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Generation No. 1

1. THOMAS3 LANE SR (WILLIAM2, THOMAS1) was born 1759 in VA, and died 1836 in So. IL. He married NANCY DARBY August 08, 1783. She was born Abt. 1766 in VA.

Notes for NANCY DARBY:
Last name may be Dabney.

Children of THOMAS LANE and NANCY DARBY are:
2. i. SARAH "SALLY"4 LANE, b. March 10, 1798, NC; d. March 23, 1880, Walpole, Hamilton County, IL.
ii. MORDECAI LANE.
iii. THOMAS LANE JR.
iv. NANCY LANE.
3. v. LEWIS LANE, b. March 07, 1799, Bedford County, VA; d. September 10, 1874, Phelps County, MO.
vi. DABNEY LANE.
4. vii. FRANCES LANE, b. June 22, 1785, Caswell County, North Carolina; d. October 24, 1859, Saline Co, IL.

Generation No. 2

2. SARAH "SALLY"4 LANE (THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, THOMAS1) was born March 10, 1798 in NC, and died March 23, 1880 in Walpole, Hamilton County, IL. She married (1) JACOB CLAY DEAN April 17, 1824, son of JACOB DEAN and SUSAN HATTEY. He was born November 12, 1803 in TN or KY, and died August 13, 1854 in Hamilton County, IL. She married (2) HEZEKIAH MASSEY March 24, 1857.

Notes for SARAH "SALLY" LANE:
Sally Lane parents - Thomas Lane and Nancy Dabney. She may be listed in our Lane tree as Sarah Lane daughter of Thomas Lane.

Notes for JACOB CLAY DEAN:
Sally died March 23, 1880 in Walpole, Hamilton County, IL, at 82 years of age.

According to 1850 census of Hamilton Co. Sarah "Sally" Lane was born in 1800 in NC. The Lanes must have moved again from Bedford Co., VA to NC between 1700 and Sally's birth in 1800.

1850 Hamilton Co. Census P412, household #188 Shows Jacob C. Deen 46, farmer b TN. Sarah 50 b NC. Sarah A. age 17 b IL, Susan A. age 15 b IL, Nancy age 13, b IL.

Marriage 17 Apr 1824 is on page 63 of Harrelson Book. Jacob Clay Deen is buried in Little Spring Cemetery near the front gate and next to Rev. Jacob Deen. His wife Sarah "Sally" Lane Deen also had a marker and I have a picture of it, but it has disappeared. I also have pictures of Jacob Clay marker.

Children of Jacob Clay Deen and Sally Lane have eluded me. From my research I can only identify 6 children. Opel "Lane" Morrow of MO sent me her listing of 7 children. Marvin D. Coffey of OR also shows 7 and Louie Johnson shows 9. I have eliminated 3 from the Louie Johnson list and one each from Coffey & Morrow lists.

Jacob Clay Deen and Sally Lane had the following children:

Nanny Deen was born Est. 1819-1855.
James Dabney Deen was born about 1826.
Julia Ann Deen was born December 18, 1828.
Lucinda Emiline Deen was born August 8, 1831.
Sara Adeline Deen was born 1833. Sara died Est. 1834-1927.
Susan Angeline Deen was born February 6, 1835.
Nancy Ann Deen was born November 25, 1838.

Moury and James Dabney Deen were Administrators of the Rev. JTF Lewis Estate. (Felty 1865-10 contradicts this info as it shows Admin. as Aaron Johnson. ??)

According to Louie Gray Johnson, gr dau of Moury, he always took great pride in having the finest team of horse is the community. He dearly loved his horses. In the late 1840 or early 1850 Moury and Lucinda traveled by covered wagon to the rich prairies of Kansas and homesteaded a section of land (640 acres). (They do not appear in Hamilton County census of 1850 so may have been gone to Kansas at that time). He may have traveled with his cousin the James A. Coffey family who left Walpole and settled in SE Kansas around 1854. James Coffey fought for anti slavery for the state of Kansas. He took up merchandising and established several trading posts trading extensively with the indians and learned 2 indian languages. The town of Coffeyville, KS. was established by him and named for him.

There were many Indians in the area of Kansas where Moury and Lucinda settled. They were very afraid of them and to keep the peace they gave them watermelons. The Indians loved those and ate them all including seeds and the rind. Before they had lived in Kansas long enough to prove up their claim a rider came through the country saying the Indians had broken off the Reservation and were coming on the Warpath.

