The first incident of note in Manuel's life was the 1909 Denver & Rio Grande Railroad accident which claimed his leg and set legal precedent in which he is referred to as "Manley". He is also referred to as such in the 1910 census and in his high school news articles. Despite having only one leg he starred on his high school basketball team in Aurora, CO and made newspaper fame. By 1926 he was working in Ft. Worth, TX managing a restaurant where he met Roma Carroll, his employee and despite (or maybe because of it?) her father's disapproval they ran away to be married. After her father's death they lived with her mother, many siblings and her new stepfather until they had three children of their own (and burying one) when they moved back to CO.
The first incident of note in Manuel's life was the 1909 Denver & Rio Grande Railroad accident which claimed his leg and set legal precedent in which he is referred to as "Manley". He is also referred to as such in the 1910 census and in his high school news articles. Despite having only one leg he starred on his high school basketball team in Aurora, CO and made newspaper fame. By 1926 he was working in Ft. Worth, TX managing a restaurant where he met Roma Carroll, his employee and despite (or maybe because of it?) her father's disapproval they ran away to be married. After her father's death they lived with her mother, many siblings and her new stepfather until they had three children of their own (and burying one) when they moved back to CO.
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