Williams Henry Mankins was born January 4, 1838 in Arkansaw, son of Samuel Charles Mankins and Docia [Williams] Mankins. He died January 6, 1913 at Mrs. Weaver's Boarding House in Georgetown, Texas, and was buried in One Half of Lot 1, Division N of the nearby Odd Fellows Cemetery. [Death Certificate No. 2625, January 7, 1913.]

Review of Henry's probate records at the office of the Register of Deeds in Georgetown revealed that he willed his sister Victoria Levingood the sum of $100.00 with the residue of his estate to go to Frank A. & Willie Young with Frank as the Administrator. His home sold for $800.00 and after his death and funeral expenses were paid only $57.97 was left for distribution. No provision for a gravestone was noted in his funeral expenses and no gravestone was noted in his funeral plot in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. [See Probate File 1799.] The veterans administration was contacted and forms filed to obtain a gravestone. It was set on Friday, May 20, 2011 and a period ceremony was conducted by the Sons Of Confederate Veterans with a three volley sulute.

William's wife, Josephine, is buried in the Mankins Family Cemetery near Mankins Crossing on Highway 29 in Williamson County.

Henry was a Civil War veteran of the Confederate States of America as follows:

Company Muster-In Roll, 1st (McCulloch's) Regiment Texas Cavalry
Pvt. H. William Mankins, age 23
Joined for duty and enrolled:
When: May 12, 1861
Where: Camp Colorado
By whom: Capt T C Frost
Period: 12 months

Company Muster Roll, 1st (Yager's) Regiment Texas Cavalry [formerly Co A, 8th (Taylor's) Battalion Texas Cavalry]
Pvt. William H. Mankins, Co G, 1st Regiment Texas Cavalry
appears on the roll for Jan & Feb 1864
Enlisted When: May 12, 1861
Where: Camp Coleman
By whom: Capt Frost
Period: 3 years

Regimental Descriptive Book for 1st (Yager's) Regiment Texas Cavalry
William H. Mankins, Co. G
Enlistment:
When: May 12, 1861
Where: Camp Colorado
By whom: Capt. Frost
Term: War

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The Williamson County Sun, Georgetown, Texas, Jan. 9, 1913:

Henry Mankins Dead. Henry W. Mankins, for sixty years a resident of Williamson county, died at the Weaver boarding house in this city Monday morning about 11 o'clock, and was buried in the Odd Fellows' cemetery at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, Rev. W. L. Nelms conducting the service at the grave. Mr. Mankins was 75 years old last Friday. He had been a State Ranger and was a Confederate veteran. He had been in failing health for several years and latterly was a pitiable spectacle as he appeared on the streets. He was a widower, his wife, the eldest daughter of J. C. DeShields, dying several years ago. In recent years he had been living alone in a little house in the southern part of town, but a few weeks ago he was removed to Dan Weaver's home. He was born in Benton county, Ark., and came with his parents to this county in the early fifties. Mankins Crossing of the San Gabriel river on the road from Georgetown to Jonah was named after his family.