sentences:  The firstborn son received his early education from his mother, after which he attended Pike Powers Academy in Staunton and Brown and Tebbs Academy in Albemarle County.He had an elder sister Sally E. Lacy (1837 - 1896), as well as a younger sister Ellen G. Lacy (1840 - 1896) and two younger brothers Richmond Terrell Lacy (1842 - 1903, who became a Commonwealth Attorney) and Thomas Hugo Lacy (1848 - 1928, who became an Episcopal priest).Completing his formal education at the University of Virginia, Lacy then read law under his father's guidance.