Ephraim Lane Family from Walpole As It Was and As It Is (1880)

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Surname: LANE
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 309-310

LANE, EPHRAIM, was born in Bedford, Mass., Mar. 22, 1767. Soon after his majority he wended 
his way to this town, on foot, with a pack strapped to his back and stopped over night at the tavern of 
Alexander Watkins. Here he made inquiry for mill property, for sale, and was told of the property 
afterwards known as "Lane’s Mills" which he purchased in about 1790, of one Graves. Soon after he 
returned to Massachusetts, and married Elizabeth Danforth, of Dracut, and came back to Walpole and 
commenced married life in a little house that once stood just north of the residence of Mrs. George 
Joslin. For a few years he lived in various places till at length he purchased the little farm where Chas. B. 
Hall now lives and there he remained till his death, which occurred Aug. 15, 1837. For several years he 
followed milling for a business, till he had accumulated by industry and frugality the nucleus of his 
subsequent gains. His education was necessarily limited; but he early learned that one hundred cents 
make one dollar, which many of our college educated young men learn too late, if at all. He was for 
many years the moneyed man in town and loaned it at a high rate of interest, and in this way, and by 
tilling his small farm, and practicing rigid economy, he brought up a family of nine children, and left a 
handsome sum at his death. His wife was a highly estimable woman, possessing all the womanly virtues, 
and although schooled to prudence and economy in her younger days, she was ever ready to help the 
needy and destitute. In her girlhood she passed through the fiery ordeal of poverty and want. She 
worked out as a servant girl for twenty-five cents per week, and was paid in flax which she spun into 
fine thread and sold to the gentry to work into lawns. In that way she procured money to purchase her 
scanty wardrobe. Think of this, you damsels, who complain of $10 per week wages. He had seven girls 
who all made model housewives and six of them good mothers They have all lamented the want of 
sufficient educational advantages in their youth; but their father, thinking their advantages superior to his, 
could not be made to see the propriety of a better education than was obtained at our common schools 
in those early days. Ch.
I. Rebecca, b. Apr. 7, 1798; m. David Pulsipher, of Rockingham, Vt., Mar. 15, 1815, and had 
nine children, one of whom, Mrs. William Hooper, is the only one of the family now living.
II. Susan, b. Oct. 1st, 1796; m. Elias Pulsipher of Rockingham, Jan. 30, 1720, and had 4 ch.
III. Betsey, b. Jan. 25, 1799; m. Horace Reynolds, of Putney, Vt., and had two children, one son 
and one dau.
IV. Mary, b. Sep. 3, 1801; m. James Hooper jr., Jan. 19, 1826. (See Hooper.)
V. George, b. Nov. 25, 1802; m. first, Sarah, dau. of Hugh Dunshee, Apr. 4, 1831; m., second, a 
Miss Houghton, of Coventry, Vt., and had children by both wives. He died 1878.
VI. Phebe, b. Jan. 22, 1806; m. Chester Wier, of this town, Mar. 3, 1829. He died Jan. 22, 1837, 
aged 33; she still survives him in widowhood. They had four children, two died young, the 
others, Julia and Henry lived to adult age. Julia m. Thomas Seaver who died a few years after 
their marriage; she died in 1878.
VII. Sophia, b. July 10,1808; m. Oliver Huntington, Mar. 30, 1835. (See Huntington.)
VIII. Almira, b. Jan. 8, 1811; m. Charles Hooper. (See Hooper.)
IX. Lewis, b. Apr. 22, 1813; m. Mary P., dau. of Elisha and Sally (Russell) Angier, Oct. 27,1841; 
issue, two sons. They reside in Keene.