Caldwell County MO Archives History .....SAM R. LANE, OF HAMILTON AND MIRABILE TOWNSHIP 1868 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Karen Walker khw4@yahoo.com September 4, 2008, 6:11 pm SAM R. LANE, OF HAMILTON AND MIRABILE TOWNSHIP 1868 Narrators: Mrs. Ida Lane Rauber Mrs. Rauber is the wife of John Rauber whose father Anthon was a German emigrant to the county in the late 70s. She is the daughter of Samuel Lane who came into the county either 1867 or 1868. Mr. Lane was a native of Wisconsin and his wife a native of Pennsylvania. When he came to Caldwell county, the slew grass was still head high on part of the prairies, earlier settlers told him that in the fifties, it was head high when a man sat on a horse. Even when Mr. Lane came, there were few neighbors. First, he bought the farm still commonly known as the Half Way House (half way between Hamilton and Kingston). It had a log cabin where he and family lived a while. Then he sold out at a profit to Mr. Ford father of Wm. Ford, Mrs. Hogsett, etc., and he bought another place one and half mile south, called the Blood farm. He did not keep this long, for new settlers were coming in, and eager to buy. Then he bought a third farm two and half miles south west of Mirabile which had a log house on it and there Ida Lane was born and there his wife died. This place had been a slave plantation before the war and an old negro couple, Aunt and Uncle Blacksten left over from the old plantation, were still living as squatters on the place. Sam Lane let them stay on, for they helped Mrs. Lane who was sickly and growing steadily worse. The neighbors out there were the Carrs and Mrs. Geo. Arey (mother of Geo. Arey of Hamilton 1920). Both were connected in family. Now comes the story of how Ida Lane became the foster child of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Edminster. Mr. and Mrs. Lane came from the same county in Wisconsin as the Edminsters, A.G. Howard, C.C. Greene who had come down to buy farms here. Lane was the first to come and they came later on his reports. Jack Edminster and his father Aaron bought a farm in Lovely Ridge district west of town. Mrs. Edminster came down when she had finished her Wisconsin school which she was teaching when married. Her maiden name was Gardner. The Lanes and Edminsters were especially close friends. As Mrs. Lane's death drew near, she began to worry about her little girl's future. She expressed the desire that her good friend Mary (Mrs. Edminster), would take the child. The Edminsters had no children of their own. They promised to take Ida and Mrs. Lane died happy. They rolled the little girl in a blanket and put her in the bottom of a sled, taking her to their home where she stayed till her wedding day. On account of Mrs. Rauber's change of parents, at such a youthful age, she is not sure of her exact age, which may be 64 or 65. Mrs. Lane was buried in the old Hines cemetery (1836-1873). The land on which this graveyard lies was on Mr. Lane's land and his house was near it. The northwest corner is the Lane grave corner. Next to her is son Edward who died when 67 years old about 1901, and then is old Samuel Lane who died 1900 aged 75. There are no markers for father and son. They are about the last to be buried there before the graveyard was condemned and no more burials allowed. Mr. Lane, soon after the death of his wife, Mary Lane, having secured a home for his babe, began traveling to forget his grief, as Mrs. Rauber says. At any rate, he was gone for years and no one knew where he was. In his old age, he came back with some property and passed much of his declining years with his newly found daughter. Interview 1934. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/caldwell/history/other/samrlane308gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mofiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb