When Emily Dorcas Maners was born on 9 November 1923, in Bath Springs, Decatur, Tennessee, United States, her father, Anderson Lee Maners, was 40 and her mother, Dora Tennessee Kelly, was 34. She married Verl Delvert Hess on 3 September 1944, in Phenix City, Lee, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1949 and Benicia, Solano, California, United States in 1950. She died on 7 July 1996, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Shady Grove Cemetery, Saltillo, Hardin, Tennessee, United States.
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English: variant of Manners .
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