John Lanier (1839-1918) Ancestry
Many researchers show Adams Lanier(b.1805,NC-d.1880,AL) and Elizabeth Cobb(b.1805,NC-d.1850s,AL) as the parents of John Lanier(b.1839,AL-d.1918,LA) who married Frances Culbreth(b.1835,GA-d.1909,LA).However, Adams Lanier's estate file (Case file 3626) at the Madison Co. Records Center in Huntsville, AL, which identifies all of Adams Lanier's heirs, does not show a John Lanier as an heir.Also, the 1850 Madison Co., AL census return for the Adams Lanier family does not show a John (who would have been about 11 years old then).(The only John Lanier I've been able to find in the AL 1850 census is with a Lanier household in Pike Co., AL consisting of an Elizabeth ae 35 b.NC, Benajah ae 17 b.NC, John ae 12 b.AL, and Martha ae 9 b.AL.) Does anyone have any documentation establishing who John Lanier's father and/or mother were? Any help will be useful.