Lemuel Lanier
                                1707-????

                Lemuel Lanier was the Overseer of William Byrd’s Plantation, and was mentioned continuously in Byrd’s Secret Diary
                from 1739 to 1741. After arriving in Duplin, he received several grants, and bought many large tracts of land; in 1756
                he sold all but one, and in October he deeded this to his son Thomas, the land, the house with all the furnishings, the
                outbuildings, slaves, and Indian corn, “as I am about to remove out of the aforesaid Province of North Carolina”. He
                moved to Georgia which is shown by the Colonial Records naming him as a headright in 1756. Near Rockyford, Screven
                County, is an Historical Marker which lists him with others as being one of the earliest settlers. With the records of Burke
                County lost, nothing further is known of Lemuel Lanier, Sr.
                                                                                                                              ~Louise Ingersoll

6 Lemuel Lanier Abt 1707 -
  +Hannah Peters
     7 Thomas Lanier    1733 - 1787
       +(?) Herring?
          8 James Lanier        1756 - Bef 1815
          8 Jessie Lanier         1757 - Bef 1802
            +Sarah Whaley
                9 Thomas Lanier 1780 - Aft 1850
                  +Theana Herring       1794 -
                     10 Rebecca Lanier
          *2nd Wife of Thomas Lanier:
                  +Unknown      - Abt 1810
                     10 Unknown 1       Bef 1810 -
                     10 Unknown 2       Bef 1810 -
                     10 Unknown 3       Bef 1810 -

               9 John Lanier    1782 - 1820
                 +Esther ??              1785 -

       John's will says, "your four children", in referring to
       his and Esther's children; he later refers to "my two
       daughters".  This may indicate that the two older children
       are from Esther's first marriage.  For purposes of this
       report, all children will be listed.

                   10 Kilby Murphy        Abt. 1811-????
                   10 Hillery Murphy        1813-????

            In a letter from Katherine Lanier Ricker the following is reported:
           "Kilby and Hillery Murphy.  Both were boys.  Ingersoll somehow got the names
            a bit confused and some people continue to try and say that Hillery's first name
            was 'Jane' and, of course, that he was a she.  Not so."
 

                   10 Nancy Lanier   1815 -
                       +Daniel Sloan
                   10 Betsy Lanier   1817 -

               9 (Son) Lanier   1785 -
               9 (Daughter) Lanier      1787 -
               9 Sarah Lanier   1790 -

          8 John Lanier 1760 -
          8 Stephen Lanier      1760 - Bef 1840
            +Unknown
          8 Ann Lanier  Unknown -
          8 Fanny Lanier        Unknown -
          8 Elizabeth Lanier    Unknown -

     7 Elizabeth Lanier 1734/35 -
       +? Mills
   7 John Lanier      Bef 1738 - Abt 1809
       +Sarah Mills     - 1803-

    John Lanier was baptized on October 28, 1738 in Albemarle Parish, Surry County, Virginia.
    He died in Bulloch County, Georgia.  Sarah Mills was his wife.  John lived first in Burke
    County, then Bryan County and finally Bulloch County, without ever moving.  When Bulloch
    County was formed in February of 1796, the boundary lines read: - "to begin at John Laniers,
    including the same on the Ogeechee River, and thence a direct line to be drawn to where Lotts
    Creek emties (sic) into the Canouchee River, then up the Canouchee River, to the Montgomery
    line, thence along the said line to the Ogeechee River, and down the said River to the beginning,
    which county will be called Bulloch."  John Lanier operated a ferry across the Ogeechee River
    at this point, where the dividing line between Bryan and Bulloch ran into the river.
                                                                                                                                  ~Louise Ingersoll

          8 Sabra Lanier        1774 - 1846
            +David Williams     1776 - 1862
                  9   Abigail R. Williams
                  9   Edmund Williams
                  9   Edward Williams
                  9   William Larkin Williams 1807 - 1900
                       +Fannie Bellah

       *2nd Wife of William Larkin Williams:
             +Margaret McMillan 1802 - 1836

