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Rev. Jacob Lindley, a highly esteemed resident of Cedar County, Mo., is a native of Christian County, Ky., and was born in 1814. His parents, Jahu and Parthenia (Gibson) Lindley, were born in North Carolina, in 1782, and died in Christian County, Ky., and Cedar County, Mo., in 1847 and 1824, respectively. In 1832 the father came to the State of Missouri, and located in Cedar County (Jacob afterward being engaged in merchandising at Orleans). Two of his four children are now living: Jacob, and Sallie, the wife of James Taylor. The former grew to manhood on his father’s farm, obtaining his schooling by working Saturday and at night for his board, and in the fall of 1831 came to Missouri with his Uncle, Jacob Lindley, and located in what is now Miller County, near Osage. Here Mr. Lindley taught his first term of school, which lasted three months, and was on the subscription plan, the tuition of each pupil being $2. About this time he embraced Christianity, and did some preaching that winter. During the summer of 1832 he farmed near Edwardsville, Ill., but returned to his birthplace in the spring of 1833, returning, in the fall of the next year, to his uncle’s, in Missouri, where he resumed teaching and preaching. In 1836 he went to Polk County, where he taught school, and in 1855 he moved to Cane Hill, where he lived for ten years, and in 1865 located where he now lives, and has been engaged in farming and preaching, being an expounder of the Christian doctrine. He taught the first term of school ever taught on Horse Creek, and the second ever taught in Polk County. He has been preaching the gospel for the past fifty-seven years, and is the oldest minister living in Cedar County. In 1840 he espoused Miss Matilda Hembree, a daughter of James Hembree. She was born in Warren County, Tenn., and died in 1841. Four years later he married Miss Jane Roundtree, who was also born in Tennessee, and died in 1864, leaving three children: Bettie, wife of Rev. D. M. Cotton; Alice, wife of Jackson Hacker; and Sarah. Mrs. Hester Ann (Campbell) Dudley, a daughter of Robert M. and Elizabeth (Smith) Campbell, who were Kentuckians, became his wife in 1865. Mrs. Lindley was born in Columbus, Adair County, Ky., in April, 1822, and first married, in 1835, Christopher Corbin, who was born in Hopkins County, Ky., in 1811, and died in 1843, and by whom she became the mother of four living children: George R., county treasurer of Cedar County; James M., master mechanic, designer and builder, of Nevada, Mo.; Mary, widow of Jackson Cluch; and Catherine, wife of David Roundtree. In 1849 Mrs. Corbin married Dr. James Dudley, who was born in Adair County, Ky., in 1807. They came to Stockton, Mo., in 1855, where he practiced medicine until his death, February 17, 1863. Her union with Dr. Dudley was blessed by one child, John, who is the popular and courteous clerk of the Tennessee Hotel, which house his father built. Dr. Dudley was a skillful physician and surgeon. His widow married Rev. Lindley, as above stated. The latter is a Republican in politics, and cast his first vote for Harrison for the presidency in 1840. Mrs. Lindley and her children belong to the Christian Church, of which she has been a member for the past forty-six years, also being a member of the Eastern Star Lodge.