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Lane homestead where the last of the three homes built there in
1909 still stands, shaded by a giant old oak which must have been
on the mind of 70-year-old George W. Lane, the third son of Isham,
who wrote to Addie Lane, wife of Drury H., in 1890:
"I have seen the grand old oak of the forest in all its beauty bid
defiance to the blast and storms, shooting out its branches and
casting a shade all around. I have seen the little lambs sporting
around its base while their dams would nip the tender grass. I have
seen the patient old ox relieved from under the yoke lie down in its
shade and calmly chew his cud while the birds would sport among the
branches and sing their sweet notes. I have seen this grand old oak
wither and die, its branches decay and fall to the ground, the insects
infest its bark and sap, its beauty and grandeur all gone, the little
lambs no longer sported around it, the birds no longer sung among its
branches, a lonely old trunk. ... And so it is with man . . . all
that is left is his memory and when he lays his limbs down to rest at
night his mind wanders back over the past."
The old oak still stands, although taller, fuller, and many years
older than it must have been in 1849 when the Lane family mem-
bers were united on their new homestead near Gum Creek on
Christmas Day. When it is gone, however, its memory and the
memory of all that it saw there will remain. - Rebekah Lane
Dubberly.
Horatio Gates Lane Family
Horatio Gates Lane (b. March 21, 1832 Bedford Co., Tenn., d.
March 3, 1911, Ft. Worth, Tex., buried Jacksonville City Ceme-
tery), was the son of the Rev. Isham H. Lane (b. Dec. 27, 1790), and
Theodosia Edwards Lane (b. Feb. 22, 1798). Both of his parents
were born in Halifax Co., Va.
He in. Sarah "Sallie" Elizabeth Virginia Hall, daughter of Eliza-
beth Ann Walton Hall of Virginia. "Sallie" (b. July 12, 1832, Miss.,
d. November 20, 1909 Ft. Worth, Tex.) is buried in Jacksonville
City Cemetery. Mrs. Hall had one other daughter, Mary "Polly"
Hall Mantooth.
Children b. in Rusk, Tex.: (1) Dr. Sidney "Buddy," b. Nov. 7,
1856; (2) Virginia Alma "Sister," b. March 12, 1858; (3) Mary
"Tiny" Wright Jones, b. May 16, 1860; and (4) Horatio Gates Jr.,
"Rachie". Others: (5) Richard "Dick;" (6) Edward "Eddie;" (7) Sam
Houston "Sam;" (8) Olena "Knee;" (9) Lillie "Little Honey;" (10)
Lula "Doder;" (11) Robert "Bob;" (12) Clara "Tattie;" (13) Jessie
"Dabba." Three of the sons, Sidney, Horatio, and Sam became
medical doctors.
The Isham H. Lane family became acquainted with Gen. Joseph
Lewis Hogg and his family, and Horatio Gates Lane taught Gen.
Hogg's son, James Stephen Hogg, his "A-B-C's." At the same time,
young Lane, while teaching in a private school, began studying law
in Gen. Hogg's law office in Rusk. Horatio Gates Lane was admit-
ted to the State of Texas Bar in Athens, Tex., May 4, 1857. John H.
Reagan, later Postmaster General of the Confederate States of
America, was one of the examiners.
Horatio Gates Lane was 17 years old when his family migrated
to Gum Springs, Tex., in 1849. By that time he had received a good
education, for those days, which included Latin, Greek, and astron-
omy. He was a distinguished looking person five feet and ten inches
tall, weighed 185 pounds, and had light complexion and hair.
A short time before the Civil War, H. G. Lane moved to Homer,
Angelina Co., Tex., where he farmed, practiced law, and taught a
private school until the war came.
Lane closed his law office and in February, 1862, at Homer,
Tex., enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private in Co. D, 22nd
Texas Infantry, Holmes Brigade, Walker's Division, Trans-
Mississippi Department.
In February, 1864, H. G. Lane received permission to raise a
company of cavalry for Col. Scott Anderson's Regt., afterwardscommanded by John P. Gordon. Lane was made Captain of Co. E
and served with it until the war closed. Lane was neither wounded
nor captured. His brother, Drury H. Lane, was captured and was a
prisoner of war of the Union for a time before the end of the war. H.
G. was in the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, La., and
Young's Point, Richmond, and Vicksburg. He fought also against
Yankee gunboats and transports near the mouth of the Red River.