Putting a few things in their wagon they left their home and everything. I remember my grandmother Naomi Lewis saying her mother looked back at the house for one last time as they drove out their lane and her rocker was setting on the front porch rocking in the wind. They had forgotten to load it in the wagon.

Although only four of their children lived to be adults Moury and Lucinda raised 16 children of relatives who were left orphans by the 1854 Cholera Epidemic. (Info from Mary Cotter & Louie Johnson) 1854 would have been a sad one for Moury and Lucinda as both his parents Rev. JTF Lewis and Phoebe and their small child, her father Jacob Clay Deen and gr. father Rev. Jacob Deen all died from Cholera in a two week period.

In October 1999 the monument of Moury & Lucinda was sandblasted and re-lettered. Lucinda's had never had her date of death added. This has now been done and the marker looks like new in the Rector Cemetery, Walpole, IL. Paid for by their gr grandchildren Harold Ellis, Nancy Fassler & Etta Fassler (gr children of Melvin Green Lewis who was raised by Moury & Lucinda. (part of the 16).

Jacob Clay Lewis, 2d child of Moury & Lucinda Deen. He mar Emily Hester Tate of Saline Co., IL. They made their home at Walpole, IL but moved to Kansas and Arkansas (as children were born there) but returned to IL. Jacob suffered very bad with Asthma and Doctors told him he needed to move to Arizona if he wanted to live a normal life. (info from my grandmother Naomi Lewis) Family lore as remembered by Mary Cotter and Louie Johnson is they traveled by boat to the coast of Texas and started West to Arizona in a covered wagon.

The Enon Primitive Baptist Church was organized 13 Sep 1890 in White Flat School house (now Vera) with Jacob Clay Lewis, Emily Lewis, J. H. Lea and wife, E. E. Taylor and A. Johnston. In October 1891 Jacob Clay was ordained a Minister/Elder and served as pastor of the church from Oct 1891 until 1894.

Mrs. Emily Tate Lewis was a thrifty housewife. The children were taught to work and given the privilege of ownership. They were given as much education and home training as possible. They were taught to laugh, work and face adversity with courage and determination. They learned about discipline in the home. When the children married they had some things to start a new life with. There were fishing trips and fish fries, camp meetings and excursions to the Pease River to pick wild plums. There was wood to be gotten in when time was available. When youngsters needed something to do, there were "cow chips" to be gathered for firewood. (This family history was written by Inez Short gr dau of Jacob Clay Lewis for the History of Knox County, TX.)

(note of Harold Ellis) I remember well that my grandmother Naomi Lewis(Gray) always corresponded with her brother Uncle Jake and family in TX. I can see her now reading a letter from them or sitting in her rocking chair on the front porch of our home with a pencil in her hand. After her death and the death of Jacob the family correspondence was kept up by my Aunt Hattie May Gray and a dau of Jacob Lewis. Upon the death of Hattie the correspondence was kept up by the dau of Hattie being Mary Cotter and the gr dau of Jacob Lewis being Nellie Judson. In 1981 Mary Cotter and I visited our cousin Nellie Judson in Ft. Worth, TX. The families had corresponded since 1882 but this was the first face to face contact in 100 years.

Naomi Moury Lewis (daughter of Lucinda Emiline Deen and Moury Vickery Lewis) was born in Walpole, Hamilton County, IL September 24, 1865. Naomi died January 10, 1947 in Walpole, Hamilton County, IL, at 81 years of age. She married Millage Miller Gray September 23, 1883. Millage was born in Walpole, Hamilton County, IL February 18, 1859. Millage was the son of Thomas Alexander Gray and Priscilla Davis. Millage died January 13, 1934 in Walpole, Hamilton County, IL, at 74 years of age.

Millage Miller Gray was very jovial, with a barrel chest and about 5' 9" tall. He and Naomi had a big celebration for their 50th Wedding anniversary. I have the newspaper clipping about the big day. My dad and bro Dale are in the picture of those attending, but I could not be there and mother stayed home with me as I was only one week old. Millage died the following spring and I never got to know him.

Bob Jones, whose father Homer Jones ran a store in Walpole told me the following story. Millage would come to Walpole and get a riode in a buggy the county seat at McLeansboro, Il which was 16 miles away. When he returned from town he would use the phone at the store and say "Omi if you love me, come and get me". After a while Omi would arrive in the buggy to pick him up and go home.

