[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, February 16, 1899, cover]

1880
Commissioner to General Assembly - May 20, 1880, Evansville, Indiana
Served on the Committee on State of Religion
Charles Manton, Maple Spring, Tex.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1880, pages 6, 9 & 121]

1881
Charles Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Tex.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1881, page 92]

1882
Charles Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Tex.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1882, page 123]

1883
Charles Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Tex.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1883, page 131]

1884
Charles Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Tex.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1884, page 120]

1885
Charles Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Tex.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1885, page 135]

1886
General Assembly Minutes used 1885 report for Red River Presbytery

1887
Charles Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Tex.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1887, page 161]

1888
Charles Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Tex.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1888, page 173]

1889
Commissioner to General Assembly - May 16, 1889, Kansas City, Missouri
Chas. Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Texas.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1889, pages 7 & 182]

1890
Chas. Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Texas.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1890, pages 128 & 252]

1891
Chas. Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Texas.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1891, pages 143 & 268]

1892
Assistant Clerk of the General Assembly - Rev. Charles Manton, Paris, Texas
Chas. Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Texas.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1892, pages 2, 150 & 282]

1893
Assistant Clerk of the General Assembly - Rev. Charles Manton, Paris, Texas
Chas. Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Texas.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1893, pages 2, 152 & 280]

1894
Assistant Clerk of the General Assembly - Rev. Charles Manton, Paris, Texas
Chas. Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Texas.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1894, pages 2, 167 & 292]

1895
Assistant Clerk of the General Assembly - Rev. C. Manton, Paris, Texas
Chas. Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Texas.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1895, pages 2, 174 & 302]

1896
Temporary Clerk of the General Assembly - Rev. Charles Manton
Chas. Manton, Stated Clerk, Paris, Texas.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1896, pages 2, 160 & 267]

1897
Temporary Clerk of the General Assembly - Rev. Charles Manton
Commissioner to General Assembly - May 20-27, 1897 - Chicago, Illinois
Served on Committee on Church Government
Chas. Manton, STA. CLK. and CHAIRMAN of COM. on PAS. and SUP., Paris, Texas.
Minister - Red River Presbytery
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1897, pages 2, 7, 12, 229 & 283]

1898
Temporary Clerk of the General Assembly - Rev. Chas. Manton
Member of the Board of Publication - Rev. Chas. Manton, Paris, Tex.
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
Minister - Red River Presbytery
Chas. Manton, STA. CLK., TREAS. and CHAIRMAN of COM. on PAS. and SUP., Paris, Tex.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1898, pages 3, 5 , 250 & 297]

1899
Member of the Board of Publication - Rev. Charles Manton, Paris, Tex.
Temporary Clerk of the General Assembly - Rev. Charles Manton
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
Chas. Manton, STA. CLK., TREAS. and CHAIRMAN of COM. on PAS. and SUP., Paris, Tex.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1899, pages 6, 14, 143a & 201a]

1900
Member of the Board of Publication - Rev. Charles Manton, Paris, Texas [term will expire in 1903]
"The Stated Clerk announced that he had chosen as Temporary Clerks for this meeting of the Assembly the rev. Chas. Manton and the Rev. J. V. Stephens."
Temporary Clerk of the General Assembly - Rev. Charles Manton, Paris, Texas
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
Chas. Manton, S.C., TR., CH. COM. PAS. and SUP., Paris, Tex.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1900, pages 6, 14, 162a & 216a]

1901
Member of the Board of Publication - Rev. Charles Manton, Paris, Texas [term will expire in 1903]
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
Charles Manton, S.C., TR., CH. COM. PAS. and SUP., Paris, Tex.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1901, pages 6, 188a & 274a]

1902
Member of the Board of Publication - Rev. Charles Manton, Paris, Texas [term expires in 1903]
Temporary Clerk of the General Assembly - Rev. Chas. Manton, Paris, Tex.
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
Charles Manton, S.C., TR., CH. COM. PAS. and SUP., Paris, Tex.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1902, pages 6, 15, 177a & 117a]

1903
Member of the Board of Publication - Rev. Charles Manton, Paris, Texas [term expires in 1906]
Temporary Clerk of the General Assembly - Rev. Chas. Manton, Paris, Texas
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
Charles Manton, S.C., TR., CH. COM. PAS. and SUP., Paris, Tex.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1903, pages 6, 14, 163a & 213a]

1904
Member of the Board of Publication - Rev. Charles Manton, Paris, Texas [term expires in 1906]
Temporary Clerk of the General Assembly - Rev. Chas. Manton, Paris, Texas
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
Charles Manton, D.D., S.C., TR., CH. COM. PAS. and SUP., Paris, Tex.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1904, pages 6, 14, 143a & 192a]

