Manes Family Genealogy
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| Edmund Victor Manes is the oldest child of Larkin Harry Manes and Henryetta Josephine Chenowth. He was born 9 April 1870 in Madison County, Arkansas. In 1878, he moved with his father Larkin Harry Manes and Mother Henryetta Josephine and Mother-in-law Agness Chenowth to Tarrant County, Texas. In 1884, they moved again to Dallas. Edmund Victor often claimed that he was of Scotch blood. He had a red mustache and red hair. His friends called him "Big Red." On 1 October 1893, he married Margaret Melinda Davis in Dallas,Texas. They had five children: Harry Larkin, Claude, Eula Mae, Mabel, and Alma Lee. Edmund worked with his father Larkin on several ranches near Glen Rose, Texas. Later, Edmund Victor Manes worked in the Spindletop oil field and is reported to have been the first driller to "core in Texas." He was a friend of Howard Hughes' father. One day Hughes' father complained to Edmund how difficult it was to drill cable tools through hard rock. Edmund suggested that he throw handfulls of metal shavings down the hole and this would facilitate the crushing of the rock. Hughes' father took this advice and his company thereafter made billions of dollars from refinements of this drilling process. Edmund and Malinda bought a ten acre farm tract in East Dallas. They planted eight acres of peaches, they raised white legion chickens (selling the eggs weekly), and they had 20 milk cows. Edmund was afflicted with high blood pressure. When the farm work became too heavy for Edmund, he gave the milk cows to his neighbor Thurmon on the conditin that for the rest of his life he would receive free butter and milk. Edmund continued to bring in some income from his peach crops and selling of eggs.
Edmund was also a skilled cabinet maker. He worked for a number of Dallas companies, but notably the Nabisco organization. After every job with Nabisco, Edmund would return home with huge boxes of Nabisco products (to the delight of his family and especially grandchildren). Edmund built a number of masterful furniture pieces for family members, several are still in existenc. Edmund was also a skilled mechanic. When his grandson Charles Victor Manes lived with Edmund and Malinda on their farm during his senior high school year, the distance to Woodrow Wilson was about 15 miles. Edmund rebuilt a Ford Model T for his grandson that featured a footfeed and automatic starter. Edmund's barn was located about fifty yards from his residence (which Edmund built himself.)
This barn originally held the 20 milk cows. Later it was the storage area for thousands of dollars of tools. Thieves would continually attempt to steal these tools. While he was healthy, when Edmund Victor learned that intruders were in his barn, he would grab a shotgun and confront them personnaly. As his health deteriorated, he lost more and more of his equipment in the barn. During his latter years, Edmund spent his time reading cowboy magazines, playing solitaire, and listening to "Amos and Andy" on the evening radio.Edmund died 16 October 1939 after a stroke. He was bedridden for almost two years. His wife Malinda tended to him personally during this period at their farm site.
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