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  1. Walter Edward Mann: Birth: 23 APR 1882 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas. Death: 25 MAY 1945 in Severy, Greenwood County Kansas

  2. Robert Louis Mann: Birth: 26 OCT 1883 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas. Death: 27 OCT 1948 in Eureka, Greenwood County Kansas

  3. Jessie Willard Mann: Birth: 7 MAR 1884 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas. Death: ABT JUN 1884 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas

  4. Susan Lucetta Mann: Birth: 29 AUG 1885 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas. Death: 2 MAR 1961 in Garnett, Linn County, Kansas

  5. Maggie May Mann: Birth: 1 DEC 1887 in Eureka, Greenwood County Kansas.

  6. Charles Marion Mann: Birth: 11 APR 1890 in Piedmont, Kansas. Death: 16 MAY 1890 in Piedmont, Kansas

  7. Marvin Mann: Birth: 11 APR 1890 in Piedmont, Green Co. Kansas. Death: 11 APR 1890 in Piedmont, Green Co. Kansas

  8. Mary Mann: Birth: 11 APR 1890 in Piedmont, Green Co. Kansas. Death: 16 MAY 1890 in Piedmont, Green Co. Kansas

  9. Effie Vera Mann: Birth: 10 APR 1891 in Eureka, Greenwood County Kansas.

  10. Eliza Mellissa Mann: Birth: 21 NOV 1893 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas.

  11. Avis Viola Mann: Birth: 26 MAY 1897 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas.

  12. Ira Natheniel Mann: Birth: 12 AUG 1898 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas. Death: 29 NOV 1978 in Newport Beach, Orange County, California

