SIDNEY'S LINE

NICHOLAS
CLEMENT
JOHN SR.
JOHN JR.  married Elizabeth Bird
(Had brothers, Robert ,John SAMPSON andf Nicholas

SAMPSON LANIER  3rd son of John Lanier , m. Elizabeth Washington.
Their sons: Thomas , Sampson, Richard, Lemuel and
JAMES. And a daughter Elizabeth Lanier Burch

JAMES LANIER abt. 1726 m. 1746/47
m. Mary Cooke, dau of Henry Cook. Will probated in Pitt Co. NC.
ll children:

SAMPSON LANIER son of James and Mary Cooke Lanier
b. Nov. 3, 1770 Pitt Co. NC
m. Elizabeth Massey b. June 3, 1772 , Rockingham, NC d. 1843
Dau of   Thomas and Mary Peebles Lanier
They had 12 children: David , Buckner, STERLING, Herbert,
Thomas M. ,James, Abram, Sampson, Jane, Permelia,
Elizabeth and Andrew Jackson.

STERLING LANIER
b. Oct 1, 1784 Rockingham Co. N.C.  d. Jan 31, 1870 in
Montgomery , AL. He owned a chain of Hotels  including the
Exchange Hotel in Montgomery  where he was labeled "a wonderful
host".  m. Clark Co., Ga. Sarah Vivian Smallwood b. 1803
d. 1877 Montgomery, AL. Both are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga.

ROBERT SAMPSON LANIER,  son of Sterling,and, A prominent lawyer in Montgomery,
b. Sept. 22, 1819 , Clark Co..Ga. d. Montgomery, AL 1893.
m. Mary Jane Anderson, a music teacher . Both were buried in Rose Hill
Cemetery in Macon, Ga.

SIDNEY CLOPTON LANIER, who when grown dropped the name Clopton which
was given him for his fathers old college mate.
His father wanted him to study law like other members of the family
but Sidney  studied Music instead.
Sidney Lanier b. Feb. 4, 1882 Macon, Ga. d. Sept.7, 1881 NC
in a T.B. Sanitorium.  m. Mary Day, who did what she could toward
keeping her family together during the long, hard struggle with
Sidney's illness.

CHARLES DAY LANIER, son of Sidney and Mary Day Lanier
was born Sept. 12, 1868, d. 1945. He was publisher of OLD
AMERICAN REVIEWS in Montgomery.?  He married May Field/
Fields of Louisville, Ky.b. 1873, d. Aug. 10, 1962 in Greenwich, Conn.
May Fields Lanier led the fight to preserve and restore
Stratford Hall, the home of the Lees in Va., built 1729.
She enlisted her friends and together they raised  sufficient funds
to buy the old Lee mansion and the thousand acres surrounding it
and restored it to  the historic show place it is today.

___This family is well recorded and I have barely touched
on them in this short  account.    ___Ruth Lanier Hester