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Amandeville Victoria Manasco (b. July 13, 1858, d. March 06, 1932)
Amandeville Victoria Manasco (daughter of Jeremiah E. R. Manasco and Mary Jane Flanagan)11, 12 was born July 13, 1858 in Mount Zion, Tipton County, Tennessee, and died March 06, 1932 in Erick, Beckam County, Oklahoma. She married (1) John Mathew McKinney on December 04, 1878 in Mount Zion, Tipton County, Tennessee, son of George Washington McKinney and Helen C. Gibbs. She married (2) Marion Francis Crocker on January 02, 1896 in White County, Arkansas.
Notes for Amandeville Victoria Manasco:
Funeral conducted by the Fatheree-Albert Funeral Home {117 South Walnut, Erick, OK 73645 -- (580) 526-3329}. Fatheree lists Amanda as follows: Age 73 yrs--7months --23 days; Widow; Housewife; Baptist. Reverened Roads performed the funeral. Fatheree charged $390.00 for the Funeral ($115 Casket, $25 Embalming, $210 Lumber for grave, $27 Robe, $3 Obituary Notice, $10 Flowers).
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SCRIPT FOR FUNERAL SERVICE:
MRS. AMANDA V. MANASCO McKINNEY
Miss Amanda V. Manasco was born July 13th, 1858, in Tipton County, Tennessee. She gave her life to Jesus in her girlhood days, uniting with the Methodist church, later changing her membership to the Presbyterian church, in order to be with her husband. She was a woman who believed that it was possible to be a Christian, and to live a Christian life, and that it was not church membership that saved a person, but Christ, the Rock upon which all churches are supposed to be built.
She was married to John M. McKinney, December 17th, 1878. It was shortly after her marriage that she united with the Presbyterian church with her husband. She held membership in the Presbyterian church at West, Texas, near Waco, at the time of her death. To the above mentioned union was born seven children, three of whom preceded their mother in death. Her husband also preceded her death.
She departed this life March 6th, 1932, at the age of 73 years, 7 months, 23 days. She leaves one son and 3 daughters of the immediate family, namely, Albert J. McKinney of Erick, Oklahoma; Mrs. Beulah Jameson, Waco, Texas, Mrs. Maybelle Hammer of West, Texas, and Mrs. Lorena Holcomb of Santa Rosa, California. She also leaves 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grand-children, and a host of other relatives and friends to mourn her departure.
One of her grand-sons, the Rev. Odell Jameson, is a Baptist preacher, being pastor at the Third Street Baptist Church, Waco, Texas. He is here today, to grieve the home-going of this deceased and devoted loved one, along with the other broken-hearted loved ones and relatives and friends.
May the Heavenly Father who makes no mistakes send the Holy Spirit to act as His comforting agent to the hearts of the bereaved; and may this sudden home-going of this departed saint be a lesson to all in divine presence, and serve to bring us all into a closer fellow-ship with God is our prayer and wish for the bereaved family and loved ones.
WORDS OF PRAISE FOR A MOTHER
Scripture: Proverbs 31: 10-30
Text: "A Woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised."
Introduction: We are drawn aside this afternoon from the busy walks of life and have come together to think of this good Mother of Zion who has passed on into that eternal land. The scripture just read tells us of the Mother of the old school. The kind of Mother that my Mother was and is, and that your Mother was and is, and the kind of Mother this good friend and devoted loved one was. "A Woman that fearest Jehovah, she shall be praised." We have come aside for a little while this afternoon to offer a few words of well deserved "Praise" to "Mother McKinney" as she was affectionately known to her friends and neighbors.
II. WHY SHOULD WE GIVE WORDS OF PRAISE TO THE MEMORY OF THIS FINE WOMAN?
1. Because the Bible tells us to praise the God-fearing woman.
2. Because of the suffering she has undergone for this fine family.
3. Because of what she has accomplished- - Eg. Always busy with her home, her birds, her chickens, her children dear to her, etc.
4. Because Christ honored this type of woman: "Hail thou art highly favored among women." Eg. Healed Peter's mother-in-law of fever, etc.
5. Because of her sacrifices: 1. Life to give life; 2. Joy to give joy. 3. Carnal life, in order to have spiritual life, etc.
6. Because of her Christian life: (1) Manifested by her prayer life. (2) Manifested by her devotion to Christ her Saviour - - Listened to sermons over the radio, and worshipped her Saviour as he came to be with her in her fine home yonder.
II. WHEN SHOULD WE GIVE WORDS OF PRAISE TO THE MEMORY OF THIS FINE MOTHER?
1. Surely, many, many times, these fine children, and the one, or ones not here, have attempted to "Give flowers to the living" and show "Mother McKinney" their love while she was yet here on earth.