  13. Glenn William Mann: Birth: 9 DEC 1901 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas.

  14. Person Not Viewable

  15. Ruth Ione Mann: Birth: 17 OCT 1907 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas. Death: 1983


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a. Note:   Source Info: Provided Courtesy of Theresa Mann Elliott Jan 2002
  ID: I00338 Name: Amanda Augusta TAYLOR Sex: F Birth: 21 JUL 1862 in Tazewell, Claiborne County, Tennessee Death: 24 DEC 1949 in Howard, Elk County, Kansas 1 Burial: 29 DEC 1949 Piedmont Cemetery, Piedmont, Kansas Medical Information: Did suffer from Typhoid Fever in 1880 but recovered after several months. Note: Amanda said that the forest was so dark with shade that it was like evening dusk. When her brother Billie(William) and herself had to go after a neighbor woman to attend to her mother Lucy while her brother Marion was being born. They were so afraid. It was bright and sunny in the clearing but it was so dark in the woods. They held hands and hurried as fast as they could in a path made to their neighbors house. Amanda was only 4 1/2 years old and her brother Billie was 2 years and 4 months old. After they arrived at the woman neighbors house they all hurried back to their home to attend to Lucy. Nathanial stayed there with Lucy while the children went for help. Shortly after Marion was born. Marion was born September 21, 1877 in Tennessee.
  Biography below is from Carl Gwynn and entered November 2000 Amanda Augusta Taylor was born July 21, 1862 in either Tennessee or Kentucky. Her parents had moved from Tenn. to Kentucky five times before Amanda was seven years old. She helped her mother spread peaches to dry after she was dressed in her wedding dress and waited for her husband to come to take her to be married. She married September 16, 1880 at age 18, at Eureka, Greenwood County, Kans., William Mann, son of Robert and Susan Ann (Pence) Mann. William was born December 31, 1854 in Keokuk Co., Iowa. In about 1874, William and his brothers went to Barber County to claim a farm. They lived only one year on the claim. The Barber Co. claim was not close to a town. Wichita was the nearest and it took about a week to get supplies back then. They came back to near Piedmont, Kansas where they farmed the ground. At that time Eureka, Kans. was a big town with a courthouse, a wheat and corn mill and several people took land claims and lived on them. It was a requirement to plant a hedge row on the farm. They lived in that area about five years before William married. He worked for a George Crail for a few years. After the death of Amanda's parents, they took in Amanda's two year old brother, James Melvin Taylor to live with them. He would often tell people he was James Melvin Mann. About 1890, the family moved to a farm about one mile north of Eureka. They farmed this section for the next 20 years. They moved a half mile west for several years and later twelve miles east of Eureka. William had cattle and also horses for farm work. He raised mules for sale. In about 1909, William had cataracts in his eyes which he had removed. Later he went completely blind. His daughter Ruth went with him around the fields and helped the three youngest sons to farm. She stated a day didn't go by he didn't say, "If only I could see". He pulled weeds from the feel of them in the potato patch. She was with him a lot of the time. During those years the family married and moved away leaving the two youngest sons William and Homer and a daughter Ruth at home. William Mann died July 20, 1920 of a heart attack. The family stayed on the farm until 1926, when Amanda, Homer and Ruth moved to the same farm they had lived on some twenty years, one mile north of Eureka. Amanda remained their with son Homer until 1929 when they moved to Eureka and later to California. Amanda died December 24, 1949. William and Amanda are buried at Piedmont, Kansas. (Above related by Ruth Mann Parten)
  HOLD FAMILY REUNION(1940) Sunday, July 21, a large group of relatives of Mrs. Amanda Mann gathered at the park in Eureka, with well filled baskets of good things with which to make a birthday feast in honor of a tiny girl babe of seventy-eight years ago this same day of this same month, also in troublesome war times, who first opened her brown eyes to the light of this world in the beautiful hills of Tennessee. The first-born of Lucy Ann and Nathaniel C. Taylor, humble bookmaker and small farmer. They were a peace-loving couple asking only to live and rear their family in peace, which in that troublesome time of 1862 was next to impossible. But our grandfather had pledged his protection to our grandmother (his young bride), a daughter of the local schoolmaster, Sandifur, by name. And as they looked in awe upon the tiny form of their first-born, they could not foresee what a wonderful soul this tiny body held. Neither the number of children who would be born to her and her faithful mate to love and call her "Blessed." Among these, she also reared a beloved brother, (now passed away), to manhood who also called her "Blessed". We gathered here in gladness and reunion, members of the Taylor and Mann relatives to pay honor to our mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, sister, and friend for her long life of unselfish service and