Enos Lackey

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• Religion: member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• Misc: 1829, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; Tax Assessment
• Census: 1830, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Enos Lackey
• Newspaper: 24 Aug 1838; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 24 August 1838, p3
• Census: 1840, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Enos Leckey
• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Enos Lackey, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Enos Lackey, farmer, head of household
• Newspaper: 28 May 1868; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 28 May 1868, p5
• Census: 1870, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Enos Lackey, farmer, head of household
• Newspaper: 12 Oct 1871; The Weekly Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio) 12 Octobr 1871, p3
• Newspaper: 30 Nov 1871; The Weekly Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio) 30 November 1871, p3
• Newspaper: 22 Feb 1872; The Weekly Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio) 22 February 1872, p3
• Newspaper: 13 Feb 1873; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 13 February 1873, p3
• Newspaper: 11 Sep 1873; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 11 September 1873, P3
• Newspaper: 11 Dec 1873; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 11 December 1873, p2
• Newspaper: 8 Jun 1876; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 8 June 1876, p2
• Newspaper: 31 Aug 1876; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 31 August 1876, p3
• Newspaper: 5 Apr 1877; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 5 April 1877, p3
• Newspaper: 31 May 1877; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 31 May 1877, p2
• Newspaper: 27 Sep 1877; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 11 October 1877, p1
• Newspaper: 30 May 1878; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 30 May 1878, p8
• Newspaper: 22 Aug 1878; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 22 August 1878, p5
• Newspaper: 3 Oct 1878; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 3 October 1878, p5
• Newspaper: 21 Aug 1879; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 21 Aigust 1879, p4
• Newspaper: 4 Dec 1879; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 4 December 1879, p1
• Census: 1880, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Enos Lackey, retired farmer, head of household
• Newspaper: 15 Jul 1880; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 15 July 1880, p1
• Newspaper: 16 Dec 1880; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 16 December 1880, p1
• Newspaper: 25 Aug 1881; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 25 August 1881, p5
• History / Bio: 1882; The History of Warren County, Ohio (Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882), p755
• Newspaper: 30 Mar 1882; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 30 March 1882 p5
• Newspaper: 8 Jun 1882; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 8 June 1882, p1
• Newspaper: 16 Nov 1882; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 16 November 1882, p5
• Newspaper: 17 May 1883; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 17 May 1993, p5
• Newspaper: 8 Aug 1883; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 8 August 1883, p4
• Newspaper: 16 Aug 1883; The Lebanon Daily Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 16 August 1883, p1
• Newspaper: 1 Sep 1883; The Lebanon Daily Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 1 September 1883, p5
• Newspaper: 18 Oct 1883; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 18 October 1883, p5
• Newspaper: 3 Jan 1884; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 3 January 1884, p5
• Newspaper: 21 Jan 1884; The Weekly Western Star. Lebanon, Ohio, 21 January 1884, p4
• Obituary: 5 Apr 1884; The Lebanon Daily Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 5 April 1884, p1
• Newspaper: 7 Apr 1884, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; Funeral Notice; Address:
  The Lebanon Daily Star
• Newspaper: 17 Apr 1884; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 17 April 1884, p5
• Newspaper: 18 Apr 1884; The Lebanon Daily Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 18 April 1884, p2
• Newspaper: 22 May 1884; The Lebanon Daily Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 22 May 1884, p1
• Newspaper: 28 May 1884; The Lebanon Daily Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 28 May 1884, p2
• Probate: 15 Jul 1884, Warren County, Ohio, United States
• Newspaper: 22 Jul 1884; The Lebanon Daily Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 22 July 1884, p1
• Newspaper: 31 Jul 1884; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 31 July 1884, p1
• Newspaper: 1 Aug 1884; The Lebanon Daily Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 1 August 1884, p1
• Newspaper: 27 Nov 1884; The Lebanon Daily Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 27 November 1884, p3
• Newspaper: 24 Dec 1885; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 24 December 1885, p5
• Newspaper: 4 Feb 1886; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 4 February 1886, p1
• Newspaper: 18 Feb 1886; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 18 February 1886, p1
• Newspaper: 10 Aug 1899; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 10 August 1899, p4
• Newspaper: 24 Aug 1899; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 24 August 1899, p2

Notes:

Interesting Note: Enos bought the Methodist Episcopal Church an organ for Christmas in 1784.

Snippet from.....
COPY OF GEORGE HARLANS LETTER TO HOWARD (HIS SON) Jan 23, 1845
We have had so far one of the mildest winters I ever recollect seeing, we have had but little snow, none more than about two inches deep, very little rain; the roads have been good, compared with other winters and I never recollect passing one more agreeably, my health has been good; and if it was not for my long seated rheumatism that prevents my stirring out, I should be one of the happiest old fellows that lives in any country; but that prevents me from stirring out; but gives me but little pain while I sit or lie still; but the moment I rise to my feet that moment the pain attacks me. I am well waited on as I have had two little boys of the name of Slade come stay with me alternately through the winter; and finer little fellows need not be wished for they take care of our small stock, keep them in first rate order and do everything that is required of them with perfect cheerfulness. Their father is a blacksmith; has bought an acre from Geo. Cornel at the corner next to Smith; has got his shop up and is at work. He is the man that brought Enos Lackey before the Church for willful and deliberate lying: on an investigation the charges were pointedly proven by as respectable members as any in the church; but of all the gaffes that I have ever laid my hands on in Criminal Jurisprudence I have met with; but only one that runs exactly parallel with the present; and that was the celebrated case of a blacksmith who was tried and found guilty of horse stealing. Where the Court averted the Judgment, on the ground that there was but one Blacksmith in the place, and as the people could not do without one, the Court very wisely ordered the sentence to be executed on a Drunken Irishman; as it was impalpable to satisfy Justice without hanging somebody; so in the case in which Enos was concerned; the preacher and the committee, after prayerful investigation and laying the whole affair before the Lord came to the very wise conclusion that it was expedient to spread the broad mantle of Charity over the whole affair, for if Charity could cover a multitude of sins it could easily cover one bit of a lie; especially as Enos was clapleader and has two farms, and lives almost at the door of the Church house; and in addition to that he enjoys religion and could easily be heard pray half a mile and was not ashamed or afraid to pray anywhere even on the housetop or at the corner of the Street; and as for Groaning he was not to be beat by anyone in the whole Ohio Conference; but best of all he was most able and willing to pay quarterage both for himself and a large family and for these substantial reasons he was honorably acquitted, and a boy of 14 was turned out in his stead as the boy was thought to have no religion; for some time last spring the report said that he had been heard to say an evil word not comporting with religion for he had said Durn a pig that had crept into the garden.

You will no doubt be surprised when I tell you that notwithstanding the strong marks of wisdom, Justice and the expediency of the above decision there are some that think Enos ought to have been turned out of Church, others think that would have been too hard, as the Devil was more to blame, but that it would have been well enough to take his office from him and put him at the foot of the Clap, but the better informed think that it is best as it is, for if they were to turn all out who are sometimes under the necessity of telling a few lies for the sake of a trade, they would be obliged to lose some of their most pious members and some of their best and most zealous teachers.

H. Harlan Geo. Harlan

Return address: Grandfather Harlan, Ridgeville, Ohio January 25, 1845
The letter was addressed to Howard Harlan, Marshall, Clark County, Illinois
Link to letter: http://www.harlanfamily.org/documents.htm#George672

Birth:
now Ridgeville, Warren County, Ohio, USA

Newspaper:

On a motion of J. D. Thomas, a Committee of Vigilance for Clearcreek Township was appointed, who are expected to use all honorable and lawful means to get every Whig voter to the polls. (page 3)

Census:

In the same household as Enos and family:
Washington Goggs, age 21, male, farm laborer
George Dinsmore, age 18, male, farm laborer

Newspaper:

The following are the names of persons in Warren county who have incomes exceeding $1000. The figures given show the amount of income in addition to the $1000 which the law exempts from taxation:
Lackey, Enos——————— 592
Lackey, Richard—————.111
William B. Sellers————.168

Census:

Also listed in the 1870 Census under this household:
Harry Lackey, age 5
Caroline Lackey, age 2
Daisey Lackey, age 6/12

Newspaper:

Warren County Sales
Enos Lackey will offer 84 acres off his farm on the Dayton pike for sale on Friday, the 20th inst.; and on the same day a large amount of Chattel Property and Steam Saw-mill.
page 3
Large Sale of Chattels, Real Estate and Saw-Mill Property.
I will offer at public sale on my farm three miles from Lebanon, on the Dayton pike, on Friday, October 20 1871, the following described property, to-wit: 6 head of horses, 1 fine young stallion, 20 head of cattle, 4 fresh milch cows, about 50 shoats, 1 set of Blacksmith's tools, 1 threshing machine, 1 Reaper, 1 drag saw, 1 new buggy, 3 two horse wagon; and many farming utensils; 300 sugar crocks and 2 evaporators:
150 Cords of Wood and many other articles not mentioned. Also at the same time 84 Acres of my farm, with Brick Dwelling and Brick Stable thereon, and my Steam Saw-Mill.
Sale to Commence at 10 o'clock A. M. Terms of sale made known on the day of sale by Enos Lackey

Newspaper:

We, the undersigned land-holders, forbid all hunting, chasing, trapping, or killing game of any king, either by day or night on our respective premises, after this date, November 14, 1871.
William Pence, John Sheets, Wilson Unglesbe, C. B. Odell, R. Sellers, Enos Lackey, James Furney, Eli Sweeny, Wm. Decker, Samuel Wolcott, George Monger, John G. Monger, Moses Crossley, Henry Bean, J. H. Monger, Fred Hutchinson, A. S. Kirby.

Newspaper:

Posters for the following public sales have been printed at the Star Office:
—Thomas L. Keever, 3 miles north of Mason-chattel property, Gebruary 22.
—Enos Lackey, 3 miles north of Lebanon, chattel property, Saturday, March 2.
—Henry J. Dunham, 1-1/2 miles south of Shakertown, -chattel property, Wednesday, February 29.
—John B. McCray and Ann Cree, Executors of Robert Cree, deceased-201 acres belonging to the estate of deceased, Saturday, March 9.
—Isaac Mull, 1-1/2 miles southeast of Franklin-chattel property, Tuesday, February 27.
—William Gallaher, 2 mile south of Lebanon-chattel property, Friday, March 1.

Newspaper:

Golden Wedding
Mr. Enos Lackey, and his wife, Matilda, of this place, celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage, on Saturday the 8th inst. Quite a number of their children and grand-children were present, together with the Rev. D. Kemper, and wife, and the Rev. W. Young, and wife. After the quests had partook of a most sumptuous dinner, the Rev. W. Young, in behalf of the children, with a few remarks, presented the parents with some beautiful presents, the Rev. D. Kemper closing the interview with prayer. The occasion was a most pleasant one. Mr. Lackey is a native of this county, his wife was born in Butler county. They have had fourteen children, nine of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Lackey are both hale and hearty, and furnish promise of a green old age.

Newspaper:

The following are the transfer for two weeks, ending Monday, Sept. 1
Enos Lackey to Nancy Cretors, parts of lots No. 291 and 293 in Lebanon, Price $1,800

Newspaper:

That we, the undersigned land-holders, forbid all hunting, chasing, trapping or killing game of any kind, or trespassing in any way either by day or night, after this date, November 4, 1873:
George Monger, James Sweny,
Charles Earnhart, Eli Sweny,
Wilson Unglesbe, Samuel Kirby,
John G. Monger, Christopher Odell,
Joseph H. Monger, Enos Lackey,
William Decker, Silas Unglesbe,
A. Kirby, Josiah Cassedy,
Marcus Unglesbe.

Newspaper:

Following is a list of taxpayers in Warren County whose personal property, as returned by the assessors for taxation, exceeds $5,000. A very large majority of the persons reported, it will be well to remember, have the bulk of their money in farms and other real estate, which does not appear in this statement:
Turtlecreek Township.
Enos Lackey $9,039.

Newspaper:

column 1
The friends of Mr. Enos Lackey are making a strong effort to defeat Mr. Kibby, who is a candidate for re-election to the office of Infirmary Director.
column 6
Republican Primary Election.
For Infirmary Director, Ephraim Kibbey, (For re-election)
Enos Lackey.

Newspaper:

James M. Smith vs. Levi Gustin et al. Judgment for Enos Lackey against Gustin for $432.83.

