Ellen Cougle Manifold
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Husband: Joseph Manifold (????-????)
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Daughter: Lydia Manifold Collins (1771-1855)
Daughter: Mary Manifold Wallace (????-????)
From the 1936 Collins Family Tree.
Ellen Cougle Manifold was a Quakeress while the other members of the family were Presbyterians. "She was a most kind and hospitable old lady, and highly esteemed in the neighborhood. She made her visits on foot and knitted as she walked along the road." - Purdy. It is said that when her daughter Lydia and her family moved to Xenia in covered wagons, she went part way with them, but walked the eighteen miles "because she pitied the poor horses." She believed that she could live one whole hour without sin, and if one hour, why not a day, and if a day, why not every day." Her husband, Joseph, was a private in Captain Moffit's Company in the Revolutionary War.
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