1905
Member of the Board of Publication - Rev. Charles Manton, Paris, Texas [term expires in 1906]
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
Chas. Manton, D.D., S.C. and TR., Paris, Tex.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1905, pages 6, 119a & 171a]

1906
Temporary Clerk of the General Assembly - Rev. Chas. Manton, Paris, Tex.
Member of the Board of Publication - Rev. Charles Manton, Paris, Texas [term expires in 1909]
"Dr. Manton did not attend this meeting, but as served as Temporary Clerk for many years."
Pastor - Paris Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Paris, Texas
Chas. Manton, D.D., S.C. and TR., CH. COM. PAS. and SUP., Paris, Tex.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1906, pages Frontispiece, 2, 6, 15, 110a & 160a]

1907
"The Moderator [Rev. William Henry Roberts] announced the appointment of Rev. Charles Manton, D.D., of the Presbytery of Red River-A, as Vice-Moderator."
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, May 16, 1907, page 14]

Just as the paper goes to press the sad news comes that Dr. Charles Manton, pastor of the church at Paris, Texas, since 1880, and a power in the work of the church in the Lone Star State, passed to his reward on Monday evening, November 9. Dr. Manton had been in poor health for over a year, and during recent months his friends have feared that he could not recover. Two weeks ago he was taken to St. Louis in the hope that an operation would restore his health, but the physicians decided against such a course. Dr. Manton was for many years a faithful and wise member of the Board of Publication and was vice moderator of the first reunited General Assembly, held at Columbus, Ohio.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, November 12, 1908, cover and page ]

[Source: Abstracted from the "Bonham News" Fannin County, Texas. 13 November 1908]

The officers of the First Church, Paris, Texas, adopted and sent to the family of the late Dr. Manton, the following letter which reveals in some measure the place that the pastor held in the hearts of his people:

The official members of the church believe it impossible to express the deep sense of loss that burdens the hearts of our church because of the death of our beloved pastor, but we feel it is appropriate that we endeavor to express in some degree that sorrow to the bereaved family.

It is a privilege to do so while all our hearts are full.

For twenty-eight years the mutual love between our pastor and his flock has been one unbroken chord of purest harmony, the memory of which will remain a sweet song in the heart of each one until death and will be a continuing and increasing inspiration to all to serve together in Christian unity and fellowship.

To most of us he has been our only pastor and our families have grown up under him and learned from him of things eternal. Our children have received at his hands the anointing blessing of baptism; to many of us he has ministered at the marriage altar, and to almost every family of our communion and in this city he has offered words of comfort beside the open grave.

It would be idle to try to portray in words what this unselfish, loving service has been to each of us; what deep impress his message from the sacred desk has left upon a hosts of hearts; what debt of love to him the world and church at large gladly acknowledge and what righteous pride fills every heart that claimed him pastor, brother or friend.

Surely such a life as his will be incentive to us all to follow in his footsteps and try to build wisely upon the foundations he has laid so broad and deep.

May the loving Father ever keep within his hands the family of him who loved and served us all.
          Fraternally in sorrow,
               T. J. RECORD,
               C. I. BROAD,
               JNO. A. PORTER,
                    Committee.
   To Mrs. Chas. Manton and Family.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, December 3, 1908, page 726]

When I read the announcement of Dr. Manton's death I immediately had a picture come into my mind of a scene on the Waxahachie Chautauqua grounds in Texas. Brother Manton had been spending much of his time at the Chautauqua in interviewing the brethren and button-holing everyone that he might raise money for some enterprise whose claims pressed upon his heart. He had just pressed the claims of the particular benevolence upon the writer and was sitting upon the steps of the administration building when a minister stepped up and asked Dr. Manton for the privilege of choosing the text for his funeral. Dr. Manton looked up and said: "Well, what would you choose?" and the minister replied, "And the beggar died." Dr. Manton quickly replied that he would agree to that if he would add the remainder of the verse, "and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom."

Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Beecher were walking together toward the former's home; when arriving at the step, H. W. Beecher said: "After a while they will lay me in Greenwood, Lyman; but I am not going to stay there." In the half humorous, half serious vein of the conversation Lyman said: "Well, Mr. Beecher, where shall we look for you?" "Somewhere in the thick of things at work for my country and my Christ" was his answer. And so it is hard to conceive to Dr. Manton as anywhere other than "somewhere in the thick of things" at work for his country and his Christ and his beloved church. He was ready to be and do anything and go anywhere he could help somebody or some good cause. He took the Paris church when it was down and he stayed with it till it was up, and he was able to help those who were in difficult places by his sound advice and sweet, prayerful disposition.

