Beech Tree News Network

Who knew? Certainly no one did as a salvage crew carefully took an old house apart on Sanders road off 79 north, a while back. For starters, when the present owners had the old weather boarding removed, the logs underneath were found to be of hardwood. 

Then there was the mantle and the locket laying behind it.

All this is according to Doug Lindsey, speaking from his home in the fifth district of Butler County last week. “Someone theorized that the silver locket was there on the mantle and when something such as a lamp was scooted back, the locket dropped into a gap in the wall,” he remarked.

“When the locket was found, it was given to my brother Don (Lindsey), former owner of Lindsey’s Grocery. He showed it around but no one knew the identities,” said Doug. That changed when the brothers traveled to Elizabethtown where family and friends, with Butler County ties, met for lunch.

“When our cousin, Stanley Lindsey of Louisville, saw the locket he responded immediately,” said Doug. “That’s my father and mother!” Stanley exclaimed.

The couple had been identified as Hayward and Loretta Lindsey.  A grave monument in Flatwood cemetery states that Hayward was a veteran of WWII. He and Loretta were married in 1939.

Photos courtesy: Doug Lindsey

Story by Roger Southerland, Beech Tree News