A Historical Column From The Fayette County Historical Commission
Edward Manton was born Sept. 20, 1820 in Rhode Island to Henry and Ann Manton. His mother died when he was 5 and his father remarried.
In the early 1830s, the Manton family came to Texas and settled on the west side of the Colorado River at the La Bahia crossing. Henry Manton helped develop the site of Colorado City with John W. Dancy…