Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-17

The following notice of Gen. LANE is from thepen
of the President Of the University Of North Carolina:
CHAPEL HIII, Oct. %, 1859.

The following notice of Gen. LANE is from the pen
of the President Of the University Of North Carolina
CHAPEL HIlI, Oct %, 1859.
DEAR Sir: Your letter Of the 18th, owing TO my
absence IN the discharge Of official duties, did not
reach me until Gay OF two SINCE and l avail my
self Of the earliest practical opportunity to reply.
There is probably no family whose authentic his
tory can be more closely traced through every Pc
riod of the annals Of North Carolina than that of
Gen. Lanes. In proportion 10 numbers compare
lively few Of its members have aspred to or obtain
ed political distinction of any kind On the other
hand, there probably few that have enjoyed
greater average responsibility.
Gen. Lanes great grandfather, Joseph (who sign
ed his name Joseph Lane, jr.. in 172T), died at his
residence, near Halifax, on the Roanoke In I776.
His three sons, Joel Joseph and Jesse were pioneer
settlers in the neighborhoOd of Raleigh in l741 of
these Col Joel was the weathest and most conspic-
uous He conveyed to tbs State the GAO acres of
land, the site of the present city OF Raleigh. His
dwelling house. at the period of its erection the hest
within hundred miles, is the present residence of
Andrew Bayler, Esq, and they were Wings during
the Revolution and Col Joel ard Jesse did service
in the army, the latter as private.
Jesse was the grandfather OF Gen Joseph Lane
and of myself He was born in Halifax, July 4. 1922,
and married Winifred Awek. They had sixteen
children, eight sons and eight daughters, ali of
whom lived to bear families In 1883 my grand
father emigrated to Wilkes, near Ogethorpe county,
Ca. where he resided until 1900 when he removed
to St Louis where he died in 1904, in the SD year
of his age. Gen. Lane is the son of John Lane the
eighth child and fourth son of our grandfather
Jesse. At the time of tie removal of the family to
Georgia, (l779), Wilkes was frontier county, and,
during series of years subject to frequent nvasons
| from the Creeks and Cherokees. There were no
| members of the family able to bear arms, whose
services were not put into requistion, and no one
male or female who was not familiar with the hOr
rors Of savage warfare. My mother beguiled many
an hour during my infancy, in the recital of hair
breadth escapes, which, delicate woman as she was
rendered her personal history one of remarkable
| suffering and adventure.
have no recollection of my grandfather or uncle
John. The former visited my father on his way Il
| Missouri, and the latter an inmate of my family
| for some time previous to and subsequent to my
/ birth. | heard much of him in my bOyhood, and
suppose that in all respects he is counterpart o.
| the father, brave, enterprising and generous H'
was universal favorite in the midst of the mer
| who fought at the Cowpens and Kings Mountain
and who considered foray among the Indians al
little less than pastime
Gen. Lanes mother was Betsy, daughter o.
James Street. the first Sheriff of my native county
| (Buncomb.) The descendants of the sixteen chill
dren of Jesse dispersed through all of the West
| ern and Southern States Judge G. w. Lane, O
ms to Gen. tLane; Judge COlquitt, Senator from
Georgia in lS47, George, the former Mayor of AT
lanta Ca, and DR.. Jones, recently Of the House 0
Representatives, married his cousins.
enter into these particulars simply to satisf.
you that while the family of Gen. Lane have n
just pretensicns the praise of heraldry, there
fno cause, the other hand why they should blush
for his ancestry or his connexions.
write IN considerable haste, but will be read
at any time to communicate more special informa
ton if it should be called for.
| Yours, very respectfully, d. l.. SWAIN.