Philip Lucas, the patriarch of the Lucas family of the Belleview Valley, was born April 12, 1824, near Childress’ Store in Montgomery County, Virginia. On November 25, 1843, he married his first wife, Elizabeth Dobbins, who was born December 8, 1822.

To this union nine children were born. The first two ' born in Virginia: (1) Giles (Jiles) (Joiles) Gordon Lucas, a farmer, who was born August 26, 1844 and died on his farm near Caledonia on March 28, 1928. Giles served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, mostly in southern Missouri and Arkansas, where he met his first wife, Seleta R. Lemmons, who was born in 1844. They were married June 13, 1865 and had the following children: (a) & (b) Two girls who died in infancy and were buried in the Carson Cemetery located on the Joe Strickland (formerly John Shipp) farm near Belgrade: (c) James L. Lucas - born October 24, 1868. died February 20,1960; (d) Eddie Lucas - born October 2, 1873 died January 25, 1880; (e) John William Lucas horn October 11,1880. died October 21, 1949. Seleta Lemmons Lucas died in 1906.

Giles then remarried. He and his second wife Laura J. Lucas had the following children: (a) Lemro G. Lucas - born October 12, 1908- died October 18, 1940; (b) Enid Earline Lucas, who married Dr. Dempsey. She was born May 29, 1910; and (c) Otho Lucas - born March 4,1912. (2) Mary Elizabeth Lucas - born October 22, 1845 - died November 15, 1932. She married Dennis Sullivan - born in Ireland March 1, 1831 - died at Caledonia October 3, 1922. Children:

(a) Mary Elizabeth Sullivan (Mrs. Jasper Anderson) May 1, 1865 - died January 9,1919; (b) Daniel Sullivan -born January 16,1869 - died April 29,1933; and (c) Effie Jane Sullivan (Mrs. Fred Gilliam) - born February 28, 1879 died July 8, 1959

In the spring of 1846, Philip, Elizabeth, Giles and Mary Beth left Virginia and moved to the Okaw, Illinois, area here they lived a few months. In the move Philip drove ox drawn wagon and Elizabeth a horse and buggy. Health conditions were poor around Okaw, it being close to the Kaskaskia River, so the family moved to Missouri later in 1846 and settled In the new mining community of Iron Mountain which had opened in 1844. There Philip went to work for the American Iron Mountain Company and worked for them and their successors on an intermittent basis until the late 1880's. As William L. Self mentions in his "History of Iron Mountain Lake Area", "The iron market had its alternate periods of activity and depression

In Missouri the following children were born to Philip and Elizabeth: (3) Lucinda Jane Lucas born February 15, 1847 died March 3, 1848; (4) James Paris Lucas born March 3. 1849. After becoming an adult, he moved to California and became a supervisor for the Sierra Nevada Lumber Company. He worked most of his adult life in the Lyonsville Shingletown - Red Bluff area, often returning to Caledonia during the winter when deep snow stopped work at the lumber company. As the company flumed their lumber 40 miles from Lyonsville to Red Bluff, the flume couldn't operate in ~h. winter. James Paris and his first wife, Gibson Lucas, had two children (a) William (Willie) E. Lucas, who married May Taylor of Caledonia at Sacramento, California, on February 3, 1912, and spent most of his life around Lyonsville and Red Bluff, and (b) a daughter (name unknown) who with her husband and two children were lost in the San Francisco earthquake of 1905 and their remains never found. James Paris's second wife was Patty Taylor of Caledonia, older sister of May Taylor, wife of his son Willie Lucas. They had no children. James Paris was in what is now Lassen Volcanic National Park deer hunting in May 1915 when Mt. Lassen erupted and blew timber down over a several square mile area, similar to the recent Mt. St. Helens eruption. James Paris and Patty both died at Red Bluff, California, he on January 10, 1929 and she, at age 91, on December 1, 1958.

