Sarah Lanier Williams (1748-1814) Buried in Caswell County, North Carolina. Has interesting relatives: 1. Sidney Clopton Lanier (1842-1881): was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate army, worked on a blockade running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he used dialects. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a university professor and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. Many schools, other structures and two lakes are named for him. 2. Thomas Lanier (Tennessee) Williams (1911-1983): was an American playwright and author of many stage classics. Became famous with The Glass Menagerie (1944), which heralded a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, and Sweet Bird of Youth. Williams adapted much of his best work for the cinema, and also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. https://flickr/photos/ncccha/sets/72157594361933622
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