Newspaper:

Following is a list of all the persons in Warren County who pay tax on $5000 and over personal property:
TURTLECREEK.
Enos Lackey $9755
WAYNE.
Joseph Hisey $5956
Amos Sellers, adm'r $5592
Amos Sellers, guard $6950
MASSIE.
H W Dakin & Co $7000

Newspaper:

Warren Common Pleas
Enos Lackey, Ex. Rel. and James M. Smith vs. Levi Gustin et al.
Alias order of sa Case No. 4691
By virtue of an alias order of sale, duly issued from said court in the above stated case and to me directed, I will offer for sale, by way of public auction, at the door of the Court-house, in Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio, on Saturday, Oct. 27, A.D., 1877,
At 2 o'clock p. m. on said day, the following described real estate, to-wit:
FIRST TRACT. Situate in Warren County, Ohio, and in Section 20, Town 3 and Range 4 M. R. S., beginning at a stone in the S. boundary line of Samuel Olinger's land in the middle of the road leading from Cincinnati to Dayton; thence S. 14½ °, W. 21.24 chains; thence S. 81°, E. 2.04 chains to a stone; thence S. 10°, W. 11.56 chains to the south boundary line of said Section; thence with said Section line S. 89¾°, W. 31.99 chains to a stone; thence W. 1/2 °, W. 33 chains to a stone; thence S. 89½°, E. 36.03 chains to the place of beginning, containing 111 acres and 3 roods more or less.
SECOND TRACT. Situate in the same county, township and entire range, viz.: Sec. 20 Town 3 and Range 4 M. R. S., beginning at a stone N. E. corner of said tract running S. 1½°, W.5.4 chains to a stone; thence N. 89½°, W. 10.7 chains to a stone in the east boundary line of John Gallagher's land; thence W.¼°, E. 5.78 chains to a stone; thence S. 87°, E. 10.05 chains to the place of beginning, containing five acres and sixty-five hundredths of an acre (5.65) together with the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging to said several tracts of land.
—Said real estate has been regularly appraised under a former order, at the sum of $100 per acre, and will not be sold for less than two thirds of said appraised value.
Terms-Cash
Wm. H. Harlan, Sheriff,
Warren County, O.
F. S. Van Harlingen, Att'y for Lackey

Newspaper:

Below will be found a list of all persons in Warren County who returned $5,000 and over to the Assessor this year:
Massie Township
H. W. Dakin & Co——$6,000
Washington Township
Enos Lackey——.$8,641

Newspaper:

Enos Lackey, Clayton Palmer, and several other prominent citizens are confined to their homes with bilious attacks.

Newspaper:

Mr. and Mrs. Enos Lackey are convalescing

Newspaper:

June Term Common Pleas.
Enos Lackey vs. Ichabod Corwin, Judgment for the plaintiff for $663.00.
Richard Lackey, guardian of C. W. Ward, vs. John Weir. Compromised and dismissed.

Newspaper:

Detailed Report of the Financial Actions of the Commissioners of Warren Co. for the Year Ending Monday, Sept. 1 1879 The Date of Final Settlement with James S. Totten, Treasurer.
To the Court of Common Pleas for Said County:
Bridge fund.
January 6 1879
Enos Lackey, 249 feet bridge lumber

Census:

Listed in the same household with Enos and family
William F. Elzroth, white, male, age 33, lawyer
Nellie B. Elzroth, white, female, age 28, wife
Lucy Gates, white, female, age 22, servant
Ellen Gates, white, female, age 1, boarder
Ellaner Williams, black, male, age 19, servant

Newspaper:

Following is a list of all the residents of Lebanon who are seventy years old or more:
Enos Lackey
Matilda Lackey
The average age of these seventy-four patriarchs is 75-2/3. Thirty-seven are males and thirty-seven females.

Newspaper:

DETAILED REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF WARREN COUNTY, O.,
For the Year Ending Monday, Sept. 13, 1880.
To the Court of Common Pleas for sain County:
BRIDGE FUND
May 1st
Enos Lackey, bridge lumber—$22.54
Enos Lackey, lumber for above bridge—$43.57

Newspaper:

Mr. Enos Lackey is making preparations to move to his farm near the Fair Grounds.

History / Bio:

Enos Lackey, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, Oct. 21, 1802; he is the son of Richard and Sarah (Harlan) Lackey, the latter being a native of South Carolina; his father emigrated to Ohio in 1796, and settled in Clear Creek Township, where he remained until the breaking-out of the war of 1812, when he enlisted and soon afterward rendered up his life--a sacrifice to his country. Our subject received no other education than was afforded by the log schoolhouse and country schoolmaster of pioneer days. He has been a farmer from his earliest days until recently, when he retired from active labor; he commenced life by working out, and was soon enabled to rent a farm, after which he bought a small farm and continued adding to it until he owned 400 acres; he has amassed a comfortable competency, which he is fully enjoying in his advanced age. He was married, in 1823 to Martha Irvin, who was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, Sept. 9, 1806; her father was also a soldier in the war of 1812. They have had fourteen children, who were, at one time, all alive and married, but of whom only nine now survive. Mr. and Mrs. Lackey are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has for some time been an officer; they are both models of the honest, open-hearted and hospitable pioneer farmers, whose record for Christian integrity is above question.

Newspaper:

Enos Lackey is very sick at his residence near the Fair Grounds.

Newspaper:

Heavy Taxpayers Who Pay on More Than $2,000 and Less Than $5,000 Personal Property.
Turtlecreek - Outside
Enos Lackey——4,356

Newspaper:

—I will offer at public sale at my residence, one-fourth of a mile north of Lebanon, on the Lebanon and Dayton pike, on Tuesday, November 21, 1882, The following described property: Two horses, one two-year-old colt, two buggies (one a phaeton), one spring wagon, one two-horse wagon, two sets of single harness, one set wagon harness, three or four hundred bushels of corn in the crib, wheat and barley straws in the mow, sixteen acres of stalk pasture, one clock, one cook stove, one feather bed, two bedsteads, one sociable, six sofa-buttoned chairs, one bureau, one table (extension), one copper kettle, a lot of carpet, and many articles not mentioned.
—Terms of Sale-A credit of nine months will be given on all sums of five dollars and over, with approved security.
—Sale to commence at 1 o'clock P. M.
Enos Lackey.
J. D. Williams & Son, Auctioneers.

Newspaper:

New Suits.
No. 6656. Enos Lackey vs. Joseph Zimmerman et al.

Newspaper:

Enos Lackey has a sun flower bearing ninety-one distinct blossoms. If this would not afford "leonine beauty" enough for Oscar Wilde in one day, we don't know what would.

Newspaper:

Warren Common Pleas
Enos Lackey vs. Joseph Zimmerman et al., Case No. 6656
—By virtue of an order of sale, duly issued from said Court, in the above stated case, and to me directed, I will offer for sale, by way of public auction, at the door of the Court House, in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, on Saturday, September, 15, 1883,
—At 11 o'clock A.M. on said day, the following described real estate, to-wit:
—Situate in the town of Lebanon, in the County of Warren, and State of Ohio, and being part of lot No. 85, as the same is known and designated on the recorded plat of said town. Beginning 55 feet west of the southeast corner of said lot on Mulberry street, running thence north parallel with the east line of said lot eighty-two and one-half (82-1/2) feet to the line between said lot and lot No. 86, thence west with said line between said lots 45 feet, thence south and parallel with the east line 82-1/2 feet, thence east with the south line of said lot 85, on Mulberry street 45 feet to the place of beginning.
—Said real estate has been regularly appraised under this order at the sum of $125.00, and will not be sold for less than two-thirds of said appraised value.
Terms-Cash
Wm. H. McCain,
Sheriff, Warren Co., O.
Clark & Walker, Attorneys

Newspaper:

Enos Lackey to Job Lackey, lot on Broadway, Lebanon, $3500.

Newspaper:

Mrs. Capt. H. H. Hamilton and son, Milo, of Chattanooga, Tenn., after a pleasant visit to Mr. Enos Lackey, father of the former, left Lebanon on Monday for Cincinnati where Milo will remain while his mother goes on to Indianapolis to visit relatives. They will return to their home in the South in a few weeks.

Newspaper:

—Mrs. Capt. Hamilton, of Chattanooga, Tenn., is in attendance at the bedside of her venerable father, Mr. Enos Lackey.
—Mr Enos Lackey who was stricken with paralysis a few weeks ago, is still lying in a precarious condition at his home north of town. (p5)

Newspaper:

—Although it is considered a delicate, and sometimes dangerous thing for Courts to meddle with deeds, so far as to declare them utterly void, it nevertheless occasionally happens that a Judge is called upon to decide and declare whether instruments of this kind shall stand and operate to defeat the claims of honest creditors.
—The second case wherein the validity of a deed has been called in question in our Common Pleas Court during the past few weeks was decided by Judge O'Neall last Monday.
—The first was the Hunt case, in which Judge Doan sat, and the one now under consideration was the case of Wm F. Dill against Job and John Lackey. The trial of this case came off at the close of the last term of Court, but Judge O'Neall reserved his decision until the time named above.
—Wm. F. Dill, the plaintiff, asked to have certain deeds set aside which were made to Job and John Lackey by Enos Lackey in his lifetime, and which the plaintiff alleged were false and fraudulent.
—The interest which Mr. Dill had in this matter grew out of a promissory note which Enos Lackey endorsed and transferred to him for a valuable consideration. The note was for $3,000 and was jointly made by John S. and James A. Roseberry.
—At the October term of Court, 1883, Wm. F. Dill recovered a judgment against the makers and endorser of the note for the sum of $1545 and the costs of the suit. no part of the judgment has ever been paid, and one of the Roseberrys has since died insolvent while the other is a non-resident of this county and also insolvent.
—The pleadings allege that Enos Lackey conveyed, after the suit on the note was commenced, certain tracts of land to Job and John Lackey that should now be made subject to the payment of this claim, on the ground that the conveyances were fraudulent.
—Judge O'Neall in a lengthy review of the whole case, in which he cites numerous authorities to back up his decision, declared the deeds null and void and set the same aside.
—Touching the charge of fraud he had this to say:
"But is has been argued that we can not set these conveyances aside upon the ground of fraud without impugning the Christian character of Enos Lackey, and reflecting upon his sons, John and Job Not so. Enos Lackey was, I believe, a Christian gentleman. I never heard his integrity questioned, we are not now questioning it, nor that of his sons. The act may be adjudged covinous, although the parties deny all intention of committing a fraud. It is not necessary to impute to the parties "A premeditated or wicked intention to destroy or injure the interests of others." A man may commit a fraud without believing it to be a fraud. From the testimony before us, including the papers in the case of Dill Vs. Roseberry et al., it is evident that Enos Lackey believed that he had been relieved from all liability to plaintiff; he doubtless felt and believed that plaintiff had extended the time of payment of said note, thereby relieving him from liability. He did not feel morally bound to pay it; he believed that the plaintiff was the wrong-doer; he believed that he had a right to prefer his children, his sons. Thes defendants shared his feelings, they felt that they were doing no moral wrong in accepting the deeds.
—The following were the last words of his decision:
—I shall not say that the transfers were voluntary or fraudulent, but simply void as to the creditors of Enos Lackey. I do not attribute moral fraud, but pronounce the transactions fictitious. Looking at the probable views of the parties at the time these transfers were made, there appears to be no moral turpitude in it. I do not mean to even insinuate that there was any moral turpitude on the part of the Lackeys. I do not believe there was any. Yet I cannot believe that either law or equity can uphold these conveyances. Thse deeds are therefore held and declared to be void, and are set aside and held for naught.

Obituary:

Death of Enos Lackey.
Again we are called upon to chronicle the death of another pioneer. Enos Lackey died at his residence on Broadway last night in the eighty-second year of his age. He was born in Clearcreek township, October 21, 1802, and has lived in this county all his life. Until a few years ago he resided on a farm north of town on the Dayton pike. During the past winter his health has been gradually failing and he was confined to his room most of the time.

Newspaper:

The funeral of Enos Lackey took place Sunday afternoon at his late residence on Broadway and was largely attended by a wide circle of friends and relatives.
The remains were buried in the beautiful cemetery at Corwin alongside those of his wife.

Newspaper:

Enos Lackey to John Lackey, 5 acres in Franklin township, $2000.

Newspaper:

Enos Lackey to John Lackey, 5 acres to Franklin township, $2,000.

Newspaper:

Estate of Enos Lackey, dec'd.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and duly qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Enos Lacky, late of Warren County, Ohio, deceased. Geo. W. Carey, Administrator.

