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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Columbia County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Henderson Manes has been engaged in farming in Arkansas from his earliest youth, and is now engaged in tilling one of the handsomest farms in the county, consisting of 560 acres. He was born in Alabama in 1832, and is a son of Enoch and Lydia (Antrey) Manes, they having been born in the Old North State, and were early emigrants to Alabama. The father was in one of the early Indian wars, was a wealthy farmer and owned quite a number of slaves. He came to Arkansas in 1853, and settled on the farm on which the subject of this sketch is now living, his first purchase of land consisting of 500 acres. He was born in 1798 and died in 1858, his widow, who was born in 1804, being still alive. She is a hale and hearty old lady, and is still able to do considerable housework, bidding fair to live a number of years. Five of the nine children born to them are still living: Matilda (wife of John Lawson, of Alabama), Dicey (widow of Jesse Wilkerson, of Columbia County), Frederick (a resident of this county), Henderson (the subject of this sketch), and Elisha (of this county). Henderson Manes learned the details of farm work of his father, and acquired a practical knowledge of books in his native county in Alabama. At the age of twenty-one years he commenced farming for himself on a portion of his father’s farm, but at the end of two years he purchased a farm of his own, and on this land his cotton crop amounts to from twelve to fifteen bales per year. He makes a specialty of stock-raising, a superior grade of sheep receiving the most of his attention, but he also raises large numbers of Holstein cattle. He has been married twice, first in 1865 to Miss Frances Thomas, a daughter of William and Lau (Sturges) Thomas, natives of North Carolina, but she died March 12, 1877, a worthy member of the Methodist, Episcopal Church. The following are their children: Sarah (wife of E. A. Andrews), Felix (a farmer), Robert E. L., Walter P. and Lydia A. G. Mr. Manes’ present estimable wife was formerly Miss Susan A. E. Burrow, a daughter of John and Sarah (Rowden) Burrow, of Georgia, whom he married July 9, 1878. They have five children: John W., Alma II., Henderson, Mattie L. and Samuel E. In 1863 Mr. Manes joined Company K of Monroe’s cavalry, and although he served in the Trans-Mississippi Department he took part in no battles and surrendered at Magnolia, Ark., in 1865. He has always been public spirited, and took an active part in the organization of this county. Mrs. Manes’ parents came to this State about 1857, and have since been among the prominent settlers of Columbia County.

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This family biography is one of 106 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Columbia County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Columbia County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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