Bond County IL Archives Obituaries.....Manning, Jospeh November 10, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Thomilson eunicepeabody@aol.com January 4, 2012, 8:08 pm Oncosso, Michigand Weekly Press Joseph Manning died November 10, 1886 at his residence, aged 67 years, 3 months and 22 days. He was born in Lyndeborough, N.H., July 19, 1818. He went to the then "far west", Greenville, Illinois at the age 21 years. On February 8, 1842 he married he married Laura Amanda Orinsby, in the city of Greenville, and commenced housekeeping the next day in the villiage, there thier son Joseph Warren Manning was born, December 20 of the same year. In April 1844 he took his family to his native state where he remainded through the summer, recovering his health. In October he returned to Illinois, rented a fram near Greenville until March 1846 they started for Michigan, where a brother and sister of Mrs. Manning had gone about a year previous. The bought a farm of sixty acres in Stockbridge, Ingram County, Where they set up houskeeping in a little log house. In October 1862 desiring to give his his children good schooling, Mr. Manning rented a farm and moved to corunna, where he went inot he carriage business. He sold out his bisiness and his family that wintered on a farm with his son, Warren, near Beenighton Township. In February 1870 he bought a carriage stand in Owosso, on Exchange Street West, hwere he carried on a modest business. In 1880 he replaced the wooden building with a fine brick, which he owned up to his death. He leaves a wife and three children: J. W. of Chesaning, Herbert Manning and Clara, wife of John V. Miller. Also a brother and two sisters. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/bond/obits/m/manning526gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb