Re: Stillman Mansur
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Stillman Mansur
michael wilbur 8/03/12
Birth:1820
Ludlow
Windsor County
Vermont, USA
Death:Nov., 1909
Vale
Malheur County
Oregon, USA
Stillman was the tenth of twelve children born to Stephen and Hannah Felt Mansur. Married Elizabeth Harl on Sep. 17, 1844. They had seven children (see Elizabeth's memorial).
From The House of Mansur, page 58:
"He was one of the first promoters and businessman of Chillicothe, Missouri, doing much business with the early settlers and some with the original Indians through government agent. Claimed to have put up the first merchant's sign and brought the first cook stove ever in that now prosperous city. He helped to survey and lay out the town and was a member of the board of trustees of the public schools there.
Was one of the gold seekers in 1849 to California, crossing the plains with ox carts and wagons. He was in San Francisco at the time of a great flood, when the water rose so high that the people dipped it with the hand from the second floor, and small houses were floating around. He came home by water and was on the mighty deep in time of a great storm, when captain and all lost control of the ship. Helpless they were and at the sole mercy of Nature and her course. Crossed the Panama Canal country by pack mules, then took the water again around by Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississippi to St. Louis, MO.
Made various other trips to California. He took his family in 1862 across the plains in an ox wagon. In 1866 came back to Missouri with horse teams and again in the fall of 1888 (after his wife's death) went by railroad to visit his only daughter, Mrs. Butler, in California. 1888 and 1897. Again in about nine years he visited (going by rail) his son Lewis in Nebraska and went on to California, going back to Missouri to his home with the younger son Edward."
On Nov. 1, 1907, he left Missouri again to spend the ensuring winter with his two sons, Algernon and Lewis near Elk City, Okla., expecting to return in the early spring, but Lewis had sold out and was preparing to move to Vale, Oregon. Stillman went with Lewis to Vale. There, in his 89th year, he purchased a homestead of 160 acres, but died Nov. 6, 1909, lacking two months and eleven days of being 90 years old.
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Parents:
Stephen Mansur (1773 - 1865)
Hannah Felt Mansur (1778 - 1842)
Spouse:
Elizabeth Harl Mansur (1821 - 1888)
Children:
Algernon Mansur (1855 - 1936)*
Lewis Alvah Mansur (1858 - 1924)*
Edward Everett Mansur (1860 - 1952)*
Siblings:
Stephen Mansur (1799 - 1863)*
Alvah Mansur (1801 - 1840)*
Charles Mansur (1805 - 1847)*
Moody Mansur (1808 - 1889)*
Lucy Andrews Mansur Carleton (1810 - 1858)*
Isaiah Mansur (1815 - 1893)*
Stillman Mansur (1820 - 1909)
Porter Mansur (1822 - 1888)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Pioneer Cemetery
Vale
Malheur County
Oregon, USA
Maintained by: Darrell and Joan Mansur
Originally Created by: Tony Larson
Record added: Oct 13, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 30568029
Stillman Mansur
Added by: Cheryl Hanson
Stillman Mansur
Cemetery Photo
Added by: Cheryl Hanson
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Rest in peace, Stillman!
- Darrell and Joan Mansur
Added: Nov. 26, 2013
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