Lingar, great-grandson of Elizabeth) Note: When he was eight years old, however, Charles Huston did show up as living with his father and his stepmother, Mariam.
   Daughters Eliza, Minnie and Phoebe all married men whose last names were Baker. Eliza married Henry Baker, Minnie married Jason Baker, and Phoebe married Addison White Baker. Dorothy Lingar (Charlie’s daughter-in-law) said that one had raised another. Huston said that Jason and Andrew (probably Addison) were brothers.

8. Frazier Monroe Lingar was born on 13 Sep 1852 in Tazewell, Claiborne County, Tennessee. He died on 11 Apr 1928 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He married:
(a) Elizabeth “Hessie” Shumate about 1877 in Tennessee. She was born on 08 May 1861 in Virginia. She died in Campbell County, Tennessee.
(b) Nancy “Nannie” Roark (daughter of Eliza Emily Friar) on 09 Dec 1896 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She was born on 16 Aug 1872 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She died on 09 Mar 1960 in Claiborne County, Tennessee.

9. Phobe Ellen Lingar was born on 10 Apr 1856 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She died on 26 Mar 1918 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. She married James Marion Thomas on 11 Mar 1877 in Claiborne County, Tennessee. He was born on 15 Apr 1846 in Virginia. He died on 02 Dec 1916 in Claiborne County, Tennessee.

