George Lockyear

    George Lockyear, a prominent citizen and farmer of Campbell Township, was born in Vanderburg County, Indiana, December 16, 1824, the third in a family of eight children born to the marriage of Christopher Lockyear and Letitia Porter, who were natives of England. They immigrated to the United States in 1818, settling in Vanderburg County, Indiana, where Mr. Lockyear engaged in farming and blacksmithing until his death in 1832, occasioned by cholera. His widow afterward moved to this county, where she died in 1869.

    George Lockyear made his home with his mother and step-father until attaining his majority, receiving in youth such education as the common schools afforded. April 6, 1848, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Iglehart, who was born August 11, 1824, and died December 17, 1862. Of the four children born to their union one son, George G. is yet living. Mr. Lockyear was married April 14, 1870, to his present wife, who was formerly Miss Barbara Hilliard, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his first wife. He is a Republican, a progressive and intelligent citizen and the owner of a farm containing eighty acres of good land.

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.