C. H. Lane

LANE

Posted By: D.K.
Date: 8/20/2013 at 17:11:34

Clement H. Lane
Born 1827

C. H. LANE, farmer, Hale Twp., Sec. 20; P.O. Olin; born in Ohio in 1828 [tombstone reads 1827]; came to Iowa in 1845; settled in Jones Co., Rome Township, and bought 100 acres; sold, and entered 220 acres in Hale, made all the improvements on the place; now owns 120. Has been Constable twenty years; School Director before the township was divided. In religion, liberal; in politics, Republican. Enlisted, in 1861, in the 9th I.V.I., and mustered out as Third Sergeant of Company B, in 1864. First wife, Mary Cromwell, born in New York; married in 1849; died in 1860, and had three children—Margaret (now Mrs. Byers, of Kansas), George (in Olin), Edward (in Chicago).

From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 640.

[The above children and Nancy J., who died as a child, were the children of Clement Lane [C. H. Lain] and Mary Cornwell/Cromwell. Jones County marriage records indicate C. H. Lane married his first wife, Mary Cromwell/Cornwell on Feb. 1, 1846, and his second wife, Sarah L. Senter/Center, on Feb. 1, 1861. Clement and Sarah had the following children: William, Clement E. and Albert. Clement H. and Sarah L. are buried in the McCain Cemetery in Logan County, Nebraska - Family history information; Census information.]