Edmund Lacey was born in Pennsylvania in 1742. A resident of Chester, South Carolina, he served as a captain, and later colonel of the Turkey Creek or Chester District Militia. Lacey served throughout the later half of the war, most notably commanding troops at the Battle of King's Mountain. After the war he became a brigadier general in the militia and served in the South Carolina General Assembly before moving to Kentucky in the 1790s, where he served as a county judge. He died in Livingston County, Kentucky on March 20, 1813.