Knox, Bell, Harlan and Whitley Counties, KY
Claiborne County,
Tennessee and Lee County, Virginia
(Last updated 22 Feb 2024)
| Andrew Mannon (c.1780s-1840s?) md. circa 1808 |
Mary "Polly" Foster (c.1780s-1850s?) md. circa 1808 Sister of Rutha Mullins? |
Gabriel Vaughn? James Claxton? Andrew Mannon? |
Andrew Mannon (c.1780s-1840s?) md. circa 1808 |
Elizabeth Evans (?) (aft. 1791) |
Unknown parents |
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| William Eldridge? |
Sarah
"Sally "Mannon (c.1810-1880+) Never married? |
William Manning *
(c.1809-1890+) md. Elizabeth Grimes |
Andrew J Manning (1814) William H Manning (1820) unknown daughters? |
Rebecca Mannon* (1811/15-1860+) |
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| Nancy Mannon (c. 1816/18-1890+) md. Henry Claxton |
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| Mary Mannon (c. 1833/37) |
Minta Mannon (1831) Clara Mannon (1833) Mary J Mannon (1835) Eliza J Mannon (1837) Andrew Mannon (1840) Nancy Mannon (1842) Sarah Manning (1844) Matilda Manning (1846) ... more |
DNA matches to many
descendants of Andrew and William Manning |
Mark Mannon (c.1826-1850+) |
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| Elizabeth [Clark] (c. 1835/37) |
Rebecca and Nancy
moved to Hancock County, TN by 1850 and lived next to William Manning. |
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| Andrew
Mannon (1842-1920) [Eldridge Y-DNA] |
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DNA matching indicates Andrew Mannon (1842) and Elizabeth [Clark] (1835/37) had to have been at least half-siblings.
* William Manning descendants appear to have no legit Eldridge DNA matches.
The Honorable Joseph Eve Judge of the fifteenth Judicial district in chancery
Atty your orator Andrew Manning humbly complaining Sheweth unto your honour that
he intermarried with a Miss Polly Foster about 17 years since with whom he lived
in the bond of affection about two years & has fondly hoped to pass(?) his life
in union & harmony with her but to his mortification he discovered that she was
in the habit of intimacy with other men and at the last mentioned time she
abandoned the bed & board of your orator & has since lived in an indiscriminate
course of adultery up to the present time & has had 3 children since she left
your orator, and that she still continues to live and persue an adulterous life
regardless of her marriage pledge the **** of your orator. Therefore is that the
common-wealth's *** of suffer i**** **** the said Polly Manning defendant &
after **** the *** you will decree that the Your Orator he decreed & that he may
henceforth be sole & separate form the Defendant & such other and further relief
as he may be able to & in duly he will pray & O.
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The deposition of
Mahala McCoy for the complainant Andrew Mannon.
The Clerk of Harlan
County, KY. the within is filed this 20th of November 1826.
G Brittain.
The deposition of Mahala McCoy taken at the house of Robt. ****** in the
County of Harlan and state of Kentucky on the 28th day of October 1826 agreeably
to the notice hereto annexed to be read as evidence on the part of the
Complainant Andrew Manning in a suit in Chancery now depeneding in the Circuit
Court for the County of Harlan. Wherein Polly Mannon is defendant, The deponent
being of lawful age and first duly sworn deposeth and saith
Question
by the Complainant [Andrew Manning]
Question 1th: Did or did you ever
know any man to be in bed with Polly Mannon before the separation of myself and
Polly Mannon or not?
Answer: I did see James Claxton in bed with her.
Question 2th: Did she never tell you that the boy child she had whilst we lived
together was not Andrew Mannon's?
Answer: I heard her say it was not Mannon's
child.
Question 3rd: Did she not say Gabriel Vaughn was the father of the
child?
Answer: She did.
and further the deponent saith not Mahala
McCoy, her X mark
Harlan County To wit:
The foregoing deposition
of Mahala McCoy was this day taken subscribed and sworn to by the said Mahala
McCoy Before the undersigned Justice of the Peace for said County at the time
and place and for the purpose stated in the Caption thereof given under my hand
this 28th day of October 1826 Rob't George
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The answer of Polly Manning to a
bill in ***** exhibited against her in a Harlan Circuit Court by Andrew Maning
this respondent states that it is true as alleged by the Complainant that she
intermarried with the complainant about the time mentioned in his bill and that
they have been separate about 16 years - That she is now living in the state of
Tennessee & does not expect to live with the complainant any more and that
she is willing if your honor the ***** to give him a divorce & such other &
furthering order as may see proper and Right
Polly Manning
https://dna-explained.com/2014/11/24/fairwix-clarksonclaxton-17991800-1874-in-his-right-mind-52-ancestors-47/
Mount Zion Baptist Church
On the second Saturday of April 1869
Rob Camp Baptist Church released the following from their fellowship:
H. Clarkson (Fairwix nephew through Henry, decd)
Mary Clarkson (Mary
Martin, wife of E.H. Clarkson, through Margaret Herrell and Anson Martin,
Margaret Herrell remarried to Joseph Bolton)
William Mannon
Elizabeth
Mannon
Mary Muncy (probably Agnes Muncy Clarkson’s relative)
Clarissa
Hill
Sarah Shefley (Fairwix daughter, married to Robert Shiflet)
Farwix Clarkson
Agnes Clarkson
Nancy Furry (Fairwix granddaughter
through son James, decd)
Elizabeth Clarkson (Elizabeth Speaks, wife of
Samuel Clarkson, son of Fairwix)
Margaret Clarkson (daughter of Samuel
Clarkson and Elizabeth Speaks Clarkson, Margaret would marry Joseph Bolton
Jr. in 1873)
William Bolton (son of Joseph Bolton)
James Bolton (son
of Joseph Bolton)
John Grimes
Catherine Grimes
Joseph Bolton
(husband to Margaret Herrell Martin, father to William and James)
