George W. Diehl,  The Brick Church On Timber Ridge:     “Among the passengers on board an emigrant ship sailing from Londonderry, Ireland, 1n 1748, was a Leech Family of seven and young twenty-year-old Thomas Lackey. Five of the Leeches died and were buried at sea, leaving only eighteen-year old-Agnes and her nine-year old brother John. Landing at a Delaware port, most of the immigrants made their way to the frontier and settled in Lancaster County, Pa. Here six years later, in 1754, Thomas Lackey and Agnes Leech were married and then, with her brother John and his bride, the former Martha McComb, they moved across the Potomac River and made their way up the Shenandoah Valley, finally settling a few miles west of the Natural Bridge in Augusta County, now Rockbridge.... He was a master craftsman in wood-working, a cabinet maker and wheelright. Being well educated, he acted as the scribe for the community. In the American Revolution, he served as a scout."

Clementine Raily:  House of Ochiltree:   (A repeat of much of Rev. Diehl’s words about Thomas and Agnes and she adds the following:)   "Thomas and Agnes (Leech) Lackey came from Pennsylvania to Rockbridge County, Virginia in 1768. Their home was about two miles west of the Natural Bridge. The large outside chimney of the old house still stands. (1916) Thomas Lackey was a wheelwright by trade; and he made the large and small spinning wheels in use in those days. They are said by a descendant, who remembers having seen some made by him, to have been fine specimens of workmanship, having his initials carved in the wood.. . . Thomas Lackey is said to have been a fine looking man, of fine physique, six feet tall, and to have resembled George Washington. He possessed ability as a scribe, and had the confidence of his fellow citizens, who came to him to get writing done, in matters which required ability and judgment.