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Descendants of James B Manor

Generation No. 1

      1. James B³ Manor (Mills², Aaron¹) was born November 17, 1804 in Edgecombe Co. ,NC, and died May 17, 1881 in Manor, Travis Co, Tx At Home. He married (1) Phobe Singleton Foster June 26, 1824 in Rutherford Co., TN. He married (2) Missouri Burdett September 20, 1866 in Travis Co., TX. He married (3) Elizabeth Ann Stelfox April 22, 1875 in Austin, Travis Co.,Tx, daughter of John Stelfox and Harriet Stanley.

Notes for James B Manor:
From a letter written by Thelma Rogers Cook [the Granddaughter of Lavina Manor] on 08-30-1963, to Mrs. Acklin, we got the following story about James Manor.

Dear Mrs. Acklin:

Your letter of August 2nd, has finally reached me. We moved from Midland, TX to Austin, TX in 1958 and last fall we moved here [Las Cruces, NM]. Fourtunately, my mail was fowarded directly to me here as we had sold our house to some friends that have kept up with us. Anyway, I wanted you to know why the delay in answering your letter.
I am so pleased that you requested the copy of the Manor family history that Aunt Lucile has been so proud of. You know, I compiled all this at her request and with much of the information that she had requested me to file for further use of Texas history. Of course, my grandmother's sisters, who were Aunt Lucile's and Aunt Elizabeth's half sisters had most of the family history and in the effort of compiling all this the family Bible turned up in Dallas and has since been given to me as a gift from Lucile Davis Dean--which made me very happy! Aunt Elizabeth (Elliott) was to young to remember anything about her Father, but Aunt Lucille did and she had remembered so much Grandmother Abrams had told her. The only request that is not exact in the article is Mrs. Abram's previous marriages, but Aunt Elizabeth, herself, requested me not to mention them. I tried to explain to Aunt Elizabeth that widows in that day always got married as they could not earn a proper living for small children, but after she insisted, all I could do was to eliminate that. It never made any difference to me, because I adored Grandmother and Grandfather Abrams and called them as such at all times--and since I was reared in Travis County I naturally came in contact with all of them and was closer to them than my Father even. Anyway, I went along with Aunt Elizabeth's request and did not mention the previous marriages of Grandmother Abrams although I know so many of them personally and think they are all the nicest people. Mrs. Abrams was first married to an Allen, who was incidentally related to my Father's half brothers, then she married a Davis who was related to the Davis who was married to one of james Manor's oldest daughters. She had two sons by the first marriage and one son, Henry Davis, by the second marriage. The Allen girls around Eden and I know them quite well and write to them and the Davis boy and girl live in Tulsa. I could see no reason not to give the connection but Aunt Elizabeth apparently had her reasons and since I adored her I gave in.
All the rest is absoultly correct in every detail and since they were not Manor decendanrts it made no difference in the article. I, of course, since I have learned many details of the family I wish I had known ten years ago. Mrs Beasley of San Antonio passed away last year and she had valuable information that she told me about in 1955. The most interesting I am writing on another sheet that you may attach to the articles. I think it is very interesting indeed and should have been included in this article by all means.
Did you know my daughter, Carolyn Cook (Downey) Yates, who taught school at Manor? I am sure she taught there in 1955 or 1956. I had talked to Mrs. Eppright of Manor before I moved to Austin and had promised to send her a copy of this for the Club, but we made a hasty decision to move here that I failed to get it to her, but since I am so short of these copies (I intend to have more copies made soon--with corrections) I am sending you the extra copy that I actually needed to keep, but I think the Libraries in Manor are the proper place for them. If you prefer to keep the other copy that is alright with me, but I thought possibly you might give it to the school library. I will have you pictures made of Kitty Manor Wheeler and my Grandmother, Lavina Manor (Thompson)Rogers, to keep on file in the Club. Kitty gave the land where either the Baptist Church or the Methodist Church is. I have a copy of the settlement of her will that states this and when I find it I will also send you a copy of that because someone there should deffentally know that. After she died without children, her husband Thomas Benton Wheeler married again and had children. She is buried in the Wheeler plot of the cementary and the last time I was there her tombstone had broken off. I think it would be wonderful if someone could get that put back on the proper grave. Aunt Lucile took me right to the grave and she was upset at that time because the stone was broken off. She thought possibly the Church should see to it -- whichever one Aunty Kitty (Catherine George) had given the land to.
I am so pleased that Manor has people like you and Mrs Eppright to preserve the history of the early settlement. It is interesting and some of the early things were absoulutely incorrect that had been on file and it was up to us to try to straighten it out. I thank goodness Aunt Lucile was sucessful in getting me to compile all we could get and she really worked getting so much of it together. It seemed to be a project that she was determined to get done during her lifetime. Of course, her mind is so far gone now she is back in her childhood most of the time.
Again I want to tell you how very pleased I am that you requested these copies of me and if I can be of any further help at anytime please contact me. Also tell Mrs. Eppright I did so want to meet with the Club at some time and regret that I could not get to, but sometime when I am in Austin I will contact you or Mrs Eppright and plan on doing this.
There was only one other thing I did wish to tell you. I wish I had known that Aunt Lucile and Aunt Elizabeth were going to sell the farm there, because I would so have loved to have bought the part where the house was and fixed it up. It was certianly a place that should have been preserved for history -- as that was the first Post Office and stag stop from Austin to Houston. Wouldn't that have made a wonderful Club building tho?
Do let me hear from you from time to time and any interesting articles that come out in the paper about Manor. Do please always send me copies of that.

