Isaac Lindsey was one of the stout hearted pioneers of Sumner County. He came from Virginia in 1780 and settled at Eaton's Station, on the east side of the river, at the first headlands below Nashville. He was one of the signers of the Cumberland Compact, May 13, 1780, and was one of the first justices of the peace of Davidson County, elected January 7, 1783. In the same year he removed to Sumner County and located near Sandersville, at Lindsey's Bluff. In 1786, when Sumner County was organized, he was elected one of its first magistrates. In that year he embraced religion, connected himself with the Methodist Church and soon afterwards began to preach. He was a man of the first order of talent, a good man and a useful citizen. He died at home in Sumner County at an advanced age, loved, honored and respected by all who knew him. Of his descendants no facts come to the author.

Information from Charles Crain

I was looking at your web site and noticed the writeup on Isaac Lindsey. It said that nothing was known of his decendents. His son Isaac Jr., also a Methodist Preacher, was murdered on the road outside of Nashville. I believe I have an old newspaper article on it. His daughter Mary "Polly" was married to Lewis Crain, who along with Isaac, is noted as one of the founders of Eaton's Station in 1779. Their daughter Susannah married her cousin William Crain who died there in Nashville in 1816. Susannah and the four boys moved to Illinois. I am the gt gt grandson of her second son, Lewis Wesley... maybe this information might fill in some blanks there.