***** Endnotes:
[1] U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914. Enlisted in NC – discharged in Mobile Enlisted in Army -24th Infantry Regiment under Capt. Silas Stephens for 5 yr period. (Farmer; 6’ tall, hazel eyes, dark hair and complexion.)
[2] U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants, 1789-1858. Transcript – Date of Patent: Feb 22 Name of Patentee: John Lingar No of Warrant: 20401 Capacity: (none given) Company: Stephens 24th Inf Description of Land, Township Range: Survey: NW Section: 31 North: 56 West: 18. Detail – U.S. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Warrants Used in the U.S. Military District of Ohio and Relating Papers (Acts of 1788, 1803, and 1806), 1788-1806; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M829, 16 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Record.
[3] U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 Place: 160 acres in Chariton, MS. Land office: Missouri. Meridian: 5th PM. Township: 56-N. Range: 18-W. Section: 31. Accession Number: MO6180 .082. Document Number: 20402.
[4] Sharon Ford research on john v lingar FHL 898,405, Tennessee, Claiborne Co, Deeds Vol E, Sep 1816 – Apr 1822, pg 435-436.
[5] 1860 United States Federal Census – Subdivision 7, Claiborne County, Tennessee. Lingar, John Head w m 31 Farmer TN. Elizabeth f 27 TN. Morg M. m 10 TN. Lander m 9 TN. Robert m 8 TN. Lewis m 7 TN. John m 5 TN. Marshall m 2 TN. neighbors: Martin Cadle, John Brewster, Wm. Carroll, Mark Cadle.
[6] U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865. Side: Union Regiment. State/Origin: Tennessee. Regiment Name Expanded: 5th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry Company: C. Rank In: Private Film Number: M392 roll 9.
[7] History of Tennessee from the earliest time to the present: together with an historical and a biographical sketch of twenty-five to thirty counties of east Tennessee by Goodspeed Publishing Co, 1887.
[8] Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Tennessee. Enlisted 01 Aug 1862, Mustered in 20 Jan 1863. Remarks: Absent sick since 04 Mar 1865. (Also, pension filed for minor Robert F. Lingar 19 Dec 1885)
[9] U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914. Enlisted on 05 Nov 1898 at Lexington with Co. M, 15th Reg. Inf. Served in Spanish-American War. Discharged 04 Nov 1901 at Manila, expiration of service, record excellent. Grey eyes, black hair, dark complexion, 5‘10”
[10] Kentucky, County Marriages, 1783-1965. Married at the home of Wm Bargo in Flat Lick, KY – by Rev. J.W. Broughton. Witnesses: D.W. Slusher & Evie Bargo. (C.H. claimed he was 27 on marriage license.)
[11] “Night Comes to the Cumberlands” by Harry M. Caudill pg. 149.
[12] Memories by Penny Lydic Daughtry, Charles’s granddaughter.
[13] Memories by Penny Lydic Daughtry, Charles’s granddaughter.
[14] Memories by Penny Lydic Daughtry, Charles’s granddaughter.
[15] Memories by Penny Lydic Daughtry, Charles’s granddaughter.
[16] Source: 1880 Census
[17] U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles – Name: Robert Lingar Rank at enlistment: Private State Served: Tennessee Service Record: Enlisted in Company A, Tennessee 2nd Cavalry Regiment. Sources: Index to Compiled Military Service Records.
[18] Report of the Adjutant General of the state of Tennessee: of the military forces of the state, from 1861 to 1866. Transcript Robert Linger, Prvt, Age 20, Enlisted: Aug 1, 1862. Mustered Jan 20, 1863.
[19] American Civil War Soldiers – Transcript: Name: Robert Lingar Side Served: Union State Served: Tennessee Service Record: Enlisted as a Private. Enlisted in Company A, 2nd Cavalry Regiment Tennessee. Sources: 304.
[20] 1870 U.S. Census – Fam #123. Robert 24, farmer, real estate
$350, Pers. est. $450, Elizabeth 20, cannot read/write, Louise 3 and John J. 1. Next neighbor Jesse F. & Sarah Greer
[21] 1880 U.S. Census. Fam #301. Robert 35, farmer, Lizzie 28,
keeping house, Louise 14, Jessee J. 11, Allice 9, Emma 7, Ellen 4, and 4 boarders. His parents and brother Lewis and brother John pg. 2. Neighbors: Wm G Freeman, Hugh Freeman, James Hayes, Salar, Baker.
[22] Lingar Cemetery. Findagrave memorial #67058039. Military Headstone US CO A 2nd TENN CAVALRY.
[23] Tennessee State Marriages, 1851-1900.
[24] U.S. Census 1880 – Transcript: Birth date: abt 1846 Birthplace: Tennessee Residence date: 1880 Residence place: District 4, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States. Detail: Year: 1880; Census Place: District 4, Claiborne, Tennessee; Roll: 1247; Family History Film: 1255247; Page: 136A; Enumeration District: 105; Image. Web address:
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h= 15231810&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
[25] Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records, 1780-2002. Tennessee State Library and Archives; Nashville, TN, USA; Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. Year: 1868 Sep-1899 Aug: Marriages 4-6.
[26] Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives; Frankfort, Kentucky.
[27] Tennessee State Library and Archives Nashville, TN; Tennessee Death Records, 1908-1958; Roll Number: 3.
[28] 1910 United States Federal Census, Magisterial District 7, Bell County, Kentucky, Roll: T624_464; Page: 2b; Enumeration District: 0032; FHL microfilm: 1374477.
[29] Barbara Nivision shared John and Cornelia Lingar photo. Our Chumley Researcher, Barbara Nivision, is the granddaughter of Mildred and Egbert Patten.
[30] 1920 United States Federal Census, Census Place: Tejay, Bell, Kentucky; Roll: T625_559; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 13.
[31] HISTORY OF BELL COUNTY VOLUME II, Chapter XII The
New Industrial Period – Lumbar and Coal Period. https://www.kykinfolk.com/bell/bell_history2.htm
[32] Coal Mines in Bell County Kentucky, Compiled from Dodrill’s 10,000 Coal Company Stores. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~kycoalmi/bellcomines.html
[33] 1930 United States Federal Census, Census Place: Hastings, Las Animas, Colorado; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0027; FHL microfilm: 2339980.
[34] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Find a Grave Memorial ID: 9359948.
[35] 1930 United States Federal Census – Census Place: District 5, Harlan, Kentucky; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 0026; FHL microfilm: 2340484.
[36] Underwood Grove Missionary Baptist Church – The 125-year Journey, written by Betty Russell and Kathy Chumley, 2019.
[37] Tennessee State Library and Archives; Nashville, TN, USA; Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002.
[38] 1880 United States Federal Census Year: 1880; Census Place: District 5, Claiborne, Tennessee; Roll: 1247; Page: 134a; Enumeration District: 105.
[39] Photos provided by Chumley Researcher Penny Lydic Daughtry.