Sophia Elizabeth Lane

Brief Life History of Sophia Elizabeth

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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Family Time Line

Matthew Simeon Greer
1845–1915
Sophia Elizabeth Lane
1854–1926
Marriage: 23 March 1871
Parley Pratt Greer
1872–1955
William Nathaniel "Billie" Greer
1873–1951
Ellen Maude Greer
1876–1958
Hettye Sue Greer
1879–1943
Margaret Boone Greer
1882–1964
Esther Mignon Greer
1885–1916
Sarah Wilmirth Greer
1888–1962
Jetta Mabel Greer
1891–1968
Verna Mae Greer
1895–1981

Sources (29)

  • Mrs Sophia Greer, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Sophia E Lane, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
  • Sophia Elizabeth Green, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"

World Events (8)

1861 · Texas Secedes from the United States

On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

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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Story Highlight

From "The Greer (Grier) Frontiersmen and Related Families" Volume 1, page 390

Mrs. Greer had been a cripple for the past twelve years and had been deprived of doing as she once did, yet she was very cheerful and bore her cross as Jesus did and did not murmur. She had been conf …

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