LACY, T. J., NY., then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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T. JAY LACY, MOUNT HOPE NURSERY, WASHINGTON.--The subject of this sketch began
life at the age of sixteen as an apprentice, learning a carpenter's trade in
New York.  In 1858 he removed to Washington, Louisiana, where he began growing
a nursery.  At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the Confederate
service, and was detailed to do commissary duty.  At the close of the war he
had as a capital with which to start business four dollars.  He returned to
Washington and bought the place where he now resides.  Since that time he has
devoted himself chiefly to horticulture; and there are no finer pear orchards
to be found anywhere than this.  He also has a general nursery stock, and is
conducting a flourishing business in fruit trees that are adapted to the
climate of the Gulf States.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 57.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.