More About JACOB CLAY DEAN:
Burial: Little Spring Cemetery, Walpole, IL

Children of SARAH LANE and JACOB DEAN are:
5. i. JAMES DABNEY5 DEAN, b. Abt. 1826, TN; d. Hamilton County, IL.
6. ii. JULIA ANN DEAN, b. December 18, 1828, Hamilton County, IL; d. October 05, 1897, Hamilton County, IL.
7. iii. LUCINDA EMILINE DEAN, b. August 08, 1831, Hamilton County, IL; d. January 10, 1915, Hamilton County, IL.
iv. SARA ADELINE DEAN, b. Abt. 1833.
8. v. SUSAN ANGELINE DEAN, b. February 06, 1835.
9. vi. NANCY ANN DEAN, b. November 25, 1838, TN; d. March 31, 1909, Hamilton Co., Twigg Township, IL.

3. LEWIS4 LANE (THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, THOMAS1) was born March 07, 1799 in Bedford County, VA, and died September 10, 1874 in Phelps County, MO. He married (1) NANCY DEAN April 17, 1824 in Hamilton County, IL, daughter of JACOB DEAN and SUSAN HATTEY. She was born Abt. 1794, and died Abt. 1844. He married (2) ELISA JANE BROYLES March 03, 1845 in Hamilton County, IL.

Notes for LEWIS LANE:
In Black Hawk War - Coffey Book Page 159.

Thereafter continued the many assault and battery indictments. In one day in November 1824, the Grand Jury returned five true bills or indictments for assault and battery, against such illustrious names as Lewis Lane, William Briant and Garret Harris, and the amazing part about it all was that Lewis Lane plead guilty; and was fined $2.00 and costs on the first Saturday morning in November 1824. This fine did not detract from the good character of Lewis Lane in the least, because on the day he entered his plea of guilty to assault and battery he served on a jury that awarded John Townsend $8.00 in damages in a suit against Thomas Smith. A few days later the Grand Jury returned seven more indictments against Hamilton County citizens for assault and battery. Fighting must have been the most popular sport or occupation of gentlemen for again we find the names of more of our illustrious ancestors in the role of defendants.

More About LEWIS LANE:
Burial: Burial Mill Creek Cem., Newburgh, MO.

Notes for NANCY DEAN:
She married Lewis Lane in Hamilton Co., IL., April 17, 1824. Lewis was born in Bedford Co., VA. March 7, 1799. Lewis was the son of Thomas Lane and Nancy Dabney. He married Elisa Jane Broyles in Hamilton Co., IL., March 3, 1845. Lewis died September 10, 1874 in Phelps Co., Mo., at 75 years of age.

More About NANCY DEAN:
Burial: Burial Mill Creek Cem., Newburgh, MO.

Children of LEWIS LANE and NANCY DEAN are:
10. i. JACOB CLAY5 LANE, b. March 03, 1825, KY; d. January 18, 1880, Phelps County, MO.
11. ii. SUSANNAH LANE, b. November 27, 1829, IL; d. November 23, 1913, Hamilton County, IL.
12. iii. WILLIAM DABNEY LANE, b. March 29, 1835, Hamilton County, IL; d. February 22, 1905, Pulaski County, MO.
iv. LAURA L. LANE, b. 1837.

4. FRANCES4 LANE (THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, THOMAS1) was born June 22, 1785 in Caswell County, North Carolina, and died October 24, 1859 in Saline Co, IL. She married JAMES M. COFFEY January 16, 1804 in Wayne County, KY, son of ARCHELAUS COFFEY and ELEANOR WADE. He was born July 20, 1776 in Amherst County, VA, and died January 07, 1849 in Saline/Hamilton, IL.

Notes for FRANCES LANE:
Wilson County, KY Marriages:
James M. Coffey and Frances Lane. Surety, John Hancock. Bond dated 1
October 1803, married 16 January 1804 by Rev. Elliott Jones. Note:
"Mikel tall clerk please let James have lisons to marry our daughter
Frances given under my hand and seal this 29 September 1803 by Thomas
Lane and Anne Lane.

More About FRANCES LANE:
Burial: Saline Co, IL

Notes for JAMES M. COFFEY:
From simple book "Marriages of Wayne County".

James M. Coffey and Frances Lane. Surety, John Hancock. Bond date 1 October 1803, married 16 January 1804 by Rev Elliott Jones. Note: Mikel tall clerk please lit James have lisons to marry our daughter Frances given under my hand and seal this 29 September 1803 by Thomas Lane and Anne Lane.

