He married about 1706 in Surry, Elizabeth,
daughter
of Richard Washington (1660 Virginia - 1725 Virginia) & Elizabeth
Jordan of Surry County, VA, and granddaughter
of Major John Washington (born England 1632) of Surry County, VA.
(See pp 40-41, Ingersoll.) She died in
Pitt County, NC. Major John Washington was first cousin to
Colonel John
Washington of Westmoreland County, VA and was
the Great Grandfather of George Washington, first President of the
United States.
.
5 Sampson Lanier 1681 -
Abt
1743
+Elizabeth Washington
6 Thomas
Lanier Abt 1707
- Abt 1745
+Ann
Maclin
Abt 1709 -
7 Jacob
Lanier
1729 -
7 William
Lanier
1731 -
+Elizabeth Burch - bef
1798
8 John Lanier 1756 - 1827
+Nancy Ingram
8 William Lanier, Jr. 1757 - 1824
+Elizabeth -?- - Bef
1824
9 David Lanier 1778 - Abt 1837
+Elizabeth Rideout 1796 -
10 William H. Lanier 1822-
+Jane
-?-
1820-
11 Andrew J. Lanier 1846-
11 Daniel A.
Lanier
1848-
12 Theodosia Lanier 1874-
12 Maude
Lanier
1876-
12 Frank
Laier
1879-
11 Benjamin
Lanier
1853-
11 James
Lanier
1855-
11 Rebecca
Lanier
1887-
11 John
Lanier
1860-
10 Martha Jane Lanier
1827-
+Shadrack Dugger
10 Benjamin
Lanier
1830-
10 David J.
Lanier
1834-
9 Henry Lanier 1780 -
Abt
1855
+Martha Owen(s)
10 Daughter b. 1804-
????
10 Daughter b. 1804-
????
10 Alfred Lanier 1810 - Aft
1880
+Nancy Mancuing 1813 -
10 Edwin
Lanier 1813 -
Bef 1862
+Lucretia Cain
????
- 1862
10 Alexander Lanier 1828 - Bef 1880
+Mary Edwards 1828 -
*Second wife of
Henry Lanier
+Fanny
Jordan
1806 -
8 Sarah
Lanier 1759 - ????
8 David Lanier 1763 - 1830
+Frances Harwell 1768 - ????
8 Sterling Lanier 1765 - Bef 1830
+Margaret Westmoreland
9 Mary
Lanier
1794
9 Peterson Lanier 1796-1860
9 Thomas Lanier 1805-
+Lucinda Westmoreland 1812-
10 Mary Ann
Lanier
1831-
10 Susanna Adeline Lanier 1833-
10 Daughter, twin, not named, born and died same day
10 Daughter, twin, not named, born and died same day
10 James
Lanier
1836-
10 Robert
Lanier
1839-
10 Margaret Jane Lanier
1841-1903
+William White
Margaret Jane Lanier was married to William White on July 8,
1862.
He deserted her sometime
after 1878; she and her children took the name Lanier. Margaret
Jane
moved to Salt Lake City, Utah
sometime after 1878.
11 William R. (White)
Lanier
1863-
11 Thomas A. (White) Lanier
1868-
11 Robert Leander (White) Lanier 1877-1938
+Mary Elizabeth
Grice
1879-1940
12 Robert Henry Lanier
1898-
+Henrietta Crystal Brown 1898-
11 Mary (White) Lanier
(Information about Margaret Jane Lanier courtesy of Denise Lanier)
10 Thomas J.
Lanier
1843-
10 William Edward Lanier
1848-
10 Lucinda Elizabeth Lanier
1851-
10 Sara Louise
Lanier
1853-
8 Catherine Lanier Abt 1767 - ????
+James Blick
8 Mary Lanier Abt 1769 -
+John Rideout
8 Thomas Lanier Abt 1771 - Bef 1840
+Polly
Vaughn
- Abt 1808
9 Lewis Vaughn Lanier 1796 - 1875
+Martha Hawkins
10 William Hartwell "Hart"
Lanier
1825-1900
+Nancy Jane "Ann"
