Spencer H Layne

1867 - Bef 1940  (~ 72 years)

• Name	Spencer H Layne
  Birth	Feb 1867	Sequatchie County, Tennessee, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 1940	California, USA
  Person ID	I1589	Main
  Last Modified	1 Feb 2016

  
  

  Father	John Bryant Layne,   b. 25 Mar 1833, Tennessee, USA d. 17 Apr 1883, Tennessee, USA (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Amanda Pankey,   b. 1838, Tennessee, USA d. 16 May 1930, Clinton, DeWitt County, Illinois, USA (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	2 May 1860	Sequatchie County, Tennessee, USA
  Notes	Floyd Benjamin Layne lists this family under John III, son of John Jr and Esther (Kilgore) Layne, and Mattie Bryant, in the Layne-Lain-Lane genealogy book. This is significant evidence that this family is instead that of John Bryant and Amanda (Pankey) Layne, son of Daniel and Anna (Bryant) Layne.
  Family ID	F433	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Belle Cartwright,   b. 1 Jan 1870, Tennessee, USA d. 11 May 1951, California, USA (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	1888	Tennessee, USA
  Children	1. Hattie Layne,   b. 1893, Tennessee, USA
  Family ID	F523	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2015

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Feb 1867 - Sequatchie County, Tennessee, USA Marriage - 1888 - Tennessee, USA Death - Bef 1940 - California, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  The Lane genealogy book lists Spencer, son of John and Amanda, as having married first an unknown Pankey with whom they had a son named "Dock" Bryant Layne. It then goes on to say he next marries Belle Cartwright and they have the following children William, Laura, Spencer Jr, Mary Ann, Ida. While we find Spencer in 1870 and 1880 with parents John and Amanda as expected, he is not found in later censuses. At least not with the children we would expect if using the Lane genealogy book as a guide. Confusing matters is the existence of another Spencer born around the same time. This other Spencer is the son of Andrew Jackson and Harriet (Bryant) Layne. John and Amanda's son seems to consistently use his middle initial "H" which makes it a little easier to distinguish between the two. In 1910, 1920, and 1930 there is a Spencer H Layne married to Belle living in Sebastian County, Arkansas. Belle Cartwright is who Spencer is supposed to be married to, but none of these census returns list any children. In 1900 there is a Samuel H and Belle Layne living in Anderson County, Tennessee along with a 7 year old daughter, Hattie. I believe this family to be the same. In fact, in Arkansas in 1910 next door to Spencer and Belle lives 17 year old "Hettie" Lewis married to Walter. Additional research on Belle indicates that she was from Warren County, Tennessee and she and Spencer married around 1893. They then moved to Anderson County, Tennessee, then later Sebastian County, Arkansas. They appear to have finally settled around San Diego, California sometime in the late 1930s. In 1940, Liza Jane Bell Layne is living with a younger sister Laura (Cartwright) Wiza in San Diego (both born in Tennessee), which agrees with the 1880 census in Warren County, Tennessee where we find both Belle and Laura with parents Samuel and Clarisa (Smith) Cartwright.