Newspaper:

Estate of Enos Lackey, decd; Geo. W.. Carey appointed administrator. Bond, $500.

Probate:

George W. Carey, Adm of the estate of Enos Lackey, deceased, filed Inventory and Appraisement of said estate

Newspaper:

The chattel property of Enos Lackey, dec'd, will be sold at his late residence on Broadway on Friday, Aug. 7, at 2 p. m.

Newspaper:

Probate Court
Estate of Enos Lackey, dec'd; inventory and appraisement filed by Geo. W. Carey, adm'r.
Public Sale of Chattel Property !
By Geo. W. Carey, Administrator of the Estate of Enos Lackey, dec'd.
—The undersigned will offer for sale at public auction on Thursday, August 7, 1884, at 2 o'clock P. M., at the late residence of the deceased, on Broadway, his entire Household Furniture, etc., consisting of beds and bedding of all kinds, table linen, etc., carpets, chairs, stoves, queensware, crockery ware, knives and forks, furniture, etc., etc.; also one gold watch and chain, spring wagon, and many other articles too numerous to mention. The property is all in good condition and will be sold to the highest bidder without reserve.
—The ladies are respectfully invited to attend this sale. The terms of the sale will be cash.
—Geo. W. Carey, Administrator,
of Enos Lackey, deceased.

Newspaper:

Probate Court
Estate of Enos Lackey, dec'd; inventory and appraisement filed by Geo. W. Carey, adm'r.

Newspaper:

House and Lot on Broadway, the late residence of Enos Lackey.
For terms apply to Job Lackey.

Newspaper:

Estate of Enos Lackey dec'd; first settlement of Geo. W. Carey adm'r, filed

Newspaper:

—Estate of Enos Lackey, dec'd; first settlement of Geo. W. Carey, adm'r approved.
—Estate of Enos Lackey, dec'd; written request of Geo. W. Sausser to be released from further liability on bond of Geo. W. Carey as admr.

Newspaper:

Estate of Enos Lackey dec'd; new bond filed by Geo. W. Carry adm'r in the sum of $500 and Geo. W. Sausser released from all further liability as surety

Newspaper:

Estates for Settlement
—Notice is hereby given that the Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Assignees and Trustees hereinafter named have filed their accounts and vouchers in the office of the Probate Judge of Warren County, Ohio, for settlement, and that the same are now on file therefor in said office, viz:
—41. Geo. W. Carey, administrator of the estate of Enos Lackey, deceased; final account.
—And notice is also hereby given that said accounts will be heard on the 4th day of September, A. D., 1899, at 9 o'clock a. m.

Newspaper:

Estates for Settlement.
Notice is Hereby Given that the Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Assignees and Trustees hereinafter named have filed their accounts and vouchers in the office of the Probate Judge of Warren County, Ohio for settlement, and that the same are now on file therefor in said office, viz:
14. P. P. Benham, guardian of Katie M. Benham, imbecile: second account.
41. Geo. W. Carey, administrator of the estate of Enos Lackey, deceased; final account.
And Notice is also hereby given that said accounts will be heard on the 4th day of September, A. D., 1899, at 9 o'clock a.m.

Enos married Matilda Irwin on 8 Feb 1823 in Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States. Matilda was born on 9 Sep 1806 in Butler County, Ohio, United States; died on 11 Dec 1881 in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 13 Dec 1881 in Corwin, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Anthea M. Fix on 16 Sep 1845 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Anthea was born in 1822 in Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Alvina Lackey

Malvina married Arthur Elliott Hormell on 9 Dec 1847 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Arthur (son of Henry Hormell, Jr. and Margaret Fry) was born on 4 Jun 1824 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 12 Apr 1921 in Crowley, Acadia, Louisiana, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Margery Kelsey, in the hosuehold of Amos Kelsey

Margery married Amos Kelsey on 13 May 1849 in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States. Amos was born about 1825 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as John Lackey, in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as John Lackey, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1870, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as John Lackey, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1880, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as John Lackey, farmer, head of household
• Newspaper: 21 Jan 1884, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  The Western Star
• Newspaper: 17 Apr 1884, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; Real Estate Transfer; Address:
  The Western Star
• Newspaper: 18 Apr 1884, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; Real Estate Transfer; Address:
  The Lebanon Daily Star

Notes:

In 1905, K. F. Shidaker received $5 for digging John's grave

Newspaper:

—Although it is considered a delicate, and sometimes dangerous thing for Courts to meddle with deeds, so far as to declare them utterly void, it nevertheless occasionally happens that a Judge is called upon to decide and declare whether instruments of this kind shall stand and operate to defeat the claims of honest creditors.
—The second case wherein the validity of a deed has been called in question in our Common Pleas Court during the past few weeks was decided by Judge O'Neall last Monday.
—The first was the Hunt case, in which Judge Doan sat, and the one now under consideration was the case of Wm F. Dill against Job and John Lackey. The trial of this case came off at the close of the last term of Court, but Judge O'Neall reserved his decision until the time named above.
—Wm. F. Dill, the plaintiff, asked to have certain deeds set aside which were made to Job and John Lackey by Enos Lackey in his lifetime, and which the plaintiff alleged were false and fraudulent.
—The interest which Mr. Dill had in this matter grew out of a promissory note which Enos Lackey endorsed and transferred to him for a valuable consideration. The note was for $3,000 and was jointly made by John S. and James A. Roseberry.
—At the October term of Court, 1883, Wm. F. Dill recovered a judgment against the makers and endorser of the note for the sum of $1545 and the costs of the suit. no part of the judgment has ever been paid, and one of the Roseberrys has since died insolvent while the other is a non-resident of this county and also insolvent.
—The pleadings allege that Enos Lackey conveyed, after the suit on the note was commenced, certain tracts of land to Job and John Lackey that should now be made subject to the payment of this claim, on the ground that the conveyances were fraudulent.
—Judge O'Neall in a lengthy review of the whole case, in which he cites numerous authorities to back up his decision, declared the deeds null and void and set the same aside.
—Touching the charge of fraud he had this to say:
"But is has been argued that we can not set these conveyances aside upon the ground of fraud without impugning the Christian character of Enos Lackey, and reflecting upon his sons, John and Job Not so. Enos Lackey was, I believe, a Christian gentleman. I never heard his integrity questioned, we are not now questioning it, nor that of his sons. The act may be adjudged covinous, although the parties deny all intention of committing a fraud. It is not necessary to impute to the parties "A premeditated or wicked intention to destroy or injure the interests of others." A man may commit a fraud without believing it to be a fraud. From the testimony before us, including the papers in the case of Dill Vs. Roseberry et al., it is evident that Enos Lackey believed that he had been relieved from all liability to plaintiff; he doubtless felt and believed that plaintiff had extended the time of payment of said note, thereby relieving him from liability. He did not feel morally bound to pay it; he believed that the plaintiff was the wrong-doer; he believed that he had a right to prefer his children, his sons. Thes defendants shared his feelings, they felt that they were doing no moral wrong in accepting the deeds.
—The following were the last words of his decision:
—I shall not say that the transfers were voluntary or fraudulent, but simply void as to the creditors of Enos Lackey. I do not attribute moral fraud, but pronounce the transactions fictitious. Looking at the probable views of the parties at the time these transfers were made, there appears to be no moral turpitude in it. I do not mean to even insinuate that there was any moral turpitude on the part of the Lackeys. I do not believe there was any. Yet I cannot believe that either law or equity can uphold these conveyances. Thse deeds are therefore held and declared to be void, and are set aside and held for naught.

Newspaper:

Enos Lackey to John Lackey, 5 acres in Franklin township, $2000.

John married Unity S. Wills on 25 Oct 1852 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Unity was born on 11 Apr 1837 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 20 Oct 1882 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 22 Oct 1882 in Corwin, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Birth: 18 Nov 1833, Warren County, Ohio, United States
• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Ira Lackey, in the household of Enos Lackey
• Military: Between 1861 and 1864; Civil War- Corporal, 35th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company A

Notes:

Ira Lackey served in the Thirty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry which was organized at Hamilton, Ohio in August and September 1861. At the age of 27 on August 15, 1861 at Camp Hamilton, Ohio he mustered in Co. A of the 3th OVI and served 3 year. He was mustered out August 26, 1864 at Chattanooga, Tennessee. His regiment lost 5 officers during service, 75 enlisted men were killed and 2 officers died of disease along with 126 enlisted men. A total of 208 men lost their lives.

Listed in the Clinton County Record of Births as "not named Lackey" born September 9, 1872, Chester Twp., male, white, to Ira Lackey and A. J. Tressler. vol. 1, pg. 60,

Ira married Amanda Jane Tresler on 10 Dec 1870. Amanda was born in in Warren County, Ohio, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Richard Lackey, in the household of Enos Lackey

Richard married Matilda Moore Kirby on 11 Jun 1853 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Matilda was born on 8 May 1832 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 30 May 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Sarah A. Lackey, in the household of Enos Lackey

Notes:

Died:
OBITUARY
Dayton Daily Journal, Thursday, Aug. 31, 1871 pg. 4 col. 3
Death of Mrs. J.S. Roseberry - The death of Sarah A. Roseberry, the esteemed and devoted wife of John S. Roseberry, who departed this life after a long and protracted illness, on Tuesday morning, the 29th inst., cast a pall of sadness and gloom over the very large circle of her friends, by whom she was esteemed and beloved. Mrs. Roseberry was born near Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio, in 1835, and was a daughter of Enos Lackey, Esq., a well known and highly respected citizen of Lebanon.

In 1855 she was married to John S. Roseberry, at the residence of Judge McClain, in Union county. They moved to this city about 12 years ago, where the family have resided ever since. About a year ago, her health became very poor, and her friends advised her to repair to the lake shore, where she remained for a considerable time, experiencing partial relief. She then went to Colorado, and remained there the greater portion of the winter, returning home somewhat improved in health. It was not long, however, before her health again became worse, and some three months ago, they removed to their beautiful farm on the Brant pike, about three miles from the corporate limits of the city, where she took up her abode, and in that beautiful home surrounded with all that cultivated taste and rational refinement could supply, she lived until her death. Her sudden call from the scenes of life, which she made daily beautiful by her visitations as a wife and mother, not less than by those social amenities and charities, which are the crowning glory of female character, is attended with the saddest circumistances of domestic bereavement. No brighter future could have animated her hopes, than that upon which she had just entered. Blest is the most beautiful and sacred of all relations, those of the wife and mother, and but upon the threshold, as it were of life, she had reason to look forward to long years of domestic happiness and social usefulness. The deceased was a most estimable Christian lady, and leaves two little daughters and a husband to mourn her loss. She passeth into eternity, casting bereavement in the household and sorrow throughout the community.

Sarah married John S. Roseberry on 6 Sep 1855. John was born in 1830 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 17 Mar 1884 in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Mar 1884 in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Hannah Lackey, in the household of Enos Lackey

Hannah married Martin Joseph Lawrence on 24 Dec 1859. Martin was born in in Warren County, Ohio, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Carrie Lackey
• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Caroline Lackey, in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Carrie Sellers, in the household of William W. Sellers
• Census: 1870, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States

Caroline married William Wesley Sellers on 28 Oct 1857 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. William (son of William Runkle Sellers and Elizabeth Aughe) was born in 1829 in Ohio, United States; died in 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Catherine Hamilton
• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Catherine Lackey, in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Catherine Lackey in the household of Enos Lackey
• Newspaper: 22 Dec 1881, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; Attended funeral; Address:
  The Western Star
• Newspaper: 18 Oct 1883, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; Visiting Father; Address:
  The Western Star
• Newspaper: 3 Jan 1884, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; Visted her father who was stricken with paralysis; Address:
  The Western Star

Notes:

Newspaper:

Capt. H. H. Hamilton and wife, of the city of Chattanooga, attended the funeral of their mother, Mrs. Enos Lackey, last week.

Newspaper:

Mrs. Capt. H. H. Hamilton and son, Milo, of Chattanooga, Tenn., after a pleasant visit to Mr. Enos Lackey, father of the former, left Lebanon on Monday for Cincinnati where Milo will remain while his mother goes on to Indianapolis to visit relatives. They will return to their home in the South in a few weeks.

