One of the Florida Lewises

JOHN & ELIZABETH BIRD LANIER

John Lanier was b. abt. 1680 in Charles City, County,
Va. He married  Elizabeth Bird abt. 1703.She was the daughter
of  Thomas and Mary Jennings Bird  and was the
 grand daughter of William and Hannah Grendon Jennings.
John died between Apr. 1720 and March 1828.(He was in 1720
records and his wife, Elizabeth sold  land inheireted from her
father, without the signature of a husband in 1828)

Children of John and Elizabeth: 1.Bird Thomas, 2.Lemuel , 3. John,
4.Benjamin,  (Only four documented children)

BIRD THOMAS LANIER;
b. abt. 1703 Surry County, Va. He married Mary? (Madison?) in Va.
and they were in Brunswick County before 1732. They were believed
to have moved from
 N.C. to Georgia  with his brother Lemuel in 1756. White, author of
"Original Settlers in Georgia" listed him in that book as one of the
"first comers to Screven County, Ga." The "Story of Georgia and Georgia
People" by George Smith , says that headrights were given Lemuel
and Benjamin in 1756.
Children were: Bird, Lemuel , John and Benjamin

LEMUEL LANIER
Lemuel Lanier b. abt 1729 Brunswick County, Va. d. abt. 1770 in Duplin Co.,
Ga. m. abt. 1753 , Sarah Hardy(?)
Children of this union :
Lewis, Lemuel, Hardy, (All I have)

LEWIS LANIER
Lewis Lanier b. 1753, a Cornet in the Revolution. d. 1792(was caught
in a flash flood and drowned while returning from a visit with his
brother just across Oceechee River(Minutes of Screven Co., Ga. and
Ga. Gazette)
He married in Duplin Co, Margaret ? b. 1760. She was  living in 1830
Bullock Co., Ga where they had settled in 1788 along the banks of Lotts
Creek near Aarons and Portal, Ga.
Their children:
John, Frederick, Margaret, Elizabeth, Benjamin

BENJAMIN LANIER
Benjamin Lanier b. 1786 Duplin Co., N.C. Justice of Peace  for many
years in Bulloch County, Ga. d. Aug. 1854 in Madison County, Florida.
m. Sept. 1805 Sarah Pridgen, b., 1789 in Ga. dau of Luke and Amelia Pridgen.
Children: 1. Nancy Ann Lanier b. 1806 Ga. m. John R. Miller
2. Gibson S. Lanier b. 1808 Ga. m. Ga 1835 "Aliff" in Madison Co.,Fl
     by 1850
3.Lewis Lanier  b. 1810 m. Mary Lucretia Ross b. Ga. Ft. Meade ,FL 1850.
4.Luke Pridgen Lanier. b. 1813 Bulloch Co. Ga.d. Oct 1, 1856,Bullock
Co., Ga. m. MaryWilliams b. 1821 Statesboro, Ga.  d. Polk Co., Fla.
5. Andrew Jackson Lanierb. 1815,d.1867/8 Lafayette Co., Fla. m.
    Rebecca ? b. 1815
Note;
These were Benjamin's grandsons.
(Andrew Jackson  Lanier and Rebecca had four sons in CSA .
Inf. They were:  Benjamin Lanier b. 1837 in Ga.  CSA Co L 2nd Fla Inf.
Twins, Byrd Lanier and Lamb Lanier were in CSA 5th Fla Inf.
and Luke Pridgen Lanier b. 1843,  was in CSA 5th Fla Inf.)
6. David S. Lanier, 7. Lucinda Lanier, 8. Harriet Lanier9. Rowan J.
Lanier..

LEWIS LANIER  b. 1810, Ga. married  Mary Lucretia Ross.
b. 1810 Ga, but living in Fort Meade ,Florida before 1850. He was son
of Benjamin and  Sarah Pridgen Lanier. It is not documented as to whether
he married more than once.
Children: Fredrick, Culbreth Wayne C. (female) , Adeline Ross Lanier,
(no other children found)
Adeline Ross Lanier m. James Edward Hendry
Children were:
Bard Lanier Hendry, Lewis Asbury Hendry, Laura Jane Hendry, m.
Waddy Thompson,
George Milton Hendry m. Willie Barrimale, Francis Marion Hendry m.
Eleanor Murdock, Virginia Lee Hendry m. John F. Menge, Lucretia Pearl
Hendry m. Harry Higginbotham 2nd. Edgar Carlton.