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C. T. Lindsay came to Arkansas from Georgia, where he was born May 1850. He was listed as an attorney in Little Rock (Pulaski County) City Directories from 1888 to 1915, and also was said to have been admitted to practice law in Georgia and Tennessee. Lindsay was a member of the Wonder State Bar Association, a Black lawyers group, in 1901. His name appears in one 1914 published court opinion, when he and Nelson H. Nichols appeared opposite W.A. Singfield, acting in his own behalf, in an estate sale matter. In 1900, he had been married to Bettie, also from Georgia, for 23 years. They had no children. He owned his own home. Lindsay died on November 20, 1914, in Little Rock at the age of 64.
Sources: Judith Kilpatrick, “(EXTRA)Ordinary Men: African-American Lawyers and Civil Rights in Arkansas Before 1950,” 53 Ark. Law Rev. 299, 303 n7, 311 n71, 336, 345 n341, 371 (2000); The Colored Lawyers, Arkansas Gazette, 7/31/1901; 1888-89-1915 Little Rock City Directories; D.B. Gaines, Racial Possibilities as Indicated by the Negroes of Arkansas 87-88 (1898).