Locklear
Appearance
Locklear is a surname. It is documented to be of free African-American origin.[1][2][3][4]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Arlinda Locklear (born 1951), American lawyer
- Ashton Locklear (born 1998), American gymnast
- Gene Locklear, (born 1949), American baseball player
- Heather Locklear (born 1961), American actress
- Ormer Locklear (1891–1920), American stunt pilot and film actor
- Samuel J. Locklear (born 1954), American navy admiral
- Tyler Locklear (born 2000), American baseball player
References
[edit]- ↑ Anderson, Jean Bradley (2011). "Improvement Fever, 1840–1861". Durham County: A History of Durham County, North Carolina (2nd ed.). Durham, NC: Duke University Press. pp. 79–80. ISBN 978-0-8223-4983-9. Retrieved 18 June 2026.
- ↑ Heinegg, Paul (2021). Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to About 1820. Sixth Edition. Vol. I - Families Abel to Drew. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company. pp. 5, 19, 24–25. ISBN 9780806359298. Retrieved 18 June 2026.
- ↑ Heinegg, Paul (2001). Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina From the Colonial Period to About 1820 4th Edition. Vol. I. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. p. 27. ISBN 0-8063-5110-1. Retrieved 18 June 2026.
- ↑ Multiple sources:Miles, Andrea N. (2025). "The Economic and Political Roots of North Carolina's Free Black Revolutionaries". Early American Studies. 23 (4). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press: 388–422. doi:10.1353/eam.2025.a974705. ISSN 1559-0895. Retrieved 18 June 2026. Vincent, Stephen A. (1999). Southern Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. pp. 94–96, 203–204. ISBN 0-253-33577-9. Retrieved 19 June 2026. Parson, Don; Calarco, Tom (2015). Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City: Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the Record of Fugitives. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. pp. 188–189, 248. ISBN 978-1-4766-1871-5. Retrieved 19 June 2026.