2. And how fitting that she should go to her last resting place: "From the church." Although unable to go as often as she would have liked, we know from the obituary, and from her life that she loved the church, and loved her Saviour supremely.
3. And now that her soul has so recently taken its flight to be with the Christ whom she loved, how fine and fitting it is that we would pause for a moment, and say these deserved words of praise in her memory.
III. HOW SHOULD WE GIVE WORDS OF PRAISE TO THE MEMORY OF THIS FINE MOTHER:
1. We should endeavor to live over again the life that she taught us to live. Taught us by her words; taught us by her daily life in the home and taught us by her example of linking up with the church of her choice and making every effort to serve her Master as he taught her to serve.
2. We should endeavor not to try to refuse her Christ as our Christ, but to live as she lived. Eg. Atheist who said he could refute the arguments of the Bible, of the preacher, but not of the Christian life of his mother.
3. The greatest way that we can praise her memory is to accept her Christ as our Christ, and live him to the very best of our ability, and then live with her, and with her Christ all through eternity.
4. While she lived with us, we went out of our way to make her happy, and now that she has departed, we are to "go out of our way" and that means to go into "Christ's way" and make her happy. Her happiness in heaven would be supreme, if we would all leave "Our" way and take Christ's way.
THE WATCHER
She always leaned to watch for us,
Anxious if we were late - -
In winter by the window,
In summer by the gate.
And though we mocked her tenderly,
Who had such foolish care,
The long way home would seem more safe,
Because she waited there.
Her thoughts were all so full of us,
She never could forget,
And so I think that where she is
She must be waiting yet.
Waiting 'Till we come to her,
Anxious if we are late,
Watching from heaven's window,
Leaving from Heaven's gate.
The above message preached and poetry quoted at the funeral service of
"Mother McKinney".
Dear Albert,
It was a joy, I assure you, and yet a sad and sacred privilege to speak the foregoing words at your Mother's funeral. I am sending you the outline of the sermon in the hope that it will serve as a sacred remembrance, and that in the event that you are not a Christian already, that it will serve to lead you to repent of your sins, and to place your faith in Christ, your Mother's Christ, as your own personal Saviour from sin, and thereby make due preparation to meet her out yonder at the Resurrection Morning in God's great eternal beyond.
Trusting that you will be comforted by the Holy Spirit, and again assuring you of my sincere and sacred delight in having the sad but sacred privilege of saying a few words of comfort to you and your loved ones in your hour of sadness, I am
Your sincere friend,
(Signed) W. A. Roberts
Pastor's study of the First Baptist Church,
Erick, Oklahoma
March 8, 1932
(Funeral Service Files provided by Joanne Jameson Clarke)
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Amanda is buried at the Erick Cemetery in Erick, Greer County, Oklahoma -- her gravesite is in Section 05, Row 03, Seq. 090. The Headstone reads, "Amanda V. McKinney July 13, 1856 -- March 5, 1932 'Mother'" (see site http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/beckahm/cem-map.jpg).
More About Amandeville Victoria Manasco:
Burial: March 08, 1932, Erick Cemetery, Erick, Beckam County, Oklahoma.
Religion: Bet. 1906 - 1932, Baptist.
More About Amandeville Victoria Manasco and John Mathew McKinney:
Marriage: December 04, 1878, Mount Zion, Tipton County, Tennessee.
More About Amandeville Victoria Manasco and Marion Francis Crocker:
Divorce: March 17, 1898, White County, Arkansas.
Marriage: January 02, 1896, White County, Arkansas.
Children of Amandeville Victoria Manasco and John Mathew McKinney are:
- +Mary Beulah McKinney, b. October 03, 1879, Beebe, White County, Arkansas, d. September 04, 1955, Temple, Bell County, Texas.
- +Ila Maibelle McKinney, b. March 15, 1881, Beebe, White County, Arkansas, d. June 05, 1937, West, McLennan County, Texas.
- Infant McKinney, b. May 09, 1883, Beebe, White County, Arkansas, d. September 11, 1883, Beebe, White County, Arkansas.
- +Charles Mathew McKinney, b. November 09, 1885, Beebe, White County, Arkansas12, d. November 05, 1927, Amarillo, Potter County, Texas13.
- Donia Calla McKinney, b. February 10, 1887, Beebe, White County, Arkansas, d. August 02, 1889, Beebe, White County, Arkansas.
- Albert Jerome McKinney, b. August 25, 1889, Beebe, White County, Arkansas, d. May 21, 1951, Texloa, Beckam County, Oklahoma.
Children of Amandeville Victoria Manasco and Marion Francis Crocker are:
- +Melva Lorena Crocker-McKinney, b. July 31, 1897, Abbott, Hill County, Texas, d. April 27, 1996, Santa Rosa, California.

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