Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-11-06
FAMiLY OF ELOPERS

| Story Of Seven Runaway Matches from
the Grandfather's Down.
Miss Stella Manning, aged sixteen
eloped the other day with her second
cousin, George Burns, aged twenty
writes Carlton (Pa.j correspondent Of
the St. Louis Republic. They were
married the same day in Warren. The
girl is the youngest daughter OF Uri
Manning, a well-known lumber dealer.
The young man is the son of Bcnjlmin
Burns, coal merchant, whose wife is a
cousin of the girls mother. There has
been no objection to the marriage of the
pair, but they apparently preferred to
follow long-establfshed family prece-
dent ard eloped.
George Manning (afterward Colonc,!
Manning) was one of the first settler,
in this part of the State He cane from
Steuben County, n. Y, in IS % a young
man with bride, who was the daughter
of General Wheeler, of Stauben. The
Wheelers were an aristocratic family.
and young Manning worked for the
General. Miss Wheeler fell in love with
her fathers employee and elopcd with
him. Manning grow rich in the lumber
business, and became Colonel in the
war of 1912. In 1919 his daughter Ella
elOped with SilaS Curtin, who was a
sawyer in one of her fathers mills, and
whose suis for his daughters hand Col
Manning had frowned on most emphati-
cally.
Three years later another daugh ter
eloped and married young doctor whose
practice was barely sufficient to pay for
his own living. He died only year ago
however, worth quarter of a million
dollars. He was DR.. Ambrose Sullivan,
the eminent specialist. His money way
left to two daughters, both of whom hid
been compelled to elope or give up the
men they had chosen to wed in oH'posi-
ton to their fathers command.
Colonel Manning's son Jason at the
age of twenty fell in love with the sew
enteen-year-old daughter Of back
woodsman named Grazely, Tho Colonel
thought he would break up that attach
ment by sending his son to Philadelphia
to school. The son went, but two DAYS
later it was learned that the backwoods-
mans pretty daughter had gone wish
him. Later on it was learned that the
runaways had stopped at Harrisburg
where they were married
Colonel Manning had the youthful
couple brought back, and when he died
Jason succeeded to the management of
his fathers large business enterprises.
There were born to him and his back
woods wife son and a daughter In
1865 the son, Uri, was twcnty-three years
old and wanted to marry Stella McCrea,
who was five years his junior. His
father and Malcolm McCrea, the girls
father, we're at odds over business INIT
teTs, and both he and McCrea were vio-
lently opposed to any union of the fami-
lies. Young Uri Manning, having pa
rental precedent, as his father had had
before him, simply settled all dispute
in the matter by running away with
Miss McCrea and marrying her.
The next year Urls sister Jennie,
being then twenty, and having also &C
cepted as her lover youth not in the
liking of either her father or her mother
eloped with him and married him. His
name was George Mccormick, and he is
ROW a well-known and prosperous law
yer of Northern Pennsylvania. AS yet
there have been no Opponents in this
branch of old Colonel Manning's family,
but it was Uri Mannings daughter
Stella who eloped recently with her Sec
ond cousin, George Burns. There are
several collateral branches of the Man
ming family in which Opponents lave
also occurred from time to time during
the past few years.