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Note: Headstone Inscription: Buried Somewhere In This Graveyard.
Thomas´s wife Rachel Robinson was the daughter of James Robinson and some have thought her mother Nancy Foster Lane because she was the alleged grandmother of Thomas and Rachel´s son, Jonathan. However, I believe that Rachel´s mother may have been named Hannah. Rachel was born ca 1768 in North Carolina. Some years ago in the Fort Worth, Texas library I found record of a James and Hannah Robinson of North Carolina who had a daughter Rachel born November 1768, and since Thomas and Rachel named their first daughter Hannah, this seems strong circumstantial evidence. There was, however, a close connection between a number of Lane and Robinson families of early (1700´s) Virginia and North Carolina, so it is possible that Rachel´s mother was a Lane and Nancy Foster Lane was Rachel´s grandmother and her son Jonathan´s great-grandmother. (History of the Fuson Family, by Henry Harvey Fuson, University of Kentucky Library)
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