The Lucketts of Portobacco - Author: Harry Wright Newman

A genealogical history of Samuel Luckett, Gent. Of Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, and some of his descendants, with a sketch of the allied family of Offutt, of Prince Georges County, Maryland.

Bibliographic Information: Newman, Harry W. The Lucketts of Portobacco. Washington, D.C.: Harry Wright Newman, 1938.

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MAJOR THOMAS HUSSEY LUCKETT4 (1750 - 1786)

Thomas Hussey Luckett, son of William and Charity (Middleton) Luckett, was born about 1750 in the Lower District of Frederick County, Maryland. His wife was Elizabeth (???).

Children of Thomas Hussey and Elizabeth Luckett

1. Otho H. W. Luckett married Elizabeth Graham. q.v.

2. Valentine Peyton Luckett; commissioned ensign 14U. S. Inf., Mar. 12, 1812, 2d Lieut. 1st U. S. Inf.

Light Dragoons, Oct. 9, 1812.

3. Lawson Luckett.

4. Thomas Hussey Luckett. q.v.

Thomas Hussey Luckett at the beginning of the Revolutionary War was a commissioned officer of the Frederick County militia, having been in service as early as 1775. On January 1, 1777, he was commissioned a captain of the Seventh Maryland-Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Rawlings. He was taken prisoner by the British and after having been detained in a prison camp, he was exchanged on October 28, 1780. He later rose to the rank of major and was in service as late as January 1, 1782. In 1781 he was listed as one of the Maryland supernumerary of the Rawlings' Rifle Regiment. [11]

He was elected a charter member of the distinguished Society of the Cincinnati, but an untimely death prevented his taking an active part in the organization.

At the tax list for Montgomery County, Maryland, of 1783, Thomas Hussey Luckett was seized of 225 acres of "Beall's Goodwill" in Lingamore Hundred.

The will of Thomas Hussey Luckett was dated December 27, 1786, and proved on February 12, 1787, by Ans Campbell, Levin Luckett, Isaac Fouch, Jr., and Daniel Williams. His widow was named executrix with his friend Reason Davis, of Washington County, Maryland. She was devised the entire estate during widowhood. After her decease, his oldest son, Otho, was to receive the land bought of William Hough, of Montgomery County, Maryland, while his son, Valentine, was to receive the land bought from his brother John Luckett. Lawson was to inherit all the land purchased from the Commissioner of Confiscated British Property in Montgomery County, and a portion of "Concord". All of his sons were minors and he mentioned a fourth unbaptized son. At the probation John Luckett and Thomas Noland were bondsmen for the executors.

His widow in Frederick County, Maryland, on May 8, 1805, conveyed to her son Otho H. W. Luckett, of Loudon County, Virginia, the tract called "Resurvey on Discord", and to her son Val P. Luckett, of Baltimore Town, she deeded "Georgia", both tracts lying in Montgomery County.

On May 11, 1812, Thomas Hussey Luckett, of Natchez, Mississippi, Lawson Luckett, of Washington County, Maryland, Elizabeth Luckett, Otho H. W. Luckett, and Val P. Luckett, the latter three of Frederick County, Maryland, conveyed to Abraham Jones "Resurvey on Beall's Good Will", which had been surveyed for Thomas Hussey Luckett, deceased. The wife of Otho H. W. Luckett waived her third.

After his death his son, Thomas Hussey Luckett, applied for bounty land in right of his father's services as major of the Maryland Line. At that time Samuel Clephane and William Nowland certified that he was "one of the legal representatives of Thomas Hussey Luckett, deceased, late officer in the Revolutionary Army". On April 8, 1816, the Government issued Bounty Land Warrant number 653 consisting of 400 acres to Thomas H. Luckett and other unnamed heirs.

His widow after residing in Frederick County, Maryland, joined her son in Jefferson County, Kentucky, where she died. Her will, dated February 20, 1817, was admitted to probate on May 12, 1817. She named her granddaughters--Elizabeth, Jane, Love, and Sarah Luckett; her sons Lawson and Thomas H. Luckett; and her "sister" Molly Ann Luckett.