Catherine married Henry H. Hamilton after 1860. Henry was born in 1836; died on 12 Nov 1885; was buried in Nov 1885 in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Jennie Lackey
• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Martha J. Lackey, in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Jennie Lackey in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1870, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Jane Lackey, in the household of Enos Lackey

Family/Spouse: Thomas White. Thomas was born about 1838 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Enos Ellsworth Lackey
• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Elsworth Lackey, in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Ellsworth Lackey in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1870, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Ellsworth Lackey, farm laborer, head of household
• Census: 1880, Spring Valley, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Enos Lackey, sawyer, head of household
• Occupation: 1880; owned a saw mill
• Newspaper: 11 May 1882; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 11 May 1882, p5
• Newspaper: 3 Sep 1891; The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 3 September 1891, p1
• Census: 1900, New Burlington, Clinton County, Ohio, United States; as Ellsworth Lackey, head of household
• Obituary: 15 Jan 1903; Newspaper Article, 15 January 1903, p5

Notes:

His name in some records is listed as Ellsworth E. Lackey and in other records as Enos Ellsworth Lackey. He went by Ellsworth.

Birth:
near Pekin

Newspaper:

~page 5
The Courts,
May Term
New Suits.
6479. J. B. Owens vs. Ellsworth Lackey. Note. Amount claimed $120.55 with interest from Oct. 20 1871.

Newspaper:

~page 1
The attention of our wide-awake, ambitious young men and young women who are seeking the best means of "getting ahead" in the world is invited to the annoucement of the old reliable Miami Commercial College, Dayton, Ohio, of which Mr. A. D. Wils has been principal for the last twenty-five years. Among our own citizens who have taken Mr. Wilt's course are Messrs. Frank B. Lewis, Wm. Lewis, Ellsworth Lackey, A. S. Mountford and W. B. Forman.

Obituary:

Grew To Manhood In Warren County.
The death of Mr. Ellsworth Lackey of New Burlington, occurred a the home of his son in Xenia on Friday of last week. He had been in failing health for some months from anaemia and after making a trip to Xenia on Tuesday of last week pneumonia developed and death resulted speedily. Mr. Lackey was born near Pekin in this county, September 30, 1844, where he grew to manhood. He was married September 26, 1867, to Miss Laura Sellers of the same vicinity. A portion of their married life was spent in Wayne township near Corwin but for twenty-five years he had been engaged in the lumber business at New Burlington where he owned a saw mill. He was a member of the M. E. church there and a substantial, progressive citizen. Three sons were born to this union all of whom are married. Mrs. Lackey also survives her husband. The deceased was well known to many Warren county people.
Burial Monday from the M. E. church at New Burlington.

Died:

OBITUARY
Grew To Manhood In Warren County.
—The death of Mr. Ellsworth Lackey of New Burlington, occurred a the home of his son in Xenia on Friday of last week. He had been in failing health for some months from anaemia and after making a trip to Xenia on Tuesday of last week pneumonia developed and death resulted speedily. Mr. Lackey was born near Pekin in this county, September 30, 1844, where he grew to manhood. He was married September 26, 1867, to Miss Laura Sellers of the same vicinity. A portion of their married life was spent in Wayne township near Corwin but for twenty-five years he had been engaged in the lumber business at New Burlington where he owned a saw mill. He was a member of the M. E. church there and a substantial, progressive citizen. Three sons were born to this union all of whom are married. Mrs. Lackey also survives her husband. The deceased was well known to many Warren county people.
—Burial Monday from the M. E. church at New Burlington.
(The Western Star 15 January 1903, page 5)

Ellsworth married Laura Emma Sellers on 26 Sep 1867 in Springboro, Warren County, Ohio, United States. Laura (daughter of Ferdinand Sellers and Rebecca Hormell) was born on 20 Mar 1848 in Merrittstown, Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 29 Oct 1924 in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 1 Nov 1924 in New Burlington, Clinton County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Owned a saloon at 1841 S. Wayne Ave.
• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Job Lackey, in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Job Lackey in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1870, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Job Lackey, farm laborer, in the household of Enos Lackey
• Newspaper: 21 Jan 1884, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; Set Aside and Held for Naught; Address:
  The Western Star

Notes:

Newspaper:

—Although it is considered a delicate, and sometimes dangerous thing for Courts to meddle with deeds, so far as to declare them utterly void, it nevertheless occasionally happens that a Judge is called upon to decide and declare whether instruments of this kind shall stand and operate to defeat the claims of honest creditors.
—The second case wherein the validity of a deed has been called in question in our Common Pleas Court during the past few weeks was decided by Judge O'Neall last Monday.
—The first was the Hunt case, in which Judge Doan sat, and the one now under consideration was the case of Wm F. Dill against Job and John Lackey. The trial of this case came off at the close of the last term of Court, but Judge O'Neall reserved his decision until the time named above.
—Wm. F. Dill, the plaintiff, asked to have certain deeds set aside which were made to Job and John Lackey by Enos Lackey in his lifetime, and which the plaintiff alleged were false and fraudulent.
—The interest which Mr. Dill had in this matter grew out of a promissory note which Enos Lackey endorsed and transferred to him for a valuable consideration. The note was for $3,000 and was jointly made by John S. and James A. Roseberry.
—At the October term of Court, 1883, Wm. F. Dill recovered a judgment against the makers and endorser of the note for the sum of $1545 and the costs of the suit. no part of the judgment has ever been paid, and one of the Roseberrys has since died insolvent while the other is a non-resident of this county and also insolvent.
—The pleadings allege that Enos Lackey conveyed, after the suit on the note was commenced, certain tracts of land to Job and John Lackey that should now be made subject to the payment of this claim, on the ground that the conveyances were fraudulent.
—Judge O'Neall in a lengthy review of the whole case, in which he cites numerous authorities to back up his decision, declared the deeds null and void and set the same aside.
—Touching the charge of fraud he had this to say:
"But is has been argued that we can not set these conveyances aside upon the ground of fraud without impugning the Christian character of Enos Lackey, and reflecting upon his sons, John and Job Not so. Enos Lackey was, I believe, a Christian gentleman. I never heard his integrity questioned, we are not now questioning it, nor that of his sons. The act may be adjudged covinous, although the parties deny all intention of committing a fraud. It is not necessary to impute to the parties "A premeditated or wicked intention to destroy or injure the interests of others." A man may commit a fraud without believing it to be a fraud. From the testimony before us, including the papers in the case of Dill Vs. Roseberry et al., it is evident that Enos Lackey believed that he had been relieved from all liability to plaintiff; he doubtless felt and believed that plaintiff had extended the time of payment of said note, thereby relieving him from liability. He did not feel morally bound to pay it; he believed that the plaintiff was the wrong-doer; he believed that he had a right to prefer his children, his sons. Thes defendants shared his feelings, they felt that they were doing no moral wrong in accepting the deeds.
—The following were the last words of his decision:
—I shall not say that the transfers were voluntary or fraudulent, but simply void as to the creditors of Enos Lackey. I do not attribute moral fraud, but pronounce the transactions fictitious. Looking at the probable views of the parties at the time these transfers were made, there appears to be no moral turpitude in it. I do not mean to even insinuate that there was any moral turpitude on the part of the Lackeys. I do not believe there was any. Yet I cannot believe that either law or equity can uphold these conveyances. Thse deeds are therefore held and declared to be void, and are set aside and held for naught.

Job married Mary E. Harley on 16 Apr 1874 in Clark County, Ohio, United States. Mary was born in 1851 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Angie Lackey
• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Angeline Lackey in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1870, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Angeline Lackey, in the household of Enos Lackey

Angeline married William Frank Hutchinson on 27 Dec 1866 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. William was born about 1846 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as William Lackey, in the household of John Lackey
• Census: 1870, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as William E.. Lackey, works on farm, in the household of John Lackey

Notes:

William E. Lackey was born in Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, October 19, 1853, the first born of the children of John Lackey and Unity Wells (or Wills). As such he did not have the luxury of going to school, a lack he regretted his whole life. Though he could not write, he had a mind for figures. He married a woman who loved to read and entertain and they made sure that their children went to school and learned to read.

He met Ada Earnhart in Lebanon. They were married January 31, 1884 at the Lebanon Courthouse by Joseph W. O'Neall, Probate Judge and F. M. Cunningham, Deputy Clerk. License No. 991. The minister of the gospel T. A. Brandon performed the sacred service of marriage. They soon had three girls Florence 1885. died 1896, Carrie in 1887, Mabel 1889 and Ethel 1891. William decided to move his flock to new county outside Warren Co and Pekin. He contracted to buy 131.34 acres in Butler County, Section 28, some river bottom, some high ground on May 13, 1893 from John E. Peat. A log house was on the property for the time being. In 1903 he hired local West Middletown builder George Dome to build the brick house, stone basement clapboard walls for $2500. He specialized in raising potatoes, which he peddled to Middletown. He also raised 3 to 5 cows and processed the butter - Mabel's project. The piano purchased when house was built was for Ethel.

Two big events in 1906 were the selling of 5.57 acres and 10.31 acres to Cincinnati Northern Traction Co.; and the wedding of daughter Carrie Maria Lackey to David Weikel, at the bride's home on December 26,1906. The Lackey Home was on the knoll beyond the turn of the River Road and beyond the bridge over the creek beside the Frisch's brick factory. David's parents, Daniel and Mary (Fall) Weikel lived 2 miles north and on the same east side of the River Road (later Trenton-Franklin Rd). On October 3, 1912 his youngest daughter, Ethel Hazel Lackey, was married in this same parlor. This groom was George Wilbur Smith, a young second-generation German engineer with Armco, from Middletown.

As West Middletown grew William Lackey sold .32 acre to the Ohio Electric Traction Co, Dec 17, 1910 and 1.33 acre to Cincinatti Hamilton & Dayton Railway Co, Feb 19, 1917. To this Lackey knoll David Weikel sent his wife and 4 children as the Miami River began to rise and overflow in April of 1913. David almost lost the family silver which he returned in a boat to get.

The flood of 1913 intervened and caused the formation of the Miami Conservancy. To it Daniel Weikel gave 13 acres on April 2,1918 and neighbor H. J. Roeselott 23.66 acres on April 3,1918 with the understanding they could rent it to farm it yearly. In 1927 Cincinatti & Dayton Traction Co. and the Cincinatti Hamilton & Dayton Ry Co. each gave 2 acres to it. Many years later, after son Ralph had inherited it from his mother Ada Mae Lackey, he would sell the remaining 26.92 acres of flood zone land to the Miami Conservancy District in Oct 13,1958.

William Lackey lived to see electricity and telephone service come to West Middletown though they didn't avail themselves of the service during his lifetime. He died Wednesday evening March 7,1928 at his residence at the age of 73, leaving wife - Ada M. Earnhart Lackey, 3 daughters - Mrs. David Weikel of West Middletown, Mrs. George Smith of Middletown, Mabel at home and son Ralph at home.