H. G. Lane returned to Homer after the war and resumed his
practice of law until he refused to take the "Iron Clad Oath"
required by the Second Reconstruction Act, March 23, 1867. Thenhe was not allowed citizenship or the right to vote or to practice law
even though every freed man in jhe State of Texas could vote, hold
public office, and practice a profession. Lane tried to farm, but
made a miserable failure of that. He then taught a private school
until his citizenship was restored. Lane then resumed his practice
of law at Homer.
H. G. Lane moved from Homer to Fort Worth in 1892. He and
his wife were members of the Christian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Lane
are buried in City Cemetery in Jacksonville. - John N. Cravens,
great-grandson of Horatio G. and Sarah "Sallie" Elizabeth Vir-
ginia Hall.
Isham H. Lane Family
Isham H. Lane (b. Dec. 27, 1790, Halifax Co., Va., d. Feb. 17,
1859, Cherokee Co., Tex.) m. Theodosia Edwards (b. Feb. 22, 1798,
same county, d. June 22, 1888, Cherokee County.) They married in
Virginia, for their first son, William, was b. there in 1818.
The family must have migrated to Tennessee soon after the
couple's marriage, because their second son, George Washington,
was b. in that state in 1822.
Other children living in the home in 1840: (3) Isham H., age 15;
(4) Drury H., 13; (5) Elizabeth Matilda, 10; (6) Horatio Gates,
eight; (7) Susan, six.
Lane's son, William, became interested in Texas and came to
Texas with Joe C. Rushing, his brother-in-law, in 1847 to look over
the possibilities of the whole family's moving to the eastern part of
the state. Letters mailed to the new homeseekers from Tennessee
were addressed to Gum Creek Post Office, Cherokee Co., Tex. The
post office name was changed to Jacksonville June 20, 1850. The
happy Isham H. Lane family was reunited at Gum Creek on Christ-
mas Day, 1849. About that time, Isham Lane purchased his 200-
acre homestead for $241 from Elijah J. DeBard of Anderson Co.,
Tex.
Along with his farming activities, he had worked as a Baptist
missionary among the frontier people in middle Tennessee. About
1850 Isham H. Lane found time to build a small log Missionary
Baptist Church in the Gum Creek community.
The rapid increase in the Missionary Baptist membership in
eastern Texas led to a convention representing 17 churches and
about 800 members at Larissa in Cherokee County in November,
1853. Isham H. Lane was the moderator. The group formed the
Texas Baptist Association and selected Isham H. Lane its first
President.
At the age of 70, after returning from looking over his farm,
Isham H. Lane fell dead in his back yard. Z. N. Morrell wrote in his
Fruits and Flowers of the Wilderness that I. H. Lane after a long and
successful ministry fell asleep in the arms of the Master whom he
loved so much. Lane's widow died at age 90. They are buried in City
Cemetery, Jacksonville. - John N. Cravens, great-grandson of
Isham H. Lane.
James Patton Lane Family
The Rev. James Patton Lane, (b. Nov. 19, 1851, in Gate City, Va., d.
June, 1933) son of Joseph Lane and Jane Shoemaker Lane, grew up
on the farm and decided to follow his father and become a teacher.
After completing his education he taught school in Southwestern
Virginia and Eastern Tennessee. He m. Virginia Harman Bennett,
Dec. 24, 1874, (d. March, 1932) a descendant of a pioneer family,
and moved to Texas.
He was active in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and in
1880 he was employed by the American Sunday School Union. In
1884 he was licensed to preach. He was designated a missionary for
North Texas and the Indian Territory. When the Cherokee Stripopened for settlement he made the run and obtained land for the
American Sunday School Union. He became pastor of the Little
River Circuit. He served as a member of the Board of Regents of
Agricultural and Mechanical College in Stillwater, Okla.
After requesting and receiving permission from the church, he
accepted the nomination for and was elected a member of the first
elected Senate of the State of Oklahoma, where he was voted one of
its two best orators by his colleagues. When next election time
arrived he had to decide between a political career and resuming his
life work in the ministry. He chose the ministry.372
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Cherokee County Historical Commission (Tex.). Cherokee County History, book, 2001; Jacksonville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth354360/m1/382/: accessed February 18, 2025), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cherokee County Historical Commission.