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  1. Walter Edward Manis: Birth: 6 DEC 1890 in Black Oak, Craighead County, Arkansas. Death: 3 JAN 1967 in Jonesboro, Craighead, Arkansas


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a. Note:   William B. Manis married Willie Anna Bearham on 18 July 1889. They had one son, Walter Edward Manis, born on 6 December 1890. Sometime before 26 feb 1893, Anna died of unknown causes. Walter Manis was approximately 2 years old when she died. On 26 February, William B. married Ellen Sanders whose husband had apparently recently died. At the time she had an infant son, Clyde, who was also two years old. On 13 March 1893, 15 days after he married Ellen Sanders, William B. Manis died of unknown causes. The certificate of Marriage was recorded on the 20th of March, 1893, a week after William B. had died. The official who solemnized the Rite and published the Bans of Matrimony between William B. and Ellen was J. H.
 Purcell. On 18 June 1893, approximately four months after William's death, Ellen married J. H. Purcell. Ellen was 20. J. H. Purcell was 39 years old. Family legend has it that William's brother Charlie Mack was so appalled that Ellen had
 William's son, Walter, that he kidnapped him at night and took him to his sister, Rosetta Speaks, to raise. Walter can be found in the 1900 census for Dunklin county, Missouri living with William M. and Rosetta Speaks as a border. Family
 legend further has it that Rosetta raised both Walter Manis and Clyde Sanders (Ellen's son). I was told by my grandfather that Clyde was his "brother". They were always extremely close throughout their lives. Both lived on Cane Island in
 their teenage years. Both were married there at approximately the same time-Walter to Julia Belle Crocker and after her death to Lena Mae Eaves Fleet. Clyde to Virgie Meachum. Both worked for the Phillip petroleum company, and both were
 life long residents of Lake City, Arkansas. They remained very close throughout their adult lives.


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