Posted By:	Lena Auxier
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	Subject:	Mann/Manns family to be honored
	Post Date:	June 23, 2009 at 09:24:39
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/ky/messages/39474.html
	Forum:	Kentucky Genealogy Forum
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Magoffin County is celebrating its 31st county festival this year. Since 1979 the Magoffin County Historical Society located in Salyersville, KY has sponsored the family-oriented event which spotlights a different family surname each year complete with parades, pageants, contests, entertainment, and family history. This year we've chosen “The Manns Clan” and our group is gathering family information on the Mann family ancestors who settled in eastern Kentucky. Magoffin County Founders Days are held the first week of September just before Labor Day. The earliest members of the Mann family to settle in our area appear to be two brothers and a sister, all born in the late 1770’s in Virginia. Our group has found that most people who have Mann ancestry descend from Samuel Mann whose children were 1.) William m. Rhoda Howard; 2.) Sally m. Reuben Arnett; 3.) John m. Lucinda Craft; 4.) Thomas m. Eliza Craft; and 5.) Mary. No descendants of Samuel’s brother William Mann are presently known. Samuel’s sister Nancy Mann married Jeremiah Patrick and had at least three children, Jeremiah Jr., Delila and James. Another line of ancestry being compiled leads to Charles Mann b. 1796 and Lucinda Whitaker Giles whose son Joel Richard Mann was born in 1831. Joel was first married to Martha Ratliff and had a daughter Patty Mann who married Henry Green Gardner. Children of Joel’s second marriage to Nancy Caroline Baker were Minnie B. Mann and Henry Camille Mann. Minnie married Tone Gardner and Henry married Florence Gardner and Susan Hyte. The historical society holds meetings each month on the third Sunday at 2 p.m. at the location of their historical library at 191 South Church Street in Salyersville. Everyone is welcome to attend. The group may also be contacted by mail at Box 222, Salyersville, KY 41465 or email Magoffin@foothills.net.