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Lacey Cemetery, 75-2 Summary Report, page 3
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1840 Federal Census, Madison County, Alabama, page 163, Slaves and Summary Sheet.
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The top line above shows the slave count (41 of the 43 household total were slaves) by age brackets for the household of Alexander H. Lacy, one of the white Lacy plantation owners in the 1800s in southern half of Madison County, around the cemetery. His slave holdings were second only to those of Hughy Smith on this sheet. Alexander's brother Theophilus Lacy had fewer slaves, only 11. Others of the Lacy family, most of whom actually resided across the river at Lacey's Spring in Morgan County, no doubt owned additional slaves in the pre-Civil War days.
The Lacy slave cemetery (Lacey Cemetery, 75 - 2) is now peacefully set in a wooded area just north of Buxton Road, which in the 1800s was known as the Whitesburg - Triana Road in this area.
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