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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Thomas LACEY, farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Wilmington; owns 240 acres, valued at $50 per acre; born 
in Tipperary Co., Ireland, in 1812; he emigrated to United States, landing at New York, May 
27, 1840, and located in Oneida Co., N. Y., where be resided about four years. Married 
Catherine MCCARTY in Utica, N. Y., Feb. 28, 1844; she was born in Cork Co., Ireland, and 
emigrated to this country with an uncle M. Crimmins when she was about 4 years old; they 
(Mr. and Mrs. LACEY) emigrated from New York to Vermont, where they kept boarders on a 
line of railroad; thence to Michigan, where they were about two years; thence to Chicago, 
IL, two years, where he had charge of the grading of streets; thence to Aurora, where he 
had charge of the grading of the first section on the C., B. & Q. R. R. Before he left 
Chicago, although working for 75 cents per day, he went to Joliet and bought eighty acres 
adjoining the city limits for about $10 per acre. He has resided in and in the vicinity of 
Will Co. for the last thirty years, and came to his present home in March 1873, from Grundy 
Co., where he had been for two years previous. His wife died in La Salle in 1854, and was 
buried at Joliet; left three children - Annie, born in New York Nov. 22, 1850; Nellie, March 
10, 1852, and John J., March 12, 1854. Married second wife, Rosa A. CONLIN, at Joliet; she 
was born in Longford Co., Ireland, in 1826, and came to the United States with a cousin in 
1840. Two children by second marriage - Jerry, born Oct. 25, 1857; Thomas, born Dec. 30, 1858.