Tattnall County, Ga Biographies  Joshua S. Lanier

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LANIER, Joshua S., farmer, Altamahee, Tattnall Co., Ga., son of
Lemuel S. and Rhoda (Hodges) Lanier, was born in Bulloch
county, Ga., Feb. 24,1846. His ancestors were Huguenot refugees
from France, who came to this country and settled in North
Carolina, where his grandfather was born. This is a branch of
the same family from which the distinguished poet descended.
Mr. Lanier's father was a successful farmer, and himself and
wife, born in 1814, are both living. Her father was Joshua
Hodges, whose family was among the earliest settlers in Bulloch
county. The subject of this sketch is the oldest of eight
children born to them. Mr. Lanier attended the best schools in
the county, but the war between the states interrupted his
advancement in this direction. He enlisted in Company E, Fifth
Georgia cavalry, Andersen's division, and was in active service
throughout the war. As a member of the dashing and daring Gen.
Wheeler's cavalry force, he traversed nearly all the southern
states, ending his military life with the surrender at
Hillsborough, N.C., shortly after Gen. Lee's surrender.
Returning home he taught school in Bulloch and Tattnall
counties four years, after which he settled down to farm-life
in Tattnall, and has industriously and profitably pursued it
since. Recognizing his capability and public spirit, his
fellow-citizens have called him into their service in various
important and responsible capacities. They have made him road
commissioner ten years, a member of the board of education
twelve years, he being now president of the board, and he is
also station reporter for the county for the United States
weather bureau. He also represented Tattnall county in the
first interstate cotton convention, held in Atlanta in 1885.
Mr. Lanier married Miss Priscilla Lang, born in 1851, daughter
of Mrs. Eleanor Lang, of Tattnall county, by whom he has had
three children: Howson L., born March 15,1873, a graduate of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md., in
March 1894, now located in San Francisco, Cal.; Walton, born in
1879; Roy, born in 1886. Mr. Lanier devotes his time and
attention to the cultivation and improvement of his farm, and
to his public duties, being esteemed and confided in by his
neighbors.