Marty and Karla Grant

!CENSUS:1830 Marion Dist, SC pg 30 w/James LANE age 0-4 (1825/30);

!!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg 146 w/James LANE age 10-14 (1825/30);


!NAMED-EQUITY ROLL # 199 Marion Co., SC. 1844. Jesse H. Lide and wife vs Robert Napier and wife, Samuel A. Lane, James H. Lane and others.
Bill for Partition. Filed 25 Oct 1844.
Jesse H.Lide and Martha A. Lide his wife show that Rachel Lane late of Darlington Dist, died March 1832 with Will executed and admitted to probate 8 Mar 1832 (copy of Will missing from roll). Rachel Lane devised as follows:
To Edmond Gee and John B. Bruce certain named negroes ... to hold for my son James Lane, to hold for James Lane children to be dived among them at his death.
James Lane died 21 Aug 1844 leaving the following children:
the oratrix Martha A. Lide
Elizabeth B. Napier who as married Robert Napier
James H. Lane
Samuel A. Lane
Thomas M. Lane
Olivia A. Lane
Amelia J. Lane
Edmond B. Lane
James Lane had at the death of Rachel Lane twh other children:
Rachel Louisa Lane
Mary Eleanor Lane, both of whom have died underage without leaving issue.
Edmond Gee died before Rachel Lane.
John B. Bruce sued for letters testamentary. In 1835 Bruce abandoned trust and removed from state leaving negroes in possession of James Lane who continued to possess them until his death.
* From "Marion County South Carolina Extracts from Equity Rolls", Lucille Utley. Three Rivers Historical Society.;


!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 469/472
Martha E. Lane 55 $2200 Marion
Thomas 22 Farmer
Angeline 19
Amelia 17;


!CENSUS:1860 * FL;