(5) Julia Ann Lucas - born September 17, 1850 - died September 3, 1939 at Bismarck. She married James A. Akers (a farmer and carpenter). He was born in 1849 and died in 1927. Children: (a) Henry P. Akers - born 1872-died 1959; (b) Nora N. Akers (Mrs. Albert G. Weeks) born 1872. died 1953, and (c) a child who died in infancy. (6) Virginia (Jennie) Catherine Lucas - born July 1, 1852- died October 6, 1897 at Dixon, Missouri and buried there in the city cemetery. She married Benjamin Franklin (B. F.) (Frank) Imboden on October 5, 1875. (See George Imboden history indicated elsewhere in this volume). Frank was born in Manes County, Missouri, on September 1,1856 and died at Dixon, Missouri, April 3, 1916. To this union six children were born:

(a) Doshia Imboden (Mrs. David Frank Gates) born July 24, 1876 died March 4, 1968 at Chicago, Illinois; (b) Letta Imboden (Mrs. Carr) (Mrs. Charles Schlenker) - born November 15, 1878- died March 6, 1967; (c) Arthur Franklin Imboden born February 12, 1880- died December 29, 1974 at Miami, Oklahoma, and buried in the C. A. R. Cemetery there. (Arthur furnished the history of the John Sweigert Imboden family located elsewhere in this volume); (d) Clara Imboden (Mrs. Lawton) (Mrs. Messer) - born in 1883- died October 1, 1969; (e) Zora (Zoe) Imboden (Mrs. William Jefferson Edens) - born January 12, 1884- died December 27, 1968 at Miami, Oklahoma and buried in the G. A. R. Cemetery there; and (f) Jennie Ethel Imboden - born October 6,1889 died May 6,1967. (7) Justine (Tine) Jane Lucas - born November 12,1855. Died November 27,1917. She married L. L. (Luther) Sinclair, a Caledonia merchant. Children: (a) Benton (Ben) P. Sinclair - born 1875- died 1938. Like his father, he was a merchant in Caledonia many years; (b) Fred A. Sinclair - born 1879 - died 1943; and (c) Mont L. Sinclair~ - born March 15, 1880- died December 22,1962. (8) Josephine Lucas - born April 3,1858 - died March 14,1863; and (9) Elnora (Ella) Lucas - born August 12,1861- died December 5, 1908. She married Valentine (Vol) Hughes and lived many years on Janes Creek. No record of their children or place of burial was located.

Philip's first wife Elizabeth died at Iron Mountain, Missouri on January 9, 1864 and was buried there.

On August 19, 1864, Philip married Mary Margaret Imboden Neely, widow of James T. Neely. She was the youngest of 10 children of John and Sarah (Sally) Golladay Imboden whose family history is under the heading John Imboden and found elsewhere in this volume. Mary Margaret was born in the Belleview Valley on September 13, 1839.

To this union five children were born: (1) Charles William (C. W.) Lucas~ (A schoolteacher and farmer) - born July 20, 1867 - died November 15, 1928. He married Onie McMurtrey - born August 12, 1867 - died July 13, 1942 (No children); (2) John Thomas (J. T.) Lucas (farmer) born May 9, 1869 - died February 28, 1956. He married Ava Josephine Weeks on November 13, 1907. She was born September 25, 1879 and died January 7, 1938. Children: (a) Charles Stanley (C. S.) Lucas - born August 19, 1908 (Veteran WW II) and (b) Ralph Weeks Lucas~ - born July 1, 1915 (Veteran WW II & Korea); (3) Ada Lucas - born September 15,1871 - died December 28,1960. She married James Thomas (J. T.) Garrett (A carpenter, wagon maker and farmer) on November 20, 1892. He was born June 17, 1864 and died October 29, 1946. Children: (a) Genevieve Garrett (Mrs. Lewis B. Kindred) - born July 31, 1895; (b) Florence Garrett (Mrs. Ray Townsend) born August 26, 1898 - died March 6, 1951; and (c) Thomas Rayburn Garrett - born December 13,1902 died June 29, 1965.

