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Obit For William Darius Manley
Headline The Mayor Dead
Text 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 tied before him. Friday night about 10 o'clock he was sitting on his porch enjoying the fresh air, when the fatal stoke fell. Although a doctor was immediately summoned, it was too late.

W. D. Manley was born in Medline Co., O., June 22, 1838, but his parents moved to Fulton Co., Ind., two years later, and in 1852 to Richland Co., Wis. In 1858 he stared 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 returned 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.
Newspaper or Funeral Home Cassville Republican
Date August 12, 1897, Thursday
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Resource State Historical Society of MO Microfilm
Submitted by Donna Cooper