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Lanier Cemetery, 46-3 Summary Report, page 20
Lanier Cemetery 46-3, Redstone Arsenal, Madison Co. AL, Jan. 28, 2003
About his first cousin, William H. Lanier, Felix wrote:
“William H. was the second son of Burwell Clinton and Mary Shelby Lanier, born in the state of Tennessee (in Jackson, Madison Co. TN) the 17th day of August, 1818. Reared in Madison County, Alabama, where he was educated, married, and spent a long, useful life as a cotton planter on a large plantation some ten or twelve miles from Huntsville, on which he resided in a commodious residence, where he reared a large family. On the 9th day of January, 1855, William H. Lanier married Miss Marena Jane Saluter Ford, of Madison County. She was a sister of the wife of his brother Burwell Clinton (Lanier). They had several children, to-wit: Laura Celest, born November 7th, 1855; married Mr. William L. Halsey (progenitor of the famed grocers line of that name in
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