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Associated Surnames: TACEY, VASSAR, FOEY, COMPO, WAMSLEY, GOLLINS, LOW, GARDNER, PRIESS
From the book entitled, "The History of Saint Clair County, Michigan" published in Indiana in 1903 by Bowen Publishers.
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JOSEPH TACEY
This ex-soldier of the late Civil war, and now a prosperous farmer in Grant township, St. Clair county, Michigan, was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, July 12, 1833, a son of Frank and Julia (Vassar) Tacey, who were both also born in St. Lawrence county. Frank Tacey was a practical farmer, and from St. Lawrence county removed to Franklin county, New York. He was twice married, and to his first marriage, which was with Miss Julia Vassar, there were born five children, namely: Margaret, Mary, Livvie, Joseph and Frank. Mrs. Julia Tacey passed away in the faith of the Catholic church in 1836. The second marriage of Frank Tacey was with Mary Foey, of New York, and to this union were born eight children. Mr. Tacey was also a devout Catholic, and died in Franklin county, New York.
Joseph Tacey had little or no opportunities for attending school in his youthful days, but passed his time in assisting his father on the farm until nineteen years of age. He then worked out on his own account in New York state at farming for a number of years, then went to Roxboro, Canada, where he met and married Miss Julia Compo. He lived in Canada eighteen months only, and then, in 1862, came to St. Clair county, Michigan, and settled on land he had purchased in 1863, which purchase cponsisted of twenty acres only, all deep in the forest, but of which three acres had been cleared, and on which two small log cabins had been erected, which answered Mr. Tacey's purposes for several years.
Mrs. Julia (Compo) Tacey was called away in 1867, and in April, 1871, Mr. Tacey chose for his second helpmate Margaret Wamsley, of Norfolk county, Canada, a daughter of Henry and Sarah (Duville) Wamsley, natives of England, but reared in Canada. To his first marriage Mr. Tacey had born to him five children, who were named Joseph, Ellen, John, Benjamin and Julia. Of these, John is farming in Alcona county, Michigan; Ellen is married to Kenneth Gollins, of Alpena, Michigan; John is deceased; Benjamin is also in Alcona. To the second marriage of Mr. Tacey there have been born five children, viz: Mabel, deceased; Nina, married to John Low, of Greenwood township, is the mother of three children, Mabel, Edith and Gladys; Minnie, wife of Charles Gardner, of Grant township; Hattie, wife of Henry Priess, a farmer in Grant township, to whom she has borne one child, Guy; and Omer, who is still at home.
To revert to the changes that have been made by Mr. Tacey in his habitations, it may be stated that after abandoning his primitive log cabins, he constructed a hewed-log house, which he occupied until 1893, when he erected his present modern dwelling. Let it here be interjected that Mr. Tacey came to Grant township in 1862, and in September, 1864, enlisted in the Twenty-second Michigan Volunteer Infantry. The Rebellion at that time was drawing to a close, and Mr. Tacey was places on garrison duty at Atlantic City for about five months, when he was transferred to Chatanooga, Tennessee, but before the close of the winter was taken sick and was granted a furlough home, where he remained, as peace was declared soon afterward, and it was not found necessary to recall him to the front. Mr. Tacey has a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, on which he grows the usual crops of the latitude, and also gives such attention to live stock as to provide for home consumption.
Mr. and Mrs. Tacey are members of the church of the Disciples, and he is also a member of the Archie Madison Post, G. A. R., at Avoca. He enjoys the respect which is meted out to every veteran by all good and loyal citizens.
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