Woods
1825-1896
11 Mary Alice Lanier
11 Viola Lanier
11 Benjamin Lanier
11 Henderson Lanier
11 William Lanier
11 Newton Lanier
11 Lewis Lanier
11 James Lanier
11 Diana Lanier
11 Martha "Aunt Matt" Lanier
11 Frances "Aunt Fanny" Lanier
11 Nancy Ann "Nan"
Lanier
1866-1863
+James Murphy
Dye
1867-1913
12 Charles
Dye
-1965
+Allie Crump
12 James H. "Jim"
Dye
1888-1976
+Clara Fielder
12 William Isaac "Will"
Dye
1891-
12 Perry H.
Dye
1893-
+Freeda Safereed
12 Luella Kate
Dye
1895-
+William Andrew Riffle
12 Sidney Alberta "Bertie"
Dye
1897-
+Russell Ira Childers
12 Margaret Elizabeth
Dye
1899-
+Thorden Edward Meadows
12 Leota M.
Dye
1901-
+Andrew G. "Andy" Wamsley
12 Edith
Dye
1903-
+Andrew Byus
12 Carrie Marie
Dye
1904-
+Everett Lewis Jordan
9 William H. Lanier 1799 - 1878
+Martha Pennington
*Second wife of William Lanier:
+Ruth Herron
9 Susan Jane Lanier 1802
+John Billups
9 Thomas Wright Lanier 1803 - 1881
+Elizabeth Bass (cousin)
*2nd wife of Thomas Wright Lanier:
+Mary Temperance Lanier (cousin)
9 Sterling Hartwell Lanier 1806 - 1863
+Sarah E. Simmons 1809 - 1870
10 Lucy Ann Lanier 1831 -
1871
+John Henry Wilson Cage
11 Sterling Cage 1858 - 1861
11 Harry
Cage
1859 - 1867
11 Creola Belle Cage 1861 -
1861
11 Snooks W.
Cage
1865 - ????
11 Czar Lanier
Cage
1867 - 1895
11 Ola
Cage
1869 - 1961
11 Effie
Cage
1871 - 1955
+James Andrew Keaton, Jr. 1867 - 1944
12 Ola Esther
Keaton
1893 - 1973
+Charles Mac Anthony
12 Carl Wilson
Keaton
1895 - 1896
12 Jennings Bryan Keaton 1896
- ????
+Harriet Ethel Rust
12 Ella Inez
Keaton
1900 - 1901
12 George Roach Keaton 1902 - ????
+Mary Ida Franklin
12 Cage Lanier Keaton Private
(The names of the descendants of Lucy Ann Lanier/John H. W. Cage
have been graciously provided by Henry Williamson.)
10 Sarah Jane Lanier 1833 - 1869
+James W. Nash
*2nd husband of Sarah Jane Lanier:
+P. B. Hoy
10 Mary S. Lanier 1835 - 1869
+Zebulon L. Nicholson 1825 - 1869
10 Susannah J. Lanier 1868 - 1895
+[Unknown] Fassett
10 Louisa V. Lanier 1837 -
1848
10 Arminta Burch Lanier 1843 - 1844
10 Henrietta W. Lanier 1847 -
????
+Dr. William Jefferson Lee 1834 - 1897
*2nd
husband of Mary Katherine (Kate) Lanier:
+Marion Gragg ???? -
1927
10 Francis Burch Lanier 1856 - ????
+Mary Emma Davis 1856 - ????
10 James Balance Lanier 1857 - ????
+Emma Ferguson
11 Ann Lanier
????-????
11 Edna Lanier
????-????
11 Sidney Hampton Lanier 1887-1919
+Ethel Breland ????-????
12 Edna Earl Lanier 1921 -
+ John Dunlap
13 John Dunlap, Jr.
12 John Needham Lanier ????-
11 Ida Lanier ????-????
10 Laura J.
Lanier 1859 - ????
+Hampton Davis
10 John Adams Lanier 1861 - 1886
+Alice Mildred Davis
9 Christopher Adolphus Lanier 1818 - 1866
+Maria Scantlans
1821 - ????
9 Sylvanus R. Lanier 1820 - 1840
9 Araminta Burch Lanier 1823 - ????
+Micahjah Felts
*2nd husband William Simmons
9 Ezra P.
Lanier
1825 - ????
9 Henrietta W. Lanier 1828 - ????
+Charles Spann
9 Indiana C. Lanier 1831 -
1835
7 Drury
Lanier
Abt 1740 -
7 Benjamin
Lanier
Abt 1742 -
+Miss Claiborne ???? - 1782
8 Herbert Lanier Abt 1775 - Bef 1850
+Nancy -- 1785 - ????
