MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - Alfred J. Lane
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ALFRED J. LANE, farmer, was born February 8, 1848, on the farm where he now
lives. While growing up he received a fair practical education in the
common schools, and, like a dutiful son, remained with his parents until he
was twenty-two years of age, when he went to Pulaski to clerk in a cotton
factory. Two years later he returned to the farm, and in 1873 he was
married to Mary A. Overton, a native of Texas, born February 19, 1853. Of
this marriage three children was the result: John F., Mary D. and William
J. Mr. Lane is a Democrat, and he and wife and eldest child are members of
the Missionary Baptist Church. He has an excellent farm of 308 acres, well
stocked. He has been a resident of this county for twenty-one years, and is
accounted a good farmer and an enterprising citizen. He is a son of Joel
and Susan H. (Carter) Lane, both natives of Tennessee. They were married in
Maury County, and settled on the farm where Alfred now lives. Both parents
were members of the Missionary Baptist Church. The father's chief
occupation was farming, though he worked at blacksmithing, shoemaking,
carpentering or whatever his inclinations suggested. Mechanical ingenuity
runs through the Lane family. He died in 1854. The mother is still living,
the wife of M. E. C. Overton, by whom she had ten children.

Surnames: Carter, Lane, Overton
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."