Edward Manton

ARTER Edward Manton was born September 20, 1820, in Rhode Island to Henry and Ann Manton. His mother died when he was five 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.

In the summer of 1836, Indian attacks and cattle thefts were troubling the settlers along the Colorado River.