James Harvey Lackey
James Harvey Lackey, proprietor of a farm in Ross township, was born in that township and has lived there all his life. He was born on May 17, 1857, son of Givens and Margaret Ann (Turnbull) Lackey, the latter of whom also was born in Ross township, daughter of James and Susan (Bull) Turnbull, both members of pioneer families in this part of Ohio.
The late Givens Lackey was a native of the Old Dominion, born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, in 1826, and was but three years of age when his parents, Isaac Lackey and wife, came to Ohio in 1829 and settled in Ross township, this county. Here Givens Lackey grew to manhood and in time became a farmer on his own account and a breeder of Shorthorns. On February 7, 1855, Givens Lackey married Margaret Ann Turnbull and of the five children born to that union four are still living, the subject of this sketch having three brothers, Cyrus C. Lackey, also of Ross township; William Hunter Lackey, a farmer of Ross township, and Dr. Joseph Clarke Lackey, a physician at Jamestown. Givens Lackey and his wife were members of the United Presbyterian church and their sons were reared in that faith.
James H. Lackey was reared on the home farm in Ross township and supplemented the schooling he received in the neighborhood schools by attendance during the years 1875-77 at Xenia College, afterward resuming his labors on the farm, giving particular attention to the live-stock operations carried on by his father, and after his marriage in the fall of 1880 established his home on the farm on which he is now living. Ever since 1876 Mr. Lackey has been engaged in the breeding of Poland China hogs and also has for years maintained a herd of Jersey dairy cattle. He is a Republican and has served as director of his home school district, for ten years as president of the board of education of Ross township, for some time as township assessor and as land appraiser and is now treasurer of Ross township, a position he has occupied for more than four years.
On November 10, 1880, James H. Lackey was united in marriage tn Delia Crawford, who was born in Xenia township, this county, daughter of Robert and Jane (Cherry) Crawford, and to this union have been born three daughters, Fay De Ette, wife of James L Patterson, a Xenia township farmer, and Myrtle May and Margaret Jane, at home. The Lackeys are members of the United Presbyterian church at Jamestown.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918