Sincerely,
Thelma Rogers Cook
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                  NOTES COMPLIED BY THELMA ROGERS COOK
                        ON 08-30-1963

                        JAMES MANOR 1804-1881

      James Manor was born November 17, 1804 in the state of North Carolina, and shortley thereafter his family moved to Murfreesborough, Rutherford County, Tennessee, and there he knew Samual Houston. In 1832 Samual Houston was commissioned by President Jackson to negotiate ttreaties with indian tribes in Texas and James Manor was one of the men he selected to accompany him on this mission. We know nothing of the childhood of James Manor but from his penmanship and records of his business transactions during his lifetime it is apparent that he was educated above the average for the times.
      James Manor married Phebe S. Foster June the 26, 1824, and in 1832 when he left Tennessee with Samual Houston, he and Phebe had the following children:
      Aaron Josiah Manor, born April 30, 1825; died July 26, 1829
      Harriet Susan Manor, born August 26, 1827; died July 7, 1829
      Matilda Jane or Melinda Jane, born October 26, 1830
      Ann Elizabeth, born February 1, 1833 (the last child was born three months after her father left Tennesse; she was born in Missouri where her Mother apparently went to stay with relatives while James Manor went to Texas.)
      James Manor remained away from his family for three years and in 1835 he returned to Tennesse for them (Phebe apparently had returned to Tennessee). In 1836 James Manor brought his wife and two small daughters back to Texas along with other members of his family including a brother, Joseph J. Manor, Joseph's wife, Carolina, and a sister, Rhoda Manor. (It is quiet possible there were other members of James Manor's family to accompany them, but these are the only ones traced sofar by the writer.)

*Phebe Singleton Foster was born May 29, 1807 (T.C.) She is buried in Rector family Cemetery.

*Lucy Smith Manor is buried in Joseph Manor plot at Hornsby Bend. Her grave is marked "Mother Manor" only. Handwritten by Thelma Cook.
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      In 1836 James Manor cleared and settled land along Gilliland Creek about half a mile from what is now known as Manor, Texas. He at first erected a log cabin and later in the forties built a more modern two story house and left the old cabin as the kitchen. This house was the first post-office and stag-stand out of Austin, on the Austin-Houston Road. This section of Travis County was then known as a portion of Weberville Community and later as Wheeler's Store before it was given the name of Manor, Texas, in honor of James Manor. While the family was building a home it has been told to the writter many times that the family was attacked by hostile indians and while the immediate family lost no lives two slaves were killed. (James Manor brought a number of slaves to Texas from Tennessee). He later applied for a land grant covering this particular land and was issued grant number 113 for 640 acres, October 27, 1841.
      The war record of James Manor is on file in the State archives, Austin, Texas (State Library) and is as follows:
                                    War Dept.
                                    Houston, January 15, 1838
      This certificate entitles James Manor to pay from the last payt made him to 13th Nov. 1837. J. Manor entered the service on the 18th day May 1837.
                                    /s/ Barnard E. Bee

