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Austin Brooks Manion Full Name: Austin Brooks Manion Date of birth: January 14, 1818 Date of death: March 18, 1903 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District H 50 Apr 18, 1876 - Jan 14, 1879 15th (1) (2) (3)   Democrat Dexter / Cooke   Cooke (1) A.B. Manion, Cooke County. House Journal. (2) A.B. Manion, home address, Vilter; home county, Cooke. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005. (3) A.B. Manion, home county, Cooke. Texas House of Representatives: a Pictorial Roster 1846-1992, 1992.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Resolutions and Journal entries 28th Legislature, R.S., 3/20/1903, p. 881. Resolutions - Memorial. Biographical Sketches Biographical sketch of Col. James G. Bourland, general notes, noted events in his life. Relatives: Col. James G. Bourland, father-in-law; Col. A.B. Manion, son-in-law. Ancestors of Col. James G. Bourland, 2009. Mentioned in biographical sketch of John G. Young, pp. 937-938. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families, 1889. Austin Brooks Manion, birth date 1/14/1818 in Kentucky; death date 3/18/1903, Dexter, Cooke County, Texas; photo, biographical sketch, and obituary in Gainesville Daily Register, 3/18/1903; interment in Orlena Cemetery, Dexter, Cooke County, with father-in-law, James G. Bourland. Find a Grave. Mentioned in biographical sketch of Captain John G. Young (married Georgie A. Manion, A.B. Manion's daughter), volume IV, p. 1669. A History of Texas and Texans, 1914. Biographical sketch, p. 120. Native of Kentucky; "Resides with his family upon his farm in Cooke county, near the town of Dexter." Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878, 1876. Other Resources Several references to Austin Brooks Manion, born 1818 Allen County, Kentucky; died 1903 Dexter, Texas; marriage 1 to Hannah Ann Bourland, daughter of Col. James G. Bourland (Senator in 1st-2nd Legislatures), 1841. Notes an obituary of A.B. Manion dated March 19, 1903. Book available at Texas State Library & Archives, 929.2 B667a, Genealogy Collection. Bourland in North Texas and Indian Territory During the Civil War: Fort Cobb, Fort Arbuckle & the Wichita Mountains, 2006. Patricia Adkins-Rochette, author of Bourland in North Texas and Indian Territory During the Civil War: Fort Cobb, Fort Arbuckle & the Wichita Mountains (2006) response to genealogist's query, "Washington-Howard Cem, Cooke-Grayson County line," 6/23/2009, identifies A.B. Manion as Ambrose Brooks Manion: "Ambrose Brooks Manion's (1818-1903) 1st marriage was to Col James Bourland's oldest dau Hannah Ann 'Ann' (1824-1859), who died after 9 ch. He married three more times, his 2d and 3d wife died young." 3rd wife Esther Howard, 2/18/1869. The Civil War Message Board Portal, 2003. Ancestral File - Austin Brooks Manion, birth date 1/14/1818 in Kentucky; death date 3/12/1903 in Cooke County, Texas; spouse: Esther Howard, married 2/18/1869 in Dexter, Cooke, Texas. International Genealogical Index - North America - Austin B. Manion, birth date 1/14/1818 in Allen, Kentucky; death date 3/18/1903; father Ambrose Manion, mother Pheriba Austin. FamilySearch. Census of 1870 - Austin B. Manion, Gainesville, Cooke County, age 52, born in Kentucky, farmer, wife Hester (age 34, born in Illinois), daughters Georgian (19) and Francis W. (17). Census of 1880 - A.B. Manion, Cooke County, age 62, born in Kentucky, wife Sarah (45), stepc. Frank (20) and Sallie (18). Census of 1900 - Austin B. Manion, Cooke County, age 82, born January 1818 in Kentucky, farmer. FamilySearch. 1870 1880 1900 Census of 1860 - A.B. Manion, Gainesville, Cooke County, age 42, born in Kentucky, farmer, daughters Ellen V. (19), son George A. (10, "M") [sic - possibly daughter Georgian], daughter Francis W. (7). HeritageQuest Online. Photographs Photograph. Austin B. Manion, 15th Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 15th session composite photo of House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 15th R.S. - 1876 Agriculture and Stock Raising   Indian Affairs   Roads, Bridges and Ferries

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