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Osborne Lane received a land grant in 1788 for 300 acres on Buck Swamp in Georgetown District, South Carolina. He married Hepsabeth Crawford, a daughter of James and Cassiah (Kessiah) Saunders Crawford, early residents of what now is Williamsburg County, South Carolina. Marion District was created from Georgetown District in 1798. Osborne Lane was a Tory during the American Revolution.

Osborne and Hepsabeth Crawford Lane were the parents of twelve known children: John; Thomas; Joseph (born around 1770); Elizabeth; Robert; Osborne; Kesiah; Alexander;William; David; Stephen; and James. Most of these children resided in Marion County at the time of Osborne Lane's death in 1840. However, Osborne Lane's estate indicates that some of his children resided elsewhere, among them Joseph Lane, who in 1840 resided in Simpson County, Mississippi. Before moving to Mississippi, Joseph first moved from Marion County to Barnwell County probably just after 1816, when he and his wife Patsey sold land in Marion County. Her name appears as Patsey on the 1816 deed, the diminutive for Martha, which is used in later records.

Joseph and Martha Lane moved to Simpson County, Mississippi, prior to 1830. They were the parents of the following known children: James (relationship based on circumstantial evidence), probably born around 1795; Shepherd, born around 1798 (according to 1850 census records), who married Jenny Cook; William H., born 1802, who first married Mary____and second married Mrs. Sidney Burkholder; Mary, born 1803, who married Elam Allbritton; and Charity, born 1806, who married James Allbritton. These children were born in South Carolina. There may have been other children, possibly some remaining in South Carolina.

James Lane is thought to be the father of William L. Lane, born around 1815. James Lane is thought to have died prior to 1830. Nothing is known of his wife or any other children. William L. Lane married Irene Beasley, daughter of Daniel and Catherine McLendon Beasley. They were the parents of four children: James Meredith Lane, born 1837; Elbert Forsythe Lane, born 1839; Lauresa A. Lane, born 1840; and Robert Lane, born 1843.

Joseph Lane's son, William H. Lane, settled in Rankin County, Mississippi. He died there in 1873.

Shepherd Lane, after appearing in the 1820's and 1830's with other members of the family of Joseph Lane in both Lawrence and Simpson counties, was in Clarke County, Mississippi, in 1850, where he was counted in the census of that year. The name of his wife in this census is recorded as Jane, although he married Jenny Cook in Lawrence County, Mississippi, in 1826. It is possible that Jane is another name for Jenny or that Shepherd Lane had married a second time. In both 1860 and 1870, Shepherd Lane and his family were counted in the censuses of Mobile County, Alabama. Shepherd Lane died before 1880 and is said to be buried in Wheelerville, Alabama, near Mobile.

Sometime in the late 1840's, Elam and Mary Lane Allbritton and James and Charity Lane Allbritton moved from Mississippi to Texas with their families. Both households appeared in the 1850 census of Houston County, Texas. Mary and Elam Allbritton eventually moved to Liberty County, Texas, where they died and are buried in the Allbritton/Speights Cemetery near Moss Bluff. James and Charity Allbritton are thought to have died in Trinity County, Texas, and to be buried in Prairie Grove Cemetery near Diboll, Texas.