LINDLEY, Jeanette Downing ^{1916,1917,1918,1919}

   Cause of her death was 2nd degree burns on legs ⁸¹⁶.^,1916

   Other names for Jeanette were LINDLEY, Jeannette Downing,¹⁹²¹ LINDLEY, Jennette,¹¹¹⁵ LINDLEY, Jennette D ¹⁹²⁰ and LINDLY, Jeanette.¹⁹¹⁶

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Alt. Birth, 15 Sep 1929, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. ¹⁹¹⁶

2. Appearance in Document: NC Birth Index, 1929, Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. ¹⁹¹⁸ 1929, Lindley, Jeanette Downing, child of Charles Clinton Lindley, recorded Vol 17, page 483.

3. Census, 3 Apr 1930, Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. ¹¹¹⁵
1) Lindley, Chas C, head of household, owns home valued $2000, has radio, age 39, first married at age 36, not attending school, can read and write, born NC, parents born NC, teacher at high school.
2) Lindley, Gladys, wife, age 27, first married at 25, not attending school, can read and write, born NC, parents born NC, no occupation.
3) Lindley, Jennette, daughter, age 6/12, single, not attending school, born NC, parents born NC.
4) Haywood, Alline, sister-in-law, age 24, single, not attending school, can read and write, born NC, parents born NC, bookkeeper at furniture company.

Household is in Piedmont Heights.

4. Story, 1931, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. ⁸¹⁶
Jeanette was scalded by hot water that spilled from the stove while visiting her Haywood grandparents. Her mother Gladys Lindley and grandmother Lella Haywood had gone to church; Jeanette was home with her grandfather Oscar Haywood. When Jeanette went to the hospital in Fayetteville, she contracted red measles and erysipelas [an acute disease of the skin marked by spreading inflamation and fever]. She died from those complications.

5. Obituary: Burlington Daily Times, 14 Apr 1931, Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. ¹⁹²¹ "Little Lindley Girl Died Yesterday". Jeannette Downing Lindley, 19 months old daughter of Prof. and Mrs Charles C. Lindley, of this place, died yesterday afternoon at 3:30 in Pittman hospital, Fayetteville where she had been the past five weeks, suffering form complications following accidental scalding. Her mother had gone there for a visit.
Funeral service was held this afternoon at 2:30 at the First M. P. church with Dr. F. W. Paschall in charge, and interment was made in Pine Hill cemetery.
Surviving are the parents and three grandparents: W. F. Lindley, Saxapahaw; and Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Haywood, of Fayetteville.