Lanier Cemetery
8th Ward, Livingston Parish, Louisiana

File prepared by Sherry Sanford.




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1980, Published by Edward Livingston Historical Association, Inc., P.O. Box 67, 
Livngston, La. 70754-0067

Location of cemetery:
T. 5 R. E
Section

Oldest birth date from inscription:  Pearson W. Lanier (Row 2, No.5)
May 6, 1820 - Feb. 17, 1882

Oldest burial date from inscription:  Pearson W. Lanier (Row 2, No. 5)
May 6, 1820 - Feb. 17, 1882

* Still living



Source:  Inscription information copied by Mrs. Willie Smart Higginbotham.

Row 1

1. E.L. Lanier
Wife of Amon O. Morgan
Oct. 3, 1863 - Jan. 25, 1942

2. Martha Jane Lanier
Wife of R.K. Ballard
Aug. 10, 1856 - Aug. 31, 1916

3. W.A. Lanier
Dec. 18, 1875 - Oct. 17, 1965

4. Rosa Mae Glasscock
Wife of W.A. Lanier
May 19, 1878 - Dec. 29, 1952

5. Joseph S. Lanier
July 11, 1903 - Apr. 29, 1952

6. Infant son of Odom
Raiford and Joseph S.
Lanier (Joe)
Oct. 29, 1938

7. Ollie K. Lanier Harris *
1906

8. Norwood W. Harris
1926 - 1965

Row 2

1. Jennie Myers Lanier
Wife of John S. Lanier (Jack)
July 12, 1872
Not buried in this cemetery

2. John S. Lanier, Sr. (Jack)
Sept. 20, 1869 - Aug. 20, 1953

3. Melissa Jane Lanier

4. Melissa Lanier
Wife of P.W. Lanier
May 13, 1832 - May 15, 1915

5. Pearson W. Lanier
May 6, 1820 - Feb. 17, 1882

6. Pearson H. Lanier
Son of Pearson W. And
Melissa Lanier
Apr. 28, 1861 - May 20, 1882

7. Guyon H. Lanier
Son of Pearson W. And
Melissa Lanier
May 6, 1854 - May 20, 1882

8. Wiley R. Lanier
Son of G.H. and
M.A. McDowell Lanier
July 31, 1879 - Jan. 14, 1890

9. M.A. McDowell
Wife of G.H. Lanier
Feb. 3, 1858 - Jan. 17, 1894

10. Winnie Lanier
Dau of Marion and
Mattie Kennard Lanier

11. Wirley J. Graham
Oct. 21, 1913 - Aug. 19, 1975

12. Rosa Tynes Lanier Graham *
Dec. 20, 1921

Row 3

1. Genevia W. McDowell Lanier
Wife of John Samuel Lanier
Jan. 30, 1891 - Dec. 21, 1953

2. John Samuel Lanier
Sept. 18, 1890 - May 19, 1976

3. George W. Lanier
Son of S.H. and Katherine
Glasscock Lanier
Dec. 11, 1894 - April 27, 1895

4. Katherine E. Glasscock Lanier
Wife of Samuel H. Lanier
Jan. 24, 1863 - June 26, 1932

5. Samuel H. Lanier
Nov. 23, 1867 - Jan. 27, 1949

6. John Henry Lanier
Son of John S. And
Genevia M. Lanier
Aug. 5, 1917 - Oct. 16, 1934

7. Perry Crowder
First husband of Etta
Lanier Crowder Hood
Born about 1880
Died in 1905

8. Audrey Hood
Aug. 18, 1908 - Feb. 16, 1911

9. Norwood Hood
La. Pvt. 1302 Engrs.
Gen. Service Rects. I  WWII
Mar. 18, 1917 - Mar. 1, 1940

10. Etta Lanier Crowder Hood
Wife of William Lawson Hood
Oct. 25, 1886 - Jan. 16, 1975

11. James H. Hood
Aug. 24, 1927 - Nov. 21, 1977

12. William Lawson Hood
Apr. 25, 1976
90 yrs. 2 mos. 5 dys.

Row 4

1. No Name

2. No Name

Row 5

1. Albert J. Clave
Husband of Lillie Mae Lanier
1895 - 1946

2. Lillie Mae Lanier Clave
Apr. 18, 1908 - Jan. 13, 1930

3. Myrtis Craymer
Dau of Effie Lanier Craymer
Oct. 14, 1923 - July 10, 1925

4. Perry Fellyow
Husband of Effie Lanier
Apr. 10, 1881 - May 11, 1959