8 Augustine Lanier Abt 1776 - Abt 1809
8 Benjamin Lanier Abt 1777 - 1826
+Susan Hunnicutt
9 Henry Mason Lanier 1805 - ******
+Olivia H. Smith 1813 -
10 Mary H. Lanier 1838 -
9 Edward Alexander
Lanier
1806 - ????
9 Benjamin Wilkes
Lanier
1809 - 1872
+Mrs. Venable
*2nd wife of Benjamin Wilkes Lanier:
+Mary Glaze
*3rd wife of Benjamin Wilkes Lanier:
+Mary Pettway Ingram
10 Mary Angeline Lanier
10 Columbus Lanier
10 Zachary Taylor
Lanier
1847 -
+Mary Lemon Spivey
11 John Leonard Lanier
1873 - 1961
+Emma Luvenia Mann 1888 -
12 Leonard
Lanier ????
+Inez Colley
????
13 Thomas
Lanier ????
13 David
Lanier ????
12
Charles Edison Lanier ????
+[Unknown]
13 Charles Lanier
13 Jeanette Lanier
2nd wife of Charles Edison Lanier:
+Caronelle [Unknown]
13 Frank
Lanier ????
13 James Lanier
????
13 Sidney Lanier
????
12 Bryan
Lanier ????
+Christine
Whamsley
????
13 Robert
Lanier
????
13 Connie Lanier
????
13 Paul Lanier
????
13 Ann Lanier
????
13 Joseph
Lanier
????
13 Marybess
Lanier
????
12 Hester
Pearl Lanier ????
+Eley Hanie
????
13 John Allen Haynie
????
+Norma Ackley
14 Michael Lanier (adopted; child of
Norma Ackley)
14 Allen Haynie
????
14 Julie Haynie
????
13 Eleanor Haynie
????
+Harvie
Leonard Tapley ????
14 Diane
Tapley Private
+Franklin
Eugene Strickland, Jr. 1968-1998
15 Maria Strickland
Private
2nd husband of Diane Tapley:
+Jeffrey Dale Williams
12
Coleman Lanier ????
12 Madeline
Lanier ????
11 Anne Frances Lanier
1875 -
11 Martha Eula
Lanier
1877 -
11 Sarah Beulan
Lanier
1879 -
11 Dora Lemon
Lanier
1880 -
11 Anderson
Lanier
[died as a baby]
11 Thomas T.
Lanier
1884 -
11 Della D.
Lanier
1887 -
11 Maude Bell
Lanier
1889 -
11 Lucius Edmond Lanier
1891 -
+Eva Jewel Estes
12 Lucas Eva Lanier
12 Ludd Anderson Lanier
+Ruby [Lanier]
13 Ludd Anderson Lanier, Jr. Private
13 James Kenneth Lanier Private
*2nd wife of Ludd Anderson Lanier:
+Lera Patterson
13 Angela Hope Lanier Private
13 Charmaine Lanier Private
14 Varina Lanier Private
12 Lois Lanett Lanier
12 Tullis Lamar Lanier
12 Allie Ruth Lanier
12 Tyler Mason Lanier
12 Mary Jewel Lanier
12 Baby Opal Lanier
12 Little Luke Lanier
12 Gwendolyn Joyce Lanier
11 Vera Agnes Lanier 1893 -
[Information about the descendants of
Zachary Taylor Lanier
graciously provided by Angela Hope Lanier ]
<alanier@mail.mcg.edu>
10 Ingram Hunnicutt Lanier 1861-????
8 Sterling Lanier Abt
1781
- 1833
+Polly
Avery
1781 - 1851
*2nd wife or Benjamin Lanier
(Abt1777
- 1826) :
+Lucy (Westbrook) Hunt
[Widow of Robert Hunt]
8 Robert Hunt Lanier
8 Littleton Lanier 1784 - Abt
1846
+(First wife unknown)
2nd wife of Littleton Lanier
+Ann W. Southall 1787 -
8 Martha (Patsy) Lanier 1786 -
+Anthony Mason 1778
7 Thomas Lanier 1746 -
6 Arthur Lanier Abt 1709
- Abt 1725
6 Sampson
Lanier, Jr. Abt 1712 - 1757
+Elizabeth Chamberlain
6 Richard Lanier 1715 -
6 Elizabeth Lanier Abt 1719 -
6 Lemuel Lanier 1722 -
+Elizabeth ??? 1746
- 1829
7 Washington
Lanier 1762 - 1829
+Elizabeth Hicks
7 Nancy
Lanier
1766 - 1854
+James Armstrong 1758 - 1819
7 Benjamin
Lanier
1776 - 1870
+Unknown
*2nd Wife of
Benjamin Lanier:
+Elizabeth ??
