BIO:  LETT, John A., s/o Randall & Sarah (Tyndall) Lett

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

LETT TYNDALL   THOMAS   RANDERSON

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Pike County, Jefferson Twp, page 458

JOHN A. LETT, father of Isaac Lett (and Lewis E. Lett, see bios on p. 459),
was born in Kentucky, September 11, 1809.  His parents were Randall and Sarah
(Tyndall) Lett, who were natives of Georgia and came to Kentucky and lived
there till John A. was four years old, when they came to Pike County.  When
twenty-two years old our subject married Mary Thomas, October 20, 1831.  He
began life for himself with little or nothing, but has owned 260 acres of the
very best land.  He and wife are the parents of ten children, eight now
living. His wife died September 15, 1866, and September 19, 1867, he next
married Elizabeth Randerson, who died of cancer February 8, 1885, leaving two
children.  He is a Republican and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He
has in his possession a compass, a powder horn, and a flint and steel which
his grandfather carried in the Revolutionary War.


 
From: "Phyllis Hill" 
<phill@redrock.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998