Martha Marks- I am sending you (Doris Hunker) a picture of mother's (Dora Brown Marks)grandfather. His remains are on the farm. He had it in his will to be buried there and area cannot be sold. He was a feisty old man as I was told by a lady who goes to church with me--Ruth Shaw had the same great grandfather. She had the picture made for me.

The Lankey (Lanky) family was supposed to have been in the Revolutionary War.

This information was written by Glenneda Traugh King, a genealogy researcher and descent of Gustave.
Gustave Exodus Lackes, born Germany and Married Clara Stein she was born in Germany also.  They married in 1841 and came to the US that year.  He was an orphan raised by a German Doctor.  He did all his family doctoring and could read and write English when he arrived.  His Will in Fayette County Court House at Uniontown, PA, asks: he be given the Dunkard Burial RItes at his house  the day of his funeral and that he be buried the south side of the Sheep Nosed Apple Tree in his orchard.  his grave is to be fenced in and a tombstone placed on his grave..  Thomas Lankey has his citizenship papers and family Bible.

 
He was a laborer in 1841.
He was naturalized on 10 Sept 1860, on the back of his citizenship papers he wrote: I first voted: 12 Oct 1869

In the 1880 US census, He and the family were neighbors of Jacob Eshelman Brown and family.