Robert H. Lacy

LACY, HICKS, JONES, BURT, WALLACE

Posted By: Marthann Kohl-Fuhs (email)
Date: 4/22/2009 at 14:31:47

ROBERT H. LACY, an early settler of Cameron Township, was born near Madisonville, Knox County, Kentucky, August 29, 1831. He is the second son of George and Sophia (Hicks) Lacy, who were born and reared in the State of Virginia. Soon after their marriage they removed to Kentucky, thence to Tennessee, and thence to Madison County, Illinois; there they rented a farm, and resided until they removed to Fayette County, Illinois, in which county George Lacy died in 1851; his wife died five months later in Morgan County, Illinois. They were the parents of seven children, all of whom are living, except one son. Robert Lacy passed most of his youth in Fayette County, Illinois, receiving the benefit of a common school education. He had lived at home until his father's death, which occurred when he was nineteen years old. He then started out for himself, working by the month on a farm for six years. He was married to Nancy E. Jones, of Morgan County, Illinois, the oldest daughter of James Jones, Esq. After his marriage Mr. Lacy rented a farm in Henry County, Illinois, on which he spent nine years. In the fall of 1873 he moved with his family to Audubon County, Iowa, and bought 100 acres of raw prairie land; this he broke out and improved, erecting buildings, planting trees, and making many other valuable additions to the place. He has engaged in general farming since coming to Audubon County. Mr. Lacy's first wife died on the farm in 1879; she was the mother of five children George H., James W., Charles C., Robert, and John M., who died at the age of twelve years. Mr. Lacy was married to Mrs. Amelia Burt in 1880; her maiden name was Wallace, and she had two children by her former husband, Edmund Burt Carrie, wife of George H. Lacy, and Hattie, wife of Charles E. Lacy. Mr. Burt died in Buena Vista County, Iowa. He served the country eighteen months in the late civil war. Mrs. Lacy and her first husband were born on the shores of Lake George. Mr. Lacy removed from his farm to Audubon in the spring of 1880, and clerked in a hardware and agricultural implement store for five years. He then removed to Coon Rapids, which is his present home. He opened a meat market in this place, and at the end of two years sold out the business. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party.

1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS
113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO
pages 787-788