I60156: AARON ap Paen (ABT 1000

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"Chronology of Lindsay's Life and Work
1897 Lindsay graduates Springfield High School, matriculates at Hiram College, Ohio, where he takes up the study of medicine.

1900 Lindsay discontinues study at Hiram College, goes home to Springfield.

1901-1903 Art study at the Chicago Art Institute, also intensive period of writing.

1903 Art study at the New York School of Art.

1904 While home in Springfield, Lindsay has his first episode of visions. Much writing during this time as well as drawing, including his "Map of the Universe."

1905 Back in New York, Lindsay is dissuaded from a career in art by his instructors. More visions. Tries to sell his poetry on the streets in NYC, voluntarily teaches night courses in art history at YMCA, with such success that this soon turns into a paying job.

1906 March-May: Lindsay walks from Jacksonville, Florida, to Kentucky, some 600 miles.

1908 April-May: Lindsay walks from New York City to Hiram, Ohio. In August Lindsay is at home in Springfield, where he witnesses the race riots there.

1909 In Springfield, writing. Lindsay mostly remains at home, writing and drawing, for the next three years.

1910-11 700 copies of Linday's The Village Magazine self-published. Reviewed by Hamlin Garland, who exchanges visits with Lindsay.

1912 May-September: Lindsay begins cross-country walk from Springfield, intending to travel by foot to California, ends in New Mexico. On the way he gives out copies of his Rhymes to Be Traded for Bread, The Gospel of Beauty, and an illustrated book, all self published; Lindsay also works as a harvester in Kansas.

1913 Publication of poems in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, including "General Wiliam Booth Enters Heaven." "General Booth" becomes the title poem of a book published in the fall by Mitchell Kennerley and is awarded the Poetry prize for best poem published in the magazine that year.

1914 Recitations of "The Congo" in Springfield and Chicago. Publication of The Congo and Other Poems and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty in the fall. Romance with Sara Teasdale, at one point headed toward marriage, comes to a crash at year's end when she marries Ernst Filsinger, a wealthy businessman.

1915 Recitation before President Woodrow Wilson and his cabinet. The Art of the Moving Picture published; for the second time, Lindsay honored for best poem of the year by Poetry, this time for "The Chinese Nightingale."

1916 A Handy Guide for Beggars published.

1916-19 Recitations throughout the United States.

1917 The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems published.

1920 Three books published this year: The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in the American Language, The Daniel Jazz and Other Poems, and The Golden Book of Springfield. In England, recitations at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Westminster Central Hall.

1920-22 Almost continuous touring in the United States.

1921 Summer trip to Glacier National Park, Montana.

1923 Publication of Going-to-the Sun and Collected Poems. Collapses while on tour in January, cancels schedule for rest of year.

1923-24 Lindsay teaches poetry at Gulf Park Junior College for Girls, Gulfport, Mississippi.

1924-29 New residence in Spokane, Washington.

1924 Several trips to Glacier Park.

1925 February: Meets Elizabeth Conner. May 19: Marries Elizabeth Conner, who is 23 at the time.

1926 Two books published this year: Going-to-the-Stars and The Candle in the Cabin. Daughter, Susan Doniphan Lindsay, born in May.

1927 Son, Nicholas Cave Lindsay, born in September.

1928-29 October-March: In great financial difficulty, Lindsay makes a marathon speaking tour in the East and Midwest that eliminates his debts. Special $500 prize from Poetry magazine for lifelong achievement.

1929 Two more books published: The Litany of Washington Street and Every Soul a Circus. In April Lindsay moves his family to Springfield. May 10 in Chicago, he recites "The Virginians Are Coming Again" at a féte arranged by Poetry.

1930-31 On tour with few breaks.

1931 December 5: Lindsay commits suicide, drinking a bottle of Lysol."

"committed suicide in 1931--in the very house where he was born--by drinking Lysol. That tragic year was the nadir of the early Depression, and another Midwestern poet (Hart Crane) chose to end his life a few months later. Although the precise alchemy Lindsay's suicide may never be known, he was clearly tormented by debt, writer's block, and the pervasive sense of doom that accompanied this year of national bankruptcy and personal suffering--catastrophes that a less optimistic writer may have been able to take in stride.....the events of Lindsay's life-not merely his birth and death in the same house at 603 South Fifth Street." (house originally built by A. Lincoln's sister, renovated and now on tour.)

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Notes

The ancestors of the Pritchett family come from Wales early in the eighteenth century and settled in Virginia and North Carolina, the name being spelled both Pritchett and Pritchard in the old court records.

Notes

Book on Chesterfield County History says: William Perdue, a French Huguenot, received a patent of 240 acres in 1744. John Perdue in 1746 patented 400 acres." Book entitled "Virginia Colonial Abstracts" mentions William in 1732 and 1736 and John and Richard in 1736.

Father: William Perdieu b. 1572 in Closworth, England
Mother: Mary Amphlett
Spouse: Sarah Burke + James Burke (Husband) Marriage: ABT. 1740

Children:
Thomas Perdue
William Uriah Perdue I b. 1704 in Henrico, Chesterfield County, Virginia
John Perdue I b. 1711 in Henrico County, Virginia
Richard Perdue b. 1716 in Henrico County, Virginia

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(d) William Sinclair, 2nd Earl of Caithness (d Flodden 09.09.1513) m. Mary Keith (dau of Sir William Keith of Inverugie)
((1)) John Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Caithness (d Somersdale 18.05.1529) m. Elizabeth Sutherland (dau of William Sutherland of Duffus)
((2)) Alexander Sinclair of Stamster, Dunbeath, etc ancestor of Sinclairs of Dunbeath m. Elizabeth Innes
partner unknown
((3)) William Sinclair

My Southern Family

AARON ap Paen

ABT 1000 - ____

ID Number: I60156

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Lucy CHERRY

1846 - ____

ID Number: I1562

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Mary DUDLEY

ABT 1762 - ____

ID Number: I12177

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Juline "Judy" JOHNS

ABT 1806 - ____

ID Number: I104571

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Nicholas Vachel LINDSAY

10 Nov 1879 - 5 Dec 1931

ID Number: I68781

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Anneke Webber MORGAN

1879 - ____

ID Number: I6929

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John PRITCHETT

ABT 1750 - ____

ID Number: I79015

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John (Perdieu) PURDUE "the Immigrant"

1685 - 1 Dec 1773

ID Number: I93985

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WILLIAM SINCLAIR 2nd Earl of Caithness

ABT 1457 - 9 Sep 1513

ID Number: I102201

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Jane WARE

1712 - ____

ID Number: I27715

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Elizabeth WILKINSON

ABT 1760 - ____

ID Number: I52919

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Mallie WOOLDRIDGE

ABT 1840 - ____

ID Number: I31631

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