George Lane was born February 16, 1813 at Cork, Ireland.  He was admitted to the Texas bar in 1838.  He volunteered for service of Texas at the time of the Vicente Cordova uprising.  He was District Attorney of the first district when thirty-one Mexicans in the Nacogdoches area were prosecuted for treason.  Sam Houston appointed him a notary public for Panola County in 1842.  He was Chief Justice of Harrison County and associated in the practice of law with Isaac Van Zandt.

George was a volunteer in defense against the Mexicans and the Indians and served as Regiment Adjutant in the Campaign of 1839.

George married Joanna Curlin and they had Mary Jane Lane, Lucy Lane, Fanny M. Lane, Leonora Lane, Georgia A. Lane, Walter C. Lane, William Hugh Lane, Wade Pope Lane, and Paye Louisa Lane.  George Lane’s brother was Walter Paye Lane, a noted Indian and Mexican war fighter and Brigadier General in the Confederacy.  George Lane died in Marshall, Texas on February 28, 1885.

Patricia Hill Cagle, Descendant