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General Walter P. Lane -- A Texas Hero Buried in Marshall
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Not much is known of Walter Paye Lane between the time he was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1817, and when nineteen-year-old Walter left West Virginia, in the Fall of 1835, with the idea of going to Texas. While visiting his brother in Kentucky, he met Stephen F. Austin and Dr. Branch T. Archer, who did not discourage him. Lane boarded a steamer in New Orleans and traveled up the Red River to Natchitoches, which was as far as a steamer could go up the Red then because Captain Henry Shreve had not yet cleared the Red River Raft.
Lane traveled seventy-five miles on foot from Natchitoches to San Augustine, where he arrived with about six bits in his pocket, according to his memoirs. This was in late March or early April 1836. The Texas Declaration of Independence had been signed, the Alamo had fallen, and the Runaway Scrape was in full flight.
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