> Does anyone have inforamtion that might help this gentlemen? Frances > From: khowley@aol.com > To: FRANO-COLA.SC@worldnet.att.net > I noticed your e-mail address as a contact person for cemetery records and > am wondering if you might provide some advice on Montgomery County. I'm > looking for the Manson family of that county who lived near Clarksville at > least by 1860. The apparently migrated there at some point from Virginia. > In the 1860 and 1870 there is a Thomas H. Manson and his wife Sallie. In > their household in 1870 is a black/mulatto family by the same name. I'm > assuming they were former slaves that stayed with the family. My son > descends from the Manson family and I'm trying to find somebody from > either the black or white family that might have a little sense of > history. Any thoughts? Kevin Howley Philadelphia, PA Manson Cem, Dist 3, off Lafayette Rd, adjacent to Hinton Cem: Thomas H. Manson, Feb 23, 1833--Sept 12, 1900 Sally B. [Balthrop] Manson 1838--Dec 30, 1902 "his wife" [Thomas H. Manson's wife] James W. Manson, Jul 18, 1837--Jul 13, 1850 "son of Thomas H. and J. D. Manson" [so there is another Thomas H. Manson?] Fanny V. Manson, Jan 12, 1829--Sept 28, 1854 "dau of H. and J. A. Manson" also Blair and Alsup and Palmer stones copied by Anita Whitefield Darnell (now deceased) before 1968, published on p.26, Cemetery Records of Montgomery Co., TN, Vol 1, by Darnell, Jones, Alley & HOGAN (1968) [out of print]. Mrs. Sallie Manson died 30 Dec 1902, on Lafayette Rd, of paralysis. Widow of the late T. H. Manson. Interment at the family burying ground.----Daily Leaf Chronicle, 31 Dec, 1902, p. 1. Cleo.