      There was one son, William Franklin, and four daughters born to Phebe and James Manor after they arrived in Texas. These births are listed as follows in the Manor Family Bible:
            William Franklin, born Sept. 12, 1836; died February, 1840
                  (One Manor Family Bible shows William Franklin Manor's death date as                   January and the other as February, 1840.)
            Elvira Tennesse, born October 21, 1841
            Lavina Henrietta, born Dec. 6, 1843
            Mary Emeline Manor, born Aug. 9, 1846
            Catherine Georgia Manor, born Nov. 30, 1848
      With six daughters to educate James Manor encouraged the establishment of a girls boarding school in the community and gave the land on which the building was erected in 1858. This was located at Manor, Texas, and was the first girl's boarding school in that section of the state. After the marriages of Miltda (or Melinda) Jane and Ann Elizabeth the younger girls were sent away to school. Elvira and Lavina H. went to a girl's college (Baylor College) at Independance, Texas, and Catherine finished her education in a private school for girls in Austin. (Baylor College was first located at Independance, Washington County, Texas, before being moved to it's present location.)
      Matilda (or Melinda) Jane has been written both ways -- Matilda Jane was written in the will of James Manor and Melinda Jane was written in the Family Bible.

Notes written by Thelma Rogers Cook

* One Manor Family Bible shows William Franklin Manor's death date as January and the other as Feb. 1840.
*Baylor College was first located at Independence, Washington Co. Tex. before being moved to its present location. (T.C.)

The Census for Travis County, Webberville Community of 1850 lists the following in Book #288, Page 143, signed by John Weaver and dated 9th September, 1850, (State Archives, State Highway Building):

Family No. Name Age State Where Born Acres Farmed

#150 James Manor 45 N.C. 2,760
Feeby Manor 43 Va.
Elvira 8 Tex.
Lavina 6 Tex.
Mary 4 Tex.
Catherine 1

#151 Richard Boyce 23 Mo.
Ann 17 Misouri
(Ann Manor married Richard A. Boyce, son of Nichols Boyce.)

The Census Records for Travis County, Webberville Community for 1860 lists the following information in Book 252, Page 28, signed by S. J. Wood and dated 19th July 1860.

#188 James Manor 55 N.C.
Lavina Manor 16 Tex.
Mary Manor 13 Tex.
Catherine Manor 11 Tex.

Phebe S. Foster manor, first wife of James Manor, died March 12, 1859.

The three younger girls remained with their father for a number of years. Lavina became a school teacher and fulfilled her father's dreams for her. She was known to have great intelligence and to be a good business woman. Mary was known for her great beauty and her death June 1, 1864, at the age of 18, brought profound sorrow to her family and friends. Catherine was the cute and impish one and more or less a practical joker. Her father, sisters and servants were often the target of her jokes.

On April 22, 1875 and a number of years after the death of Phebe Manor and after the marriages of all of his six living daughters, James Manor married *Elizabeth Ann Stelfox, born July 22, 1840, in Manchester, England, and while she was much younger than her husband and actually even younger than Matilda (or Melinda) Jane and Ann Elizabeth, she readily assumed the duties of wife and mother and in a short time she won the deep devotion and love of her step-daughters and step-grandchildren. There were two daughters born to Elizabeth Ann and James Manor---Lucy G. (Lucile) born May 6, 1876, and Elizabeth, born October 20, 1879. One of the best know traits of James Manor was his great desire to properly educate his daughters and this trait is especially brought out in his will made after the birth of Lucy (Lucile) and shortly before the birth of Elizabeth which reads in part "......and education of my dearly beloved daughter Miss Lucy Manor and any other child or children that may be born to me."

After the death of James Manor, May 17, 1881, Elizabeth Ann Stelfox Manor married M. C. Abrams and they continued to live in Manor for over fifty years before her death November 3, 1941, at the age of 101. Elizabeth Ann Manor Abrams was dearly loved by all who knew her and she will long be remembered in the community of Manor, Texas, and by the descendants of James Manor.

*Elizabeth Ann Stelfox (Manor) was born in Manchester, England, July 22, 1840. She came to the U.S. when she was 8 years old with her parents and landed in New Orleans. She lost a little sister who is buried there. They went to Little Rock, Ark., where her Mother died. Her father remarried and with friends came to Texas in covered wagons. The friends were the John Robinson family whose decendants still live in Austin.

