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Lacy Cemetery, 75-1 Summary Report, page 43
Hopkins Lacy married Dr. Simpson's widow Marguerite (McAlpine) Simpson, she died giving birth to their only child, Martha Jane Cocke Lacy in 1818.
Martha married Dr. Albert Russell. Relative of the owner of the Russell-Erskine Hotel in Huntsville. After their mother Marguerite's death about 1820, Hopkins Lacy raised his two step children: Mary and John Simpson. Mary married Hon. George. W. McLeod. Martha (Lacy) Russell and her husband are buried at Maple Hill Cemetery. Mary (Simpson) McLeod is buried in the Old Mardisville Cemetery, in Talladega County, Alabama. Her husband George McLeod's burial place is not known. Anyway, getting back to the town of Liberty. Apparently, it was a thriving city, but after Triana developed it along with Whitesburg died silent deaths. Not much is written about Liberty or Whitesburg, Alabama. All the glory seems to be with Huntsville. But it was Whitesburg/Ditto's Landing that was the very first white settlement in Madison County, Alabama. Hopkins Lacy is buried at Bartee Cemetery, in Lacey Spring, Alabama. He was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
{April 21, 2005, communication from Dennis Simpson to John P. Rankin.}
Hopkins Lacy is not the only Lacy family member buried in the Bartee Cemetery. In fact, John William Lacy, father of Theophilus of Madison County, is buried there, along with Theophilus' uncle Theophilus:
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