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[Laurel Leader-Call  June 20, 1950]

Sam Lindsey is Dead; Victim of Heart Attack

Sam Lindsey, Sr. died at 8:40 a.m. Tuesday in a local hospital where he had been a patient since Saturday afternoon following a heart attack that morning.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 o'clock in the First Baptist Church with the Rev. T. R. McKibbens and Dr. L. G. Gates officiating.  Burial will be in Hickory Grove cemetery.

Mr. Lindsey, a builder, spiritually, civically and professionally, had taken an active part in the affairs of Laurel since the earliest days.  He was a motivating influence in the building program of his church, the First Baptist, and took an active part in supervising the construction of each new church building as it was constructed to replace the one the congregation had out grown.

He was born in Corinth Community in Jasper County on October 28, 1883, and was the eldest son of Matt and Lillie Parker Lindsey.  He attended Mississippi State (A & M) and received his business education at a business college in Nashville, Tenn.

He went directly into the Lindsey Wagon Company, in the manufacture of eight-wheel log wagons and small skidders.  he was the president of that business at the time of his death.

Builder at Heart

Mr. Lindsey was a builder at heart.  After the first depression he started the first housing project which was on Woodlawn Drive.  He developed that subdivision which later was expanded into "Laurel Homes."

He was contractor and supervisor in a number of the more substantial buildings in the business area.  Mr. Lindsey was consultant for the F. H. A. in the early activities of that government unit.  He was vice-president and director of the Laurel Federal Savings and Loan Association and on the loan committee of that institution.

He was also a vice-president and director and member of the loan committee of the Commercial National Bank and Trust Company. 

Mr. Lindsey was a member of the board of directors of the old Y. M. C. A. and was trustee of the Laurel Civic Center after the Y was expanded into a civic building.

He was a charter member of the First Baptist Church and served as a deacon of that church from the early days.  He also served as superintendent of the Sunday School for 39 years.  He was one of the oldest members in the point of membership on the church rolls.

Between War I and War II, when the local chapter of the Red Cross was on an inactive basis, Mr. Lindsey headed the rebuilding program which replaced home in the Sharon, Hoy and Sandersville neighborhoods after a cyclone struck those communities about 1931.

Mr. Lindsey married Miss Jessie Katherine Burdick in 1908.  She died on Dec. 232, 1945.  On April 30th, 1950, he married Mrs. Bess Portwood of Gulfport.

Survivors include: his widow, Mrs. Sam Lindsey, Sr.,; three daughters, Mrs. J. C. Parker, Mrs. Dewey Blackledge, Laurel; Mrs. Claude McLain, Covington, La.; a son, Sam Lindsey Jr., Laurel; three brothers, Will and Henry Lindsey, Laurel; Jeff Lindsey, San Antonio; three sisters, Mrs. Frank A. Beard, Sr., Mrs. S. R. Phillips, Laurel; Mrs. Kerney J. Hurst, Jackson, and eight grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be W. W. Geer, Lavon Boyles, Joe Phillips, Russell Lindsey, Phil Berry, D. U. Maddox, T. H. Harris, Howard Wallace, J. M. Caughman, and J. S. Watson.

Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Board of Directors of the Commercial National Bank and Trust Company, the Laurel Savings & Loan Association, and the deacons of the First Baptist Church.

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