Mrs Walden Lane

LANE

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 5/23/2009 at 12:44:38

SOURCE: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

MRS WALDEN LANE; born in Jefferson Co., N.Y., in 1830; moved to Geauga Co., Ohio, with her parents in 1831, and to Hillsdale Co., Mich., in 1849, thence to this county in 1857. Was married to J. F. Walden in 1860; he died in 1869, of disease contracted in the army. He organized Co. F, 17th Iowa Vols., and went into the field as Captain in 1862; was promoted to the rank of Major in April 1863, and transferred to the Pay Department in 1864, retaining his rank as Major; was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel and mustered out in 1866. Mrs. Lane has one child living - Jennie Florence, born in October, 1865, whose education is the principal aim of her mother. Having commenced life young herself, as a school teacher at 19 years of age, she is familiar with the difficulties encountered by a young girl thrown in a similar position, dependent upon her own resources, and, therefore, feels the deep responsibility resting upon her as the surviving parent of her orphan child; she possesses those noble principles of self-sacrifice for the welfare of others, so rarely found among the denizens of this sublunary region. She taught school in Bellair and other places in this county in 1857. She owns property in this city, worth $5,000, and has an income from other reliable sources.