Lowndes-Emanuel-Jenkins County GaArchives Biographies.....Lane, Remer Young 1826 - living in 1913
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   REMER YOUNG LANE. The president of the Merchants Bank of Valdosta is one of
the oldest residents of Lowndes county, and for more than half a century has
been closely identified with its agricultural and business development. A
pioneer himself, Mr. Lane also represents a family of Georgia pioneers, and its
members have been worthily connected with civic affairs and business enterprise
in America from before the Revolutionary war down to the present.

   Remer Young Lane was born in that part of Emanuel now known as Jenkins
county, Georgia, on November 18, 1826. His grandfather, Abraham Lane, a native
of Duplin county, North Carolina, was one of seven brothers each of whom gave
soldier's service to the cause of independence during the Revolutionary war.
Soon after the close of that struggle he came into Georgia, locating in what is
now Jenkins county, and took a pioneer's part as a settler and upbuilder of that
region. Practically all of Georgia was then a wilderness, the land ,not yet
surveyed, and many years passed before all the Indian titles were quieted. In
this sparsely settled region he acquired several thousand acres, and spent the
rest of his years in the management and cultivation of his broad acres. He died
in 1826, aged eighty-one years. His wife, whose maiden name was Martha Wood,
passed away some years before him.

   John Lane, son of Abraham and father of the Valdosta banker, was born also in
the present Jenkins county on April 1, 1795, and was reared amid pioneer scenes.
Following in the footsteps of his father, he became a planter and with slave
labor conducted a large estate. His death occurred at the early age of forty
years. He married Mary Heath, who was born and reared in the same neighborhood
with him. Her father, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, was Louis Heath,
who married a Miss Vickers. John Lane and wife had five children, and after the
father's death the mother directed the home plantation and .kept the children
together until they had homes of their own. She lived to the age of about
seventy years.

   Remer Young Lane was in his ninth year when his father died, and he lived at
the old home until he was twenty-one, being educated in the schools of the
neighborhood. On leaving home he established a store at "No. 8" on the line of
the Georgia Central in Burke county, and continued there for seven or eight
years. The date of his settlement in Lowndes county was 1855, fifty-eight years
ago. At that time the county comprised a large territory in southern Georgia,
and the county seat was Troupville. Near Clyatville he bought a large tract of
new land, and with the aid of slaves developed and farmed it for a number of
years. Agriculture was his regular vocation until 1875, in which year he located
in Valdosta. In association with Hon. A. T. McIntyre of Thomasville he engaged
in banking, a business with which his name has been substantially identified
ever since, and he is one of the oldest bankers of south Georgia. In 1889 he
organized the Merchants Bank of Valdosta, and has been president of this
institution ever since. Mr. Lane is one of the largest land owners of Lowndes
county, his holdings comprising over four thousand acres, and through its
management and his other business enterprises he has been for years one of the
largest producers of actual wealth in this section of the state.

  On September 13, 1855, Mr. Lane married Miss Henrietta Brinson. She too is a
descendant of Georgia pioneers. Her parents were Mills M. and Sarah (Hines)
Brinson, natives of Screven and Burke counties respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Lane
have reared seven children, namely: Mary, Walter Thompson, Mills B., John,
Augustus H., Edward W. and Ben. Mary is the wife of E. P. S. Denmark, and her
five children are Remer Z., Elisha P., Augustus H., Irwin and Mary Estelle.
Walter T., a resident of Valdosta, married Katherine Gairard, who died, leaving
three children, Katrina, Almerine and Walter T. J.; Mills B., who is president
of the Citizens and Southern Bank at Savannah, married Mary Homer, and their
children are Mary, Remer Y. and Mills B.; John, who is a planter in Lowndes
county, married Emma Tillman, now deceased, and their children are Mills B. and
Isaiah T.; Augustus H., the fifth child, is deceased; Edward W., who is
president of the Atlantic National Bank of Jacksonville, Florida, married Anna
Tollivar, and has two children, James T. and Edward Wood. Ben, the youngest of
the family, is engaged in business at Douglas in Coffee county. One of Mr.
Lane's granddaughters, Katrina Lane, married William Ashley, and their child,
Mary Katrina, represents the fourth living generation.



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From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913




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