Coleman Co., TX - Obit: Kallie Tucker Lane Kingsbery ****************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Michele Holland Mills USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ****************************************************** Transcribed 5 January 2004 By Michele Holland Mills mhmills@email.com Kallie Tucker Lane - Biography Kallie Tucker Lane was the daughter of Rev. James Sterling Lane and his third wife, Sophronia Jacob Audas. Rev. Lane was a Methodist minister who served in Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. Kallie was his youngest child, the 12th, born when James was 51 and Sophronia was 34. Kallie was born February 11, 1870, in Tehuacana, Limestone County, Texas. In 1873 Rev. Lane took his final assignment, as pastor of the Methodist Church in Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas. He was instrumental in the founding of Southwestern University in Georgetown. Rev. Lane died in 1882. His widow and the two youngest children, Audas James Lane and Kallie Tucker Lane, were living in Waco, Texas in 1890. Mrs. Lane took in boarders, including a photographer named W. D. Jackson. Kallie worked as an assistant in Mr. Jackson's photography studio. Some time prior to November 1892, Kallie took a train trip to visit relatives, probably her half-brother Orlando Clayborn Lane. At the train station in Coleman, Coleman County, Texas she met Henry Williams Kingsbery. Kallie was 22 years old and Henry was a 45-year-old bachelor, just a year older than Kallie's half-brother Orlando. Henry fell in love instantly, and the couple was married November 22, 1892. Kallie and Henry lived in Santa Anna, Coleman County. Henry bought a ranch six miles south of Santa Anna in 1894 and 1895 and the family moved there in 1866. They had two sons, Howard Thomas (1893-1970) and Carroll Emera (1897-1995), and a daughter Merle (1895-1991). Kallie became ill in 1899, and as the obituary states, took a trip to Georgia to visit her husband's family in hopes that it would revive her, but she died soon after arriving in Georgia. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kallie Tucker Lane Kingsbery Obituary - August 1899 "KINGSBERY - Near Cedartown, Georgia, in the early morning of August 9, 1899, Mrs. Kallie Lane Kingsbery passed over the river of death, away from a devoted husband, affectionate children and precious loved ones, to find sweet and undisturbed eternal rest in the shadow of the Free of life. She was born on February 11, 1870, in Georgetown, Texas. Was the daughter of Dr. J. S. and Mrs. Sophia [Sophronia] Lane. She was reared in the city of her birth and educated at the South-Western University. In early life she was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which church her father was an honored and useful minister for many years. Being brought up in a Christian home she was religious from her childhood, and was a consecrated and faithful follower of her dear Lord to her dying house, when she sweetly fell asleep in Him. On the 22nd of November, 1892, she was happily married to Mr. Henry W. Kingsbery, then of Coleman, Texas. At this place they lived For several years, where she made many friends. Later they settled in a beautiful home on a farm near Santa Anna, when she was contented and 3happy in her sweet home life. She was the mother of three precious, bright children. Her ideal of life was a sunshine happy christian home. She gave herself literally to her good husband and sweet children. When they were happy she was satisfied. Indeed a true christian wife and a most affectionate mother has gone from the happy home circle, and left a vacant place that can not be filled. For six months she was a patient sufferer. Her husband's family residing in Georgia arranged for a family reunion during the month of August, near Cedartown. To this reunion she looked forward with much delight, and hoped that the trip and change would bring her back to health. But alas, when completing the long journey from Texas to Georgia, and falling in the tender embrace of her husband's aged mother, sisters and loved ones, she lingered a few days and then went away to be with her Lord in the "House not made with hands eternal in the heavens." Her stay on earth was short, in the morning of her life she was cut down, but she accomplished her mission, and now rests from her labors awaiting the coming of her dear loved ones she has left behind. Her body rests in the cemetery at Cartersville, Ga. In the morning of the resurrection we will meet you, dear Kallie, in our Father's house on high. R. B. O. England" [brother-in-law of H. W. Kingsbery]