Actor Charles Manley acting at Ford's?

[Susan Higginbotham]

(01-31-2014 05:52 AM)BettyO Wrote:  Could be that this gentleman was an understudy or perhaps simply employed in some other capacity at Fords on the night of the assassination. Could also be a "marketing" ploy made up by Mr. Manley to better his theatrical reputation. Found this article/obituary on his death which also states that he was at Ford's the night of the tragedy. The article is in the Seattle Daily Times, March 3, 1916

Thanks so much!

I've been researching Surratt boarder Nora Fitzpatrick's family connections for an article I'm working on. Her oldest son, James Whelan, married a Nellie Manley. A couple of people on Ancestry.com claim that the actor Charles was Nellie's father, but I haven't seen any verification of this. It would be wonderfully eerie, though, if all of these claims were true and a Surratt boarder's son married an Our American Cousin actor's daughter.