His birth: Evidence on his birth year and place is somewhat confused.  Peggy Rein<nowiki>’</nowiki>s notes give the year as 1886, the place as Garrison, Montana. (In 2004 she tells me she guessed at this.) My original notes had indicated Ohio. The information as it currently stands comes from his fraternity initiation card. The birth certificates of both of his daughters give only "Montana" as his birth place.  Leona Jane<nowiki>’</nowiki>s 1920 census record indicates that her father was born in Iowa, but this is likely nothing more than confusion for Floyd Manning, listed in that entry as her father, and born in Iowa.

His birth: Evidence on his birth year and place is somewhat confused.  Peggy Rein<nowiki>’</nowiki>s notes give the year as 1886, the place as Garrison, Montana. (In 2004 she tells me she guessed at this.) My original notes had indicated Ohio. The information as it currently stands comes from his fraternity initiation card. The birth certificates of both of his daughters give only "Montana" as his birth place.  Leona Jane<nowiki>’</nowiki>s 1920 census record indicates that her father was born in Iowa, but this is likely nothing more than confusion for Floyd Manning, listed in that entry as her father, and born in Iowa.

His father<nowiki>’</nowiki>s family: His daughter Peggy remembers him talking about "Uncle Nah", whom I take to be his father<nowiki>’</nowiki>s half-brother Uriah. Lee would have been ten when Uriah died. I asked Peggy if Lee knew his grandfather Eden, and she said, "He never mentioned him."

His father<nowiki>’</nowiki>s family: His daughter Peggy remembers him talking about "Uncle Nah", whom I take to be his father<nowiki>’</nowiki>s half-brother Uriah. Lee would have been ten when Uriah died. I asked Peggy if Lee knew his grandfather [[Eden Neer]], and she said, "He never mentioned him."