Historical records matching General Edward Lacey, Jr.
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About General Edward Lacey, Jr.
Note this line has been created from the article: "General Edward Lacey and his Descendents" compiled by Robert Alexander Lacey 1930-1944, and several of his descendants (listed in sources) published and retained by the Library of Congress. This work is about 40 pages in length and lists all known descendants and their relationship to General Edward Lacey as of about 1930.
A Patriot of the American Revolution for SOUTH CAROLINA with the rank of COLONEL. He was promoted to Brigadier General after the war based on his service record in the South Carolina militia during the war.
DAR Ancestor # A067693]
also posted at Find a Grave Memorial #105436814
"General Edward Lacey was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was born September 1742 in Shippen Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was endowed with an adventurous spirit and a childish infatuation for military life. At the young age of 13, he ran away to join General Braddock in his unfortunate campaign. As he was too young to bear arms, he served as a pack-horse rider and driver. After two years, his father found him and brought him home. He remained there for a year and then he ran away to accompany William Adair (father of Governor Adair of Kentucky) to Chester District, South Carolina. From William Adair, the lad received an excellent education.
In 1766 he married Jane Harper of Chester District and settled on the headwaters of Sandy River six miles west of Chester courthouse, South Carolina. They had eleven children.
When the Revolutionary War broke out in 1776, young Edward took sides with the Whigs and throughout the entire Revolution he did Valiant and continuous service. His father, who had come to live with he and Jane, remained an uncompromising Tory. The story has been told of Edward tying his father to a huge four-poster bed to keep him from warning the British during the preparation for the fighting that led to the Battle of Kings Mountain. I have been told that his bed is still in existence and is the property of Mrs. Florence May Nabors Lyman of Montevallo, Alabama also a descendant of General Edward Lacey.
The General served in Williamson's Cherokee campaign and when the news of the Declaration of Independence reached his company he publicly read the patriotic document to the army. In 1780 he received his commission as colonel. He commanded the forces that defeated Huck the British captain, and was with General Thomas Sumter at Rocky Mount, Hanging Rock, Carey's Fort, and Fishing Creek, was in the decisive battle of King's Mountain, losing his horse in action, and was with Sumter again at Fish Dam Ford and Blackstocks. Later he was at Orangeburg, Biggin Church, Quimby Bridge and Eutaw Springs. In 1782 he was sent to Edisto Island, remaining on duty until December of that year.
Soon after the close of the war, he was chosen Brigadier General, and was one of the first county court judges in Chester District. He was sent by this district to the General Assembly, of South Carolina, where he served until 1793, declining thereafter all further honors.
In October 1797 General Lacey moved his family west, locating in Montgomery County, Tennessee, where he remained for two years. He then permanently located in Livingston County, Kentucky, near the Ohio River where he soon became county judge, a post he filled with satisfaction.
He died while crossing Deer Creek, then flooded with backwater from the Ohio River. While crossing, he was seized with catalepsy and drowned March 20, 1813. His wife, Jane died two months later. In person General Lacey was of commanding form and aspect. He was five feet eleven inches tall, weighed 170 pounds, had black hair, dark eyes, and an unusually handsome and strongly intellectual face.
His Revolutionary War service has given him a niche in our country's history leaving his descendants a very precious heritage. After the death of their parents General Lacey's children moved to Alabama and settled on lands now a part of the City of Birmingham. They went along with 15 other families that moved in covered wagons over Indian trails and military roads.
(for further information, see
Dr. M. A. Moore's Life of General Edward Lacey" and Dr. Lyman C. Draper's King's Mountain and its Heroes, pp 463-464)"
and "A Genealogy of the Lacey Family" by Thomas McAdory Owen, Carrollton, Alabana, 1900.
Children of General Edward Lacey and Jane Harper:
William Lacey
Jane Lacey
Joshua Lacey
Edward Lacey
James Lacey
Samuel Lacey
Robert Lacey
Adelia Lacey
Annie Lacey
Betsy Lacey
Mary Lacey
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General Edward Lacey, Jr.'s Timeline
| 1742 |
September 13, 1742
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Shippensburg, Shippen Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1767 |
1767
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York, Chester, Chester County, South Carolina, United States
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| 1771 |
1771
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Chester County, South Carolina, United States
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| 1775 |
June 8, 1775
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Chester County, South Carolina, United States
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| 1776 |
1776
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Chester County, South Carolina, United States
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| 1777 |
July 8, 1777
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Chester County, South Carolina, United States
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| 1779 |
1779
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Chester Township, Chester, South Carolina, United States
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| 1780 |
September 1, 1780
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Chester County, South Carolina, United States
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| 1783 |
August 9, 1783
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Chester County, South Carolina, United States
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| 1792 |
1792
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Chester County, South Carolina, United States
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