(4) Minnie Lucas - born January 27, 1874- died November 3, 1886 (During a typhoid epidemic); and (5) Dora Lucas born July 8, 1876 at Iron Mountain - died January 18, 1967. She married Claude J. Hill~, a barber and undertaker, in September 1903. He was born in Phelps County, Missouri, on April 30, 1880- died April 10, 1952 at Bismarck. Children (All born at Bismarck): (a) Edgar Hill - born July 26,1905 - died June 16,1978 in California; (b) Hazel Hill (Mrs. Charley Pratt)~~~ - born October 1,1907; (c) Ray Lucas Hill born January 9. 1914; and (d) Glenn HiII - born February 3, 1919 About the same time Philip Lucas settled at Iron Mountain in 1846, he purchased land in Washington County about one mile south of Belgrade near Big River which became known as "The Lucas Farm." This land was purchased from Mrs. Mary T. Overton, widow of Benjamin J. Overton, who had been killed in the War of 1812. The land had been given to Mary as a widow's dowery and settlement from the U. S. Government for the loss of her husband. When Philip purchased the property there was a two-story log house on it. This house was later weatherboarded and in 1870 a frame addition of a dining room and extra large kitchen was erected. The house remained intact until it was torn down in the late 1970's.

Philip kept the farm the remainder of his life and also rented a residence in Iron Mountain from the mining company (NOTE: The mining company owned all buildings in town except the churches) and his records show he paid personal property taxes in St. Francois County until the late 1880's. Even though he paid real estate taxes on the 142 acre Lucas Farm in Washington County, no record of a deed to the property can be located until Ulysses S. Grant, then president of the U. S., signed a deed to Philip Lucas on March 10, 1871 transferring 120 acres of land to him from Mary Overton. It is also noted that this deed was recorded in the Washington County records on November 13, 1946, over 75 years after it was made (Ralph Weeks Lucas has the original deed).

Philip Lucas, like many other individuals, found that living in the Belgrade - Caledonia - Iron Mountain area of Missouri during the Civil War was often a trying experience. He was a southern sympathizer and had one brother, Charley Lucas; five half-brothers, John W. Lucas, James Anderson Lucas, Eldrid Henderson Lucas, George Paris Lucas, and Rice Montique Lucas; and one son, Giles Gordon Lucas, in the Confederate Army. As his two homes were in the border region of Missouri and because of animosity between northern and southern sympathizers, he occasionally had to leave home and go to a safer area, usually to the Black River area of Reynolds County. One night during the war, he watched two Union sympathizers he knew set his farmhouse on fire but his daughters carried water from the spring and put out the fire. He followed the two individuals across Big River where they set fire to and burned the farm home of the two old maid Carson sisters who lived on what was later to become known as the Pierce Robinson farm. Even though he knew the arsonists, he never revealed their names to other members of the family during his lifetime.

On another occasion during the war, he was going up on Janes Creek to help a friend cradle grain when a Mr. Shufflebarger shot at him with a muzzle loading rifle and the bullet went through his mustache. His second son, James Paris Lucas, who was about 13 years old, was with him. At the time, Philip did not have his gun but instead was carrying his cradle, which he'd brought with him from Virginia in the ox wagon. The cradle is now loaned to the Ralph Foster Museum at The School of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri.

Because of his age, Philip was not drafted into the Union Army and received an exemption from military service as shown below.

As the mines at Iron Mountain did not operate continuously, Philip combined farming with mining. This required part of the family to reside at the farm and part at Iron Mountain. The children apparently spent their time, as they preferred, either at the farm or in town until the late 1870's when they evidently moved to the farm and Philip spent only work days at Iron Mountain. The two places were 20 odd miles apart so he had quite a trip on weekends. He evidently quit working at Iron Mountain around the late 1880's for he transferred his Masonic Lodge membership to Tyro Lodge No. 12 at Caledonia on April 20, 1889 when he was 65 years old.