On January 6, 1838, the State of Virginia granted his heirs 5,500 acres of land for his services in the American Revolution. [12]

Thomas Hussey Luckett, their son, spent most of his youth in Loudon County, Virginia. In 1812 one finds him at Natchez, Mississippi, but in 1825 he was back in Virginia and a resident of Fauquier County. From the latter place, declaring himself as the youngest son of Thomas Hussey Luckett and a minor at the latter's death, instituted action in the Maryland court of chancery against his brothers, Valentine and Otho, and Samuel Clapham and Daniel Trundle.

He declared that his father died seized of land in Montgomery County, Maryland,--the tract "Georgia" of 36 acres purchased from John Luckett; "Gleaming" of 104 acres; and "Resurvey on Discord" of 170 acres purchased from William Hough. Furthermore, he declared that his mother, Elizabeth Luckett, and the executrix of his father's estate lived in Frederick County and died about 1817. In 1805 she permitted her two sons, Valentine and Otho, to sell the lands to Samuel Clapham and Daniel Trundle, and consequently he being a minor at that time, his rights in his father's estate were violated.

At the time of the lawsuit, Samuel Clapham had died leaving a widow Elizabeth, of Virginia, but no children. Daniel Trundle had likewise died but left two daughters Mary Elizabeth the wife of Benjamin Shrive, Jr., and Anne the wife of Stephen White, of Montgomery County, Maryland.

The case was lengthy and was unsettled at his death on May 12, 1841. Letters of administration on his estate were granted in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, to Richard W. Gill on March 6, 1843. No heirs of his body were mentioned among the papers.

LEVIN LUCKETT4 (1762 - 1829)

Levin Luckett, son of William and Charity (Middleton) Luckett, was born December 20, 1762, in the lower district of Frederick County, Maryland. At maturity he settled in Loudon County, Virginia, where he married Letitia, the daughter of Francis and Frances (Dade) Peyton. Eleven children were born to this union, but the most outstanding were Alfred (q.v.) and Levin, Jr. (q.v.).

At the first available census for Virginia, that is, 1810, Levin Luckett was the only member of his family, with a residence in Loudon County. His plantation was stocked with twenty-one slaves.

On January 4, 1814, he conveyed to Andrew Clopper, of Baltimore County, Maryland, "Willet's Delay", which had been deeded him by Griffith Willet. Lettice Luckett, his wife, acknowledged the sale. On May 16, same year, he purchased from Charles Tyler, Jr., and Christian his wife land lying in Fauquier County. On December 26, 1821, he and his wife conveyed a lot in Middleburg, Virginia, to Reinard Mannhouse.

Levin Luckett died in Loudon County during 1829.

BENJAMIN LUCKETT4

Benjamin Luckett, son of Thomas and Mary (Griffin) Luckett, was born in Port Tobacco Parish, Charles County, Maryland. On January 10, 1790, he secured license in Charles County to marry Elizabeth Semmes. In 1778, being above the age of 18 years, he took the oath of fidelity and allegiance to the State of Maryland in Charles County. His name is found upon the list of "His Worship Robert Young's Returns".13 According to the tax list of his county in 1783, he was not the owner of any realty. Before the year 1800 he settled in Nelson County, Kentucky. In that county of June 7, 1804, a Benjamin Luckett was issued license to wed Elizabeth Delahay.

THOMAS LUCKETT4

Thomas Luckett, son of Thomas and Mary (Griffith) Luckett, was born in Port Tobacco Parish, Charles County, Maryland. In 1783 he was of sufficient age to be taxable, but in that year he was seized of no realty. In 1797 he was living in Charles County with a wife Mary.

HEZEKIAH LUCKETT4 (1774 - 18--)

Hezekiah Luckett, son of Thomas and Mary (Griffith) Luckett, was born about the year 1774 in Port Tobacco Parish, Charles County, Maryland. In 1797 as a resident of his native county, he acted as attorney for his brothers and sisters of Nelson County, Kentucky.

In the early 1800's he was a member of that Catholic group which migrated from Maryland to Marion County, Kentucky. Among the families which joined in this movement were Alvey, Spalding, Mudd, Beaven, Mattingly, Abel, Edelen, Carrico, and Semmes--all old and staunch Roman Catholic families of Southern Maryland. One of their towns was named St. Mary's after the first settlement in their native State.