                         10   Wiley James Williams
                         10   David Williams
                         10   [Infant son] Williams
                         10   Sabra Williams
                         10   David Duncan Williams

       *3rd Wife of William Larkin Williams:
             +Mary McMillan 1815 - 1877

                         10   Margaret Williams
                         10   William Larkin Williams, Jr
                         10   Jackson Williams
                         10   Mary E. Williams
                         10   Zachary Taylor Williams 1847 - 1929
                               +Mattie Nicholson 1842 - 1903
                                     11   William Williams
                                     11   Wiley Neal Williams
                                     11   Margaret Mary Williams 1877 - 1950
                                           +Bernie Daniel Hoffman 1868 - 1934
                                                12   Bernie Daniel Hoffman, Jr.
                                                12   Margaret Williams Hoffman
                                                12   Egbert Cotherl Hoffman
                                                12   Rosemary Hoffman

                                    11   Lena Williams
                                    11   Asthmas Williams
                                    11   Fillmore Williams

                  *2nd Wife of Zachary Taylor Williams:
                           +Dora Lathrum 1859 - 1942

                         10   Frances C. Williams
                         10   Christian Abbis Williams
                         10   Owen Fillmore Williams

              9   John Williams
              9   A. T. Williams
              9   S. A. R. Williams
              9   B. D. Williams

                        [Many thanks to Margaret L. Moses <mmoses@luc.edu> for the information about
                         the children of David Williams & Sabra Lanier.]

          8 John Lanier 1778 - 1844
            +Lucy Townley   1804 -

            (Name of John's wife supplied courtesy of Beverly Allen.)

   In 1813 John was in Twiggs County, Georgia, having followed
   his sister Sabra, and David Williams.  Later they were
   joined by his sister Sarah who had married Shadrach Mills.
   Before 1820 they had left for homes further west; David
   Williams and John Lanier settled in Pensacola, Florida. Before 1840,
   John Lanier moved to Sumter County, Alabama, where he was
   a Justice of the Peace until his death in 1844.

              9  John Lanier     Abt 1821 -
              9  Augustus Lanier Abt 1823 -
              9  Joseph White Lanier     1825 -
                 +Sarah Elizabeth Allen  1832 -
              9  Ann Saleta Lanier     1829 -
              9  Thaddeus Lanier       1831 -
              9  Wealthy Lanier          1833 -
              9  William Henry Lanier     1835 - 1897 
                  +Martha Ann Bryan       1841 - 1896
                      10   Mary Ann Lanier 1861 -
                      10   Fannie Evans Lanier 1866 - 1935
                           +William Henry Stuart 1866 - 1909
                            11   Hassye Eugenia Stuart 1885 - 1936
                                .  +A.H. Watt 1881 - 1943
                            11   Clem Hamilton Stuart 1887 - 1938
                                  +Annie Morrison 1894 - 1968
                            11   Ruby Clifton Stuart 1889 - 1942
                                 +G.J. Byrd 1886 - 1930
                            11   Onnie Mae Stuart 1891 -
                                 +W.T. Walton
                            11   Annie Jewel Stuart 1895 - 1920
                                 +W.D. Long
                           11   Lyda Vernon Stuart 1897 - 1937
                                +Robert Dameron McRaven 1894 - 1947
                                    12   Robert Dameron McRaven 1922 - 1976
                                          +Ruby Evelyn Bryan         Private
                                            13   Bryan Dameron McRaven      Private

                          11   Lacy Cornelia Stuart 1907 - 1995
                                +Albert Sidney Johnson      ???? - 1989

                10   Katie Jane Lanier 1868 - 1919
                       +William Parish
        *2nd Husband of Katie Jane Lanier:
                      +Charles Locke
                10   William Henry Lanier 1870 - 1897
                      +Nettie Aust
                10   John Thomas Lanier 1873 - 1933
                     +Anna Moore -         Private
                10   Robert Lee Lanier 1876 - 1900
                10   Isaac Houston Lanier 1878 - 1973
                      +Bertie Watts

                    (Descendants of William Henry Lanier courtesy of Bryan Dameron McRaven.)
 

