This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jc.2ADI/528 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on the families mentioned below. These Lanes were also in Quitman and Valdosta, Georgia. I am especially interested in the G. E. Lane, aged 5. He was a handsome man, and he was always so kind. He was born 1875 in Madison County, FL. Elizabeth was born 1830, place unknown. I am posting pictures of the two of them. Maybe some cousins out there?? From the 1880 Madison County, Florida Census Hamburg Section (This is NW Madison County) Name Color Sex Age Relationship Born Father Mother LANE, Sylvester W M 53 Widower GA GA GA W. S. W M 11 Son GA GA GA G. E. W M 5 Son FL GA GA Elizabeth W F 50 Sister GA GA GA Clara A. W F 18 Cousin GA GA GA Also, listed just before Sylvester is: LANE, J. T. W M 25 FL GA GA H. L. W F 25 Wife FL GA GA E. S. W F 2 Daughter FL FL FL C. F. W F 5/12 Daughter FL FL FL VICKERS, Carolina (as best I can read it) W F 56 Mother GA GA GA (Wondering if she could be mother of the wife??) I believe this is probably the same Sylvester in 1870. From a printed census of Brooks County, GA in 1870. Nankin is in south Brooks County. LANE, Sylvester Age 40 Henrietta 30 James 16 Willie 2 John 35 Elizabeth 42 I feel the James could be the J. T. Lane listed next to Sylvester in the Madison County, Florida, 1880 census. Could John be a brother to Sylvester? A Sylvester and John LANE are shown in the Civil War unit called the Piscola Rifles, enlisting from Brooks County. A Sylvester LANE (shown on some records as LAM) was shown to have married Nancy REDDING and moved to Texas in the 1850's. This could possibly have been the same one. He could have married Henrietta later. The time interim would work. The G. E. LANE (called Ed), shown on the 1880 census as age 5, was raised by his Aunt Elizabeth who is also shown on the same census. He does not remember his father, nor did he know he had brothers. This is a puzzle, though it is probably explained by his father's death when he was young. He always tried to get family images better in his mind, but he just couldn't. He talked of an Old Will LANE in Quitman, but we never knew just who he was. He said he knew, but couldn't prove, that a Mayor LANE(?) in Tampa was a cousin. My dad tried for years to find info for him, and he did find that he was born in Madison County, Florida. Apparently Madison County records were destroyed by fire. Hope someone is aware of this family. Sydney Cardner (the Sydney is female