In 1815 Hezekiah Luckett was granted 55 acres of land on Pottenger's Creek, which was followed by 196 acres in 1816, and 300 acres in 1831, extending beyond the Washington County line into Nelson County.

At the census of 1850 Hezekiah Luckett was living on his farm in Marion County with his wife Elizabeth, aged 75 and born in Maryland, and Josephine Lennarts, aged 19 but born in Kentucky.

HENRY LUCKETT4 (1777 - 18--)

Henry Luckett, son of Thomas and Mary (Griffith) Luckett, was born 1777 in Port Tobacco Parish, Charles County, Maryland. He married Elizabeth Beaven, born about 1784 in Maryland. He joined his brother, Hezekiah, in the Catholic migration to Kentucky and settled in Marion County. At the census of 1850 he was living in Dictrict no. 2 of that county upon a farm owned by him, with his son John, born 1824 in Kentucky.

SAMUEL NOLAND LUCKETT5

Samuel Noland Luckett, son of John and Molly Anne Luckett, was born in Montgomery County, Maryland, during or shortly after the Revolutionary War. He migrated to Jefferson County, Kentucky, and there on February 4, 1803, he married Patience Dorsey.(*)

(*) For the ancestry of Patience Dorsey, see "Anne Arundel Gentry", by Newman.

Children of Samuel and Patience (Dorsey) Luckett

1. Noland Luckett.

Patience died soon after the birth of her first child, thereupon Samuel Luckett married secondly on October 3, 1808, in Jefferson County, Catherine, born September 19, 1790, the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Whiting) Thurston.

Children of Samuel and Catherine (Thurston) Luckett

2. Elizabeth Luckett.

3. Thurston Luckett.

4. Alfred Luckett.

5. Philip Luckett.

6. Catherine Luckett.

OTHO HOLLAND WILLIAM LUCKETT5

Otho Holland William Luckett, son of Thomas Hussey and Elizabeth Luckett, was born during the Revolutionary War and was named after General Williams of Washington County, who was no doubt his father's friend. His youth was spent in Virginia, and in Fauquier County on November 27, 1805, he negotiated a bond to marry Elizabeth C. Graham. Walter Graham was his surety.

At various times he lived after his marriage in both Maryland and Virginia, but sometime after 1812 he migrated to Ohio. In 1835, as the eldest son, and a resident of Chillicothe, he appointed Joseph S. Watkins, of Goochland County, Virginia, his attorney to establish bounty land from the State of Virginia by rights of his deceased father's services. The warrant was issued accordingly to him on January 6, 1838. The papers showed that his father had died in Loudon County, Virginia, during December 1786, and that the only other heir mentioned was the youngest son, Thomas Hussey Luckett, then a resident of Texas.

ALFRED PEYTON LUCKETT5 (1801 - 1853)

Alfred Peyton Luckett, son of Levin and Letitia (Peyton) Luckett, was born May 12, 1801, in Loudon County, Virginia. He migrated to Jefferson County, Kentucky, and settled upon lands devised him by his father. On February 1, 1827, he married Susan Evaline Hobbs. She was born June 18, 1809, in Jefferson County, the daughter of Basil Nicholson and Mary Anne (Dorsey) Hobbs, pioneer settlers of Kentucky and whose ancestry is connected with some of the most distinguished families of Maryland.(*) They established their seat at Anchorage, where their first ten children were born.

Children of Alfred and Susan (Hobbs) Luckett

1. Levin Luckett, born 1827, died 1877.

2. Evaline Hobbs Luckett, born 1829, died spinster 1875.

3. Basil Hobbs Luckett, born 1830.

4. Edward Luckett married Ann Murray. q.v.

5. John Huntley Luckett, born 1834, C. S. A., d.s.p., 1905.

6. Robert Fenton Luckett, born 1836, C. S. A., killed in action Jan 1, 1862, d.s.p.

7. Alfred Peyton Luckett.

8. William Francis Luckett, born 1840, C. S. A., killed in action at Vicksburg, June 1864, d.s.p.

(*) For the history of the Dorsey family, see "Anne Arundel Gentry", by Newman.

