| Cassville Republican, Barry Co., MO |
| August 12, 1897, Thursday |
| Ash News: Died August 6, Mrs. Sarah Miller, of consumption. She leaves five children and a host of friends to mourn her loss. She professed faith in Christ some years ago and united with the Christian Church where she lived an exemplified Christian until her death. Services were conducted by Eld. McCutchens, after which she was laid to rest in the Riddle Cemetery. *** Ash News: A sensation was created at the thresher of Ruddle & Co., by A. S. Stout calling to time a party who was reported to have talked ugly about a member of Mr. Stout's family. The constable tried to make Mr. Stout behave but he broke loose and knocked down his man. Others talking up the matter, Stout ran for his Winchester, which he had placed in a convenient corner of the fence, and threatened to pump a few balls into them if they didn't leave him alone. The constable drew his navy on Stout but got the same talk and withdrew from the field while Stout went off with the blue ribbon. *** The Mayor Dead: Cassville was considerably startled Saturday morning to hear that the Mayor W. D. Manley, had died, very suddenly at 10 o'clock the night before of heart failure after an illness of twenty minutes. The news was the more exciting because the day before he had been apparently in his usual health and had presided over a case tried before him. Friday night about 10 o'clock, he was sitting on his porch enjoying the fresh air, when the fatal stroke fell. Although a doctor was immediately summoned, it was too late. W. D. Manley was born in Medline Co., OH., June 22, 1838, but his parents moved to Fulton Co., Ind. two years later, and in 1852 to Richland Co., Wis. In 1858 he started for Texas and on his was stopped a few months in Hickory Co., MO, thence going to Denton, Tex. The following year he went to Ft. Smith, Ark., thence to where Hackett, Arkansas now is, where he married Miss Elizabeth Bender. In June 1862 he came to Cassville, but later went to Wisconsin, and until his return to Cassville in 1867, was in Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas. In 1870, Squire Manly was elected justice of the peace and was serving his fifth term at the time of his decease. In 1894 he was elected mayor and was re-elected June 19, last to fill vacancy. In 1872 he professed religion at Horner Church and was one of the charter members of the First Baptist Church of Cassville upon its organization. The remains were interred with Masonic honors in Horner Cemetery, Saturday, by the side of his first and second wives and children. He was the father of fourteen children, nine of who survive him. Quite recently he was re-married. |
| Resource: State Historical Society of MO Microfilm |
| Submitted by: Donna Cooper |
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