The children of James Manor married:

Matilda ( or Melinda) Jane married George D. Glopcock, August 17, 1845 (the spelling was later changed to Glascock)-- he was a farmer

Ann Elizabeth married Richard A. Boyce, Noverber 10, or Nov. 30, 1848--he was a farmer.

Elvira Tennessee married Blackstone H. Davis February 15, 1860,--he was a lawyer and farmer (Member of Leg. from Bastrop in 1861.)

Lavina Henrietta, first marriage was to Benjamin H. Thompson, Jan. 8, 1862.--He was a druggist and owned a drug store at 6th and Congress in the 1860's and 1870's
2) Second marriage was to James Polk Rogers, December 27, 1881, farmer

Mary died June 1, 1864 and was never married

Catherine Georgia married Thomas Benton Wheeler, Lt. Governor of Texas, Gov. Ross (T.C.) on Jan. 28, 1866. She died Jan. 3, 1882, after her father but before final settlement of his will had been made.

Lucy G. (Lucile) married Alfred Wainwright Bloor, Colonel U.S. Army

Elizabeth Married------Elliott.

Ann E. Manor Boyce also died before her father; she died in the year 1875. She had four children listed in her father's will viz: Mrs. Alice Stricklin (also written Stricklord), Miss Emma Boyce, Lee Boyce and Guy Boyce. Her second daughter, Emma, also died before James Manor and there is a rider on his will dated May 14, 1881 (three days before his death) stating that she (Emma) had died and their mother's part was to be equally divided among Alice Stricklin, Lee Boyce and Guy Boyce.

One Manor family Bible gives the marriage date of Ann Eliz. Boyce and Richard A. Boyce as Nov. 10. the other as Nov. 30, 1848. Handwritten note of Thelma Cook
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Sam Houston and James Manor remained friends through-out the years and General Houston was a frequent and welcomed visitor in the Manor home.

The Census of 1880 shows that James Manor and his brother Joseph Manor, both stated their parents were born in North Carolina.

The old rifle which James Manor carried through the Texas Revolution is in the possession of his youngest grandchild, Manor C. Rogers, son of Lavina H. Manor Rogers

James Manor had no sons to live to maturity and, therefore, there will be no descendants of his with the Manor surname. Anyone in Travis County or elsewhere with the surname of Manor is likely a descendant of his brother, Joseph J. Manor, or some other Manor.

James Manor donated to the H. & TC Ry, which was the first railroad from Austin to Houston, the right of way through his property; he also gave to the town of Manor its present cemetery; and he gave much to schools and churches especially the boarding school for girls in that part of the State.

He is buried in the cemetery which he donated to the City of Manor. His grave and tomb are about fifty feet inside the gate a little to the right--marked off with a chain fence and the inscription reads:

OUR FATHER
JAMES MANOR
Born November 17, 1804
Died May 17, 1881
Age 76 years and 6 mo.

He was a Mason and there is a Masonic emblem on the stone.

The James Manor family Bible is in the possession of Lucile Davis Deen, a great-granddaughter, who resides at 1139 Barkley Ave., Dallas 24, Texas, and much data was obtained from this Bible to record herewith. Another Manor Family Bible is in the possession of Mrs. Lulu Davis Beasley, 2425 St. Anthony St. , San Antonio. Used as reference along with will, census, Bible, etc., listed in this article, the writer has used two documents belonging to her own grandmother, Lavina H. Manor Rogers, viz: The assignment of Thomas Rowe Wheeler of his Wife's interest in the James Manor estate to her sisters, Jane Glopcock, Elvira T. Davis, Lavina H. Rogers, and the following children of Mrs. Ann Boyce, deceased to wit: Alice Stricklord, Lee Boyce and Guy Boyce all the real estate and personal property of said James Manor which he (Rowe) was entitled to under his wife's will. This document was written in Stephens County, properly witnessed and filed in Travis County, May 3, 1883, No. 55, Pages 528--9--30; and the Executors completion of the Estate of James Manor, dated September 23, 1882, and signed by Tho. E. Rowe, Executor and John T. Haynes, Executor, completed in Williamson County and filed in Travis County 23rd Day of December, 1882, Book 54, pages 366 and 367.

The old Manor Homestead is now owned by Dr. Eppright of Austin. He purchased this property from the two living daughters of James Manor: Mrs. Lucile Manor Bloor (Mrs. A.W.) and Mrs. Elizabeth Manor Elliott.

