There were lots of Maningers in Harper County in the latter years of the 1890s. The family tree was sprouting branches.
300 – A Move Into Town
Maninger
299 – Tornado and a Ransom Note
Maningers lived in Harper County in the 1890s. They spent their days cooking, farming, raising children, and doing countless other everyday chores. Most other people did too.
Now and then in the history of everyday lives, extraordinary events occur.
Continue reading298 – Priscilla Weyeneth
Recall that Benedict Weyeneth was the first elder of the Apostolic Christian Church in America. He and his wife and family settled in Roanoke, Woodford County, Illinois around 1857.
Our families descend from Benedict’s parents through Benedict’s brother Jacob Weyeneth.
Continue reading297 – We’re in Harper
The Maningers arrived in Kansas in January 1885. They brought with them furniture and beds, kitchen, tools, farm implements, and livestock. Awaiting them was a quarter-section farm with a house a mile south of Harper.
296 – To Kansas By Rail
The Maningers were moving to Kansas. This wasn’t a case of poor pioneers in a covered wagon with no money and no belongings.
295 – Kansas Fever
The 1880s dawned clear and bright for Val and Lena Maninger. Things seemed to be going their way. But there was a fever in the air. Kansas fever.
294 – Waldo 1870s
Val and Lena Maninger were settled in. They owned a boot and shoe business in Gridley. They had a growing family.
293 – Apostolic Christian Church
People in Slabtown and Gridley and Tazewell were leaving their Amish and Mennonite churches to follow a “New Amish” way, one that was more conservative, yet more dynamic and emotional.
These new congregations met in houses and barns until they could build a church.
Val and Lena Maninger would convert too.
Continue reading292 – Gridley 1860s
By late 1864, Val was back in Woodford County, home from the war. But Val didn’t stay in Farnisville and Woodford County. Why?
291 – After the Battle
Val Maninger lay wounded in a cornfield by Whitney’s Lane. Around him lay the dead and wounded of Company H.
On the morning of May 19th, 1862, the 12th Texas Cavalry had annihilated Company H of the 17th Missouri Infantry in a rural lane near Searcy, Arkansas.
Continue reading
Family Nibbles 