The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-29
FAMILY OF ELOPERS.
Story OF Seven Runaway Matches from
tho Grand father's Down.

tho Grandfathcr's Down.
Miss Stella Manning, aged sixteen,
cloped tho other day with her second
cousin, George Burns, aged twenty.
writes a Carlton (Pa) correspondent of
tho st. Louis Republic. They wcro
married tho same day in Warren. Tho
girl is the youngest daughter of Uri
Manning, wcll-known lumber dealer.
The young man is tho son of Benjamin
Burns, Il coal merchant, whose wife is
cousin of tho girls mother. There has
been no objection to the marriage of tho
pair, but they apparently preferred to
follow a long-ostablished family prccc-
dent and clopcd.
George Manning (aftcrward Colonel
Manning) was ono Of the first settlers
in this part of tho State. He came from
Stcuben County, N. Y, in 1900 young
man with bride, who was the daughter
of General Wheeler, of Steuben. Tho
Wheelers were an aristocratic family,
and young Manning worked for the
General. Miss Wheeler fell in love with
her fathers employe and cloped with
him. Manning grew rich in the lumber
business, and became Colonel in tho
war of 1872. In 1919 his daughter Ella
eloped with Silas Curtin, who was
sawyer in one of her fathers mills, and
whose sui. for his daughters hand Col
Manning had frowned on most emphati-
cally.
Three years later another daughter
cloped and married young doctor whose
practice was barely sufficient to pay for
his own living. He died only year ago,
however, worth a quarter of n million
dollars. He was DIR. Ambrose Sullivan,
the eminent specialist. His money was
left to two daughters. both of whom had
boon compelled to elopc or give up tho
men they had chosen to we'd in opposi-
ton to their fathers command.
Colonel Manning's son Jason at tho
age of twenty fell in love with the SOW
enteen-year-old daughter of 4 back
woodsman named Grazcly. 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 tho backwoods-
mans pretty daughter had gone with
him. Later on it was learned that tho
runaways had stopped at Harrisburg
whero they were married.
Colonel Manning had tho youthful
couple brought back, and when he died
Jason succeeded to tho management of
his fathers largo business enterprises.
There were born to him and his back
woods wife a son and daughter. In
1868 the son, Uri, was twenty-thrce years
old and wanted to marry Stella McCrea,
who was five years his junior His
father and Malcolm McCrea, the girls
father, were at odds over business mat
tiers, and both no 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.
Tho next year Urls sister Jennie,
being then twenty, and having also &C.
copied as her lover youth not in the
liking of eithor her father or her mother
eloped with him and married him. His
name was George Mccormick, and he is
now well-known and prosperous law
yer of Northern Pennsylvania. AS vet
there have boon no Opponents in this
branch Of old Colonel Manning's family,
but it was Uri Manning's daughter
Stella who eloped recently with her SEQ
ond cousin, George Burns. There arc
several collateral branches of the Man
ming family in which Opponents have
also occurred from time to timo during
tire past few years.