Husband William Lockett 1
Born: 4 Mar 1772 - Virginia (Chesterfield Co.)
Christened:
Died: 26 Apr 1853 - (Wayne Co., Ky) 2
Buried: - Lockett's Chapel Cemetery, Wayne Co., Ky 3
Father: Richard Lockett (Bef 1734-1795)
Mother: Mary Logwood ( -Abt 1805)
Marriage:
Wife Louisa DeForest 1
Born: 13 Aug 1767
Christened:
Died: 13 Apr 1849 - (Wayne Co., Ky)
Buried: - Lockett's Chapel Cemetery, Wayne Co., Ky 4
Father: Cornelius DeForest ( -Abt 1782)
Mother: Sarah ( - )
Other Spouse: Butler ( - ) - Abt 1797 - Wythe Co., Virginia 5
Children
1 F Mary L. Lockett
Born: Bef 1804 - (Wayne Co., Kentucky)
Christened:
Died: After 1850
Buried:
Spouse: John Prather ( -Bef 1850)
Marr: 8 Jul 1839 - Wayne Co., Kentucky 6
2 F Elizabeth Lockett
Born: Bef 1804 - (Wayne Co., Kentucky)
Christened:
Died: 1850 - (Wayne Co., Kentucky)
Buried:
Spouse: Elisha Franklin (Abt 1783-1840)
Marr: 23 Aug 1826 - Wayne Co., Kentucky 7
3 F Matilda DeForest Lockett 8 9
Born: 11 Jan 1803 - Virginia
Christened:
Died: 31 Jan 1867 10
Buried: - Parker Cemetery, Elihu, Pulaski Co., KY
Spouse: Lewis Parker (1798-1863) 8 9
Marr: 17 May 1824 - Wayne Co., Kentucky 8 9 11
4 M Lemuel Lockett
Born: 1804-1810 - (Wayne Co., Kentucky)
Christened:
Died: Abt 1842
Buried:
Spouse: Margaret Wood (Abt 1811-1850/1860)
Marr: 20 Sep 1834 - Wayne Co., Kentucky 6
General Notes: Husband - William Lockett
CENSUS:
<pre>1810 Wayne Co., Kentucky
Wm. Locket 10010 -- 13010
male female
1 <10 1
10-15 3
16-25
1 26-44 1
>45 </pre>
<pre>1820 Wayne Co., Kentucky
William Locket 010001 -- 00401; 2 in agriculture; no slaves
male female
<10
1 10-16
16-18
16-26 4
26-45
1 >45 1 </pre>
<pre>1840 Wayne Co., Kentucky
Wm. Lockett 000100001 -- 0001000001; 1 in agriculture; no slaves
male female
< 5
5-10
10-15
1 15-20 1
20-30
30-40
40-50
50-60
1 60-70
70-80 1 </pre>
<pre>1850 Wayne Co., Kentucky, District No. 2; Aug 13
153/158
William Lockett 78 MW Va $1200 Farmer
Matilda Franklin 21 FW Ky
Lewis " 16 MW Ky
Louisa " 13 FW Ky
Mary " 10 FW Ky </pre>
He is not in the Slave Schedule. Daughter-in-law Margaret Lockett lives at 154/159 with five children.
MINISTER:
A Century of Wayne County Kentucky, 1800-1900
by Augusta Phillips Johnson, 1939
Chapter V; Early Preachers--Churches--Lawyers--Doctors; pgs 76-79:
About 1800, William Lockett, for whom Lockett's Chapel was named, moved into that neighborhood. The original building was erected on land donated by him. His daughter married Rev. Lewis Parker of Pulaski County, and their daughter married Rev. Thomas G. Harrison. William Lockett and his wife were deeply religious. Their religion was of that quality that enabled them to meet a most unusual and trying situation with the serenity that marks the true Christian character. The following narration, by one of their descendants, tells graphically the story of their dilemma and how they met it:
"My great-grandmother Lockett's maiden name was De Forrest. She lived in Virginia and married there, probably in the 1780's, a man whose name I am unable to recall certainly, but I think it was Pepper. He was also a resident of that state and they continued to live there after their marriage. Some three or four years later, when their baby girl was about two years old, he had occasion to go to Europe, leaving his wife and child at their home. For some reason, I do not know whether on account of shipwreck, capture or what, he did not return to America for some twelve or fourteen years, maybe longer. His wife concluded after some seven or eight years that he was dead, as she heard nothing at all from him or of him during this interval, and she married my great-grandfather, William Lockett, and they came to Kentucky, bought a farm and settled out in the Lockett's Chapel neighborhood.
"After some years, when she and her second husband had two or three children, the first husband returned to their home town in Virginia. Informed of his wife's marriage, after he landed, and that she and Lockett had come to Kentucky, he followed at once and came to the neighborhood where they lived. Instead of going to see them when he got there, he decided that the better course would be, if they were living happily, simply to slip away and leave them to continue to think that he was dead. Uncle Mike Castillo told me that his father told him that he, that is, this first husband, stayed at his house two or three days, and that he took him, Mr. Castillo, into his confidence and told him his story. He said that he investigated sufficiently to satisfy himself that Lockett and his wife were happy and comfortable and that he had decided to go away without letting them know that he had been there or, for that matter, that he was still alive. But he said that he wanted to see his child. Mr. Castillo told him that he would arrange for him to do that. He accordingly arranged for her to come for water to the big spring near the house (in those early days many residences were located with reference to a spring, then the most convenient source of water) and her father came riding by casually, while she was there and stopped to get a drink. He talked to her for some time, but without disclosing his identity, but he told Mr. Castillo that the hardest fight of his life was to keep from telling her who he was and taking her in his arms. He went away then, and I know nothing of his subsequent history. Uncle Mike told me that his father said he gave an entirely satisfactory explanation of his detention in Europe and of his inability to communicate with his wife, and that he impressed him and the other two or three neighbors who met him as a man of integrity and intelligence.
