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Lacy Cemetery, 75-1 Summary Report, page 12
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2. Theophilus L*"?' ~~^7Harns. ? 71 Peccmbcr l-)i J
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McClellan, August 7. UM*-
POCTOR W1LUAM SIMPSON cy hy his secondjwifc._Mary Henderson:
I nrv II. was bom Hrwaryg.^04. He married firsl( Mav and secondly. Frances Hardeman~Bfer r^Slknd^Ucy was lximJ.uwn.J806. He married Mary g 4 Franl-" 'llariunan Lacy wxs born1.810, and died in his youth.
I9-|g42~She was a sister of Mary Elizabeth Wall, mother-in-law of Alexander Heath Simpson and Mary Ella Simpson, q.v.
6. Polly Lacy, _
7? William Lacy married Sally B. Overton.
Hopkins Lacy was the son of Theophilus Lacy and Mary Balte Cocke. He was bom about 1763, at Halifax County, Virginia. He lived for many years in Rockingham County, North Carolina, then migrated westward into Washington County, State of Franklin. (Tennessee). In 1790, he began his practice of law. The next year Governor Blount appointed him to serve as an officer in the Militia. On June 16, 1792, Hopkins Lacy qualified before the County Courts to practice law in Knox County. Then, on June 11, 1793, he was admitted as attorney for Hamilton District, which consisted of Jefferson and Knox counties. On February 4, 1794, he served the Tennessee House of Representatives as a clerk. He served as Attorney General for Washington District on ‘ a. ' In 1806, Hopkins Lacy became a trustee of Nancy Academy in
C' enne?sec* Hopkins Lacy wrote the following letter to John Coffee, and mailed .1 m cam of Judge Jackson a, Cumberland. Tennessee.”
Mr. John Coffee
Cumberland
Judge Jackson October the 9th 1799
Sir
When I
•"e Frcel (sic) was to^nav^^ Sumbcr,and' as well as 1 remember you
C U)sl suit your Father brought against him.
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