LACKEY, WILLIAM MARTIN, lawyer, was born March 31, 1856, in Tallapoosa County; son of James M. and Elizabeth (Wiley) Lackey, who were married in Talladega County, and lived in what is now Clay County, the former a soldier in Hilliard's legion, C. S. Army, who served about a year, then contracted a fever and died in a hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn., the latter who married Judge Hiram M. Evans of Clay County, after her first husband's death; grandson of Adam Lackey, who emigrated from South Carolina to Tennessee when a young man and settled near the Alabama line, was married there and moved to Tallapoosa County in 1836, moved to Jackson County in 1866, and later to DeKalb County, where he died in 1891. Mr. Lackey obtained his early schooling at Lineville, Clay County; began the study of law under W. J. Pierce; and was graduated from the law department of the University of Alabama, LL.B., 1880. He began the practice of law immediately after his graduation, and has been practicing in Alabama since that time. He resided at Ashland for some time and later moved to Dadeville. He was elected to the State senate from the eighth senatorial district, composed of Talladega and Clay Counties, 1890-1894. He is a Democrat. Married: January 5, 1896, to Imogene Disharoom. Residence: Dadeville.

Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer

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