devotion to us all. For such she is to these who were present Sunday to do her honor, as follows: Mrs. Francis Fee, Issac, Mullinax, Mrs. Ruby Bland, Louise, Wilbur and Joe, Mr. and Mrs. Willford Mullinax, of Piedmont; Robert Mann, H.E. Kerr and sons, Raymond and Joe Melvin, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Mann and sons, Elliott and Alferd, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Mann and sons, Edward and Lewis of Neal; Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Williams, Earl, Estel and Laura, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wygle and son, Eddie, Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Mann, Ruth, Francis, George and Christine, Mr. and Mrs. C.D. Caylor, Marion, Betty, and baby daughter, Miss Jean Blevins, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Culbertson, Neola, Mary and Dale, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dossey, all of Eureka. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Parten, Wayne, Norma Leah, Kenneth and Marvin, of Redwing, Kansas; Mr. and Mrs. Dick McCoy of Hutchinson, Kansas; Mr. and Mrs. Marion Johnson of Mound Ridge, Kansas; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Millborn of Wichita; and the honor guest, Mrs. Amanda Mann of Eureka, Kansas. We hope to meet again next year with many more present, and with America still at peace, and again with plenty. -- Buy one who was there. (E. Kerr)
  CELEBRATES 85TH BIRTHDAY (1947) Mrs. Amanda Mann, 1115 North Walnut, Eureka, whose 85th birthday occurred on July 21st., was honor guest on Sunday at a birthday dinner given by her daughter Mrs. H.E. Kerr at their home in Hamilton. A basket dinner was enjoyed by about fifty relatives. There was a lovely birthday cake with 85 candles and following the dinner a musical program was given by Eldon, Elliott and Clyde Mann. Mrs. Maggie Johnson from Billings, Mont., remained for a longer visit with her mother, Mrs. Mann, who is well and very active for one of her years. Other guests were Robert L. Mann, Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Mann, Elliott, Alfred and Myrna, Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Mann, Edward and Lewis, of Neal; Mr. and Mrs. John M. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Brownie Spencer, Ronald, Christine and Carrol, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Cargill and Phillip Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Louie E. Smith, Wilbur Dean and Sonia Kay of Blue Mound; Mrs. C.H. Williams, Mrs. Frank Wygle and son Eddie of Eureka; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Parten, Norma Lee, Kenneth and Marvin of Beaver, Kansas; Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Miller and son, Tom, Severy; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond S. Kerr, Donnie Lee and Linda Rae, Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. Kerr, Harry F. Kerr of Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. Fyron Forgery of Walsh, Colo.
  Mann, Amanda Agusta Taylor Eureka Herald, January 5, 1950
  Amanda Agusta Taylor was born July 21, 1862, near Tazwell, Claiborne County, Tennessee, the first child of Nathaniel C. and Lucy Ann Taylor, and departed this life December 24, 1949, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Susie L. and John M. Smith, near Blue Mound, Kansas, at the age of 87 years, five months and three days. Her going was very sudden after a few days of illness. She had been very frail for about two years with a heart ailment. She had resided continuously in Greenwood county for the past 73 years, with the exception of one year in Barber county. She came to Kansas with her parents and six brothers and sisters to a pre-emption claim four miles northeast of Piedmont in 1876 where she grew to womanhood on her parents farm. She was united in marriage to William Mann on September 16, 1880, in Eureka, Kansas. To this union were born fourteen children, three of whom were triplets born in 1890 who died in infancy. She was preceded in death by her husband July 11, 1920, and two sons, Walter E., May 25, 1945, and Robert L., October 27, 1948. She was converted and united with the Free Methodist church in 1897 and lived a consistent Christian throughout her long life. After the Free Methodist church in Eureka was discontinued she united with the local Church of the Nazarene of which she was a faithful and loyal member until her death. She had a great love and interest in her church work as long as she was strong enough to attend, and her heart was still with her congregation after she was unable to attend services. Her hands were never idle as long as she could use them and her mind was as clear as a bell to the last. Her prayers were always for the wayward and she enjoyed her children and friends to the fullest. We, her children, have had our wonderful mother so wise and good, many years and her influence for the good things in life will always be with us. Those who survive her are her children, Susie L. Smith, Blue Mound, Kansas; Maggie M. Johnson, Billings, Montana; Effie V. Kerr, Hilltop; Eliza M. Williams, Eureka; Avis V. Wygle, Eureka; Ira N. Mann, Santa Ana, California; Glenn W. Mann and Homer H. Mann, Silverado Canyon, California; Ruth I. Parten, Beaver, Kansas; forty-four grandchildren, forty-six