His body was shown in the family parlor, as reported by grandson Elmer Weikel - Carrie's second son and Edna Moore - Ethel's third daughter. The funeral was at 1:30 Saturday from residence. Rev Stiles officiating. Interment in charge of Undertaker McCoy at Corwin cemetery near Waynesville. [Source: Information from - Richard Foley, email dated May 31, 2001]

William married Ada May Earnhart on 31 Jan 1884 in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States. Ada was born on 6 May 1865 in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 27 Jan 1954 in West Middletown, Butler County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 30 Jan 1954 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Laura Lackey, in the household of John Lackey
• Census: 1870, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Laura Lackey, in the household of John Lackey

Other Events:

• Name: Lincoln Lackey
• Census: 1870, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Lincoln Lackey, in the household of John Lackey

Abraham married Hannah Jane Graham on 21 Jul 1878 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Hannah was born on 19 Feb 1861 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 24 Dec 1928 in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Dec 1928 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Hod Lackey
• Census: 1870, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Horace Lackey, in the household of John Lackey
• Census: 1880, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Horace Lackey, in the household of John Lackey

Horace married Adella S. Ivins on 11 Oct 1885 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Adella was born on 22 Sep 1866 in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; died on 20 Jan 1937 in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Jan 1937 in Corwin, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1870, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Ada Lackey, in the household of John Lackey
• Census: 1880, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Addie Lackey, daughter, in the household of John Lackey

Addie married Thomas James Davis on 24 Jul 1884 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Thomas was born on 4 Jul 1864 in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; died on 12 Jan 1947 in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Jan 1947 in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1870, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Harter Lackey, in the household of John Lackey
• Census: 1880, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as James H. Lackey, son, in the household of John Lackey

Family/Spouse: Alice Bussey. Alice was born on 13 Jan 1876 in Carthage, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States; died on 23 Nov 1919 in Miami Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 25 Nov 1919 in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Emma Stansberry on 4 Mar 1887 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Emma was born on 28 Jul 1869; died on 23 Jul 1917 in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Jul 1917 in Corwin, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Della Crawford about 1889. Della was born on 10 Dec 1860 in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; died on 16 Apr 1933 in Ross Township, Greene County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 19 Apr 1933 in Jamestown, Greene County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1870, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Harry Lackey, in the household of John Lackey
• Census: 1880, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Harry Lackey, son, in the household of John Lackey

Harry married Gertrude Burdsall on 18 Dec 1895 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Gertrude was born about 1878; died on 30 Dec 1955; was buried on 3 Jan 1956 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Cosey Lackey
• Census: 1880, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Cosy Lackey, daughter, in the household of John Lackey

Cosima married Philip Weber on 8 Jan 1888. Philip was born on 14 May 1866 in Franklin Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 19 Apr 1920 in Middletown, Butler County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 22 Apr 1920 in Franklin, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1880, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Essie Pearl Lackey, daughter, in the household of John Lackey

Essie married Edwin James Himes on 30 Nov 1893 in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. Edwin was born on 19 Aug 1866 in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; died on 17 Feb 1917 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 19 Feb 1917 in Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1880, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Bertha Lackey, daughter, in the household of John Lackey

Other Events:

• Census: 1880, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Job Lackey, son, in the household of John Lackey

Family/Spouse: Marie Whitaker. Marie and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Listed in the Clinton County Record of Births as "not named Lackey" born September 9, 1872, Chester Twp., male, white, to Ira Lackey and A. J. Tressler. vol. 1, pg. 60

Family/Spouse: Chester A. Kennedy. Chester was born on 20 Oct 1882 in Ohio, United States; died on 24 Apr 1916 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 26 Apr 1916 in Corinth, Kentucky, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Laura Sellers, in the household of William W. Sellers

Other Events:

• Census: 1870, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Walter Lackey, in the household of Ellsworth Lackey
• Census: 1880, Spring Valley, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Walter Lackey, son, in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1900, New Burlington, Chester Township, Clinton County, Ohio, United States; as Walter Lackley, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1910, Chester Township, Clinton County, Ohio, United States; as Walter V. Lackey, farmer, head of household
• Appointed: 19 Mar 1919; administrator of the estate of Ada Clark Lackey
• Census: 1920, Chester Township, Clinton County, Ohio, United States; as Walter V. Lackey, thrasher, head of household
• Will: 2 May 1925, Clinton County, Ohio, United States
• Census: 1930, Chester Township, Clinton County, Ohio, United States; as W. V. Lackey, farmer, head of household; Address:
  Lumberton Road
• Residence: 1935, New Burlington, Greene County, Ohio, United States
• Census: 1940, New Burlington, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Walter V. Lackey, head of household, same residence in 1935
• Probate: 7 Jan 1944, Greene County, Ohio, United States

Notes:

Dean Stanley once said, "Give me a man young or old, high or low, on whom we can thoroughly depend; the one who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true; the adviser honest and fearless; the adversary just and chivalrous; in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages." Such was the character of Walter W. Lackey, whose passing with the old year, leaves an aching void in the life of this community, -- in every phase of which his influence has been felt.

The eldest of three sons of Elsworth and Laura Sellers Lackey he was born near Lebanon, Ohio, January 23, 1869; however, the greatest part of his life was spent in this vicinity. By precept and example the Lackey parents instilled in the hearts of their sons noble ambitions, which were cultivated and made them men of outstanding worth wherever their lot was cast.

June 18, 1891 Walter was united in marriage with Luella McKay, which union was a most congenial one. Their was a complete unity of spirit, whether in the home, the social circle, the church, or various forms of entertainment which both enjoyed. Besides Mrs. Lackey, Walter is survived by his youngest brother, Dr. B. L. Lackey of Xenia; the other brother, Raymond died in 1907.

Physically, Walter was large of stature and vigorous, -- a person to attract favorable notice; in a spiritual sense also he was one to command respect and confidence. Many a doubting soul has been helped by his advice and many a heavy load lightened through his instrumentality.

For many years he has carried a large share of the responsibility of the Methodist Church of which he had been a member since boyhood. his pastors found in him a ready and reliable helper. Hundreds of miles in all kinds of weather he has driven his automobile that others might find enjoyment, and the work of the Kingdom be advanced. his life reminded one of the Apostle's words to his friend Gaius?, "Beloved you are acting faithfully in all your behavior towards the brethren."

Walter was very fond of music especially the old hymns. While a member of the choir his rich bass voice added much to the harmony. During the last rational hours of his life he joined with friends in singing some of the hymns he had loved so well.

But his activities were not confined to the church alone. To whatever enterprise appeared which made for the betterment of the community in general, Walter lent his support, in activity as well as with his means. He was particularly interested in the local telephone company and largely through his efforts it has been kept up to its present standard.

For many years the deceased was a farmer. The condition of his farm and its equipment testified as to the care and wisdom of the owner.

As a neighbor, Walter left nothing to be desired. Whatever he had was not too good to loan and whatever service he could render was freely given. We believe that Walter Lackey really enjoyed "Being a helper."

The last months of his life were fraught with great suffering and he longed for the great change to come. he felt that his race was run and that the reward was in view. With his beloved wife, a host of friends and relatives mourn the passing of this good man, -- but the memories he has left, rest upon us as a benediction.

Fast as the rolling seasons bring the hour of fate to those we love, each pearl that leaves the broken string is set in friendship's crown above.

As narrower grows the earthly chain, the circle widens in the sky; These are our treasures that remain, but those are stars that beam on high. [Source: Taken from a paper found with other family documents, belonging to Harry and Helen (Lackey) Hormell. It is not known whether it was written as a eulogy or an obituary, nor do I know who it was written by. My assumption is that it was written by Burt L. Lackey, surviving brother.]

MEMORIES.... .by Helen Lackey Hormell
Uncle Walter was lots of fun and I really enjoyed visiting with him. He was easy going and laughed a lot unlike his brother, my father Burt; who had a short temper and became irate real easy.

Walter married Louella Mckay on 18 Jun 1891 in Clinton County, Ohio, United States. Louella was born on 28 Jul 1867 in Chester Township, Clinton County, Ohio, United States; died in Dec 1956 in Fairborn, Greene County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Dec 1956 in Corwin, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Grocer
• Census: 1880, Spring Valley, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Raymond Lackey, son, in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1900, New Burlington, Clinton County, Ohio, United States; as Raymond Lackey, head of household

Raymond married Nellie Chittenden Colvin on 23 Jun 1898 in Greene County, Ohio, United States. Nellie (daughter of John Henry Colvin and Arabelle F. Smith) was born on 7 Jun 1868 in New Burlington, Chester Township, Clinton County, Ohio, United States; died on 15 Jul 1931 in Spring Valley, Greene County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 17 Jul 1931 in New Burlington, Chester Township, Clinton County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Religion: Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; a member of First Reformed Church
• Census: 1880, Spring Valley, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Bertie Lackey, son, in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1900, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Burt L. Lackey, Dentist; Address:
  West Main Street
• Occupation: 1902, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; Dentist; Address:
  22 Steele Building
• Residence: 1902, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Census: 1910, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Bert L. Lackey, dentist, head of household; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Newspaper: 8 Jun 1912; The Gallipolis Daily Tribune (Gallipolis, Ohio) 8 June 1912, p1
• Residence: 1915, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as a Dentist; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Census: 1920, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Burt Lackey, dentist, head of household; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Residence: 1922, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Census: 1930, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Burt L. Lackey, dentist, head of household; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Correspondence: 1 Feb 1934; letter to his daughter Helen
• Residence: 1935, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Correspondence: 12 Jul 1937; letter to Harry and Helen Hormell
• Correspondence: 30 Dec 1937; letter to daughter Helen Hormell
• Census: 1940, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Burt L. Lackey, dentist, head of household, same residence in 1935; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Correspondence: 20 Apr 1944; letter to Harry and Helen Hormell
• Correspondence: 14 Jul 1944; letter to Harry and Helen Hormell
• Correspondence: 27 Aug 1951; letter to daughter Helen
• Will: 26 Sep 1956, Greene County, Ohio, United States
• Obituary: 17 Oct 1960; Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio) 17 October 1960, p11
• Obituary: 17 Oct 1960; Xenia Daily Gazette (Xenia, Ohio) 17 October 1960, p2
• Probate: 27 Oct 1960, Greene County, Ohio, United States
• Newspaper: 13 Jun 1970; Xenia Daily Gazette (Xenia, Ohio), 13 JUne 1970, p4

Notes:

Burt L. Lackey, D. D. S.
.....Dr. Burt L. Lackey, dental surgeon at Xenia, was born in the vicinity of Oakland, in Clinton county, this state, June 15, 1872, son of Enos Ellsworth and Laura (Sellars) Lackey, both of whom were born and reared in the neighboring county of Warren and the latter of whom is still living, now making her home at Xenia.
.....Enos Ellsworth Lackey was born on September 30, 1844, a son of Enos Lackey and wife, pioneers of Warren county, the former of whom was born in 1802 and who were the parents of fourteen children. Reared in Warren county, Enos E. Lackey later made his home for a while in Clinton county and in 1873 moved to the village of New Burlington, on the Green-Clinton county line and was there engaged in the general lumber business the rest of his life, operating a saw-mill and dealing in lumber, timber and logs and also engaged as a building contractor, his death occurring there on January 9, 1903. Mr. Lackey was a Republican and for years rendered service as a member of the local school board. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is his widow, and at the time of his death was a member of the official board of the same. To him and his wife were born three sons, of whom Doctor Lackey is the youngest, the others being Walter Lackey, of New Burlington, a farmer, and Raymond L. Lackey, who was engaged in the grocery business at New Burlington and who died on September 1, 1907.
.....Upon completing the course in the New Burlington high school Burt L. Lackey began teaching school and for three years thereafter was the teacher of the school in the Buck Run district in Clinton county. He matriculated at the Ohio College of Dentistry and was graduated from that institution with the class of 1896. Thus equipped for the practice of his profession, Doctor Lackey returned to his home at New Burlington and opened an office there, continuing in practice at that place for eighteen months, at the end of which time, in January, 1898, he located at Xenia, where he ever since has been engaged in practice, with present offices in the Steele building. Preparatory to his marriage in 1902, Doctor Lackey built a house at 20 Home avenue, Xenia, where he is still living.
.....Doctor Lackey has been twice married. On September 10, 1902, he was united in marriage to Ada Frances Clark, who was born and reared in Gallia county, this state, and who for nine years prior to her marriage had been engaged as a special teacher at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia. To that union were born three children, Clark, born on December 10, 1903; Dorothy, May 9, 1907, and Helen, January 1, 1911. The mother of these children died on March 27, 1914, and on June 30, 1915, Doctor Lackey married Jessella Beebe, who was born at Kingman, Kansas, and who was reared at Elwood Indiana, in which latter city her father, John W. Beebe, is still living. [Source: Michael A. Broadstone, "History of Greene County, Ohio: its people, industries and institutions", Indianapolis, B.F. Bowen, 1918, pg. 654, 6550]




Newspaper:

—Dr. B. L. Lackey and wife of Xenia, Prof. R. B Ewing and wife of Carlisle, O., were here in attendance upon the funeral services of the late Mr. Amos Clark and will remain the guests of Auditor and Mrs. Clark until Monday Mrs. Amos Clark is also the guest of Auditor and Mrs. Clark and will be for sometime. Mr. Will Marshall of Columbus, who was down to the funeral, returned home today.

