Nathaniel Greenberry Lackey (1787 - 1893)

Born 1787 in Pike, Illinois, United States

Husband of Mary Ann (Harlow) Lackey — married 16 May 1822 in Madison County, Kentucky, United States

Descendants

Died 1893 at about age 106 in Sandy, Blanco, Texas, United States

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Biography

Biography

Greenberry Lackey appears to have moved around quite a bit just as his father did. His sons, William and Martin, were born in Illinois, Albert in Texas, Nathaniel & Thomas in Illinois and John in Missouri. Birthplaces of the other children are not known. There were 12 children born to Greenberry and his wife, Mary (Harlow) Lackey : Elijah, Elizabeth, James, William Alexander, Martin VanBuren, Nelson Cilvester, Sophia, Albert Newton, Thomas Henry, Nathaniel Greenberry, John Wesley and Henry Lee.

Greenberry, Sr., died at the age of 106 and is buried at Sandy Cemetery in Blanco, Texas. Mary is also buried there, dying in 1883 at the age of 95.

Thomas Henry Lackey was born 15 Oct 1836 in Pike County, Illinois, one of the above 12 children of Greenberry's family. He married Mary Ann "Anna" Lewis on September 23, 1855, in Burnet County, Texas. She was born in Cole County, Missouri in 1836. Five children were born to this couple: James Dodd in 1856, Francis Aaron (Frank), Mary Ann (Polly), Henry and Benjamin.

James Dodd Lackey, son of Thomas Henry and Anna, was in Kerr County by the 1880 census where he farmed in the Camp Verde area. He married Temperance "Tempa" A. about 1875 and had two children: T. H., born in 1876 and Benjamin F., born in 1879. T. H. died in 1916 but Benjamin lived an active life as a rancher and creator of leather goods and carvings made of wood and rock. He died in 1951. James' wife, Tempa, died about 1900 and James lived in the household of his brother, Henry, and Henry's wife, Sallie. Sallie and Henry had a son, James, born in 1892 and died in 1911. Henry died in 1904. Later census records show Sallie and James D. Lackey married between 1910 and 1920.

Thomas Henry Lackey, James' father, died at Sabine Pass during the Civil War. Mary, his widow, later married E. Pearson. They are buried at Camp Verde Cemetery in Kerr County, along with many other members of their family.

The descendants of the pioneering Henry Lackey of Ireland, still live and work in Kerr County, Texas, to this day.

© 2007 Claudia Lackey

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Added by Rhitt Garrett: Many of Greenberry Lackey's sons migrated to Blanco County, TX, living just a few miles NW of what is now Johnson City. In 1885, one of his younger sons, Albert Newton (Al), went berserk and murdered six of his relatives for which he was gruesomely lynched. A full story appears in his WikiTree bio. rtg

Sources

• "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5ZZ-K4R : 9 March 2021), Berry Lackey and Polly Harlow, 16 May 1822; citing Marriage, Madison, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 183,309.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFFL-14D : 20 February 2021), Greenberg Lackey, Precinct 2, Blanco, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 24, sheet 337C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,291.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5178409/nathaniel-greenberry-lackey

• Collected family history notes Garrett-4589 16:01, 27 March 2016 (EDT)

According to his grandson Moses' account, he moved to Illinois and then Missouri. Records show he moved to Texas where he died. Even though his gravestone says he was born in 1787, in two newspaper articles dated 1884 and 1888, he is quoted as saying he was born in 1871. Because Greenberry himself, gave his age and no record has been found to actually refute this, I am leaving the birth year about 1781. Depending on who gave the information for the gravestone, it may or may not be accurate.

Greenberry Lackey and Mary Harlow were married 16 May 1822 in Madison County, Kentucky. Permission to marry was given by Nathaniel Harlow. A witness if Elizabeth Harlow, perhaps her mother.

Galveston News 20 September 1883, pg 10 headline: What the Interior Papers Say A correspondent of the Blanco Star chronicles the end of a long life and many changes of abode in the demise of Mrs. Mary Lackey, of Sandy post office neighborhood. She was born near Richmond, Va., 1788, and was 95 years old at the time of her death. She was married to G. B. Lackey, in Madison county, Kentucky, lived a Baptist seventy-one years and was married seventy-nine years. Her husband moved from Illinois to Ozark Mountain, Mo., thence to Grayson county, Texas, in an early day, thence to Oatmeal, Burnet county, when the Indians and buffalo were thick, thence to Blanco county, thence to Medina county, thence to Comanche county in 1858, thence to Llano county in 1861, thence to Travis county in 1862, and then back to Blanco county.

The Galveston Daily News News 31 Jan 1884 The oldest inhabitant and veteran of two wars has been in Burnet. The Once-a-Week speaks of him as follows: Mr. G. B. Lackey, father of Captain Nat. Lackey was in town visiting the captain this week. Mr. Lackey served in the Black Hawk and Mexican wars. He has been a consistent member of the Baptist church for seventy-eight years. Is now in his one hundredth and third year. He has great-great grandchildren living. One of his daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Cockrum, who lives in Missouri, is here on a visit to her brother, and was at the captain's when the old gentleman arrived. The old veteran lives at Johnson City, in Blanco county. He is hale and hearty.

The Austin Weekly Statesman Newspaper 9 Aug 1888 ... The venerable Mr. Lackey, of Blanco, the father of the Burnet barber, was in town last week. He claims to be 107 years old, and is as vigorous as a young man of 75. He has been a member of the Baptist church eighty-five years...

The Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas has the following information about Greenberry Lackey, Sr: b.1787 Illinois d.1893--Blanco, TX.

Greenberry, Sr, who was born in Illinois or Kentucky, appears to have moved around quite a bit. This is evidenced by the birthplaces of some of his children. William and Martin were born in Illinois, Albert in Texas, Nathaniel Greenberry in Illinois and John in Missouri. Birthplaces for the other children are not known. Greenberry and his family were a part of the major migration of the Lackeys to Texas.

In 1858, Greenberry, Sr. moved with his family to the vicinity of Grape Creek, where he joined his older sons, James and Martin Van Buren Lackey. The two sons had moved to this area (then known as Gillespie County) in 1856 or 1857. Greenberry is shown on the U. S. Census of 1880, his age at that time being 93. On the census he stated he was born in Illinois and his parents were born in New York. His wife, Mary Harlow, was 93 also, and she stated she was born in Illinois, with her parents being born in New York. Twelve children were born to Greenberry, Sr. and Mary: Elijah, Elizabeth, James, William Elexander, Martin VanBuren, Nelson Cilvester, Sophia, Albert Newton, Thomas Henry, Nathaniel Greenberry, John Wesley and Henry Lee. Greenberry and Mary were both laid to rest at Sandy Cemetery in Blanco, Texas ^[1]; Mary in 1883 at the age of 95 and Greenberry at the age of 106.

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 26 April 2020), memorial page for Nathaniel Greenberry “"Berry"” Lackey (1787–1893), Find A Grave: Memorial #5178409, citing Sandy Cemetery, Sandy, Blanco County, Texas, USA ; Maintained by G. Fowler (contributor 36683975).

• *1830; Census Place: Pike, Illinois; Series: M19; Roll: 24; Page: 240
• Year: 1840; Census Place: Pike, Illinois; Roll: 67; Page: 13
• Year: 1880; Census Place: Precinct 2, Blanco, Texas; Roll: 1291
• Original data: Marriage Records. Kentucky Marriages. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Texas General Land Office. Abstracts of all original Texas Land Titles comprising Grants and Locations. Austin, TX, USA.
• Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
• Ancestry.com. U.S. General Land Office Records, 1776-2015 [database on-line]