Calhoun County AlArchives Biographies.....Lane, Marshall Hall July 9 1845 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   REV. MARSHALL HALL LANE, D. D., pastor of the Baptist church in Jacksonville, Ala., 
was born at Washington, Wilkes County, Ga., July 9, 1845. He is a son of Dr. James H. 
and Mary C. (Simpson) Lane, both natives of the same county. Dr. James H. Lane took 
a classical course of study at Mercer University, located at Macon, Ga. and graduated 
from the medical department of the university of Georgia, located at Athens. He has 
always been devoted to the medical profession and has been unusually successful. He 
is a member of the Baptist church and of the Masonic fraternity. His wife is a daughter 
of William Simpson, one of the pioneer settlers of Wilkes County, Ga., who was a native 
of Virginia and of Scotch ancestry. Dr. and Mrs. Lane were the parents of five-children, 
three sons and two daughters. Dr. Lane's father was the Rev. Micajah A. Lane, a Baptist 
divine, who removed with his parents from Virginia to Georgia when but six years old, and 
after a long, successful and popular ministry died in 1887 at the great age of ninety-seven 
years. Rev. Marshall Hall Lane was educated at Wright and Hoys' high school and at the age 
of seventeen became a member of Wingfield's battery of Cutt's battalion, A. B. Hill's corps, 
army of Virginia. He was at the battle of Gettysburg and in all the subsequent battles 
fought by the army of Virginia until the close of the war, though he was at home on furlough 
at the time of the surrender of Lee. Immediately after the war he entered Rockby institute, 
taught by Col. R. M. Johnson, a noted southern author. He afterward entered the university 
of Virginia and studied law two years. In each of these institutions he paid his own tuition 
and he also educated one of his brothers. After leaving the university of Virginia he became 
a law partner of Gen. Toombs and DuBose and practiced law as a member of this firm many years. 
Since then he has, devoted all his time to the ministry and to education. He has been pastor 
of severa! Baptist churches in Georgia and at the Central Baptist church in Nashville, Tenn. 
He traveled two years as an evangelist in. Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas. He had charge 
of the Hern institute, Ga., from 1871 to 1877, and of the Baptist church at Cave Springs, Ga., 
from 1872 to 1877. He was also pastor for two years of Alpine Baptist church, in Talladega 
county. He received the honorary degree of D. D. in 1886, from the university of Alabama. 
He has been pastor of the Baptist church, at Jacksonville, Ala., since 1877. Dr. Lane is a 
strong democrat, and just after the war he was mainly instrumental in securing election of 
the first democratic ticket in Wilkes county, Ga. His friends made an effort to secure for 
him the nomination for congress in the seventh district, and though he had earnest and active 
support he was defeated by combination of the other counties against him. This, however, did 
not dampen his ardor for the success of the ticket and he is now, as he has always been, ready 
to work and vote for the success of his party's nominee. Dr. Lane was married October 6, 1868, 
to Miss Undine Brown, daughter of the celebrated Dr. Algernon S. Brown, one of the most 
successful physicians whoever practiced medicine in Georgia. To this union were born twelve 
children, namely : John S., Edward McIntosh, Mary Undine, Louise E., Sidney B., Eugene C., 
Bluebell C., James A., Marshall H., Jr., Marguerite T. and Reynolds. One boy died in infancy.

Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 600