I swear the statements herein are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. This article has been approved by my great aunt Mrs. Lucile Manor Bloor.
/a/ Thelma Rogers Cook
June 29, 1953

The following is the information on the children of James Manor as recorded from the James Manor family Bible which is in the possession of his great--granddaughter, Lucile Davis Deen, 1138 Berkeley Avenue, Dallas, Texas.

Children of James and Phebe Manor

Aaron Josiah Manor--born April 3, 1825--Died July 26, 1829
Harriet Susan Manor--born August 26, 1827--died July 7, 1829
Melinda Jane Manor--Born October 26, 1830 (written Matilda Jane in the will of James Manor) death date unknown
Ann Elizabeth Manor--Born October 26, 1830--died in the year 1875
William Franklin Manor--born Sept. 12, 1836--died February 1840
Elvira Tennessee Manor--born October 31, 1841--died September 12, 1918
Lavina Henrietta Manor--born December 6, 1843--died August 14, 1892
Mary Emiline Manor--born August 9, 1846--died June 1, 1864
Catherine Georgia Manor--Born November 30, 1848 died Jan. 3, 1882

Children of James Manor and Elizabeth Ann Stelfox Manor

Lucy G. (Lucile) Manor--born May 6, 1876 living
Elizabeth Manor--born October 20, 1879 living

Handwritten note by Thelma Cook--There is another Manor family Bible in the possession of the only living grandaughter of James Manor, Mrs. Lulu Davis Beasley, 2425 St. Anthony, San Antonio, Texas. Mrs. Beasley has much Manor data in re: James Manor and His descendants.

GRANDCHILDREN OF JAMES MANOR

Children of Matilda ( or Melinda) Jane Manor and her husband George D. Glopcock (later changed to Glascock)

Laura Ann born June 7, 1846--died Dec. 6, 1865
Lavina Jane--born August 20, 1848
Mary Eurnna--born November 24, 1850
Chloe Elvira--born May 29, 1853
Phebe Clestern-- born June 19, 1855--died July 5, 1855
James George--born September 22, 1856
Eugenios Singleton--born March 8, 1858
Roger Lee--born September 27, 1860

Children of Ann Elizabeth Manor and her husband, Richard A. Boyce

Alice Boyce--married Stricklin or Strickland
Emma-----------died in 1881
Guy Singleton Boyce--died in 1911
Robert E. Lee--born 1868

(The Boyce family is not named in the James Manor Family Bible--these Names were taken from the will of James Manor)

Children of Elvira Tennessee Manor and her husband, Blackstone H. Davis

James Manor Davis--born August 13, 1861
William Blackstone--born December 16, 1863
Walter L.--born April 14, 1866
Malcolm Joseph--born August 2, 1869--died Feb. 9, 1943
(Mamie) Mary Manor Davis--born November 7, 1871
Kittie Lulu Davis--born December 26, 1875

Children of Lavina Henrietta Manor and her first husband, Benjamin H. Thompson

James Allen Thompson, born October 11, 1862
George W. ----------------------------1864
And by her second husbank, James Polk Rogers
Manor Calmos (Calvin) Rogers born August 4, 1884

James Manor had twenty-one grandchildren; there are only two of these living to my knowledge: Mrs. Lulu Davis Beasley and Manor C. Rogers.

LAVINA HENRIETTA MANOR
1843-1892
Daughter of James Manor and his first wife, Phebe S. Foster Manor

Lavina Henrietta Manor, seventh child of James Manor and his first wife, Phebe S. Foster Manor, was born in the Republic of Texas, December 6, 1843. She attended a girl's boarding school at Manor, Texas, which was established around 1858 by James Manor. This was the first school of this kind in that part of the State. She later went to Independence, Texas, where there was a girl's finishing school (around 1860). She completed her education there and returned to Travis County where she secured a position as a young school teacher at the Colorado Community School which was located approximately half way between Montopolois and Del Valle. This was in a building which at that time housed the community church and school.

While Lavina Manor taught at the Colorado School she roomed at the home of George W. and Lucinda Thompson and later married their only son, Benjamin H. Thompson, who had just graduated from the Baylor School of Pharmacy. (Benjamin H. Thompson graduated from one of the earliest classes of Baylor University around 1860 or 1861.) (Lavina Henrietta Manor and Benjamin Thompson were married January 8, 1862.)

