When William Thomas Lane was born on 7 October 1847, in Scott, Virginia, United States, his father, Abraham Zachary Lane Jr, was 41 and his mother, Barbara Lotts, was 31. He married Rebecca Catharine Craft on 22 August 1878, in Scott, Fauquier, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Virginia, United States in 1870 and Taylor District, Scott, Virginia, United States for about 60 years. He died on 9 January 1941, in Scott, Virginia, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Lane Cemetery, Gate City, Scott, Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, from Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear or javelin’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan. See also Lamb .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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