Bluebonnets

To Texas and Spring Creek
When I first encountered my ancestor, Ruth McDonald Lacey, she didn't have a pedigree, 'no further information' as it is sometimes put. Now we find her right in the center of a great American story, as exciting and interesting as any that are woven into the fabric of America. A frontier preacher's wife that moved with her loved ones, hundreds and hundreds of miles to new a land and saw them settle down at both ends of a 60 or 70 mile road; the Fredericksburg Road.

Ruth's pedigree threads its way back through North Carolina to Scotland. She is part of the McDonald / Taylor Family that came to Tennessee and then to Illinois in the early 1800's. Although there is no genealogically sound proof of her direct connection; she is interwoven, inextricably, with that family. Ruth married Elijah Lacey in Illinois, Elijah's pedigree threads its way back through Kentucky and Tennessee to Virginia then England or Wales and is Norman in origin. They all came to Texas in the mid 1850's and settled between San Antonio, at LockeHill, and the edge of the frontier, Spring Creek, Gillespie County.

A suggestion: Download and print "A Chart of Individuals," it's a .pdf document some 20 pages long but it will help you get through the labyrinth. You will find it in the McDonald-Taylor and Lacey folder.