Once when the writer was sore pressed by many problems as a pastor in a neighboring city, Dr. Manton paid him a visit and took a whole day to canvass the entire situation, and that day revealed Dr. Manton as a great man, though simple as a child. One day he was talking about a minister's library to two of his brother ministers, and he deplored the fact that it was impossible for many of our ministers in the weaker churches to obtain needful books. He said: "I think some of us make a mistake by not sending on a good book, that has helped us, to a less fortunate brother." He was continually sending printed matter of his own devising to his congregation and to some of his young ministerial friends. He sent to these as well as to his congregation, thinking they might be suggestive. To many of us his life shall continue to speak as it impresses the lesson of the Master. "Whosoever will be great among you, let be your minister."
          J. WESLEY HART.
   Albion, Ill.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, December 24, 1908, page 822]

At a recent meeting of the Presbytery of Paris the following resolutions with reference to Dr. Manton were adopted and are published because of Dr. Manton's long and useful connection not only with the church at Paris, Texas, but as a member of our Board of Publication.

The committee on mortuary submitted the following report, which after a memorial service in honor of the late Rev. Charles Manton, D.D., in which many of the members of the presbytery took part, Rev. S. M. Templeton presiding, was adopted and is as follows:

To the moderator, fathers and brethren of the Presbytery of Paris: It is with profound sorrow that we are called upon to announce that since the last stated meeting of your reverend body the last solemn summons has called from labor to rest our beloved brother, Rev. Charles Manton, D.D., who passed away at his home in Paris, Texas, November 9, 1908, at the age of sixty-three years.

He was born in England and came to America as an infant with his parents, living in Cincinnati until the death of his father, when the family returned to England in his eighteenth year. He returned to America in early life and about 1875 united with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Clarksville, and afterward entered the ministry under the care of the Red River Presbytery, within whose bounds he spent his entire ministry of thirty years and more.

For a short time he preached to the Maple Springs, Bethel and some other churches, and in December, 1880, he became pastor of the church at Paris, Texas, where his gifts, powers and labors had their fullest amplifications, and bore the richest fruits.

Beginning with a handful of discouraged members he so entered into their lives and with them into the lives of other people of Paris that he and his church grew with the growth of the town until at his departure he left a strong and compact church which is a very material constituent and factor in the life of the present city of Paris.

In his presbytery he was for thirty years its stated clerk and was in effect by common consent for many years the pastor at large for the whole presbytery. Helpfully known and felt by every church within its bounds. In the synod he was a counsellor and a leader, touching helpfully many of its enterprises, and especially conspicuous and efficient in the Synodical Church Extension work.

And as assistant clerk of the General Assembly for many years a constant attendant on the meetings of that body, and as a member of its Board of Publication and other agencies, he was an honored and valuable servant of the whole church. Upon the consummation of the reunion of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the mother church, he was honored, and honored his church, in the position of vice-moderator of the first united General Assembly in Columbus, Ohio, in May, 1907. He is gone; his memory and the fruit of his great life work abide with us and will long speak eloquently while his lips are silent.

The church at large has the benediction of his exemplification of what faithfulness and diligence can accomplish. He magnified the office of the ministry, both in the thought of his own heart and ideals and also in the eyes of men. all men who knew him feel more sensibly the noble dignity and value of the holy ministry.

He leaves an enduring monument, living and effective in the compact and well trained church at Paris, strong men and women imbued with his own lofty aims and purposes of effective service as a church of Jesus Christ.

He honored our Christian life, in the home life he exemplified, and in the excellent family of sons and daughters, who will worthily reflect the purity of life he taught.

Resolved: That it is the sense of the Presbytery of Paris that in the death of Brother Manton, we have sustained an irreparable loss in the counsel and manly strength that had so long been our possession and our joy.

Resolved, 2nd. That we express our deep appreciation of the spontaneous movement now in process among the citizens of Paris, out of their love and appreciation of him, to erect some suitable memorial to commemorate his virtues.

Resolved, 3rd. That we express our heartfelt condolence to Mrs. Manton, whose love and fidelity to him made possible his great usefulness to the church, and that we assure her of our earnest interest in her welfare, also to the sons and daughters, praying that his mantle of usefulness may rest on each of them in a path of the Lord's own leading.

Resolved, 4th. That in the shadow of our great sorrow, we, as a presbytery seek a reconsecration to the vital work of the gospel ministry, and a greater inducement of spiritual power, and that we pray the Lord of the harvest to call laborers into the harvest, to the end that though the workers are called away to reward, the work shall go forward.

          S. M. TEMPLETON,
          N. F. GRAFTON,
          J. A. PORTER,
          J. T. WALLACE,
          C. D. LENNOX.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, July 8, 1909, page 59]

[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, 1909, page 267]