*2nd Wife of Lemuel Lanier:
+Molly Peebles - Bef
1761
7 David Lanier 1747
- 1806
+Mary Hicks
8 Benjamin Lanier 1774 - 1808
+Elizabeth Betsy Jones
8 Nancy Lanier 1776 -
+Leroy Shelton
8 John Hicks Lanier 1777 - 1841
+Polly Robertson
9 Eliza B. Lanier 1808 -????
+Jesse S. Walton
9 Edward Robertson Lanier 1810 - ????
+Jane
Luckett
1815- ????
9 Polly V.
Lanier
1812 - 1848
Milton T.
Lovell
1800 - ????
9 John Hicks Lanier,
Jr.
1816 - ????
Sarah
Robertson
1816 - ????
*2nd Wife of John Hicks
Lanier:
+Sarah Sutherlin Inge
9 William Peyton
Lanier
1824 - ????
+Lucy
Williams
1840 - ????
10 William Thomas Lanier 1864
- 1939
+Lee N. Peak
10 James Edward Lanier
1866 - 1930
10 Anna Eliza
Lanier
1868 - 1899
10 John Hicks
Lanier
1870 - 1931
10 David Clark
Lanier
1872 - 1899
10 Luther L.
Lanier
1878 - ????
2nd wife of William Peyton Lanier:
10 Bettie Walker Dews
1893
- 1968
[Information regarding William Peyton Lanier and his descendants
courtesy of Doris L. Cocke<cockedl@meckcom.net>]
9 James Albert
Lanier
1827 - 1905
+Betty W.
Walton
1838 - 1860
2nd wife of James Albert Lanier:
+Martha Carter ????-????
8 Benjamin Lanier 1774 -
+Elizabeth (Betsy) Jones
8 Nancy
Lanier
1776 - ????
8 Elizabeth Lanier 1778 -????
+Thomas Graves
8 James Madison Lanier 1780 - 1830
+Elizabeth Johns - Bef 1809
*2nd Wife of James Madison Lanier:
+Mary Hicks
9 John Hicks Lanier, Sr. 1811 - 1882
+Lucy Johns Hutchings - Bef 1834
*2nd Wife of John Hicks Lanier, Sr.:
+Cassandra Barham Herron
10 John Hicks Lanier, Jr. 1835 - Bef 1850
10 Mary Jane (Mollie) Lanier 1837 - 1864
+Allen K. Waynick
10 Dr. John Hicks Lanier 1841 - 1917
10 Sarah Lanier 1844 -
10 Lucy V. Lanier 1846 -
10 Elizabeth Lanier 1849 -
10 Cassandra A. Lanier 1851 -
10 Alice Raglan Lanier 1856 - 1891
9 David Lanier 1813 -
9 Mary Johns Lanier 1815 -
9 Lucy Washington Lanier 1817 -
9 Judith Johns Lanier 1819 -
9 Charles Johns Lanier 1821 -
9 James Madison Lanier, Jr. 1823 -
9 Sarah W. Lanier 1825 -
9 Cecelia Virginia Lanier 1827 - 1855
+Morris Pollock, Jr.
10 John Pollock 1846 -
10 Agnes Pollock 1849 -
10 Nicholas Lewis Pollock 1851 -
+Rose Branch
11 Lewis Pollock
10 James Pollock 1853 -
10 William Pollock 1855 -
10 Ferdinand Pollock 1857 -
10 Robert Pollock 1859 -
10 Charles Pollock 1861 -
10 Mary Pollock 1863 -
10 Eliza Pollock 1866 -
8 David Lanier 1782 -
8 Lucy Lanier Abt 1785 -
7 Molly
Lanier
Abt 1750 -
7 Sally
Lanier
1753 -
6 James Lanier Aft
1724 - Abt 1786
+Mary
Cooke Abt 1730 - 1774
James was born in Brunswick County, VA. He is not named
in the will of his grandfather Richard Washington, as were his
five brothers; and he is listed in his father’s will as a minor.
