How often can you find a photograph of one of your Great Grandparents as an infant? I feel very lucky to have this! The above tin-type was in a plastic baggie with other old pictures in a box of my Grandma Menke's things. When I saw it, I thought the little guy could possibly be her Dad, Clarence Mann. After posting it in a Facebook family group, I got word that his youngest daughter also thinks that it is him.
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| Clarence Mann, 1963 |
Clarence Lemuel Mann was born June 18, 1878 and died at the age of 90. I'd guess he looks about 2 years old in the tin-type, so it was taken about 1880 probably in Illinois. Clarence was the 11th child of 12 children born to William and Nancy (Climie) Mann, though his older siblings Stephen, Corrine and Carrie had passed away before he was born. Another sister, Elsie, was born and died in August of 1880. All of the children were born in Illinois, and then in December of 1881 his fifteen-year-old brother Lafayette died in Nebraska.
Like his father, Clarence farmed for many years. He married Cora Mabel Gaisford on July 5, 1899 in Fairbury and they were the parents of 14 children, one son died in infancy. Clarence and Cora moved into Beatrice about 1935. He worked for Dempster Mills for 10 years, then enjoyed retirement from 1952 until his death on October 18, 1968.
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