William Richard Mansker (1841 - 1919)

Born Jan 1841 in Arkansas

Ancestors

Husband of Mollie (Jones) Mansker — married 23 May 1880 in McLennan, Texas, United States

Died 27 Aug 1919 at age 78 in McLennan, Texas, United States

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Biography

Private William Mansker served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: March 5, 1861
Side: CSA
Regiment(s): 15th Texas Infantry

Birth

William was born Jan 1841 at Arkansas.^[1] The 1900 census incorrectly gives his birth date as Jan 1861. He was the son of Josiah Mansker and Sallie Hickey

Residences

• William was living with his parents at Randolph County, Arkansas during the 1850 census.^[2]
• William was living with his wife and children at McLennan County, Texas during the 1860^[3], 1870^[4], 1880^[5], 1900^[6], and 1910^[7] cenuses.

Marriage

1. Richard married Martha Ann "Mollie" Jones (previously married to William R. Taylor) 23 May 1880 at McLennan County, Texas.^[8]

Occupation

Death

William died 27 Aug 1919 at McLennan County, Texas.^[9][10]

Burial

Moody Cemetery ^[11]

Moody

McLennan County

Texas USA

Obituary

Notes

This William Richard Mansker has been incorrectly identified as William Albert Mansker, who was a train robber, and who was hanged for his crime in Newport, Arkansas on 6 Apr 1894. It was reported in the Daily Arkansas Gazette in an article dated 7 Apr 1894.^[12] that William Albert Mansker had married Mollie Jones. It must be obvious to any researcher that this William Richard Mansker lived beyond 1894 and died in 1919 in Texas. Not only is this William Richard Mansker mistakenly identified as William Albert Mansker in the article, but this revelation casts a pall on all the other wild claims made in the Daily Arkansas Gazette newspaper article about William Albert Mansker.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave (see below)
2. ↑ 1850; Census Place: Randolph, Arkansas; Roll: M432_30; Page: 13B; Image: 32 Ancestry Record 8054 #9842103
3. ↑ 1860; Census Place: Mclennan, Texas; Roll: M653_1300; Page: 425; Family History Library Film: 805300 Ancestry Record 7667 #35415005
4. ↑ 1870; Census Place: East of the Brazos River, McLennan, Texas; Roll: M593_1598; Page: 54A; Family History Library Film: 553097 Ancestry Record 7163 #10940213
5. ↑ 1880; Census Place: McLennan, Texas; Roll: 1318; Page: 248D; Enumeration District: 119 Ancestry Record 6742 #40579134
6. ↑ 1900; Census Place: Moody, McLennan, Texas; Page: 5; Enumeration District: 0089; FHL microfilm: 1241658 Ancestry Record 7602 #70834699
7. ↑ 1910; Census Place: Justice Precinct 6, McLennan, Texas; Roll: T624_1576; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 0107; FHL microfilm: 1375589 Ancestry Record 7884 #28382053
8. ↑ Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Ancestry Record 60183 #1673294
9. ↑ Texas Department of Health. Texas Death Indexes, 1903-2000. Austin, TX, USA: Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit. Ancestry Record 4876 #4470022
10. ↑ Find A Grave (see below)
11. ↑ Find A Grave (see below)
12. ↑ [www.newspapers.com/clip/30646269/daily_arkansas_gazette_litt
    le_rock/?xid=637 Daily Arkansas Gazette] (Little Rock, Arkansas) Saturday 07 April 1894, page 1. 1894-04-07

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXFJ-5F5 : 12 December 2017), W R Mansker in entry for Josiah Mansker, 1860.