The Mannan Family

of Morgan County, Indiana Genealogy

(and other branches of my family tree)

Mannan Bayse Wells Chew Littell Taylor Kemp Robson Pemberton Gray Lester Gregg Benham Griffith Stiles Watts Beard Wallis Lee Constable Allerton Davis Brewster Mon Smythe Wentworth Willoughby Dawson Tracy Springer Heritage Siddons Tilford Van Buskirk Norris Pettyjohn Ladner White Nicholson Mynes

Hi! My name is Jim Mannan and I live in Indianapolis, Indiana. Late last year I had some free time so I decided to get my feet wet on a project I've been wanting to undertake for some time--researching our family genealogy. My chief aim here is to provide information for any cousins we might have out there who are doing likewise.

HELP! If you see any mistakes or something you know is wrong here would you be kind enough to let me know? I make no claims of infallability. Thanks!

If you have more or new information not noted here on these families and persons I'd love to know about them. Contact me at finvarra@hotmail.com or jimmannan@geocities.com.

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Jim's Genealogy Bookmarks

Ancestor (Pedigree) Charts for James Donald Mannan
(My ancestor chart is also the chart for my brother, Patrick Steven Mannan.)

Note: I've numbered these charts in such a way that I can add others in later. As of 1/27/97 there are a total of 17 charts.

Surnames I am researching and related internet links:

Mannan
Location of the Mannan Cemetery on the U.S. Geological Survey
Hammel Family Home Page (Includes information on the Carter Family of Morgan County, IN. line, which includes several Mannan cousins.)
Bayse
Wells
Chew
Littell
Two of Indiana's Pioneer preachers were brothers of my direct ancestor, Abraham Littell (my great x 4 grandfather). This link is to an article about these two frontier preachers:
Absalom (III) and John T. Littell
Taylor
Kemp
The Kemp Family Association Home Page
Robson (our great grandmother Chew, maiden name Robson, is our latest immigrant ancestor, having arrived in America from Newcastle-on-Tyne, England in the mid 19th c.).
Pemberton
Gray
Lester
Gregg
Benham
Griffith
Stiles
Watts
Beard
Wallis
Lee
Constable
Allerton
Davis
Brewster
Mon
Smythe
Wentworth
Willoughby
Dawson
Tracy
Springer
Heritage
Siddons
Tilford
Van Buskirk
Norris
Pettyjohn
Ladner
White
Nicholson

Some Illustrious Ancestors

William Brewster (governor of the Mayflower Colony)
Isaac Allerton (original Mayflower pilgrim)
Richard Lee I (common ancestor to the Lees of Virginia)
James Taylor I (common ancestor to James Madison, Zachary Taylor, and myself!)

Some Illustrious Relatives

President James Madison
President Zachary Taylor
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Richard Henry Lee (signer of the Declaration of Independence, among a great many other things)
General Robert E. Lee
President Harry S. Truman

Some Well Known Possible Relatives

Israel Pemberton
General John C. Pemberton

Links I'm Actively Trying to Confirm

I've been able to partially confirm a number of the links in our genealogy through theinternet and other sources. Below are a few links I've thusfar been unable to make or, in some cases, completely confirm.

Parentage of William Pemberton

William Pemberton (died bef. 1826?) is my great great great grandfather. His daughter, my great great grandmother Sarah J. Pemberton, was born in 1822. Sarah's mother, Margaret Gregg Pemberton, remarried Grafton Baker Whitaker (I assume William died). According to notes left behind by my Grandmother Nellie Mannan, William Pemberton is supposed to be a brother of John Clifford Pemberton, a General of the Confederate Army (Pemberton was the Confedrate Commander at Vicksburg). Unfortunately, a gedcom file I have obtained of Pemberton's brothers and sisters shows no William, though there seems to be some confusion as to the date of the father's marriage. A biography of General Pemberton says that his father married the General's mother, Rebecca Clifford, before he was twenty--this would have been around 1803. This would have left a 10 year period between the marriage and the birth of their first son, Israel (General Pemberton was the second born). The gedcom file I have indicates that the marriage was in 1812, much closer to the birth of Israel Pemberton (this would make much more sense, since from 1812 to 1835 Rebecca Clifford Pemberton was having children at the rate on one every one or two years) I am trying to find out if John Pemberton II, the father of the General, may possibly have had an earlier marriage and children. The Pemberton family from which General John C. Pemberton came was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family with roots in the formation of Pennsylvania.

A Brief History of the Mannan Family in Morgan
and Owen Counties, Indiana
Entry and Settlement of the Wells Family in
Greene County, Indiana an Account by Sarah Frances Wells

Some Indiana related genealogy links:

Indiana Genealogy Home Page
Greene County, Indiana Home Page
Marion County, Indiana Home Page
Morgan County Indiana Home Page
Owen County Indiana Home Page