Person:Lydia Phillips (17)

Excerpt from Carrie Manning's Family Essay dated march 5th 1940 "My mother Lydia must inherited some of her mother's courage and business ability. She used to tell an amazing story of her girlhood. One of the men hired to work on the farm considered her very 'contrary' and said 'If you fell in the Brook, Lydia, I should look for you upstream.' whereupon she replies 'I shouldn't be there, I should go the other way." But her mother certainly commanded the respect of her children who thought a real honor to be able to buy for their mother material for a dress, through their activities of harvesting and selling chestnuts, when they were just little girls. They attended district school and my mother's great embarrassment was that she had two middle names, and a boy she didn't like also had two middle names. When on the first day of school each child rose and gave the teacher his or her name for enrollment, she was always chagrined to have to say, 'Lydia Freelove Stone Phillips, after this lad said: John Lorenzo Shepardson Moore. (the gold locket in the plaid jewel box contains the pictures of these four sisters who I am told were called the "pretty Phillips girls'.) "

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1.   Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T623)
   [1].

   Orange Township, Franklin County, Massachusetts, 18 Jun 1900, 22 [street name off edge], Dwelling 413, Family 490
   Manning, Lidia F (head), age 59/Nov 1841, Wd, kids=2/1, MA/MA/MA, --
   Manning, Alvoid O (boarder), age 50/Sep 1849, Single, MA/MA/MA, House Painter
   [Note: her brother in law Osborn Alvord Manning.]

2. ↑ Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T624)
   [2].

   Town of Orange, Franklin county, Massachusetts, 7 May 1910, 22 Grove Street, Dwelling 298, Family 411
   Manning, Lydia F S (head), age 64 (Wd), MA/MA/MA, Own Income
   Manning, Alvoid O (brother), age 61 (Wd), MA/MA/MA, Painter, House

3. ↑ Find A Grave: Central Cemetery, Orange, Mass., in Find A Grave
   Lydia F.S. Phillips Manning.

   LLOYD W. MANNING
   1837-1883.
   HIS WIFE
   LYDIA F. S. PHILLIPS
   1840-1916.

4. ↑ Warwick (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Vital records, 1739-1900
   Vol. 2, p. 186.

   Family of
   Phillips Timothy F
   And
   Thammason His Wife
   ...
   Lydia Freelove born Nov 27th 1840.

5.   Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432)
   line 32.
6.   Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1855 Massachusetts State Census
   left side, line 20.
7.   Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M693)
   line 8.
8.   Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1865 Massachusetts State Census
   left side, line 7.
9.   Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M593)
   line 24.
10.   Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T9)
    line 9.
11. ↑ Massachusetts, United States. State Vital Records 1841-1920
    [3].

    Standard Certificate of Death
    Place of Death: Orange (22 Grove St.)
    Name: Ludia [sic] Freelove S. Manning
    Maiden name/Husband: Phillips / Lloyd W Manning
    Residence: Oran ge #22 Grove St.
    Sex: F. Color: W.; Condition: Widow
    Date of Birth: November 27, 1840
    Age: 75 y. 11 m. 22 d.
    Occupation: At home
    Place of Birth: Royalston
    Father: Francis Phillips
    Birthplace: Unknown
    Mother: Thommeson Ellis
    Birthplace: Warwick
    Informant: Mrs Carrie T. Dexter/ Fitchburg
    Date of Death: November 18, 1916
    Cause: Carcinoma of Stomach
    Place of Burial: Orange Central Cem.; Date of Burial: NOv 21, 1916

12.   I suspect that Lloyd and Lydia were married in Templeton. As Luke, Lloyd's father was deeply religious as Carrie his daughter states in her essay that he was a member of the congregational church and that Lloyd was one of the the only child of Luke to continue on his religious faith.