Clay County AlArchives Biographies.....Lackey, W. M. March 31 1856 - living 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    W. M. LACKEY, lawyer of Ashland, Ala., is a son of James M. and Elizabeth
(Wiley) Lackey. Adam Lackey, the father of James M. Lackey, emigrated from South
Carolina to Tennessee when a young man, and settled near the Alabama line. He
married and moved to Tallapoosa county, Ala., in 1835 and there reared his
family. In 1866 he moved to Jackson county, and thence to DeKalb county, where
he died in 1891. James M. Lackey was reared in Tallapoosa county, married in
Talladega county, and returned to Tallapoosa county, but soon moved to what was
then Talladega, now Clay county. Here he enlisted in Hilliard's legion and
served about a year, when he contracted a fever and died in a hospital at
Chattanooga, Tenn. The family consisted of but one child, W. M. The mother
afterward married Judge Hiram M. Evans of Clay county, whose memoir appears
elsewhere in this work. W. M. Lackey was born March 31, 1856, in Tallapoosa
county. Ala. His literary education was received at Lineville, Clay county. He
began the study of law under W. J. Pierce, and in 1880 graduated from the
university of Alabama in the law depaitment. He has been practicing in Alabama
since that time. In 1890 he was elected to the senate from the eighth senatorial
district, composed of Talladega and Clay counties, and is now serving in that
position. Politically Mr. Lackey is a democrat, and is a leading lawyer and
politician.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 647-648


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