John Edward Manry was the third child born to Edward and Elizabeth. He was born in Madison County, Georgia in August 1825 and moved from Madison County, Georgia to McMinn County, Tennessee with his parents in 1829.
John moved his family from McMinn County, Tennessee about 1856 to Wright County, Missouri. He entered 240 acres in 1857 in Wright County and was living near Hartville, Wright County, Missouri in August 1860 near his older brother William Foster
Manary.
John first married Lucy Ann Floyd in McMinn County, Tennessee, daughter of Johnatan and Zine Floyd, on 30 October 1845 in McMinn County, Tennessee. They had seven children. Lucy Ann died 9 August 1875 in Agnos, Fulton County, Arkansas. He
second married Mararget McGuire in Agnos, Fulton County, Arkansas in 1876 and she died in May 1880 in Agnos, Fulton County, Arkansas. They had no children. He third married Pherby Ann Elizabeth Pulley, daughter of Jesse Pery Pulley and Mary
Susan Rasco, in Fulton County, Arkansas in June 1880. They had four children. Pherby Ann Elizabeth died 8 December 1884 in Agnos, Fulton County, Arkansas. His fourth marriage was to Ida L. Elliott Dungy, daughter of David M. and Sarah Ann
Elliott and widow of James Dungy, in Fulton County, Arkansas in 1886. They had one child, Samuel Elmer Manry. Ida L.Elliott Dungy Manry Birch died 28 September 1931.
John and his brother Richard served in the Union and the Confederate Army.
John and his oldest son Thomas enlisted 20 August 1863 and his brother Richard had enlisted on 31 July 1863 in Hartsville, Missouri in the Union Army and all three were assigned to Company "K", 11th Missouri Regiment Cavalry Volunteers. They
were mustered on 8 September 1863 at Benton Barracks in Missouri.
On 18 October 1863, while at Benton Barracks, Richard deserted and flee to Fulton County, Arkansas.
John and his son Thomas were stationed at Rolla, Philips County, Missouri. John had been ordered to Springfield, Missouri and upon his return he learned that his son had died. Thomas was ill and died in the post hospital on 22 November 1863.
Before John had returned from Springfield it is believed that Terrill Young carried Thomas body back to Wight County, Missouri to be buried. Terrell Young was married to John's sister. Soon after the death of his son, John's Company was enroute
from Rolla, Missouri to Batesville, Arkansas and John decided to quit and go home. He never returned to his Company and was declared a desertor from the Union Army on 10 December 1863.
John, his son Thomas and brother Richard all enlisted, in the Union Army under the surname of Mauery and his son under the given name of Ahas.
John enlisted in the Confederate Army on 28 January 1864 in Wright County, Missouri with Fristoe's Regiment, Missouri Cavalry, Company C. His brother Richard had enlisted in the same Regiment and Company earlier in January 1864 in Fulton
County, Arkansas. Their Regiment surrendered 11 May 1865 and John and his brother Richard were POW'S at Jacksonport, Arkansas in Jackson County, and they was paroled 5 June 1865. John's military records describe him as having blue eyes, dark
hair, dark complexion, 5 feet 7 inches.
After the Civil War John returned home and in 1873 his brother Richard and his family moved to Texas. Richard died in Denton County, Texas on 12 June 1890.
John moved to Agnos, Fulton County, Arkansas, where his father, Edward and his son Edward Foster Manry were living and where he purchased land near Agnos and begin farming. John is listed on the 1867 Fulton County, Arkansas tax records. John
returned to Wright County, Missouri 20 October 1877 and sold his land near Big Piney Forest. He is listed on the 1880 census in Fulton County, Arkansas as a widower. John returned to Wright County Missouri in 1890 to visit his sister Elizabeth.
He is listed in the Pleasant Ridge Twp, Fulton County, Arkansas Record of Voters in 1893. He is listed in the Fulton County 1900 census with his fourth wife Ida and four children.
On 27 June 1890 Congrass passed the Pension Act of the Civil War. John decided to file a claim on his son, Thomas (Ahas) service during the Civil War. In November 1890, John filed for a pension as the dependent father of Thomas (Ahas) Manery
and his claim was denied. John would spend the next Eight years trying to collect on the pension, but each time he filed a claim it would be denied.
John died January 1901 and is buried in the Manry Cemetery in Agnos, Fulton County, Arkansas. John's first three wives are buried in the Manry Cementery and his fourth wife is buried in the Shady Grove Cementery in the Viola Community of Fulton
County.