We know I have posted this request for information before, and I can fully understand that
it is a shot in a million that anyone has this information, but it is Christmas, and I
thought I'd try again.
On Christmas Eve day, 1927, my grandfather left Wadsworth, NV for Ely, NV where he had a
job awaiting him as a sheepherder. He had just written to my grandmother at their home in
SD and told her he was leaving. He'd just repaired a jalopy he'd purchased for the
trip. He promised he's write a letter to her at each town he arrived in along the way.
He was probably traveling on the old Lincoln Highway. No letters ever arrived and he was
never heard from again. I found out that there had been a snowstorm in the Shoshone
Mountains on Christmas Eve, and he was likely stranded and died on route.
But I would so like to find out exactly what happened. Anyone having any oral histories of
an old car or a body found along this highway back in time can contact me. I know this
pursuit is probably in vain, but I keep trying, nevertheless and have for my entire adult
life.
My grandfather's name was William Luster Lackey (sometimes called himself James
Russell). He was an award-winning rodeo champion back in SD. .He was part Indian (Creek)
and was dark and about 5'8 and slender. He would have been 47 at the time of his
disappearance.
Yes, I've tried all the cemetery websites. There are a number of unknowns in the
burials but either no dates or dates not near 1927. Any help--just any hint of help would
be so appreciated on this Christmas day, when my grandfather probably died.