Census:

Also listed in the 1920 census with this family is Clyde Fair, roomer, age 17, single

Correspondence:
Xenia, O. 2/1/34
My dear Girl,
—Greetings in His name. You surely did take our breath away with your sudden announcement.
—It is nothing more than we could expect. It is the natural consequence when two people learn to love each other you are both old enough to decide and to feel the responsibility you are taking upon Yourselves. It is proper that you should at your age. God gave woman to man to be a helpmate. You will find that in Gen. 2: 18. I am sure that you realize how important it is to establish a home according to the teaching of god’s Word. You will find many passages in the Word showing the proper relationship between husband and wife and of responsibility of each to the other. I trust that Mother & I have been faithful in giving you the proper instructions along these lines. It has been hard on us to se eyou growing older and getting away from the old roof here. I felt a great responsibility on me when you (a Mere babe) was left without a mother. I shed many tears over you. I have always been glad though that you could have such a good step mother to love your and help guide your foot steps. The tears flow agin and I think of giving you into the hands of another, not that we mis-trust Harry in any way, for he is already like a son to us. You have been a dutiful daughter and I know that you will be a dutiful wife. I certainly can congratulate Harry in winning your love. Do not think that your pathway through life will be all roses, but remember that God will guide you over the stoney and thorny pathway if He permits it to be such. This life here is only of short duration, and the hard and trying ordeals here endured by His grace, will help us to enjoy the glory over there.
—We will try to make things work out for your wedding in the way you wish them. We can not go to great expense but we know that you do not wish that. It can be made nice and a happy occasion without excessive expenses. We can talk over the various arrangements when we see yu.
—I think that I will write to Clark & Leota today and possibly send your letter so they can be making their arrangements to attend if it is possible for them to do so. He operation might be in the way.
—I hardly know just what you mean by getting out two bonds. I may have to wait till I see you. They are of different denominations, fifty and one hundred.
—We haven’t told Bobby. Mother thinks it might be hard for him trying to keep it secret. She did not mean that she thought he would tell it, but that it might be a burden for him to keep it so long. We will be looking for your Sat. P.M.
—God bless you and keep you centered in His will. We pray for you each day and are anxious that you trust and obey Him. That is the only way to be happy and contented.
Loads & loads of love
Day


Correspondence:

Xenia, O. July 12/37
My Dear Harry & Helen,
Greetings in His name. We certainly did enjoy your letter rec’d last Thursday. You certainly did get around & see your relatives on that trip into Maine. I wish I could have been with you I would have enjoyed so much meeting all those cousins I have read your letter over several times until I have all the cousins fixed in my mind pretty well now, as well as where they live. I knew that you would enjoy going up there and meeting them. I had heard so much about them from Grandpa & Grandma Clark but of course that was 30 years ago or more. The thing that puzzles me in that the old home at Winterport should burn down 30 or 40 years ago and not hear about it. The letter written to Clark Feb. 20 1927 by Ed Clark states that his brother Fred lived on the old home farm at that time. What has become of Fred and his brother Brad. I believe Clark said that Ed Clark died some few years ago. They were the sons of Uncle Augustus Clark. We have a picture taken years ago at the home place when grandpa & Grandma Clark were visiting there. It has the three brothers in it and the families of Uncle Steve & Augustus in it. I have intended to hunt tha picture and look at it again since getting your letter but haven’t got around to it. Bobby & I did take the atlas, find the map of maine and look up all the places you visited. I would like to see a road map of Maine. It would be easier to find them & be easier to understand the relative positions on that kind of map. I see by the atlas that Winterport only had about 1000 inhabitants and Auburn about 2000. It must have been quite thrilling to drive right up to Ward’s house and enquire for them. They are such good friends of Clark & Leota and I know that they were glad to meet you and have a visit with you. I never met Mrs. Ward either, but I spend a whole day with Mr. Ward the first time I visited Clark & Leota at Mt. Airy. He, Clark, Leota & I went down to Blowing Rock one day sight seeing. I found him to be quite a fine gentleman but rather quiet. We will be glad to see the pictures yu took when you get them developed. Coz. Addie must be quite an interesting person. I know you must have had quite a nice visit with her, her son & family. I have been wondering why she did not mention her brother Maurice living at Winterport. It must be a quaint old place judging from the picture you sent. I presume it looked odd to you to see the houses & barns built so close and connected by a shed. Their winters are very long and severe & they have lots of snow. In speaking of the old home place, you remember the water color picture of it that hung in Grandpa Clarke’s home & Aunt Maimie got for one of your children after Grandma’s death. It is over at Dorothy & Claudes. Your mother had it painted here by Mrs. Collins & gave it to Grandpa for Xmas 1901. It was the Xmas before we were married. I went home with her for Xmas & I carried that picture with us. I always thought it was such a pretty picture. We have a picture of Coz. Addies daughter Sara taken when she graduated from High school. I saw it among the pictures just a short time ago. She was a very pretty girl. I am wondering if you have written to Clark & Leota since you were up in Maine. I think that I will send your letter to them for they will be interested in your trip. We haven’t heard from them for two or three weeks. Leota wasn’t well at that time and they were trying to find out the cause of her ailment. Mary E. has finally gotten back home. She was gone four weeks. They came over just before supper time last evening. I wish that you could see the baby. He walks everyplace now. He is such a tiny little fellow to walk. Prudomes have fences in a portion of the back yard for Philip and a white rabbit. Philip was a year old last March, but he hasn’t been walking very long. Mary E. took the baby over there & put him in the pen with Philip & the rabbit they had quite a fine time chasing the rabbit. I wish you could see the kitchen & bath room since Mother & Bobby have painted in there. They have gotten to be real artists. I believe they are going to put one more coat on the upper part of the kitchen. I looks very nice now but another coat will make it look still better. The paint underneath the paper was so very dark. I think it would have looked “OK” if they had painted over the paper.
Mother says that she is going to work at a tailoring job this week. She is goin to alter the white suit & see if she can make it fit me. She thinks that she can do it “OK”. It surely is a nice suit such nice goods. I surely am grateful to you dear ones for it and will be so glad to wear it this hot weather when it is made to fit me.
—I presume that Dorothy has written you about their “smash up” two weeks ago. They got their car last Thursday. It would be hard to tell it had been torn up so badly. I could no tell it. Dorothy & Mary E. saw a wreck last Friday evening, at the junction of 40 & 48, from Jim & Hazel’s window. It made them so nervous again. Dorothy thought at first it might be Claude coming home from sales meeting. Well, I must close here . God bless & keep you both.
Lovingly Dad
P.S. I will send Coz. Addies letter back.
It is strange that you had not seen all the pictures we sent to you. It must have been the ones taken in NC. the last time we were there. The ones of Bobby & Nora F. was taken when they were here Xmas.

Correspondence:

Xenia, O Dec 30/37
My dear Helen,
—I do not know what made me so forgetful. I wrote to you this morning and forgot about your birthday. We have been speaking about it lately. I said a day or two ago that New Years day doesn't seem right when you are not home to celebrate your birthday with us.
—Well, my dear, it is hard to believe that you will be 27 years old. It does not seem so long since that New Years morning that you arrived in our home. Your Mother & I were so glad you came to us and we have never been disappointed for you have always brought us such joy. I will never forget your third birthday. Your mother and I left for Pittsburgh a few minutes before the New Year and your birthday came in. We hated to be away on your birthday but arrangements had been made for us to go at that time so we left. We left a gray sweater to be given to you. How we did miss you dear children while we were away and how anxious we were to get back to you at the end of the month. Just a few short weeks and Mother left us and I can say that you dear children have meant so much to me since that time. You were the baby and she hated to have to leave you right in your tender years. She must be anxiously waiting for us on the other side and we must keep these facts in our minds as we go through this life. My best goes out in peace and gratitude to our blessed Lord Jesus for His sacrifices, which makes it possible to meet these dear once again.
—Pray that we will all be ready when the summons comes. It may be soon.
God bless you, my dear one,
Love in abundance,
Affectionately
Dad


Correspondence:

Thursday A.M. 4/20/44
My Dear Harry & Helen,
—Greetings in His name. We were indeed very glad to get your letter day before yesterday telling us about Helen's condition. Also yesterday morning a letter came from Dorothy telling us of the nature of the operation as contained in a letter to them. We are so glad for the information, especially since the information is encouraging. I suppose that you are thinking about this being the 20th and about the happy event eleven months ago today. This little one sure is a prize possession. She is such a healthy, happy little one and is so affectionate. We are enjoying her and Jon so much. Jon was so happy & busy when I left, carrying his cases out in front and placing them by the maple tree to be gathered up today. H, Bob and I went down to U. B. after school yesterday to do some cleaning up for Aunt Lou. She ask us Sunday if Bob couldn't come down some time and clean the garden off so she could have it plowed and sowed in grass. Jon & I went with him and mowed the lawn, Jon helped some as best he could. He was such a nice boy. Bob found some little baby rabbits in the leaves. He was so interested in them. He is to go to Dayton tomorrow afternoon and Dorothy is to meet him and take him out to spend Sat. with the boys and they will all come over Sunday.
—Last week Aunt Lou had an attack with her heart and she is having to be very quiet. She says that she can do is to get something for her to eat. She is all alone. Minnie has not returned. I do not think that she expects her to stay with her when she does return. Bernie & Emma McKay are very good to her Emma has been looking after the furnace.
— I fired it & Bob carried out the ashes before we left. She says that she is so cold. I suppose her circulation is very poor. She said that she thought she would come to Xenia today for she had heard from Carl Marshall that things are ready for her to sign papers etc.
—Mother & I went to the funeral of Max Barnard yesterday. afternoon at Neeld's Parlor. He died very suddenly Sat. evening. I had an appointment to fill his teeth at 1:30 P.M. Monday, I wondered why he didn't come and didn't know why till I picked up the Gazette at home and saw the notice of his death. He was in the office Thursday P.M. and made the appointment. He was engaged to Martha Beam. It seemed that most of the Beam family were at the funeral. It was a very large funeral. He was a member of Flenners Church in Dayton and he preached the funeral sermon.
— Bob says that he expects to have to go to Cincinnati by the 19th of May for a physical examination. He & Clarence Schardt went to Dayton day before yesterday to see if they could enlist in the Navy but they found that they couldn't and would have to come under the draft. He thinks that he will not have very much time after commencement before he will have to go.
— Jno Pramer is down at Camp Breckenridge in Kentucky now. I imagine that they have given up trying to get him ready to go out into combat service again. Bill Earnest is in England and is so home sick. Fred Harrison & Ralph Lucas, Jr. are in Calif. ready to be shipped out. Bill Harrison is in camp in Virginia. He may go soon. His wife was down to see him over the week end. I did not get this finished this A. M. It is now almost 5 o'clock & I will finish it & get it in the mail as I go home. Mother had both of the children down for their nap when I left at noon. They are both good sleepers. Jon slept all the time we were gone to the funeral yesterday p.m. and we had to wake him to get him ready to go with Bob & me. I do hope that you are continuing to improve. God bless you both. Much love.
Dad

Correspondence:

Friday eve July 14/44
My dear Harry & Helen,
—Your good letter arrived yesterday A.M. I thought I would get a letter off to you yesterday P.M. but did not get to it. Mother said that I would have to do the writing if you get a letter for she is sewing on your dress every chance she has. She said it as she promised Jon she would bake a cake & send him for his birthday & she just thought since supper that his birthday is next Monday, so she mixed up a cake & got it in the oven before she washed the dishes. She says that she does not know how good it will be but it will be a cake. She just said that you left a bottle of milk. She said that she will send the bottle when she sends the dress. Leota & children went out to her folks yesterday A.M. Howard came for them. Viva told me a few minutes ago that they are to be out there Sunday & if any mail comes for her that they will take it out. They were down there to supper Tuesday evening. Ruby was there too. We took Nora F. to Dayton Tuesday A.M. & got the tooth out. I got them their teeth filled & cleaned on Monday. They are to come in the first of the week. I have the dentures about done. I will fit them in & she says that they will go over to C & D's for 2 days & by that time I can tell if they need some trimming or grinding.
—John Pramer & Florence Haines are to be married tomorrow. He is home on a furlough till the 22d. Mrs. P. was in the office this afternoon. She doesn't like it so well. We have had 3 letters from Bob since Sunday. One went to Mt. Airy & back. He has been to church the last two Sundays. He says the services there at the rifle range are fine. He says "the chaplain is swell & he preaches the things you folks have taught me for 18 years." He said that the service last Sunday was a communion service. He says that he was shocked when he read about LeRoy Scherry's death in the Gazette. He said that he wanted us to include him when we expressed our sympathy to Mr & Mrs Scherry. He said he could not forget how nice Mr. Scherry was to him before he left. He says in his last letter that he has finally run on to someone from Xenia. His name is Shumaker and he worked for Chenoweth. His wife lives on S. Detroit. Bob said that she was going down there next Sunday. Mother went up to see his wife yesterday morning and she found out that she had started the day before. She may be able to see her when she returns. I bought Bob another money belt yesterday & we are going to send it to him. He had his money belt & money stolen. In the letter he wrote a week ago he says that it will be 3 or 4 weeks before he will get a furlough and get home. I do hope that he gets a furlough & gets home. Arthur Miller at the P. Office told me this A.M. that his boy did not get a furlough after he got through his boat training down there. Hattie Erwin told me Monday that Jno. Loveless is in the East ready to be sent out & that Richard in England is to be married to an English girl. Russell Metty has already married an English girl. We were so glad that you got home for the week. We sure enjoyed having you with us and we will be looking for you again next month. Mary E. came home in the night last night. She says that she will be in again Sat. night. We have seen so little of her since we returned home. I saw her on the way home to lunch as she was going into town. Mother just now showed me how nicely she has the cake packed in a box. I hope it carries OK.
God bless you all,
Much love to all
Dad