great-grandchildren, two great great grandchildren, four adopted great grandchildren, five step-grandchildren, nine great step-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Francis Fee, and Mrs. Edna Doty, of Piedmont. Amanda also leaves a great number of nieces and nephews besides many friends who will sadly miss her from among them in the familiar paths she trod so many years here. Heaven is richer in our loss of her from our midst. Maggie and Ira were unable to attend their mother's funeral service. Funeral service was conducted by her pastor, Rev. W.B. McCollom, in the Church of the Nazarene, at Eureka, Kansas, and the body was laid to rest beside her husband in the Piedmont cemetery Thursday, December 29, 1949, under the direction of the E.S. Daniel Funeral Home, Blue Mound, Kansas. Pallbearers were six grandsons; Eddie M. Wygle, Harry F. Kerr, Wayne Parten, Kenneth Parten, Eldon E. Mann, Clyde E. Mann. Flower girls were 12 granddaughters: Thelma Smith Spencer; Ruber Kerr - Randall; Phyllis Smith White; Valta Smith Cargil; Lilly Dossey Caylor; Viola Willaims Preston; Estel Williams Stevens; Marion Caylor Howard; Dorothy Walker Kerr; Norma Parten Bright; marguerite Parten; Betty Caylor.
  Obituary-- Eureka Messenger, December 29, 1949 Amanda Mann, 87, Pioneer Greenwood County settler died Christmas Eve at the home of her eldest daughter Mrs. Susie Smith at Blue Mound, Kansas. Mrs. Mann came to Piedmont more than 70 years ago. Funeral services were held on Thursday at 1 o'clock at the Nazarene Church with burial in the Piedmont Cemetery.
  Card of Thanks-- Eureka Herald, January 5, 1980 (?)
  We wish to thank our neighbors, friends and relatives for the beautiful flowers and kind gestures shown us during our recent bereavement. The family of Amanda Mann.
  Father: Nathaniel Charles TAYLOR b: 11 NOV 1838 in Tazwell, Claibourne County, Tennessee Mother: Lucy Ann SANDEFUR b: 21 AUG 1840 in Washington County, Virginia
  Marriage 1 William E. MANN b: 31 DEC 1854 in Lucrette, Keokuk County, Iowa Married: 16 SEP 1880 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas 2 Marriage License: 7 SEP 1880 in Copy of License was recieved from Greenwood Historical Society. Event: Marriage Photo 1880 in Photo on file. Came from Carl Gwynn & Richard Smith 2001. Event: Family Photo 1949 in Amanda & Daughters. Came from Richard Smith. Event: Family Photo in Homer Howard & Ruth Mann & Elwin Smith. Came from Richard Smith. Event: Family Photo in William & Amanda Taylor Mann. Came from Richard Smith & Carl Gwynn. Event: Family Photo in William Mann and daughter Ruth on right. Came from Richard Smith. Event: Family Photo BEF. OCT 1907 in Complete family photo with all children except Ruth. Came from Richard Smith. Event: Family Photo 17 AUG 1941 in Avis, Susie, Ira, Amanda, Walter, Effie, ruth. Came from Richard Smith. Event: Newspaper Clipping in Representing Five Generations; Amanda and daughters. Came from Carl Gwynn. Marriage Ending Status: Death of one spouse Note: 1900 Census for Kansas, Greenwood County, Eureka Twp.; Pg. 35A William Mann 1854, 40 Amanda A. 1862, 37 Walter E. 1882, 18 Robert L. 1883, 16 Susan L. 1885, 14 Maggie M. 1887, 12 Effie V. 1891, 9 Eliza M. 1893, 6 Avis V. 1896, 4 Ira N. 1898, 1 Taylor, James M. 1880, 20
  On the same census their is also listed a Mann, A. Camof born in Missouri, January 1855. His parents were both born in Kentucky. His occupation is listed as a farmer with wife, Lucy M. and children, Lula, Olis, Lileu, Edna J.
  1920 Soundex for Greenwood County, Kansas in Eureka Twp., Ed. 31, Sheet 5
  Children Walter Edward MANN b: 23 APR 1882 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas Robert Louis MANN b: 26 OCT 1883 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas Jessie Willard MANN b: 7 MAR 1884 in Kansas Susan Lucetta MANN b: 29 AUG 1885 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas Maggie May MANN b: 1 DEC 1887 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas Charles Marion MANN b: 11 APR 1890 in Piedmont, Kansas Marvin MANN b: 11 APR 1890 in Piedmont, Kansas Mary MANN b: 11 APR 1890 in Piedmont, Kansas Effie Vera MANN b: 10 APR 1891 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas Eliza Melissa MANN b: 21 NOV 1893 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas Avis Viola MANN b: 27 MAY 1896 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas Ira Nathenial MANN b: 12 AUG 1898 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas Glenn William MANN b: 9 DEC 1901 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas Homer Howard MANN b: 20 JAN 1904 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas Ruth Ione MANN b: 17 OCT 1907 in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas Sources: Title: Obit and Death Notice on file Text: Eureka Herald; 1.5.1950 Title: Greenwood County Grooms Marriage Index Text: Mann,William Taylor, Amanda A. B 296 09-16-1880 http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/greenwoo/md/gwgr33.shtml
  Also have the marriage certificate on file. Note: Greenwood County Grooms Marriage Index, Mann,William Taylor, Amanda A. Pg. B 296 09-16-1880 http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/greenwoo/md/gwgr33.shtml. Also have the marriage certificate on file.


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