In addition to farming and mining, he operated a contract clearing operation in Washington County and cleared timberland for anyone desiring his services. In payment for his work, he received all the timber and use of the cleared land for three years. The wood removed brought 75c per cord and you do your own hauling. The newly cleared land was usually planted in corn that he fed to hogs, which were butchered, and much of the meat sold. A lot of the contract wood cutting and part of the farming was done by hired men who lived with the family on the farm and worked for little more than room and board. According to the records, there were often from three to six of these hired hands but only two names are known, I. e., Doc Hutchins, who was noted for his fishing ability and Ben Landers, who had a normal sized body but very short dwarfed legs. The family used to enjoy hearing Ben complain when neighbors tried to hire him to dig and pick up potatoes as they thought he didn't have far to stoop and could do the work faster than they could. Ben wouldn't work for them as he said it hurt his back to stoop.

Philip also taught singing schools in the community and his records show he carried on this operation for years. It was another source of income as he charged each student $1.00 for the term and a surprising number of people attended.

For years he was a member of the Masonic Lodge and records show he received his Entered Apprentice Degree on December 2, 1865 at Star of the West Lodge No. 133 at Ironton, Missouri. The Fellow Craft Degree was conferred on February 26, 1875 and the Master Mason Degree on April 24, 1875 both by Iron Mountain Lodge No.430. He remained active at the Iron Mountain Lodge until he transferred to Tyro Lodge No. 12 at Caledonia on April 20, 1889 where he remained a member until his death.

Philip's family attributed his death at age 73 largely to him attending the funeral and burial of one of his very close Masonic friends who was buried during one of the worst blizzards Missouri had ever experienced. The roads were impassable to wheeled vehicles due to the drifted snow so he rode a horse from the farm to Caledonia, then the cemetery, and back to the farm, a trip of about 12 miles. When he arrived home he was nearly frozen and his son, John Thomas Lucas, had to help him from his horse. After that his health failed rapidly and he died at the farm on December 31, 1897

After Philips' death, his children signed their claim to the Lucas Farm over to John Thomas Lucas, the youngest son, provided he take care of Philip's widow, Mary Margaret Imboden Neely Lucas, and their unmarried daughter, Dora Lucas, until the widow died and the daughter married. Mary Margaret died at the farm February 7, 1923 and Dora married in September 1903. John Thomas kept the farm until he retired in the 1940's and moved to Bismarck.

John Thomas often told the story how he learned about Santa Claus when he was seven years old. On the afternoon of December 24, 1876, he was out in the yard at the farm watching for his father to come in from Iron Mountain for Christmas. He saw his father riding up to the barn with a bushel basket on his arm but when he came to the house the basket was missing. That night John Thomas and his sisters Ada and Minnie were sleeping in the room where the family had the Christmas tree. He said he was determined he wasn't going to fall asleep as he'd figured out, because of the missing basket, who Santa Claus was.

Up in the night he heard his mother say, "Philip, you'd just as well get the presents, as the kids are asleep". He waited until all the presents had been placed under the tree, then raised up to take a better look. When his parents saw he was awake, they said "Tom, slip out of bed and eat all the candy you want but don't wake Ada and Minnie", ages 5 and almost 3, respectively. That he did and said Christmas was never the same again.

One night in 1877 when he was eight years old, the family dog treed a raccoon in the big persimmon trees along the branch below the horse barn on the Lucas Farm. He and his father took the gun and killed the raccoon. When the hide was ready for sale, his father gave it to him and he took it to a store in Belgrade and sold it for 50 cents. Then he started searching the entire store to see what he could buy for 50 cents and give to his mother. He finally found a set of six tumblers, bought them, and proudly walked home with his mother's present. Those tumblers were used by the family constantly and all six are still in mint condition and in possession of John Thomas' younger son, Ralph Weeks Lucas.