There were two sons born to Lavina Henrietta Manor Thompson and Benjamin Thompson--they were James Allen Thompson and George W. Thompson, who was named for his grandfather. Benjamin and Lavina built a large Colonial Home at the corner of East 11th and Trinity Streets in the City of Austin. This home was built with six large pillars brought from New Orleans. The house still stands and is in a wonderful state of repair and now houses the offices of the Veterans Affairs Commission. (It was sold around 1882.)

Benjamin and Lavina Thompson were prominent in social and political circles and entertained many state officials in their home and it was in this house that Catherine Georgia Manor, younger sister of Lavina, married Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Thomas Rowe Wheeler, January 28, 1866.

Benjamin H. Thompson owned and operated the most successful Austin drugstore at the corner of 6th and Congress in the 1860's and 1870's. (The F. W. Woolworth company is now located on this site.) He died around 1875 and Lavina and her two children went to live with her father-in-law and mother-in-law in the community of Montopolis. ( This house also still stands and is owned by A. D. Bolm). She kept and maintained her home in Austin and spent much time there. On December 27, 1881, Lavina Henrietta Manor Thompson married James Polk Rogers who owned and operated the first ferry across the Colorado River at the Montopolis location. James P. Rogers had been a close friend of the Thompson family for a number of years and when Lavina married for the second time she gave all her Thompson lands and houses to her sons by her first marriage.

James Polk and Lavina Rogers purchased a farm one mile south of the ColoradoRiver at Montopolis where they resided until their deaths. This farm was given to their only son, Manor C. Rogers, upon the deaths of his parents. He and his wife, Eupha Austin Rogers, still reside there where they went to live when they were married February 2, 1904.

Lavina Henrietta Rogers died August 14, 1892, and James Polk Rogers died January 11, 1929.)
Handwitten notes by Thelma Cook;
*James Allen Thompson married Sallie Puckett of Manor, Texas
*George W. Thompson married Fannie Berry of Travis Co.
*Manor C. Rogers married Eupha Austin of Austin, Texas

Thelma Rogers Cook, granddaughter of Lavina Henrietta Manor(Thompson)
Rogers
(written July 14, 1953)
James Polk Rogers died January 11, 1929.

Thelma Rogers Cook
July 17, 1953

School

It is interesting to know that the maternal grandfather of the writer, Charles Freeman Austin, was a pupil in the Colorado Community school in the 1860's while Lavina Manor was the teacher, and in the next generation, Mattie Austin (Hatcher), daughter of Charles Freeman Austin, was a teacher to Lavina's son, Manor C. Rogers, who later married Euupha Austin, sister of Mattie Austin. Thelma Rogers also attended the school as well as her daughter, Jimmie Carolyn Cook.

To James Manor File

When Elvira Tennessee Manor was approximately 18 months old the Manor Family was raided by renegade Indians. The colored mammy hid the children in an old log hut near the food storage house. There were large cracks between the logs and while James Manor filled saddle bags with food for the Indians at rifle point on himself and his wife the mammy was holding her hand over the baby's mouth and telling the other children not to make a sound. The Indians were standing within reach of the hut and the shiny beads on the moccasin attracted the baby's attention and she reached thru the cracks in the logs and pulled at the strings of the moccasin. the Indian turned and fired into the hut, but fortunately hit none of the children nor the mammy. When the Indians went into the hut and the one Indian saw it was a baby he pulled the string from the moccasin and gave it to the baby and the family, I understand, still has the string. None of the family was harmed at that time, altho there had been raids on them at previous times. In fact, at one time two of the slaves were killed by Indians while working in the fields.

Notes for Phobe Singleton Foster:
Phebe Singleton Foster was born May 29, 1807. She is buried in the Rector Family Cemetery.
Phebe Manor died from Consumption at the residence of her husband, James B. Manor, March 13, 1859 at the age of 52 years.

pc. 270 EST> PHEBE S. MANOR died 3/12/1859 EDWARD HARRINGTON, ISAAC WILDBAHN, WM. H. HILL,NELSON S. RECTOR AND THOMPSON M RECTOR

More About Phobe Singleton Foster:
Cause of Death: Consumption (T.B.)
Place of Burial: Rector Family Cemetery

Notes for Missouri Burdett:
This marriage showed upon the 1870 Travis County Census and also showed that Kate Burdett age 16 was living with the Manors.