Correspondence:

Mon. Aug. 27, '51
Dear Helen,
—It was a real surprise to learn of your having to go to the hospital. We pledge ourselves to stand with you in prayer.
—My confidence in our wonderful Savior is growing stronger everyday. Why Not! When He has promised to "never, never leave us or forsake us."
—When M. E. called this A.M. I could hear the happy voices of Joyce & Marilyn. I'm sure Joyce will be a blessing to the Piphers as well as visa versa.
—This little tract expresses my sentiments better than I could word them. Dear, I'm sure the Lord will bring your thru this trial victorious in Him.
"For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God before ordained that we should walk in them." Eph. 2:10
—Turned out a big wash today as I didn't wash last wk. Hung in the attic as well as out doors.
—Trust Dorothy will keep us posted as to yourself. I forgot to ask her yesterday.
Loads of love,
Mother
My dear Helen,
—Here is saying "Amen" to what Mother has written. We sure are standing by you in prayer for your speedy recovery. It was a surprise and a shock to us to learn of your going to the hospital for an operation.
Much, much love,
Dad

Obituary:

Dr. Lackey, Dentist for over 50 years, Succumbs
Dr. Burt L. Lackey, 88, of 20 Home Ave., a practising Xenia dentist for more than 50 years, was stricken while attending services at the First Reformed Church Sunday morning. The Xenia Fire Division Emergency Squad removed him to Greene Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Death was believed caused by a heart attack suffered soon after the start of services.
Dr. Lackey was born June 15, 1872, in Clinton County, the son of Enos and Laura Sellers Lackey. His first marriage was to Miss Ada Clark, whose death occurred in April 1914. In June of 1915, he married Miss Jessella Beebe, who survives.
Dr. Lackey was graduated from the Cincinnati Dental College and maintained an office here in the Home Federal Building, maintaining his procedure to the last. He was a long-life member of the First Reformed Church.
Surviving besides his widow and three daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Krug of Dayton, Mrs. Helen Hormell of Englewood, and Mrs. Mary E. Pipher of Xenia; two sons, Robert E. of Xenia and A. Clark Lackey of Mt. Airy, N.C., 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Services will be conducted Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the Neeld Funeral Home, 106 W. Market St., by Rev. Russell Mayer of the First Reformed Church, with burial in Woodland Cemetery here.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Obituary:

Xenia Dentist Dies at Church
Xenia, Oct. 17—Dr. Burt L. Lackey, 88, a dentist here since 1915, died of a heart attack yesterday while attending services at First Reformed church.
Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Neeld Funeral home. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow.
A native of Clinton county, Dr. Lackey was graduated from Cincinnati Dental college in 1900. He had lived here most of his life.
Survivors include his wife, Jessella; two sons, A. Clark of Mr. Airy, N.C., and Robert of Xenia, and three daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Krug of Dayton, Mrs. Helen Hormell of Englewood and Mrs. Mary E. Pipher of Xenia.

Burt married Ada Frances Clark on 10 Sep 1902 in Gallia County, Ohio, United States. Ada (daughter of Amos Clark and Harriett Frances Riggs) was born on 7 Nov 1871 in Raccoon Island, Gallia County, Ohio, United States; died on 28 Mar 1914 in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 30 Mar 1914 in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Burt married Jessella Beebe on 30 Jun 1915 in Ohio, United States. Jessella (daughter of John Wesley Beebe and Ellen Thorpe) was born on 27 Feb 1887 in Kingman County, Kansas, United States; died on 18 Sep 1979 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States; was buried in Sep 1979 in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1870, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Daisey Lackey, in the household of Enos Lackey
• Census: 1880, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Daisey Hutchinson, granddaughter, in the housethold of Enos Lackey

Other Events:

• Military: Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina, United States; registered for the WWI draft
• Name: Clark Lackey
• Occupation: Vice President of Production-North Carolina Granite Co., Mt. Airy,
• Census: 1910, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Amos C. Lackey, son, in the household of Bert L. Lackey; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Census: 1920, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Clark Lackey, son, in the household of Burt Lackey; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Occupation: 1922, Xenia Township, Greene County, Ohio, United States; draftsman; Address:
  George Dodds & Sons Granite Co.
• Residence: 1922, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Census: 1930, Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina, United States; as Clark Lackey, bookkeeper at granite quarry, head of household; Address:
  201 Lebanon Street
• Residence: 1935, Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina, United States; Address:
  227 Chevy Street
• Census: 1940, Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina, United States; as A. Clark Lackey, head, draftsman at stone quarry, head of household; Address:
  227 Chevy Street
• Newspaper: 17 Sep 1971; Xenia Daily Gazette (Xenia, Ohio), 17 September 1971, p3

Notes:

Newspaper:


Xenia Daily Gazette
17 September 1971-p3
Out of state members of the class of 1921 of Xenia High School who attended the 50th year reunion Saturday evening at the Xenia Golf Club included Mrs. Mary Birch Kennedy of Costa Mesa, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Marlin McDorman, Martha Brysan, of Lakeland, Fla., Mr. and Mr.s Forest Cased of Malcrest, Fla., Mrs. Martha Finley Howard of St. Petersburg, Fla., Mr. and Mrs. Clark Lackey of Mt. Ary, N. C., Philip Moore of Seattle, Wash., Mrs. Sabina Ross O'Connor of Baltimore, Md., Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sterling of Farmington, Mich., and Mrs. Margaret Webster Goodell of Downers Grove, Ill.

Died:


OBITUARY
—A. Clark Lackey, 81, of San Diego, Calif., died there this week. He was born in Ohio Dec. 10, 1903, the son of Burt and Anna Clark Lackey, former Xenia residents.
—He was a former Vice president of North Carolina Granite Corp.
—Surviving are his widow, Leota, a son, Richard C. Lackey of Atlanta, Ga., a daughter, Nora L. Baxter of Del Mar, Calif., four grandchildren; two sisters, a half-brother and a half-sister.
—Services and burial were held Thursday in San Diego. [Source: Copy of original newspaper clipping from the obituary card index at the Montgomery County Library, Dayton, Ohio; card dated January 4, 1985, name of newspaper and date published unknown]

Amos married Mary Leota Stephens on 31 Aug 1926 in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, United States. Mary was born on 29 Apr 1904 in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, United States; died on 6 Apr 1999 in Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington, United States; was buried in Apr 1999 in San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Teacher at Northmont Schools
• Religion: a member Forest United Methodist Church, Silver Springs, FL
• Census: 1910, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Dorothy Lackey, daughter, in the household of Bert L. Lackey; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Census: 1920, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Dorothy Lackey, daughter, in the household of Burt Lackey; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Residence: 1922, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Census: 1930, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Dorothy F. Lackey, daughter, teacher, in the household of Burt L. Lackey; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Obituary: 29 Aug 1989; Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio), 29 August 1989

Notes:

Obituary:

Dorothy F. Krug, 82, of Silver Springs, Fla., formerly of Pleasant Hill, died Monday, Aug. 28, 1989 in Silver Springs. She was born May 9, 1907 in Xenia to the late Bert and Ada Frances Clark Lackey. She was married to Claude Krug who preceded her in death in 1970.
Survivors include three sons, Terry Krug of Pleasant Hill, Claude Krug of Silver Springs, Fl. and Rex Krug of Clearwater, Fl.; two sisters, Mrs. Harry Hormell (Helen) of Dayton and Mary Pipher of Xenia; one brother, Robert Lackey of Oklahoma; seven grandchildren; six great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one brother.
She was a member of the Forest United Methodist Church in Silver Springs, Fl. and she retired from teaching for Northmont City Schools in 1972.
Funeral services will be Friday at 10 a.m. at the Jackson Funeral Home, 1 S. Main St., Pleasant Hill. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Englewood. Visitation will be Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Dorothy married Claude Emerson Krug on 9 Jul 1932 in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States. Claude was born on 1 Dec 1907 in Englewood, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; died on 31 Mar 1970 in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 3 Apr 1970 in Englewood, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Physical Description: brown hair, brown eyes and 5'3"
• Hobby: Ceramics and reading
• Medical Condition: radical mastectomy for breast cancer, arthritis, and high cholesterol
• Census: 1920, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Helen Lackey, daughter, in the household of Burt Lackey; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Graduation: 1928, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  Xenia Central High School
• Census: 1930, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; as Helen L. Lackey, lodger, attending art school; Address:
  403 West First Street
• Education: 1930, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  Dayton Art Institute
• Newspaper: 25 Mar 1934; Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio), 25 March 1934, p9
• Residence: 1935, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, United States
• Residence: 1936, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, United States; Address:
  713 Columbia Terrace
• Census: 1940, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States; as Helen Hormell, wife, in the household of Harry W. Hormell, residence in 1935 Peoria, Illinois; Address:
  609 W Fairchild
• Residence: 1942, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States; Address:
  1319 Franklin
• Residence: 1949, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States; Address:
  1216 Oak
• Newspaper: Abt 1950; Unknown newspaper... original clipping, ca. 1950 "Moving"
• Residence: 1951, Englewood, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  Box 404
• Religion: 21 Dec 1952, Englewood, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; a member of Concord United Methodist Church
• Residence: 1960, Englewood, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  212 Brownstone Dr.
• Passport: 25 Aug 1972; #C 2273381
• Visa: 3 Oct 1972; for Australia
• Residence: Jul 1979, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  5151 Kingsford Dr.
• Newspaper: 8 Jul 1984; Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio), 8 July 1984, p89 "50th Wedding Anniversary"
• Newspaper: Mar 1994; Unknown newspaper... original clipping, "60th Wedding Anniversary
• Beneficiary: 1 Aug 1994; in the will of her husband, Harry Hormell
• Physical Description: 29 Dec 1994; 5' 3", gray hair and brown eyes
• Misc: 29 Dec 1994, Ohio, United States; Driver License
• Residence: 29 Dec 1994, Englewood, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  4017 Gateway Dr.
• Newspaper: 19 Apr 1998; Englewood Independent (Englewood, Ohio), 19 April 1998 "Queen"
• Residence: 14 Jul 2000, Brookville, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  Brookhaven Nursing and Care Center

Notes:

Memories: by Patricia Beck Hormell
For several years Helen ran a pre-school kindergarten from her home in Englewood, Ohio. She kept the children busy with games, songs and creative activities; interlaced with outdoor playtime and "show and tell". She laughed (and sometimes blushed) at the stories the children would tell and enjoyed teaching them new things. She liked to play cards-especially bridge. Helen and Harry belonged to a card club and often entertained their friends with small dinner parties before the games began. She also liked to read novels, dabbled in ceramics for awhile, and tried a few other crafts-including flower arrangement. Roses and daisies were her favorite flowers. Harry grew roses and she admired them; always having a vase full of buds in the house when they were in bloom. Helen came from a family with roots deep in religion and she carried on the tradition, being a longtime member of Concord United Methodist Church. Helen was a member of Eastern Star and Alpha Rho Tau (an art sorority).

Birth:

Note: Name is misspelled on the birth certificate as Henlen Louise Lackey instead of Helen Louise Lackey.

Newspaper:

EXCHANGE VOWS BEFORE ALTAR IN XENIA HOME
Miss Helen Louise Lackey Becomes Bride of Harry W. Hormell.
Xenia, March 24—Miss Helen Louise Lackey, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. B. L. Lackey of 20 Home av., became the bride of Harry William Hormell of New Burlington in a pretty ceremony performed at the home of the bride, before 35 guests, Saturday evening.
Preceding the service Miss Lorena Stephens, Port Williams, sang "I love You Truly" and "At Dawning," accompanied by Miss Frances Jack, who played the "Wedding March" from Wagner's "Lohengrin" for the processional.
The double ring service was used by Dr. W. W. Foust, pastor of the First Reformed church, and the vows were exchange before an altar of ferns and palms in front of the living room mantle. Mrs. Claude Krug (Dorothy Lackey) of Englewood, the bride's sister, was matron of honor and wore a gown of chiffon velvet in maroon shade. Her flowers were spring blooms. Jeanette Hormell, small sister of the bridegroom, was a flower girl and little Bobby Lackey, brother of the bride, was ring bearer. Claude Krug served as best man.
An informal reception following the ceremony and a course dinner was served to the guests, 12 being seated at the bride's table. Mr. and Mrs. Hormell left on a motor trip and, on their return, will make their home at 113 W. Monument av., Dayton. Mrs. Hormell is a graduate of Central high school and attended the Dayton Art Institute. Her husband, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hormell of New Burlington, graduated from Kingman high school.

