The earliest known record of Lucas Bradley Calton is the 1850 US Census. It shows him at age 6, along with his brother George, (Their last name is mis-transcribed as "Cotton" on Ancestry.com.), living in Highland, Tishomingo County, Mississippi, in the home of a William B. Owens and family.(UPDATE: Amanda Barrett has discovered that Mr Owens was in charge of an orphanage). In the 1860 US Census he and George were still in the household of Wm B. Owens, but in 1870 he and his own family were living in Franklin County, Alabama. Not much is known about his parents. It is believed that his mother's name was Elizabeth Dunaway, partly because she was living with him and his family at the 1870 US Census. (All records from Franklin County, Alabama were destroyed when the wooden-framed courthouse at Belgreen burned in 1890). In the 1870 US Census he is shown as living in Franklin County, Alabama with his Post Office being Nelsonville. Nelsonville was later referred to as Old Nauvoo. This area is located about 5 miles off Alabama Highway 24 from Belgreen, Alabama down Cotton Gin Road; However, the same census shows the location as Township 8, Range 12 which would put them living toward and possibly closer to present day Phil Campbell, Alabama, most likely very close to the Marion County line since some say his brother George died and is buried in Marion County. Lucas was a member of Roddy's 4th Alabama Cavalry during the War Between the States. Pension records at the Prentiss County Courthouse in Booneville, Mississippi, and service records at the National Archives show that he was wounded in the leg and captured near Jackson, Tennessee (Skirmish at Forked Deer Creek) on 13 July 1863, sent to Memphis, Tennessee, and then to Camp Morton, Indianopolis, Indiana, a Union POW Camp, for the remainder of the war. Some pension records show that he was paroled at Richmond Virginia.