AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN F. LACEY 379 



regiment of Delaware Militia ; both enlisted October 21, 

 1780. This appears from the records of the adjutant- 

 general of Delaware at Dover. 



My great-grandfather, Spencer Lacey, died in Dela- 

 ware near Georgetown and I was shown the spot where 

 the farm burying ground stood on the deserted farm a 

 few miles southwest of Georgetown. 



The custom in Delaware was to bury the dead on each 

 farm and the state is dotted with these little family bury- 

 ing grounds. A giant wild grapevine grows out of the 

 center of this little unmarked burial ground and no doubt 

 its roots have fed on the remains of our ancestors. 



John M. Lacey, Sr., is buried at Newcomerstown, Ohio, 

 and my grandmother, Mary Hurley Clifton Lacey, at 

 Cadiz, Ohio. Grandfather Isaac Patten and grandmoth- 

 er Eleanor Patten, are buried at Captine, near Patten's 

 Mill, a few miles south of Barnesville, Ohio. 



H. B. Patten, of Indianapolis, Ind., writes me that he 

 has it from three different sources that grandfather Isaac 

 Patten died in Indiana and was buried at Raysville in that 

 state. This may be true, as he may have been away from 

 home at his death, but I never so understood it. Sister 

 May verifies H. B. Patten's statement. 1 



My father, John Mills Lacey, Jr., was born at Barnes- 

 ville, Ohio, August 9, 1812, and died of gravel at Oska- 

 loosa, Iowa, May 2, 1880. 



My mother, Eleanor Patten Lacey, was born in Bel- 

 mont County, Ohio, October 10, 1813, and died from effects 

 of a fracture of thigh bone at Sedalia, Missouri, March 

 22, 1883. Father and mother are buried at Forest Cem- 

 etery at Oskaloosa, Iowa. 



Our stock therefore is English, Scotch-Irish, and Welsh. 

 The name of Lacey is Norman, and the first of the name 



i This paragraph occurred later on in the book but it seemed advisable 

 to place it here. — Ed. 



