253 pages, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, photographs, indexed.
This book explores the descendants and ancestry of John Lanier (1830-1912). John Lanier and his wife had settled in Cowley County, Kansas by 1872, having lived in North Carolina, Illinois and Missouri.
The introduction is a brief summary of John Lanier's ancestry traced from Italy and France to England.
The Laniers were Huguenots living in France, but left their country to escape the early Protestant persecutions during the 16th century.
Musicians John Lanyer and Nicholas Lanier arrived in London from Paris in 1561. Both were musicians to the Queen.
Nicholas Lanier, who was in the Court of King Henry II of France, and also the Court of Queen Elizabeth and King James of England, was founder of the Lanier family of musicians as well as the ancestor of the American Laniers.
During the Civil War in England (1642-1649) the fortunes of the Laniers were lost. They lost their appointments, suffered deprivation and starvation, and often imprisonment. After petitioning the King some were restored to their positions, but many migrated to the United States and Canada.
The ancestors of John Lanier lived in the mountains of North Carolina -- some were farmers, preachers and schoolteachers.
The book includes many photographs, newspaper items, and legal documents that give a picture of the lifestyle of families living on the Great Plains after the Homestead Act of 1862.
Some of the other family names from the index: Bing, Bolack, Carr, Davis, Finley, Finney, Gordon, Holt, Hoy, Johnson, Kennedy, Kunkel, Ledford, Lewis, Newland, Parry, Parsons, Randall, Shields, Smith, Tredway, Venable, Wilson, Zimmerman. and more.
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