The Lanning-Pittillo Cemetery was originally two cemeteries separated by a hedge row.
The Pittillo cemetery property was donated by Mittleton Pittillo. The first known Pittillo decendent buried in the Pittillo Cemetery was Milton Y. Pittillo, buried in 1867.
The original Lanning Cemetery property was donated on January 18, 1916 by James Wilkerson Lanning, his wife Leah King Lanning, and their son Hiram William King Lanning along with his wife Eliza Nix Lanning. The first known Lanning descendant buried in the Lanning Cemetery was Leah N. Lanning, buried in 1888.
On January 23, 1934 Hiram William King Lanning, J.B. Pittillo, S.J. Pittillo and L.B Pittillo deeded a Right of Way to the trustees for the Pittillo Cemetery. At a later date the hedge row was removed to join the Lanning Cemetery and the Pittillo Cemetery to form the Lanning-Pittillo Cemetery. In 1945 Hiram William King Lanning and wife Eliza Nix Lanning and Daughter Bertha Lanning Pryor and husband Ernest Jay Pryor donated more land for the Lanning-Pittillo Cemetery. In 1952 Bertha Lanning Pryor and husband Ernest Jay Pryor donated even more property to expand the Cemetery to its current size.