The Coffey's who migrated to Southern Illinois settled between Raleigh and Galatia where there was a block house. A block house is a shelter built for travelers for their protection while coming along the
Kaskaskakia Trail. This is now the location of the Bethel Creek Church and Cemetery. The first Coffey's buried at Bethel Creek was James M. Coffey, born 20 July 1776; died 7 January 1849., age 72 years, 7 months, 13 days. Stone is broken and down. His wife, Frances Lane Coffey, born 22 June 1785; died 24 Oct. 1859. James died in 1849: On the 1850 Illinois Hamilton County census RECORD 311, finds his Wife, Frances Coffey age 60. His brothers Eli 24 and James W. 30, a sister Elenor 35. James sister, Sally had married a Ewing Flanagan, (do not know where he is when this census was taken or
if he is living). Sally died in 1841. This census list two Flanagan children, same record number. Perlina Flanagan age 13 and Martha E. Flanagan age 11.

More About JAMES M. COFFEY:
Burial: Saline Co, IL

Children of FRANCES LANE and JAMES COFFEY are:
13. i. JANE5 COFFEY, b. December 29, 1804, Wayne County, KY; d. 1837.
14. ii. ARCHELAUS "ARCHILLE" COFFEY REV, b. July 30, 1805, Wayne County, KY; d. March 10, 1883, Saline County, IL.
iii. THOMAS COFFEY, b. 1808, Wayne County, KY; d. May 04, 1845, Miller Co., MO; m. KEZIA VARNIER, September 17, 1828, Gallatin County, IL..

More About THOMAS COFFEY:
Burial: Milles, Mo.

15. iv. JOHN COFFEY, b. April 22, 1810, Wayne County, KY; d. April 08, 1879, Looking Glass, Douglas County, OR.
v. ANN COFFEY, b. 1812, Wayne County, KY; m. JOHN BALDRIDGE, December 24, 1834, Gallatin County, IL..
vi. ELINOR COFFEY, b. 1814, Washington Co., IN; d. 1900; m. JAMES L. KENNEDY, March 17, 1852, Saline Co, IL.

Notes for ELINOR COFFEY:
Research provided by Boyce W. and Anthony Wayne Clayton.
Record 311 Hamilton County Illinois Census: List Elinor Coffey at age 35 along with her mother Frances age 60 and her siblings.

16. vii. SALLY COFFEY, b. 1816, Washington Co., IN; d. 1841.
17. viii. JAMES WESLEY COFFEY, b. May 15, 1818, Wayne County, KY; d. August 05, 1883, Saline Co, IL.
18. ix. LEWIS P. COFFEY, b. 1820, IL; d. April 25, 1848, Hamilton Co, IL.
x. LOUISA COFFEY, b. 1823, IL; m. JOHN J. LANE, December 15, 1842, Miller Co., MO.
19. xi. ELI COFFEY, b. October 06, 1825, Hamilton County, IL; d. October 07, 1899, Hamilton Co, IL.

Generation No. 3

5. JAMES DABNEY5 DEAN (SARAH "SALLY"4 LANE, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, THOMAS1) was born Abt. 1826 in TN, and died in Hamilton County, IL. He married NANCY ELIZABETH "PHOEBE" LEWIS October 20, 1846 in Hamilton County, IL, daughter of JEREMIAH REV. and PHOEBE VICKERS. She was born December 22, 1830 in Stewart County, TN, and died September 13, 1879.

Notes for JAMES DABNEY DEAN:
James Dabney Deen and Phoebe are bur at Little Spring Cem, Walpole, IL.

More About JAMES DABNEY DEAN:
Burial: Little Springs Cemetery, Walpole, Hamilton County, IL

Notes for NANCY ELIZABETH "PHOEBE" LEWIS:
Phoebe Lewis Dean's clothing caught on fire while fighting a grass fire and she burned to death.

More About NANCY ELIZABETH "PHOEBE" LEWIS:
Burial: Little Springs Cemetery, Walpole, IL

Children of JAMES DEAN and NANCY LEWIS are:
i. JULIA ANN6 DEAN, b. 1848, IL; m. JAMES A. RUSSELL, March 23, 1865, Hamilton Co, IL; b. 1845, TN.

More About JULIA ANN DEAN:
Burial: Rural Piggott, AR.