9. Ludwell Daingerfield Luckett, born 1842, U. S. A.,killed in action Oct. 8, 1862, at Perryville.

10. Thomas Dade Luckett married Maria Gracey. q.v.

11. Humphrey Luckett married Francis Haynie. q.v.

12. Henry Hatcher Luckett married Sedonia Odom. q.v.

13. Lou Sue Luckett, born Mar. 2, 1853, at St. Charles, Mo.; married June 20, 1871, at Galveston, to William Worth Moore, son of A. W. and Mary Collins (Miller) Moore, of Bastrop, Tex.; she died Mar.

13, 1915, at Staunton, Va., and interred at Galveston. Issue: Powell; William; and Lutie.

About 1842 Alfred Luckett and his young family removed to St. Charles County, Missouri, where the three youngest children were born. He died there on September 3, 1853, but was interred at the Hobbs private burying grounds at Anchorage, Kentucky. Shortly afterwards, his widow returned to her native State and settled at Middletown.

The widow died February 14, 1881, at Galveston and her remains were interred beside those of her deceased husband at Anchorage.

LEVIN LUCKETT5

Levin Luckett, son of Levin and Letitia (Peyton) Luckett, was born in Loudon County, Virginia. His wife was Adaline Crain. Eight children were born to this union--two sons and six daughters. Robert Levin, one of the sons, married Angelique Marye (q.v.).

DR. EDWARD HOBBS LUCKETT6 (1833 - 1903)

Edward Hobbs Luckett, son of Alfred and Susan (Hobbs) Luckett, was born January 3, 1833, in Jefferson County, Kentucky. On May 10, 1859, he was married to Ann Hartley Murray, born September 6, 1837. He established his seat at Owensboro, Kentucky, where he practised the profession of medicine for a number of years, and where all of his eight children were born. He died there on February 4, 1903. His widow survived him several years and died at Washington, D. C., on November 18, 1920. William Stone Luckett, their youngest child was born in 1875 (q.v.).

THOMAS DADE LUCKETT6, C. S. A. (1843 - 1913)

Thomas Dade Luckett, son of Alfred and Susan (Hobbs) Luckett, was born 1843 at the parental estate Middleton in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and as a small child was carried by his parents to St. Charles County, Missouri. He returned to Kentucky with his mother after the death of his father. During the War between the States he served first as a private in the 10th Regiment of Partisan Rangers but later in Co. C, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry, C. S. A., under General John H. Morgan. He was captured with Morgan's men at Buffington Island in 1863, and for 18 months was incarcerated at Camp Douglas near Chicago. He was paroled in 1865 with General Basil Duke, of Alabama, and returned to his home in Kentucky.

On December 2, 1869, he married at Eddyville, Kentucky, Maria Tilford who was born December 16, 1843, the daughter of Matthew and Maria (Tilford) Gracey. Her paternal ancestry was of Pennsylvania colonial lineage, but her grandfather George Gracey came about 1804 to Kentucky and married Mary Patton whose father, James, in 1778 settled at Corn Island, near Louisville.

Children of Thomas and Maria (Gracey) Luckett

1. Mary Stacker Luckett married William Drane. q.v.

2. Gracey Hobbs Luckett married Edmonia Rankin. q.v.

3. Roberta Luckett, born Dec. 6, 1878, at Clarksville, Tenn., married Nov. 8, 1913, William Edward Baldwin, of Covington, Ky., and resides (1937) at Cleveland.

After the war Thomas Dade Luckett resided for a brief period in Owensboro, Kentucky, but later settled at Eddyville where he supervised the tobacco concern of Kerr-Clark & Co. In 1875 he removed to Clarksville, Tennessee, and formed a partnership with M. H. and L. R. Clark, tobaccoists, but after the dissolution of this firm he organized the Luckett Wake Tobacco Co., which maintained five factories in different parts of the South. The company was highly successful and maintained a large export trade with foreign countries. In 1909 these plants were consolidated into one large concern at Louisville, where at present (1937) the business is controlled by his son.

Thomas Dade Luckett was active in Confederate organizations after the war, was an original member of Forbes Bivouac at Clarksville, and served as their presiding officer for many years.

