The Manion Cemetery is one-fourth mile southwest of where the Bourland Plantation Home was, located in the Delaware Bend area in far northeastern Cooke County. There are three small cemeteries found on the property in Cooke County, while the other two are the Slave Cemetery and the Howard/Washington Cemetery (on the Cooke-Grayson County line at Red River’s south bank).

The Manion Cemetery is about 400 yards southwest of the house owned in the 1940s by Ann Manion Brown. If you look
at today's Cooke County,Texas map, you’ll notice that the easement for Lake Texoma jogs west to include the block to encompass Ann Manion Brown’s (1875-1967) home and the Manion Cemetery. Ann Manion Brown threw a duck fit to save her new home, as well as the cemetery, so she knew how to fight the bureaucracy, and win.

The Bourland Plantation Home was about 350 yards northeast of the Manion Cemetery. William Wells Bourland was buried on a hill across the road and outside the fence of the Orlena Cemetery, Cooke County, Texas.
(Editor's Note : It is no surprise that all residents of early Cooke and Grayson County cherished the day they could go to New Orleans, Louisiana. On page 6 of my book, I show an 1847 receipt from "C.A. Bullard & Co. Dealers in Dry Goods, 55 Gravier Street, New Orleans." Bourland had thousands of monetary transactions, but elected to retain a few receipts, including this one. Keep in mind that Col. Bourland moved from an area four miles from the Rehobeth Community, near Ladonia, Fannin Co., Texas in early 1851 to now Cooke County.

While standing on the north side of the Howard/Washington Cemetery on a cliff, one can look down at the Red River and see the town of Marietta to the northwest.

AMBROSE BROOKS MANION (1818-1903)
1st marriage was to Col. James Bourland's oldest daughter Hannah Ann "Ann" (1824-1859), who died after having 9 children.  He married three more times; his 2nd and 3rd wives died young.
Manion, who lived next door, was Bourland’s "go-fer guy". Repeatedly, Bourland stated, “Manion will help you ...”
He married in Cooke Co., Texas on Feb 18, 1869 to his 3rd wife Esther Howard [1836 Fulton Co., IL-1871], d/o Asenath & Wm. A. Howard [d-1867 Cooke Co., TX), sister to Zachary Howard. Buried Howard (Washington) Cemetery, about one mile east of the Manion Cemetery. Issue, 1 child, died young.

MARGARET C. BROWN, married 1871 Cooke Co., TX to Zaccheus Howard. Issue, 4 children: (twin female) died in infancy; Inez Howard; Carlton Earl Howard (1876-1964). These Browns arrived 1866 in Texas, different Brown than the Ann Manion Brown mentioned above.

JAMES RUSSELL WASHINGTON (1828 St Clair Co., AL - 1899 now Eddy Co., NM)
Buried Howard-Washington Cemetery, one mile east of Col. Bourland’s home on the Cooke-Grayson County line, Reburied in the Fairview Cemetery, Cooke Co., TX)
Family tradition: “He guarded the frontier during the Civil War in 1863,” i.e., in Bourland’s Border Cavalry, probably Company ‘A’ since he lived in Coesfield, Cooke Co., TX where other soldiers of Company ‘A’ lived.

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