Buried in Bellevue Presbyterian Cemetery, Caledonia, Missouri.

Buried in Masonic Cemetery, Bismarck, Missouri.

Buried in Methodist Cemetery, Caledonia, Missouri.

Still living.

Ancestors And Relatives Of Philip Lucas

Charles Davis Lucas was the father of Philip Lucas. He was born in Virginia July 12, 1800 and died there December 15, 1885. He was married three times. His first wife was Nancy Haymaker. According to available records, it is believed they were married around 1821. Children by his first wife; (1) Samuel Lucas - born September 3, 1823-died June 5, 1890. Samuel came from Virginia to Missouri but the date is unknown. Winfred Bryan Cole in his "History of the Bryan - Cole Family", published in 1962, page 131, estimated the date of Samuel's arrival in Missouri as "around 1835". This writer believes the 1835 date is wrong and that it was more likely the late 1840's as certain facts are known about Samuel's arrival. For example, he was a grown man when he arrived and had $800 in gold with him. He stayed for a time with his brother, Philip, while looking for land. He looked at a large farm, which adjoined Philip's place, and was located at the junction of Janes Creek and Big River part of which later became known as the Joe Vineyard -Ramsey farm. It was for sale and Samuel had enough cash to pay for it but turned it down. He told Philip that the area was being rapidly settled, that good deer hunting wouldn't last long, and that he wanted a place where he'd have good deer hunting the remainder of his life. He went to Goodwater in Dent township of Iron County, settled there and married Margaret . Their children included: (a) Kettura Lucas (A daughter located only in the 1876 census report of Iron County - age between 21 and 45; (b) James Monroe Lucas (Known as Goodwater Jim Lucas) born Auqust ,r~ 1S60

- died January 19, 1929. He was a farmer and merchant. He and his first wife, Louisiana Jane (Lucy Jane) Cole Lucas~, who was born April 1, 1864 and died January 6, 1901, had the following children: David Wesley Lucas; Clarence Saxton Lucas born in 1894; Willard Brown Lucas~

- born February 8, 1895 died October 6, 1898; Bert Nowel Lucas - born In 1898; and Pallie Ray Lucas - born in 1900. He became a Baptist minister. James Monroe and his second wife, Cora Lee Lucas~, who was born July 26, 1879 and died May 26, 1967, had a daughter, Martha N. Lucas~ born in 1905 and died in 1934 and a son, Charles Lillwin Lucas"'

born March 7,1907 and died July 12,1910; (c) John Wesley Lucas, of Goodwater who had a daughter, Ethel Lucas Eisfelder; (d) Margaret (Maggie) Lucas (Mrs. Alfred B. Day)~

- born November 2, 1873 - died January 25, 1956. Her children included: John R. Day~ - born October 23, 1900

- died December 22,1925. (e) Charles D. (Dee) Lucas who married Blanche Cole Wilkinson and had a son, Leonard Lucas born January 24, 1925. Dee was a contractor in Hayward, California. (2) Philip Lucas History given above.

(3) Charley Lucas He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, mostly in West Virginia. While living in Virginia, two children were born to he and his wife - John Henry Lucas and Zora Lucas. Zora was born in Montgomery County in 1866 and later married Dr. Gibson Davis, Sr., Roanoke, Virginia. They had five sons, all medical doctors, and two daughters. In 1870 Charley moved his family to Louisiana and later to east Texas where he lost two of his youngest sons from malaria. He died in Texas from malaria on October 29, 1873. Afterwards his father, Charles Davis Lucas, brought the remaining members of the family back to his home in Virginia. (4) Lizzy Lucas- She came to Missouri, married a Mallow, and settled on Courtois, and (5) Catherine Lucas - She married Edward Baker and resided in Blacksburg, Virginia, until her death which was prior to February 16, 1885, the day Charles Davis Lucas wrote his son Philip that Philip's sister had died.

