General Edward Lacey^{[1, 2, 3]}

1742 - 1813  (70 years)

• Name	General Edward Lacey  [4]
  Birth	20 Sep 1742	Shippen Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA   [5]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	, , , USA   [4]
  Residence	1765	, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA   [6]
  Residence	1785	, Chester, South Carolina, USA   [7]
  Residence	1790	, Chester, South Carolina, USA   [8]
  Residence	1800	, Livingston, Kentucky, USA   [9, 10]
  Death	20 Mar 1813	Deer Creek, Livingston, Kentucky, USA   [5]
  	Drowned in the Deer Creek River
  Person ID	I45657	Master
  Last Modified	5 Aug 2022

  
  

  Father	Edward (Colonel) Lacey (DeLacey),   b. 1709, , , , England d. 22 May 1795, Chester, Chester, South Carolina, USA (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Julian A (Juliene) Browne,   b. 1710, , , South Carolina, USA d. 1795 (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F10466	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Harper,   b. 1748, , Chester, South Carolina, USA d. 5 May 1813, , Livingston, Kentucky, USA (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	1766	, Chester, South Carolina, USA   [5]
  Children	1. Edward Abraham Lacey   2. Dillie Lacey   3. Robert Lacey,   b. 1767, Chester, Chester, South Carolina, USA d. 1843, , Jefferson, Alabama, USA (Age 76 years)   4. Jane Lacey,   b. 1771, Chester, Chester, South Carolina, USA d. 1820, , Pickens, Alabama, USA (Age 49 years)   5. Jane Lacey,   b. 1771, Chester, Chester, South Carolina, USA d. 1850, , Pickens, Alabama, USA (Age 79 years)   6. Samuel Lacey,   b. 27 Feb 1773, , Chester, South Carolina, USA d. 1823, , Jefferson, Alabama, USA (Age 49 years) + 7. William M Lacey,   b. 1774, , Chester, South Carolina, USA d. 1843, , Jefferson, Alabama, USA (Age 69 years)   8. Edward Lacey,   b. 8 Jun 1775, , Chester, South Carolina, USA d. 15 Jul 1858, , Pickens, Alabama, USA (Age 83 years)   9. Robert Lacey,   b. 18 Jul 1777, Chester, Chester, South Carolina, USA d. 5 Feb 1846, , Pickens, Alabama, USA (Age 68 years) + 10. Annie Lacey,   b. 1779, , Chester, South Carolina, USA d. 1850, , Holmes, Mississippi, USA (Age 71 years)   11. Joshua Lacey,   b. 1 Sep 1780, Chester, Chester, South Carolina, USA d. 31 Jan 1867, Montevallo, Shelby, Alabama, USA (Age 86 years)   12. Mary Lacey,   b. 1783, , , Kentucky, USA d. 26 Aug 1849, , , Texas, USA (Age 66 years)   13. Elizabeth Harper Lacey,   b. 9 Aug 1783, , Chester, South Carolina, USA d. 26 Aug 1849, Waco, McLennan, Texas, USA (Age 66 years)   14. James Lacy,   b. 1785, , Chester, South Carolina, USA d. 20 Dec 1811 (Age 26 years)   15. James Lacey,   b. 9 Jul 1788, , , South Carolina, USA d. 24 May 1852, Fayette, Fayette, Alabama, USA (Age 63 years) + 16. Adelia Lacey,   b. 1792, Chester, Chester, South Carolina, USA d. 10 Jun 1862, , Jefferson, Alabama, USA (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F10465	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2022

  
  

• Event Map		Residence - - , , , USA Residence - 1765 - , Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA Marriage - 1766 - , Chester, South Carolina, USA Residence - 1785 - , Chester, South Carolina, USA Residence - 1790 - , Chester, South Carolina, USA Residence - 1800 - , Livingston, Kentucky, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  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. General Lacey's children were born in South Carolina, four of the eleven prior in the Revolutionary War. The family later moved to Kentucky and in 1816, after the death of their parents, 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. The children are listed only in approximate order: 1. William 2. Jane 3. Joshua 4. Edward 5. James 6. Samuel 7. Robert 8. Adelia 9. Annie 10. Betsy 11. Died young Source: History of General Edward Lacey and some of his descendants by Robert A. Lacey, Esq, August 4, 1936, Washington D.C. 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 bee told of Edward tying his father to a huge four-poster bed to keep his from warning the British during the preparing 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. 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) The following account is from Nothing but Blood and Slaughter - the Revolutionary War in the Carolinas, Volume Four, 1782 by Patrick O'Kelley, 2005, with minor edits. When a young man, Edward Lacey went to Charlestown to sell bees wax and hides. He visited a gypsy woman to get his fortune told. She told him that he would become a great warrior and never shed any blood in battle, but he would die by drowning. She also told him that he would marry a red-headed woman and have ten children, five with red hair and five who would be dark. Lacey went on to fight in sixteen engagements and he was never wounded. The closest he came to being harmed was at Kings Mountain when a ball passed through his hat and cut the hair at the top of his head. It burned but not a drop of blood was shed. He did marry a red-headed woman and he did have ten children. Lacey used his own money in the war and he was never paid for his services. After the war, Edward Lacey was promoted to brigadier general of the militia and became a judge of the county court. He served for many years in the Legislature and then moved to Tennessee in 1797. Two years later he moved to Livingston County, Kentucky, where he was made the county judge. On March 30, 1813, while crossing Deer Creek, he was thrown from his horse while having an epileptic seizure, and drowned. The gypsy woman had been right about his life. His widow died two months later. http://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/patriot_leaders_sc_edward_lacey.html

  
  

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