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Note: N24 Obits published in two Cincinnati newspapers stated she was 109 years old at her death; her burial record agrees, giving her birth date as 20 Jan 1855, and so does a biographical sketch, "A Kentucky Gentlewoman," by C. L. Hamond that appears in <I>Fannie Manser, Artist</i> (1968), a scrapbook compiled by T. A. Langstroth, held by the Cincinnati public library. The burial record and Hamond state that her parents were Capt. Edward Manser and Frances Mary Caffee.* But Edward and Frances were (according to their birth dates in their burial records and Census records) too young to have had a child in 1855: Edward would have been 14, Frances 7. So either Fannie was born in 1855 and was not their biological child, or she was born later and was. But to have been Edward's daughter she would have had to have been conceived before Feb 1872, and most of the alternative birth dates for her (see below) are later than that.
*Other sources that state Fannie was their daughter: <I>DAR Lineage Book,</i> vol 35, 34001-35000, 1901 (Washington, D.C., 1912), p 221, which spells the surname Mauser; <I>Woman's Who's Who</i> (1914), entry for Frances Caffee Manser; and Morris B. Reber, <I>Genealogy of the Reber Family: Descended from Johan Bernhard Reber, 1738</i> (Reading, Pa., 1901), which gives her birth date as 20 Jan 1874 (two years after Capt. Edward Manser's death).
The fact that she doesn't appear in the household of Capt. Edward Manser, 29, occ: coal dealer, wife Fanny (Frances), 25, and their son Edward Jr., 2, in the 1870 Census, Covington, Ky. (where the name is indexed as Mauser), suggests she was not the biological child of Edward and Frances. Perhaps after the deaths of her husband and son in 1872, the bereaved Frances Caffee Manser adopted a girl who became Fannie Ethel Manser?
1880 Census, Covington: F. E. [Fannie Ethel] Manser, 9 (so b 1871, not 1855 or 1874), living on Greenup Street with F. M. [Frances Mary] Manser, 28, F. M.'s brother Albert Caffee, their mother Nancy Reber Caffee, their sister Ida and Ida's husband J. M. Staughton and two Staughton kids.
1900 Census, 20 Tenth St., Covington: Fannie Manser, 21, b Mar 1879 in Ky., occ: schoolteacher, living with Laura Manser, 40, b Jan 1860 in Ky., widowed. Can't find Laura Manser in any other records. Laura = Frances Caffee Manser, birth date 12 yrs off?
1910 Census, 25 Ninth St, Covington: Fanny Manser (indexed as Mauser), 32 (so b 1877), b Ky, parents b Ohio; single; occ: teacher at home, living with mother Frances Manser, 60, listed as having borne two children, one living.
1920 Census, St. Louis, Mo.: Fannie Lawrence, 45 (so b 1874), living with husband Samuel Lawrence, 56, occ: advertising salesman, and her mother Frances C. Manser, 70.
1930 Census, 202 Chelsea Place, Sayler Park, Cincinnati: Fannie Lawrence, 51, (so b 1878), living alone, no occ.
1940 Census, same address, 64 (so b 1876), no occ, living with lodger Joseph Robert Macke, 45, single, construction superintendent.
Ohio Death Index gives her age as 100, so b 1864.
Fannie Manser Lawrence studied art at Chautauqua, New York, and at the Cincinnati Art Academy and painted designs for the Morton Wallpaper Co. in Cincinnati. Her mother, also an artist, carved a wooden railing for Trinity Episcopal Church in Covington, and Fannie carved a panel in memory of her mother for the church. At age 100 Fannie was teaching china painting, French, and Latin in her Sayler Park home.-Hamond bio.
In 1913 she was president of the Cosmopolitan Culture Club of Newport, Ky.
Engagement announcement, 30 Nov 1918 issue of The Fourth Estate: A [Weekly] Newspaper for the Makers of Newspapers...:
"The engagement of Miss Fannie E. Manser, Covington, Ky., newspaper woman and artist, and Samuel Grayson Lawrence, Springfield (Ohio) News telegraph editor, formerly on the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune staff, has been announced. The engagement is the culmination of a romance started when Mr. Lawrence was city editor of the Covington Daily Messenger, and Miss Manser was society editor of the paper. The wedding will take place on November 20 in Covington."
Wedding announcement, 4 Jan 1919 issue of the Fourth Estate:
"Miss Fannie Ethel Manser of Covington, Ky., and Samuel Grayson Lawrence, telegraph editor of the Mansfield [Springfield?] News, have been married. Mr. Lawrence met his bride when she was society editor and he city editor of a Kentucky paper. He was at one time associated with the Cincinnati (Ohio) Commercial Tribune."
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