After the death of Nancy Haymaker Lucas, Charles Davis Lucas married his second wife, Nancy Dobbins, daughter of Abner Dobbins. Children of his second wife: (1) James Anderson Lucas - born December 3, 1836 - died January 5, 1864 of gunshot wounds in Chimborazo Hospital No.4, Richmond, Virginia. Served in Co. G, 4th Va. Regiment Infantry. (2) John W. Lucas - born February 16, 1838- died October 14, 1927. He came to Missouri after the Civil War and together with his brother, George Paris Lucas, was in business in Hog Eye, located three miles east of Iron Mountain on the old plank road. He later moved to Willow Springs, Missouri and went into the mercantile business. His wife, Ada J. Lucas, was born September 8, 1855 and died October 21, 1908. Both are buried in the city cemetery at Willow Springs. No record of any children was found. (3) Eldrid Henderson Lucas - born January 15, 1840- died August 28,1864 of gunshot wounds while a prisoner of war in USA General Hospital, Frederick, Maryland. Served in Co. F. 14th Regiment Va. Cavalry. Grave #289. (4) George Paris Lucas- born January 28,1842- died November 14, 1923. He served in Co. F. 11th Virginia in the Civil War. In 1867 he moved from Virginia to Missouri, was in business with his brother John W. Lucas at Hog Eye for a time but later settled in the Bismarck community and purchased what was later to become known as the Sunnymede Farm. George Paris' wife, Helen M. Lucas~, was born November 4, 1856 and died May 7, 1921. Their children included: (a) Cora Lucas Walsh - born in May 1876- died September 12, 1900; (b) Minnie Lucas Garrett - born in 1879 - died in 1962; and (c) Junnie Otto Lucas - born September 29, 1880 - died December 10, 1964. (5) Rice Montique Lucas - born 1843 died 1929. He was the father of Bentley Lucas who lived near Christiansburg, Virginia, on his old home place.

Nancy Dobbins Lucas, mother of the above five sons, died August 9, 1865. After the death of Nancy Dobbins Lucas, Charles Davis Lucas, at age 66, married his third wife, a widow named Nancy Charlton Walters, on September 12, 1866. She was born December 22, 1833 - died February 14,1920. Children by his third wife: (1) Anna Lucas - She married a Kennedy. (2) Clara Lucas - She married a McConnell and (3) Davis Kawood Lucas - born January 16, 1873 - died June 30, 1930. He married Josephine DeForest who was born near Warren, Ohio, on October 26, 1863 and died August 18, 1940 in Virginia. Their son James Theodore Lucas was born October 29, 1901 and died February 21, 1957. Another son, Roderick Lucas was still living on the Charles Davis Lucas homeplace n~nr Christiansburg, Virginia, when the writer visited him in the 1960's.

As shown above, all three wives of Charles Davis Lucas had Nancy as their first name. The family kidded him about this and his reply was "When I talk in my sleep I don't want my last wife to get mad at me so I always marry a Nancy. Therefore, she has no way of telling which wife I'm talking about".

Samuel Lucas was the grandfather of Philip Lucas. He was born May 29, 1777 and died April 9, 1864. He married Catherine Davis in 1799. She was born September 28,1778 in New York State and died in Virginia June 16, 1859.

Captain John Lucas was the great grandfather of Philip Lucas. He was born July 15,1749 and died April 19, 1836. He served a number of years as a captain in the Revolutionary War. (See page 67 of the publication "The Lucas Family" compiled by the American Genealogical Research Institute and published by Heritage Press, Inc., Washington, D. C., 1975. He married Mary (Polly) Wilson in 1775. She was born January 1, 1758 and died in 1843. Polly Wilson was the daughter of Samuel Wilson and granddaughter of Colonel James Burke. Both she and Captain John Lucas are buried in the old Cooper Cemetery, located about 2½ miles east of Calfee Mountain in Virginia.

