Surnames: Hibbs, Poundstone, Ball, Kerr, Cochran, Porter, Baird, Finley, Craft
Lacy Hibbs was born November 7, 1826, in Redstone township, Fayette county, Penna, on the old Hibbs farm where he was raised and attended schools of the township. Educational advantages were quite limited in those days, and the course of study was even moreso. The first business he followed was that of farming in North Union township, and has continued at that business all of his life and now owns one hundred and twenty six acres of land near Searights in Menallen township. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of New Salem, and his wife and family are also members of the same church. He is an exemplary man and a good citizen, and is firm in the democratic faith. He was elected poorhouse director in 1868.His first wife was Mary Margaret Poundstone, a daughter of Philip Poundstone of German township. They had two children: Eunice Violet Hibbs, born in 1852 and living with her father; and John Newton Hibbs, born June 9, 1859, married Lizzie Ball and has one child, Earnest Hibbs.
His second wife was Mrs Harriet A Kerr; they were married March 8, 1866. They have one child: Olive Hibbs, born May 28, 1869, who is a teacher. Mrs Hibbs was the daughter of Samuel Cochran, born in Fayette county in 1788, and Elizabeth Porter Cochran, his wife, a daughter of John Porter who lived near Dunlap's creek. Her maternal grandmother was Margaret Baird.
Lacy Hibbs is the son of John Hibbs and Jane Finley Hibbs, who were married April 12, 1821. John Hibbs was born January 1, 1791, and died January 14, 1881. Jane Finley Hibbs was born June 7, 1802 (for her family see Ebenezer Finley).
Lacy Hibbs, grandfather of the subject of sketch, was born in 1768 in Cumberland county, Penna, afterwards Bedford county, then Westmoreland county, and now Greene county. He married Sara Craft, a member of the Fayette county Crafts.