              9  Sarah Lanier                1839 -
              9  Sabra Lanier                1841 -

          8 Elizabeth Lanier    Abt 1783 -
          8 Sarah Lanier        Abt 1785 -
            +Shadrach Mills     1780 - Bef 1850
           9 Melissa D. Mills        1808 - Bef 1850
                     +Josiah Hutchison       1804 -
                   10 Narcissus Hutchison       1835 -
                   10 Melissa Hutchison 1836 -
                   10 Augustus Hutchison        1837 -

              9 Hester Lanier Mills     1810 - 1894
                +William Hutchison      - 1884
                   10 Mahala Hutchison  1829 - 1892
                      +Andrew Simmons   Unknown - Unknown
                  10 Martha Hutchison  1830 -
                   10 Rebecca Leonora Hutchison 1832 - 1906
                     +Josiah Snider      1823 - 1909

          8 Lemuel Lanier       Abt 1799 -

      7 Lemuel Lanier   1741 -
        +Nancy ??

    In June 1771, Lemuel petitioned for 200 acres of land in St.
    George Parish, saying that "he had long been a resident
    of Georgia, had a wife and one child". This petition was
    granted in August by the Governor. Lemuel Lanier was most
    active during the Revolution, as shown in the Revolutionary
    Records of Georgia. In 1778 he was appointed Sheriff for the
    County of Burke; in May of that year he was paid L 156
    (pounds) by the State for services in the Revolution; the
    same year he was made Captain of those guarding the jail,
    and was allowed L 100 over and above his pay for services
    done the State: and up to 1781 was appointed for many other
    duties. He was a Refugee Soldier, and received Certificate
    #154 for 250 acres of Bounty land. In May 1782 he was chosen
    a member of the Executive Council. In the list of Georgia
    Troops he is listed as a Captain. In May 1784 he was
    elected Justice of the Peace for Burke County; and when
    Screven County was formed from Burke in 1793, Lemuel Lanier
    was then living in the new county where he became the
    first Register of Probate.

        Lemuel Tanner was born in Screven County, Georgia and died in
        Rapides Parish, Louisiana.  He was a First Lieutenant in the War of
       1812, serving in the Seventh Regiment of the Louisiana Militia.

                      10 Louisa Tanner
                         +Lucius La Mar Holcombe
                      10 Esther Tanner  1818 -
                      10 Joseph Tanner  1820 -
                      10 Elizabeth Tanner       1823 -
                         +Richard Jordan        1825 -
                      10 Lemuel Tanner  1827 -
                      10 Rozilla Tanner 1830 -
                      10 Robert Tanner  1830 -
                      10 Wayne Tanner   1831 -
                         +Julia Burnham
                      10 Mary Tanner    1834 -
                      10 Brigite Tanner 1836 - 1868
                         +Henry B. Holcombe, Jr.

               9 Nancy Tanner   1790 -
                 +Stephen Jackson

         8 Lemuel Lanier        1775 - Bef 1830
           +Mary ???
               9 Eliza Lanier   1797 -
                +Jesse Floyd    1797 -
               9 R. N. V. Lanier        1799 -
               9 Thomas Lanier  1801 - 1881
                 +Mary Peacock  1805 - 1890
                    10 Mary Elizabeth Lanier  1828 - 1908
                       +Henry McGillis  1825 - 1891
                    10 James Lemuel Lanier      1830 - Bef 1891
                       +Charlotte Elarbee       1833 -
                    10 John Gordon Lanier       1832 - Bef 1887
                       +Clementine Elarbee      1838 -
                    10 Martha Isobel Lanier     1835 -
                       +John Jackson Morgan     1834 - Bef 1870
                    10 Lewis Samuel Lanier      1837 -
                    10 Elvira Providence Lanier 1840 -
                       +Isham Elarbee   1838 - 1862

