Hugh R. LOCKETT * Isabel VEAZEY

Hugh R. Lockett was born on 22 April 1839 in Georgia. He moved with his family to Tallapoosa County, Alabama and there he married Isabel Veazey on 06 October 1864. Isabel Veazey was born on 14 June 1843 in Tallapoosa County, the daughter of George W. and Mary Cardwell Veazey. Hugh was a Methodist minister and was a Civil War veteran, having enlisted in Company A, 1st Alabama Regiment, serving as a cook. He returned to Tallapoosa County and lived until moving to Grayson County, Texas in December 1876. He died on 16 February 1917 and Isabel died on 25 Feburay 1913. They are buried in the Tioga Cemetery in Grayson County, Texas.

Found in Grayson County, Texas on 1880 census.

Their children:

• Winfield Jackson LOCKETT, born 1867, married Martha Slemmer Dunham

• George V. LOCKETT, born abt 1869

• Sarah Orphelia LOCKETT, born 1872, married James L. Tolleson

• Anna LOCKETT, died before 1893

Parents:

• Hugh LOCKETT * Sarah WOODWARD

• George Washington VEAZEY * Mary CARDWELL

View pictures of Hugh, Isabella and their descendants here.

Read about his participation in the Civil War at http://users2.ev1.net/~w8368/civilwar.htm.

NOTES: Information on family came from Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Chicago, F.A. Battey & Company, 1889.

Some information on Hugh and Isabella Veasey Lockett comes from Deleas Kilgore. She can be reached at sdk7@earthlink.net. Her web site can be viewed at http://home.earthlink.net/~sdk7/index.htm.

Page updated April 12, 2002