Revolutionary War Connections

•April 15, 2026•

by Janet Roney

I’m sure you all know that this year is the 250th anniversary of our country’s independence. Even though the first white settlers did not come into our county until 1826, fifty years after the United States began, we have at least three Revolutionary War veterans buried in Moultrie County. They are John S. Howell, Isaac Waggoner, and James Patterson. I’ll tell you more about them soon.

Besides these patriots, many of our early settlers were children and grandchildren of Revolutionary War veterans. One of those grandchildren was Samuel Washington Lindley.

You may remember from a previous article that Lindley was the son-in-law of John S. Whitley, the first settler in Moultrie County. He brought his family with Whitley in 1826 and settled along the Kaskaskia-Detroit Road in Whitley Township. The first sermon delivered in Moultrie County was at Lindley’s cabin in 1828.

Although Lindley was born after the Revolutionary War in 1788, he had very interesting Revolutionary War connections through his grandfathers, Dr. John Pyle and Thomas Lindley, who were neighbors in North Carolina before the war.

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