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Lanier Cemetery, 46-3 Summary Report, page 9
Isaac's son Isaac Hill Lanier (brother of Burwell C. Lanier, b. 1789) remained in Tennessee after the sale of the Dover store to live for a time in Charlotte, Dickson County, TN, where he remained in the mercantile business. Isaac H. married in 1819 to Henrietta Van Lear, born 1800 in Lancaster County PA. Henrietta was a daughter of Bernard Van Lear and his wife Hannah Haislip of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who had moved to Tennessee. The father of Isaac Hill and Burwell Clinton Lanier, Isaac Lanier (b. 1767) is known to have died in Madison County AL on December 15, 1827, per newspaper announcements of the passing. The date and place of the death of Isaac's 2nd wife Mary J. Dickson, is not precisely known at the time of this writing. However, it is known that she moved to Autauga County AL before 1850. She is found living there at the time of the 1850 and 1860 censuses, right beside her youngest living daughter, Clarissa. There are no known tombstones for the senior Isaac nor any of his wives (or his brother Thomas) in this area. Considering that when Mary J. Dickson Lanier, Isaac's widow, sold some land in 1832 where the deed stated that it was the parcel of land where she resided, and that the parcel contained the Rawlins -Lanier Cemetery, it is a fairly sure bet that Isaac is buried in that cemetery. The subject of this report, the Lanier Cemetery 46-3, is on the land first owned by Isaac's son Burwell, who had died 7 years before Isaac's death. It is also the land of the family plantation operated by Burwell's widow Mary Shelby McCrabb Lanier and her three sons: Isaac Alexander (1816 -1894), William H. (1818 - 1895), and Burwell Clinton (1820 - 1895). Mary S. M. Lanier is said by some researchers to have died November 30, 1858 (1853 per her tombstone, and 1855 per the notes of Felix R. Lanier), and she is buried in the family cemetery on the plantation operated by her three sons. All three sons lived on the plantation, sharing ownership throughout their lives. Apparently, late in life, William H. and Burwell C. Lanier moved off the plantation and into nearby towns. William H. was buried in Huntsville's Maple Hill Cemetery, and Burwell C. is known to have lived from 1887 in the town of Madison, even though he is buried on the plantation in the family cemetery. In fact, it was recorded that Isaac Alexander died in the home of Burwell C., in Madison. All three brothers died within a year of each other, in the order of their births. 9 - (1999)