From Proud Heritage, Volume I by DCPA, not currently in print.
Samuel was born 3 October 1861, in Tennessee, probably Sumner County where his grandfather John Ashley Reddick and his mother Mary A. Reddick Lain/Lane were born. He died 16 September 1939 and was buried in the Eastview Cemetery, Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas.
The names Lain and Lane were both used by generations of more than one family. Early reports were that Lane was the correct spelling; however, Samuel chose to use Lain.
Samuel came to Dallas County at the age of 18. It is believed he came with father Lee Thomas Lain and brother Lester C. (Jack) in 1879. They were followed by his mother, Mary A. Reddick Lain, and daughters Sophia, Dora, Eva and Fannie, who came on the train. They rented a farm on the lands presently owned and occupied by the Presbyterian Hospital, which purchased the tract from the Reynolds Orphans Home. The orphanage had moved to Dallas in 1923 having purchased the land from Reagen T. Wofford. The orphanage is now located in Waxahachie, Texas. Later the Lain family occupied a farm home on what is now Forest Lane, later moving to farm houses on Plano Road and on Audelia Road.
Samuel was the son of L. (Lee) T. (Thomas) Lain (date of birth and death unknown – probably buried on family farm in Dallas County) and Mary A. Reddick Lain (born 18 June 1839, died 17 July 1892, buried in McCree Cemetery, Dallas County). He was one of Lee’s and Mary’s six children who came to Dallas County from Tennessee:
1) Leslie C. (Jack) Lain was probably born ca. 1859; date of death and burial site unknown. He married M. Bell Huffhines, born March 1859, died ca. 1946. Their children were: a) Charlie Lain born ca. 1887, died 1932, marriage and burial site unknown; however, it is known no children were born in this marriage. b) Lester born 29 June 1890, died 1 August 1972; married Ethel Jackson born 1 April 1892, died 10 September 1972. They had one daughter, Frances, born 27 July 1917, who married F. A. Wallace born 15 November 1913; no children in this marriage. c) Nora born February 1893, died (date unknown); married Royce Huffhines. Children unknown. d) Gola born September 1897, died (date unknown); married Hobart Kidd and had two children: Barney and Junior. e) Mary Opal born September 1897, died (date unknown); married a Stratton. Children unknown.
2) Samuel (Sam).
3) Sophia born 22 April 1865, died 15 March 1918; married John Jackson born 15 March 1857, died 29 May 1936. Their children were a) Pearl “Molly” born 24 February 1885, died 17 November 1887, as a small child. b) Lula M. born 21 August 1886, died 12 April 1922; married Robert C. Chambers. Their children were: Ruby who married Luther Hayes and Lulu B. who married Bryan Dixon; an infant died at birth 12 April 1922. Their home land is now occupied by Audelia Baptist Church.
4) Chaney Isadora (Dora) born 2 February 1868, died 2 July 1963; married Jeff Jackson born 24 February 1862; died 24 September 1941. Their children were: a) Luther J. who married 17 October 1909 Ricey Lee Mercer born 14 February 1891, died 17 June 1982. Their children were: Elsie Lee born 23 July 1916, Sunshine Jane born 6 May 1922, L. J. (Jack) born 16 May 1924, b) Ethel born 1 April 1892, died 10 September 1972; married Lester Lane born 29 June 1890, died 1 August 1972. They had one daughter, Frances, born 27 July 1917, who married F. A. Wallace born 15 November 1913. No children in this marriage. c) Florence Elizabeth born 25 May 1902, died ca. 1983; married Henry W. Clark. Their children were: John E. born 16 April 1911, Betty Jo born 11 August 1929, Phillip Earl born 13 October 1923.
5) Eva born 19 March 1876, died 31 October 1962, buried in Restland Cemetery. She married William Thomas Sharp born 4 April 1868, died ca. 1946. Their children were: a) Alvin born 13 October 1897, died 9 October 1974; married Dewey Rippey and had one son, Billy Jack, who married Marietta Wiseman and had one child, Jeri Beth. b) John William born 28 July 1900, died 10 March 1973; married Zela Ballard. Their children were: Norma Willene married Truman Seabourn and Thomas Lewis who married Mildred Allen and lives in Quincy, Missouri. c) Mary Velma born September 1902, died 14 July 1961, unmarried. d) Anna Mae born 19 September 1915, married Cecil Taber and divorced in 1950. They had two children: Cecilia Ann born 26 March 1940 who married Duane Evans and whose children are Kevin, Keith Allan and Kyle Barton (twins); Timothy Neil born 19 September 1944 who married Patricia Adams and has two children: Tim, Jr. and Tonya.
6) Fannie, birth and death dates unknown. She died a few months after the family settled in Dallas County. Probably buried on the family farm.
Samuel was grandson of John Ashley Reddick (born 1 December 1811, died 10 November 1874) and Sallie T. Hodges Reddick (born 13 November 1814, died 10 June 1878) who was buried in Sulphura Cemetery in Tennessee.
Samuel married Texas Anna (Texana) Prigmore born 26 December 1866, died 1 July 1897.
Texas Anna (Texana) Prigmore was born 26 December 1866, and died 1 July 1897. She was born in Dallas County and was the youngest and sixth child of Benjamin J. Prigmore and Nancy Lucinda (Lucy) Jackson Prigmore. She was buried in the McCree Cemetery, Dallas County, Texas.
