Up a Tree

Going to make a brief departure from the direct lineage branches of the family tree because I found a story about Abraham Lincoln contained in an old, family-generated genealogy of the Lackey families in Illinois.  When the first Lackey appears in America, the spelling of his name has changed from that of the clan that began in Scotland and ended up in what is now Northern Ireland. You remember from the last post that in the Old Country, the name was spelled Leckie. I haven't found anything that explains the change, but such an occurrence happens frequently enough among immigrants. The first Lackey in America was Thomas Keaton Lackey Sr., and he, like many other immigrants to America, participated in the American Revolution on the colonies' side. I'll look at some of the engagements in which he took part in the next post.  One of his relatives, whose connection I haven't quite ferreted out, has a connection to a fella called Abraham Lincoln, who you may remember did som