This branch of the Luckett family was consistent to the traditional and ancient faith of its forbears in old Maryland, where the Church of England was the State and only recognized faith. Thomas Dade Luckett served for many years as vestryman and senior warden of Trinity Episcopal Parish at Clarksville.

His estate at Clarksville was the center of the social and cultural life of that part of Tennessee and was presided over by his wife. She died there on June 18, 1910, and was interred at Greenwood Cemetery. The death of Thomas Luckett occurred on May 24, 1913, and his remains were buried besides those of his wife.

Their eldest child, Mary Stacker Luckett, was born at Eddyville, Kentucky, on January 4, 1872, but as a young girl moved to Clarksville with her parents. Her early training, like most Southern girls of that day, was with private tutors, but later she attended Miss Belle Peers' Finishing School at Louisville.

On December 14, 1899, she married William McClure Drane, born May 23, 1866, in Clarksville, the son of William McClure and Amelia Washington (Haddox) Drane, early settlers of Clarksville. The paternal ancestors of Mr. Drane were of Maryland but had figured in the early settlement of Tennessee. He was graduated from the Southwestern Presbyterian University and was early engaged in banking, but later associated himself with the foundry and implement business. His death occurred suddenly on May 24, 1931.

Children of William and Mary (Luckett) Drane

1. Roberta Luckett Drane, born Mar. 11, 1911, attended Sweet Briar College and Vanderbilt Univ.; married Nov. 16, 1935, Hilliard Officer Wood, of Nashville.

2. William McClure Drane, born Oct. 4, 1912, B. A. Cum Laude, Vanderbilt Univ., '34.

3. Walter Harding Drane, born Feb. 18, 1915, B. A. Optime Merens, Univ. of the South, '35.

Mary (Luckett) Drane is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution as well as the Colonial Dames of Tennessee through the Maryland services of her ancestor, Colonel William Luckett, of Frederick Town. She maintains (1937) her residence at Clarksville.

HUMPHREY POWELL LUCKETT6 (1846 - 1925)

Humphrey Powell Luckett, son of Alfred and Susan (Hobbs) Luckett, was born May 26, 1846, in St. Charles County, Missouri. On June 28, 1869, at Austin, Texas, he married Frances Travis Haynie, daughter of Dr. S. G. and Hannah Marie (Evans) Haynie, of Austin. He, as a doctor of medicine, practiced his profession at Bastrop, Texas. He died there on October 25, 1925; his widow died during February 1930. Five sons were born to this union, but the most outstanding was William Henry (q.v.).

HENRY HATCHER LUCKETT6 (1848 - 1923)

Henry Hatcher Luckett, son of Alfred and Susan (Hobbs) Luckett, was born June 6, 1848, at St. Charles County, Missouri. On January 1, 1879, at Brownwood, Texas, he was married to Sedonia Catherine Odom who was born April 6, 1850, at Birmingham, Alabama. Three children were born to this union, Alfred Powell Luckett (q.v.) being the youngest. He died at his residence in Ballinger, Texas, on January 29, 1923; his widow died there on February 8, 1936.

Lousue Evelyn Luckett, their only daughter, was born June 6, 1881, at Fort Chadbourne, Texas. She married Charles P. Shepherd, a native of Salisbury, Missouri, who was born February 28, 1874. Only one child--Lousue Evelyn--was the result of this union, and was born at Ballinger, Texas, on September 27, 1909.

On June 15, 1934, at Ballinger, Lousue Evelyn Shepherd married Howard S. Parker who was born March 12, 1899, at Trenton, Texas. Their daughter--Lousue Katherine Parker--was born at Fort Worth, Texas, on April 24, 1937, and is ninth in descent from Samuel Luckett, the Emigrant, and his youngest known descendant at the publication of these chronicles.

ROBERT LEVIN LUCKETT6

Robert Levin Luckett, son of Levin and Adaline (Crain) Luckett, married Angelique Marye. They became the parents of five sons and five daughters. Among the daughters were:

1. Cora Mary Luckett married James W. Alexander.

2. Mary Elizabeth Luckett married Thomas P. Wheadon.

3. Marsolina Eugenia Luckett married Howard Gist.

Marsolina Eugenia, daughter of Robert, married Howard Battle Gist, born in White County, Arkansas, the son of Louis Byron and Martha (Battle) Gist, and a scion of an early colonial family which has been identified with the development of America for several centuries. She is a Colonial Dame through her ancestor, Colonel William Luckett, and maintains her residence at Alexandria, Louisiana. To her and her husband was born one son--Howard II--at present (1937) a student at Washington and Lee University.