              9 Lewis Lanier    1805 - Abt. 1844
                +Providence Louisa Shuman       1804 - Bef 1870
                   10 (Daughter) Lanier 1835 - Bef 1850
                   10 Georgia Lanier    1834 - 1892
                      +James H. Futch, Jr.  1828-1867
                         11 Louis Ferdinand Futch     1858-1904
                            +Charlotte A. Shuman      1868-1951
                               12 James Futch
                               12 Joseph Futch
                        **** 12 Appie Francis Futch   1897-1981
                          ****    +Buelah S. Denmark     ?? -1956

 (**** Marriage appears later in this listing;
          the children of the union are listed there.

                              12 (Son) Futch
                              12 Vida Futch
                              12 Dolly Elsie Futch
                                 +James Samuel Barber
                                    13 Carolyn Barber
                                       +Carl Jarrard

            10 Providence Lanier        1839 -
            10 Thomas Ferdinand Lanier  1841 -
               +Mary F. Floyd
                   11  Georgia Ann Lanier          1868-1910     
                         +Frank McBain                  1862-1909
                               12  Lilly McBain            1867-????
                               12  Frank McBain, Jr.      1900-1903
                               12  Willie McBain               1902-1981
                                     +Minnie Ellen Priester      1906-1959
                                           13  Mary Ellen McBain        1925-1985
                                                 +Charles Howell             ????-????
                                           13  Georgia Frances (Frankie) McBain      1933-1985
                                                 +Edward Lincoln                        ????-????
                                           13  Winona Elthana (Totsie) McBain                     Private
                                                 +Ivy Jacob Caison                        ????-1981
                                                       14  Tollie Patricia Caison                     Private
                                                            +James Perry Elders                        Private

                            *2nd husband of Winona Elthana McBain:
                                                +Bernard R. Hinely                  Private
                                             
                               12  Leslie (Lessie) McBain      Abt. 1906-1969

             (Information concerning Georgia Ann Lanier graciously provided by Pat Elders.)

                   11  Mary Frances (Minnie)Lanier        1870-1950
                         +James Lewis                                 1870-1952
                   11  Edna Mae Lanier               1871-1929
                         +Alfred Strickland               1854-1923
                   11  Lewis H. Lanier                  1873-????
                   11  Thomas B. Lanier               1875-1935
                   11Jessie J. Lanier                     1877-????
                   11 Willie Annette (Nettie) Lanier
                       +William Samuel Denmark          ????-????
                       **** 12 Buelah S. Denmark        ???? -1956
                       ****    +Appie Francis Futch      1897-1981
                                      13 Frances Futch
                                      13 Elna Futch
                                      13 Harris Futch
                                      13 Mary Valentine Futch
                                          +Ralph L. Strickland, Sr.
                                      13 Gladys Futch
                                      13 Lucy Futch

       2nd husband of Willie Annette (Nettie) Lanier:
                        + Joseph Lumpkin Futch         ????-????

                   11  Maggie Lee Lanier            1882-????
                         +Daniel Wells
                   11  Joseph F. Lanier
                   11  Dause T. Lanier
                   11  Willie F. Lanier

            (Information concerning Lewis Lanier and his
            descendants provided courtesy of Pam Strickland.  Additional data
            re Georgia Ann Lanier has been graciously given by Pat Elders.)

            10  Mitta Isabel Lanier         1844-1853

     *2nd Wife of Lemuel Lanier:
       +Mary (?) Stewart

        8 Hester Lanier Abt 1782 -
          +Asa Looper   1780 - 1828
             9 Ara B. Looper    1803 -
             9 (Daughter) Looper        Aft 1803 -

        8 Ida Lanier    1785 -
          +Edmund Hester        1782 -

        8 James Lanier   1779-1830 to 1840
        8 Hillery Lanier  1780-Aft. 1870
          +Elizabeth Bankston    1784-1874

    *2nd Wife of Benjamin Lanier (1744-Aft. 1829) :

.. +Elizabeth Wilson

   7 Mary Lanier        1750 -

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