Posted on: Coffee County Alabama Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Al/Coffee/10436 Surname: Manning, Jackson, Coker, Seay, Huggins ------------------------- Linda: I believe your John J Manning is in my Manning family. Wm.Hampton Manning was in the 1850 Pike Al. Census,he 50 wife Nancy Denson age 30; he died c 1855 and left many young children, his estate was administered over many years. There is a John Jackson Manning in his family and in his estate papers Box 24 Pike Co.Al...Harriet was born in 1848 and your John was not born at the time of the 1850 Pike Al census. Clary Lucinda was born after Harriet and then John J. I put out a Manning book years ago, with all the Mannings I could find, trying to learn the name of the father of Wm.Hampton Manning b. 1800 NC,John J's father...I still don't know, but that is why I have all this census material. Your John J age 47 is in 1900 Pike, Fmly 48, Springhill,(below Troy); I show him with a wife named Catherine and 2 children Nancy J. b. 1883 and Omer E 1888.Wm.H(Hampton) Manning was in 1830,1840 Butler(Millville) but by 1850, Pike at Milo.   John J. was a brother to my James Lorenzo Manning ,who was b. 1837(next to the oldest in the family & a Civil War soldier). Children listed in Wm.Hampton Manning family: Wm.Henry(Civil War Soldier),James Lorenzo(Civil War), Elizabeth, Nancy E.,Wade Hampton, Eliza, Frances Lavonia, Harriet M, Clary Lucinda, and John Jackson Manning. Mary E Sandel