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"Lucy Lindsay a Heroine" Obituary in the Kansas City Star abt. 1923

"A servant is believed carelessly to have dropped a lighted match upon papers in a pantry in the home n St. Louis where Mrs. Lindsay lived with her three sisters, Miss Elizabeth Nicholson, 91, Mrs. D. H. Maret, 81, and Miss Belle Nicholson, 70. Mrs. Lindsay and Miss Elizabeth Nicholson were confined to their beds and were burned so severely from the flames that they died later. The other sisters escaped with minor injuries."

"While she was confined to her bed, Mrs. Lindsay read daily from the Latin and the French. She cherished a broad education in the classics. In her girlhood, Mrs. Lindsay (she was then Lucy Webb Nicholson) was known as the "Belle of Boonville".

"The Nicholson family was of the old, austere, pioneer stock that typified the South. Miss Lucy Nicholson was the life of her community. When the Civil War came, she threw all her nervous energy into the cause of the South. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Miss Nicholson was engaged to David Herndon Lindsay of Carroll County, Kentucky. She discarded the plan for marriage. It must wait upon the war. After the battle of Boonville, Miss Nicholson established a hospital for Confederate wounded. She assisted in caring for the patients until the last man was able to be removed.

"Thereafter, Miss Nicholson's energy and dauntless spirit carried here practically into the battles themselves. She was put in jail twice by the Union commandants. She was confined in jail eight weeks at Boonville for her activities in behalf of the Confederate army. Gen. T.T. Crittenden, later governor of Missouri, ordered her release. She later was arrested in Howard County and sent to military prison in St. Louis, but later was banished from the state. All this was because she persisted in carrying medicines and foodstuffs into the Confederate lines"

Further information on Lucy's Civil War experiences are available online and in "Reminiscences of Mrs. Lucy Nickolson Lindsay" written by Mrs. Tyler Floyd, Historian of the Robert E. Lee Chapter No. 1245, Kansas City MO. from pages 105 - 113 in "Reminiscences of the Civil War." Further notes to this article are posted online at a Cooper County website.

Birth	10 Jul 1828	Lexington, Fayette Co., KY
Census	1850	Cooper Co., MO
Marriage	22 Jul 1863	Pine Bluff, Jefferson Co., AR - Maj. David Herndon Lindsay
Census	1870	Ghent, Carroll Co., KY
Census	1900	Lathrop, Clinton Co., MO
Census	1910	3rd Ward, Trenton, Grundy Co., MO
Death	3 Apr 1923	in a house fire - St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
Burial	5 Apr 1923	Lathrop, Clinton Co., MO
Residence	1923	3401 Bell Ave., 7th ward - St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
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Spouse	Maj. David Herndon Lindsay
Child	Richard H. Lindsay (1866 - 1923)

Father	William P. Nicholson
Mother	Mary Ann Todd Webb (1803 - 1876)
Sibling	Mary Susan Nicholson (1824 - )
Sibling	John Webb Nicholson (1826 - 1886)
Sibling	John S. Nicholson (1827 - )
Sibling	William P. Nicholson (1830 - )
Sibling	Elizabeth C. Nicholson (1832 - 1923)
Sibling	Alice Peachey Nicholson ( - 1836)
Sibling	Louise W. Nicholson
Sibling	L. Gertrude Nicholson
Sibling	Isabella Eugenia "Belle" Nicholson (1843 - 1923)
Sibling	James Cuthbert Nicholson (1846 - )

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