Marriage Notes for James Manor and Missouri Burdett:
This marriage showed up on the September 16, 1870 Travis County Census, pg. 117. Also a marriage license date September 20, 1866, is on record in Travis County. The minister was R. H. Taliaferro.

Notes for Elizabeth Ann Stelfox:
                        March, 1997

Elizabeth was born in Manchester, England, in 1840. Her family came to the US in 1848 when she was 8 years old. They landed in New Orleans, where she lost a little sister who is buried there. They then moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where her Mother died and is buried. Her Father remarried and with friends came to Texas in covered wagons. They finally settled in Austin, Texas, where her father opened a general merchandise and jewerly store.

In !865, she married James F. Allen, and they had two sons. In 1867, she returned to England with her husband and sons. In November of that year James F. Allen died of consumption and was buried in the Old Plumstead Church. Elizabeth returned to Texas with her two sons prior to 1870 and lived with her Father in Austin, TX.(1870 Austin census). She also had a baby girl Elizabeth Ann born in 1868 after James F. Allen died. The baby died and was buried May 26, 1870 in Oakwood Cemetery in Austin.

In 1872, she married J. B. Davis in Austin, Tx. and they one son, Henry Davis. JB Davis was killed by a team of run away horses in 1874. In April of 1875, Elizabeth married James Manor of Gilliand Creek, Tx. Elizabeth and James Manor had two girls, Lucille born in 1876 and Elizabeth in 1879. James Manor died in 1881.

In 1882, Elizabeth married Marion Abrams and they lived on the Manor estate in Manor Tx. They had one son that died when he was only one year old. Their son Johnie is buried in the Manor cemetery not far from James Manor's grave. Johnie's grave has a iron fence around it. Abrams died in 1941 and is buried in the Oakwood Cemetery in Austin, Tx. Elizabeth is also buried beside Abrams and close to her brother William Stelfox (Billy) The family story tells that Elizabeth died of a heartattack while teaching one of her Grandchildren how to do an Indian War Dance in 1941 at the age of 101 years of age. Her death certificate is # 24897 Travis County.

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More About Elizabeth Ann Stelfox:
Cause of Death: Heart attack

Children of James Manor and Phobe Foster are:

	2	i.	Aaron Josiah⁴ Manor, born April 30, 1825 in Rutherford Co., TN; died July 26, 1829 in Rutherford Co., TN.
	3	ii.	Harriet Susan Manor, born August 26, 1827 in Rutherford Co., TN; died July 07, 1829 in Rutherford Co., TN.
+	4	iii.	Malinda Jane Manor, born October 26, 1830 in Rutherford Co., TN.
+	5	iv.	Ann Elizabeth Manor, born February 01, 1833 in MO; died 1875.
	6	v.	Wiliam Franklin Manor, born September 12, 1839 in Texas Republic; died February 1840 in Travis Co., TX.
+	7	vi.	Elvira Tennessee Manor, born October 31, 1841 in Texas Republic; died September 12, 1918.
+	8	vii.	Lavina Henritta Manor, born December 06, 1843 in Texas Republic; died August 14, 1892 in Travis Co., TX.
	9	viii.	Mary Emaline Manor, born August 09, 1846 in Texas Republic; died June 01, 1864 in Travis Co., TX.
	10	ix.	Cathrine Georgia Manor, born November 03, 1848 in Texas Republic; died January 03, 1882 in Manor, Travis Co, Tx. She married Thomas Benton Wheeler January 28, 1866 in Manor, Travis Co, Tx.

Notes for Cathrine Georgia Manor:
Cathrine was the cute and impish one and more or less a practical joker.

Notes for Thomas Benton Wheeler:
Thomas Rowe Wheeler was the Lt. Governor of Texas.

Children of James Manor and Elizabeth Stelfox are:

+	11	i.		Lucile G.⁴ Manor, born May 06, 1876 in Manor, Travis Co, Tx; died January 17, 1972 in Austin, Travis Co.,Tx.
+	12	ii.		Elizabeth Manor, born October 20, 1879 in Manor, Travis Co, Tx; died August 24, 1959 in Austin, Travis Co.,Tx.

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