Editing Lucasville, Ohio (section)

==History==
Lucasville was laid out by Captain John Lucas (1788-1825) in 1819, and named for him.<ref>{{cite book|last=Evans|first=Nelson Wiley|title=A History of Scioto County, Ohio: Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t7np5qd3x;view=1up;seq=518|year=1903|publisher=N. W. Evans|page=406}}</ref> A post office called Lucasville has been in operation since 1828.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Scioto | title=Scioto County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=2 January 2016}}</ref>

John Lucas was the brother of [[Robert Lucas (governor)|Robert Lucas]], a War of 1812 hero, two-term governor of Ohio (1832-1836), and the first territorial governor of Iowa. John volunteered for service and commanded a regiment during the War of 1812. Upon the death of his father in 1814, John inherited much of his family's property in Scioto County, and it was on a portion of this land that he would establish the town of Lucasville on August 7, 1819. He and his wife, Mary Lucas, ran a tavern in Lucasville until his death in 1825. He is interred in Lucasville Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://remarkableohio.org/picture.php?/7686/category/1305|title=6-73 Capt. Lucas &#124; Remarkable Ohio}}</ref>