Therefore, he was born after Nov. 9, 1724. He was the first
of his family to leave Virginia (in 1761) for North Carolina,
where he acquired a great deal of land and became a highly
respected Justice and active political leader. He was a member
of the Committee of Safety, sitting at Martinsborough, Pitt County,
NC, and Chairman of the Provincial Congress of 1775. He died
in Rockingham County, NC, about 1786. An engraving of an
oil portrait of James Lanier by Gilbert Stuart was given to F. Lanier
Graham by his Aunt Mary Munds.
Mary Cooke was the daughter of Henry Cooke of Brunswick County, VA
(died
1772).
She married James Lanier about 1746 in Brunswick County, VA. As
recorded
in a family Bible, their children were: Henry (1747), Nathan (1749),
Lydia
(1752),
Abbie (1754), Isom (1756), Mary (1764), Lucretia (1769), and Sampson
(1770).
(Data couresy of F. Lanier Graham.)
<> 7 Henry Lanier 1747 - Bef 1765 7 Lydia
Lanier
1753 -
7 Abbie
Lanier
1754 -
7 Isom
Lanier
1756 - 1823
8 Reuben
Lanier
1790 -
8 Mary
Lanier
1792 -
+James Waters
8 Frances
Lanier
1794 -
8 Sarah
Lanier
1796 -
8 Lydia
Lanier
1798 - Before 1830
8 Cynthia Ann (Nancy)
Lanier
1800 -
8 Henry
Lanier
1802 -
8 Sampson
Lanier
1804 -
9 Keziah
Lanier
1828 - Before 1840
9 Joseph
Lanier
1830 - Before 1840
9 Katherine Lanier 1831 -
9 Sarah Lucretia Lanier 1833 -
+William Watts
9 Lucretia
Lanier
1835 -
+Louis Mansfield
9 Henry
Lanier
1837 -
9 John McDonald Lanier 1839 - About 1850
9 Ambrose Dudley Lanier 1841
-
+Mary Elizabeth Huffman
10 Charles Clayton Lanier
1887
-
+Henrietta
Milburn
1889 -
11 Ambrose Wayne
Lanier
1913 -
11 J. Donald Milburn
Lanier
1914 -
10 Edith Lanier (Thanks
to Donna Handy for the family portrait and adding
Edith Lanier's name to this file.)
<DonnaHandy@aol.com>
2nd
wife of Sampson Lanier:
+Katherine (Heilman) Cline 1814 -
9 William C.
Lanier
After 1850
9 Jane Lanier 1854 -
+Preston Miles
9 Cynthia Ann Lanier
+Lemuel Spencer
9 Jeremiah M. Lanier 1858 -
+Janet Eikenberry
8 Catherine
Lanier
1806 -
8 Lucretia
Lanier
1808 -
8 Lucinda
Lanier
1810 -
7 James
Lanier
1759 -
7 Cynthia
Lanier
1761 -
7 Mary Lanier
1764 -
7 Henry Lanier
II 1765 - 1821
+Lucy Massey - Bef 1821
7 Lucretia
Lanier
1769 -
7 Sampson Lanier
[III] 1770 - 1823
The youngest child of James & Mary Cooke Lanier, was born
November 11, 1770 in Pitt County, NC. A profile from “New
Light on the Ancestry of Sidney Lanier” reads as follows: “He
served in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1805-07." He
is described by Dr. Mims as “a well-to-do farmer - a country
gentleman, ‘fond of good horses and fox hounds’. He married in
1790 Elizabeth (Betsy) Massey (1770-1834) [sic; actually 1772-1843],
daughter of Thomas Massey, a veteran of the Revolution, by his wife,
Mary Peebles. They lived on Troublesome Creek all their
married
life.
Sampson Lanier’s will, signed December 9, 1822, and probated
February, 1823, is recorded at Wentworth, Rockingham County, North
Carolina. The children named in his will and in a list of the
same
book as
the list of the children of James Lanier, quoted above, were”:
David
(1791),
Buckner (1792), Sterling (1794) [sic; actually 1791], Herbert (1796),
Thomas
(1799, James (1801), Abram (1803), Sampson (1804), Jane (1807), Pamelia
(1810), Betsy (1812), and Andrew Jackson (1816). The 1790 US
Census
for North Carolina shows Sampson as the only Lanier head-of-household
in Rockingham County, his father having died. Sampson’s will is
dated
Dec. 9. 1822. He died Jan. 31, 1823 in Rockingham County.
~F. Lanier Graham
+Elizabeth Massey 1772 - 1843
*2nd wife of