Newspaper:

Just when Danville people felt that the well-liked Harry Hormells were becoming really settled Danvilleans, Harry comes up with a promotion in the National Cash Register Company and the family is moving back to their native Ohio. After 10 years here as head service man in the company, Harry will go to Dayton to become an instructor in the repair school. Best wishes to Harry, Helen, Joyce and Jon!

Visa:

Visa for travel to Australia issued 3 Oct 1972, expiration 3 Oct 1976

Newspaper:

Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio) 8 July 1984, p89
Mr. and Mrs. Harry, 5151 Kingsford Drive, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Saturday. They have two children and three grandchildren. They request the omission of gifts.

Newspaper:

Harry and Helen Hormell
Hormells Celebrate 60th anniversary
Harry W. and Helen (Lackey) Hormell will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary of Thursday, March 17. The have two children and three grandchildren.

Newspaper:

LakeView holds senior prom
April 19, LakeView Assisted Living had their Senior Prom. A big thank you goes out to many contributors. Northmont Jobs Grads hosted the party. They also were greeters, brought refreshments, served and danced with the residents. jerry Leiber spoke on his memories of "Sunday Afternoons" which was the theme. Lyn's Balloony Bin provided a lovely gold balloon heart for a center. McMaken's provided the punch. Lou Niehaus and his band kept everyone's feet tappin' and brought back memories of those good old songs. Brookville Flower Shop gave a beautiful corsage and boutonniere for the King Bill Overholser and Queen Helen Hormel. Maureen Bolinger drove for Westwind Limousine Service. The King and Queen were then escorted to Rob's Restaurant where they could get anything they chose. It was truly a memorable "Sunday Afternoon."

Buried:

Gravestone: Helen L. Hormell 1911 - 2000
Note: Buried in the old part of the cemetery behind the old church.

Helen married Harry William Hormell on 17 Mar 1934 in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States. Harry (son of Clifford Hormell and Anna May Bogan) was born on 28 Aug 1909 in Chester Township, Clinton County, Ohio, United States; died on 14 Feb 1995 in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 17 Feb 1995 in Englewood, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; Lab Technician; Address:
  Veterans Hospital
• Census: 1920, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Mary Lackey, daughter, in the household of Burt Lackey; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Census: 1930, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Mary E. Lackey, daughter, in the household of Burt L. Lackey; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Residence: 1935, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States
• Graduation: 1937; Xenia Central High School
• Census: 1940, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Mary E. Lackey, daughter, in the household of Burt L. Lackey, same residence in 1935; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Military: 31 Oct 1944, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States; Women's Army Corps
• Military: Between 1945 and 1948; WWII as lab technician in the Army
• Newspaper: 9 Jun 1965, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; Xenia Daily Gazette (Xenia, Ohio), 9 June 1965, p4
• Retired: 1985, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  Veterans Hospital

Notes:

MEMORIES...by Robert Ellsworth Lackey
Mary was born to Burt and Jessella Lackey March 1, 1919 in Xenia, Ohio. She graduated from Xenia Central High School in 1937. Upon graduation she became a laboratory technician apprentice at McClelland hospital under Dr. Rayburn McClelland. Mary joined the army in 1945 and served 2-1/2 years as a lab technician. Upon leaving the service she married Don Pipher in 1948. She and Don built a house on Omalee Drive in Xenia. A daughter, Marilyn, was born October 16, 1949. Don died February 1953. Mary worked in a loan company office for a while but, after taking additional medical training, she became a lab technician at the V.A. Hospital in Dayton, Ohio where she worked until her retirement in 1985.

Newspaper:

This Was 20 Years Ago Today
WAC Pvt. Mary Lackey graduated as a laboratory technician at Camp Atterbury.

Mary married Donald Eugene Pipher on 2 Oct 1948 in Greene County, Ohio, United States. Donald was born on 5 Jun 1912 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, United States; died on 9 Feb 1953 in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 13 Feb 1953 in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hobby: Woodworking
• Census: 1930, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Robert E. Lackey, son, in the household of Burt L. Lackey; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Residence: 1935, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Census: 1940, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; as Robert E. Lackey, son, in the household of Burt L. Lackey, same residence in 1935; Address:
  20 Home Avenue
• Military: Between Jun 1944 and Feb 1946; WWII 22nd Regiment, 6th Marine Division
• Education: May 1949; Ohio University
• Newspaper: 26 Aug 1967; Xenia Daily Gazette (Xenia, Ohio), 26 August 1967, p4
• Obituary: 8 Mar 2012; The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) 8 March 2012

Notes:

Memories... from Bob Lackey
Born to Burt & Jessella Lackey March 4, 1926 in Xenia, Ohio. As a child I grew up under the "specter" of the depression years, even though Dad was a respected dentist in town, it was rough going, although I don't remember going hungry. I do remember Dad getting paid "in kind", i.e. farm produce from farmers, slab wood from the local mill man, etc. Also I remember my mother's personal sacrifices and frugal planning.
By necessity and encouragement of my parents I learned to work to help around the home place. Then when 11 years old I had a magazine route; this progressed to a paper route, farm hand at the farm of my Sunday school teacher, Albert Ankeney, then in high school, I was a butcher at neighborhood grocery store. All this served me well, in that I learned the "work ethic" at an early age. It also gave much needed money for clothes, etc. During this time I earned money to buy my first trumpet and later a King cornet as I progressed in the band and orchestra (from 7th through 12th grades). This last instrument was of such great expense ($120), that I got a loan at the Citizens Bank, which I paid off with my paper route. This, I'm sure to the amusement of the local banker, although a good learning experience. This loan experience paid off in my senior year when I bought a 1937 Dodge.
WWII influenced my thoughts greatly during high school. I always enjoyed sports and outdoor activities. During my junior and senior years we had the Victory Corp, where we participated long endurance runs and obstacle courses, all in preparation for the Marine Corp. later, June 2, 1944. I took boot camp at Paris Island, South Carolina. Went to "band school" at Paris Island, then to combat infantry training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and shipped overseas in October 1944 to the South Pacific, Guadalcanal. I joined the 22nd Regiment, 6th Marine Division that landed on Okinawa, Easter Sunday April 1, 1945. There I learned about combat first-hand, as a stretcher-bearer. I was discharged February 1946 after several months in the navy hospitals with a tropical fungus infection and returned to Xenia, Ohio.
Then adjustment to civilian life, which didn't take too long! I enrolled at Ohio University in the fall of 1946. When home on leave in December 1945, I renewed my acquaintance with a high school friend, Frances Douthett. We dated and were engaged Christmas 1946. We were married August 23, 1947 in Xenia, she then joined me in Athens, Ohio.
I graduated from Ohio University May 1949 with a B.S.C. with a major in accounting. Following college my career over the years involved tax auditing, general, cost, sales accounting, manager of accounting and factory auditing. Places of Employment were: Bureau of Internal Revenue, Athens, Ohio; National Tube, U.S. Steel, Gary Indiana; Dayton Tire & Rubber County, Dayton, Ohio and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Our joy of having a family began in Gary, Indiana with sons, Dan September 8, 1951 and Dave, a year later, September 5, 1952. After waiting four years, it was a joy to share our lives with two healthy, robust sons for whom we thank the Lord. As a family we enjoyed many activities, i.e.: hiking, camping, canoeing, snow skiing, rock climbing and fishing.
During the 1970's, and the "empty nest syndrome", we learned to Square Dance, and became active for over 20 years in Silver Spurs Square Dance Club. We held several offices in the club during that time.
Early retirement came in 1982 at age 56. Time spent after retirement from Dayton Tire & Rubber involved: H & R Block tax preparation, teaching woodworking to kindergarten children at their summer camp, building a woodworking shop and a sun room onto our house; working in the shop; and enjoyed other home projects, such as remodeling the kitchen and redecorating the bathrooms. I also did contract building and repair projects.
To add to our blessings were our two granddaughters, Simone and Anna; born November 12, 1989 and November 20, 1992, respectively. At this time I was able to enjoy making special woodworking projects for the girls, including a walnut cradle, small chairs, doll beds and swings, and various pull toys, to name a few.
I have been active in our local church, over the years (since 1972), singing in the choir, serving as deacon on the board, and as church treasurer for several years; also I was involved in many building projects.
I joined the Gideons in 1988 and have been active in their work; distributing and placing bibles and giving church reports. The distribution of scriptures at colleges, grade schools, and at the Oklahoma City military induction center and placement of bibles at motels.
As far as my basic beliefs are concerned, I was raised in a home where Christianity, morality, and honesty were an important part of life. I "accepted Christ" and Christianity around the age of twelve. However, teenage years and time in the service diluted the emphasis on spiritual matters - although after becoming a father in our family, I tried to do what I should by taking the family to church and Sunday school through the years. I believe that as one grows older we mature; then with heart bypass surgery and Fran's cancer we were both drawn closer to God, the Bible, and the Christian walk. Prayer for our children, grandchildren, our family and others has been a vital part of our daily life.
We have enjoyed travel (not abroad) in our country and, on many occasion, visiting family and friends. We camped out on many trips. Some of the most memorable were: 1948--a delayed "honeymoon" to Niagara Falls; 1962--a first time trip to Colorado with family, where a personal "love affair" with that state began; 1976--the first trip to California where we spent the bicentennial (July 4th) at Disneyland. We also had wonderful visit with family members; 1988--second trip to California where we attended a National Square Dance Convention and again visited with family. Yes, there were many others, which are highlighted in my mind, which will have to be covered in a separated writing. The most memorable recent trip was our trip to Atlanta this past June 22-25, 2001 for the Lackey Family Reunion. It was a wonderful time! Renewing family contacts, visiting and enjoying each other's company. It was a special delight to see our granddaughters make friendships with cousins et al, they had never met before! [Source: Written by Robert E. Lackey for the family reunion]

Newspaper:


Xenia Daily Gazette
August 26, 1967
From the Gazette Files:
Twenty Years Ago Today
Frances A. Douthett and Robert E. Lackey were married at the Second United Presbyterian Church.

Obituary:

Robert Lackey
March 4, 1926 ­ March 5, 2012 BETHANY
Robert E. (Bob) Lackey died March 5 in his apartment at Southern Plaza in Bethany. He was 86. Born in Xenia, Ohio, he was a graduate of Ohio University with a degree in accounting. Mr. Lackey worked for 30 years for the Dayton Tire Company, retiring in 1982 from his position as Accounting Manager and Auditor at the plant in Oklahoma City. He was for many years a member of the Metropolitan Baptist Church, in Oklahoma City, serving for a number of years as church treasurer, and was a long­time active member of Gideons International. He was also a member of the church choir and in recent years was a member of the Spanish Cove Singers, in Yukon. He served in World War II with the 6th Marine Division of the U.S. Marine Corps. An avid woodworker, he was known for crafts fashioned as gifts for his family and friends and for fellow church members, and in recent years had enjoyed writing biographical sketches of fellow residents at Southern Plaza. He was preceded in death by his wife of 60 years, Frances Douthett Lackey and is survived by two sons, Daniel R. of Columbia, S.C. and David E. of New York City; two granddaughters, Simone Lackey of Ithaca, NY, and Anna Baker of Bellingham, WA; and his companion, Jackie Boyd, a fellow resident at Southern Plaza. Viewing will be Thursday, 9am­9pm, with the family present from 5-­7pm at Mercer­Adams. Services will be Friday, March 9, 1 0:30am atMercer­Adams Chapel with entombment in Rose Hill Mausoleum. To share a memory or condolence, visit www.mercer adams.com www.mercer­adams.com [Published in The Oklahoman on Mar. 8, 2012]

Robert married Frances Aileen Douthett on 23 Aug 1947 in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States. Frances was born on 15 Sep 1926 in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; died on 29 Jan 2008 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States; was buried on 1 Feb 2008 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]