Cherokee County, Texas

MANNING CEMETERY

Manning cemetery is located north of Central High Community, on a hill known as Graveyard Hill. All the graves have been destroyed but the following are known to be buried there.

Manning, Willoughby Lane, Sr. b. in Nash county, N.C. about 1803, d. ca 1858, son of Willoughby & Drucilla Manning

Manning, Rosanna, b. in Tenn. ca 1804 d. after 1880, dau of Richard & Mildred (Goofrum) Tidwell, wife of Willoughby L. Sr.

Manning, Richard b. in Maury county, Tenn. ca 1828, d. before  1860. Son of Willoughby Lane and Rosanna.

The above information was from Mrs. Mildred B. Smith of Ft. Worth, TX She also said that Mr. Mark Cross said there were other graves of a Lambert family here also.

Information from "Cemeteries of Southern Cherokee County, Texas" Compiled by Helen Wooddell Crawford, Second Edition, 2006, ISBN 978-1-931167-44-4.