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Albert Newton Lackey

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Albert Newton Lackey

Birth
Texas, USA
Death
26 Aug 1885 (aged 36–37)
Blanco, Blanco County, Texas, USA
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Blanco, Blanco County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Albert Newton Lackey was born in Texas, a veteran of the Civil War he homesteaded in Blanco County Texas where he married his former Sister in Law. For reasons known only to him he attacked and killed or injured several people. He was arrested but then hung by a lynch mob.∼Son of Greenbury Lackey Sr. and Mary Lackey. Brother of James; Martin V.; Nelson G. (killed at Quitman, Miss in the Civil war); Thomas; Aaron N.; Green B., Jr.; John Wesley. He married Jane Pruit the widow of Albert's brother James). Their children included: John; Martha; Berry; Martin; Harriet; Anna; Albert, Jr.
"On Aug 24 1885, Albert Lackey went beserk and shot and killed six persons, members of his family and relatives. The Lackey killings were followed by a hanging of Albert Lackey by a mob outside the town of Blanco where he was being held in jail. The Lackey family lived near Hickory Creek in the north end of the county and are buried in the Sandy Cemetery."
Albert Newton Lackey was born in Texas, a veteran of the Civil War he homesteaded in Blanco County Texas where he married his former Sister in Law. For reasons known only to him he attacked and killed or injured several people. He was arrested but then hung by a lynch mob.∼Son of Greenbury Lackey Sr. and Mary Lackey. Brother of James; Martin V.; Nelson G. (killed at Quitman, Miss in the Civil war); Thomas; Aaron N.; Green B., Jr.; John Wesley. He married Jane Pruit the widow of Albert's brother James). Their children included: John; Martha; Berry; Martin; Harriet; Anna; Albert, Jr.
"On Aug 24 1885, Albert Lackey went beserk and shot and killed six persons, members of his family and relatives. The Lackey killings were followed by a hanging of Albert Lackey by a mob outside the town of Blanco where he was being held in jail. The Lackey family lived near Hickory Creek in the north end of the county and are buried in the Sandy Cemetery."

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