She was the granddaughter of Joseph Prigmore. Jr. born 22 January 1809 in Barren County, Kentucky, and Mahala Dixon Prigmore born ca. 1810, Ohio. She was the great granddaughter of Benjamin Prigmore, born 2 January 1761 Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and Mary Downing Prigmore, born ca. 1782, Maryland. She was the great great grand daughter of Joseph Prigmore born ca. 1721, France, and Christene Ann Moor (Moore). Her great great grandfather and his two brothers fled France with their parents who were of noble birth. They fled into Scotland because of religious persecution. Later they immigrated to America and settled in the New Jersey area. From New Jersey they moved into Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina (that part which later became Tennessee), Kentucky, Missouri and Texas.
Texas Anna (Texana) married Samuel (Sam) Lain (Lane) in Dallas County and settled on their land south of her parents on Forest Lane and east of LBJ Freeway. Unto them were born four children, all born in Dallas County.
1) Walter born 5 October 1888, died April 1974 in California; married Fannie Holliman. They had one son, Frank, who married Frances (last name unknown). Their children were: Janet and a son.
2) John born 14 December 1889, died 10 May 1966; married Katie Ashley born 15 June 1893, died 18 September 1977. They had two children: a) Bernice born 3i January 1917; married Eugene Karr born 3 July 1916, died 25 March 1960. They had two children: A) Patsy born 26 July 1941, married Jeffry Hughes and has four children – Russell, Lisa, Lori and Lee Ann. B) Johnny born 20 December 1954, unmarried and living in Irving, California. Bernice later married James F. Crow. They are divorced and she lives in Liberty, Missouri, where her daughter and family live. b) Joan born 17 November 1933; married Leroy Parrish born 12 May 1931. They presently live in Liberty, Missouri and have three children: A) Blake born 15 April 1955, married Mary Hinchey. B) Rhonda born 8 September 1956, married Jeff Dalgell. C) Lisa born 25 February 1959, married Kevin Snodgrass.
3) Elsie Mae was born 2 April 1892; married Joseph Cobb Moore September 14, 1913 and lived in Wilbarger County, Texas. Joseph (Joe) was born 18 February 1890 in Wilbarger County and died 27 November 1981 and was buried in Vernon, Texas, Eastview Cemetery. Their children were: a) Sibyl Nell born 25 July 1914, married (1) 4 June 1933 W. L. (Bill) Wallace born 6 February 1903 in Tennessee, died 26 April 1971. They divorced 6 November 1946. They had one child, Mary Layne (M’Layne), born 11 June 1937; married 11 April 1969 Terence J. Murphy born 6 November 1937, died 25 May 1981, buried in the Calvary Hill Cemetery, Dallas. They had two children: Andrew Lawrence born 12 April 1971 and Meaghen M’Layne born 10 May 1974. Sibyl Nell married (2nd) J. C. Skipworth 22 December 1955 in Wichita Falls, Texas. They had no children. He died 9 June 1980 and is buried in Eastview Cemetery, Vernon, Texas. b) Ruth Lee was born 25 August 1916. Her first two marriages ended in divorce: Travis King and J. R. Lane (no relation). There were no children in these marriages. She married (3) Clifford L. Ladd in 1952, and he died in 1983. c) Joe Anna (Jan) was born 19 January 19 21, married 21 April 1941 Clifford L. Streetman born 4 May 1908, died 8 July 1968. They had one daughter, Lana Carole, born 19 December 1946, who married 19 June 1970 Walter Beaird born 25 February 1946. Their children are: Tracey born 17 January 1971 and Erin born 24 September 1975. Joe Anna’s second marriage to Vaughn Grantham ended in divorce.
4) Ina Viola was born 14 June 1895; married Charlie L. Moore born 23 August 1893, died 1 May 1984 (he was the brother of Joseph Cobb Moore, husband of Elsie Mae, Viola’s sister). Viola and Charlie married 1 February 1914 and lived in Wilbarger County, Texas. They had two children: a) Dorothy born 21 November 1941; married Henry Scott born 17 June 1910. They have two children: Allen Henry born 9 March 1942, married Cindy Freeborn on 24 August 1985; Linda born 29 July 1950, married Cooper Brougher llI on 22 May 1976. b) Calton Logan (Bubba) born 30 June 1917, died 27 June 1983; married Norma Rogers born 1 October 1920. He served in the 81st Infantry Divison of World War II in the South Pacific. He is buried in Eastview Cemetery, Vernon, Texas. They had two children: A) Michael born 3 January 1948, and B) Russell born 30 July 1952, married Linda Ames born 16 July 1951. They have two sons: Rusty born 17 February 1972 and Jeremy Jim born 28 December 1976.
Presently, Elsie Mae lives in Richardson near her birthplace. Most of her immediate family live near Dallas; one daughter, Ruth Lee, lived in Electra, Wichita County, Texas. Ina Viola lives in Vernon near her daughter, Dorothy, and her son’s surviving family lives in Thomas, Oklahoma.
Approximately four years after the death of Samuel’s wife, Texas Anna, he married (2) a widow, Minnie Modglin who had a son, Jack, by her first marriage. At that time, he and his family migrated via Grand Prairie to near Oklaunion, Wilbarger County, Texas, where he bought land and built a home. In ca. 1918 he purchased a section of wheat land near Lockney, Texas, on the West Texas Plains, where he lived until retirement. He died in Vernon, Texas. Samuel and Minnie had children 1) Lee Thomas who married Eddie (last name unknown). They had children: L. T., Geneva, Sam, Billie, Robert and Mary Katherine. They lived in Odessa, Ector County, Texas, where he is buried; 2 &: 3) Roy and Ray (twins). Ray died at a very early age, and Roy lived most of his life in San Diego, California, where he is buried. He was survived by two children by his first wife, Margaret Moore (no relation): Marjorie Roy and Jimmy.
By Sibyl Moore Skipworth, Granddaughter, Dallas