"He requested that nothing should ever be said to his wife or any other member of the family of his visit, as he preferred that they should continue to think of him as probably dead. But somebody, for some reason, told Mr. Lockett about it after awhile, and he, feeling that it was the only honorable course, told his wife, explaining to her that while it would ruin his life to give her up, she must settle the matter as she thought best. She was a very religious woman (I have heard one of my mother's older sisters tell of her taking her with her to the grove of trees near the house where she went every day for secret prayer), and she told Mr. Lockett that she wanted to study and pray over the matter for a few days and would then tell him her decision. She came to him three or four days later and told him that she had reached a decision---that she had loved her first husband, but had, with good reason, believed him dead and mourned for him and been true to his memory, and that she had concluded that under all the circumstances her proper place was with her present husband and children. That is, she decided that it was her duty to stay with her second husband, and this she did. Lewis Parker, a young Methodist preacher from New York, married in 1824, Matilda Lockett, one of the children of this second marriage. My information is that in order to establish her marriage status and legitimatize the children of the second marriage, proper steps were taken to do so by court proceedings or legislative action.
"No information is available as to the subsequent history of the first husband. The daughter remained with her mother and step-father. In young womanhood she married and moved to one of the western states, where, there is a tradition in the family that one of her sons became governor."
The Wayne Circuit was organized in 1803 by Jacob Young. This included Wayne, Clinton, Cumberland, Pulaski, and Russell counties. Lewis Parker was the preacher of that circuit in 1824.
About the year 1830 Colonel Walter Emerson moved from Tennessee and settled in Wayne County, Kentucky, near the Pulaski County line. Indeed, a part of his farm lay in Pulaski County and a part in Wayne. After he had established his home, it was used as a preaching place by the Methodists for a number of years. In 1852, William Alexander was appointed to the Wayne Circuit and secured a deed from Colonel Emerson to a lot lying in Pulaski County on which a modest frame building 28 by 32 was erected. It was about this time that Isaac W. Emerson, a member of the Louisville Conference, married Miss Sally Parker, daughter of Rev. Lewis Parker of Pulaski County. It was also about this time that Colonel Emerson's youngest daughter, Miss Myrtle, married the Rev. R. C. Alexander who, for many years, was a useful and highly esteemed member of the Louisville Conference.
When the little church referred to above was dedicated and named Alexander's Chapel, it was the only Methodist church within a radius of 10 miles, but there are now four charges, Monticello, West Monticello, Mill Springs, and Wayne Circuit, embraced within the territory which was then served by the original Wayne Circuit. In this territory there are now fourteen Methodist churches. There was an organized Methodist church in the home of Colonel Emerson at least fifteen years before the Alexander's Chapel church building was erected. Lovell's Chapel church, which is located up South Fork of Cumberland River across from Burnside, is an offspring of Alexander's Chapel. It was erected about 1905.
WILL:
On page 55 of volume 6 of "Wayne Co., Ky Marriages and Vital Records 1801--1860" by June Baldwin Bork there is an abstract of William Lockett's will. It was written 16 Jan 1850 and proved 23 May 1853.
1) "to my two daughters Mary L. Prather and Elizabeth Franklin the farm I now live on with all property to be divided and at their deaths, then to children of Elizabeth Franklin: Matilda x, Lewis P., Louisa J, Mary E."
2) "to daughter-in-law Margaret Lockett the farm she now lives on during her life and at her death or marriage, then to her 5 children: Mary L., Sarah E., William A., James K., and Margaret Ann Lockett."
3) "I have given to son-in-law Lewis Parker his portion, the farm where Joseph Miller now lives."
Executor: friend Andrew McBeath
Winesses: James Phillips, Cader Powell
LAND GRANT:
Author
Title
Summary
Description: 160 acres on the waters of New River, beginning at the head of Ingrams Bottom Branch.
Source: Land Office Grants No. 45, 1799-1800, p. 88 (Reel 111).
In "Kentucky, Land Grants, 1782-1924" at ancestry.com there are two grants to William Lockett in Wayne Co.:
52 acres surveyed 5 Oct 1809 on Cumberland River, book 27
200 acres surveyed 12 Nov 1831 on Cumberland River, book 28
There is no entry for 'Lockett' in the grantee index of the deed records of Wayne Co. through Volume S. The only entry in the grantor index is the following.
On May 28, 1866 William A. Lockett sells to George T. Loving for $450 a tract of land in Wayne Co. on the waters of Cumberland River containing 200 acres patented to William Lockett November 18, 1828 and "subject so such conditional lines as may heretofore have been made and recognized by the said Wm. Lockett" (Wayne Co. Deed Records, Vol Q, pg 441).
In the 1851 tax list (available at familysearch.org) William Lockett has 2 tracts of land on the Cumberland River -- 170 acres and 130 acres each worth $600. He has 2 horses/mares worth $50 and pays $12.50. His daughter-in-law Margaret Lockett has no land, 2 horses/mares worth $80, and 4 children between 5 and 16 years of age and pays $.80. In 1852 and in 1853 no Lockett is present in the tax list.