DR. WILLIAM HENRY LUCKETT7 (1872 - 1925)

William Henry Luckett, son of Humphrey and Frances (Haynie) Luckett, was born November 22, 1872, at Bastrop, Texas. He adopted the profession of his father, but studied at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College before he pursued medicine at the Universty of Virginia. On October 23, 1896, in New York City, where he was a practising physician for a number of years, he married Florence H. Field, a native of San Francisco, the daughter of John and Helen (Jordan) Field. Only one child--Frances--was born to this union.

At the beginning of the World War, William Henry Luckett was commissioned a captain of the Medical Corps and served in France for 14 months as a surgeon with the First Division, Field Hospital no. 12. He was cited for heroic services at the battle of Soisson, being 60 hours on his feet at the temporary hospital in the Chateau Pierrepont. He died July 20, 1929.

Frances, the only child, was born June 23, 1899, in New York City. On January 30, 1926, in New York City, she was married to John Caldwell Corliss Gardiner, a graduate of Cornell University. He was born July 7, 1893, at Troy, New York, the son of William Ray Gardiner, of Washington, Indiana, and Helen Corliss his wife, of Troy, New York.

Two daughters were born--Jean Florence, born May 3, 1927, and Joan Corliss, born April 16, 1929--both at New York City. Mr. Gardiner with his family resides (1937) in Washington, D. C.

ALFRED POWELL LUCKETT7

Alfred Powell Luckett, the third and youngest child of Henry Hatcher and Sedonia (Odom) Luckett, was born March 7, 1883, at Fort Chadbourne, Texas. On October 17, 1917, he married Bertha Rasbury, of Ballenger, Texas, who became the mother of his two children--Alfred Edgar, born February 22, 1921, and Lucile, born January 20, 1924. Mr. Luckett maintains his home (1937) at San Angelo, Texas, where he is one of the outstanding business men of that community.

WILLIAM STONE LUCKETT7

William Stone Luckett, son of Edward Hobbs and Ann Hartley (Murray) Luckett, was born in Kentucky on April 24, 1875. He was married on November 1, 1901, to Marianne Eagler, who was born in the year 1876, at Yelvington, Kentucky. They are at present (1937) residents of New York City, where Mr. Luckett is connected with various tobacco interests.

Children of William Stone and Marianne (Eagler) Luckett

1. Katharine Hartley Luckett, born Dec. 17, 1902, married Nov. 27, 1926, Albert Shaw. Issue: Marianna Luckett, born Aug. 24, 1928; Albert, born June 25, 1903; and Edward Luckett, born Apr. 16, 1936.

2. Edward Hobbs Luckett, born Apr. 1, 1904, married Oct. 9, 1929, Mary Gardner Sayles, born Jan. 17, 1907. Issue: William Stone, born Sept. 10, 1931; Mary Kingman, born Nov. 12, 1933; and Nina Katherine, born Oct. 21, 1936.

GRACEY HOBBS LUCKETT7

Gracey Hobbs Luckett, son of Thomas Dade and Maria (Gracey) Luckett, was born April 28, 1877, at Clarksville, Tennessee. He was graduated from the Southwestern Presbyterian University at Clarksville and subsequently established himself at Louisville where he became identified with his father's tobacco interests. Upon the death of his father in 1913 he became president of the establishment.

On November 6, 1907, he married Edmonia Rankin, born November 8, 1878, of Henderson, Kentucky.

Children of Gracey and Edmonia (Rankin) Luckett

1. Thomas Dade Luckett, born Nov. 4, 1908, educated at Hill's School of Pottstown, Pa., and graduated from Chicago School of Fine Arts.

2. Edwin Rankin Luckett, born Nov. 15, 1910.

3. Frances Grinter Luckett, born Dec. 20, 1912, married Apr. 9, 1935, Carlysle Allen Bethel, of N. Y.

4. Gracey Hobbs Luckett (dau.), born May 2, 1918.

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