George A. Lacy

Civil War Letter

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This letter donated by Deanna C. West and Diana Malone Turner: g-g-grandaughters and Oscar Lacy Malone, g-grandson of George A. Lacy

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We know little of George before he purchased his farm in Williamson County in 1855. We do know from family statements and census reporting that George was born in England and Susan in Tennessee. George A. Lacy was a doctor who moved from Williamson County, Illinois to Stoddard County, Missouri during the summer of 1860. With him was his wife Susan E. Bolin whom he had married in Williamson County on July 1, 1853. Also with them was a daughter, Eliza Jane Lacy b. 1854 and a surviving twin Elijah of the two son's born in 1857. Elijah's twin brother, George Washington, would only survive a few months before dying.

Children born to George and Susan in Stoddard County were William Curtis Lacy b. 1860 who's life was also brief. The birth of twin girls mentioned in George's letter were, Susan Lucinda Lacy and Sarah Elizabeth Lacy b. Sept 1, 1861, during George's absence in trying to avoid capture. Of the twin girls, only Susan would survive the ordeal.

Family lore told by his only surviving son, Elijah, states that the Confederate troops came looking for George one more time and George hid under the porch and again evaded capture. No one knows what happened to the two sibling girls of Elijah but George disappears and is probably killed around the time of Vicksburg. Susan returns to Williamson and Franklin County , Illinois. She then marries Alexander Quisenberry in Franklin County, Illinois in 1867 and the couple take Elijah with them to Christian County, Kentucky.

Perhaps Kitchen's men caught George or maybe he was finally accepted into the Union Army even with his injured hand. However no records of George being enlisted have been found to this date by the descendants.