Notes for JAMES A. RUSSELL:
1880 Census Flannigan, Hamilton, Illinois - Page: 500D
Russell James A. 35 Farmer TN TN TN
Julia A. 32 IL IL IL
Rena 14 IL TN IL
Margeret 12
Enos 2
Minerva 4/12

1900 Hamilton County, IL census - Flannigan
15/15 RUSSELL James A. 54 Oct 1845 Head
Julie A. 52 Oct 1847 Wife
Menerva E. 20 Mar 1880 Dau
Leaner A. 17 Sep 1882 Dau
Thomas H. 14 Nov 1885 Son
Leamos P. 10 Jan 1890 Son

More About JAMES A. RUSSELL:
Burial: Rural Piggott, AR.

ii. JEREMIAH DEAN, b. 1850; m. LOUISA BRADEN, January 27, 1868, Hamilton County, IL.
iii. JACOB DEAN, b. 1851.
iv. ARENA DEAN, b. 1853.
v. SARAH KATHERINE DEAN, b. 1854; d. December 07, 1931; m. WILLIAM J. HUNT, January 08, 1874; b. 1848, IL; d. January 14, 1892, IL.

Notes for WILLIAM J. HUNT:
He was enrolled company F, 146th Illinois Cav. May 13, 1864. Musteredin June 10, 1864. Discharged October 22, 1864.

vi. LUCINDA DEAN, b. 1859; m. JOHN C. ATTERBURY, July 31, 1881.
vii. JOHN C. DEAN, b. 1862.
viii. ELVIRA DEAN, b. 1864; m. STEVEN K. HEARD, February 27, 1889.
ix. PHOEBE J. DEAN, b. 1866; m. THOMAS B. ODLE, August 26, 1886.
x. WILLIAM D. DEAN, b. 1870; m. ETTA C. GRABLE, September 12, 1897, Saline County, IL.
xi. ARTISMA DEAN, b. October 1870; d. February 1872.

More About ARTISMA DEAN:
Burial: Little Springs Cemetery, Walpole, Hamilton County, IL

xii. PAULINA DEAN, b. December 12, 1871; d. November 1873.

More About PAULINA DEAN:
Burial: Little Springs Cemetery, Walpole, Hamilton County, IL

xiii. JAMES R. DEAN, b. July 22, 1873; d. August 27, 1874.

More About JAMES R. DEAN:
Burial: Little Springs Cemetery, Walpole, Hamilton County, IL

xiv. THOMAS DEAN, b. August 26, 1881; d. 1882.

6. JULIA ANN5 DEAN (SARAH "SALLY"4 LANE, THOMAS3, WILLIAM2, THOMAS1) was born December 18, 1828 in Hamilton County, IL, and died October 05, 1897 in Hamilton County, IL. She married WILLIAM WILSON JOHNSON April 02, 1846 in Hamilton County, IL, son of ROBERT JOHNSON and MARTHA LEWIS. He was born November 07, 1823 in Hamilton County, IL, and died April 05, 1887 in Hamilton County, IL.

Notes for JULIA ANN DEAN:
Julia Ann Deen was born in Hamilton Co., IL. December 18, 1828. Julia died October 5, 1897 in Hamilton Co., IL., at 68 years of age.

She married William Wilson Johnson Sr. in Ham Co marriages Page 46, April 2, 1846. William was born in Hamilton Co., IL. November 7, 1823. William was the son of Robert Johnson and Martha Elizabeth "Betsey" Lewis. William died April 5, 1887 in Hamilton Co., IL., at 63 years of age.

1850 Census Hamilton Co Page 412, Line 193.

More About JULIA ANN DEAN:
Burial: Little Springs Cem, Walpole, Hamilton County, IL

More About WILLIAM WILSON JOHNSON:
Burial: Hamilton County, IL

Children of JULIA DEAN and WILLIAM JOHNSON are:
i. JAMES WASHINGTON6 JOHNSON, b. April 06, 1847, Hamilton County, IL; d. March 02, 1935, Hamilton County, IL; m. (1) ALICE BURNETT; m. (2) MARY POLLY BRADEN, December 15, 1870; b. April 30, 1853; d. April 18, 1928, Hamilton County, IL.

More About MARY POLLY BRADEN:
Burial: Little Springs Cemetery, Walpole, IL

ii. SARAH A. JOHNSON, b. February 06, 1849.
iii. MARTHA A. JOHNSON, b. June 24, 1852.
iv. NANCY JOHNSON, b. August 02, 1855; d. December 08, 1933; m. SAMUEL CULPEPPER, March 21, 1875; b. 1850; d. 1908.

Notes for NANCY JOHNSON:
Nancy died at home of daughter Ora Braden.

v. CHARLES DOUGLAS JOHNSON, b. October 25, 1858, Hamilton County, IL; d. January 11, 1939, Hamilton County, IL; m. (1) MARY FLORENCE BRADEN; b. 1864.

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