Elizabeth Richardson, w/o Richard Irvin Manning, SC
In the September/October, 2009, issue of "American Spirit" magazine, put out by the D.A.R., there is a section on how some of the chapters were named:
"The namesake of the Elizabeth Peyre Richardson Manning Chapter, Manning, SC. was born and lived her entire life in what is now Clarendon County, SC.She was the daughter ofjohn Peter Richardson & Florida Bonneau Peyre.She was the wife of Richard Irvin Manning, mother of John Lawrence Manning, grandmother of Richard Irvin Manning, sister of John Peter Richardson and niece of James Burchell Richardson, all of whom were governors of South Carolina.Mrs. Manning lived from 1794, right after the American Revolution, to 1873, after the Civil War.She was a major influence in providing educational oppertunities for women in the state."