Charles Lucas was the great great grandfather of Philip Lucas. Dates and other data about him are not exact but it is believed he was born in one of the eastern Virginia counties around 1720. It is also believed he came to the Sinking Creek section of what is now Giles County or the New River section of Montgomery County around 1745 to 1747. He had at least the following children: (1) Charles Lucas, Jr. - born about 1747 - died about 1787. He married Catherine~. The records are blurred but it is believed the name is Frey. (2) John Lucas - born July 15, 1749- died April 19, 1836 (The Revolutionary War veteran mentioned above). (3) William Lucas - born about 1752. He married Elizabeth Price on October 2, 1782. (4) David Lucas - born about 1757. He married Mary Wills on October 11, 1785.

(5) Sarah Lucas - born about 1773. She married Sherod Adkins on October 9, 1793. At one time Charles Lucas served as constable in the Sinking Creek neighborhood. He died about 1800.

In researching the Lucas family records, one thing shows up in almost every generation, even with children of brothers, and that is the similarity in names. The five most common names for sons are: Charles, John, Samuel, William, and David. With daughters its Mary and Elizabeth. The consistency of these names being used makes research difficult because when the birthday of an individual can't be determined, only the name, you often don't know which Lucas you're reading about. If two brothers name a son say Samuel they could have been very close together in age and often were. This causes confusion.

Another tendency shows up in the Lucas family. There seems to be a wanderlust in the family as most of the men seem to be travelers. This goes back over all generations researched. For example, Philip and his brother Samuel left Virginia and permanently settled in Missouri; Philip's other brother Charles left Virginia and went to Louisiana and later Texas; Philip's half brothers George Paris and John W. left Virginia and permanently settled in Missouri, George Paris in the Bismarck area and John W. at Willow Springs; his other half brother Rice Montique made several trips to Missouri before permanently settling in Virginia; Philip and all his sons:

Giles, James Paris, Charles William and John Thomas went to California at one time or other, some several times and James Paris settled there. This moving around complicates research and makes records difficult to locate

According to "The Lucas Family" published by the American Genealogical Research Institute, the surname Lucas is Biblical In origin, being derived from Saint Luke. The particular spelling Lucas is the scholarly Greek form and is so spelled in Greece, Spain, Portugal and the English Isles. In other nations, it has other spellings such as Lukas in Germany and the Balkans, Lucci or Lucca in Italy, etc. The name is found in England as early as 1273 and was fairly common there. In Scotland the family was part of the Lamont clan and lived northwest of Glasgow. During the English civil war and other related conflicts which raged from 1642 to 1649 and wars between the various Scottish clans that raged prior to these dates and afterwards, many families left the English Isles. The Puritans usually went to Massachusetts and the Cavaliers to Virginia. In the first U. S. census taken in 1790, there were over 150 heads of families named Lucas in the 13 colonies with 25 in Massachusetts, 20 in Pennsylvania and 27 in Virginia. Of those in Virginia, six were named John, seven named Thomas, and 10 named William. According to official U. S. records compiled in 1974, the name Lucas was the 263rd most frequently occurring surname in the United States with approximately 96,000 adult Americans bearing the name. Some historians believe the name originated over 2000 years ago on the Isle of Lucas situated off the West Coast of Greece and that those individuals emigrating from the island, generally with the Roman legions throughout the known world, took the name Lucas. The writer has located the name in numerous countries in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Served in Confederate Army during Civil War.

Relatives still living in the Christiansburg, Virginia area.

Buried in cemetery at Emmaus Missionary Baptist

Church on Lower Indian Creek near Courtois, Missouri.

Buried in Masonic Cemetery at Bismarck, Missouri. The Philip Lucas History and Ancestors and Relatives of

Philip Lucas was researched and written by Ralph Weeks

Lucas, Commander, USNR, Ret'd., grandson of Philip Lucas

It is submitted in memory of John Thomas Lucas, father of

the writer, and youngest son of Philip Lucas.