When Sophia Elizabeth Lane was born on 14 February 1854, in Kimball, Bosque, Texas, United States, her father, James Addison Lane, was 39 and her mother, Matilda Susan Willson, was 34. She married Matthew Simeon Greer on 23 March 1871. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 4, Bosque, Texas, United States in 1900 and Bosque, Texas, United States in 1920. She died on 4 August 1926, in Kopperl, Bosque, Texas, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Kopperl, Bosque, Texas, United States.
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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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